Hosting for my Squadron

[56RAF_Witch]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a co-op mission, which I will host, and I'll be inviting about 8 humans to join me, 56 Squadron.

We humans will fly Hurricane's and the 70+ LW planes will all be AI.

When I host the mission, anyone joining is unable to select a Hurricane, the plane slot says *WPF. unavailable puppet place line

wtf?

I used to host missions about 10 versions ago, Is it possible to fix it so they can join the mission online?

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Thanks to everyone who gave me tips and advice on fixing this.

Thanks to them all, and my squaddie 56RAF_RGJ , I now understand how it's done, for anyone else with a similar prediciment I shall try and summarise.

Run a dedicated server, goto windows>Start>cmd
in the dos box you'll be in C:\Users\Administrator run a Server start batch file (kept in this folder), I use this one clodserver.bat because my CloD is on the D:\Drive

clodserver contains the following text;

d:

cd "d:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\"

START Launcher -server (if you want to password it add) -pwd password

You can close the first DOS box now, in the new dos box you'll be presented with

>4Failed to load Steam Service
ServiceStart: failed to start

Here we'll run another 2 batch files, first I use one to set the server difficulty settings
type f settings.cmd
keep the settings.cmd file here C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

In the file settings.cmd I have this for full realism,
difficulty AntropomorphicControl 0
difficulty ComplexEManagement 1
difficulty TorqueGyroEffects 1
difficulty EngineTemperatureEffects 1
difficulty FlutterEffects 1
difficulty WindTurbulence 1
difficulty StallSpins 1
difficulty Vulnerabilty 1
difficulty BlackoutsRedouts 1
difficulty Realisticgunnery 1
difficulty RealisticBombing 1
difficulty LimitedAmmo 1
difficulty LimitedFuel 1
difficulty CockpitAlwaysOn 1
difficulty NoOutsideViews 0
difficulty HeadShake 0
difficulty NoIcons 1
difficulty NoPadlock 1
difficulty Clouds 1
difficulty TakeoffLanding 1
difficulty RealisticLandings 1
difficulty NoMapIcons 0
difficulty NoMinimapPath 1
difficulty NoAutopilot 1
difficulty NoReplacementPlace 0
difficulty NoReplacement 0
difficulty NoSelect 0
difficulty NoReplacementArmy 0
difficulty NoSelectArmy 0
difficulty NoCreate 0

After you see this load in the dos box you can run the mission itself using a batch file, type
f m1.cmd

This batch file is kept with the settings.cmd in C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

m1.cmd contains the following text

missLoad missions/Multi/Dogfight/56RAF Intercept Stukas.mis


battle start

Obviously you need to ensure any mission you're going to run is actually in that location!

The thing to remember now is that the battle has started, you, and anyone else flying the mission, now have to go to the multiplayer part of the game and find the server, join it, select your plane and click create. This can take a minute or two, as will warming your engine, so add about 10 minutes to a mission's design to allow time for a group of pilots to be ready to take off!

When you want to close the dedicated server, in the dos box type

battle stop

exit

That's it, Cheers