Condor44

I think most may know this but I am posting for those who may not or are new and rely on the CSF3 game commands. CSF3 has an exit game command that is execute by pressing the control an Q keys together (CTRL+Q). You then get a dialog box that asks if you really want to exit the game. I have been using that since day one and have never had a successful flight recorded in the pilot's dossier or flight log nor have I seen claim forms. After considerable discussion in this forum and with Winder, thinking that there was a problem with the game or some obscure computer setting, we discovered that exiting s mission via CNTRL+Q was the problem. It takes you just not out of the mission but out of the game completely and no flight data is recorded. The correct way to exit a mission is to press the escape key and then click "end Flight" on the drop down menu that appears in the upper right hand corner. You then get a dialog box asking if you are sure you want to exit the mission. Answer yes and you will see the summary of the flight data, get your claim form if you shot anyone down, and the flight will be recorded in the pilit's dossier. This has been posted at the end of another long thread but I thought it might merit repetition for those who, like me, do what seems obvious from the CSF3 game command card. My apologies for boring the majority of you who were smarter than me and already knew this. I finally have logged a successful mission and filed a claim. now let's see if it gets approved. This is a case where I'm happy to have the suspense killing me.

I just completed a balloon busting mission in an EIII. I destroyed 3 allied balloons. When I looked at the mission summary it showed I had only 4 hits. I got in close and fired short bursts. I can't believe I had only 4 hits (although my gunnery is not great) but even more so I'm amazed that a single bullet will destroy a ballon. Does it usually take so little to bust them?

I'm stumped. How do you recognize that specific balloon? There were several in the area within view.

I got on Aces High to celebrate the battle of Britain. I flew a Spit VIII though. I get killed too quickly in a Hurricane. As it turned out, I got killed several times in the Spit too. Only once by a 109. The LA-7's that killed me twice had no bussiness being there.

0.2122, bobcat. I aseem to be with most of the pac.

As I recall, we don't get the opportunity to see the review until after the claim form is completed. Am I mistaken because you seem to be suggesting that information from the review be included in the claim, (I would check but my gaming computer is down for a few days.)

I have had very few claims approved or rejected so my experience is limited. (It seems I frequently die with several pending.) One of my approved claims was for a kill on a lone wolf mission. The only observer was an Eindecker from another squad so I put in "airman" as the witness. I had two claims that were rejected for which both of my wingmen. who were very close. were listed as witnesses. They were rejected. I have had claims confirmed for which I just listed a witness and the type of plane that I shot down (and that I shot it down) and no other details. So it seems little detail is required and that the confirmation process is somewhat arbitrary. That's OK. It probably was in real life also. (And maybe I will learn otherwise once I can survive ong enough to get more of my claims past the pending status.)

We fished for walleye there and caught more than a few. That was 45 years ago. It probably wasn't your beach then. My dream is to live on a lake in north central Minnesota and have it be summer all of the time. I don't think I could survive the winters I lived through as a kid. Your dream is more realistic than mine. To last more than 17 hours in a campaign would be nice too. We fished for walleye there and caught more than a few. That was 45 years ago. It probably wasn't your beach then. My dream is to live on a lake in north central Minnesota and have it be summer all of the time. I don't think I could survive the winters I lived through as a kid. Your dream is more realistic than mine. To last more than 17 hours in a campaign would be nice too.

Ricketycrate, Your concern is appreciated. How is life on the St. Croix? I spent a lot of time in my younger years fishing the river at Hudson. Your right about how slow the opponents are. I'm always amazed at how fast I close on the B.E.2cs. It's hard to believe anything could fly so slowly. The stick mod is just the addition of a pot with a greater range for the elevator trim axis. It was overly sensitive with the original CH pot. Nothing spectacular.

