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Thank you Bowser, these are great! Been looking for something to help with this! S!

He was referring to the website skin here Ody. New plane skins aer usually individually done and I believe Jasta 4 has some default ones in RoF already. For official skin policy you can ask your Jasta Fuhrer or the Rit.

S! Ody Brilliant story and I am pleased to see not only our pilots acting with honor and chivalry but theirs as well. Well done Sir!

As October moves into November and we move toward Flanders in Flames with growing excitement I am reminded, almost by the turning of the leaves of the time that occurs each year as they begin wither and fall. We take to the skies to do virtual combat seeking the glory of victory, for medals and honor, for fun because it is something we adore and are impassioned to experience. As we do though, it is always important to recall the actual combatants of the era, why they fought, what they were expected to do for "King and Country". As some of you probably gathered I am always researching, always reading, and often I feel like I am just playing catchup with all you veterans. But I often come across things I like to share. The cenataph in my town is quite interesting, we have several of them and a captured German gun nearby, but the words inscribed on the monument are inspirational to me at this time. They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. -Binyon Recently I have been reading over this site which some of you may enjoy. WARNING Some content may be realisticly gruesome. The Heritage of the Great War

Confirmed Erhardt, thank you. S!

S! Erhardt, Yes, Fred thinks his page had a meltdown. Try DONATE S!

Excellent idea. We're going to be hopefully getting with Raven soon to get some updated sections on the forums for these and other sorts of things. A section for server stats and discussions is a good idea!\ S!

Updates! S!

Si Sir! That sounds brilliant, but a balloon is PLEASE COME KILL ME sized target for such a thing. How about a bunker or gun emplacement...even a truck hidden behind a hangar? 45 minutes sounds about good...*agrees on 45* Hett

S! Britchot Agree! The theme is excellent, but its just too long is all. Especially if not many use it. I think as a quick interlude between the longer intensive missions we have planned with objectives and such it will be a good fun and fast little treat. S!

S! In the same vein and because there is really no other place I can put it....I think80 minutes on the E3 vs DH2 mission is over long. I had 4 people join and leave immediately last night as they didn't have the plane sets and I hung around till I fell asleep waiting for the thing to end. Maybe 30 minutes at most...really its a super quick and dirty matchup anyway. no real reason for such a long drawn out thing. And maybe we need to think about either including some basic free planes with it OR only using the mission on occassion as it really does dissuade some people who join. Some ideas. On another similar note, I ran a test of my map last, got some questions about ground units for you. See you soon! S! Hett

Game Server Status: Up (normal activity resumed) Seems there was a dreaded...typo error....in the latest cfg. All fixed now. S!

S! Lederhosen We'll get you that info asap, currently we are in a bit of restructure mode trying to re-organize after the Great Flood of '15 (Our website server was literally drowned in a pool accident). However we are making inroads to get things back on track as its the perfect time to do so. S!

Just to finalize the information, the JG1 Home Server for ROF is up and running and you will see it on your Multiplayer Lobby Screen under "JG1 FULL REASLISM..." The server currently has a stock mission and a specialty mission Fred developed for it. We will be expanding it as more missions are developed. It IS a FULL REALISM server, all settings have been set to the hardest difficulty level and the maps will rotate. The server is supported by JG1 members and if you feel you want to donate to help that cause you can do so in this thread where there is a link provided. You do not need a paypal account to do so. Thank you to everyone who has helped so far and we hope that the future has many great things in store for the Richthofen group. S!

Interface control will include the following for now 1. Start/stop 2. Upload Missions Apparently Kevin says there are not easy control methods or GUI built in so he has sent a email to RoF People to see what can be done. Breaking new ground I guess. Fortunately the CFG is set to full realism and we don't have to play with that. S!

Well I don't know about that but it seems like a limited system if that is the case. Might be something to research then and if not, I know we can link to a donation page hosted elsewhere. Fred for one has the FiF site he has been working on and the donation icon in JG1.org would simply link to a page there set up for donating to server support.

