FIF General Discussion

S! All The Dry run went fairly well. We discovered some glitches and they have been changed. Mostly subtitles. We did have several people in Rolands with twin rear guns. This is not allowed. Please remember to check weapons mods when getting into the mission. Rolands only get a single rear gun. S!

S! All, I'd like to direct everyone's attention to J5_Baeumer's post regarding the recent cheating incidents that have happened in Rise of Flight: https://riseofflight.com/forum/topic/51553-community-policy-cheating/ The Flanders In Flames tournament (and the JG1 squadron) were involved in these discussions, and fully backs and supports this community policy. However, FIF will not just be issuing a 1 month ban for the first offense. Rather, anyone caught using a cheat on the FIF server will immediately receive a full "campaign ban". This means that the pilot will be banned from FIF for both Phase A and Phase B of whatever campaign is currently ongoing…

S! All The Christmas truce is over. The politicians and generals were pleased to be home for the holidays but it could not last. We have a war to fight! The winter campaign will be an ordeal. Welcome to Tarnopol! Yes it is the Russian map with early planes. We have done this one a few years ago. We have added new missions since then so the map is a little larger. Objectives, maps and plane set are available on JG1 forums. There is a practice mission running on the JG1 server. If you get on and there is not enough time to do the mission you want, you can restart the mission by killing the balloon at the bomber base. It is highly recommended that peo…

S! All, I hope that everyone has been enjoying the "Winter Campaign" of FIF 2018! I had a few rule reminders that I wanted to post as we move forward into the second half of Phase A. Firstly, everyone should make sure to double and triple check their weapons modifications before they hit fly! Here are the approved mods: http://forum.jg1.org/topic/5457-fif-2018-winter-campaign-plane-modifications/ It's very important that everyone note that all bombers should be using the single rear turret. The only exception to this rule is the F.E.2b (which needs the extra oomph). All commanders should be aware of this rule, and they should be making sure that t…

Hi All, As many of you were aware, during the October 21st mission of FIF, we had significant lag issues which forced us to postpone the start of the "Fall Campaign." Butzzell is convinced that it was map related. We may have crossed a line with the total number of airbases and the types of planes available. On Thursday night, a new modified map was stress tested with about 20 people. They popped flares, dropped bombs and shot everything up. It went well. And while some people said they saw a jitter or two, there is nothing to indicate that there will be any issues with using this revised map. As a result, the "Fall Campaign" is going to restart this S…

Thanks to 4Speed for providing the FNF server at the last moment! Here's the link to stats: http://fnfstats.newwingstraining.org/

Flanders In Flames 2017 Fall campaign. S! ALL We are set to do battle in the sky of northern France. Combat starts 21 October, 2017 Stat time is always 2 pm Eastern North American time. Posted here Time The area is well known to most online multi players. It is Amiens, Warfusee, Cappy, Assevilliers. Plane set is a late 1916, early 1917 mix. Registration, maps and target info are at JG1.org If you have previously registered, you are still registered. If you are new, we also have a STATS server you can register on at JG1 STATS There is a slight change in the General capture mission. In the northern Central capture area the General might be on a t…

Salute gentlemen, wanted to extend a quick invite to any and all who wish to join in a little Thursday night action. We're going to run the classic Syndicate VM - Somme High Recons "Battle for Intelligence" map. This map is basically just a competition between Central and Entente to get the most total recon frames per side. There are 3 zones on each side, you can photo them as many times as you want (two zone per sortie - you only carry 20 frames). First side with a total of 100 frames wins. The real fun of this map is there are a great many airstarts for both recons and fighters, and the fighting is HIGH, 4K+ meters, just like the real thing. Entente recon bir…

Greetings all, just a little announcement that after Saturday's Flanders in Flames hostilities cease, I will be firing up a couple of the old Syndicate Vintage Missions on a hosted multiplayer server for any pilots who want to attend. I'm planning on maybe just firing it up on Sundays like Syndicate used to do, but wanted to give her a little stress test on Saturday just to see what happens. The server will run without locked fuel loads so you can take what you want. (The original Syn missions were set to 100% fuel on all aircraft!) All are welcome, the name of the server will be No.42_Cuban Syndicate Connection My hope is to resurrect these wonderful maps and prov…

S! All We had some people on both teams that had their system lock up when they tried to spawn in. Gen_Markof noticed an out of buffer memory error. This type of error can be caused by an world objects script error. The question is, how many people have their Knights of the Sea mods folder still active? I am not sure if that is the problem but it is a good place to start. Many of the objects in that mods pack have been added to the stock game. Whether that creates a conflict or not, I am not sure. Best to check JSGME and move the Knights of the Sea mod pack to the inactive side.

S! All, We are getting things ready for the start of the Spring campaign. The Dry run will be at the usual time on 6, May 2017 ( notice how I avoid screwing it all up by not putting in the wrong time). Hostilities start 13, May 2017 The Dry run will have extra planes and no death penalty. We will be flying in the region around Laon. The Entente side has some nice hills and valleys. The area will be smaller than usual because we will be flying the very early planes. A practice map will be running on the JG1 server so people can see the area and practice missions. Kill the balloon at the 2 seater base to restart the server. phase A Entente DH2 and FE2b …

Just a reminder to all for this coming Sunday, 1600 GMT - Knights of the Sea Mission 2! All welcome, test server is up now so you can test connect to check your mods. Come out and play Jagdgeschwader 1!!

