Why are the servers so empty?
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Why are the servers so empty?
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Welcome to online YSFlight 2018, where nobody has one version of the simulator and clients can't connect to servers constantly because of netcode version interference.
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yes you doing rite.Am I doing it right?
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Join us on Fridays ~2000 Eastern time for Friday Night Flights on the CivAv server (yscas.ddns.net)
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Several airshows are hosted every year and they're a lot of fun. A group I work with, YSAerobatics.org, is planning a show as we speak. Hopefully one in the near future.
As for groups in the aerobatic community, check out the YSFlight Thunderbirds.
Check out our page: https://ysflighttbirds.wixsite.com/ystb
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Neocon (Patrick) runs Open YS (OYS), created entirely by Flake. It's an open-source server software program which allows pretty much any version of YS to join as a client. But most of us have not upgraded beyond the 2015 version due to reasons that have no doubt been discussed to the edge of the pizza and back, so I'll not go into that right now. Suffice it to say, get the 2015 version or lower and you'll be golden for the most part.
As has been pointed out, I began Friday Night Flights a couple of years ago, and there are those of us who join almost every Friday (barring real-life stuff or just being way too tired to fly), and once every now and then, we have ATC sessions (these are nothing like Vatsim, but they are fun nonetheless). Friday Night Flights are usually around 7:30 or 8:00 CDT (U.S.), unless Patrick is hosting Guam to SoCal (one of Patrick's awesome maps), then it might be at 7:00 CDT. If you enjoy civilian flights, Friday Night Flights is a lot of fun. Usually it's me, Neocon and decaff, but others do pop in as well, especially if the map has a lot of airports. Very recently we had seven players join Friday Night Flights on a trans-Pacific crossing, and it was great!
We had an ATC session this past Saturday. Had a total of 6 pilots flying around Florida, also one of Patrick's maps.
Do note that the norm is for any online civilian event to attract 2-3 players, but from time to time, you'll get upto 7 or 8 players. Keep in mind that sometimes people have school work (lot of students on this forum) or some other stuff that prevents them from joining.
That's the civilian side of things, dunno about combat.
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People have some sort of major problem being the first to arrive, especially in chat rooms. They value human presence, and when nobody else is there it is not a valuable place to visit. This is really odd human behaviour since there was now one person there, yet the user didn't value the existence -- of themself.
Maybe I'm a conceited egoist, but it often seems like I am one of the few people in the digital world who is content to join a group space that was empty. The way I see it, being first is the best, as I get first dibs on talking to or interacting with the next person to arrive.
(I think of it like a party: the first person there sets the atmosphere of the party and has full uninterrupted access to greet people as they arrive, and until people start to arrive, why look at all those snacks!!!)
YSFlight servers can suffer from this problem. I have observed, after accidentally leaving my client connected to a server overnight, with my plane just sitting there doing nothing on the apron, that the server becomes the most-visited server that night compared with others with a player count of zero.
So, WingedPotato, the truth is we're all here waiting for that special 1st person to join a server, then we'll all jump on the bandwagon. You can be that person. So fear not! Join an empty server, and join often. We'll see you there!
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Yeah... Nah.
My best times online were always as a group and playing with TS3 or discord. Just shooting or missions or messing around. I don't find it fun when I'm by myself, and after 10+ years, the novelty does eventually wear off.
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This past Friday decaff, Neocon and I flew from GUM to LAX in the Guam-to-SoCal map and like for every Friday Night Flights, we had a great time. It took about 2 hr and 50 min. acf42 joined us a bit later into the session, flying around southern California. He joined us as we were landing at LAX (thus the screenshot posted by Neocon in the unedited screenshots topic). And Hornet joined us as well, so it was a nice turnout.
We'll be having another ATC session next month, which should be a fun one (stay tuned for an announcement later next week).
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