ME : Does it have to be this hard?

Just deleted several attempted missions. Went to the manual hoping for a simple mission load. No help. All I want is four P 51's out of a field (Client) fly to a second field with 4 FW's and 6 trucks in between to shoot at. I've tried everything. HELP!

It isn't actually all that hard to make a fairly simple mission -but I do admit things aren't necessarily obvious in this sim.

I was going to start and write here what to do, but I think it'd be easier if you want to, I can meet you on our squad's TS if you like and talk you through it?

ME is not hard, but you need someone to explain it for your first mission. Also, you can have a look at the many tutorials on YT.

Building simple missions is much easier then learning to fly one of the birds.

Simply don`t try to put too much action in your first missions.

Waypoints and some simple waypoint actions like "stop" and "resume" should be enough.

The difficult part is building triggers all over. But there are enough good tutorials on you tube.

The hard part about even simple mission building is the endless debugging of even the built-in functions.

You have to physically run and fly the mission over and over, tweaking various aspects to overcome (usually AI) quirks. Examples: the AI taxi behavior, AI tasking, then bizarre AI behavior.

Having to repeat/debug the mission means that by the time it's actually ready to be flown for realsies, I've already run the mission about 50 times and need to move on to the NEXT one.

The hard part about even simple mission building is the endless debugging of even the built-in functions.

 

 

You have to physically run and fly the mission over and over, tweaking various aspects to overcome (usually AI) quirks. Examples: the AI taxi behavior, AI tasking, then bizarre AI behavior.

 

 

Having to repeat/debug the mission means that by the time it's actually ready to be flown for realsies, I've already run the mission about 50 times and need to move on to the NEXT one.

LOL, this. +1 :)

You just need to create missions that are so awesome you want to play them 100 times :))

:) So true!

One thing I've been doing is when you start building your mission, start your aircraft in the air and very close to the action. Build what you want to do in the combat arena, test it until it works the way you want.

After combat is taken care of, add the return to base and landing portion.

Once you got your Combat and RTB stuff done to your satisfaction, change your start location to the airfield/carrier and do that part last.

LOL, this. +1 :)

You just need to create missions that are so awesome you want to play them 100 times :))

ME is not hard, but you need someone to explain it for your first mission. Also, you can have a look at the many tutorials on YT.

The manual is no real help and all the tutorials are on previous versions and mostly Caucasus - altho the functionality is the same with slightly different screens.

I am waiting for a Normandy YT that is just a simple mission - take off with wingman, go shoot up or bomb a bunch of trucks and/or some FW's, come back and land. Everytime I set up the German field for the FW's my mission starts there with A 10's (!), instead of my field with Spits. Grrrrr.

Thanks for the offer 159 Archer, but I am not up to speed on the whole server thing yet

Help again. I have watched and tried to follow several YT videos on setting up a mission. Having made up a train, set up some AAA and four 190's at another base, I set up four mustangs to go kill them. BUT. ME wants to start me at one of the AAA guns instead of the cockpit of the Mustang. What haven't I done?

Help again. I have watched and tried to follow several YT videos on setting up a mission. Having made up a train, set up some AAA and four 190's at another base, I set up four mustangs to go kill them. BUT. ME wants to start me at one of the AAA guns instead of the cockpit of the Mustang. What haven't I done?

Set the skill level on the aircraft YOU want to fly to PLAYER.

Yep....did that. No change

What map is this?

EDIT: Made a quick mission on the Normandy Map.

Normandy Quickie.miz

Its the Normandy map. I thought I had made a mistake in placement of AAA (cause thats where its spawning me) so I Saved As and removed them. Now it spawns me next to the oil train! About to give up. I am PLAYER in the first Mustang.

BTW Thanks Joey45 for the quickie mission. Thats great. How did you get so many aircraft on a strip? I can only get four.

Static Objects.