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Thanks for this Groove! :thumbup:

That would be a pity...

It only has been about 3 weeks since we had our last traditional Flaming Cliffs rant... I've been getting withdrawal symptoms... :puke:

Where did you move these posts to? I can't seem to find them...

No, there was no event. Just a lot of people joined. A few times a week we do get 30+ people though, typically in the European evenings.

You mean a lot of more wind instead of experience, right? :D

Hit the IP of the glide slop at the right altitude, speed and heading, then keep throttle at 80%, lower gear, flapsm and airbrake where necessary to keep the speed at 300 km/h. Then roll the plane as usual, but use trim in pitch to stay on the glide path to follow the needles in the ADI.

int+char=seg fault 84. Taking a leak while spooling up to come back and find your throttle was still in afterburners

81. Taking a friendly Buk missile in the face because its launcher is parked next to the piano keys at your home base (thanks Ice)

Very nice indeed! I used to do this back in the film days. Never tried any of this with DSLRs.

Glad we could help.

Thanks for fixing it!

Title says it all really...

For historical reference, I've placed the FC1.12 stats fro the 51st server back online at http://www.51st.org/fc1stats/ These stats run from February 2009 to the end of March 2010 and contain over 20 thousand air-to-air kills, and almost 44 thousand air-to-ground kills. During this period, 3280 pilots flew for over 16 thousand hours on our server. Our FC2/BS stats page is at http://www.51st.org/stats/

In principle, it is very easy to create a common stats page and since I've already done it for FC1.12, I know how to adapt the MySQL tables and PHP pages to make it work. That is a one time investment that is not much work. The only problem is maintaining it. It requires server admins who are willing to ensure their server runs specific software, and then someone who keeps an eye on the stats parser and the MySQL tables (which would be me). At the moment I don't have the time available to maintain a common stats page.

Happy Birthday!

I hope you don't see them as criticism. I am merely trying to get your views on this matter, and providing my own. They are just two roads leading to Rome.

I just tried it and I still get the empty tabs (see attachment). But what is the difference between clicking in a Java screen or clicking on a web browser? I agree that with large numbers of players the MySQL queries may take long, but with the right indexing and intelligent design of the tables I keep the load times small. Does this mean you transfer all the data to the client before you generate the tables? This may explain why the loading is small... With MySQL/PHP the speed depends primarily on the speed of the server hosting the database, and the internet connection between client and server. Since the output from the queries is usually small, the loadtimes are generally determined by the size of the query and the speed of the database server. Since our community is rather small I don't think the load on the database server will ever become problematic. Again, this is why I opted for the MySQL/PHP approach, as the results of the query are much much smaller than the data in the database. In general the core of my stats program reads the debrief logs and generates all the necessary information, and uploads the data to the MySQL database. All the PHP scripts have to do is to select, sum and count... All the hard work is done in the stats program that is executed every 5 minutes. I do not see the need to do it more often, because when pilots are flying they are not looking at the stats page. Working with supercomputers myself, I don't expect to be using Java anytime soon. All our code is generally in C/C++, and since most supercomputers use linux, there is no need for a platform independent language like Java. But as I am sure you recall from your PhD, we scientists generally work differently than computer scientists. For a recent interesting insight: http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4119.

I am (and was already) running the latest update 23 (jre-1.6.0_23) on a linux based system and the stats page only shows the empty tabs. I wanted to show a screenshot, but it appears stallturn is down at the moment. So as far as I can tell this isn't a problem with java or the webbrowser, but more likely with the stats program not supporting all architectures. I was able to look at the board using Firefox on Windows. Moa, what is the reason for showing the stats inside Java, and not just upload it to a database and view it through a web browser. MySQL and PHP are very highly optimized for showing large and complex amounts of data, and it seems you are reinventing the wheel by showing it inside Java. I'm not sure, but it may also explain the slow loading of the different pages.

Glad you guys like it. We always try to offer something different, and the overcast over the mountains is something I've been wanting to test for a long time. It was kinda funny to see quite a few players suddenly asking in chat how to navigate :D

Moa, which Java version is needed? Firefox downloads the app, I get to sign the digital signature and it loads showing the tabs on the top, but the rest of the screen is blank... I'm using the OpenJDK 1.6.0_18. Anyway, I'm sure it looks great once I get to load it.

Yes, this would, in principle, be possible. The only issue that worries me at the moment is that by adding more and more triggers, the chances of making a mistake and breaking the mission increase. However, I will look into this, though can't promise anything at this moment.

Thanks for flying on our server Bucic! I'm glad you like the new Mountain Divide mission. It took me a good month to make it. Note that I am still tweaking this mission. Some of the triggers contained some bugs that I have tried to fix over the last few days, and I am sure there are more still. The Bridge over the river Inguri is one of our oldest missions that doesn't have many triggers to make it dynamic. At present I put the in game time rather late, but that may be changed in the future. X-man made Foxtrot Charlie, and the latest version (V16) should be a bit more spicy than the previous versions.

In fact this last statement isn't true. Voyager 1 got what is called a gravity assist from Saturn, so while it took 6 years to get to Saturn, when it left Saturn it was moving faster than when New Horizons was that far from the Sun. New Horizons only was faster in the inner solar system as the higher speed was needed for following a different trajectory. I know this all sounds very counter intuitive, but the workings of masses in gravitational fields is somewhat complex :D

Yes, there is a wind. It is the solar wind, which consists of particles emitted by the sun. You might not call it a wind in earthly terms.