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Currently in order to use the escort task the unit must have the escort mission, however the escort mission restricts access to other A2A tasks (specifically search and engage tasks). I would propose the removal of the escort mission and making the escort task available to all A2A mission types (or even ALL mission types). This would allow task switching, doing things like escorting a friendly to a point then shifting to set up a CAP patrol in an area. Or being on CAP but then moving to escort a friendly, both of these examples I can think of a lot of situations where they would make sense and accomplishing it in DCS currently is a pain due to these task restrictions. I would ideally expand this wish to be more broad and say make more tasks available to more missions in general as there are many that are 'mission locked' but there is no logical reason a aircraft performing some other mission could not be given those tasks
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Currently with the fire at point task you can select from a few options for which weapon to fire, these are: Auto Unguided Shells Conventional Marker Smoke Illumination Rockets Guided Missiles ASM ATGM Cruise Missiles I would like to propose one (or possibly more additions), I would like to see the shell sub types split into the various weapon types, perhaps aligned with how they are defined in unit definitions, so that we can task cannons and machine guns and other distinct weapon-types explicitly. Specific use-case I have in mind is being able to give a tank a fire at point specific to its machine gun(s) and not its main gun, or vice-versa. This could be useful for naval units and in other situations as well.
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The S-3B Tankers seem to not extend the refueling basket unless there's a HOLD task defined after the Tanker task. I've tried it with the ME and also by scripting and the result is the same: as soon as you add a HOLD task after the tanker task it works properly. If it is left alone however, although you can contact the tanker and it'll turn on the lights it will not extend the basket - no matter what you do, no matter how close you are. This makes enroute refueling impossible, please fix this ASAP. Thank you! Mission and track file included. nobasket.miz no_basket_extended.trk
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Hi. I'm trying to learn some mission scripting. I'm currently trying to write a function that will update groups' routes dynamically, for things like a formation of ships or CAP over a moving carrier. Please could someone confirm the following assumptions I've made based on testing and the docs: 1. There is no way to access current tasks for a Controller, and therefore no way to update waypoint locations not stored in script. 2. A sensible way (in terms of ease, precision, and resources) to create dynamic routes is to have three waypoints: [1] current location, [2] predicted target position for one minute from now, [3] predicted target position for two minutes from now, with a waypoint WrappedAction at [2] that calls the function again ([3] being only included for smoother turns). My current attempt at this produces a crash every time, with no scripting error in the log. I know it's something silly that I've missed, but the CtD with nothing logged makes normal debugging harder. I also have the following unsolved questions about mission tasks that may or may not be contributing to the problem: 3. What is the reference point for waypoint ETA vales in LUA? 4. Do ongoing tasks and options (e.g. RoE and CAP) need to be cancelled if not intended in the new mission task, or reapplied if they are? 5. Does the group's current waypoint index need resetting after setting a new mission task? Apologies that I can't answer these through testing, but I'm fed up with the long CtD cycle. test.miz waypoints.lua
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Hi Developers, Would like to request a added TASK to escort / follow enemy aircraft as a task option. Now one can ONLY follow or escort a plane from the same coalition. BLUE AI -> Task : Follow / Escort -> RED AI. If there IS a way to do this bypassing the basic option by script or any other way, please add in the comment. Thanks. RWC.