CaptScotty Posted January 24, 2023 Posted January 24, 2023 I asked if it was a bug that you can't get a higher number for a call sign. Back in 1975, I had the Call sign of Colt 45. I couldn't get that in the mission editor. Mike told me that because the 1s digit is for the position in a formation, I would not be able to get Colt 45. I normally mission edit single ship missions, so I can only get Colt 41. If I were #4 in a formation, I could get Colt 44. Since there are only 4 ships in a mission cell, it would never be higher than Colt 44.
silverdevil Posted January 24, 2023 Posted January 24, 2023 22 minutes ago, CaptScotty said: I asked if it was a bug that you can't get a higher number for a call sign. Back in 1975, I had the Call sign of Colt 45. I couldn't get that in the mission editor. Mike told me that because the 1s digit is for the position in a formation, I would not be able to get Colt 45. I normally mission edit single ship missions, so I can only get Colt 41. If I were #4 in a formation, I could get Colt 44. Since there are only 4 ships in a mission cell, it would never be higher than Colt 44. officially i do not know though all the voiceovers would need additional numbers. my guess anyway. 1 AKA_SilverDevil Join AKA Wardogs Email Address My YouTube “The MIGS came up, the MIGS were aggressive, we tangled, they lost.” - Robin Olds - An American fighter pilot. He was a triple ace. The only man to ever record a confirmed kill while in glide mode.
TEMPEST.114 Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 On 1/24/2023 at 1:43 PM, IanC58 said: you could go with Colt45-1 Nope. For another 'dumb' artificial reason, you can't have the first number higher than 9.
CaptScotty Posted April 15, 2023 Author Posted April 15, 2023 It ends up that the reason is formations. with a 4 ship, you have the 2nd digit as 1-4 so a single ship can't be 5 as in Colt 45. Back in the 70s, we did things a little differently than they do now. My call sign was my position in the Squadron (45 th pilot) and our Squadron call sign was Colt. At the time we were rather unique. Most ATC Bases didn't have their own call sign. When I was in SAC, they didn't have their own call sign.
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