Friar

Ok Chaps, shall we all wet our fingers and stick them in the air and pick a date? Shall we go for a Thursday as that seems to be a good regular session. How about I start by suggesting the 8th Feb?

UPDATE 22ND JANUARY 2024 version 2.1 Refined AI random generation. Hostage pickup and return is now only from/to the FARP. Added ability to take troops into battle from the airfield. To the south east of the airfield a patrol has located an enemy build up of insurgents and requires you to take elements of the 101st Airborne over to them to assist with the attack on the town. They have marked the landing zone with green smoke. Load up and deployment is via the communication menu.

I would suggest ANYONE who is thinking of exploring DCS spend an evening on line with the DCS crew having a chat to discuss the options, but thanks for the Heads-up on the video @Crash.

We have always thought of the Dogz as self managing. The "Quorum" was not formed to act as "Mummy". It was just in case we needed to make a ruling on something. Everyone can see the donations thread without asking to do so, so at any time can see how things are going. Notifications of donations go into the Propaganda room for which there are no restrictions. I am as guilty as the rest of us for leaving it till the end of the year before we get the "oh sh*t" moment ref the finances. I just did not bother to check or to ask. Everyone can look to the forum and see that it is quiet or see that there are very few posts in the Welcome thread. Anyone, of their own volition seeing its quiet could have decided to go out into the virtual world to do something about it. That is why I reached out to the 352nd to organize something, and not because I was tagged as being responsible for any particular role. I did it because I WANTED to do something. GBS has died to a certain extent, and I am not taking responsibility or blowing my own trumpet, but due to me finding DCS a lot more exciting now and also stuff going on in Real Life V1.0 has meant that I lost the drive to spend hours and hours building missions in GBS, also planning special events for the Dogz to do. I also got "burned out" with hosting duties on a Tuesday and Sunday, as I think FT did originally which I why I stepped up without being asked and offered to take over otherwise GBS might have started to peter our sooner. I offered to run mission building training sessions for others to learn, just as I had to, nothing really happened. I offered to help others to host co-ops, again not much happened. Sid stepped up and did for a while until his Real Live v1.0 took over, again as far as I am aware no one else who played offered to take over hosting to keep the Thursday mornings going, apologies if that was not the case. I put out many appeals for ideas to build scenarios but never really got anything back. "What ever you do Friar is fine by us" helped me not one bit. GBS is dying because key individuals who did the majority of the heavy lifting got tired and no one else came forward. EDIT: I am speaking for GBS in the UK time slots, I think it still gets played within the Dogz North American members when the players require it?

Outline / Brief Overview attached.

Date up for grabs, could look at a sunday perhaps as well for others that can not make the weekday. but others can not make sundays, so wins and losses. still a few eyes to dot and teas to cross so no panic

Salute I am pleased to present my take on the coalition action taken against Iraq and their invasion of Kuwait. The mission takes place on the 24th February 1991. Coalition air power made up of F14, F18, Harrier, F16, F15, Mirage, F5, A10 plus Apache Helicopters will support ground forces on their push into Kuwait. Sign up below, full brief to follow.

UPDATE 12/01/2024 version 2.0 Added back function of 4 random SAM sites being spawned from a selection of 15 possible locations. Added FARP for Huey and Apache closer to Hostage town - full re-arm and re-fuel available. Added hostage rescue mission using Huey (I would like to add the UH-60 mod to the server if everyone has it as well - "Black-hawk" down and all that!). If you feel the town is secure you can go in and pick up groups of hostages. Multiple trips are allowed. Take off from main airport to return hostages to hospital or to the FARP for a local rescue. Collection and drop off is controlled through the Command / Radio menu then F10 Airborne Troops / Embark / Disembark. Added multiple enemy planes generated via a random picker. First planes are picked after 10 minutes (2 spawns of 1 pair) from the first Hornet, Viper, Eagle or Tomcat taking off, then when both members of the pair are killed a delay of 15 minutes is triggered before another random selection is made. This selection will only be 1 spawn group that that group could be a single or up to a trio. The enemy planes have tasks of CAP, SEAD and both airfield / ground attack. There are also helicopters dispatched to attack allied convoys and ground units. Added cold start options for those that want to. Enjoy. Friar

@xTbonex - let me know what day / times are good for you and we can sort something out.

Better to get it direct rather than STEAM. Also load the Open Beta version. Happy to arrange a session with you to give you an overview. At the end of the day if it is not for you, then no problem.

@xTbonex If Vietnam is your thing (and a few of the Dogz agree) there is the VERY good FREE mod of the A4-E. Our main server map which Fenrir has spent a long time developing is the Caucuses which is a free map as well. I started with the A4. It has multiple systems for ground and air attack and is deployed on all our servers. But I do get that DCS is expensive to get into all at once. Many players have been playing it for a few years and have built up their hangers over time making use of the generally very good sales promotions. I have come to DCS quite recently and have probably spent more than I should, but I am now playing it a lot and getting a lot of enjoyment and satisfaction from it.

