The old PG map, Syria and Sinai would also be able to tie up like that. So yeah, a bit of game space where the game can safely write state info, not just like a DTC, but also flags from the mission and things, that would be awesome. In fact, I wonder if such a thing is being contemplated or even built as we speak… 
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I’m hip. I like having a mission with some investment (not for everyone, and not all the time); and that is time - assuming DCS (or me?) doesn’t crash the sim 3 hours into it?.
In the Combat campaign in Syria you have to fly around the "Belligerent Third-Partys’ " airspace and early on, if you pick the Hornet or Tomcat (now that I can move the carrier around…or I could…til this last update), the CV is arriving ‘on station’ and is way out there (you can bomb target vessels for practice unit things go ‘hot’) these are 900+ mile flights IIRC. Have to manage the fuel (Hornet anyway)
I got lucky here in a way: the layout of this campaign, to include the Bad Guy center of gravity, is similar to to events from 10-ish years ago. I must have absorbed it via osmosis cos I wasn’t that familiar with the disposition of forces. The Typhoon[1] flew out of Akrotiri, around the Russian occupied area, out to eastern Syria, and back. Blind luck on my part. I’m going base the Mirage F-1 there I think[2]
[1]tTe book ‘Typhoon’ describes this nearly exact scenario but I didn’t read that book til some time after I had laid it all out)
[2] Aerges updated the F-1 so I can use the comms system with it. Not sure when they did this but nice they did. Adding a new aircraft module to a campaign only takes about 30 minutes; assuming I own it and the comms trigger works.
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The part were he described how AWACS couldn’t provide them with a route back to Akrotiri due to the extremely congested airspace and they asked to just go above everyone else gave me a little bit of a SR-71 vibe. Definitely one of the descriptions of the Eurofighter that makes me want to fly it in DCS.
Heatblur pleaseeee
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Think so. That part where they were having to go south of the ‘no fly’ zone and were getting ‘pinged’ by Russian SAM RADAR the whole time…hmm I don’t have those RADARS in there…how’d I miss that. I do have Neutral AWACS and fighter in there to make you think. Adding these is a 5 minutes job (if I don’t forget 
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Just checked by running a Day 1 mission again. The CV is as far away as it will ever be (the ‘boat’ has just arrived) but hostilities haven’t yet commenced - EXCEPT when HQ and the intel folks find a juicy “Must Hit - it can end the conflict - NOW” target, which on that test run they did - the flight is 800-1,000 miles round trip if you fly the same route back as out.
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I should add here, concerning the 800-1,000 flight - in this campaign if that’s not what you want you can pick the Marine Hornet (or Harrier…or A-10C2). They are land-based and a lot closer to the AOR but they may not be ‘fragged’ for that target. Or the Apache I suppose but the target for sure won’t be assigned to you (in the above example) - not an attack chopper kind of task.
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chipwich beat me to it.
I swear…one of my favorites from long long ago was Jane’s F-15 where you did this really deep strike. You had to tanker on the way in and out…and watch your fuel the whole time. It was fantastic. Just to drop like one GBU or something…
Love @damson’s playlist:
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Yeah, to simulate something reasonably authentic I’ve had to place Good Guy bases beyond grenade chucking distance from Bad Guy land. And why I put the “Fuel state check” thing in there for your wingman (long before DCS came up with something). Ya know, ‘broaden the experience’.
Most every flight I play all the way through I feel like I managed the flight reasonably well - what I think you real aviators call, ‘aviating’.
With communicating and navigating thrown in - my little pea brain had to work hard just keep track of where I was yesterday in Nevada; ran the ‘side-winder’ low level (gosh they need to give that, literally, half of the map some love) route
All withOUT a magic map; only time/distance and comparing what I saw out the window (of my Phantom) with the F10 map (I add things to whack along the way). Then pop up and decide, "hmm, can I make it back or should I jump over to DAG and top off with the tanker…
That sheet is fun, to me. One long ‘problem’ to be solved. And I get to blow things up. I’m such a boy.
We’ll see.
“This isn’t for everyone” ← I’m thinking of using this as a sub-tittle.
Now I really need a clone. I’m so close to version one point oh.
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Ha! Ain’t that cool! 
From a database perspective it’s interesting to see how the handle overlapping areas, and I’d totally like to see DCS Caucasus enlarged south to have (even at low details) the areas of Turkey connecting to DCS Syria (or the other way around?).
Anyways- data streaming technology is not so complex to prevent seamlessly flying from one map to another- it takes effort and resources but since ED seems to be on track with making DCS World… well I kinda like this.
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I would prefer the Caucasus map was extended to the North, and West a bit ')
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Maps are still separate entities in DCS World, you can however build triggers into missions that will load another mission set in adjecent map if you want. But it’s still a forced approach. It would be nice to have seamless world. In the end I think that is what ED is aiming for. But how long have we have to wait for it is unknown.
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Well, we are going to get DCS Germany so…
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Oh yeah I saw that. I was simply daydreaming.
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I’m really curious which area will be included. That might be the most anticipated map by many, great for some cold war gone hot scenarios.
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Oh hell yeah!
I am literally freaking out when I think about it!
Especially since I’m living in Germany.
And I fly over simulated Germany all the time at work.
Realistically speaking I feel high detail area will be the line between East and West Germany in the Cold war. Fulda gap, tank country.
It will be larger but has to be lower details. Can’t possibly fit all the small villages and towns, even if from a terrain-contour point of view it’s less “interesting” than the rocky mountainous middle-east it still takes a lot to represent the European areas.
Then again, I’ve been wrong / surprised before
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Somehow I don’t think that will happen …at the moment anyway 
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Ooooooooh, now I see that.
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Yeah I doubt Moscow would like to see Russian programmers build this for the whole world to enjoy: a detailed recreation of the “Three Day Special Military Operation” so far…
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