Riddle Me This....

[Beebop]

So tonight I was flying with my mates.  We fly Dogfight maps, ground pounding, bomber intercept, shipping etc.
We choose DF because when we die, (which is often lol) we like to re spawn and rejoin the fray.  Hardly historical but lots of fun.

So one of our mission builders made a map where the object was not to just use up plane after plane.  Limitations were set with the idea we should return to base after an attack run, repair, rearm and refuel.  To help 'enforce' that the default limit of planes for fakeairfields was used, 10.  There were 4 plane types so there was a total of 40,available aircraft.
However they also built a very well defended target and most of us died over the target, few made it home.  After about an hour we started running out of planes.  At first the type would be "faded out" and the counter would say "0x plane type".  Fine, I chose another one.  After a short while we were down to 1 of one type and two of another.

That's when the fun began.  I entered the airfield and found 1 plane of the type I wanted.  As soon as I hit fly I spawned and immediately was kicked back out.  When I re-clicked to enter that type was not available.  I chose another but at the last minute changed my mind and went out and back in.  Now the plane I wanted had 1 available and the plane I initially chose had 10 even though several guys had already chosen it.  ????  This started happening to everyone but each person got a different availability and plane count.  Finally the base got the 'No entry' sign over it indicating that no planes were left.
But, upon checking the scoring there were only 26 deaths yet 40 planes had been used.  ???? ????

 

So, the question is, what was going on?  Why did different people get different readings?  Why did the same person get a different reading every time they selected the base
Is there some setting that is being overlooked?
The manual barely covers the basics of the Airfield Properties and only mentions that you can set the number of planes for each type.

 

Any help appreciated because we feel this style will be an advancement toward us more flying more realistically.

TIA

[Zooropa_Fly]

Have you set the 'renew time' to what you want it to be for each plane ?

AF Properties / Planes.

If that's set to something high then running out of planes is a possibility.

S!

 

 

Edited June 1, 2020 by Zooropa_Fly

[Beebop]

Thank you Zooropa_Fly.  I/We will look into that.  There are so many things that have changed/been added to the ME.  Most are learned through trial and error.  This was something I hadn't considered or understood.  After some testing I will get back with the findings.