Rc3. Plus And Minus.

[Dino]

Hey guys, it is good to be able to spend some time back in the game after such a crappy 9 months. I really missed my fun nights and of course mission building. Hopefully slowly I can get back into being a more regular target. Of course since my absence the game progressed through 4.0, 4.101 and now we have the RC0,RC2 and RC3. Being always involved in the mission building side I have been very interested in these new developements. Knowing how these things worked in the past I always keep a patched version of every stage. I know it takes up space but I have always found I needed them in the past. Ok so now we are flying coops on 4.101 clean. I thought I would start this thread to open up the whole debate on game versions, missions and where we all think the game is heading. I did not start the thread to cause arguments so please be nice. I am really interested in all you guys views and as alot of you are far more experienced than me its helpful. I keep looking but I cannot see a plus for this version against 2.01? I see lots of minuses, less planes and the need to alter the already built missions, perhaps someone can enlighten me. I hear that we are not running the RC3.3 because it has too many bugs. I have patched to this version and I have very minor issues. I hear things like problems joining planes etc... personally I think these things are extras and not as important as the things that do work. Someone said that the game seemed to be moving away from COOPS, I have a hard time knowing what we think COOPS are? The main disadvantages of flying COOPS are, people cannot join after the start, crashes on takeoff and known opposition. Add this to flying on the same radio frequency and splitting the group to me moves away from COOP and into dogfight. Coops for me is a squad working together as a team on a mission with set objectives. You can load the dogfight maps and fly it as a coop and cut those disadvantages out. If you do not want people to have more than one life tell them or alter the preferences in spawning? Having said that I would just like to offer my personal thoughts on why RC3 can be useful.

I have this idea for some missions that might be really interesting using RC3. ( This is just for those guys who do not build missions, not preaching to the experienced LOL ) We can now build maps and missions where bases can be captured and recaptured and resupplied. We can now put home bases and spawn points wherever we like. We can cut and paste whole areas onto new maps, limit lives and almost every other value can be adjusted. In the past it was really hard work to make "dynamic" missions but now it is relatively easy.

How about something like this: a mission built around the capturing of japanese held Pacific Islands. ( Once these maps are populated they can be saved as templates for the future in a template library ) The "Dogs" fly Allied , their mission is to simply capture, occupy and work out of these bases backed up by the task group(s). I can build this with lots of new features using RC3. I can put in advancing troops which will try to recapture bases that are overun. Resupply convoys that will replace destroyed supplies. Ground forces and Artillery, enemy shipping and recon, radar ETC We can alter bases so its possible to stop the RRR by destroying certain objects, produce arial maps showing where these objects are. The game is now only limited by our imagination and effort......Once built these could run for whatever time limit you like and of course can be reversed so we fly Japanes. Along with this we can split or play against other squads. I only see this type of thing running a few times a year but I think it could be fun. What would make it really nice is if we had a server like Toads and could run it for just this one mission. At the end it would give everyone a fantastic spreadsheet of info. Like I said this is not to start arguments about Coops, Dogfights or game versions. I would just like to hear what you guys think and as I love building things any ideas you might have or missions you like to fly. I have built a folder of COOP and MDS missions for 4.101 and they are available for anyone who wants them As usual alter them as you feel fit I do not get upset about that sort of stuff as you know.