SoWC:BoB Multisquad Campaign Starting

[Osprey]

Farbs, surely the squadrons are entered and the actual pilots can vary?? One week Robo might not make it but Wedge can. Also, I put in 6 as an average but we may be 8 or we may be 4 on a given day. And finally, to confuse the Hun even more, we are ACG and operate 3 squadrons in our umbrella, therefore 401 may be short but 501 over.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Theres 46 Reds and 56 blues (including 9 bomber pilots)

During the server tests we only had around 40 people on the server, it seemed fine and on the 2nd occasion nobody had any problems. We have set a limit of 99 for playability client side. We must stick to the plan or it will spiral out of control - too many cooks spoil the broth! I think you wont see a complete and full turn out everyweek but imagine if we do and you can't get in because we just let to many people sign up, you would be very disapointed. Potentially right now, if everyone turns up who is correctly registered 3 people wont be able to get in... I dont want to go over the server limit and have annoyed people breathing down my kneck, sending me PMs and emails etc...

Just make sure your guys know that if they dont attend they weaken your side! To just "see how many turn up on the day" is not really an option, its far too much administrational work. I already have a problem in that since my Staffel was registered 3 weeks ago Ive had two new recruits, hence I may not have enough slots for my own guys, So I may have to turn my own pilots away on a match day so I dont exceed my quota.

The campaign is full and sign up is closed.



On another note tomorrow is wednesday. Possible the patch we have all been waiting for may appear in the final days of this week... However we all know that the devs promise things that take longer to appear and change their internal Schedule more times than we change our underware (I assume you guys change yours everyday aswell...) Therefore:

If the patch is out tomorrow we will start on 17th. If it is not out tomorrow we will start on the 24th. If we start on the 24th we will still host a mission but it will not be one you be flying in the campaign.

[Osprey]

Hmmmm. I put in an average as asked and I was conservative with it. Had I known we had fixed names I would've just put in more.

I am understanding that it is fixed names?

EDIT: You mentioned Quota. OK, so we have a quota (501, 401 & 64 - we are all ACG pilots but with sub-tags). I don't have a problem with turning my guys away if we exceed that - we can handle that internally in ACG. I just want to confirm that if one week 501 have only 5 guys and 401 have 7 then one of theirs can take our slot that's all. I can see you just don't want things screwed up as a total and that's understandable.

[5./JG27.Farber]

The list as I have explained before is so that the appropriate permissions can be set, for example, axis, allies, allied squadron leader, axis staffelkapitan. This is so they can view the correct parts of the forums and so that only leaders can discuss things in the officers forum for red and blue respectivley.

It is an administerial check list for permissions.


For numbers in the server its up to that squadron leader to ensure he has not exceeded his quota and is taking up slots intended for other people.

This brings me back once again to what I was explaining before, the campaign was designed around 99 players. We have 103 people saying they are comming to each mission. We all know that some will not attend, surely this number will be greater than 4% which we are hoping for so no one gets left out. I expect the actual non attendance to be around 20% minimum. I am sure Osprey there will be enough room for everyone.

EDIT to your edit. Yes as long as the "swapping" does not get out of hand its fine.

[ATAG_MajorBorris]

How daft am I...

I didnt realise registration was over allready

Well, I hope you guys are having fun!

[5./JG27.Farber]

Sorry Borris,

I tried to get hold of you I know you have been very interested in flying in our campaign for a long time.

[bw_wolverine]

I'm having all of my potential pilots register on the campaign website and we will fly six pilots for any given mission based on who is available on the day.

I'm basically assuming that No.401 has 6 spots reserved. As long as my pilots are all registered, it doesn't really matter which 6 guys we put in the air, just that we can't put up 7.

I'm fine with that because I'm certain not all of our pilots will be able to attend every mission. So we should always have five or six in the air.

When I gave my 6 average, it wasn't based on how many would sign up, it was based on how many we'd actually have arrive on the day.

[AbortedMan]

May I ask what the '+' in front of the names is for?

Is it for 'backup' pilot or 'public/tagalong' pilot?

[bw_wolverine]

Originally Posted by AbortedMan

May I ask what the '+' in front of the names is for?

Is it for 'backup' pilot or 'public/tagalong' pilot?

I'm assuming it's backup, or registered and ready to fly in case of a no-show from the squadron.

[5./JG27.Farber]

The + indicates a pilot over the amount originally stated. Just ignore it


Ive recounted, I got the figures wrong, I had counted SL'ers twice in some Squadrons. My fault but this works out well.

Blues have 49 out of 45+9. Reds have 48 out of 45.

Totalling 97 Players with 100% turn out.


REDS: 7+8+8+6+3+13+3 =48 (including Aborted Man )
BLUES: 14+3+8+8+7+6+4 =50

TOTAL RED & BLUE 98/99 With 1 Spare blue places.

P.S. Everyone got a PM on SoWC about the start date so please pass the word.