=VG= SemlerPDX

Grabbed this screenshot from the loading menu in game - keeping it on the other monitor when I play - might be helpful for some new folks:

Yea, too bad they don't have support in GameTracker!! If there is any way to see who was playing on the server and put up a banner on the website here, I would really like to get that working. I can't even seem to get info from Steam about the server, and Steam Query is working or our steam games and updates wouldn't work (SQUAD pulls their in-game servers list from the Steam Server Browser, so again, that is odd...) ooh... I missed this one a ways back: go ahead... click that spoiler button... you know it's coming... (or you don't know me yet)... ( j/k - everyone who hangs out here at VG is so generous, even my poor ass! we are doing fine and have plenty of power with our current server. game on!) Checking through their requirements when I went to make a Server License application, I paused because the factors for getting our SQUAD License would require a regular and active Admin Player base already established, trained & knowledgeable in the game, and with enough active playing Admins on the server to cover Admin absences like overlapping coverage and able to respond to player requests/issues. Our only route to this is to start out on the CUSTOM BROWSERS list, the alternate server list with everyone including those with mods, etc. **IF our goal is to ever run with Mods, then this would be the final resting place for our server, but if we plan to move towards an Officially Licensed Server, we'd eventually pursue a license once we are established. If our goal is to get there, we'll get there - but we don't start there with this game, we don't start at a license until we know what we're doing. **we can also run another SQUAD Server that would never get licensed just for Mods if we want, too... first things first, gotta see how it performs on Skylake before I know how many of any sort of server we can run at one time.

I had restarted it earlier, but something must have gotten borked. The server was crashed, it wasn't you.... Campaign restarted to last auto-save on Day 11 Thanks for the report!

I've just sent it a hard stop and start. Should be back up very soon. Thank you for the report!

The RAM should finally arrive today and I can start testing parts and building, but there's one last thing I'm thinking about buying... since I never get these things to look as good as those pictures of Gaming PC's.... what do ya think?

The VG SQUAD Dedicated Server is now online. This is a sort-of soft launch announcement, we can do something fancy down the road with pics, links to rules, etc.. It's not quite the time to plaster this info all over the Twitters and Facebooks and such, we're not configured yet - but we will be soon! ( @=VG= BLuDKLoT ) We need to configure many things - right now, the entire list of maps and all available modes are selected. I've added basic MOTD and Server Messages, and name. We will need to decide on a number of factors including the maps, their rotation (or randomization), etc. Also, we need to evaluate server performance over time, and that will only happen once we have an event with more than a few people. The server must remain passworded for now, as we get our feet under us. This is not a licensed dedicated server under SQUAD, and will appear under the CUSTOM BROWSER selection in-game (select the filter "show empty servers"). We will not meet the requirements to be approved for a license from the SQUAD Dev's for some time, won't bother listing the many things we don't yet meet - but feel free to check them out for yourself. They take the term "dedicated" very seriously, so for the foreseeable future, the VG SQUAD Server will not be an "official" server, and will appear under that CUSTOM BROWSER list. Also, for now and for a little while, we will be keeping our server passworded, but feel free to share that password of course (just not in the MOTD/Server messages). Server name: VETERANS-GAMING | Training Grounds | TS3.VETERANS-GAMING.COM Password: vgsquad Requesting =VG= Members who want to babysit this thing and make it their own: I set it up for you, but I'm not taking a new bouncing baby server under my direct control, I'll just make sure it's online and running day after day, paying the bills and applying any technical help until the server has it's own dedicated tech, I'm honestly not yet big into SQUAD, even if I will get hooked in future - gonna eventually need a dedicated tech person and/or someone to watch over it, research how to do Admin-y things, the banlist stuff, RCON, etc. and manage the server's in-game admin base (whether current =VG= members, PR Admins, or out of any new player base of regulars, to the same standards of all VG game server Admins) As always, feedback, support, or questions are welcome. I don't know everything about this game, how it runs, or even how to ban players yet. This is just the beginning.

If you have a webcam, you can attempt basic head tracking right away. The highest precision is in IR LED positional tracking with good software, TrackIR is the kingpin, but there are other solutions. FreeTrackNoIR and OpenTrack are viable options for webcam (and other) methods. Can't hurt to play around while you await your packages. Best tips are to control light glare off glasses if any, and to control lighting behind you such as a bulb or window. If you set your turning acceleration curve manually, you can achieve best performance by having a maximum (looking behind you) when your nose is pointed at the left/right bezel of your display. Up and down may be best for you with a less aggressive curve, and all of this is gonna require testing to get the best feel for you. A head movement dead-zone in the middle will seriously help avoid neck strain if that is something you're prone to, as a tendency to hold still can cause some stiffness in the absence of a reasonable central dead-zone. Using head tracking in flight games (even with triple monitor setups) is like night and day, and you should move into it as soon as you can.

