Now I have played with the Mission Editor and even posted a few small missions (all scrubbed - no one trusts me lol) (I get the fear when I see a mission with slots for 30 tiffies - like what? I'm expendable?).
The mission editor is IMHO a bag of spanners. How am I meant to place waypoints accurately when I can't see the map (especially on Pizza map) for all those pointless chess pieces in the way. Even if I F3, F8 and rotate view, I can't do more than guesstimate where each wp should be. Not only that but radar range circles don't show up in map room making threading a flight of Lancs thru radar a toughie.
Ok that sounds like a whine, and I suppose it is. Your mission planning points above are very useful to me and I will def take them into account, including high gooning and bringing a supply C47 too.
But a more intuitive mission planner would be great as it takes me 30 mins to set up a mission with wp, by which time the tactical situation has usually changed enough to render the mission obsolete.
Would it be too much to have a built in flight computer as well? So when you set a waypoint for a flight, the mission editor knows the flight/climb characteristics of the plane you are using.
You could be able to set your WP with time or altitude priority, so each WP would be pinpointed in space and time, allowing the possibility of tightly coordinated attacks against multiple targets.
I wanted to build one of these as an offline editor, but I get the feeling that HTC probably wont let my app log into their serevr and retrieve maps, roster, field ownership etc. Although I haven't asked.
But, whining aside <> to all you Knight Mission Planners. You make the game much more interesting, especially when none of my squaddies are around.
And Question to mission planners out there, some use WP others do not. Advantages, Disadvantages?
