Originally posted by Batz
Who brings up the charges? If we are with out radar or gps and different icons this increases the odds that the mission may not come into contact with the enemy. What happens everyone gets court martialled? That shouldnt happen. The only people to make such a judgement are the guys in the mission.
The vote would only be used to eject someone from a mission already up. There should be no ability to prevent folks from joining any mission. They could only be ejected while in flight.
Again dont count on AI fighters, HT has only mentioned ai bombers and gvs.
Well in the instance I put forward (and its only one of many)
The server would bring the charges for either a) not following the mission route or b) not engaging the enemy after having recieved a server routed order to do so from the ML.
If the mission plan/route was followed and no engage order given then no one is court marshalled (which is really the loss of an indecent amount of points and rank) except perhaps the mission leader.
If the route was followed, and enemy was sighted but not ordered to engaged then the ML may be penalised. (both mission routes would be set to converge)
(IN AW you would get a server notice when enemy came within icon range..............eg Server: "190's high")
Differring missions may set differing criteria for the mission leader.
CAP...........follow route and engage enemy.
ESCORT.......... follow bombers and engage enemy
ATTACK.......... follow route hit ground target
and others
the ML has a range of commands which could be dot commands or brought up via the clip board
/.fl launch
/.fee engage enemy
/.frr return to route
/.feb escort bombers
/.frtb rtb
There could be others........... the ML is awarded points for individual stuff but also on how well he issues the orders (this could be a time and distance thing............eg an escort mission ordered to leave its bombers to engage enemy could penalise the ML if they flew too far from the bombers before a /.feb was issued)
The core aspect of the above is that ML's are enabled either thru AI or via promotion into every mission and their orders set additional mission parameters.
The AI ML enables folk to learn the stuff that they may one day use as they get the points and rank to be one them selves.
AI drones would be required to always ensure folk get missions.
I noted in MPBT that the two most annoyiong things were.
1) the time lost hanging around trying to get into missions that were equally balanced.......whilst other small groups logged in and out of various mission rooms......... 30 secs before a mission is due to roll the opposing mission room empties and the mission is cancelled............
2) imbalance.............if a mission flight has upto eg 10 then there may well be an instance when only 1 or 2 actually go to the mission room...........then you get a escort of 2 v a CAP of 10 this is no fun for the 2......... and no fun for the 10 if the 2 leave their mission room prior to mission launch.
AI fills in the gaps to over come both the above.
I think I am just agin the vote out thing at a fundemental level............and hence do not consider its methodology able to make it acceptable...........you cannot/should not IMO give the power of mission ejection to the mob. It will be abused and cannot be monitored properly.
