FIF General Discussion

Hi, short question on next saturdays session: In Europe the DST ended alreaday last weekend, so we are already at standardtime, which means in central Europe time is UTC+1. As I see in the "schedulde & teams" posting in North America the DST will end on the weekend Nov. 9th / 10th. So the next 2 Saturdays ( Nov. 2nd and Nov. 9th) the mission starting time remains at 6.p.m. UTC (thus 1 hour earlier in CET) and only with Nov. 16th we switch to 7.p.m. UTC! => is this correct? Salute Etzel

S! All Spring time! Sweet smells in the air. Tulips everywhere. Planes falling in flames. We have moved to the Verdun-St.Mihiel region. This is an East-West map that we have used before. Changes are Spring landscape instead of Autumn and a few of the airfields were moved to better sites.The two southern airfields on the Central side are not regular airfields. You have to be careful of the bumps. The plane set is 1917 progressing to 1918. A practice map is up on the JG1 server. Mission start time is 11:00 on the in game clock. If you get on the server and want to restart the mission there are balloons at the two seater bases. Kill the balloon and the missi…

All, Our first FIF Fall Campaign mission has been completed. Hopefully, everyone had a great time and is looking forward to next weekend. I did want to post two rules reminders, however. Please double and triple check your aircraft modifications prior to take-off. Here is a complete list of what is allowed and what is not allowed. Please make sure to wait a FULL FIVE MINUTES before taking off again for another sortie. I know that it's sometimes hard to keep track of how long you're down for, but if you're not sure how much time you have left, please wait longer. Our stated rules, under the "Refly Rules (Friendly Territory…

Just wanted to congratulate our Red counterparts on their victory in the Spring campaign. It was well fought by all, even as numbers began to dwindle it remained exciting throughout. Looking forward to renewing the competition next Fall... Enjoy your Summer everyone! S! GC

Hi everyone, Just a quick question: who is the mission designer/author of the FiF missions? I want to pick their brain about some ME logic.. thanks!

S! All phase A session 4. We had some glitches. The off toad convoy is not working as expected. Both teams had problems finding it. Etzel suggested have them run in a circle instead of all over the sector. I like that as well as changing the location message to "Off road convoy in sector 6.B" Adding the A,B,C,D at the end narrows it down a bit and makes it more specific. Blue team killed the recon secondary but it did not register. The target was not linked to the victory counter. Corrected. We now start phase B. Blue team is Central and Red team is Entente. Plane set is advanced. Good luck ALL.

S! All I put the question mark in the title because I have not seen this before. Someone else may have seen this and posted and I missed it. We had an incident in Flanders in Flames. A pilot was close to an enemy airfield. He was engaged and his his plane became disabled. Not sure if it was loss of oil, fuel or bullet damage. The pilot was able to land at the enemy airfield. This was strange because the airfields are surrounded by AAAA, The AAA did not shoot at him. He was able to stay on the field and his rear gunner was able to shoot at enemy spawning in. The pilot was probably shocked that he was not being killed by AAA. Some of his teamma…

S! All After a long hard fight Blue Team emerges with a decisive victory. We had many great engagements with the early plane set. There were epic battles over some of the targets. Over all it was great fun and very exciting. Big CONGRATZ to Blue Team. Well done.

S! All We are getting things ready for a Dry run on 26 January 2019 at the usual time. Information about planes, maps, rules, schedule etc. The JG1 server will be running a practice map on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. This will allow people to get familiar with the map and planes. The in game start time is 13:45. If you get on the server and there is not enough time to do the mission you want, you can restart the mission by killing a balloon at the two seater base. Saturday after FiF, Sunday, Monday until 9 pm Eastern North American time and Wednesdays, the JG1 server will be running a Flying Circus program.

All: Beginning today, the US has transitioned to Daylight Savings Time (DST). Please remember that FiF sessions have always, and will always, begin at 2:00 pm Eastern/US time, regardless of whether it's Standard or DST. Previously this year, all sessions, having started at 2:00 pm EST (1400), began at 7:00 pm (1900) GMT/UTC. The next session, taking place on March 16, begins at 2:00 pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). This coincides with 6:00 pm (1800) GMT/UTC. Please take care to consider your relationship to GMT/UTC in your local time zone, so you don't show up too early, or miss the first hour of the March 16 session. Later, when countries in the rest…

Hi I am new here as of a moment ago. I am new with Rise of Flight with 90 days total time so far counting today. I live in New Hampshire USA in the White Mountains. . I was asked yesterday about this during the time you were flying in the Flanders game. I am guessing this was to see if the server would work for me in the future. I don not understand anacronyms at all like FIF but will search that and others as I happen on them. I real life I am open to many things I don't know about and am 67, so I am too old to be a wise guy and ruin things for others. I do hit planes sometimes , ramming you guys call it, but it is my mistake not on purpose. In RoF they only other infra…

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After I was killed I looked for a gunners seat they where all full. I was going to go to the map wasn't paying attention. Accidentally hit fly again. I exited the server immediately. So when you looking at my logs that was what happened. By the way thanks for shooting my wires off. Kind of hard to control the EIII with no wires.

