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Sabre good gouge, thanks for posting. I could certainly benefit from that kind of training.

Has anybody been working on a good campaign for CA? This thing would be fun as hell, just operating as a 'field general' with moving front lines, etc.

So this is the second campaign -- I have not flown any of them, are they all SP missions?

First I have to say congrats. Just getting selected to a service academy is no easy feat. It is an achievement by itself. Find ways to prepare. Prepare your mind, prepare your body. Find some rigorous activities that you are not good at and/or have little interest in and go train in those. Run like a deer and swim like a fish. Do crossfit. Then do more. Preparing your mind will be harder. Probably you have mental toughness in your make-up or you do not, but find a way to prepare as much as you can. Find a way to be positive when everything sucks (it won't suck for just you, it will suck for all of you in your class/team/group/whatever). You aren't going to be able to 'research' that, but the main thing is to have the desire. You are going to need to observe and take in the traits that you see in others that you think are 'good officers' and try to identify and avoid the negative traits demonstrated by the clueless ones. Like Cali I worked with some real gems and some real buttheads (US Navy) and the difference is astounding. Some humility and some concern for your troops will get noticed and will serve you well. Here is where you start - use every chance you get to gleam knowledge and wisdom from your senior enlisted. Find some senior master-blaster in your squadron and pick his brains. Don't interview him, don't try to build a relationship with him, but do not dismiss what he has to say. He didn't get to be an E-9 by being a dumbass and he probably forgot more about real leadership then many Captains ever attained. I remember a day on a mission when my chief stood up for me on an important tactical discussion, when the skipper questioned my analysis of some intel and I turned out to be right. But my chief didn't waver. I want you to know that I still keep in touch with that guy, years later, and I would drive all freaking night to go help him if he ever needed it. Enjoy every single day of it man. Even if you never get to fly, you are doing a great job, and every day is a new opportunity to earn the respect you will be given. Good for you, buddy. Make us all proud.

Is it ANY good in SP? Sure, it is good in SP. Maybe even quite good. Some aspects are done way beyond your expectations, and some other things are still not quite there, but definately it is good fun. And for certain it is WAY more value than what they are charging for it.

Is this still running? Need to recognize the mission builder community... my votes go to Speed, Grimes and Bagher, though I am sure these probably already have the Mig21 module up and running by now. EDIT: and this is an incredibly cool idea, in the theme of 'random acts of kindness'. Very nice to see this.

THIS! Wait, and THIS!! We need BOTH!

+ 1 You guys were the first to actually cross the finish line, if I am not mistaken. This forum is packed with a half dozen developers talking about well over a dozen projects, but this one actually GOT DONE. And it got done in spite of some unfortunate circumstances, which speaks a lot about the LN team.

That is a great addition, thanks for putting time into this.

So what I think am reading here is a volunteer offer to create some new quality mission content for the community.

Very good idea.

We need US, Russian and Euro/NATO ships. And we won't be in locked up in the Black Sea forever (hopefully).

I understand this. OK look, let's walk thru this step by step. I have a mission called TEST.miz Step 1: Change the name to TEST.ZIP using RENAME Step 2: Unzip to folder called TEST Step 3: Go into TEST Folder and edit one of three files in there, the mission file, using Notepad++ Step 4: Now what? Zip the TEST folder again? Step 5: Change TEST.ZIP back to TEST.miz Do I zip the TEST folder back up to make it TEST.zip again? Because this is what I am doing it isn't working.

Hmmm, so I can have a standard MP mission, with each person flying as leader of their own AI flight? The only limitation for MP, then, is that two players cannot be set up to fly in the same flight.... is that accurate?

