Belgeode

Wow. This sounds really good. I just watched Ralfi's video and got excited there. I wish I could help beta test but I am STILL trying to learn the Hog systems. I will definitely be downloading this one later. Just let me know when the full campaign is ready to roll. From what I have seen on the video, excellent job there baltic_dragon!

I have noticed this myself when making missions. I did try something that I am not 100% works but so far seems to be ok. I set the AI flights to formation TRAIL at the waypoint just before landing, and they seem to give each other enough space and time to come down. At the very least, one lands first, and the other guy(s) go around and land after. They seem to run into the problem if they stay in Echelon right. That also brings to mind another question I have wondered. Why aren't there more formation options for all the different planes?? Even as a player my choices on how to spread my wing are limited.

I realize this is a really old thread, but I am necro'ing it because I recently downloaded this mission. I was looking for stuff for the Su-33, and figured this was a good one to try. Like Mastiff said, YEARS AGO, there was an issue where this mission has errors. I was able to fix said errors. I also made some other modifications to the mission so that I could gain the most from it. It's actually a really fun little mission for those of us who love flying carrier ops with the Su-33. I am not sure if the original mission builder is still around, but if you are, DPS, and would like the updated .miz file, please let me know. Changes I made (to personal taste): Title- Changed the title to simply "The Power Station" and added custom briefing graphic. Weather- Made it totally overcast, ceiling at 1500m, thickness 1500m. No precipitation, but some wind. Date/Time- Set to September 1 instead of June. Time set to 0900 hours. Flight paths- Made modifications to player path, tanker path, AWACS, and F-5 fighter paths. I wanted them to be more in sync, time wise. AWACS and F-5s still spawn delayed. New aircraft- Added a second wingman (total 3 ship) to player group. Differing loadouts. Added 2 ship of Su-25T Frogfoot whose ONLY job is to take out that SAM Avenger less than 2 minutes before player flight is in the target area. Changed AI- Upped the AI skill on the F-5 pilots, player wingmen, and Su-25T flight. Improved AI for both HAWK sites. They DO NOT PLAY AROUND! Triggers & Victory/Fail Conditions- Added a trigger zone around the carrier so that when player pilot lands mission success or failure can be calculated. Also added failure conditions (if player dies, target survives, etc), as well as partial victory conditions (target destroyed but took casualties), and FULL victory conditions (target destroyed, all three player group Flanker D's make it home safely). I posted a video of me playing this mission on my youtube page. Look for Belgeode. You'll find it. (Edit)

I was flying an Su-33 from Admiral Kuznetsov. I selected the first open Su-33 slot I could find (which I believe was the first on the list).

No no, not all of that.... just simply who was online PLAYING it right then, is what I was asking. I wanted to fly with a wing. I ended up going up solo, but could not find the helicopters I was looking for. My flight plan told me to go south, but the briefieng said they were in the north, so I was pretty confused and lost. I instead took down two A-10Cs and 2 Su-25Ts from the blue team... then practiced my carrier traps.

So who's doing this right now? I wanna hop in mah 33 and go Stallion hunting!

I am of the same mind... I have almost all the planes except anything from WWII (I have war thunder for that), and Korean war era. As a matter of fact I have never flown the P-51!

WTB Tomkitty... now.... with Pukin' Dog colors (old school and lo viz grey)!

(ears perk up) You don't say?! Hmm let me investigate. Thank you for the link. Yeah we definitely seem to need more carrier ops servers I think. Not sure my system could handle it, or I would volunteer myself.

Fear the challenges? (faints) No wonder we have not yet had the Hornet and Tomcat! Come come now folks... We need to keep the pants people in business here.

Hi guys, I have a quick question which I hope I have posted in the right area. There appears to be a severe lack of Su-33's to hop into on the many multiplayer servers I checked last night. Does anyone NOT fly the Su-33 in MP??? I got the FC3 add on for xmas, and have been having a blast flying this bad boy, but it seems all the MP missions I see have slots for the 27, and not the 33. This makes me sad. Can someone point me in the right direction to where I can find some decent carrier ops multiplayer goodness? Thanks in advance and happy new year to all!

