Finnish VirtualPilots - Dynamic War

[JG1_Wittmann]

The E7  is garbage, for the "avg"  or lesser axis fighter pilot.  The IL2  is probably the second best fighter in set 1   right behind the hurricane.   I haven't seen any1 on the blue side in here asking for an AC advantage.   Set 1 F2, 20mm cannon.   That is no more  than the allied team has and it's only a single 20mm.   Get Rid of set 1, 2 and roll it up into 3.  If a "Purist" wants to fly an earlier war plane, say a hurricane with 8 303's  let them, or a crappy E7, let them.   The side with no decent cannon armed AC  is at a disadvantage.   At the same time, to make it more fair to allies, eliminate the bomber airstart.    So all the planes and weapons in set 1, 2 and 3  available in the new set 1.  Now either the190A3 moves into set 3, or the mosquito moves into set 4.  See, the Mosquito VI   we have in game is a summer 43 ac,  the 190a3 is a 1942 ac.   By totally throwing out all of the introduction years, that in and of itself gives the allies a big advantage,  in speed for the mosquito, as well as firepower for the mosquito.   THe A3 is slower than the mosquito is it not ?   It also has a lesser   armament loadout.    The Macchi in set 1 is slow with the 2 20mm cannons and handles poorly  it is good for a straight line bomber/attacker intercept, about the speed of the hurricane.  The macchi with those guns locked out  is not much vs il2, bombers, etc etc.  The P40 is now improved and may be the fastest plane in game in set 1 down low.   Everyone fights down low or the vast majority do.   So no1 is asking for advantages.  But I will speculate that alot of people have bailed as the server got progressively more restrictive on armament and AC for axis.  All of the Axis  ac   do not follow the historical dates, they are all at least 1-2 years later than reality.  On the flip sip, all of the heavy armed allied planes have been moved up 1 to 2 years historical.  So in some cases, the wepon progression for both sides can come to an almost 4 year swing

 

Or, the server masters can leave all their balancing as is, and watch what used to be the pre-eminent server,  dwindle down to when alot of times there are less than 4 players on the server.  Right now, there are 2 axis, 2 allied.   The allies have a 50KM advance in 1 sector 8-10  in the other.  How do 2 tanks or 1 tank 1 ac move a line 50km ?    I know it goes both ways.   I would change the advance mechanics.   Anything over   35 % %'s advantage, gets penalized that same amount.   If the avg for a session is say 5 blue, and zero red,  the points for each player count, but the advances are severely restricted and penalized.   Make the sessions shorter than 5 hours,  and reduce the plane sets to 4 or 5, rotating them like  was mentioned 16 hours.  The penalty for advance tied to avg #'s may be difficult fr the finns to implement .   It is going to require some math on their part.   I would say if the avg  team size is 40 payers, then a 40km adv is max for the mission.    The main #'s overloads that I see are squads  in game.   9th often has a #'s advantage in game, and subsequently huge gains, with say 4 player vs 1   etc.  It seems to me that the players that whined the hardest and started the finns on their crappy/restrictive early planne sets,  those players , the loudest voices, I haven't seen in years.  Or, just leave everything as is,  and watch the #'s continue to tank and bleed to other servers.   If I see 20 players on 1 side in finnish for a mission that is huge #'s    not like a year or so ago.

 

The finns can see the #'s online.   I would set up an excel file and track the server pop  to the restrictions put in game.   The F4  out of set 2 was a hit on #'s, then the F2 having the cannon removed, and no AC in the hanger for blue cannon armed, in set 1.  The 88 is very fast out of the bomber airstart, you are correct.  There was a small cadre of blue pilots, that really enjoyed set 1, bomber airstart, and climb to 8K to bomb.   I haven't seen more than 1 or maybe 2 of those flyers on this server in 6 months.  If players want to keep everything the same,  have say 5 allies, 2 axis, or the other way around on the server, advncing the line 50, 60, etc km  then keep  everything about the server the same.  That is what we have, with an occasionaly overload of say 20-10, or maybe closer #'s with 40 players total on the server.  When was the last time anyone had to wait on a friday, sat, sun, or any other day to get in the server ?     Finns either change it up, in a big way to try and get #'s  or they leave it as is.   I for 1 think the whole <bra  radar command is a fiasco, and  will drive the #'s down more.   That, and the rescue mission, or the bs glider mission may have a short term novelty effect, but will only keep the status quo, or make it worse.   