Thank you for posting up @arrive123! Concurrent campaigns cause a serious hit to the main campaign that we run, we are already at 70% CPU usage and 90% GPU usage 24/7 -- basically, we're at capacity, except for the random dogfight or small TE. As Crab pointed out, you can edit down the time of your flight as low as 14 minutes rather than 20, for a RAMP Start, or even lower if you plan on launching from TAXI or TAKEOFF. There are guides to fragging flights on a server, and this website is overdue for a personalized one as well. For now, please join our server campaign in progress only, and thanks for understanding!

Can't go wrong with the Logitech G Pro Flight yoke and rudder pedals combo. Flown quite a bit with those when I set them up at my Pop's house a few summers ago, and with the throttle combo, feels pretty good. Rudders are a little more plastic than the original version, but plenty good enough if you respect that they aren't gonna support the entire weight of a human. Price only goes up from there as far as build quality, and anything lower starts sacrificing the same, some CH Products are decent, but the ones I've handled at Fry's Electronics made me glad my Pop's invested in good gear. Same with his racing setups, Logitech G920's FTW - a good brand with well made peripherals at a price that reflects the build quality for the most part. Just don't waste money on a bunch of dials and gauges and radio stacks before investigating the second monitor display extraction methods that most of us use, even with touchscreen support or controls that stick to the monitor itself. For fun add up the costs of those USB gauges and dials to 1:1 a very basic Cessna cockpit - it gets ridiculous very fast.

Well, they are gone again. I don't recognize the callsign. Please keep posting if you see them again. I will catch them one time and will talk with them. Thank you again!

Please post up here whenever you see that! I must get them to understand that it is not going to be a good stable campaign for them, and a waste of their time. Maybe they do not understand how to join the campaign in progress. Either way, I must speak to them. Thank you for telling us. Cheers!

No, you cannot - and it will probably crash. Not worth wasting the time. Server is being restarted.

No, the Falcon BMS Sever maintenance was completed -- Server now running 4.34.3 (U3) -- what remains is our other dedicated server in Germany, it will have downtime but that will not affect Falcon BMS Server or it's IVC Dedicated Server Today, I found the server CTD at 1900 Day 2 -- exactly 24 hours after the last CTD. I'm watching it closely, this is atypical. Please let me know if the server is not joinable and I will jump on it.

Cheers, m823us! VG is lucky to have you on the Administration Team!

Welcome back! Cheers!

Sorry, but I can't take anything you say seriously with an Avatar like that.

dude I would have been happy if you left it at a one liner about the pic being linked to some group. You have completely derailed this entire thread, brah

There is no squad and there is no schedule. We're casual like - come as you are. We don't have a Virtual Fighter Squadron, and we don't enforce any full-mil-sim rules regarding SOP's, Comms, or the like, just as best as people can muster is good enough or as real as they wanna go, and of course we have rules in place against disturbing others though that's never been a problem in the ten years we've been doing this. People come and go over time, like I said, would be nice to have some more regular casual pilots around, but for example, I play a number of games and sims, and most of the guys in VG are the same - those few who fly Falcon also fly other sims and play other games here at VG. Always looking to build up the numbers for the VG BMS Server - more regulars means more fun for everyone.

Nope. Wired only for proper PC gaming as noted in the reply above. Also, he's already laid the wire, good to go.

Whatever dude - wasn't trying to turn this into some political discussion, was trying to just make a joke with a comic, no need to grab your pitchforks and torches - and what's with that massive picture you posted? that's not how alpha channels work

small progress report (or lack thereof): need to run the dedicated server updates and downtime before installing the SQUAD server, and since we've had to put it off until Monday for the actual downtime, it won't be until after that. Sometime early next week if all goes well, I should have it going, fingers crossed. Let's not go planning an event for the weekend yet, but I don't anticipate any issues.

There aren't as many pilots here as there have been in the past, but several of us fly BMS. Chaz just popped by again - would be great to get a regular crew going again. We're a casual group, come as you are. But if you want to toss up something on the schedule and see if we can fill the seats, I'm sure it would work out great. I'll even put an event on the calendar - can announce it on the VG BMS Discord Channel, the Falcon BMS Ready Room Discord, Falcon BMS Forums, here, etc. Otherwise, we have the VG Discord and even at the Falcon BMS Ready Room Discord, pilots can meet up and plan a flight on any server they have access to. VG is a PvE (COOP) Public server open to anyone, just don't run any concurrent campaigns on accident - the CPU can only take one Campaign at at time. Dogfights are cool, tho. My problem is my aging PC is on it's last legs, already got new parts ordered, so it will be a few weeks before I got the engines rolling again.... Just working hard on my Voice Control Radio Menus profile for VoiceAttack - AVCS4 1.4 is gonna be very awesome. See you around, man!