@xTbonex All opinions and reasons count, once a dog always a dog and all that. @Zukker I was made aware of the DCS Warbirds night a little while ago and have been putting up the Normandy map on a Thursday for the last couple of weeks. The aim of this is to try and sort a schedule that that pleases as many people as we can. Never going to please everyone and many have died trying before. The more input we get to maximize the flying capacity the better. If we are getting good numbers for a particular night in DCS we could look to finding a co-op style night, the issue with DCS of course and there is no getting away from it, is finding the common ground for maps and plane set. I have been working on producing events that attempt to allow players to fly their favorite plane in a suitable role that fits the scenario.

Salute It has been suggested that with falling GBS numbers and growing DCS take-up we might revise the current flying schedule. Please vote in the attached poll to make your feelings known. You can vote and also leave if a comment in the thread below if you wish. When voting you can select more than one option but please DO NOT select all options, that tells us nothing and does not help.

@Sid - don't know if you have watched the DCS 2024 and beyond video but the corsair and hellcat plus carriers and Japanese planes are coming....at some point @Crash - Sundays are difficult for me at the moment due to real life stuff but if people who do not have DCS wanna try it for free and need a helping hand we could work something out. To anyone who says they have no interest in DCS watch the 2024 and beyond video. I originally did not want to touch it, but I have become a definite convert and do not miss GBS at all, the co-op nights and banter yes, but DCS is growing and we are getting a growing turnout and are starting to get the same sort of vibe.

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/341284-official-news-2024/

Now that's how to do a what's coming video...

@Sid Found this thread on the DCS forums this morning. I know you got your issue resolved by doing a slow repair but the rest might be helpful if it happens again. https://forum.dcs.world/topic/340890-crash-after-loading-multi-player-server/ Delete Saved Games\DCS\fxo and metashaders2 and try again. Next, delete %LOCALAPPDATA%\TEMP\DCS and try again. Next, try renaming Saved Games\DCS to DCS.old and try again.

Pilot Officer Friar reporting for duty. Mossie FB VI Pilot slot please.

Whilst changing my theme in DCS this morning I noticed a setting under the Game Play section. I am wondering if we need to make sure we all it unchecked so that any design the mission builder adds to a mission for us to play gets applied. If I read this correct it means that I can have a setting in my game that will negate a setting the mission designer wanted to have? Please correct me if I am wrong... Edit: It may be just for single player? Edit 2: After a quick bit of googling I found this...https://forum.dcs.world/topic/322783-no-force-from-mission-doesnt-work/ Edit 3: Might be worth doing a test of some sort to check this out.

Having just purchased the Channel Map, @fruitbat challened me to get the Apache landed in Dover Castle, here is my attempt..

@DD_Fenrir, Thanks for that. @wingflyr / @Zukker / @fruitbat or anyone else that knows... I am just working on version 2 for the next time we run this mission (people seemed to enjoyed it so lets go again at some point ) I have plotted way-points to all the planned targets (obviously not the AAA / SAM as we do not know where they are) for all planes to make take-off quicker, now we can load weapons and go, no messing about loading co-ordinates, does this mean I could remove all the LAT LON from the briefing pages as they would be no longer required for F14/F15/F18? I know the F16 can use the steer points to deploy JDAMS but what about the others? For example I have prepared F16 Steer Points 1- Home Base 2- Larak Island 3- Ingress Point 4- Rashid Al-Moonsur Residence 5- Sadiq Al-Moonsur Residence 6- Fazil Al-Moonsur Residence 7- Storage Facility 4 8- Storage Facility 1 9- Storage Facility 3 10- Storage Facility 2 11- HQ Building F15 Way-points 1- Home Base 2- Over Dargahan On Route 3- Ingress Point 4 - Training HQ Building 2 5- Training HQ Building 1 6- HQ Building 7- Storage Facility 2 8- Storage Facility 3 9- Storage Facility 1 10- Storage Facility 4 11- Fazil Al-Moonsur Residence 12- Sadiq Al-Moonsur Residence 13- Rashid Al-Moonsur Residence Mirage Way-points 1- Home Base 2- Ingress Point 3- Qeshm Island Airfield 4- Dayrestan Training Complex 5- Ship Attack Base F5 Waypoints 1- Home Base 2- Ingress Point 3- Ship Attack Base 4- Dayrestan Training Complex 5- Qeshm Island Airfield F14 Way-points 1- Center of Carrier Loop 2- Ship Attack Base 3- Dayrestan Training Base 4- Qeshm Island Airfield 5- Training HQ-2 6- Bul-Hinsur HQ Building 7- Storage Facility-2 8- Storage Facility-3 9- Storage Facility-1 10- Storage Facility-4 11- Fazil Al-Moonsur Residence 12- Sadiq Al-Moonsur Residence 13- Rashid Al-Moonsur Residence F18 Way-points 1- Center of Carrier Loop 2- Ship Attack Base 3- Dayrestan Training Base 4- Qeshm Island Airfield 5- Training HQ-1 6- Bul-Hinsur HQ Building 7- Storage Facility-2 8- Storage Facility-3 9- Storage Facility-1 10- Storage Facility-4 11- Fazil Al-Moonsur Residence 12- Sadiq Al-Moonsur Residence 13- Rashid Al-Moonsur Residence Any advice and guidance as always welcomed. Friar