Flanders in Flames February 18th 2017 Jasta 6 in battle Taking off against bloody Huns... ...in dogfight with Pfalz D.XII... ...TALLY HO... ...Camels before suicide mission - target are trenches.... ...attack... ...poor horses... ...no regret... ...no remorse... ...returning to base. Task is completed After landing.

S! All Those of you that played MP many years ago and were wounded, may have received a letter from one of these young women in the title. J30 von Hammer still gets letters from Isabel. He has been flying Entente. Unfortunately Isabel is on the other side of the lines. So how does he get letters? Well, Isabel travels with her brother Henri, a poor disfigured youth. Henri's appearance is disturbing. Not being accepted by most folks, he hides under bridges. That is how J30 von Hammer receives his letters. He flies under the bridge and Henri gives him the letter. The letter is actually tied around a stone that Henri throws in the cockpit as the plane passes. ( 88% c…

S! FiF 2017 Spring phase A session 1 We had 2 glitches. The German Strategic secondary did not pop up. My error in mission builder. Has been fixed. Second glitch I do not know what was wrong. Central bombed German Factory 4. Picture is down below. I tested factory with Roland and did 7 bombs. Killed factory and got message with 1 less building destroyed than in picture. I talked with Phil. He had the targets written down. Factory 2 was the strategic recon and Factory 4 was the bomber target. I do not know why it did not give message or come up in scores. Very disturbing. I think Blue team deserves the poin…

S! All This is not the Story of Mata Hari but the tale of two missions. The Spy is a three point mission. You bring him or her home for 1 point and he tells you about a Reserve unit, 1 point. You investigate an area he tells you about to get a new bomber target, 1 point. The General Capture is only 2 points. You bring the General to your base, 1 point. You then find documents about a Trench Attack Point, 1 point. Only 2 points. Dang, for a General he is not worth much. It is possible to add another target to the mission. Just like the Spy mission, the General makes you search a sector for a new target. We have many targets as pop ups. They are either ship…

Greetings all and salute! I'm pleased to announce the Cuban Syndicate Connection server now has stats! http://cuban.site.nfoservers.com/ This is due entirely to the efforts of J2_SteveF who single-handedly jumped in and configured the stats and parser setups on the server. All I did was watch in amazement In addition to that he also got the server posted to http://online.riseofflight.netso you can check the server from the web anytime. The server has also been moved to New York and given a little more horsepower in hopes of improving the connection and lag issues the European players were experiencing Sunday before last. We've got the Dawn to Dusk Nieuport map ru…

S! All For those that like the Tournament atmosphere, Jasta 5 presents "Bloody April". This is the premier Rise of Flight event that continues to push the envelope of mission building. Can not say enough good things about it. Info is here

S! All Session 1 and 2 are done. Now we change sides. Blue team is Entente and Red team is Central for sessions 3 and 4. gl

S! All I started a thread on this topic on the RoF forums

S! All There was a report that planes were not returning to service at southern German Airfield. This is unsolved. BH_Loopy and myself tested this after the map rolled over. Nothing was touched, so it was all the same. We took off and landed from all bases and had no problem with planes being returned to service. Also landed at other non active dromes and received ditched messages in logs. Could it be that scout planes landed at the 2 seater drome? That way you get a landed message in logs and not get plane returned to service?

S! Found a bug where the Entente Front line Recon was completing the objective when the Recon plane spawned on the field. After 2 hours of examining and duplicating the objective logic, I found that my logic is undeniable. The fault was in an object name that had been changed and a typo was causing the error. I had Sonny change the object name and everything is fine.

S! all We are going to start FiF 2017 this Saturday 14, January, 2017 at 1900 UTC or 2:00 pm Eastern North American Time. Try and be on your teams TS about 30 minutes before the start. This will be a "Dry Run". Planes will be limited but there is no death penalty other than the usual five minute wait. We want people to be able to see as much as possible. There is a practice map running on the JG1 server. People can use this to learn landmarks and practice the 2 seater missions. The server always starts with the in game clock at 10:45. If you get on the server and there is not enough time to do the mission you want, you can restart the server. The…

S! All Things have changed a bit over the past year. We went to a two week session and then swap sides for another two weeks. This four week total was called a "Phase". We then swapped back to our starting sides but had a new plane set. This next two weeks and swap was another phase. We were still using a mission total to determine the winner. The use of phases offers another possibility in scoring. We use each set of two phases to make a campaign as a part of a larger event. Looking at the calendar we schedule two phases before "Bloody April"( Winter Campaign ) and two phases after ( Spring campaign ). We break for July and August. We come back into …

S! All We have been working on FiF XXVI. The start date is not set in stone. It looks like we will have a server dry run on 14 January 2017 with the official start on 21 January 2017. Plane set will probably start with FiF XXV phase C planes and be progressive. We are using the Ypres area of the Channel Map. New missions have been added. There will be 16 possible objectives. The maximum score is 12. The extra objectives help make up for any glitches. Waldo and Otto have been severely disciplined. General Patton is in charge. If they fail to give out info, they get slapped. Objectives: Central …