WC I would think not possible given the tools we have to work with right now. Plus, even if you could find a workaround to get that ejected pilot to open his chute when/where you needed, on command, then you would have a downed pilot standing there on the ground, once he landed safely -- probably not what you want. I know that in Janes FA-18 (not relevant here except that it had the guy in charge) we had the 'drop cargo' function for certain aircraft -- it would prompt S-3 ASW aircraft to drop their sonobuoys, and for the C-130 with the paratrooper loadout, it would make them drop their airborne paratroopers (maybe IL-76 had this too, cannot remember now). So who knows, maybe some of these cool features will find their way into this sim eventually. I also fiddled with an airborne paratrooper mission. I simply used radio transmissions as 'play by play' announcements that the jumpers were away, followed by the C-130 or Il-76 turning back shortly thereafter. Then after a few minutes (allowing time for the descent) I spawned the AI troops on the ground, placing them right about where I figured they would intend to land. That was about all I could come up with.

Ah progress...... I am guessing here that the devs were fixing some other kind of messed-up irrational AI behavior when they coded this and this is an unforeseen consequence of an improvement. Next they will go in to fix this in a new iteration, and inadvertently break something that had been working. The circle of AI development life.

ENO, all clear, thanks. I found the folders setting you refer to, now I remember this. I am unable to load the mission that I edited but that might just mean I messed up the editing. I will try another example to make sure this works. UPDATE: No I am not doing this correctly. I made a file called TEST.MIZ and changed the name to Test.zip. Then I extracted it all to a folder called TEST and edited the mission file contained inside that folder, using notepad++. Somewhere here I am going wrong. I rezip it folder back to a zip file and change the zip extension to miz. What am I doing wrong here?

To be clear on this, as I have never flown/played MP, let me ask this -- If I fly a mission in SP, I can fly with an AI wingman in my same flight. Tusk 1-1 and Tusk 1-2, etc. If I fly that same mission in MP, then no AI wingman. I am just Tusk 1-1 (PLAYER FLIGHT). The wingman must be in a separate flight entirely, with it's own waypoints, etc.... eg Tusk 2-1 (CLIENT FLIGHT). I think I am clear on that so far (somebody correct me if I am wrong here). So now, what if: (1) The client flight is the other side, say the Red side? Can I then have the A-10C (PLAYER FLIGHT) with an AI wingman? (2) The client flight is another aircraft type on the Blue side? Can I have in this case the A-10C (PLAYER FLIGHT) with an AI wingman? (3) The only clients in an MP game are controlling ground units or acting as Battlefield/Ground Commander? Am I good here having the PLAYER FLIGHT with an AI wingman? Thanks guys for our patience and your guidance.

OK I have done this with a map template that I was working on. Added the Aussies in as a member of Blue Coalition. The question now this -- is having completed my edits, how do I again turn it into a MIZ file?

Indeed, that in game Module Manager is a very good thing.

Ah OK, I am a bit slow perhaps. Please use module manager to install. I see that now in game. Wow, it found all 5 modules that I own. Impressed. Can this be actually easy?

The message I get is: please download 1.2.6.18933 installer Which I am unable to locate. Am I just that stupid and I am missing something obvious?

1.2.6.18933 is the current version of DCS World that I have installed as of right now. Just updated it a few hours ago. The most current version of CA and A10C and pretty much everything else is 1.2.6.18651.276-275. DCS, let's go fellas. I just spent all freaking night downloading all this stuff anew and now it won't load. In the meantime, any suggestions?

Trying to go thru the whole process of reinstalling this thing with all the modules. Got DCS World installed today, and immediately it went ahead and updated to the most current version. That seemed like the right thing to do. Well now my version of DSC World is newer than the new versions of CA & BS3 and FC3 and A10C and all that stuff that is currently available on the download page -- and so it will does not install. Says I have to go get the NEW version of CA or A10C or whatever the case may be, except it IS the new version that I already have. It would seem to me that DCS download page is not keeping up with it the auto-updater. The only thing I can think of is to find some way to roll the DCS World back one release, but I hate to have to do that -- seems like more trouble then it is worth. This stuff should work, for crap sake.

ENO thanks for your help, in any case. Appreciate it.