Addon for CloD - Pilot career tracker with ranks/medals etc

[Gollum]

Originally Posted by ReconNZ

Hey all

One thing I thought was missing from Cliffs was a career tracker for my pilots, so i made one using excel and thought I'd share it with the community. Very keen to hear your thoughts re any enhancements/modifications etc.

This is an excel file that you run outside of cliffs, with the idea being that you enter the results of your flight sessions after each gaming session online (could be used for single player i guess but intended for online). Key criteria which you enter include the number of sorties you flew, your start and finish times, how many kills you achieved, and the outcome of your sorties - ie did you land safely at the end.

This is designed to be one pilot for one life - ie if you die, your pilot is then killed and you would start again with a new pilot and a new tracker file.

So far it's really changed the way i fly - once you have a pilot with 25 kills and 10 hours flight experience, you really start to care about the outcome of every sortie!

(I should note that i tend to fly more tactical sorties with my squad as opposed to "air-quake").

Features:

- Dynamic career tracker based on excel database which tracks your flights/kills etc.

- Commendations/medals/rank progression as you gain experience.

- A tool for generating random outcomes should your pilot bail out over the channel or over France so you can work out whether your precious pilot lived to fight another day!

- drop down menus and auto-fill forms to speed up data entry.

- RAF ranks and medals awarded based on your achievements.


KNOWN LIMITATIONS

This is based on RAF (actually RAAF as I'm in Aussie) but i could easily adapt for German pilots as well if there is any interest?


DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.savefile.com/dl/HGV8A95L

EDIT: - V1.1 uploaded (link above updated to new file) - found a few bugs caused by the protection on some of the worksheets - FIXED.


NOTES: You need to enable content and Macros on your excel in order for this to work. Also I have entered a first entry into the log as an example as to how to fill out the log - of course you will want to delete this entry before starting your pilot's career!

It has been designed so that you fill in a log entry after each game session (rather than each sortie) but you do need to keep track of how many sorties you fly. I keep a pen and paper next to me when i fly and just jot down the start time of my game session, the finish time, and how many kills i get as it can be tough to remember these things after an hour or so of intense dogfighting!

I also recommend only recording kills you can confirm like in WW2 - I dont trust the stat tracker in Cliffs! I assign half kills if i share it - so if my wingman and i both shoot down a HE111, I will give myself 0.5 kills.







All feedback welcome!

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I've been dreaming of something like this. Hopefully someone can put it in the game / server. Imagine each server tracks your Pilot's career and assigns ranks to each player based on kills gained on the server. When you die you loose all kills and rank set back to private. It would make the game realistic since pilots would care about getting home. It also gives the bail out command a purpose. Rank would also be great because if plane restrictions are introduced it can give the better planes to the higher ranked pilots. One day....

[ReconNZ]

yeah i know there are some server stat trackers online, it might be possible for someone a lot smarted than me to find a way to incorporate those stats into something like this tracker. That would be a way off though!

In the meantime i figured this is better than nothing. It takes less than 30 seconds to enter your session results into this tracker after each game session - its all done with auto fill boxes and drop down menus so its super fast.

[ReconNZ]

Originally Posted by Gollum

I've been dreaming of something like this. Hopefully someone can put it in the game / server. Imagine each server tracks your Pilot's career and assigns ranks to each player based on kills gained on the server. When you die you loose all kills and rank set back to private. It would make the game realistic since pilots would care about getting home. It also gives the bail out command a purpose. Rank would also be great because if plane restrictions are introduced it can give the better planes to the higher ranked pilots. One day....

" Rank would also be great because if plane restrictions are introduced it can give the better planes to the higher ranked pilots. " - Good call Golum, this element definately works with this tool - one of the intentions i had with this was to add some structure around squad play within CloD - using pilot rank is a good way to mix and match roles within a squad, and especially where plane variants are limited, allowing the higher ranked pilots to take up the spit IIa's for example is interesting. Plus with the dynamic nature of the tracker, a squad player may be higher ranked for a few sorties but should his virtual tracker pilot be killed, he would then start again with e new virtual pilot giving another squad member the chance to fly as flight leader within the game.

[PeterPanPan]

Lovely work.

This has always been on the Dev's list. See the thread started by Oleg back in March 2010 ... http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...41&postcount=7

PPP

[Kozi]

Thanks ReconNZ for creating and sharing this pilot tracker.

Im using ver 2.0 of RAF and Luftwaffe trackers and they both work great.

[ReconNZ]

Thanks Kozi for your feedback, great to hear the trackers are being well received.

I'm currently working on Version 3 of each, which among other improvements should feature "pilot recruitment" with randomly generated pilot names and pictures to give your virtual pilots a little more "personality".

If there are any other requests please do let me know.

Actually I could use confirmation of one thing - an ACE in the British RAF was someone who had 5 confirmed kills is that right? What was the number for the Luftwaffe?

[ReconNZ]

Hey all, how are the trackers going? I'm working on V3 - any requests for features / changes?

CHeers,

Recon.

[322Sqn_Dusty]

What about the Tigermoth? Seems it isn't in the selectionbox. So I can't train our pilots on that type. Elementary Flying School style.

And what about flight testing captured planes?

Nice work.

[ReconNZ]

Hi Dusty

good pick up re the tigermoth - sorry for forgetting to put it in there! I'll make sure I add it in for Version 3.

not sure about the captured German planes though!

At this stage I think Version 3 will also include pilot photos and a random name generator. I may also include a "hall of fame tracker" which will automatically track the success of your pilots and keep track of fallen heroes across multiple trackers - it will likely need to be a seperate file which keeps a record of all tracker pilots you create..

cheers all,

Recon,

[Silver_Dragon]

The bomber pilots can be track mission here? targets destroy, etc?