Operation "Blue Flag" - 24/7 PvP Campaign - ROUND 5

[Pikey]

Must spread rep apparently Aries, but thanks for the tacview! Wow...just wow. This is what DCS is about.

[Pikey]

Greg, xcom, crash and team. Just passing on a great peice of feedback that I heard on TS last night.

 

Guy joins having fun, he says, "Eagle Dynamics really need to include this is the product its so good."

 

Can't get a better compliment than that team, well done!

[*Rage*]

Great fun yesterday despite not being able to connect to the server till 3 hours after start! We lost sochi but got it back pnce more Redfor were able to join. Battle for Beslan was epic.

 

Cant fly tonight unfortunately but will be back with a vengeance on Monday!

[TIGER]

The First Hours of the BLUE FLAG WAR

 

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[TIGER]

Is there an issue that where ALOT of pilots from Red side and Blue that were Shotdown 4 times and they were continue to fly, without letting others to connect and to wait outside server?

 

 

[LevelPulse]

Very naughty of 104th_Knight to do that.

 

Also, is there any documentation i can look at in regards of what we have to do? I found it difficult to find opponents, wasn't sure what i had to do etc. I also want to help transport troops, but i dont know where etc.

[Darkwolf]

I fail to see what this screenshot has to do with life count. Have you guys even read the SOP before start throwing accusations on day one?

 

http://www.foinikas.org/ftp/public/DCS_World/Briefings/Buddy%20Spike/SOP%20OPERATION%20BLUE%20FLAG.pdf

[BaconSarnie]

Is there an issue that where ALOT of pilots from Red side and Blue that were Shotdown 4 times and they were continue to fly, without letting others to connect and to wait outside server?

 

 

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Lazzyseal flies Mi8 mostly, chopper pilots are exempt from the life/loss of life counter.

Thats the reason he has 6 deaths and is still flying.

I'll defend anyone thats innocent, even if he Redfor :p

[gregzagk]

Thank you all for your kind words and feedback.

 

@LevelPulse please check the first post for the SOP pdf file.

It explains how the campaign's features work and what are the objectives.

 

A pilot can lose more than 4 lives If he explodes in the ground, rescued by a Chopper or If flying with choppers. So there shouldn't be an issue there. Working on the full server issue though.

 

Greg

[Darkwolf]

Shitload of things can explain this.

 

-Death on Ground count in system, not in BF

-Rescue can bring back lifes (RED for is really active in that sector)

-Mi-8 doesn't lose life (not in SOP, btw)

-In some condition (engine running), leaving your plane at base make you go boom, which is a death in DCS, not in BF.

 

EDIT : screenshot from blueflag ouverture tacview. :music_whistling:

Edited February 14, 2016 by Darkwolf

[TheSnark]

I think the server crashed after round restart. I cannot connect to it anymore nor is it visible in the server browser.

[104th_Maverick]

Please consider putting a password on the server that is ONLY given out on Teamspeak!

 

Last night people who were not connected to Teamspeak managed to connect and stopped other people who were on Teamspeak from getting in the server.

 

It would also be very helpful for server restarts.....

 

Instead of the mayhem caused by everyone joining the server to early, you guys could just jump down in to one channel at a time and give the password out ..... this way you control 'who' joins the server and 'when' at restart time!

 

 

Long term a server password might not be great, but I think it worth considering especially at the weekend when the server will be busy to help with restarts etc.

 

People who joined the server within the first 30 seconds of it launching should be banned! :D

[gregzagk]

Working on an alternative.

Password wouldn't help either as there were 96 pilots in the ts.

 

Didnt see anyone out of the TS in the server also in yesterday's start.

 

Greg

[0xDEADBEEF]

;2677657']Please consider putting a password on the server that is ONLY given out on Teamspeak!

 

I must say after spending some thoughts on this, at the official round a password given to all registered pilots might at least keep unregistered players from joining. It will also at least delay early connects by a couple of seconds depending on how long people need to enter the password ;)

 

;2677657']

People who joined the server within the first 30 seconds of it launching should be banned! :D

 

There is a script active keeping players from joining within the first seconds at least. The only thing I could think of is ban them for 5 minutes. Yes, that could actually help and educate people. a permanent ban might be a tiny little bit harsh :megalol:

But +1 on the 5 minute ban for people connecting within the first minute!

 

 

 

One other thing that came to my mind. If theres 100 people trying to connect. Lets assume the first 60 players to connect are 45 blue and 15 red, do you have a script installedthat makes sure there are a max of 30 players per side? That might be a good idea. I dont know how balance was last night since the web-map didn't work ... but I guess if there's 60 people on the server, it might be good to make sure its 30/30 ...

 

 

Can't wait till the time where we can have blueflag with 120 players without lag and server-crashes. This will be a glourious time :pilotfly:

[IASGATG]

SERVER DOWN

[madyogi]

for a moment I tought I got banned, right after I spwaned at Beslan-Tibilisi farp. Took 2 different spawn slots and doing so sent two 42VFG guys to angels... :( Can't this be fixed - helis spawns directly on FARP, not like 100 or 200 metres away from it. (like with a tail inside a house or on a hill side....)

Edited February 14, 2016 by madyogi

[Ashilta]

Seems the server is in poor health currently... Those in the game are finding massive leg spikes or black screens meeting them, whilst I can't even see the server listed.

[gregzagk]

Seems the server is in poor health currently... Those in the game are finding massive leg spikes or black screens meeting them, whilst I can't even see the server listed.

 

Check, thanks a lot.

[Darkwolf]

It is the first couple of days in the event. We should see if this over-population keep going on the long term before over reacting.

 

If server popularity goes higher, maybe on upcoming campaign, maybe consider breaking the West and East front in two separate servers....I think it can be better to have two stable medium size than one huge "everyone in there" server that crashes.

[Ashilta]

Check, thanks a lot.

 

No, thank you. I don't think I've ever had to wait long for a reset when the server's been unhealthy. Thanks for your prompt attention as always.

[madyogi]

Is the server actually "hanging" right now? See the status web page showing all the packs, mission time set to 25min (not changing since i got kicked) but still with players connected...

[gregzagk]

Is the server actually "hanging" right now? See the status web page showing all the packs, mission time set to 25min (not changing since i got kicked) but still with players connected...

 

We are in the server right now. It should be ok in some minutes.

Thanks for your patience.

 

Greg

[Pikey]

Another first few hrs video using the tacview from this thread. 32x speed.

[xcom]

Amazing Tacview recording!

[Derbysieger]

I had a blast today, defended Beslan in with 2 and later with 3 F-15s. Before the server went down the first time I ended with one kill one death, once it was back up I got three kills but sadly after rtb and rearm it went down again when I just got back in the air.

 

It's good to be back anyway