We are going to continue to run the AvA staged missions on Tuesday at 4pm est and 8pm est. These are the one's you actually have to join and will be flying alongside AI planes. Not to be confused with the AI only patrols we try to have flying in the arena on a continual basis.
There are still some issues and we cannot guarantee that the missions will not crash unexpectedly.
We will not be enabling the join in progress feature as it is not working correctly, so once you are out of a mission, you cannot rejoin it and will have to wait for the next one.
We will try to fly at least two missions and will start them on the hour or half hour depending on the mission.
IMPORTANT.I will no longer hold the mission up and keep repeating join instructions on text. The instructions will be in the arena message. It's not fair to those who have properly joined, and are waiting, to hold up the mission. If you are not in the mission at launch time I will simply add you to a fighter slot on the low numbers side. During these times on Tuesday, if you are in the arena, you will be assumed to be flying in the mission and will be added if you don't join on your own.
ICON settings.I will be alternating them between enemy icons on and enemy icons off. The first mission for each time period will be with enemy icons on.
Come early, READ THE ARENA MESSAGE and be ready at start time. Scroll down to review the mission joining instructions that will also be in the arena message of the day.
Hope to see you there.
jimson
******STAGED MISSION INSTRUCTIONS******1. CLICK ON STAGED MISSIONS
2. CLICK ON POPULATE
You should see a screen with your in game name on the left
side and a number of planes listed on the right.
To join mission click to highlite your in game name
and then double click on the slot you want to fly. Your
name should then appear with a checkmark in either the
AXIS or ALLIED column and also next to the plane slot you
have chosen.
3. WAIT FOR BRIEFING (if there is one) AND MISSION
TO START
If you only see a blank populate screen, the system is
still sending you the mission. Wait a few seconds,
exit the screen and then try again.
4. You may need to reduce your speed considerably,
sometimes even half throttle to stay with the AI group.
Of course you can also circle to rejoin them. Depending
on the mission design this may not be critical because
there may be a warp to the combat segment that will put
you in postion from wherever you happen to be.
5. The route you should be flying is shown in red on your
clipboard map.
*THANKS FOR PLAYING IN THE AXIS vs ALLIES ARENA*
