Escorting a player squadron in Coop?

[[FF]skelital]

I've been trying to create a coop escort mission but have been having some issues getting the player fighters to escort the bombers. I’ve been making pilots in an attack squadron and a fighter squad. Whenever I go to create the mission the attackers will be escorted by some non-player squad, and the fighters have their own separate mission. If I change the fighter to the escort squadron from the briefing, the mission will change the bombers to be escorted by a different non-player squad.

Does anyone know of a solution to this?

[PatrickAWlson]

1 hour ago, [FF]skelital said:

I've been trying to create a coop escort mission but have been having some issues getting the player fighters to escort the bombers. I’ve been making pilots in an attack squadron and a fighter squad. Whenever I go to create the mission the attackers will be escorted by some non-player squad, and the fighters have their own separate mission. If I change the fighter to the escort squadron from the briefing, the mission will change the bombers to be escorted by a different non-player squad.

Does anyone know of a solution to this?

 

That is not an implemented capability at this time.

[[FF]skelital]

18 minutes ago, PatrickAWlson said:

 

That is not an implemented capability at this time.

Oh okay, thanks for the reply! 
 

Think it would be really cool if something like this could be implemented, but I know nothing of coding and have no idea about how difficult something like that would be. love the program though!

[PatrickAWlson]

1 hour ago, [FF]skelital said:

Oh okay, thanks for the reply! 
 

Think it would be really cool if something like this could be implemented, but I know nothing of coding and have no idea about how difficult something like that would be. love the program though!

 

It's doable.  A little tricky, but certainly doable.  I have had this request before so this is far from the first time it has been asked.

 

In order to do it as I currently do, I would have to make one of the flights, probably the bomber, an air start.  Not sure if that would cause an uproar.

Edited July 1, 2021 by PatrickAWlson

[[FF]skelital]

On 7/1/2021 at 5:57 PM, PatrickAWlson said:

 

It's doable.  A little tricky, but certainly doable.  I have had this request before so this is far from the first time it has been asked.

 

In order to do it as I currently do, I would have to make one of the flights, probably the bomber, an air start.  Not sure if that would cause an uproar.

I don’t think that would be too much of an issue. I’m sure most people would rather have an air start than no player escorts at all. 
 

Maybe you can add a config option for coop for more player to player interactions. So with it off, it will be as it is now, but if the option is on it will generate missions where each player squad is assigned a related objective. I.e. two friendly player squads will attack the same objective, one escort one attack, or if the squads are on opposing teams, one will attack and the other will intercept/ patrol the area. 
 

The way I’ve been using it with a group of 10 players is we have two squads of 5, one allied one axis. I’d try to generate a mission where one is patrolling over an objective and the other is escorting bombers/ doing a ground attack on that objective. We had a of fun doing this with a mix of pvp and pve. 
 

I wish I knew how to code so I could try and implement some of this myself!