FoolTrottel

Me likes! I like the way you weathered it...

Every now and then, it's nice to a long mission, with some adjusted difficulty settings... just for the fun. (Well, I simply just love those) We've got two modes of multiplay: (note that pro's and con's are listed and judged as specifically relevant for a long mission, and listed as the most relevant on top of the list) Long mission: Up to and over 2hrs.... 1.The Dogfight Pro's - Possibility to join the mission after it has started. - Possibility to rejoin the fight, after a mishap. Con's - Rinse repeat effect - No multi crew aircraft 2. The Coop Pro's - One target to fly to, head on in, do battle, return home. (ie. Historical) - Multi crew aircraft Con's - Being Late is being dead. You can't join if you're a bit late. - Dead is dead. On a long coop, yeah, too bad, sit it out as a spectater. Now this got me thinking. Let's try and get best of both, or well, kinda get close to that... What if a long mission was being programmed, basically as a Coop, so with a series of waypoints to the target, and back home. But then, dead=dead, and being late=dead. Now here's the idea: What if along the waypoints, a set of homebases are being programmed, spawpoints in the air. Run the coop as a dogfight. A deaded pilot will have to wait, until the group (be it bombers or escorts or whatever) have got close to the next spawnpoint along the route. Once the group is closed, the deaded pilots spawns, and rejoins the party. Same goes for late comers. Sure, there's some issues, especially if navigation is full real, and the party gets lost. The pre-set spawnpoints will be kinda useless. And there's the number of human pilots vs. AI pilots, a Coop will take care of that by itself, this setup will need to be tweeked to the correct numbers just before the start.. So, we got the Pro's of being late/dead and still be able to (re)join the fun, and the one-way-in-battle-and-out-to-home-route. Too bad no Multi Crew, but... Oh well... So, question is, would this work? Is this a feasable concept? What do you think?

Hey, let's all just keep this thread up 'til next week Wednesday... and call this Brando Week!

Happy Birthday Brando! (We're a week early, but who cares!)

These guys arrived today: They should enable me to get the L2 / LS326 crewed up with modern airmen.... With a bit of luck and skill... I might have some spare ones to crowd my 110, or the Sturmovik... Oops... backside of the box looks different... Gibson ran away I guess? Feel a bit silly though... as the Swordfish model cost me 65 Euro's, and the crew... in total... 53,30 Euro's ... Oh well...

Welcome Partless!

Finally, some progress ...

Yep, 21000 was down again. Good to know it works! Thanks again! Now your joystick just stopped working? Oh my... USB issue, or just stick issue?

Many thanks Rog! Oops ... lol... I had put the 21000 stuff in the port mappings, had forgotten the 21001 's ... Sry... could you please try the 21001 again?

Just connected me a new router. Think I got it setup all fine and dandy and such... but would like to know the whether the hosting part is ok. So, if someone could fire up ye ole game and check whether one can connect to: A. .dangerdogz.com:21000 for a check whether one can sign in on a coop (one that will never ever be started though ;-) HSFX 6.0.13 B. ft.dangerdogz.com:21001 for a check whether one can join a running MDS server... sure, it's running UP3 RC4, but trying to connect and getting the message ' host is using different version of the game' will suffice... And finally, please report back in this thread whether it worked or not... tyvm...

(Still looks like one file has not been correctly installed/downloaded: fb_hfx3do06.sfs... keep running ChkMods untill it verifies without any error. Dunno why it times out all the time when your system tries to download it... Edit: Or try and run HSFX Autoupdater....or maybe you already did after running ChkMods?)

Is not that odd. The version you are using is not yet aware of 6.0.13. Try and use 'File, Download BluePrints' or better yet, get the latest ChkMods version from the vault.

Happy Birthday !!

What? Checkmods did not fix your issues? Hm... Oops...

Before HSFX? That must've been 4.10.1m, with UP3, RC4. (Ultrapack 3, release candidate 4) I've put up a dogfight map, especially for you, try and see if you can connect: ft.dangerdogz.com:21000

What Rog said.Like if you run Checkmods, and let it do its work, you'll find your install will have a specific set of mods active (history, expert, perfect landscape, hakenkreuz, Tioger's flyby) and it will ad the G11 as flyable for free! (But, it will ignore other items in the MODS folder, so that's safe...although I should make sure the distress call position mod is removed maybe) So, it is not an Autoupdater, it's more, and it's dd-specific. We could do all kinds of cool things with it... like even make sure every dog has a specific set of skins... or whatever ...

Not at all. The AutoUpdater only updates an existing 6.01 so CheckMods is fabulous, it will quite literally update any install FT and I discussed the possibility of it checking to see how many files needed updating, and pulling compressed alternatives if a threshold was reached. This would save on bandwidth and speed the process up. Yes indeed. Would be very good.But, I've been thinking about it ... and it is kinda tricky.... as in... what to zip up as a set? What belongs 'together'? How can one be sure one has the correct set zipped up? Aha, I know...Checkmods makes a fix-it-report, sends it to the server, the server packs all those files together, mails it to the owner of the issues... ) In properly sized portions for sure... You only need to do some research and some scripting Rog .... I've been doing some extensive testing the past week Rog, is that visible in traffic? Significantly increased bandwidth usage there?

OK just refreshed my memory of how we did this. I need to update the script to use the data from the new forums, this was based on the old software (SMF) so will need to do some research. In the meantime if any others need to use/test we will have to manually add access. There was a script indeed Rog, I edited that access file via the extplorer and changed Kelly's IP address to the one he's currently using.Not sure whether a script is needed, as I wonder how many people will get into that much trouble where a re-patch won't fix the issue... Of course, we got Kelly... Oh, and there's that weird issue that Fenrir has with the Ardennes wintermap, checkmods might be of help to analyze where the problem really is...

w00t!

Right mouse click on the chkmods.exe, then select 'Run as Administrator' And, I think I've managed to give you properly authorised access ...

carp.. that's the old verification whether you're a Dog or not... If you're on Windows 7, try and run it as administrator?

Well, especially for you, CheckMods exists.Try the new version, it's still in a test state, but as you are already kinda lost, you got nothing to loose... Link to CheckMods 1.7 Just let it point at a defective installation of IL2, you can even try an old copy of UP3 ;-) (Others better not use it yet!)

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4.11int should indeed be installed over 4.10.1m.... Did 4.10.1m run without errors? Are you sure your started with a clean 4.10.1m? If not, try and put patch 4.10 over it first, then 4.11m If so, try and re-download 4.11int patch, maybe it got corrupted during download? If it still aint workin', you can try and download the MegaPatch, which contains all patches from 4.07m up to 4.10m. Could be a good base to work from...