I haven't been able to find a way of making the campaign harder within the game but most of the details are editable.
Make back-ups of all the files you plan to alter and then play with the figures. Open the .xml/.xdp files with word pad and you can make whatever changes you want.
For example, if you feel that your Tempest is too powerful open the tempest_mkv.xdp file in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator 3\aircraft and it will look something like this :
with a whole lot of other information besides.
The name of the gun is in type="" and in this case is a 20mm cannon.
All of the available guns are in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator 3\guns file. Swap the name of a less powerful gun into the tempest and there you have it.
If you find the campaign too hard you can alter various values to make things easier. The pilotconstants.xml gives you access to the skill points available as your pilot increases in level. Change these and your pilot gets tougher faster.
Everything within CFS3 is editable in this way, just make sure that you back up first. I recently changed the tempest and made it have 37mm cannon instead of the default 20mm. I then altered the 37mm ammo and made it the same as a 40lb bomb. The tempest was then armed with 560 40lb bombs that were highly accurate LOL. It was too easy though so I changed it back.....
Will
