Need help to delete a flight / plane with the Mission editor

[oho]

I think the maximum numbers of flights don't work correctly, but maybe that's by intention. I have maximum number of enemy flights set to 2 and friendly flight also to 2 but when I look at the created missions I see more than 15 flights (with up 4 planes each) sometimes. Maybe you can't change that without reducing the propability to meet enemy planes, so I want to delete some flight manually in the mission editor. Is there an easy way to select a flight and just delete it?

Can you please give me a hint, where I can select a flight and delete it (which menu-item)?

[Sketch]

Without being in front of my editor...

 

1. Launch the mission editor
2. Load your desired mission
3. Go to Object Filter (a button in the center of your menu ribbon) and turn off everything except for planes
4. Remove your desired planes
5. 'SAVE AS' the mission with a different file name
6. Load that mission in your game
7. ????
8. PROFIT!

[PatrickAWlson]

@oho

Thanks for raising this.  Sometimes the phrase "flight" is not accurate.  If I generate a bombing flight it might package an escort flight with it.  If I generate an intercept flight it might package an attack flight with it (although I think that I have logic to do this only for the player).  Also possible that some other flight limiters are interfering with others and producing not the right answer.  The need to balance a general max flights with flight composition - i.e. fewer fighter flights when the player is flying a bombing mission, or making sure that there is a good mix of fighter and bomber flights, might be producing undesirable results.

 

 

 

[oho]

What I do now:

edit the latest Mission (miz) file in the data/Mission Folder, search for "Plane" and delete the word "plane" and everything that is included in the next brackets. No need to delete more, and no Problem occured until now.

The first squadron is the Player squad so don't delete these. All other I delete whole squads (you can see the aircraft type) that seem to be not necessary for an interesting mission, for example some friendly squads or the third enemy fighter squad. For a squad of 4 you of course have to delete 4 times 1 plane.

For some slowmotion missions (with > 30 planes) deleting already 1 squad helped a lot