 

I can remember  a mission flown  a few years ago on finnish.  I had 2 JG1 pilots with me.   We saw an attack message on kuban   for crimean tgt that blue had.  I  took a guess on where the 69th guys would fly.   I knew they would be low.  We took off with 3 190A3's   plotted a guesstimate intercept course  100km from our airfield and found them and shot 2 or 3 of them down.  It was a very lucky sortie, and you guys were very suprised.   Now how to you recreate that ?    You can't because the fake  over the horizon radar takes all of the chance out of it.  If they are unescorted, they are screwed and they can't hide.   Missions like that, made this server fun.   

[ulmar]

10 hours ago, JG1_Wittmann said:

What is the height limitation on that ?   Is there a horizon effect or is it just anything within X amount of KM's ?

And how about flights with height 200-300 m but under hills/mountains? Can radars see it?

[Haza]

There never seems to be more than 10 players in this server now when I check during my time zone.

Edited March 3, 2024 by Haza

[LLv34_Temuri]

Cinematic Flak on Finnish VirtualPilots

The Cinematic Flak you've seen on Combat Box is now on Finnish VirtualPilots too. We aim to sync the performance of the heavy AAA guns, but actual number of guns per target (and the resulting amount of barrage) will very likely differ.

 

We will adjust the number of the flak guns according to feedback, so tell us what you think.

 

A  big thank you to everyone who made this happen.

[LLv34_Untamo]

 

[69th_Panp]

Flak camouflage   just great ?

[Bart74]

Hello, i have such question: i purchased on Steam IAR80, but i can't fly it because there is no cuch plane available in plane set.

Could You tell me when will be available? 

[bzc3lk]

1 minute ago, Bart74 said:

Hello, i have such question: i purchased on Steam IAR80, but i can't fly it because there is no cuch plane available in plane set.

Could You tell me when will be available? 

 

Did you log online when you started your game? This will sync the game with your account purchases.

[Bart74]

ok, i will try it. Thank You ?

[LeLv30_Redwing-]

3 hours ago, Bart74 said:

Hello, i have such question: i purchased on Steam IAR80, but i can't fly it because there is no cuch plane available in plane set.

Could You tell me when will be available? 

 

Current planeset is 7/8, every set is for 2 days so you should be able to fly IAR on Wednesday, I think it was on planeset 1.

[ITAF_Cymao]

 

There are no ME262 in flight and yet I can't fly it because I would be kicked from the server...

[LLv34_Untamo]

4 hours ago, ITAF_Cymao said:

There are no ME262 in flight and yet I can't fly it because I would be kicked from the server...

 

The chat says there are 5 Me262s in use.

[iFoxRomeo]

12 minutes ago, LLv34_Untamo said:

 

The chat says there are 5 Me262s in use.

1 player but 5 Me262s in the air?

[ITAF_Cymao]

47 minutes ago, iFoxRomeo said:

1 player but 5 Me262s in the air?

 

Yes it was only me, but I couldnt fly with 262

 

Edited March 12, 2024 by ITAF_Cymao

[ITAF_Cymao]

56 minutes ago, LLv34_Untamo said:

The chat says there are 5 Me262s in use.

But there weren't 5 blue players, there was only me!!!!

This is the mission http://stats.virtualpilots.fi:8000/en/mission/16018/

 

 

New mission and same problem, look at how many blue players there are.

I was the only one there and yet I can't fly with the 262

 

 

 

I know very well that it's no one's fault, but in the last few maps one side has been particularly unlucky.

However, I thank the adm who always tried to resolve it.

 

S!

[LLv34_Untamo]

3 hours ago, ITAF_Cymao said:

But there weren't 5 blue players, there was only me!!!!

 

Oh, didn't notice that ... And yes, I found a bug in the code, fixed now, will get it running on the server soon.

[Crious]

Same here. Why on earth while I'm the only one blue in the server i get the message that me 262 is unavailable because there is already 5/2 airplanes in the air ?

[LLv34_Untamo]

2 hours ago, 335th_GRAlbatros74 said:

Same here. Why on earth while I'm the only one blue in the server i get the message that me 262 is unavailable because there is already 5/2 airplanes in the air ?

 

Because due to a new bug introduced with refactoring old code, the old sorties from past missions weren't cleaned on mission change -> code thought there were lot's of 262s flying around. But it's fixed now (in code, hopefully soon on server).

Edited March 12, 2024 by LLv34_Untamo

[Crious]

One more question 

bra. What is the point of reference.  Ex 78 degrees.  From what ? Players current heading? 78degr from the north of players possition? 78 degr from a fixed ground radar antenna?