The VETERANS-GAMING 24/7 Public COOP Campaign Server is updated to 4.34.3 (U3) and the Rolling Fire KTO Campaign has been restarted to Day 1, 0500 -- JSTARS Replay from the last campaign has been saved for the VG JSTARS Replay Video project (coming soon to the VG website). Many non-AI fragged player squadrons available, Harriers out of Osan and USS Vinson, as well as F-16CM Block 52+ CFT now available out of Seosan. Difficulty is hard, grounded a few BLUFOR Strike packages (Warthogs and Hornets) to give OPFOR a fighting chance, and to allow more player interaction FTW. As always, we are open to suggestions and feedback. Please let us know if something is not quite right, if the difficulty is to hard/easy, or if you would like to volunteer to help manage, maintain, and improve the VG Public BMS COOP Server. We rely upon the pilots to let us know if the server crashes or if anything is not right. Send a message to SemlerPDX here on the website, Discord, TeamSpeak3, or anywhere you find me. Cheers! We are running Rolling Fire at ACE Difficulty with all sliders favoring DPRK. We have grounded a few BLUFOR Strike packages (Warthogs and Hornets) to give OPFOR a fighting chance, and to allow more player interaction FTW. We are not running a custom weather model at this time, but this may change in the near future when we find or make one. Please feel free to provide feedback on difficulty, aircraft availability, and munitions, and we will gladly consider changes or updates to our master Campaign file. Thank you for flying at VG! Victory Conditions are as follows: ➢ RoK/US wins if Wonsan and P’yongyang are controlled in less than 30 campaign days. ➢ DPRK wins if Seoul and Pusan are controlled in less than 30 campaign days. ➢ If none of these conditions are met in 30 days then the outcome will be a peace treaty. ➢ If no major objective is captured in 20 days then the outcome will be a stalemate. Current Player Only Squadrons list:

@=VG= GazYea, I intend to do some pretty intensive hardcore work in that PC. And the WiFi is not for the WiFi but the embedded BlueTooth chip inside it, basically I run BT for a bit of gear, currently using a PCIe card, but this motherboard version has that built in - check the I/O, too - insane - but I currently have 15 USB devices attached to my PC, with 4x USB 3.0 ports on a PCIe card - again, this crazy board eliminates the need for much of this. But you are right about the storage -- 16TB is a bit much, and too expensive to replace every ~5 years. I've pulled those two drives from the list, and placed the order for the rest of the parts. I do need some kind of large dependable storage, but given that I don't trust any HDD past 5 years, and consider it unreliable as it approaches anywhere near that, I need to plan a storage solution for creating rolling backups of both NVMe drives as well as my personal storage drive (currently at 3TB). But if I was to factor in having to re-purchase 16TB of storage every 5 years, increasing with years as needed, even with price/GB going down over time, it's not a very wise solution for a poor man. I will probably just get a single 8TB 5400 HDD for my entire household and maybe even use an older computer around the house to setup a poor-man's NAS. That would be the wise way to go -- then my family can also have scheduled backups to that drive. And I can maybe even watch for sales and after one year, buy another 8TB into an external enclosure, and use that to backup the single-drive NAS for offsite backup. Considered some kind of RAID setup for a simple home NAS, but I just don't use that much space and likely won't for years to come. So I'll just go with a single drive backup, and single drive off-site backup (for reasons, offsite drive purchased one year after single drive "NAS") Placed my order, parts will be trickling in through the first week of April. And I'm officially in debt up to my eyeballs until a few months into 2021. WORTH IT! Can't wait to assemble this beast! Expecting to have some fun with the RAM and Ryzen tuning - hoping to run that 4000MHz RAM at 3600-3800MHz with very tight timings.... we'll see what we see. It's not on the Motherboard QVL which is normally not a thing I do, but I'm fairly confident I'll have no issues. *Pro's like @PBAsydney might know more, and I probably should have conferred with him before hand... I can still cancel the RAM if it's a totally stupid idea to go with anything but the G.Skillz sticks listed on the QVL for the Crosshair Hero VIII This thing is gonna be sick! Like I said, gonna rebuild my current PC with the old GTX 970 SSC, with it's 2x 120GB SSD's in RAID-0, and it's 2TB HDD and sell it on craigslist to recoup some of the cost of this new beast. Fingers crossed I can get more than $400 for an aged VR ready 1080p gaming PC that gets more than 60FPS in GTA:V and RDR2 at very high settings, etc.

Seriously?! Use an extension!! If I lived in Germany, I would have learned about and used VPN extensions years and years ago. Here ya go @=VG= Fastjack -- extension for Google Chrome -- turn it on when you want to view stuff, tell it you're from Costa Rica or something -- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-free-vpn-proxy-1-vpn/gkojfkhlekighikafcpjkiklfbnlmeio ↑ best to turn it off again when not needed, will double load websites, slow but it works and it's free. I mean, I'm not saying that I condone hiding one's location for reasons to bypass government regulations - just to be clear. But the above is a proper method that works, just throwing it out there. I'm no pirate, but by no concerted effort on my part, using a computer has turned me into a "criminal" just by using/reusing my old purchased media - with a VPN, you can watch/download/listen to anything without concern that things will change in future: