S7_Viper

You rock man, thank you for the help!

Alright then. I have now brought 2 more people into BS. We all ran through the startup procedures tonight in ventrilo a few times. I am going to teach anyone who wants to join the game from my team (http://www.syndicate7.us) how to do the basics as we learn together. That leads me to a few questions. 1) Can I make a mission like the Shooting Gallery mission for training that is coop? Can I edit the one that is there and if so what makes it mutiplayer. I have looked through the editor and cannot find it. 2) If I cannot use that mission I want to make my own, can I just add more player helos, and host a multi? 3) Who is renting servers out for us? 4) And the best question IMO, there are 30 people viewing the forums pretty much at all times. There are TONS of posts fresh every day. I figured there would be a hundred people playing at least. I see only 10 server with scattered people playing, no more then 8 in a server... and half of those are locked. With such a active community, am I missing something?

I read in a post from one of the Devs that ED will only make sims that have the FULL plans of the aircraft released to the public. I would imagine there are still classified parts of the Longbow that they could not properly sim. While I want for it, I am glad that ED has the integrity to model them accuratly and completly. Even to the point of not guessing!

I don't think anyone mentioned drivers. More important then anything. I have a 3800 single core, 2 gig of old ram. 8800gts, all settings on medium. I cant speak for campaign, but instant action and basic flight I am over 35fps. I also have a friend trying to get up and running, had major issues until he updated his drivers... Good luck man.

It is the cutoff, but I think I am opening it. Thanks for the advice. Now I just can just hope this day goes as well as last night... and I have more stick time to look forward to tonight.

Well as stated in a previous post... I have had the game since saturday night. I tried to fly, but made a arse of myself. So I promptly read 50 pages deep in the forums over the last 3 days. I got home from work today with the intent of at least starting the APU on the tarmac. I made a mission in the editor with just my bird sitting on the tarmac... And got in. It took me 25 min to get the left engine running the first time. And then I could not get the right one to get over 25% before falling back down. I finally figured out I was waiting too long to throw the Cut-off Valve Lever up. Then I had a running helo. After that it took me another 20 min to turn on all of the other systems. I still have not figured out the fire supression system, and I have not even started on weapons yet. For the next 2 hours, I just started the bird, exit the mission, restarted it and did it again. 2 hours later, I did the APU start in 73 seconds, and the rest of the systems in just over 3 minutes... I figured I would take her for a whirl then. I played it like it was real, requested taxi, then take-off. Got her up, flew out a little ways but when I tried to turn her back around, I think I crossed the rotor blades... I promptly crashed. I want to turn the auto-pilot heading, pitch, and bank off... its much more nimble, but it was suggested not to, and it is not allowed by the real pilots. So I tried again... Full startup and takeoff in less then 5 min this time. I flew out, turned more slowly, and came back, and landed on the same spot I left from. The difference, slow and steady, and trimming every 10 seconds or so. I had the worst day today with the news I got at work. I did not think that anything could break my mood... But I was wrong. Thank you guys for the great forums, advice, and community. You all made my day.

I will make one in the editor with a free flight mode... so to speak. But on the mission shooting gallery, usually, if I hover the mouse over a button it will tell me what it is. Also, I can use the mouse wheel to zoom in to see the panel. Both of those things did not work... No matter though, I will make a mission when I get home from work tonight. As far as the controls. I set the axis controls to use the throttle in the "Game" mode, but it simply does not take. I set it, click ok, then close the options menu. Once I am at the main menu I go back into options and it is not set like that anymore. Also does not really matter though, since I will be making a free flight mission and I can learn the bird there. Now, to just find the "Always use these settings" box =). Thanks a lot brother!

Alright then. I bought this game on sunday. I have been waiting for more then a year for it as I was a huge fan of Longbow 2 and want something modern, and awesome. I got so impatient waiting for it to release, I got frustrated and forgot about it. I am 100% in love with this sim. I have been reading the forums as deep as I can to find all information that I can. I am about to get started learning the bird. I have some basic questions that you all will probably answer quickly. I have searched for the things that I wonder about, and if I did not search correctly, or missed simple things, I apoligize in advance. 1) Is there an option for free flight? 2) I found a mission called "Shooting Range" where I start cold on the pad. However, I cannot use the mouse wheel to zoom close enough to read the switch labels to learn the start procedure. There are no hover over tooltips as well. 3) Why in gods name are there 2 control schemes (real and game)? And do they switch between them based on how the mission is made? 4) I have tried to reprogram the "Game" controls to duplicate the "Real" controls, is that possible? It does not seem to want to save it. 5) (random question)When the bird is running, and I apply 100% collective, what is the beeping warning that continues until I come off of it a little bit? I know those are kind of silly questions. But I am simply trying to get on a flat area to learn, where the controls will be the same as they are in missions, and the campaign. I am sure that someone is going to tell me that in multiplayer that there will be differences. Thanks in advance, and keep up the great work ED!!