Winston DoRight

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Here's the photo of the refinery. Hopefully the scouts can damage or destroy some of the air defenses and allow the bombers to concentrate on the refinery itself.

Have fun Ax! I tried a large scale BoB game like that once, but I fell asleep! Take a thermos of strong coffee!

Don't forget to set your "Overrides" and "Texture Info". They are equally as important as your "resolution" and "Image Quality" settings. You should be able to find some suggestions here for nvidia cards. The ati card settings will be different. The stuttering is another thing completely and placing a limit on your FPS in one of the game files is necessary to minimize this. Look for the info and if you can't find it, let me know and I'll repost it here for you.

With those two flights done there's only two missions remaining in this mini-campaign, the flight to attack the refinery and one other. Hope you can make it next Saturday for the grand finale, the more the merrier.

After our long flight in to our new airbase, we all had a quick meal and a short rest. We were pleasantly surprised to find that our new Sopwith Camels were already here! As soon as the mechanics got them serviced, refueled and armed we set off on a recon flight to find the exact location of the enemy refinery. Here's our briefing map: We flew our waypoints, engaged an enemy flight and spotted the refinery. The Camels cleared the way for the Bristols who were supposed to take photos, but the Bristols camera shutter buttons were frozen from the cold at altitude and would not function. We were lucky that one of the Camel pilots brought his personal camera with him wrapped up and under his leather coat. Hopefully his snapshots will develop well and we can use them to identify the air defenses at this facility.

20 Mar., 1917 It seems that many of our pilots were unable to fly today, a mysterious sickness attacking them sometime earlier in the week. But we few remaining brave souls flew anyway today, sucessfully flying our Sopwith Pups and Bristol F2b's from Fontaine airbase to Friedrichshafen. We encountered a few enemy flights along the way, engaged some and let some others go. What a wonderfully scenic flight we had over the mountains of northern Switzerland. Imagine our surprise when we arrived at Friedrichshafen and could still see the German cross' on the fabric hangars. Our engineers haven't yet had the time to paint our insignias on the recently captured airbase. We also marveled at the fact that this was once an Axis Zeppelin base, and we got to view up close a captured fully operational Zeppelin. Maybe we can find a use for it in the future? I snapped a pic of a few of our planes after we landed and taxied over near the Zeppelin Hangars.

Is your joystick calibrated in Windows? IL-2 has it's own joystick calibration, CFS3/OFF does not and relys on your Windows calibration.

Tired of the AI wingmen crowding you in our MP formations? I think this will be the way we'll fly our Saturday session flights.

He's probably upset that the ships computer wouldn't let him play OFF!

I did notice that some of the maps were save as 16 bit resulting in 10mb file size whereas the original maps are 8 bit and about 3mb in size. I just loaded the big ones into my paint program and resaved them as 8 bit and then put them in the correct map folders.

It has to be enabled in workshop first. You have to choose between a custom skin or fuel and ammo loadout.

I'm sure we'll all enjoy the scenery, thanks Red-Dog for bringing this area to my attention. I'm also looking forward to your missions here. and about the grid maps.... Burning Beard has developed a much better grid map than I have done. I strongly suggest that we all download and install them before saturday: http://forum.combatace.com/topic/54059-new-map-grids-for-western-front/ I've already done so and the new maps will cover every area including my next mini-campaign over the English Channel.

On Winston's Saturday sessions beginning Saturday 20 March, I will host a fantasy 4 part mini campaign. These will be rather long missions and different from what we've been previously flying. I'm hoping for a good turnout, the more human players we have the better our chances for success. There's still time to get new players checked out before Saturday, just follow the necessary steps in the sticky post on the general discussion topic page or check the OFF calendar for the info. Then contact me or drop by teamspeak Tues through Fri for a checkout. Synopsis: We all volunteered for this assignment and have been training hard for the last few months. Today word has finally come down from HQ about our upcoming mission. We must destroy or severely damage an enemy aviation gas refinery far behind enemy lines. HQ has determined that this would greatly reduce the enemys aircraft presence in the south and with fewer enemy aircraft in the air we could launch larger offensives and perhaps shorten this bloody war. 1st mission briefing: We will ferry our Sopwith Pups from Fontaine airbase to Friedrichshafen airbase in the mountains to the southeast. Friedrichshafen was just recently captured from the enemy and is in a perfect location to launch our offensive from. We are expecting our new Sopwith Camels soon, but until they arrive we will continue to rely on our trusty Pups. We've been issued a double ration of Ale today, bottoms up and go get some well deserved rest. We depart at dawn on saturday. And by the way, sorry about this but there is to be absolutely no contact with the local civilians from now until we depart.

OUTSTANDING! These are everything we could ever ask for in multiplayer, and supercede everything done so far in so many ways. They cover the southeast region where Red Dog is designing missions and for my mini-campaign in that area, and will be invaluable for my upcoming English Channel mini-campaign. Great work Beard!

With Vasco's sunday campaign finished, does anyone want to fly on Sundays? I usually reserve this day for family, but I'll be online Sunday 14 Mar. from 10am to about 3pm Pacific time.

Hey Stump! I tried to PM you but it wouldn't deliver it. Is your message storage full? I need to ask you some questions on the Zeppelin.

View File 1917+6_Grid-Map.zip A new grid map for Winston's Saturday sessions. OFF time period 1917+6. Install instructions included. Submitter Winston DoRight Submitted 03/13/2010 Category Maps, Missions, and Campaigns

I just uploaded another grid-map to the Maps, Missions and Campaigns download area. You will need this for the Saturday sessons mini-campaign. I hope it gets approved in time for you to download and install it by tomorrow 13 Mar. If not, I'll give out a link on teamspeak tomorrow just before we fly.

I love big metal Robots!

Signed as #6398. That already seems like a lot of lost sales for UBI.

We as PC gamers, and above all consumers, cannot allow this form of DRM to succeed. I am not purchasing titles that require such intrusive and objectionable DRM. If I have to be logged in to any server just to play in single player....... they won't get my money. We must unite and make our voices heard. Don't let this type of DRM take seed and grow uncontrolled like a weed. If these greedy companies see the money they are losing and the customers that are not purchasing their products, they will take a more reasonable approach to copy protection.

I got all that stuff out of my system when I was 22 years old. One war and some private military jobs after that has left me now with the awareness that I had pushed my luck back then way beyond reasonable limits. Yet I survived and now I'm old having lived a hard but prodigious life and I no longer miss the excitement, fury and horror of war.

OK, thanks that makes perfect sense. I'm off to read part 2.