vonOben

Beta #29 includes a number of tweaks to mission generation (in particular those using air starts).  Also has working betas for an early Solomon Island Campaign (Guadalcanal from Summer to mid-November 1942).
 
Edit: Attachment removed.
 
Happy flying!

And another build.  This one adds a friction setting for dogfight mode.  It also tweaks the reconnaissance values a bit for naval campaigns (making a bit harder to maintain contact).
 
 

Attached is the latest beta.  This one should improve the chances of player squadrons staying on carriers both between missions and when their carrier is lost.  In both cases, they should transfer to another available carrier.
 
At least in theory that's how it should work.

Latest patch of a patch.  Should fix the BornPlace issues created in the last one.

Latest beta should prevent Western Allied units from transferring to Soviet bases on the Berlin and Balaton maps.
 
 

Latest beta (#14) will hopefully address the underscores in pilot names and ferries not appearing in MDS missions.

I'll take another crack at the underscore bug. 

Latest beta (lucky 13) tweaks how human and AI squadrons work in MDS mode.  Now if you set a squadron to "Human Only", it should not spawn AI planes.
 
Also added ability for a user to create a de_names.dat file to replace the default German pilot names.  For details, see:
 
http://forum.jg1.org/topic/5015-some-german-letters-not-displayed-correctly-in-debriefing/?do=findComment&comment=31188
il2dcg349beta13.zip

I've modified the .exe so that it will look for a file called "de_names.dat" before opting to use the German names in the .exe file.
 
The format of that file is simply first_name family_name...
 
For example:
Hermann Voss Manfred von_Richthofen Lother Richter Notice the "underscore" in place of a space to denote the "von" is attached to the last name and not first.
 
The minimum number of names required is 30 but I recommend way more (~100+).  It doesn't matter which first name is attached to a last name.  When DCG creates the pilot names, it'll take a first name from the first column and the last name from the second.
 
Don't leave blank lines in the file (especially at the bottom).
 
New beta posted shortly.

Beta 11 adds location to the briefing's "Other News" for planes that were shot down or that crashed.
il2dcg349beta11.zip