How to get into casual multiplayer?
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- Ramp start. Never did and frankly don’t want to spend the time learning at this moment.
No factor.
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Which implies a number of other things that are related to MP, regardless of doing ramp or not.
Hi Lorik,
Which? What do you mean?
You imply that i’d probably lack MP skills in general?
Well, that’s a perfectly reasonable assumption, since i never did MP.
I self-declared on FL as Beginner (even though technically I’m not even that because of my non existent MP+IVC experience).
I didn’t want to trigger anybody with the ramp start thing. But i realize that this is probably the very feature that draws the line between casuals and the hardcore folks.
So if you think i wouldn’t be worth your time in MP because of that, i must accept that.
This post is all about finding people that would fly with me despite being a Beginner. -
Hi Lorik,
Which? What do you mean?
You imply that i’d probably lack MP skills in general?
Well, that’s a perfectly reasonable assumption, since i never did MP.
I self-declared on FL as Beginner (even though technically I’m not even that because of my non existent MP+IVC experience).
I didn’t want to trigger anybody with the ramp start thing. But i realize that this is probably the very feature that draws the line between casuals and the hardcore folks.
So if you think i wouldn’t be worth your time in MP because of that, i must accept that.
This post is all about finding people that would fly with me despite being a Beginner.Knowing what someone can and can’t do before starting a MP session can be tricky enough, any indicator is welcome. The ability to rampstart is commonly considered as a basic pass on what you already know about how your jet globally works, and by extension how you can handle battle damage and unexpected problems during the tactical execution of the task. This is why someone who doesn’t want just to tour for a little while will most likely focus on that question. For example, if you can rampstart, I consider you know how to set your back-up UHF or restart your engine in flight.
That’s more of an assumption, but usually people who aren’t interested in rampstart tend not to be interested in knowing their avionics in depth (what arming delay should I set for my bomb? Is there even such a parameter? etc) and what factor it may be.
This is how stating you won’t learn rampstart will affect the experience you’ll get from your search.
Not having time or will to rampstart for a given or all sessions is something different.
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@Lorik:
I understand, thanks. Perfectly reasonable. For now i go with the risk of getting narrower results. -
I think you can try Hoggit’s one - it is open 24/7 running server. At least it was like that I tested it few months ago. No rampstart required*.
*personally I did it once since 1999 in some version of eFalcon or SP.
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Re-up with short update:
I’ve had the pleasure to fly with a bunch of people since, both with members from Falcon-Lounge in privately hosted sessions and especially on the Veterans-Gaming server. Special thanks to CobaltUK who has been a particularly caring host.If anyone reading this post is interested in privately hosted casual campaign missions, 2100-2300 CET/CEST, for beginners to intermediate skill, let me know.
It’ll be a pleasure for me to arrange and host the one or other sortie.
All i ask is that you can Taxi, Take Off, Nav, Land, BVR, A/G, communicate (en/de/fr) and connect and have any technical problems sorted out.PM me, or contact me on Discord: scrontch#0347
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Yes I would be interested!
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To give a bit of room in the discussion:
- Most online servers have Ramp Start enabled to prevent issues in operations (spawning on runway while other people might be taxiing is a nightmare to handle from a host perspective)
- There are online communities open to smaller flight setups.
- Once you’ll get comfortable with MP, the ramp start is just a formality. Part of the war experience and accepted by most people that fly Falcon since the early days…
So don’t be afraid to ask, train hard and succeed
Cheers
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Re-up with short update:
I’ve had the pleasure to fly with a bunch of people since, both with members from Falcon-Lounge in privately hosted sessions and especially on the Veterans-Gaming server. Special thanks to CobaltUK who has been a particularly caring host.If anyone reading this post is interested in privately hosted casual campaign missions, 2100-2300 CET/CEST, for beginners to intermediate skill, let me know.
It’ll be a pleasure for me to arrange and host the one or other sortie.
All i ask is that you can Taxi, Take Off, Nav, Land, BVR, A/G, communicate (en/de/fr) and connect and have any technical problems sorted out.PM me, or contact me on Discord: scrontch#0347
I would be happy to wing up with you in an online campaign, and I don’t bother with Ramp Starts online, always start with Taxi… I’m in Spain, so same time zone as you (GMT+2)…