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Post by :FI:Gurberly » Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:38 am

A funny thing happened to me on VF yesterday and I am struggling to see how it could happen. Any Suggestions?

We were doing mission 502 hosted by <PF>Coastie and I got 15 points deducted for three smoke violations :cry: I find points hard enough to come by points without squandering them like that. Granted smoke is banned and for very understandable reasons, but I could not comprehend how I could have accidentily smoked once let alone three times?

I had a quick look at my event log and sure enough
07:00:00 <PF>Rabitski is trying to occupy seat 8AF_479FG_436FS101(0)
[Mar 5, 2005 6:07:37 PM] Mission: net/coop/VF/test502.mis is Playing
07:00:00 Mission BEGIN
07:00:00 DivS-Sperber is trying to occupy seat I_JG3100(0)
07:00:00 CIA_Mean is trying to occupy seat 8AF_479FG_436FS102(0)
07:00:00 <PF>Ardmore is trying to occupy seat 8AF_479FG_436FS103(0)
07:00:00 LBR=A.Klein is trying to occupy seat I_JG3102(0)
07:00:00 PLR_Kernel_ES is trying to occupy seat I_JG3103(0)
07:00:00 214th=FreeMan= is trying to occupy seat 8AF_479FG_436FS110(0)
07:00:00 :FI:Gurberly is trying to occupy seat 8AF_479FG_436FS111(0)
07:00:00 Burka_JG_Pirat is trying to occupy seat I_JG3113(0)
07:00:00 :FI:Baderslegs is trying to occupy seat 8AF_479FG_436FS112(0)
Rest of the mission edited out
07:18:15 8AF_479FG_436FS100 landed at 8592.264 37672.55
07:18:17 8AF_479FG_436FS110 landed at 50649.91 29448.062
07:18:56 8AF_479FG_436FS101 landed at 8342.583 37601.637
07:19:45 8AF_479FG_436FS102 landed at 8422.483 37543.695
07:19:47 8AF_479FG_436FS111 landed at 8440.577 38067.566
07:19:56 8AF_479FG_436FS111 turned wingtip smokes on at 8440.589 38067.56
07:19:58 8AF_479FG_436FS111 turned wingtip smokes off at 8440.589 38067.56
07:19:58 8AF_479FG_436FS111 turned wingtip smokes on at 8440.589 38067.56
07:20:01 8AF_479FG_436FS111 turned wingtip smokes off at 8440.589 38067.56
07:20:03 8AF_479FG_436FS111 turned wingtip smokes on at 8440.589 38067.56
07:20:05 8AF_479FG_436FS111 turned wingtip smokes off at 8440.589 38067.56
07:20:44 8AF_479FG_436FS112 landed at 8203.589 38050.562
07:20:53 =LaB=Wing has disconnected
07:20:53 DivS-Sperber has disconnected
07:20:53 <PF>Ardmore has disconnected
07:20:53 LBR=A.Klein has disconnected
07:20:53 214th=FreeMan= has disconnected
07:20:53 LBR=OttoBertram has disconnected
07:20:53 HFC_Minotaur has disconnected
07:20:53 Burka_JG_Pirat has disconnected
07:20:53 :FI:Baderslegs has disconnected
07:20:53 Mission END
In the last minute I am in game, I have three smoking violations just as I have parked up and am about to leave the game????

So I look at the chat log in the log.lst file
Chat: <PF>Rabitski: mission is done guys
Chat: <PF>Rabitski: Ground Control > Vector To Home Base
Chat: --- CIA_Mean was killed.
Chat: --- CIA_Mean has crashed.
Chat: :FI:Gurberly: Ground Control > Vector To Home Base
Chat: Burka_JG_Pirat: :)
Chat: CIA_Mean: crap was looking in staed of down
Chat: CIA_Mean: good fight
Chat: <PF>Rabitski: Ground Control > Vector To Home Base
Chat: Burka_JG_Pirat: exelent!
Chat: CIA_Mean: ~S~ALL
Chat: --- CIA_Mean has left the game.
Chat: <PF>Rabitski: Ground Control > Vector To Home Base
Chat: <PF>Rabitski: Ground Control > Vector To Home Base
Chat: :FI:Gurberly: Ground Control > Vector To Home Base
Chat: <PF>Coastie: Ground Control > Vector To Home Base
Chat: =LaB=Wing: Ground Control > Vector To Home Base
Chat: :FI:Baderslegs: Ground Control > Vector To Home Base
Chat: DivS-Sperber: ^zzzZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZ
Chat: <PF>Ardmore: any contacts guys?
Chat: =LaB=Wing: Ground Control > Vector To Home Base
Chat: :FI:Baderslegs: nope
Chat: :FI:Baderslegs: Ground Control > Request For Landing
Chat: =LaB=Wing: Ground Control > Vector To Home Base
Chat: 214th=FreeMan=: Wingman > Cover Me
Chat: 214th=FreeMan=: White Flight > Cover Me
Chat: <PF>Coastie: can I bail if I did the rescue?
Chat: =LaB=Wing: Ground Control > Vector To Home Base
warning: no files : music/takeoff
Chat: <PF>Rabitski: we did the rescue, if ye can land I think we all the the pts.
Chat: 214th=FreeMan=: Ground Control > Vector To Home Base
14>chat thx host.. tea time :) catch you later..... ALL
Chat: :FI:Gurberly: thx host.. tea time :) catch you later.....
Chat: <PF>Coastie: S!
Chat: <PF>Rabitski: take care gurb
Chat: --- :FI:Gurberly lands.
I have my smoke toggle bound to the "T" button.... my gut feeling is that it is something to do with that line starting 14>chat. There are 6 t's in the statement I made ... smoke on, smoke off, smoke on, smoke off, smoke on, smoke off .....

... but how the hell did I manage to type it in there so that it was recorded in the event log?

None the less I have rebound smoke to a two key combination ;)


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Post by :FI:Bluebell » Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:55 pm

Some smart tracking there Gurb.


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Post by Grecian » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:21 am

Vf site seems to be down at the mo, but I'll pass the ifo on when it's up, see what they come up with ^:|
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Post by :FI:Gurberly » Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:25 am

No worries... I posted it there too ;)

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