LMAO! I am freaking dying over here. That made my day, thanks. This whole thread makes my day! :megalol:

I think right now the best we can do is voice attack bound to the keypresses needed to tell the wing what to do. Even so, it'd be funny since voice attack gives you audio replies that sound like the "bitchin betty" voice.

While I would certainly LOVE the F-18 for xmas, if it does not happen, I will be happy with what I have. I know HE is... Ok Santa, targets are marked with red and green smoke, danger close... You're cleared HOT!!!

Just a quick update. I decided today that I really did want the flaming cliffs update after all, and of course upon installing it, my icons, wallpaper and sounds for the Eagle and Flanker went bye bye. I used what was posted above but found a little easier tweak you can do instead. The same line above- instead of this. make it read this: No need to remove/disable the line altogether and risk getting the annoying nag screen even though you already bought the module and applied its key. Let me know how that works better for you all, and merry xmas to all.

Though it is not on the list, one helo I would love to see is the CH-47 Chinook. I've always loved that helicopter's design and layout.

I almost hate to say it, but you know what, I think you are right Chappie. Prior to my getting DCS and actually flying it, I looked down my nose at these vaunted Russian aircraft. It was not till I put aside my own prejudice and hopped into the frogfoot, that I started to really enjoy the fidelity ED has brought to these jets. They've made a believer out of me. THis having been said, my vote for next plane STILL is for the F-14 Tomcat. If ED can put that much love into the planes they have released now, I bet they can do the same for this, my favorite fighter jet of all time. Hornet comes a close second for me.

I was going to say... pretty sure the RIO in a Tomcat never had a way to pilot the plane... at least in the models of Tomcats I have seen over the years.

There seems to be a couple groups that may or may not be working on a Tomcat. All I am saying is... I want in on the quality assurance testing action, know what I mean? Heck I'll make squadron skins for them all day long as payment.

I've been having a similar issue too. In my issue not only is it rolling to the right (usually at lower speeds), but on the ground it veers to the right on taxi, even though everything is centered and wind could be at zero. One fix I was told was to hit LCtrl + 3 to turn off the yaw compensation (I forget what they call it in the F-15... it is the equivalent to SAS in the warthog). This works to stop the rolling (and visually you will see the tails straighten out properly), but something is still off I notice. Not to mention you CANNOT engage autopilot if this thing is turned off. Hope someone else has a better fix.

I agree that there should be a generic profile which can be tweaked for individual planes. As it stands now, I use my Su-25T profile as the default profile for most of the modules I own, and wherever possible any saitek profiles born of it are variants of this main one. When it comes to things like the warthog or even the huey, that all changes though since the layout is so radically different from the "simpler" aircraft. I do feel that commonalities to all aircraft should be bound the same way though.

Glad I found this. This makes a lot more sense to me now. For a moment I thought Path was more a steerpoint guidance, and was going to say it does not work for me. Now I get it. (Spent too much time in the Frogfoot I guess I naturally assumed everything had that kind of autopilot).

You raise an interesting point Marluk, but I think they can work around that. The F-14 tomcat is another really awesome plane I have been dying to see in DCS World, that requires two people (pilot and RIO). In the past I have flown it in games like Falcon (Openfalcon), and the workload did not seem to be any more than say the F-15 in DCS. If they were to do it "right", I imagine the complexity to be on par with the warthog, which is to say a handful but doable for one person. The hardest part with both planes would be how to portray the backseater (as pop up windows like the Huey cargo sling camera? as a seat you can jump into thus putting the plane on autopilot while in it?). At this point I would be happy to see BOTH the phantom and tomcat made in the style of the F-15. It does not have to be all out like the warthog. Of course I would also like to see the CH-47 Chinook helo as flyable too, but who knows if we will ever get that one either.

I noticed that as well with AA... But more importantly, what the heck did you do to your planes!!!

Thank you Mondaysoff for the prompt response there! I had no idea Notepad++ was a separate entity from regular windows Notepad. That made the difference! Now... next question. I see that we can change the color of the caption heading, what about the color of the actual text options? Is there a way to change that, because line 85 does not appear to do anything. It remains white, even though I typed yellow.