Welp, I guess the cat’s kinda sorta out of the bag.
The “DUMA” Discord is the current launchpad / proving ground where a few of us are testing out whether it’s reasonable and possible to bring organized missions to a group (like Mudspike) without the same commitments and rigor required from something like a virtual fighter squadron.
The idea is that flight sims are more fun when you have more skin in the game and are part of a team of buddies. Stuff like:
- Holding yourself accountable to doing a full mission sequence (brief, startup, setting and trying to accomplish a realistic objective, and bringing the jet home)
- Rolling with the punches when things don’t go according to plan (chaos is half the fun)
- Being open to challenge and learning (a ship at harbor is safe but that’s not what ships were built for).
- Encouraging and helping others to take that challenge head on and do something awesome.
We’re not really interested in artificial hierarchy beyond agreeing on lead/wing roles per-mission for organizational purposes. Dealing with a career, job, or for those actually in the service, real rank structure and etiquette, is more than enough of that.
We’ve been keeping it quiet because frankly the gist of what we’re going for is far from being matured. We’re still running into (fairly hilarious) mission bugs and ambiguous mission plans, and we’re still trying to figure out how best to deal with misalignment or disparity in skill.
If you think you can face certain snafu with a good sense of humor and attempt to learn how best to apply your task saturation in a virtual cockpit without taking yourself too seriously- feel free to send myself, @near_blind, @Tyco, @klarsnow, or @Bogusheadbox a PM.