Onboarding

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Select your server type

Is you server hosted by Fox3?

Fox3 can set the server up for you!

Checkout the announcement here

• Pay a minor one time installation fee
  on the Fox3 website here
• Create a ticket
• Wait for confirmation

Once you get the confirmation your server is setup for tracking.

Check the discord Pre-requisites and continue below with onboarding to paddles

Is your server hosted publicly and on 24/7?

To make Paddles monitor any carrier landing on your server you must make sure the server is accessible for monitoring.

At this time we reuse an existing DCS GRPC server that runs attached to the DCS process. Called DCS-GRPC by "RurouniJones" (creator of OverlordBot)

Download and Install

(After installing make sure the Windows Firewall and your router allow access)
(Please also consider whitelisting the IP address of the paddles.contact server on your firewall rule for additional security)

Is your server privately hosted and on only occacionally?

To make Paddles monitor any carrier landing on your server you must make sure the server is accessible for monitoring.

At this time we reuse an existing DCS GRPC server that runs attached to the DCS process. Called DCS-GRPC by "RurouniJones" (creator of OverlordBot)

Download and Install

(After installing make sure the Windows Firewall and your router allow access)
(Please also consider whitelisting the IP address of the paddles.contact server on your firewall rule for additional security)

Discord

Invite Bot

(@everyone permission is requested. This is only used for major updates and announcements and is used very sparingly. You're free to disable it)

Create a public text channel

It is advised to disallow the "role" "@everyone" to send messages

Make sure the Bot does have "Send Message" permission in the channel.