LOL! Maybe I got excited too soon! Now I get an error message saying I can't connect to the host due to a timeout. Any ideas?

Cheers

Rowan

Rowan... don't scream victory too fast... you can still have the time delay thing... I can't see you for now!

The server is running now... can you get connected?

Jean-Luc

I got in but Merlin had the time-outs. I'll try again now.

We are three now:

Emeritus
Cloud Phantom
Spogek (me)

Still can't get in Rowan? Doh!
Anyone else having problems?
I will check back often here and the server will be running 3 more hours from now on for those wanting to get in... good luck all!

Jean-Luc

Hi Jean-Luc

I've re-booted and tried again and again - it boots up the game, but stalls on a connection screen. I then get a "timeout" message.

All the best

Rowan

I think I'm in! It was my firewall settings...

Fingers crossed!

Rowan

Aaagh, so you guys are all flying at the moment? I need to wait for my turn to use the computer Well, I have my own one but this one is an oldie so I can't play it here,.aaarghhh.

I will try to come online asap

Hi Jurjen!

Still 2 hours to go!

Jean-Luc

Hi Jean-Luc

That was great fun - but more than my back can stand. I knew I was being a bit silly trying just yet! :-) :-)

I found one weird thing though - aircraft disappearing in mid-air and popping up in a completely different place... is that some sort of time lag? The only times I ever got close to a good shot, it turned out to be a "ghost" and promptly vanished! :-)

Still, I'm really glad I tried. I'll definitely have another go once my back's stronger.

All the best

Rowan

Hi all!

The server in now closed... see you later for after battle report... My Pizza is waiting!

Jean-Luc

O my God,... I'm absolutely the Ultimate Crash King For the record, I didn't managed to shot anyone down and my main role was playing for sitting Duck. hehehe. But it was great fun!!!

I'm not good at flying a fighterplane but to fly a bomber was much more easy to do. Now I need to figure it out how to bomb an enemy airfield

See you guys next time!

Jurjen

Hi all!

Jurjen, don't worry, we all crashed in flames the first times! I too tried to make some bomb runs but I think we have to get the "He 111 bombing for dummies" book! :-) The bomb sight is not a piece of cake! Maybe we can make some formation flights next time and defend each other with our defensive fire...

Thanks TheRudy for your advice! I made the Google search and I think you pointed me to the right direction! I think I can fix that until next week end... damned! We have to wait six days until we will play again! Doh!

Again, we were 6 players today, but not the same as last time so new pilots made their maiden flight in the Armorama Arena. Two guys (non members) asked me for the password while in the ubi room... I gave it to one. I said he should make a visit to Armorama.com and he came back saying he build models as a boy... I think that was acceptable! Maybe we have now two new members here! :-)

Here is the list of the pilots who already flew in our Arena:
- Cloud_Phantom (Procrazzy)
- Emeritus86 (Emeritus)
- Cmdr_jurjen (jurjen)
- Dumbdog (EasyOff)
- Holdfast247 (Holdfast)
- Kancelot (Kancelot)
- MerlinGB (Merlin)
- Spogek (TedMamere)
- umustb (umustb)
I hope I didn't forget someone, if so notify me please...

A few more and we can think about some nice scenarios for the next sessions Bombing enemy airfields but also theme battles! What about only using planes from 1939-1940? Too bad there's no Spitfire! We could have made a BoB scenario!

Jean-Luc

I have been thinking about just that, theme battles! '39-'40 sounds great! Ace expansion pack has some spitfires, but not everyone has it. And they're not suitable for BOB anyway, too late versions. But there's hurricanes and brewsters. Bf-109's and He-111's for the German side. Either an early war or BOB themed game would be nice.

Here's a site where you can find numerous guides for FB, including a bombing guide for He-111. http://www.airwarfare.com/guides.htm

Hi Eetu!

I'll check that He 111 bombing link, thanks!

