"Buddy Spike" - DCS World Online Events

[xcom]

We will add Windsocks, hopefully there are no issues :)

 

Also, we testing about removing lives being lost if you fly in UH-1H or Mi-8.

[Pikey]

Brilliant feature.

New feature - Side selection.

We just finished creating this new feature, this means that a player will be locked to a certain side for the whole duration of the campaign round.

 

How does it work:

- First time enter the server - No slot is available.

If a slot is selected, the player is thrown back to spectators and given a chat message explanation that he needs to write in chat - blue or red ,In order to select with which side he wants to fly with in this round.

 

- After writing in the chat, another chat message is returned that a selection has been made and the player is locked on that side, only that side slots would be available, if selecting the opposing side slots, a message will appear in chat explaining that a selection for the other side has already been made.

 

* In case anyone would like to change sides, he would need to contact someone from BuddySpike team to do it with an explanation why.

 

 

What is it good for?

We have seen in several occasions players jumping between sides to id enemy fighters and give GCI/AWACS information to the opposing team by using the other side JTAC commander overview.

With this new feature, this is no longer possible and sides are divided for the round duration.

 

 

Here is a video creating this feature - http://player.twitch.tv/?video=v40325393

[0xDEADBEEF]

We will add Windsocks, hopefully there are no issues :)

 

Also, we testing about removing lives being lost if you fly in UH-1H or Mi-8.

 

Yay, thats a good idea too!

Windsocks are static-objects, they shouldnt cause any problems ...

[Darkwolf]

3) Make chopper rescues repair all lives lost and reduce lives to 4. Make dying in a chopper not lose lives.

I am afraid that system may cause helicopter shortage. They are only a handfull of heli available at FARP.

 

More than that, how about having "plane points ?" The current system is pretty much useless with 7 lifes (except if you are really that bad). Getting 4 lifes will get it better but i think they is a real gameplay experience to explore here.

 

 

Heavy fighters : F-15/Su 27 : 4 points (maybe 3?)

Modern Strikers : Su-25T/A-10C : 3 points

Interceptors : Mig-29/21 & Mirage 2000C : 2 points

Cheap strikers : Ka-50/Su-25A/A-10A : 2 points

Helis and Trainers : 1 points.

 

 

Starting with something like 12 points makes you playing a nearly unlimited helicopter, or at least 3/4 heavy fighter planes. Or you can play it savy and fly Mig-21/29, you have less missiles under your wing, but you have more of them (like IRL)

 

 

This would reflect the value of the plane, and makes mig21/mirage victory over superiority fighters not only an accomplishment, but a realistic impact. Of course, getting saved returns the points.

[Goon1-3]

I am interested in signing up as a lonewolf please!

 

Callsign: Goon

Aircraft: A-10C

[Monkey21]

I am afraid that system may cause helicopter shortage. They are only a handfull of heli available at FARP.

 

More than that, how about having "plane points ?" The current system is pretty much useless with 7 lifes (except if you are really that bad). Getting 4 lifes will get it better but i think they is a real gameplay experience to explore here.

 

 

Heavy fighters : F-15/Su 27 : 4 points (maybe 3?)

Modern Strikers : Su-25T/A-10C : 3 points

Interceptors : Mig-29/21 & Mirage 2000C : 2 points

Cheap strikers : Ka-50/Su-25A/A-10A : 2 points

Helis and Trainers : 1 points.

 

 

Starting with something like 12 points makes you playing a nearly unlimited helicopter, or at least 3/4 heavy fighter planes. Or you can play it savy and fly Mig-21/29, you have less missiles under your wing, but you have more of them (like IRL)

 

 

This would reflect the value of the plane, and makes mig21/mirage victory over superiority fighters not only an accomplishment, but a realistic impact. Of course, getting saved returns the points.

 

 

See, frankly I find that racist against helo pilots. How dare you suggest that a helo pilot's life in only worth 1/4 of a fighter pilot's life, and this is coming from a life-long fighter jock. This bigoted attitude has honestly triggered me so much, I propose we start a "chopper lives matter" action group to combat the blatant prejudice here, it's disgraceful. It's 2016, it's high time we in the fighter community recognised our fighter pilot privilege and work together as allies to stamp out this disgusting and inhuman discrimination.

 

#CHOPPERLIVESMATTER Let's get this trending people!

[AFAlinebacker42]

Monkey, you're such a faggot. Go suck on toes.

 

#fightermafia

[Sweep]

I'm putting that in my sig Monkey.

[domini99]

See, frankly I find that racist against helo pilots. How dare you suggest that a helo pilot's life in only worth 1/4 of a fighter pilot's life, and this is coming from a life-long fighter jock. This bigoted attitude has honestly triggered me so much, I propose we start a "chopper lives matter" action group to combat the blatant prejudice here, it's disgraceful. It's 2016, it's high time we in the fighter community recognised our fighter pilot privilege and work together as allies to stamp out this disgusting and inhuman discrimination.

 

#CHOPPERLIVESMATTER Let's get this trending people!

That escalated quickly

[0xDEADBEEF]

hahahahaha!

#chopperlivesmatter

[HiJack]

I know this is a huge undertaking to do but if you all would like it real as possible then money should come in as a factor. Give everyone a lump sum of virtual money and price everything you use on the battlefield. Earn money for captures, kills, and hourly bases on equipment support like placing SAM that works. Loose money when equipment is destroyed, you are killed, crash, launch missile etc... Using a point systems will be more "game" like.

