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Hi I’ve created some months or years ago, plenty of templates for Caucasus and other maps, using a lot of unofficial modules. I’ve included these templates in missions SP I’ve created and it was a very long work. Recently I’ve changed my hardware and many of these missions aren’t working anymore, but some others are working always fine. The freeze appears at « sim poststart » when I load one of these missions. I’ve said myself : « Ok, that’s one or several unofficial modules that are causing the freeze ». So, I’ve edited the corrupted mission files with notepad ++ by erasing the lines of required modules and replace them by the sames lines taken in a good mission launching well but it’s the same. So I could think in this case that the « sim poststart » freeze isn’t caused by some unofficial modules but by something else but it’s very frustrating to be forced to throw hours and hours of work in the garbage. If you have any other ideas that telling me : « It’s your unofficial modules » it’s welcome. dcs.log

Hi In Frankfurt, we can see cargos and container ships on the industrial harbour. But we can see plenty of little bridges across the river on upstream and downstream from the harbour. Just a question: How did these boats for coming to the harbour ? Have they wings perhaps ? Are they modern copies of the flying dutshman ?

Some castles have been implemented

You kwow that at the beginning of the post, I spoke about camping everywhere on Germany map. Sure, I admit that if you want to populate the Berlin's street, you risk to overload the gpu. But look everywhere on Germany map, you will see many campings based on the same model with a little lake, some tents and caravans, some vehicles and two hot balloons. All the life, except characters and I wanted characters to populate these places if I fly near them. On Gemany map, you have plenty of OTAN radar stations or russian military stations too and we have in the ME, all the military humans we need for use with. I just wish the same for all these civil little places, in the same manner. Of course, you will not put characters near a corner of the map, if you decide to fly on the opposite corner.

Ironhand I don't see any difference for FPS between loading a mission with civilians and a mission with soldiers. And most of civilians can only be statics, only for the visual but soldiers in a mission could have a role to play. And the triggers to stop moving characters when they're out the player sight can be used too, to not overloading the RAM ou V-Ram.

Czar66 said: "I suggest you folks to look at games such as Cities Skylines to see how humanoid npcs on urban areas roaming around wrecks CPU times, and DCS is already pretty heavy in CPU load." As I've said, characters in the ME. Everyone would have the choice to use them or not.

As you know, we have a new map and WHAT A MAP ! Before it was the Syria map my favourite but since Germany cold war, I'm only on this one. But Germany cold war map is split into 2 zones separated by the iron curtain ( And Berlin wall). And if I want to create missions with an aircraft flying near the iron curtain, I would like to fly safe if I stay above my own camp even very near the iron curtain, and flying at my own risks if I cross the iron curtain . And for that, I can't for now because the trigger zones can only be circular or quadrilateral. And the trigger zones in their actual possibilities can't fit the capricious outline of the frontier between RFA and RDA. And with polygonic trigger zone, I could.

I see some posts talking about performance. When I've begun this topic, I talk about civilians characters in the ME, not native on the maps. Everyone is free after that to use them or not in the missions he's creating and to choose his own balance between FPS and amount of details.

Draconus said: "ED doesn't want DCS to be associated with videos of dying people, that's assuming they react to weapons or can be run over by a vehicle." This argument is not available anymore since we have civilian official static air planes on the airport that could be targeted too. In the same manner we could have people. The war is the evil whatever it kills, civilian or soldier. If you think that ED is prudish to not take the risk to give players the capacity to kill civilian people, why do they have made official modules that are only civilian and unarmed like the Christen Eagle or the Yak-52, easy to shoot down in flammes by players ? And in the absolute, they can make these civilians totally invicible. Like I said at the beginning of this post, it would be to give life in DCS not death. And it's a call to ED but for the free modders too to make civilian people for the community.

Hi I have no words to say how I find the Germany cold war map awesome. This map is highly detailled and not only on the airfieds, heliports airports or military base but everywhere. But there's something essential missing from this profusion of detail: The life ! We can see campings with tents, caravans and legendary volkswagen Westphalia everywhere, we can see street of big towns empty of pedestrian life and it's as if a global pandemic has decimated humanity and it was the end of the world. ED, would you think that it would be the time to add various civilian characters as statics or walking in the ME to give life in your simulator, especially for this map ? And civilians aeronautical characters like civilian liners pilots or flight attendands and moving boarding brides would be welcome too. Dont' forget that you're selling helicopters too and that all your customers do not love to fly around mach one and high altitude at all times. I love flying in F-16 or F-18 but I love flying at low speed and altitude too and on the Germany map, in this case, life on the ground is cruelly missing. ED, remember what have done the succes of ORBX airports or airfields sceneries since years in Flight simulator. It's all these characters, humans or animals walking and giving life to these sceneries.

Ok, I havn't seen it has been already spotted.

Just a fix for that

It's the same. If you use an e-cb, that doesn't work. The way I had bought Germany is to use my son's card because he doesn't use e-cb like me but his real physical bank card.

See what I said here: