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Salute I have been looking at a mission building assistance utility called "DML". Using this utility (it is NOT a mod or anything extra people will have to download / install), I now have access to lot of exciting mission elements, more information once I get to grip with it a bit more, but for example we could have the status of mission being saved and re-opened opening up the option of a rolling campaign, it gives the option for helicopter anti-submarine warfare, it can enable zone capture etc it uses random flags in an easier way so the mission will have the potential to be almost different every time it is run. What I have achieved over the last 3 or 4 days is, and am excited to announce, is the following; 1. I have been able to add populated airfields with I hopefully believe, little or no overhead (so hopefully no (extra) stuttering on load in for people) 2. Each player spawning in gets their own bit of eye candy with localized ground crew with different groups so not are all the same for every player, which are deleted from view once the player starts their taxi out (thus keeping the server load down) 3. Under the Communications menu and F10 option "Other" it is now possible for a player to re-start the mission / server. So if you join the server on your own and would like to re-set the mission (to witness the glorious sun-rise - the mission now starts at 06:05 and in September, scattered clouds at 12,000 feet rather than clear skies mid day in June) or go back to attacking a town someone else who has been on earlier has flattened), you can now do so by calling up the Communication menu and selecting the option. OBVIOUSLY, please do not try "What Does This Do?" when there are lots of other players on the server, it is only good manors to use it by agreement. Once the option is selected, the mission WILL re-start. Other changes Using the Data-Link feature that was introduced in 2.9 I have added all the F16's into what I think is the correct shared comms table. I have also done the same for Apache. Needs testing. I have moved the Carrier further up the coast and added closer targets. I have added additional Air to Air tankers. If you use the server when I am not around, please let me know what you think and if you got any performance issues with the populated airfields. Regards Friar