Here's an overview on how our Cliffs Of Dover server 'works', ie. what's happening on it.
If you have any issues with the server, remarks, questions, ideas or suggestions, put them in this thread, or PM me and/or Fruitbat.
- One single mission is running over three hours (Increased from two hours, on July 31st 2014)
- After three hours, the CloD server program is being restarted. Be careful, because you will then have to disconnect, and wait a few minutes before re-joining.
- In this single mission, several pre-programmed waves of aircraft (mostly blue bombers) will appear on fixed timings, ie. in each three hour run, the pre-programmed flights will show up at the same time as in the previous run.
Newly added: CloD Random AC Loader
- Over the time time the mission is running, at intervals in between 20 and 40 minutes (randomly determined) one of seven (randomly determined) different pre-programmed flights of some type of aircraft will be spawned in. After one flight is spawned in, the interval for the next one is determined. Once the interval has passed, the next one of the seven flights will be spawned in. And so on. (So, yes, it is so very random that it is possible the same flight will be spawned in twice in a row. Or three times even... This is being realized by a separately programmed utility. I'm pretty sure it can be done within CloD's scripting engine, but I would not know how)
Note:
As of July 30th 2014, our Clod Server is running on a new box. It is different in setup, and it might show some issues, mainly when it is time to relaunch the mission, after the three hours have passed.
The name of the server is the same as it was, as is the password, so from client perspective, connecting to the server is still the same as it used to be.
Euro pilots will experience higher pings (from 30's to 90's) and NA pilots may experience lower pings (from 180's down to 90's)
Future:
After hearing about the 'CloD Random AC Loader', Fenrir suggested to remove all pre-programmed flights from the mission completely, and have them all spawn in via the random method described above.
Now, that's a brilliant idea, and I'd like to follow up on it, however I do not have a clue yet on how to realise that. Maybe I can figure it out quickly, or maybe Fruitbat can help?
Anyways, all this just for your information, and hopefully you all will have some fun with it!
As of Aug 1st 2014:
- Base map, emptied of all AI aircraft will run in three hour sessions.
- The CRAL (Clod Random Ac Loader) will randomly launch aircraft/flights out of the following series:
1. 109's Northsee to Manston
2. D017-109's Ambleteuse to Folkstone
3. HE111-109 Oye Plage to Manston
4. Stuka-110 Framzelle to Dover
5. Wellington-Hurricane to France
6. 109's-From-Thames-To-Audembert
7. 110-Attack-Southampton
8. Spits-Folkstone-To-Manston-Channel
9. Blenheims-Beaufighters-Attack-Shipping
10. 109a.mis
11. do17.mis
More may be added later on and/or removed.