Olham

What software do you guys use? If you have TrackIR 4 hardware, you should still install the newer TrackIR 5 software. It works well with mine. You may sometimes have tostart it twice; can fail the first attempt, but that's no biggie.

Lou, you are - ... barmy! Yes, barmy! Mmuahahahahahahahaaaa!!!!!

Not even "Profiles"?Or "Settings" (right low).

You guys send him straight into "Bloody April" without hesitation? Killers. Swine!!

I'm NOT old. It's only that most other people are all youngsters!

Bitteschön! Und Prost!

You don't have to order beheadings, do you? (I always wanted to use this Smiley...) You will see - after awhile grass will have grown over the moderator subline. It is green already...

Bertincourt, from where I fly, is even just on it at the lower right edge! Superb!

Hey, that's great news, Lou, as I am operating in that area with my best pilot now. Thanks a lot! (rushes off to download...)

WOFF - not WOOF. But yes, I saw the lights in the screenshots. What I meant were working lights particularly in the aircraft tents - that would look great if you came back late in the dark, wouldn't it?

Like in real life, you can see an amazingly lot even at night, as long as there is moonlight. Only clouded moon or new moon can make it pitch black. It would be great, if the devs could install some lights in the open hangar tents - I guess that would help, and also create even more athmosphere.

That's great news, HPW! You know, I liked what you had done before; great job! But I'm not good at too complicated install plus installing various patches etc. And then I'd need to always find another newly posted patch. An improved, patched version would be great - I'll definitely try it then.

Just be the decent chap you always were, and don't let the burden of being a moderator press you down.

Update 27 May 2012 - 02:42 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) Redmonkey, England added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread .

Yes, for a good screenshot, I would pause the sim, go to "outside view", find the perfect angle, and take the shot.

PS: ...and let me know your hometown. I'll add your name to our "OFF Forum Pilots Maps" then.

Welcome "Over Flanders Fields", Redmonkey! Flying the Entente is the harder part in OFF, as you have to cross the lines, which the German scouts rarely did. The advantage of flying on your own side of the lines is the warning you receive by Flak/Archie. The grey puffs of Archie or the black puffs of Flak would assign enemy aircraft in your area, long before your naked eye could see them. You loose this big help once you cross the lines. And not only that - Flak/Archie will now fire at you, and even if they don't shoot too well, the enemy scouts will get pointed out, where you are. Flying the British side is the toughest in OFF. You will never be in the rather quiet areas. Your headquarters are mostly planning and fighting offensively. You will mostly have to cross the lines; day after day; week after week; month for month. In April 1917, the average life expectancy for new British pilots was 17 hours. That being said, a British campaign for a beginner would better be early on - best before the Albatros fighter appeared. Scouts like the Bristol Scout or the AIRCO DH-2 can hold their own against Fokker E.III. But the Albatros brings back all advantage to the German side. Easy to fly early aircraft IMHO are the Bristol Scout, the Nieuport 11, the FE2b, and - excellent scout - the Sopwith Pup. Then came the Sopwith Triplane, mostly for the boys from RNAS, and it was a dangerous, fast and manoeuverable fighter. But they are all lacking firepower, cause the Germans had from the Albatros D.I and D.II on twin 08/15 LMG. Devastating, when your craft gets hit. Personally, I would probably grab me Arthur Gould Lee's wonderful book "No Parachute!", and join his squadron at La Gorgue. But if you want to last in a campaign, my best advice will probably not be to your likes - it is: Don't go for kills, not for victories piling - save your valuable life first. Always. Fly it as if you could get hurt, as if you could bleed to death, or as if your only choice after having been carefree might be, wether to fall or to burn to death. The more humble you act, the more do you honour the real flyers, cause you won't be showing up. Cause you won't have ten times more victories than they ever had. You could feel like being one of them. Make it your first aim to last longer than 17 hours. I'm sure RAF_Louvert, Dej or another British flyer can help you much better with details and good advice about flying in the RFC. I wish you good luck. If you only enjoy OFF half as much as I still do, you're in for a wonderful time. .

Lothar, you could be in the commercials business - you know how to beat the drums. I will speak honestly: I tried the first or second OFFbase, and I think it is great for all, who may find it hard to imagine the athmosphere, the life around and inbetween flights; or the characters who share the time in the squadron with him. I prefer to make up my own stories, but I recommend it to everyone, who never found it easy to write his school essays. And it seems you have meanwhile much improved OFFbase even.

Damn, this picture can make your mouth water... They even have much older ones.

Bad or good weather - your screenshots are both almost romantic, corsaire.

You can keep your Dimple, von Paulus - you don't know what you're missing! You're right, Hauksbee, and I will sipp it slowly - as long as I know I'll get another. .

I knew you'd be more than capable to do the job, but may I dare say - it is a tad frightening, how fast you got into it! Congrats, old boy! (I'll drop the "old", if you share that Bowmore with me - just two fingers? Oh, please! ... )

Yes, I thought it was a total knock-out, Dave - I am sure, you would have given a sign otherwise. I guess there may be - despite all security measures - still possible safety risks in a place, which is so open and easy to use as CA ? The more comfortable for the users, the more risks of attacks, I guess?

Update 26 May 2012 - 14:40 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) corsaire31, France added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

...and experienced! No need to feel old, nbryant! We were just ahead of our time.