Weekly online gatherings on Thursdays

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As our small online crowd evolves, we sometimes find it best to change the time of our main weekly gatherings in order to accommodate the needs of the majority. As of 03Dec2025, that time has come again.

We are changing our main weekly online gathering. Hereafter we will have TWO gatherings each Thursday as follows:

1 of 2: 12:30 Zulu time. (That's 7:30AM USA Eastern, 6:30AM USA Central, 5:30AM USA Mountain, and 4:30AM USA Pacific. It's also 7:30 PM in the Philippine Islands.)

2 of 2: 01:00 Zulu time (very early Friday morning in Europe) (That's 8:00 PM USA Eastern, 7:00 PM USA Central, 6:00 PM USA Mountain, and 5:00 PM USA Pacific. It's 8:00 AM Friday mornings in the Philippine Islands.)

These gatherings usually attract a small online group of players, flying in a single mission for about 2 hours (sometimes less, sometimes longer).

It's usually best to activate mumble for voice communication BEFORE activating LAC.

While our online community is small, we tend to use the "root" channel of our mumble VOIP server at LinuxAirCombat.com to verbally coordinate our gathering, choice of missions, and team affiliation.

Thereafter, we generally rely on LAC's "Auto Mumble Management" to switch us into the proper mumble channels as we enter the various available missions. Note that each mission gets 3 channels as follows:

1 of 3: BlueTeam channel. BlueTeam players will automatically be switched here when they enter the mission. If they ever switch to a different channel, they can always get back here by pressing "F10". We call this the "BlueTeam Teamcast Channel". It's for use by BlueTeam members who want to talk with one another. RedTeam members are allowed to join this channel too, but because mumble always alerts players of arrival and departure into and out of each channel, the BlueTeam members will be aware when a RedTeam player is listening. In general, RedTeam members should consider themselves unwelcome here unless a specific exemption is negotiated.

2 of 3: RedTeam channel. RedTeam players will automatically be switched here when they enter the mission. If they ever switch to a different channel, they can always get back here by pressing "F10". We call this the "RedTeam Teamcast Channel". It's for use by RedTeam members who want to talk with one another. BlueTeam members are allowed to join this channel too, but because mumble always alerts players of arrival and departure into and out of each channel, RedTeam members will be aware when a BlueTeam player is listening. In general, BlueTeam members should consider themselves unwelcome here unless a specific exemption is negotiated.

3 of 3: TeamCast channel. Any player participating in this mission can always switch to this channel by pressing "F11". Players tuned to this channel can transmit to and hear transmissions from both of the other channels. It is commonplace for all participants in a mission to agree to switch to this channel so everybody can talk with everybody else.

It's easy to toggle LAC's "Auto Mumble Management" on and off by pressing the "a" key in flight, as discussed HERE:

https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxaircombat/discussion/wishlist/thread/2e3d76a8be/

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Although these weekly Thursday online gatherings tend to attract the most robust attention from our small online community, you can generally find at least one or two players monitoring the root channel of our mumble server at LinuxAirCombat.com all the time. These are LAC's true fanatics, and they frequently help newcomers. Give them a shout and expect to have a grand time learning about LAC with them. This is discussed further here:

https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxaircombat/discussion/general/thread/e68166f628/

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Note: we had to adjust the times again. I edited the first posting in this thread with the new times. Hereafter I will edit that first posting in this thread again whenever the recommended gathering times are adjusted.