New staged missions.

[Tank-Ace]

Artificial Intelligence.

Wow, you really are a bit grumpy lately.


Although I probably should have expanded that question.


Will it fly around or above each individual mountian or terrain irregularity, and then return to your origional altitude and heading? will it leave you hanging at 23,000ft and flying south, when you wanted to be at 10,000ft flying NNW? Will it circle around the point you were at when you discoed?

[Babalonian]

Btw I don't believe most understand that the mission system has nothing to do with the current online mission system. That does not change.

The staged mission system is the current offline mission system that we wrote for TOD.

With the next release people will be able to upload mission in the same manner as terrains.
These missions can then be played in the custom host arenas, or the special events arenas. (all arenas are capable but CM privileges are needed to load one.) The AI fills the mission spots that players do not .

So it would be possible to have a missions where most bombers are flown by AI in a scenario.

Since AI is now available we also have added a reconnect ability.
If you disco, an AI will fly your plane for a period of time until you return or the time runs out.


Also we do not have any plans on implementing mirrors. Do to how environment mapping works. It would not create the image from the correct view point that mirrors need to work. The other reason is we try our best to not provide any advantage to faster computers.

HiTech

Could/Would you consider it for the MA?  Anti/pro hordeing/fight feature on large maps, possibley... if nothing else, a novelty admin tool or something to add flavor to the MAs on aniversaries like Pearl Harbor, Doolittle's Raid, Battle of Britain, etc... 

Or if I were to rephrase, is this just "Phase 1" of online AI/combatants and where it may eventualy go?

[Noir]

Awesome, I can see a permanent automatic scenario that runs every 30mins, where players team up to stop AI bombers to reach their goal. WWII tower defence 

[Mister Fork]

Could/Would you consider it for the MA?  Anti/pro hordeing/fight feature on large maps, possibley... if nothing else, a novelty admin tool or something to add flavor to the MAs on aniversaries like Pearl Harbor, Doolittle's Raid, Battle of Britain, etc... 

Or if I were to rephrase, is this just "Phase 1" of online AI/combatants and where it may eventualy go?

The MA isn't really setup for that type of gameplay.  Unless it was part of a special event for the MA - but that's what we have the SEA and AvA for...

[Babalonian]

The MA isn't really setup for that type of gameplay.  Unless it was part of a special event for the MA - but that's what we have the SEA and AvA for...

That's along my thought, in its current form it probabley couldn't be used for much in the MAs, certainly not regularly without severely impacting things.  But what if for Halloween HTCs wanted to launch a legion of jackolanterns, flyign in formation.  They can take Christmas off (for once) and have the Santa flight scripted to run every hour and also fly over every single airfield on the map?  Battle of Britain Day, settup each country getting its HQ/factories raided by Stukas, 110s, Ju88s (eventualy the He111 ) and lots of 109s every 2 or 3 hours.

The BoB thing you could do in the AvA, but if you wanted to do something nostalgic/easy/casual/baby-seal-clubbing-AIs-as-a-team/"mainstream"-publicity-for-the-AvA-&-scenario-teams.  C'mon, everyone in AH loves/dreams of stumbling upon that low and slow enemy Stuka raid one day.

[RDRTrash]

In the case of massed-bombers in a mission, where many/much of the bombers are AI, will the AI aircraft drop ord simultaneous with actual pilot?
(I'm thinking of carpet-bombing simulations, and thinking ahead a bit to understand if/how ord-drop may or may not be syncronized)

[WWhiskey]

New populate flags that go with the staged missions.
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HiTech

your ground shadow is missing a prop!

[fuzeman]

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[Mitsu]

HT - Question.

Does this reflection effect also include in the cockpit?
and does this effect applies diffused reflection to the canopy scratch?

Mitsu

[LCADolby]

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.srorrim no ylper eht rof sknahT

Wierd, I can read that no problem without the aid of a mirror... 

[hitech]

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.srorrim no ylper eht rof sknahT

Almost but really
This would require a mirror.


HiTech

[Mister Fork]

Almost but really
This would require a mirror.

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HiTech

Is it backwards day?  Always wanted a backwards day.  Could be good.  

Speaking of HiTech - how are we to load mishuns into the arena? Similar to the uploading MOTD?

[TDeacon]

<snip> The other reason is we try our best to not provide any advantage to faster computers.

HiTech

The reflections look good, but my PC can barely handle the current graphics.  Therefore, I hope this will be able to be turned off at the AH client. 

MH

[Trukk]

With the next release people will be able to upload mission in the same manner as terrains. These missions can then be played in the custom host arenas, or the special events arenas. (all arenas are capable but CM privileges are needed to load one.)...
HiTech

So if our squad wanted to setup a Staged Mission in a custom arena so we could run a particular scenario, we'd have to get a CM to upload it?  Unlike the arena settings which we can upload our selves?

[The Fugitive]

So if our squad wanted to setup a Staged Mission in a custom arena so we could run a particular scenario, we'd have to get a CM to upload it?  Unlike the arena settings which we can upload our selves?

I don't think so. Who ever made the custom arena is the CM and should be able to do it.