[LLv34_Untamo]

4 hours ago, 335th_GRAlbatros74 said:

One more question 

bra. What is the point of reference.  Ex 78 degrees.  From what ? Players current heading? 78degr from the north of players possition? 78 degr from a fixed ground radar antenna?

 

Compass heading from player position. But this feature was received quite badly, so we're taking it down. Will have to rethink what kind of radar functionality people would be happy with...

[Pozsgay]

On 1/26/2024 at 5:20 PM, Darthvegan said:

Is the plane choice restricted to planes that can carry an additional passenger?  Or any plane can perform the rescue?

Almost every plane can carry an additional passenger
I depicted a true event in my comic book:

And they reached the airfield...

[LLv34_Temuri]

44 minutes ago, Pozsgay said:

in my comic book

You're the author? Nice

[LLv34_Untamo]

S!

 

Campaign app updated:
- <bra -chat command removed due to feedback

- target objective enemy warnings revamped, you now get a more informative message with approx. heading, range, altitude

- bug fixes

Edited March 14, 2024 by LLv34_Untamo

[JG27*PapaFly]

No bra ?

[Pozsgay]

2 hours ago, LLv34_Temuri said:

You're the author? Nice

Yes, and the artist also

[Alastair_S1D]

Hey there. I have not played for a while as my CPU blew up. But now I have a new CPU in my machine I tried to log in tonight and I can't. It just says "Downloading Files From server" Before just stopping and going to the Co-op / Dogfight page. I tried WoL and I connected first time without any problem. Any ideas what is up? Alastair_S1D

[JG27*Alex]

7 x 110 E2 on their way to target + unseen fighters. KG4 and JG27*.

[69th_Panp]

5 hours ago, Alastair_S1D said:

Hey there. I have not played for a while as my CPU blew up. But now I have a new CPU in my machine I tried to log in tonight and I can't. It just says "Downloading Files From server" Before just stopping and going to the Co-op / Dogfight page. I tried WoL and I connected first time without any problem. Any ideas what is up? Alastair_S1D

Delete the moscowwb folder in the multiplayer folder and try again

[=qilaman=Tamirlash]

Hi! 2 cards in a row, the blue front depot does not fall below 97%. It doesn’t matter how many targets you destroyed there, 97%.

[LLv34_Untamo]

1 hour ago, KPblM said:

Hi! 2 cards in a row, the blue front depot does not fall below 97%. It doesn’t matter how many targets you destroyed there, 97%.

 

Hi. Found the bug, fixing. Thanks for the report.

Edited March 15, 2024 by LLv34_Untamo

[Alastair_S1D]

6 hours ago, 69th_Panp said:

Delete the moscowwb folder in the multiplayer folder and try again

Thanks I will try this and report back. I did delete the entire multiplayer folder a few times to now avail but I will try just the Moscow folder

[LLv34_Untamo]

2 minutes ago, Alastair_S1D said:

I did delete the entire multiplayer folder a few times to now avail but I will try just the Moscow folder

 

This should have the same effect. ?

[Alastair_S1D]

2 minutes ago, LLv34_Untamo said:

 

This should have the same effect. ?

if worst comes to worst I will just uninstall and then reinstall. 

 

[2./SG2_assadoc]

31 minutes ago, Alastair_S1D said:

if worst comes to worst I will just uninstall and then reinstall. 

 

Don't forget to backup controls, settings and views.

[Alastair_S1D]

12 minutes ago, 69g*assadoc said:

Don't forget to backup controls, settings and views.

oh god yes please how do I do that?

[2./SG2_assadoc]

10 minutes ago, Alastair_S1D said:

oh god yes please how do I do that?

IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data
'Startup.cfg' file, 'LuaScripts' folder, 'input' folder

 

[LLv34_Untamo]

4 hours ago, Alastair_S1D said:

oh god yes please how do I do that?

 

backup atleast the inputs folder, and the startup.cfg

[Alastair_S1D]

I still cant connect. Still just downloading files from server. I haven't been banned by mistake for anything have I. I haven't played in about a year. But I have not done anything that would amount to a bannable offense. I normally fly solo and mind my own business usually. 

[LLv34_Untamo]

21 hours ago, Alastair_S1D said:

I still cant connect. Still just downloading files from server. I haven't been banned by mistake for anything have I. I haven't played in about a year. But I have not done anything that would amount to a bannable offense. I normally fly solo and mind my own business usually. 

 

You don't have a ban. And even if you did, the server would still let you in, tell the ban reason and expiration in the chat. And then kick you

[Alastair_S1D]

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Still can't connect. Still just downloading files from server. I don't know what to do any more.