FIF General Discussion

S! All, Welcome to the Flanders In Flames Online War! Enjoy this awesome trailer, courtesy of JG1_Hotlead. Hope to see you all in the skies!

S! All, JG1 is proud to present the Flanders In Flames Online War! For those unfamiliar with Flanders In Flames (FIF), or it's long history within the virtual First World War online flight community, FIF is a homegrown online tournament that uses the Rise of Flight flight simulator. First created for Red Baron 3D in October 1999 by JG1's Ernst von Leep and Paul Lowengrin, FIF has always been designed to provide participants with the most realistic campaign experience possible. Emphasis is placed on creating historically inspired dogfights and aircraft match-ups. Two-seater missions are thus vital, and the repercussions of lost resources on both supply a…

~S~ Team! Great job, hope all had fun! JG1 was on the job with srs cross comms working for us! But We snafu'd the prototype, by landing at the wrong icon lol. Were going to make a nomenclature change on the map for both sides for next week, and reduce that confusion although "we" miss the location logic, hence our fault. Allies were victorious at 5 to 3, with JG-Dudley bringing in a 2 pointer with 10 sec. to spare. If we had landed prototype, it would have been "our" game. I like to encourage everyone on the team to check out the Stats, and get a rough overview on what was going on out there! A lot of Air to Air, but also many deaths and captures. http://…

All, JG1's leadership has decided to postpone the upcoming FIF campaign. It will not start this weekend, and a new date and time have yet to be determined. The current war in Ukraine has affected several people within JG1. And it is also immediately affecting many of our friends in other units who live in Central and Eastern Europe. During this uncertainty, we think it's important for people to refocus their weekends on taking care of their families, friends, neighbors, and themselves. FIF is meant to be a distraction. And it will continue to be that. Everything is in place for a restart. We have the map, the aircraft, the squadrons, and the t…

S! All We have been working on FiF 2022. Plane set is yet to be finalized. You may have seen FiF practice mission on the JG1 Server. When you joined, all you saw was a black screen. That is because we have been working on a new map. To see the new map you need to download a folder and place it into your dogfight folder. This folder contains the map texture files. These files give us a NML, and airfields all over the map where you can safely land. There are plenty of places to land to pick up the Spy, the General and do prison rescue. The prison model has been updated to look like a prison. The other thing is that when you extract the file, it …

I just looked at yesterdays stats and on my last 3 sorties it didn't record me hitting anything at all which couldn't be further from the truth. No big deal but thought you should know.

Keeping in mind I've not played in awhile or even played the new Flying Circus of Nightmares... I have given some thought to potential suggestions for retooling FiF missions which may or may not work. The first consideration with the mission builders always seems to be objects in game versus capability of the engine. It seems that once again things get bogged down in the code and from what I hear/understand from the Guys, the new game seems to be designed for fast skirmish style combat with little to no FoW at all. This is in keeping with trends that have been for years steering us away from the "campaign" more towards the conflict. To compensate for this …

All, Please note the time change for Session A4 (Saturday, 13 November 2021). The event start time will be 2:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM UTC: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=5,100&h=5&date=2021-11-13&sln=14-16&hf=1

S! All Getting ready for The event. Recent updates to fix the Damage Model in Flying Circus means we will try using FC for the event. While RoF offers more planes and maps, FC is seen as the future of WW I flight sims. Calendar will be posted soon. Expect a test run in two weeks. A sample mission is running on the JG1 server. Plane set is not set in stone at this time. Info will be updated very soon,, Please visit the sign up page if you want to participate.

Hi All, Teams have been posted: https://forum.jg1.org/topic/9252-fif-2021-fall-campaign-teams-fc/ Registration, however, is still open and will be throughout the entire event. Most of the Team planning will happen on Discord. Additionally, this is where the server password will be distributed on mission days. So, if you haven't done so already, please join the FIF Discord channel. https://discord.gg/HVmET2AmbZ Thanks!

S! All The war continues! For this FiF we will stay with RoF. This FiF will be on the Tarnopol map and have a full 16 objectives. It will use the very early plane set. Yes, the S-16, S-22and Russian N-17 will be included. The order of secondary objectives has changed from the last FiF. Because the map is covered in trees and mountains, there is a special consideration for the Entente. For the General Capture mission, you do not need to land to capture the General. You just fly over him and you will get the capture message. A few seconds later you will get the area to search message that leads to the secondary objective "Tanks at a Factory". Th…

S! All We have done our first two sessions. For our next two sessions we switch sides. Red team will be Central and Blue team will be Entente. That will be the end of Phase A. For Phase B we will advance the plane set and do four more sessions. A glitch was found in one of the Central Arty Spot Secondary. The vehicle unit at Bip was not spawning. Error found and corrected. Regarding flying outside of the area marked on the map: You can fly anywhere you want to go. There are no rules on this. It can be very dangerous. The map area shows the borders of where you will find targets. Inside this area flak AI is set to low. Outside this area …