Rowan (Merlin) said he experienced some strange "phenomenon" during the game: planes suddenly disappearing and reappearing elswhere!
As others have experienced that I post the explanation here for all! It's not a secret weapon or someone cheating. It's just that sometimes the connection gets lost. This can be a problem with my modem (it happens sometimes) or maybe an issue at the ubi server. Anyway, each of you is running his game separately on his computer and only the position of each plane is transmitted via internet (plus other things like destroyed target etc...). So when connection gets lost, your game runs without these informations and the other planes evolutions are based on the last datas received by your computer. When connection gets back, the program "updates" the position of the other planes and causes them to change their position.
Now you will say this only happens when you are behind someone! Strange!? In fact it must happen more often, it's just that you can only see it when you are behind someone!

Jean-Luc

Hi Jean-Luc

That explains a lot - it's no wonder the aircraft that disappeared were flying nice and straight and not trying to avoid my hail of totally inaccurate gunfire! :-) :-) Shame... it's the only way I'm likely to hit anything...

All the best

Rowan

I had been wondering about that phenomen too, thanks. Yesterday I had a very annoying case of random bail outs. Sometimes it happened when typing a message, sometimes just out of nowhere. I had bail out bound to ctrl+E, quickly changed it to / (on the numpad), no problems anymore.

Oh dammit, I didn't get to play on Sat with you guys. My wife woke me up about 5:15 in the morning with horrifying news. Water in the basement. Oh no! Earlier that night, around 1:30 a.m. I'm laying in bed and my entire room was glowing with a white hugh, it was raining so hard outside that my room light up from the reflection of the white of the rain. Keep in mind, its been raining here for over a week and I swear to you, I've never seen anything like this in my entire life. I layed there in absolute panic.

When my wife woke me up, I had just fallen back to sleep, I was laying there, horrified for hours. I got out of bed, went into the basement and there was about 300 gallons of water there already and more coming in. We got in the car after a pure panic attack, I was giving orders as if I was still in the military, taking charge of things.... the way it needs to be and my wife was trying to be creative in her own little mind having NO experience with flooding like I did coming from the Navy. World War 3 started between us. Oh great!

We had our little tizzy, got in the car, went to two major stores looking for sump pumps to drain the water and everyone was all sold out. My store, the one that I used to own wasn't opened yet, so we waited.... tick tick tick.

They opened and I placed the call on my cell. They have what I needed. Zoom! I got my sump pump and the battle between water and my saving my home began. Keep in mind, I'm as handicapped as they come. I can walk, I may smile a lot, but baby, the pain is unbearable. We started to drain the water, but it was still coming in. Outside we had a stream running off the mountain, through our yard. Near my hatchway I had 6 blocks, only one was still there, the other 5 were underground!!!! The earth around my house hollowed out and swallowed them up. Near my tractor, the earth caved in, another foot or so my tractors weight could have caused it to collasp more.

To stop the water, we had to find the cracks that formed and chisel them out making them bigger, we used a hydraulic cement... to what seemed to be an endless battle. There was even water coming in from where the cellar walls met the basement floor!

12 hours later we got things undercontrol... everything except my emotions. Over tired... in pain.... with cramps in one hand that litterally shut my thumb to my hand I had had it. I went to pick up food at a itallian place and I couldn't even count the money, I broke down, the owner told me to just go home, relax, stop what I was doing because by this point i was a mess. Let me tell ya, when your a hurt person, you don't have the luxury of attacking and saving the things that you love without extreme extreme pain. About 7:30 that night I finally got in the shower, poured a drink, took my pills and got to bed. We still have a leak, about 1 gallon an hour that we can't stop, its coming from UNDER my furnace, the basement floor was undermind and we can't patch it there because we'd have to disconnect the furnace and move it. A chore that I can't do alone with my wife. So, because my wife works, I had to get up every couple of hours and vacumm it up. Today, I was supposed to go to a show with Al Lafleche, but I had to actually sit on each stair to get down them today from the second floor just to get my pills in the kitchen. Hurt, you have no idea, emotionaly drained.... you got it brotha.

