Flying Legends server

[=CFC=Conky]

Had my first go on this server today. Nice map (Stalingrad summer); I was flying for the LW and it was nice to see them really going after the mission objectives. I was flying a G2 and every time I approached a ground target, it would get destroyed. The 110's were moving serious mud today   .

 

I strafed an airbase, on the first pass I blew up an ammo dump - didn't know you could do that. Sometime during that first pass my radiator took some damage, either from flak or the ammo dump blowing up. I made another pass, heading west this time, and was able to get several trucks. I nursed my kite back across the Volga and landed at a secondary field just west of the river. I got no points since it counted as an emergency landing, but it was a fun mission. Judging from the chat screen, there was a lot of PvP fighting going on as well.

 

As Ahhhnold would say: 'I'll be back'   .

 

Good hunting,

=CFC=Conky

[Y-29.Silky]

 

I strafed an airbase, on the first pass I blew up an ammo dump

 

Whoa! I have definitely tried that before to no avail. Maybe I didn't hit it enough.

And yes, Fighting Legends is my new go to server!

[Feathered_IV]

Most targets are within sight of your base so its pretty easy to get home with battle damage.  Hopefully they add some distant targets so that navigation becomes interesting for experienced players.

[bokepacha]

I got no points since it counted as an emergency landing,

AFAIK. You NEVER have points because everything is blocked. It doesnt matter if you land safely. On Friday I killed 2 and several ground targets and got 0 xp.

[Jade_Monkey]

Loved the few minutes i spent yesterday on this server.

 

I particularly liked the detail in the buldings which are much more concentrated than the typical maps.

 

I got tired of the forced loadouts in WoL, the little time i have to play online, i dont want to spend it playing in a role i dont enjoy.

[=CFC=Conky]

AFAIK. You NEVER have points because everything is blocked. It doesnt matter if you land safely. On Friday I killed 2 and several ground targets and got 0 xp.

 

True enough, if it was a SP mission it would have been annoying, but I remember now that you don't get points in MP.

 

Unfortunately I don't understand enough German to understand the briefings but the intent of the mission is still pretty clear. 

 

 

Whoa! I have definitely tried that before to no avail. Maybe I didn't hit it enough.

 

And yes, Fighting Legends is my new go to server!

 

Hi Silky,

 

I don't think it was a spawning base and it looked like it had been 'visited' beforehand    . It was certainly nice to survive a strafing pass on an airbase, let alone two   .

 

 

 

Good hunting,

=CFC=Conky

Edited December 7, 2015 by CFC_Conky

[9./JG27DavidRed]

Conky...the mission briefings should be now in english...please have a check again, and if possible report whether they work now or not...its not our intention to let the players in the dark about the objectives...oh and btw...its Fighting Legends 

Edited December 7, 2015 by 9./JG27DavidRed

[NN_RugbyGoth]

This server is the best in my opinion right now. the objectives are good for level bombing too!

[Y-29.Silky]

Hopefully they add some distant targets so that navigation becomes interesting for experienced players.

 

But not too far. That's the problem with WoL especially in the later hours, the targets are spread out 100km so no one finds anyone else besides going to their airfield.

I would like to keep it historical (pitomnik, gumrak, etc) over Stalingrad area.

Edited December 8, 2015 by Y-29.Silky

[=CFC=Conky]

Conky...the mission briefings should be now in english...please have a check again, and if possible report whether they work now or not...its not our intention to let the players in the dark about the objectives...oh and btw...its Fighting Legends 

 

Ok, thanks for that, sorry about getting the name of the server wrong, it must be my dyslexia. Apparently 5 out of 4 simmers are dyslexic   .

 

Good hunting,

=CFC=Conky

[ACG_KaiLae]

This IS a nice server. But my ping is too high to reliably play on it . Can someone start a UK based server so us in the americas play on it?

[Feathered_IV]

But not too far. That's the problem with WoL especially in the later hours, the targets are spread out 100km so no one finds anyone else besides going to their airfield.

I would like to keep it historical (pitomnik, gumrak, etc) over Stalingrad area.

 

Currently missions are set out in the airquake fashion, with bases arranged to form an X, with the ground targets in the center.  I quit the moment I see that.

[9./JG27DavidRed]

^^well you cant please everyone...and its not our Intention

[AwesomeSprawvy]

Thank you for doing the English version of the mission briefing. I did a few airfield runs in an IL2 last night and didn't run into any issues.

[bokepacha]

oh and btw...its Fighting Legends 

But...but if you fight legends become a flying legend in the end! :biggrin:

Edited December 10, 2015 by bokepacha

[9./JG27DavidRed]

But...but if you fight legends become a flying legend int he end! :biggrin:

true words

[Skoop]

Currently missions are set out in the airquake fashion, with bases arranged to form an X, with the ground targets in the center. I quit the moment I see that.

+ 1 to what silky said, I think the missions are well balanced as is, I wouldn't change anything. It helps that there's no gps, so there's that added level of difficulty.

I definatly would not call fighting legends an air quake server...not that vibe at all. You should spend more time there before you make that claim.

[MarcAnton]

I would like to see 

 

1. airfields further of the frontline (and fair to both sides - german fields are often closer than russians, and russians need to fight sometimes INSIDE the german airfield radar because they are so close)

2. more airfields - devided by bomber fields + fighters and fighter only

3. limited airplanes !!! (every plane COUNTS in RL and online)

 

Unlimited planes and very short distances leads to "airquake", ALL THE TIME

Edited December 13, 2015 by MarcAnton

[Vade]

I would like to see 

 

1. airfields further of the frontline (and fair to both sides - german fields are often closer than russians, and russians need to fight sometimes INSIDE the german airfield radar because they are so close)

2. more airfields - devided by bomber fields + fighters and fighter only

3. limited airplanes !!! (every plane COUNTS in RL and online)

 

Unlimited planes and very short distances leads to "airquake", ALL THE TIME

Wings of Liberty offers all those things, you should try it out some time!

