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Most mods are misguided attempts to correct a perceived shortcoming or flaw in the map. Rarely does a mod achieve any improvement.  It's reminds me of the saying- one step forward and two steps backwards.

I'm not a tank guy- I will generally play as a sniper on this map- it's difficult due the distance from spawn areas to the areas of likely enemy engagement- and also the lack of cover- again, It's not a map I like, however i can have a fairly good game and get a number of kills as a sniper, and minimize the number of times I would if I was playing another class, like engineer or bazooka.

Give the sniper class a try and get way away from the action and practice the long shots- when they do land a kill, it is rewarding.

Sadly we are all getting older- I just turned 60.   I'm too old to play newer games, my reflexes are to slow, and the games are too complicated- I don't want to spend endless hours trying to figure out what my player looks like, or what he will wear in battle.

I seem to remember Frenchy also played on the Oz Wake server also- he was a good player, and always played fairly. may he rest in peace.

No- I only use the microphone in Teamspeak with our small player group.
I had been receiving constant complaints about my sound setup-  Over the last few years I have used four different headsets with microphones- and no matter how much money is spent- the complaints continue. I'm at a total loss as to what to try next.
The new Hyperx Quadcast 2 is my last ditch effort to solve the sound issue- the strange thing is- most Teamspeak users say my sound is fine-  How can the sound be good for some users and sound so terrible for others?

I recently decided to upgrade my microphone and learn to use OBS. In this process I needed to install the Nvidia high definition sound drives for noise cancellation- I reinstalled my video card drivers and soon found out that i couldn't play Battlefield 42- it would crash to desktop. Running as a admin would allow me to get in the game to select a server, however as soon as the map started to load, it crashed back to the desktop.
Doing a little research, I found that the cause was likely a Directx issue- I did a search online and found a Directx download on a microsoft site. I installed Directx and the game is playable again.  I still had a few instances of the game minimizing and returning me back to the desktop, but the crashes seem to be better.
I have also added the dsound.dll and that seems to have further reduced the crashes

Edit: Win 10 Pro with Nvidia 3080 Ti graphics- with an AMD cpu

I have reached out to Henk- hopefully he will reply soon.
He definitely provides a valuable service to the community.
Hopefully it will be back online soon.

I was advised to find an old Microsoft Precision Pro 2 joystick for use in Battlefield 1942. As you likely know they are very old- and no longer manufactured. I ordered mine on Ebay. Mine is around 20 years old. It still works perfectly.
The Precision Pro 2 is a USB stick and has no issues with Windows 10.
This Joystick has the distinct advantage of using Hall Effect sensors, rather than the typical potentiometers.
Hall Effect sensors do not suffer from drift. The stick and flight path stay perfectly centered. 

I paid about $20 US plus shipping for my stick.
Now if I could just learn to fly- I would be all set.

I wish the map had a lot more planes. It's crazy to have so many people waiting for so few planes. I noticed that planes we being used as taxi vehicles also.

We tried to have additional AA guns added to the Axis carrier on our Oz Wake 2 server. They were awesome- until the carrier moved and left the AA guns floating in the ocean-
LOL
We never could figure out a way to remedy this- 
This was a server side mod- that didn't require a map download- perhaps more could be accomplished with a full server/map mod

I live in the US. State of Alabama. I grew up in a small farming community. As a child I spent my summer evenings catching fireflies. I remember going barefoot all summer long, and you learned quick not to walk through clover in the yard- it was teeming with honeybees.

Sadly the fireflies and the honeybees are gone-  I have recently saw mention of concerns about climate changes impact on fireflies- there is concern but not conclusive data as of now.

Honeybees are a different situation. Their decline is partially due to disease and to a larger extent pesticide related.

I went out into my yard into an area with clover- and there was not a single honeybee present. I did see two bumblebees.

In the US it is now big business carrying honeybees across the country to serve pollination duties in California's almond orchards. Pollination is such a lucrative proposition that stealing bee hives has become a popular criminal enterprise.

I went another way- and got it working perfectly-

Ryan has returned. The review process works.
Many thanks

Hopefully this will be resolved- Ryan is a good guy- and really enjoys playing on Simple, and as you know, finding a good server to play on is getting more difficult by the day. It seems that players are disappearing into the ether- not to play on another server- but to likely play other games.