Perhaps we shouldn't have mentioned the 2$ per slot. It is NOT a pay to play server at all, this is a JG1 Home Server for our use with 40 PUBLIC slots that just happen to break down into 2$ per slot. The server is entirely supported by JG1 player donations. Even if only the 4 people I have agreements from including myself donate that would be 20$ a month evenly split. This isn't a business venture for the RoF general population to buy into. Simply having the server will generate interest in JG1 Richtofen and it will give us a home server. Control There is the interface, details of its capabilities to follow. Bandwidth was determined last night when we worked with Kevin at Jestservers to benchmark the system as he had not yet had an install of it. It is not a dedicated box, however for an additional 35$ a month we can have that. Running over 150 titles, I think Jest is a professional provider company and I know it has server hubs in many major world centers, so its not run out of someones house. If we want a dedicated box I have prices for that also starting at 150$ a month for basic, which would allow us to run RoF, CLOD, IL-2 and the website if necessary all through a GUI as we would control the whole process from install on up. Donation Services Paypal Merchant Services provides a simple button creation system which gives me the ability to simply place http code on any page. As for any "associate account" benefits donating would grant a member over and above having our own JG1 Home Server...That could be discussed but I think that would cross the line into "specialized services" for those that can afford it and I would rather just be able to play and have my friends play with me. For that, its worth it to donate for me...no other incentives are required. Website Pages I believe from what I know of the modular website program that is used on JG1.org the Donation button could be in the sidebar and appear for every page. Websites tend to be more like dashboards these days and the button would sit there throughout. I would like to see the server provider get a banner yes and missions we run could appear like "newspaperl" pages themed 1916 style or as missives from "High Command" showing what missions are running. If we also decide to run from the begginning of the war to the end of it, like a campaign style, month by month, to year by year, we can also make it like an almanac and include links to AAR's Hope this answers your questions. S!

Idea 1 is I use my old business account for Paypal (currently it has 40cents in it so its almost a 0 balance to start) donations to pay for the server. It is going to be 80$ PER MONTH and as Fred stated, its not 2$ / person, its 2$ / slot maximum. So, what we would hope is that people donate what they can to help provide for the server, not like a subscription. I will keep track of the bookwork using Paypal's merchant services and send out monthly reports to HQ so its all transparent for records keeping. I have created a donation button service with my account and its ready to post once I get the go ahead for people to donate. Its html code so can be made a part of the website or right in the forums here. Note that you can use a credit card to Donate to Paypal without having a Paypal account. Idea 2 is someone else does it entirely using whatever method they want to do all of the above. And you are more than welcome! Done lots of this over the past 15 years for my now defunct Sith Clan, concept is still the same, Server Presence = visibility for the group = interest is generated = success and growth for JG1 Richtofen! S!

New Media Trolling around the net basically looking for propoganda material for the Jastas, I came across this fantastically done video. Some of the transitions are incredible and its informative too! Enjoy!

I'll see what I can find out.

I'm starting a list of Media for WW1 to "inspire" us. Fred recomended this first series which was amazing at first glance and led to a few more links I'll be sure to post up. This is a Documentary style series detailing air flight and combat from its inception by the Wright Brothers to the end of the WW1. Four Years of Thunder - Part 1 Four Years of Thunder - Part 2 Four Years of Thunder - Part 3 Four Years of Thunder - Part 4 Four Years of Thunder - Part 5 Four Years of Thunder - Part 6 Four Years of Thunder - Part 7 Four Years of Thunder - Part 8 Four Years of Thunder - Part 9 Four Years of Thunder - Part 10 Four Years of Thunder - Part 11 Four Years of Thunder - Part 12 Four Years of Thunder - Part 13 Four Years of Thunder - Part 14 Four Years of Thunder - Part 15 Four Years of Thunder - Part 16 Four Years of thunder - Part 17 Four Years of Thunder - Part 18 Four Years of Thunder - Part 19