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Will do. Sorry if anyone took offense, I also take offense at snide remarks. The site is great, modders are execllent and I appreciate all the hours that obviously went into them. Makes the game all the more playable for years to come. Yes I get frustrated when a mod locks up. And frankly sometimes I don't make myself clear in what I am saying. All's well with me as far as any animosity with anyone here.

Clearly you were wrong in saying that section doesn't get edited. If pointing out the numerous mods that indeed have that section edited, well I guess that makes me rude and cocky. Sorry you took it that way. I don't know what mods you've downloaded, apparently none that have you edit the campaign section.

Nope I only get the era specific campaign planes. Okay that made me wonder. I reinstalled Formosa on Europe.exe base making it formosa2, I must have deleted the aircraft files because most of the mods want you to do that originally. Now I got the A4, but still don't get that in campaign, just the era specific planes, but it worked. Must of done something wrong on the install. Weird though modifying the INI file made it work for several of the mods. Of course I sink M936A2 wreckers in my yard so no wonder.

So why doesn't it show up when I create a campaign in this mod? I have all the programs thirdwire put out for the series.

What's even stranger here, I don't even get that choice of plane when selecting US NAVY I get A-1J Skyraider, F11F-1A "tiger" , F3H2N Demon, F4D-1 SKyray How is the A4 even in that mod?

Laugh away. If It freezes up when I hit the campaign button, what's your theory on not editing it manually, and why after editing it , it would work? What would be messed up on my computer?

Not when they freeze up and do nothing. What would be the rationale for many campaigns to have you changing that then?

Well somethings different then on my computer, shrugging shoulders, I've had numerous that I've had to edit, they would always lock up at the splash screen when pressing campaign. I've got all the main games, all the expansion packs. Don't know, just know what I've had to do to make them work. What does the campaign section in the options.INI show on yours? This is what I have to make it work [Campaign] CampaignName=590721 Operation Formosa Freedom PlayerService=USAF PlayerUnit=8th BS AircraftType=B-57B Difficulty=EASY Length=NORMAL AircraftSupply=NORMAL WeaponSupply=UNLIMITED LoadCampaign=FALSE CampaignSavename=

Okay all of a sudden ..........

See above

Actually many do which is where I learned doing it. Have you actually installed any of the mods in the missions/Campaign section? Indian Ocean for one example. Falklands, Operation Darious, ODS, Black Sea, ect. ect...... * STEP 3: EDIT OPTIONS.INI * ---------------------------- This last step involves a bit of text editing, so please pay attention. Open the Options.INI file in your Mod Folder. Locate the "Single Mission" section. I recommend setting the StartYear= and EndYear= as follows: StartYear=1948 EndYear=2020 Finally, a little further down you should find the "Campaign" section. Replace it with the following: [Campaign] CampaignName=1987-1021 Southern Calm PlayerService=USN PlayerUnit=VF-103 Sluggers AircraftType=F-14A_82 Difficulty=HARD Length=NORMAL AircraftSupply=NORMAL WeaponSupply=LIMITED LoadCampaign=TRUE CampaignSavename=DefaultCampaignSave Save your changes and close the Options.INI file. * * * * * THAT'S IT. Your "SF2 Indian Ocean" mod should now be ready to use. You may consider installing some of the "optional" items as described in the next section.

Feel free to explain then why mine would lock up when trying to play campaign before I changed this? Maybe I used a different main mod as the base? I've had several mods where they wouldn't work until I changed the number and name here. Have you guys downloaded and tried every mod in the campaign download section? Shrugging shoulder, only way I could get yours to work. As i noted in my posts on your download I'm still having an issue with the storm but other than that working good now.

I believe it was this part but don't quote me at this point, the campaign name but I've had to edit a few without specific instructions as I noted, some mods don't have any instructions, some missing the campaign number and/or name in the readme, which is the whole point of the thread, if you look at replies on a lot of these mods, "not working" and they give up. I've given up on a few myself. I've gotten about 22 of the campaign mods working. Some I've had to figure out, most are good with readmes but there's more than a couple lacking, which defeats the modders purpose of having people use their mods if they don't understand the whole structure which myself i don't claim to, but slowly grasping my way around. [Campaign] CampaignName=Top Gun '70 PlayerService=USN PlayerUnit=VF-11 Red Rippers AircraftType=F-4B_67 Difficulty=EASY Length=NORMAL AircraftSupply=NORMAL WeaponSupply=UNLIMITED LoadCampaign=TRUE CampaignSavename=HP's Campaign 2.SAV

I include myself in the dumbasses comment, so I don't get where you can figure out my tone through the internet. Regardless, I was asking Yakarov if I made myself clear in the post now, How you took it is much like how I took your reply and still take your follow up reply.. Did you miss the part of my infernal idiocy? "You have to search around for the # and name of the campaign which somehow in my infernal idiocy I have managed to do with most of them. Kinda frustrating to click on campaign in the main screen and have it freeze up. I'm getting the hang of it figuring out the structure but I bet most dumbasses just give up and say it doesn't work."

Did you guys get guidance somewhere from ThirdWire or did you just pick up on the modding on your own?

I always make a separate mod folder, last thing I need is to screw up one of the main parts........ Except of course mods that clearly are for updating existing ones or adding more campaigns to existing ones.