Ok, I just found out about a tendency of this new Dgen that I don't like at all. But maybe our friend Asura can fix it??
Ok, first of all to test this new DGEN I am starting simple and just so far am trying one campaign out. Flying a Buffalo for the Dutch in Singapore. Right now I am busy flying more old campaigns using old DGEN in a different installation of IL2 on another place on my hard disk. So I haven't done much with this new one but have already posted some things for Asura in this thread that I hope helped.
What I tried to do but it is giving my trouble is something you could easily do with the old DGEN but so far not so well with this version. I simply tried to stop flying the old Buffalo and start flying a non-historical plane instead. I tried to change my plane in mid campaign to a early British P-40, the one with the internal name of P_40SUKAISVOLOCH2A. To want to fly a strange plane in a 'what-if' scenario, although it didn't happen, is after all, within the spirit on 1946 because Oleg decided to do the whole 'what-if' the war lasted longer than it really did and they started to fly more jets. And these 'fantasy jets' were put in the game as a result.
So what I did was something I did many times in the past, I found the last ####.mis file generated, changed all of the Buffaloes to the early P-40, then found the status.dat file and changed the plane in that too. What the latter modification does is it will make you change to the new plane from that next mission until the next campaign change ( if a different plane is slated for the next campaign ) or until you repeat the process again to change to yet another plane.
I feel you should be able to do this, despite how unrealistic it might be. The whole idea Oleg had of the war lasting to 1946 was unrealistic to, was it not?
The old DGEN allowed you to do extremely strange changes, you could fly the Me-262 in 1941 if you wanted to. The only thing you could not do was violate the Red/Blue ( Allied plane/Axis plane ) structure. You of course could not have flown the Me-262 for the British, for example.
But I cannot get the P_40SUKAISVOLOCH2A to work in the early Dutch campaign at all. It gives me grievous errors and kills the campaign forever, requiring a total restart with a plane "it likes".
So Asura, can we change this situation to allow this as the old DGEN did?
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