ATAG Dedicated Server is up!

[TomcatViP]

I hve to disagree with you SEE.

Many missions were launched before dawn in order for the flight to be on station over the target area at first lights.

It's was a dayly ration for pilots to hve to take off in the dark taxying only by the shear lights of their flight leader blue flammed exhausts.

Even If I hven't the opportunity to fly the mission entirely, Bliss did a great job with that mission. In fact having to fly such a mission once every day we fly migh greatly increade realism and immersion.

ALtough it still lack the Café noisette and Croissants when you take off on the blue side

[SEE]

Bliss and the ATAG guys certainly have done a great job with the servers and missions. As I said, it's 50/50 with me regards the dawn missions - I just find the level of concentration required tires me out very quickly but the lighting ambience and atmosphere is fantastic none the less.

[ATAG_Doc]

You are hereby ordered to have your flight airborne and formed up over your airfield at 0400 hours. Flight leads take off first. Once your fight is airborne you are to lead your group out heading 330 to an altitude of 2000 meters. Once your flight has reached the shore you are to report into flight HQ. Keep R/T to a minimum. Look out for bombers and their escorts.

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by salmo

Bliss,
Any chance we can get:
1. variable time of day when mission new battle launches? Maybe have several main missions with different time of day & randomly lauch one of them?
2. Variable targets? The pilots have quickly learned where targets & AI flights are located. Maybe 10 targets each side, & get the script to select 3 each side for any given battle?

#1 is a good idea, but if all goes well with our new commander on the 2nd server, the 1st one will/can rotate any amount of missions we want. Colander has been working on this, giving us the same functionality as before (keeping the server up 24/7, keeping it up through steam errors, and restarting the server so players can join / not fail auth) but adding the ability to rotate missions on top of it, amongst a plethora of other things that will help with the mission building side/server side stuff. So, essentially this problem should be cured soon.

#2 also goes right along with what I said about #1. Once everything works as intended, there will be no reason to change it up, considering the mission will never be the same one again until it comes back into rotation. I don't think we are too far off here from incorporating it.

Originally Posted by ramstein

re: ATAG server, latest mission settings, The sun, the weather, the environoment, time of day, bright colors, sky, sun, darkness...the sun and sunraise setting is implossble to enjoy, the time it take for the sun to fully rise..
no light to see where to taxi, takeoff, land, and much, much more..

I just cannot see anything,, maybe some younger people with the best eyesight can see, but I cannot... am I the only one that does not enjoy the bright early rising sun?

Just sayin'


I beg ATAG to move the time, change the sun brightness, make it more user freindly and not an eye test...

Thank you again,
Ram..

Originally Posted by klem

Sorry ramstein but I can't agree. I think that early morning sunrise time is brilliant. There is runwway lighting for takeoff and cockpit lighting for instruments. I do have to turn off the small lamp on my desk to help with the 'night vision' just as I did in IL-2 '46.

It makes you understand why the fighter pilots hated night flying though

It isn't long before the light begins to improve and the sun peeps over the horizon (beautiful, the devs have made such a good job of that).

Anyway I was coming here to congratulate ATAG on this so 'wtg' guys.

btw I'm not young either

Originally Posted by SEE

I am 50/50 with the new mission time period. Its, ok for a short stint but I find it very tiring - its hard enough to see in good daylight. It is dark for too long for me to enjoy, the level of concentration wears me out pretty rapidly.

Yes, the RAF flew night missions and the majority of pilots considered them a waste of time - the results were very poor. They adopted a 500ft layering tactic to help improve the effectiveness of these sorties but it made little signicant improvement.

The best measure of what people would prefer is to run the Dawn mission on server 1 and the daylight mission on server 2 and then see which is the most popular mission.

So we've got 1 for it, one against it, and 1 in the middle about the dawn start Haha - well, all I can say is what I said above, soon enough we'll have an actual server rotation. And hopefully, soon enough we'll have a patch that fixes the CTD's so I can finally add some of the other missions into the fray that aren't suitable for the state of the game yet.

@all get your butts on TS3 tonight. We are going to have a gaggle of a good time.

Tell me if this isn't fun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=CTO4S7t80KQ

[ATAG_knuckles]

Most will hate me but I would like the dark to stay for at least an hour.

Night bombing yeah:

I would like to see if the exhaust stacks or cockpit lighting can be seen in the dark ?


Knuckles

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by ATAG_knuckles

Most will hate me but I would like the dark to stay for at least an hour.

Night bombing yeah:

I would like to see if the exhaust stacks or cockpit lighting can be seen in the dark ?


Knuckles

I am with you night flying is fun... I got right up close to a contact and just as I was about to fire I realised it was a 109, fantastic stuff.

Love it the atmosphere is awesome thanks chaps

[BaronBonBaron]

Yesterday, I played Clod online for the first time, on ATAG.
It was also my first time using CEM, lol it took awhile just to figure out how to start my JU-87.

But I really enjoyed it, this server is very good, and the people nice!

[jimbop]

Glad you could join us, Baron. It was a good night. I counted ten planes on a single dogfight before the inevitable stutter... stutter... CTD!

[III/JG53_Don]

Guess I have some problems with my He111 on Online servers. A couple of minutes ago I started a Bombrun at the ATAG Server. Bomb Bay open, Bombs armed, fuze for horizontal bombing.
Im pretty sure I set the Lotfe right, thought of the different heights due to the target not on sea level. Bomb Automatic set and I didnt even had to correct the sight. After I overrun the target the Automatic went off.
All bombs should released all at once with a small distance of 40m each.
But still I cant see any explosions from up high (was on 3500m)

That happened to me also with a Blenheim attack at the Ju-88s near Calais. I chose the first fuze, armed the bombs, opened bay doors and released the bombs low level. But nothing happened.

[w1nd6urfa]

Originally Posted by Jatta Raso

lol i came from DOS so i know what 'bat' means

Ah, the glorious days of AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS !

I wonder where those files are hidden in win 7