I think there's a mistake on the Brandenburg... they don't carry bombs 🤪 Central Scout (fighter) aircraft: Albatros D.Va - 8 scouts Fokker D.VII - 24 scouts Fokker Dr.I - 14 scouts Central Multipurpose aircraft: DFW C.V - 3 reconnaissance aircraft and 12 bombers Brandenburg W12 - 3 bombers, 2 arty aircraft and 2 spy aircraft

S! All, This has been a quick shift to RoF. I have tried to get some pictures together for basic info. Planes Even numbered mission Map Odd numbered mission map Objectives for each side Entente Central Bridge (Destroy gun on bridge) Bridge (Destroy gun on bridge) Factory Factory Aerodrome (Destroy gun in oil drums) Aerodrome (Destroy gun in oil drums) Arty Spot Arty Spot Recon HQ …

Hi Guys, wanted to check my RoF settings today and when I try to log in I get an Error that I have some modified files in my installation !? I checked with JSGME that no Mods are activated, I tried to activate all mods and deactivate them, I even deleted the MOD-Folder completely now; tried update the game to start a repair, but when I press the Update-Button on the start-up-window nothing happens....!?? I also deleted everything I found with the ModSearch.exe file (seems only the custom skins were found), but nothing helped.... Out of Ideas what to do? Logging in with "Mods On" would work, but does not help for flying FiF.... …

Hi All, I've created an FIF discord server: https://discord.gg/GRErqzP It's designed to be a quick and easy way to get the teams communicating, without the need to login to the JG1 forums all the time. It's also a great voice-to-voice supplement. Feel free to join!

S! I am electing to play in the upcoming FiF Autumn 2020 tournament. ( it's my first ever so ... yes... gosh...) to this end I have decided to fly with a squad. ( GASP! ) so heaven help anyone who gets in our way! To glory! ( via the bar...) S! ST_ Plank.

S! All We are looking at running FiF using RoF. If you want to participate please vote in our poll on the RoF Forums. Link Here.

Salute to the Flight Sim Community. Normally we would be offering Flanders in Flames Spring Campaign. Unfortunately we are not going forward with FiF at this time. The recent changes to the DM have created a huge disparity in plane survivability. We have made a commitment to FC as being the next generation WW I flight sim but do not want to put forward an event based on a sim with obvious problems. The developers are aware of the situation and are actively seeking a solution to the DM problem. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. At that time we will re-evaluate. Thank you for your support and understanding.

S! All The program has been running on the server for a bit. There was a suggestion that instead of Thursday night Flugpark we look over the next FiF. I am going to restart the server at 8:45. Would like to get multiple impressions from people on size and shape etcetera.

I'm not sure how much this will be affecting FiF but update 4.005 including all consecutive patches (two till now) totally change the interaction between ammo and objects. According to my experience from current iteration of TAW close hits do almost nothing while direct hits are way more significant. In several case, I experienced that 1 000 kg bomb missed the hangar for about 20 to 30 meters and did less then 10 percent of damage. SC 500 exploding off the train by length of single vagon damage it only for single digits percent. Below is the picture I took when I hit the undamaged industrial area in TAW with single SC1000 and got only minor damage to eleven buildings of t…

Do we need to rearrange the teams? Do people or squads want to swap sides? If yes what team are you on and do you want to go to the other team. If no, please post what team you are on so that there is no way you get moved by accident. If you are not on a team and want to join please visit the FiF registration page and mention which team you would like to be on. Warning --- Teams are Red Team and Blue team. We swap back and forth between Entente and Central. Please do not say "I want to join the Entente Team" or "I only want to fly Central". We swap more for fairness of the map than the plane set. JG1 Will stay as a base for Red team a…

S! All FIF 2020 vision for the future. We are transitioning to Flying Circus with the expectation that Volume 2 will be announced shortly. At this point we are in the final steps of setting the planes in such a way as to create a variety that will last through the year. Obviously two seater variety will present some difficulties. The Rules, map and objectives areas on the FiF forums is being updated over this next week. We are examining the repair rearm feature and seeing how it can be utilized within the objective of limited planes. Flying Circus has many features besides an improved FM/DM and AI. Likewise some objects behave a bit differently. There are …

All, Moving forward, please be aware that most of North America has now switched to Daylight Savings Time. As a result, this shifts our calendar slightly for the upcoming sessions, B3 and B4. All FIF missions are now being held at 2PM EDT / 6PM UTC: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=5128581,100&h=100&date=2020-3-14&sln=18-21 The calendar has been updated: https://forum.jg1.org/topic/3010-flanders-in-flames-calendar/

S! All Leaves are dropping. Days are shorter. There is a chill in the air. Bullets are flying. Bombs are dropping. It must be Flanders in Flames Fall Campaign 2019. All the particulars are posted under FiF tournament information. Of special note will be the map for this series. If you have flown Jasta 5's excellent series "Bloody April" you will recognize it as the northern half of that area. We have not used this area for an FiF. We use it now because of the great variety of rivers, roads and rail roads. The plane set will be early: N-17, N-17 GB, Strutter, RE8, Halb D.II, Halb Cl2 and Roland Cl2. We will have a Dry Run on 5, Octobe…