We are alive and well; at least I am. Mark was OK a few days ago. Mark is doing a mod on my throttle so I can't fly right now. When I get it back I will have a more precise trim axis. We've been flying campaigns. I'm starting with the Germans in Nov. 1915 and can't seem to get out of the EIII. I have yet to be shot down by an enemy plane but my longest lived pilot has only lasted 8.7 hours. It's either ack or running into my prey. It's really frustrating to get killed in such a stupid way with 3 confirmed kills and 4 claims pending. I know Mark's having the same problems flying for the French in a Nup 11. It's not the game. It's us. I've been flying WWII birds for too long and have yet to get it out of my head that the EIII doesn't have the power and manuverability to avoid a collision after a close pass. In fact I'm not sure it's appropriate to use power and Eindecker in the same sentance:grin: Mark's wound has healed. He's just taking a break I think. I'm sure he will be back.

I suspect what you are experiencing is normal. All of the planes I have flown in OFF will nose up and climb without forward pressure on the stick even though my stick is calibrated. I assume you have calibrated your stick using the software supplied with it. You certainly should if you havn't. As has been mentioned, you can use elevator trim. My stick has trim wheels so I have an axis for elevator trim. I believe the keyboard can be used but I'm not familiar with that method. What stick are you using?

I just read about a SPAD that needs to be added to the game. The S XII Ca. 1 was armed with a 37mm Hotchkiss gun that fired through the prop shaft. Only about 100 were built. Guynemer scored 4 kills in one. Reprtedly it could destroy an airplane with one hit. Only the best pilots were allowed to fly it. If this were Aces High it could be offered as a perked plane. Maybe it could be made available only to pilots who reached 40 hours or 40 kills. This sounds like WWII armament. I had no idea there were fighters with cannons in WWI. I wonder if Germany had anything like it. You would have to be sure your speed was high or the recoil might cause a stall. I found this in one of the books in my collection and confirmed it at a couple of internet sites. We gotta have it!

I use the TAC and labels. I would not survive long without them. On occasion I see what I call "phantom" bogies. While patrolling I usually have the TAC set for 8NM and to detect airplanes only. When I see white squares indicating bogies I fly to investigate. I will adjust the range of the TAC downward as I get close to them until I see the labels. In a mission last night I had two white squares within 1NM of me but never saw a label. I searched for quite a while at different altitudes but never saw them. At some times they were closer than my wingman whose square was blue whereas their squares remained white. Shouldn't they have changed to red or blue? After looking for them for some time I gave up and flew home. I have seen this several times although not on all missions. Has anyone else encountered this? Does anyone have an explanation? Thanks

Thanks for the responses. I guess had just been thinking in terms of horizontal distance.

A week ot two ago I posted that after the first mission of my first campaign the pilot dossier did not record that a flight had been flown or the 45 minutes I had been in the air. I had used a pilot that I had previously used in Quick Combat. The flight time in quick combat had been recorded but the flight time did not increase after the campaign flight. One of the responses suggested that it may have been because I was using a pilot that I had previously used in quick combat. I was told to never use pilots in campaigns that are used in quick combat also. I created a new pilot for use in a campaign only. I began a campaign and flew for about 40 minutes. I never encountered any enemy aircraft. The way point systen had me essentially flying in circles behind the froot line and I finally landed because I was tired of just flying around with no action. When I did approach bogeys they all turned out to be friendlies. After landing I checked the pilot dossier. It said no flights had been logged and the pilot's flight time was zero. My campaign settings in the workshop are: Campaign Date Advance - Manual/Auto Campaign Mission Frequency - Historical Data Base Warnings - Off Regional air Activity - Light Aircraft Spawn Control - OFF Campaign Flight Evaluation/Log - Campaign only Player Stats - On I am set to always lead and my realism setting is 120. This is intersting since I had set my claims setting to bypass claims and my pilot to never die several days ago. Do these settings need to be made for evey pilot? I don't recall changing them. Anyway, this is an aside. My main question is, why wasn't my flight recorded in the pilot's dossier?

This was the answer. Thanks. I just flew several brief missions and exited via escape/end mission. All were recorded. I then flew a couple and exited via CTRL+Q. They were not recorded. Until now I have always used CTRL+Q to exit. Are Homeboy and I the only dummies who didn't know this?

I am flying campaigns.

I like Civilization III. I used to be quite addicted to it. Now it's just an occassional thing. Aces High and OFF are my main entertainments now. That is, when I can't go fishing.

