New Server Announcement

[5./JG27.Farber]

Please join us in celebration of our new server this Friday the 18th of Jan 2013!

New server is up, it is called "ACG Storm of War", full realsim and cool historically based missions! - please log on and check it out.
Lots to do for fighter and bomber pilots. Full briefings and objectives and stats!

(Also the old server, now called "ACG Storm of War Dogfights" has been converted to a red vs blue dogfight server with icons.
All aircraft available from Tiger moth to He-111.)

It is located in England to give better connectivity to everyone all around the world!

Thanks for all those who donated - you made a real difference! :cool:
For those who didn't donate there we can still use funds to keep us going - it is not too late to donate!

http://www.pumaszallas.hu/Private/VO101_Tom/SoWC/posters/sowc-new-server-01.jpg

We hope to put the server under some stress this Friday!
So come and get some practice in for the campaign.
It will be an open event and everyone is welcome! Fly as many times as you like!

http://www.pumaszallas.hu/Private/VO101_Tom/SoWC/posters/sowc-new-server-02.jpg

Once again thank you everyone for your support!
It also makes us feel good to know that
the community supports us as we support the community! :-P

Many thanks from ACG and the SoW team! ;)


http://www.pumaszallas.hu/Private/VO101_Tom/SoWC/posters/sowc-new-server-04.jpg

Please do not forget our 100 slot Team Speak 3 everyone is free to use!

85.236.100.27:24637

S!

http://sowc.forumotion.co.uk/

[Osprey]

ACG Storm of War server includes the fabulous RDF "Fighter Command" system for detection and interception and "Luftflotte Control" system for escort rendevous

http://www.aircombatgroup.co.uk/RDF.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuOfLJ4bLn8

[Continu0]

Hi

Just flew on the server and it seems to work very well. Thanks a lot! Will this server always be onine? How is this working together with the campaign-missions?

[Osprey]

I think certainly for now we'll use it for the campaign and then switch it to public play. If plans change we'll let people know.

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[Volksieg]

I look forward to flying on it.... if I EVER get any time to myself again. lol

[Robin2k7]

Server runs great , 1.JaVA also want to join the campagne .

We are ready to sign in :grin:

Greetings

1.JaVA_Picard

[Osprey]

Great :) Are you chaps allied or axis?

We all meet on ACG teamspeak, 85.236.100.27:24637, I can create a room for your group. You would need to confirm it's all good with Farber or Hans Gruber regarding numbers etc so please come in later today :)

[kevchenco]

Campaign was amazing on the new server this weekend. 80 players + and no lag throughout the entire mission.

Great to have a top notch server in europe!

[Plt Off JRB Meaker]

Yes,this weekend's flying on the new server was fantastic,super smooth,thanks to guys like Farber,Osprey and all for their organisation in getting it to this standard.......salute to you guys:grin:

[leszek660]

Hi, password for serwer?

[Bounder!]

There isn't usually a password for the server unless the campaign is running. The Storm of War campaign is very popular and so the chaps who run it password protect it to make sure only those pilots registered can get in (about 75 slots at the mo). The multiplayer campaign runs saturday & sunday at 8pm GMT - any other time the server runs without a password.

[for info about the multiplayer campaign visit http://sowc.forumotion.co.uk/ (http://sowc.forumotion.co.uk/)]

[Buster_Dee]

AGC says switches to watchers when enemy is behind the CHL colocated with the CH. CHL was panoramic--rotatable antenna. After mid 1940, it also used a PPI to simplify operator interpretation. Either CH was meant, or the coast watchers don't become the "sole" source of info until the enemy is about 25 miles behind the CH/CHL station. There were mobile CHL as well, though I have no idea when. Both radars were "2-D," so height was always just an estimate. Great that someone has implemented this. I don't fly much (busy making stuff for legacy IL2), so I didn't catch whether AI voice is part of the deal. That would be the best.

[Osprey]

I think you make perfectly valid points there Buster Dee however it can get to the point where the programming can become detrimental. We actually considered the tracking nature of CHL and decided to go with the static system because CHL operators swept and tracked targets which actually left gaps elsewhere. The mobile RDF was in use in the BOB and was used to plug gaps after the attacks on RDF sites during August.
It can be done but becomes unbelievably hard to actually test too, and each extra calculation adds load. We also looked into voice direction but the required vocabulary is missing from the sound files. We would need to record an entire sound pack and have people install it in order to gain commands from a controller vocally. The present announcements may seem ok, but they are from nearby aircraft, not Fighter Command

Presently the current system groups humans players flying in formations along with AI - no other system does this.

[Buster_Dee]

Thanks. Makes good sense. I don't really have a sense of what the watchers (and listeners) could accomplish; it may be that they were as effective as anything the CHL could have added to the mix (over land vice water of course).

[Osprey]

Well there was certainly a fog of war as well as unbelievable accuracy. What we've found in use in campaign is that we also get this. Once a formation is smashed up the picture gets ever more inaccurate and interception becomes flaky. It really is fantastic at providing immersion :)

[Buster_Dee]

I wish I had more time to fly it. Sounds fun. Fact is, I fly like a brick with bent wheels slapped on. In my old IL2 squad, you could tell when the merge had occurred. I was already streaming something. I was flat out horrible. I may be one of the few Vpilots here who has also crashed a RL plane. Score:

I lost my glasses
Plane became coffee table conversation bits and part of 3 other planes.

I still have a hard time looking the owner in the eye.

[Osprey]

lol, well glad to see you're ok. If you want to joins us pop by anytime and have a go.

~S~

[Buster_Dee]

Thanks for the offer.