ATAG Dedicated Server is up!

[ATAG_knuckles]

Danjama: Certainly sorry for your disappointment. Personally I find it very difficult to attempt to fly and type. Also as i am busy looking for enemy I often miss chat messages.

Trust me no one ignores on purpose. Much of the fun in multiplayer is having the opportunity to talk to so many different people, and making friend at the same time.

Give team speak a chance, you wont be disappointed. If you see me on TS give me a holler, we can go to a "help" channel and work on anything you want.


Knuckles

P.S. most of the folkes on TS are a bloody hoot

[danjama]

Originally Posted by ATAG_knuckles

Danjama: Certainly sorry for your disappointment. Personally I find it very difficult to attempt to fly and type. Also as i am busy looking for enemy I often miss chat messages.

Trust me no one ignores on purpose. Much of the fun in multiplayer is having the opportunity to talk to so many different people, and making friend at the same time.

Give team speak a chance, you wont be disappointed. If you see me on TS give me a holler, we can go to a "help" channel and work on anything you want.


Knuckles

P.S. most of the folkes on TS are a bloody hoot

No need to apologise it's not any member of ATAG's fault. I'll definitely make moves to get TS set up, but I just felt people could have been more helpful - especially considering its a closed-cockpit server. As I said though, nobody to blame for that.

Look forward to getting more involved in the future. Was probably just expecting too much because it's a Friday night.

Cheers!

[ATAG_Colander]

Danjama,

There are a couple more things to take into consideration:
1.- The more players in the server, the more the pilots are busy flying/fighting/bombing and talking over TS.
2.- Not everyone on the server speaks English. This also applies to TS as you will notice many times, there are more people on the server than on TS (besides the fact that some squadrons have their own TS server).

In short, I hope your next time is more "enjoyable".

~S~
ATAG_Colander

http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/forum.php

[klem]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Colander

Danjama,

There are a couple more things to take into consideration:
1.- The more players in the server, the more the pilots are busy flying/fighting/bombing and talking over TS.
2.- Not everyone on the server speaks English. This also applies to TS as you will notice many times, there are more people on the server than on TS (besides the fact that some squadrons have their own TS server).

In short, I hope your next time is more "enjoyable".

~S~
ATAG_Colander

http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/forum.php

Just another 2p / 2c

The Reds generally make good use of the ATAG TS server, the other night there were about 25 Reds flying with 15 on TS. It is well worth using.

Comms discipline is important but is hard to enforce due to the voluntary nature of it all but if the main channel gets too 'chatty' its easy to suggest that guys planning a particular sortie move to a sub channel or, like 56RAF, to the channel provided for their Squad (we often have non 56'ers join us, its np) so that they can focus on their sortie.

That's not any kind of gripe, we've come to regard the main Allies channel as highly useful, sometimes a bit chatty but ok unless it gets overloaded but its no big deal to move channel.

Similarly if some people don't speak English (there don't seem to be many) they can move to a subchannel too which would help them avoid foreign cross-talk.

If there are a bunch of guys all doing different things then comms/TS will not be much value to them, better to work together and get the best out of it as often happens naturally on the Allies channels. I expect the Axis are the same.

[ATAG_Bliss]

Yep - That's why we have soo many channels. Colander had made some code that allowed you to move TS channels from within the in-game chat window so you wouldn't even have to alt+Tab out of game (if you're TS3 name was the same as in game) but we need the Coms menu to work correctly 1st.

[ATAG_Colander]

New mission being tested on Server 2.

Details here:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=31421

[dnr]

Hey fella's, what was up on ATAG Axis Vrs Allies yesterday. I was quietly minding my own business, warming up my trusty Hurricane and waiting for my 401 Sqn mates, when I saw a Spitfire slowly pass by standing up on its wing which was buried up to the fusilage. It plowed a nice furrow in the ground as it slide by and then proceeded out into the countryside (maybe the local farmers needed help) only to be followed by another with it's elevators and rudder submerged underground and driving backward. I had to move to get out of the way. Later, as we were putting a big hurt on a Staffle of Ju 88s, I swung around for second pass coming in low only to see the Ju 88 that I was now targetting, flying almost fully upside down and going backward. It was all kinda' like a weird dream, and before you suggest it, there were no recreational sustances involved on my end.

Like our buddy Bill Shatner would say "Is that weird, or what?

Otherwise, your server rocks!

[ATAG_Snapper]

Hi Danjama,

I echo Knuck's regrets that your first foray onto the ATAG Server was less than satisfying. I confess that although I keep a chat window open, I miss more than I catch -- it scrolls so quickly. On occasion I've flown with TS deliberately turned off, and the feeling of isolation in such a large map (especially with no icons) can be overwhelming. Even a large furball is easily missed from nearby because the contacts are so inconspicuous.

I'm glad you've indicated that you'll be installing Teamspeak 3. As Knuckles would agree, it will change your experience and immersion 100%. The best tip I can give anyone is to log into the ATAG Server, intro yourself, and simply ask what's doing. If anyone is flying bombers an offer to escort is always gratefully accepted -- they'll give you the specifics of where best to spawn and how to meet up with them.

Here's a quick how-to on setting up TS for ATAG:

http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.co...w-to-set-it-up!

If you need any further info, don't hesitate to PM me. Hoping we see you back online with us soon!

Snapper

[ATAG_Septic]

Hi Danjama,

I'm sorry to hear your first time on the server was not very rewarding. Sadly, there's an element of luck with obtaining assistance sometimes.

I was in the Help channel on Teamspeak with a new-to-the-sim flier for two hours last night. In all that time we only managed to get him near to the action once where he tore his ailerons off in his first dive, and he was a very experienced IL2 player. It was a timely reminder to me of just how many hurdles the game presents to someone new, I'm sure many people must just give up with the frustration. There's too often stark evidence of this in chat, as there was last night, when someone could not solicit the necessary assistance but the chat system is so limited that even with the time to type it's not much good for anything complex.

I've seen around forty people on recently, with only a few on Teamspeak and at times I'm guilty of hiding from communication, especially when I'm on late at night as I have to be quiet, but a few hours later and both chat and teamspeak are buzzing and its all immense fun. So I'm glad to hear you've not been put off and have the necessary perseverance to get going with the sim in its current state.

I hope to see you and many more in the skies over Dover soon old chap and if I'm able to be of any help, even in chat, I'll be only to glad to try.

Septic.

[TRIK]

AI BOMBERS never see em maybe putting a few more bombers in at abit more frequency will help , i remember when game 1st was out and on atag server ther were like a bomber squadron of stuka divers totaling maybe 18 planes in one go why cant we have some of this ?