SOSDD Dept.Much to the credit of all of our S3 Squads, COs, Ops Officers, and Flight Planners actually prepare their pilots for S3 Events. Many have learned the "secret code" to get into the S3 Arena when it is not shown on the drop-down menu when initially entering WarBirds in order to offer a complete overview to their pilots.
So, everyone enters as a "Purple".
Note that the "Purple Entry Screen" defaults to the Spawn Point view.All players must select their "side's" color for the series in order to move to their assigned field.
Note that the screen for the "side's" color continues in the Spawn Point view.In the example shown, the field happens to be a TAC field, with multiple spawn points. This view is NOT ZOOMABLE to investigate the properties of the spawn points to select an appropriate landing site. In my experience, this happenstance is unique to FG2. When pilots have a badly damaged aircraft and NEED an alternate field recommendation, it is almost impossible for a squadmate who happens to be in the tower to investigate possible emergency landing locations in order to offer advice to an "alternate field". The main reason being that the Spawn Point view is FROZEN at all fields. It is not zoomable to investigate the real conditions at the "alternate" field. Generally speaking, this is unacceptable. Aircraft being forced to exit, prior to completing a "normal" rollout, is also not something desirable. Fields not closed by some kind of AI GV don't seem to know that they are "closed". For S3 play, this situation MUST be addressed. In Frame 1, each of the sides was only able to close one of the other guy's fields.
IF we were playing in a Beta Testers Arena, and only those who wished to be a Beta Tester were participating, everyone would know that what was transpiring on their screens was "experimental". As is, not quite ready for prime time, IMHO.