That's what's been happening with MY life, hahahahaha... I posted this just to let some of you guys know how good you've got it just when you think yours sucks. As for me? I'll get by today, tomorrow and the next. I'll smile every chance that I can and I'll thank God that I'm alive. Hey, who knows, maybe even someday this week we'll get out for some prime rib and long island ice teas. Life is good folks.... eat it up!

Hope to catch ya'll on the next flight session.

EasyOff.

And i thought the flooding at my house was bad!. A coupple of weeks ago it was raning and i went into the basement to watch some tv and there was a bout 2mm of water. I thougt that was alot!. After what you just said it sounds like a small puddel.
BTW I am the Cloud Phantom.

cheers

Philip

Mon Dieu EasyOff!

I was wondering where you have been and couldn't imagine you were fighting that way!!! Like you said, life is cruel! We were having fun in a beautiful landscape while bullets were flying around our ears and you... I just can't find the words...
I hope everything will return to "normal" condition soon. I hope you didn't get too much damage either. I can imagine there are not only physical. Good luck for the next days...

Phillip I forgot YOU were the famous Cloud_Phantom (I know I'm unpardonnable), I'll edit the previous post

Jean-Luc

My god Easyoff. The most important thing is that you and your wife are oke. Just keep smiling and everything will turn oke

Man EasyOff... I really admire you. If I were you and in that situation, I might have broke down, all that water!!

Sorry guys, didn't get to fly this week. I thought of flying on the Saturday but something cropped up and by the time I reached home, it was too late. Hopefully I'll be able to catch the next flight without a hitch.

EasyOff. I will never complain about the English weather ever again

I also had to wait some time before being able to see the game but when I got on I had a great time. I've sorted the "radio" I had been clicking on the message as had been suggested. We should certainly try the bombing raid idea, maybe we could see who can bomb all the stuff on each others airfield first. On Sunday I had a go on the Full Realism site, TheRudy wasn't there, although I saw his name on the players list. There were 4 or 5 other players but none of them seemed to want to talk to me I saw a couple of other planes twice, but I think we were on the same side as they seemed to be attacking ground targets on my enemies side? The biggest problem, I found was knowing where you are, but once you get to know the terrain it will become easier. You need to follow roads and stuff, just like map reading.
Anyone fancy trying a full realism set up? We could maybe have a go after Friday or Saturdays game. I like the idea of your opponent not being able to see you on his map.
Mal

Hi Mal!

I think this is something we should aim at. It would give the game the little spice more... if we play on "scenario" and everyone knows what the target of the opposite side is, it's something that could work as you would know were to find the enemy! But If icones are removed on map and for enemy planes, we should then play AXIS vs SOVIETS! This would mean only German planes for BLUE and Soviet (Allied) ones for RED. It'd difficult enough to identify the enemy, if he is using the same planes as you it would become almost impossible!
I still think this is a bit to early as we are not a lot of players yet... but if everybody agrees, we could give it a try on one of the next sessions...

Jean-Luc

Heh what time? I joined the server at 20.00 CET i think on sunday if not a bit earlier and then i played untill 00:30
If you see me online and the full realistic server is online, PM me and i'll fly with you!

As for knowing whos who and where to fly, load map into mission builder and study it for a few minutes, DO NOT follow the roads!! Look for mountains, the sun and so on... Also if the server is empty, join it and just fly around to get familiar with map... Takes time to get used to it that's why the guy who runs the server leaves one map on for 1 or 2 months so that we get familiar with.

Reds are allies which means you have to wear allies markings and blue are axis. Blue always have german markings on while allies have soviet, USA, UK,etc. markings...

That's what I do, even if no one is online to play with I just jump into the server and fly around. There's stuff that you can bomb if you read the instructions in the briefing. That's fun too. Zoom zoom boom boom. Playing with yourself can be very rewarding.