[gregzagk]

If I am not wrong I think you misunderstood the function.

 

Choppers won't lose lives in the campaign from now on in order to be more active.

 

This is cause their role is very important now and the available slots are not many due to limitations. They have to refuel/repair the airbases, capture targets, provide CSAR, transport JTACs, build SAM groups.

 

For all other aircraft the limit of lives is 4 from now on and it resets every 6 hours.

 

Greg

Edited February 5, 2016 by gregzagk

[domini99]

If I am not wrong I think you misunderstood the function.

 

Choppers won't lose lives in the campaign from now on in order to be more active.

 

This is cause their role is very important now and the available slots are not many due to limitations. They have to refuel/repair the airbases, capture targets, provide CSAR, transport JTACs, build SAM groups.

 

For all other aircraft the limit of lives is 4 from now on and it resets every 6 hours.

 

Greg

This system sounds fine

I'll make sure to get my Mi-8 out again!

[Darkwolf]

If I am not wrong I think you misunderstood the function.

 

No i get it but i'm afraid that people motivated flying the Mi-8 won't have any available because people without life will operate them : They are only 2 Mi-8 and 2 Huey available when you attack, that's not a lot.

[Pikey]

We "should" get more chopper slots released when the sqn reserved slots are removed. Farps are the tricky ones, piling on extra slots causes explosions and such, plus I don't think that all fighters and strikers will have chopper modules but there are easily ways to solve this and it will force team play which is a good thing and emphasise choppers and reduce fighter madness. Overall, even if it needs more tweaking its still going to be a good change in my opinion, but like all things you never truly know how it will turtn out until its been played.

[gregzagk]

No i get it but i'm afraid that people motivated flying the Mi-8 won't have any available because people without life will operate them : They are only 2 Mi-8 and 2 Huey available when you attack, that's not a lot.

 

 

Ah yes now I got it. Will check how to improve it.

 

Greg

[Coxy_99]

Will there be any plans in the future to change farp positions, Example move them in a different square? Or will this be a pain?

[0xDEADBEEF]

I'm having sometimes the problem that i'm not getting any outTexts, for instance CSAR message, Carco Status, Intel report. Nothign shows up. I hit the menu, select the item, but nothing comes up. I'm clueless what causes this :O

 

- edit, having it again, right now in a 27 at beslan i get no pak-intel, but jtac status (no jtacs) is being displayed ... i got the initial spawn-pakintel-message, but cannot call the new one ...

Edited February 5, 2016 by 0xDEADBEEF

[Darkwolf]

Beslan-Tbsili is messy.

 

I die on half of my startup because of hot start. Plane is already damaged when i reach cockpit.

I die on half of my startup because aircraft just explode immediately without warning (looks like it spawn in the ground)

 

I know you don't want rampstarts, but at least have a look into the random explosion issue. When you select the slot, you just go BOOM. We lost the farp because I was unable to get in the air.

 

Also, Unlimited heli is great in such case, but i just figured out it allows you to spam helis at incoming ennemi helis. If they weren't those two issue, no way they would have landed their Mi-8 :D

[gregzagk]

I'm having sometimes the problem that i'm not getting any outTexts, for instance CSAR message, Carco Status, Intel report. Nothign shows up. I hit the menu, select the item, but nothing comes up. I'm clueless what causes this :O

 

- edit, having it again, right now in a 27 at beslan i get no pak-intel, but jtac status (no jtacs) is being displayed ... i got the initial spawn-pakintel-message, but cannot call the new one ...

 

Do you remember if this is happening when the mission runs more than ~3 hours etc?

Or can this happen also in the start of a mission?

 

Yes reviewing the chopper situation.

 

 

Greg

[Jacks]

Would be nice if the helos could rearm and refuel at beslan-Tbilisi FARP.

[0xDEADBEEF]

Do you remember if this is happening when the mission runs more than ~3 hours etc?

Or can this happen also in the start of a mission?

 

Yes reviewing the chopper situation.

 

 

Greg

 

it happened anytime, but randomly. i got no clue if the function is even called, theres nothing in the logs. Maybe put a log-message into the intel-function so I can check if it gets called when it occurs the next time ... just looking at the code i see nothing that could be wrong, I'm using almost the same code after all ...

[gregzagk]

it happened anytime, but randomly. i got no clue if the function is even called, theres nothing in the logs. Maybe put a log-message into the intel-function so I can check if it gets called when it occurs the next time ... just looking at the code i see nothing that could be wrong, I'm using almost the same code after all ...

 

Can you please tell me if you remember what aircraft you were using and from what base/farp ? Maybe it's cause of mixing group ID's.

 

Greg

[Darkwolf]

Experienced trouble with CSAR yesterday evening.

 

You shutdown'ed the server to install improvements.

 

10 min before that happen, the CSAR script stopped working after I picked up someone. I was flying an Mi-8 from Sukhumi-Kutaisi FARP. The mission was running for like 20/30min. Hope it helps tracking that down.

[gregzagk]

Experienced trouble with CSAR yesterday evening.

 

You shutdown'ed the server to install improvements.

 

10 min before that happen, the CSAR script stopped working after I picked up someone. I was flying an Mi-8 from Sukhumi-Kutaisi FARP. The mission was running for like 20/30min. Hope it helps tracking that down.

 

Yes, name it bad luck but even if we were going for a scheduled shut down, the server crashed before we bring it down. So I suppose it stopped working cause of that :noexpression: