Dutch Baron

We start at 1500z with a short briefing and the plan is to have all first 16 matches to be played within the first hour. Of course things might happen that will delay things, or it might go super smooth and we can even do more matches within an hour. An email will be sent to all with new info on the TeamSpeak Server. See you all tomorrow!

+1 Great idea, that should prevent this type of 'cheating'.

@Flyco Yes I remember you had these issues too, same for me, months and months of frustration and I will for sure let you now if this new tip does the trick!

@RedShoes Thanks for the info. I ordered your suggested PCi-E USB board just now and see if that does the trick. If it doesn't work I at least have a bunch of extra USB ports. I will let you guys know if this suggestion fixed it for me, I hope it does, as i can't use half of the buttons/switches on my TM Warthog Throttle because this also causes phantom clicks on the throttle. Thanks for the help!

I'd love to see this feature for many years now, weird it's not here yet. As for realism, I agree that you should only be able to do this when landed at an airbase/carrier. +1 From me!!

Great news! Thanks SithSpawn.

@grant977 / The General Sorry to hear but thanks for letting us know! See you next time.

I still have the issue here as well. I easily get over 100 re-inits in an hour of DCS. I tried all possible suggestions here and off of the internet without success. I also get the trackir issue once in a while. The suggestion by RedShoes is something I will consider, but it only happens in DCS so I still feel it must be DCS related. Thanks for the tips!

@dangermouse @microvax Sorry to hear this, but I appreciate you guys telling us in time! Take care and maybe see you next year.

Hello all, The MISSION file is updated, same link in OP. Or download HERE. There was a weird bug that caused RED F15C 2 and BLUE F15C 2 to spawn 10 miles closer to BULLS. A very weird bug I have never seen before. I managed to fix it and also adjusted the F15's to AIM-9M. Thanks to KAPSU for reporting this. If you find other issues, please report to me ASAP so we can fix it. Thanks guys!

@kapsu I will look into it, thanks for the report!

Hello fighter aces!! Here is the link to the mission file: TAW_TOP GUN 2017 You MUST reload the mission after EVERY fight, so NOT the server, just click CHANGE MISSION and select this mission again. This is both for 1vs1 and 2vs2. We have 2 separate missions during the event, 1 with missiles and 1 with guns only. This mission we are sharing is starting WITH missiles. so if you practice GUNS only, just fire those missiles at spawn. ********************* We also like to share the TWITCH channel, where we will be streaming the event with a 5 minute delay: ********************* See you guys soon and thanks for signing up!

Thanks for doing this test ED, makes us MP communities happy to see some interaction with ED. I think my F5 key on my keyboard is broken by pressing it 1000 times today at the DCS 1.5.7 Release version changelog page..... I'm guessing no update on 1.5.7 today? Thanks!

VERY nice, thanks for sharing!

Great work, can't wait to see and use it!

Hello everyone, I would like to thank all you guys for the massive interest in this event. We are closing the registration for the event as of right now. The players will be put in brackets and assigned matches in the coming week. Once we have a final setup we will of course share this with you all. We will also share the mission in a few days from now. We will most likely share a modified version of last year, but the actual mission we use during the event, requires some special scripts and server setup to make it work, hence we are sharing a simplified version. Again thanks to all guys working hard behind the scenes to make this event happen!

I would love to see multiple coalitions available. Think of a big sq to sq fight, where each sq is it's own country. This would make for great new possibilites. Also simply a 3rd coalition which can only be AI, where BLUE and RED forces are fighting against, but they are also being attacked by the AI 3rd coalition, would already be a big step forward. I tried emulating it through scripting, it works but is very intrusive to the DCS engine as it constantly checks for a specific coalition in a zone and then spawns a group of opposing coalition AI units. This would be fixed by having multiple coalitions available.

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Awesome to see yet another big public test, initiated by ED! I will be there and I really hope you guys can find and squash some MP bugs.

Hi Stuge, Thanks for the tip. We will look into it, but we do need to try and make the playing field as fair as possible. With the 5 min burn time I think we have a pretty fair setup and I'd hate to see a 27/33 be out of fuel faster if for instance, a M2K and 27/33 have been fighting both in full burn for 5 minutes. I see your point, we need to discuss and see if we come up with a fair solution. Thanks again Stuge!

@rainman Happy to see you found it! And a very big thanks to all participants for registering, we look forward to providing you all a great event!

@rainman It seems like you are trying to register as a member for TAWDCS.org. As Slutcher pointed out, you just need to follow the link and signup. Good luck!

@verticlecharlie No worries, all fixed ;)