[MarcAnton]

WoL has GPS and locked loadout .... but i guess you are not interestet in a real discussion about things that could (in my opinion of course) make the server better ... thank you. 

[9./JG27DavidRed]

I would like to see 

 

1. airfields further of the frontline (and fair to both sides - german fields are often closer than russians, and russians need to fight sometimes INSIDE the german airfield radar because they are so close)

2. more airfields - devided by bomber fields + fighters and fighter only

3. limited airplanes !!! (every plane COUNTS in RL and online)

 

Unlimited planes and very short distances leads to "airquake", ALL THE TIME

1. very unlikely that we will put airfields farther than what we currently have in our missions. "fair to both sides" ?   just to let you know...Diesel, our mission designer, puts on purpose the targets for the russian side closer together so that they get more bang for their buck with the smaller bombloads they have, to balance things out...so please, dont even assume that we are biased, only because we have 9./JG27 tags in front of our names.

 

2. actually not a bad idea, but everything is a trade off with performance.

 

3. wull Laura fu.. Urkel? -> NEVER

    we will not limit planes, and neither the loadouts. you have that on WOL, and we clearly want to do something different.we want to fly to our liking, and that was why we created the server in the first place, because we didnt really enjoy what WOL has to offer.

Edited December 13, 2015 by 9./JG27DavidRed

[coconut]

 

 

we will not limit planes, and neither the loadouts. you have that on WOL, and we clearly want to do something different.we want to fly to our liking, and that was why we created the server in the first place, because we didnt really enjoy what WOL has to offer.

 

A thing I'm trying at the moment is to have an advanced airfield with limited numbers of ground attackers. The idea is to reward players and teams that bring their planes back, and also to allow for resupply convoys: Players take off with a ground attack plane from a rear airfield (which has infinite amounts of planes) and land them at the forward airfield. If the airfield is configured to refuel/rearm/repair planes, the plane will be added to the airfield.

[Guest deleted@1562]

A thing I'm trying at the moment is to have an advanced airfield with limited numbers of ground attackers. The idea is to reward players and teams that bring their planes back, and also to allow for resupply convoys: Players take off with a ground attack plane from a rear airfield (which has infinite amounts of planes) and land them at the forward airfield. If the airfield is configured to refuel/rearm/repair planes, the plane will be added to the airfield.

 

I like that idea.

[I./JG1_Deschain]

1. very unlikely that we will put airfields farther than what we currently have in our missions. "fair to both sides" ?   just to let you know...Diesel, our mission designer, puts on purpose the targets for the russian side closer together so that they get more bang for their buck with the smaller bombloads they have, to balance things out...so please, dont even assume that we are biased, only because we have 9./JG27 tags in front of our names.

 

 

I think that u should at least consider putting airfields and objectives further away from each other, whole point of flying without GPS is to navigate through waste steppes of russia, but currently thats not challenge at all, you just fly to volga and folow it, same with flying back, just do one or two missions with different frontline or objectives further away, I think its worth a shot.

 

Another thing is servers stats, I think that would lure a lot of players since most of us rly like reading on how much we spent airborne, what did we destroyed, and how succesful are others.

 

And as last thing if you ever consider accepting donations for the server let us know, I dont mind sending few bucks your way for the work you are doing

 

Edit: one more thing to objectives distance: If theres a factory far behind frontlines you basicly have to take He-111 or Pe-2 to make significant damage to it, that should lead to more diversity in sorties, since now its 110 with some escort all the time :D, I d love to see coordinated heinkel raid at 5k on a long distance

Edited December 13, 2015 by II./JG1_Deschain

[9./JG27DavidRed]

^^the thing is, once our server is populated, we could try to make missions with bigger distances...but thats not the case.our server is usually empty or only a handfull of people are flying on it.  if we had constantly 60 pilots flying, we could  consider it...but right now, we observed, that as soon as our third mission is running, where the distances are a little bigger, people usually leave the server after 1 flight, because they hardly spot anything.

 

server stats...we would do it, if we had the skills. nobody of us is into html, website creation or whatever is necessary to implement them somewhere and make it accessible for the public. if somebody has a free webspace and the knowledge to host the stats, then let us know.

 

server donations will be accepted...but again, without a "donate button" on a nice website, where we also could list the monthly server costs, and whats already been donated by whom, we feel its too little transparent.

 

 

A thing I'm trying at the moment is to have an advanced airfield with limited numbers of ground attackers. The idea is to reward players and teams that bring their planes back, and also to allow for resupply convoys: Players take off with a ground attack plane from a rear airfield (which has infinite amounts of planes) and land them at the forward airfield. If the airfield is configured to refuel/rearm/repair planes, the plane will be added to the airfield.

that indeed sounds interesting.if this is a offer to help, then i suggest to talk to/ contact Diesel, our mission designer.

[Skoop]

^ yes, that's why this server is actually becoming popular at US prime time, because the server plays well at 20 or less players, you can actually find the enemy. WOL at US prime time is trying to find 5 players on a giant map.

[bokepacha]

I have to say the best mission I have ever had in my history of BoS has been here, at dawn. So dark I can't even see anything for 45 minutes, straffing an airfield with several planes around who came following the tracers but we couldn't see each other except for several very short times.

I KS someone from JG27. To him, sorry again, wasn't my intention

[coconut]

 

 

that indeed sounds interesting.if this is a offer to help, then i suggest to talk to/ contact Diesel, our mission designer.

 

He can take a look at http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/19186-transferring-ai-planes-airfield/

 

I think it should work with player-controlled planes too, not just AI planes.