Well, I'm now using the CFS3 (v3.1) CD in the drive. The no CD crack exe is gone. I've tried disconnecting from the internet and shutting down antivirus. I'm not using any software to shut down precesses when I start the game. I'm still getting goose eggs with respect to data recorded in the pilot dossier following a successaful flight. Interestingly, if I get killed, captured behind enemy lines, or crash in friendly territory and survive all of the time, etc is recorded in the pilot's dossier and the flight is logged in the flight log. It's only when my flights are successful (i.e. I return and land safely, almost always with at least one kill that the flight is not recordeded in the pilots dossier. when I run the flight review, however, every ting is there. I'm stumped.

I got rid of the no CD crack exe and replaced it with the original that I had saved as CSF3orig.exe (and yes, I did change the name back to CSF3.exe) but I still got goose eggs on my last mission with the CSF3 . I was going to attempt a complete reinstall but after reading Homeboy's post further down I have my doubts about that. I do run Norton 360 on this box. I don't know if that could be the problem. Any other Norton 360 out there? I know Homeboy uses a different AV (I believe it's Avira) and he also has the same problem. Homeboy uses alacrity PC to shutdown processes and programs when he starts OFF but I do not. I shut down what I can manually in task manager. Is there a list of known processes that interfere with OFF.?

This is embarrassing but it appears I created the no mission record issue by using a cracked no CD version of CFS3 because I didn't want to bother with putting the CD in the drive every time I ran OFF. I hope everyone has noted Winder's warning about not using no CD cracks. The "convenience" resulted not only in a lot of inconveneience for me but for those who tried to help me with the problem. My apologies for raising the issue and wasting the time of those who responded.

But I just did the reset last week for the same problem. It's not much fun to have to do it every 3 or 4 missions.

I wonder, how many others flying campaigns see failures of their missions to be recorded? I was having that problem consistently a week or 10 days ago. Winder suggested I reset my CFS3 files wich I did. After creating new pilots, because the earlier ones were lost due to the reset, and resetting my custom graphics settings, I flew three campaign missions and the flights and flight times were recorded. Great! Problem solved! But last night, deja vu all over again. I flew a lone wolf mision that lasted an hour and a half. I shot down two enemy aircraft and scored hits on three others. I returned home and landed before completing all of the waypoints because I was out of ammo. No claim form. No flight time recorded. I went bsack to the campaign and checked the briefing. It was the same lone wolf mission I had just completed on the same date at the same time. It was as if the mission had never happenend. So is there something I need to fix or is every campaign mission a bit of a crap shoot with respect to whether it will be recorded? Are Homeboy and I the only ones experiencing this?

Just for fun, try the same thing in an EIII. It will be interesting to find out if you see visible damage. I didn't.

Well, I now see visible damage. It is the result not of changing settings but of changing planes. I have been flying an EIII in my campaigns and seeing no visible damage. Tonight in quick combat I flew an EIII, DVII, and Roland CII against a 2 gun Sopwith tripe (for max hits). In each case I made myself an easy target but manuvered enough to present different aspects of my plane to the gunfire. In the case of each plane I took many hits, saw debris flying off when looking back, and soon had an unflyable aircraft. I inspected each plane for visible damage while going down. I couldn't find a single sign of visible damage on the EIII. The DVII was shredded with splinterted wood, flapping canvas, and many bullet holes. The CII had only a few bullet holes in the upper wing panels. From the number of hits and the amount of debris flying off I would have expected all three to look like the DVII. I then flew a Spad VII and Newport 11 against an Albatross DII and did the same as above. Again I saw debris flying off. I couldn't see a single bullet hole in the Spad. The Newport had multiple bullet holes in the horizontal stab and elevators but nowhere else. Olham, Which Albatross do you fly? I'm wondering if it shows damage more like the DVII than the EIII. It appears to me that visible damage is more a function of the airplane than graphics settings. I do have a damage display issue that I strongly believe has nothing to do with graphics settings. I never see the red text messages listing the damage to my plane or the blue messages listing damage I inflict on enemy planes (and yes I have hit some). Homeboy tells me he sees both. My overides and other settings are identical to his. Is there a command that toggles the text display of damage?