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Originally Posted by AbortedMan
I had no attitude or sarcastic tone from the get-go. You chimed in with essentially a "you don't know what you're talking about or know what works" message when that has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. I wasn't even demanding anything along the lines of "Why isn't this-or-that in the mission? Make it so!" if you recall my previous posts, I was discussing the logistics and economics of player's actions and reactions given a circumstance in a mission.
Just to touch on what I was talking about and what you're talking about...adding more anti-aircraft to the Hawkinge area as a *possible* way to counter a "Hawkinge furball" and to motivate,not penalize, players *possibly* going out and escorting/intercepting, is **so complex that I cannot even begin to understand until I've built a mission.**
Even though I've never cracked open the mission editor for more than 15 minutes I find that extremely hard to believe.
Just know that I was truly engaging in a civil-mannered discussion and had no ill intentions in my posts. It was an open forum for my ideas to be heard, debated and processed. I had no grandiose visions of superiority in mission structure...just simply wanted some feedback, input/output with no lip, sass, sarcasm, trolling, hatred, or belittling involved.
If my discussion is a demonstration in "condesending" (spelled "condescending", btw) jack-assery then damn, you are some sensitive folk and I need to brush up on my definition of "condesending."
...how was that? Pretty accurate?
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And yet again, you don't understand. We've already gone to great lengths with the AAA (why in the hell am I typing this for the 1000th time I don't know) but anyhow, not only have we found out what AAA/flak is the most accurate and damaging out of all the types, we've found a grouping that works about as good as it's gonna get in the current way of the non-adjustable AAA/flak. This grouping has the exact same elements for both sides. IE - red and blue pieces acting together. Not only did we spend many many hours testing this to come up with effective AAA/Flak (as with what works in game) we also spent time trying to construct many other ways of Airfield defense. These include hiding tanks, even naval ships, all in the ground along with the AAA. The reason, yet again, that we don't have any more AAA/flak on top of all the work we've done actually making them do something is because, as previously posted many times before, these additional objects/groupings are at the limit of pushing people's FPS. What we have right now is on the edge of hurting people's performance. What you also fail to realize is there has been close to 3000 different versions of some of the same missions. All of these changes constantly being made to work around issues within the game and issues brought up by different patches. I love the comments by people stating we've been playing the same mission for over a year. It just goes to show exactly how much of our work, people take for granted.
Again, it's people like you that think you can simply "place more" and that will cure the problem. That's why every single assumption you have about anything in this game will more than likely be wrong. That's why, yet again, it is very complex in the 1st place to get AAA to do something/be effective. Something you just tried to have an insult at. When I say you don't have the 1st clue of what you are talking about with regarding the elements of online mission building, I mean it. That's why your mock is laughable. That's why you would never be able to build an online mission. Because it literally took a few 1000 hours to work around every single issue to make the appearance of an objective based mission. This includes something what most people think is simple, spawning, AAA, triggers, AI timings etc.
I'm sure those that actually started playing the sim when it 1st came out can remember airfields that used to be littered with wreckage, 50% of the spawn points causing planes to blow up, etc. All this stuff has been a constant work in progress. With comments like yours I honestly don't know why we try to do anything.