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Hi gang, I've been having a great time with OFF P3 for a while now... However, I've noticed what seems to be an error in the Enemy Aircraft Availability scripting in the campaign system. Specifically, I'm flying a DH2 for the British in RFC 29, in May of 1916 and I'm already having to go up against Halberstadt DII's and Albatross DII's. This seemed a bit off so I did some double checking and it seems like the historical consensus is that Halb DII's weren't available untill July of '16 (off by a couple months, I can live with that) and Alb' DII's were'nt available untill October of '16 at the earliest. That's out by six months! In order to check if it wasn't just a hisorical disagreement I went through the start dates of several of the Jasta's in the Enlist New Pilots screen, and could not find any that showed Alb' DII's showing up before November. So it seems that from a player's squadron perspective the dates are correct. The only possibility I can think of is that since I've played a lot of quick combat missions with this pilot (and been shot down several times), that each time I've been hospitalized the game has advanced the timeline under the hood of the campaign system, yet not in the interface of my Pilot Dossier. Further, a friend of mine who I've convinced to jump on the OFF wagon, has also seen Enemy Aircraft types showing up early in his campaign. Has anyone else seen this? Any Ideas how to get around it? Thanks in advance...

I totally understand the limitations of aircraft availablility with respect to creating aircraft models and FM's for the game. Further, for the sake of gameplay, I support using standins for types that are not yet created. I flew 3 more sorties last night hoping to find a specific enemy flight from a specific squadron that I could check against the availability as referenced in the Select a Squad screen for Enlisting new pilots. However last night all I ever encountered were Fokker E III's. Without a specific example this suggestion carries less weight, but it seemed to me that there is an incosistency between the population of Aircraft types over time in a given Jasta - when it's an enemy Squadron driven by the campaign system, as opposed to when it's a player squadron chosen when enlisting a new pilot. Do these two systems draw from the same database?

Thanks for the tips... I got it in there and it's lookin pretty decent. I'm going to add a couple more things then I'll post it...

Hi there, I'm an experienced texture artist, who's just getting into skinning for OFF. I've got a new skin ready to go for an early Alb DIII, but I don't know how to make it available within the game. Without downloading your full tutorial, could you guys help out with the appropriate file naming and locations to make my skin show up in game? Thanks in advance...