All, Upon reviewing the FIF stats from Session A1 and Session A2 of the FIF2019 Winter Campaign, it's come to my attention that a number of pilots from both the Blue Team and Red Team are not waiting the full 5-minutes before hitting refly. This is a violation of our tournament rules, as that 5-minute wait is supposed to simulate refueling and rearming of aircraft. Additionally, the 5-minute wait is designed to make the aerial engagements more realistic by preventing air quake scenarios (where pilots instantly take off to aid their team mates who are dogfighting nearby). All pilots must wait a full 5-minutes before hitting refly! Here is the exact wording…

Hi All, As a reminder - there will not be an FIF mission on Saturday, November 24th. http://forum.jg1.org/topic/6210-fif-2018-fall-campaign-schedule-teams/ This is because of the celebration of Thanksgiving within the United States. It's a very big travel holiday, and many North American pilots won't be around. This will dramatically effect team attendance. FIF will resume on December 1st at 2PM EST / 7PM UTC, with the start of Phase B. Enjoy the week off! Looking forward to seeing you all in December! -Klaiber

Hi All, The FIF 2018 "Fall Campaign" will be starting on Saturday, October 27th! We will be conducting a test mission this Saturday, October 20th. This is a stress test, as well as a mission test. If you wish to register for the event, just stop by here and post. The Blue Team will start by flying Central. The Red Team will start by flying Entente. After two missions, the teams will flip sides. http://forum.jg1.org/topic/6210-fif-2018-fall-campaign-schedule-teams/ The tournament will be hosted on the JG1 server. Mission start is at 2PM EDT (6PM UTC): http://forum.jg1.org/topic/3010-flanders-in-flames-calendar/ However, it's recommended …

Hi All, Daylight Savings Time has ended within North America. As a result, FIF missions are now being run on Eastern Standard Time. Mission start is 2PM EST / 7PM UTC. For more information, please refer to our event calendar: http://forum.jg1.org/topic/3010-flanders-in-flames-calendar/ And should anyone have any confusion regarding start times, check out World Time Buddy: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ Looking forward to seeing you all on November 10th at 2PM EST / 7PM UTC!

S! North America has not changed times. FiF starts at 2 pm EDT which I think is 6 pm UTC.

Hi, From the looks of the present FC, we will be using RoF for Black September and FiF 2018 fall. Not much new there. For the FC version of FiF. We have many options. The number of live or killable object is greatly increased. In the past we have randomly selected one of three targets. With FC we can have all three as live targets. So..... 3 real bridges not AAA trucks, 3 factories, 3 Trains, 3 Ships, 3 airfields and 3 on road convoys. I think the standard HQ recon is still a viable mission, Both Deciman and AnKor are looking into it but it will probably be after FC is released Trains will have MG cars for defense. Bridges will have a machin…

S! All For the next two weeks we swap sides. Blue team will be Entente and Red team will be Central. Attention Blue team. There are four Bristols at the 2 seater base. They can be used as fighters, bombers or both.

S! All If you review the scores, you can count the Entente completed missions. There are only 10. The totals page says 11. This is because the Entente were attempting the Wreath Drop and completed it after the displayed scores had finished. Unfortunately it was counted in the totals. That will not happen again. That counter will be turned off when you see the "Mission end. Here are the results" message. Sorry for the confusion.

S! All Congrats on Red team victory for Phase A. Many good fights. Phase B will increase the number of SE5 and D7f Reminder to everyone to check load outs before take off. Especially when flying Entente. It is easy to be flying on an open server with bombs or optional guns and then get into FiF and not realize that the load out carried over. S! And good luck to All

S! All Stats parsed OK. They are in Dec Inbetween tour. Just bring up your own name and select sorties. You will see the missions listed there.

S! All I had a report from BaronVonMyakin that the Spy would not give a secondary after he was picked up. I checked in the mission editor and all looked well. Nothing changed since the last FiF. I flew a practice mission, picked up the Spy and the tight lipped little bas*&&^^rd would not tell me anything. The target selection logic has several back ups and repeaters built in. It may be over complex. It may not be able to execute everything within one game cycle. The General Capture secondary works on a different logic. I grabbed this pattern and used it for the Spy. I do not like making changes during a tournament because there is always the ch…

Hey, With Flying Circus not far from preorders, I think we could help build up the interest in BoX community and get ourselves FiF participants at the same time. I propose next edition of FiF uses free planes, and FC planes, and that we advertise it on BoX forums. Clirification: - next time we do FiF in RoF, we could use the very same planes that will be available in BoX when Flying Circus comes, and advertise FiF at BoX forums. Since RoF is free to play and two of FC planes are free in RoF, BoX pilots will be able to come and join without spending a penny. The double effect will be to make a promotion/demonstration of what Flying Circus content will be like for BoX …