=VG= Kavelenko

Decide on a budget and stick to it. You get what you're prepared to pay for generally. I admire guys with the patience to shop for bits and pieces and put it all together but being a retired tradie means I don't look at cars as anything more than a box on wheels that gets me from A to B. So you can imagine how much I give a shit about buying a laptop that is turbo charged and water-cooled.

Welcome to the VG community. I'm not sure how many people here play COD, quite a few of us play Project Reality which is a team-based milsim, you're more than welcome to join us there. Download the game from : https://www.realitymod.com/downloads Look for the Veterans Coop Server. cheers, Kav

Hope to attend this event, great work @=VG= TEDF!

Welcome to the =VG= community Alaura, always good to meet another experienced PR gamer, get to know the members and players and see how you go.

I've just checked Lashkar Valley STD out on my local server and it crashes immediately, 3-3 times. So if someone can confirm that by checking it on the live server sometime, I think we have a map that should be removed from the rotation. I've tested Lashkar ALT and INF, both of them seem to be ok. I also checked Vadso City STD and noticed that at the air port objective flag some bots are getting stuck between the buildings and trying to get around past some pipes, potential crash there perhaps?

The fly south crash bug is fixed, where ya been?

Hi Everyone, I'd like to begin a thread about server crashes that are caused by factions, perhaps a collective approach to solving this problem would help us to come up with a suitable map rotation or at least a list of maps that should not be set based on the current map setting. @=VG= Melon Muncher please feel free to chime in here and describe how this issue can happen. My understanding is that if the next map contains a faction that is the same as the current map the server will sometimes crash. Not sure if that is accurate because I've never managed to replicate this problem in local or on a live server. Could we start this thread off with what others know about this problem? Is it real? How often does it happen? Can you reproduce a crash by having two particular maps follow each other? cheers, Kav

I've tried this on another server, it can be a lot of fun but also distracting as hell if you know who is on the other side, then you spend all your time trying to nail their asses rather than capping flags rofl! Depending on who is on the OPFOR side it can be a bit off putting for noobs, as Sem suggests do it on an event server.

Do you have another version of BF2 on your computer?

@0100011000101 could you test the map that is most likely to crash on the GDO server for me?

We played Outpost on the SSG server, pretty cool map

Fragging missions is not a simple process especially for new players, I'm ok with setting up for a bombing run but if I get engaged by a hostile I'm generally toast because I haven't trained for dog-fighting in BMS. To be honest I'm quite happy bombing the crap out of stationary targets for now but whenever I take a break I tend to forget how to do it all, and I spend hours in the pit trying to work it all out again. You've been writing quite a lot of SOPs already and they're still useful but with the new changes we might need to update the radio procedures.

This is exactly what I'd like to see done on our VG server (for those who wish to do it).

I'd love an official SOP for fragging a flight on the VG BMS server, I've forgotten what Sem showed me and it would be good to have that procedure properly documented so there's no complaints when someone else does it. All the videos I've seen on fragging a flight seem to be overly complicated. We should all know how to correctly frag a flight, ramp start from an airfield and/or carrier and do a mission.

Ok installed 4.34. I noticed that in the Ground Ops training mission my throttle is not responding in other training missions its ok, I guess they missed that bug.

Great Ramp Start video Jeffu, that was real easy to follow. So do we need to install this new version to fly on the server or not?

What? Is there a new update? I have 4.33.5 Build 16084 installed.

Me too, I need a stripped down version of the ramp start so I don't waste time checking shit you never need in a flight. I had a voice attack based ramp-start which I could call and it automatically did the procedure in about 3 minutes flat, but then they upgraded BMS and it wouldn't bloody work. I haven't been motivated enough to modify the old version.

Do it if you have time, I'd read it. Its in the mail... .... I posted it yesterday.

BMS is a steep learning curve for newbies and a lot of people just give up if they cannot work out how to do the basics. Its different for the real flight sim enthusiast who generally see all the bells and whistles as part of the challenge or fun of flying BMS. In reality, fighter pilots would need to have formal training at a flight school (Top Gun anyone? (not that I know anything about it) , but my point is you don't hand the keys of the Ferrari over to a newbie who doesn't have a drivers licence do you? ROFL! @=VG= SemlerPDX your little training video for the ramp start was a great idea but we need an updated version. I understand what you mean about "training" people its not for everyone it can be a bit like "herding cats". If Sandstorm or others like Jeffu, Cobalt wanted to start a flight school I would sign up and be the first guinea pig, so long as there's no yelling at me for crashing on take off or landing on the wrong air strip lol.

Could we start a flight school perhaps?

Now for the real thing, check this guy out pulling 9 Gs!

How many Logi's ended up in the water? rofl.

I just got myself a new gaming laptop, and also got a great bargain on a TM T.Flight U.S. AIR FORCE Headset to match my H.O.T.A.S. Warthog Throttle/Joystick. I'd love to add 2 MFDs at some point but in the meantime I'll have to settle for using the laptop's screen and export them as external displays. The breakdown on my gaming rig: Acer Nitro 5 15.6" Gaming Laptop AN515-42-R25P - see specs Philips E-Line 284E5QHAD 28" Full HD SmartImage Lite MVA Monitor Thrustmaster - U.S. Air Force A-10C attack aircraft HOTAS WARTHOG™(**) (Hands On Throttle And Stick) replica joystick pack Thrustmaster - TFRP (T.Flight Rudder Pedals) Thrustmaster - T.Flight U.S. Air Force Edition Gaming Headset TrackIR 5 head tracking input device