Alpha, did you play VEF in the old IL2?

KG26_alpha,

i believe you have missed the posting from Luthier or Oleg, quite some time ago, where there was said that dogfight servers and coop servers are things of the past.

There are only 2 modes in CoD, online and offline, any further distinctions aren't applicably anymore.

If a developer strives to make the limitations of the past extinct it is very unlikely for him to implement them again.

Unless there is a manual for the FMB we wont really find out how complicated it might be to build a "classic" coop mission.

So i play my coops too.

But you can generate your own stats and save them to disk.
The latest of my squad stats, it was a skip bombing traning :rolleyes::
So i see no problem to create coops.

It would also be possible in furture (if activated by the devs) to create your own GUI, like in Singleplayer also in Multiplayer, so if one programm it you will get your IL-2 Coop interface. ;)

Excellent news!...you know what is possible it seems, you must be very wise hey:grin:

I flew in most of them for a while.
Stopped after being hunted first by log file output cheat > when I you moved seat in the bomber they plotted the grid co-ords, then later the radar hack in other online wars

They were fun/intense though I dont see they are going to get it to run under the current CoD system.


Regarding the missing CooP gui.



No I didn't miss it.

It needs implementing.

I can make classic style CooP missions no problem, I just cant host classic style CooP missions.

All We need is this as I have posted before

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/alpha1/coop1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/alpha1/coop2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/alpha1/coop3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/alpha1/coop4.jpg

Yep, spot on Alpha.

When it comes to co-ops and mission building, the problem is both the new style user interface, which is very poorly documented, as well as placing all the onus on the players.

Imagine if you bought the latest novel from your latest author, cracked it open and it was just a book full of blank pages and a note saying 'write it yourself, I'm sure it'll be good.'

Making missions is difficult. Making fun, balanced missions even more so. There are very few people willing to sit down and write these things and expecting your player base to do it all themselves is a piss poor attitude.

I'd rather this game have the wrong shade of grey on London bridge's railings and half decent mission generator than what we have now.

Alpha, can we please start a dedicated thread on what we want for coop function to work the way we need it (based on our collective 10 yrs of il2 experience, and how it might be well implemented in some other games). this fruitful discussion, and the illustrations and screenshots you made, will be invisible to luthier who needs to see it (so he can understand why we are frustrated with the current system), and it will just disappear as the thread slides into oblivion

i am also one of those who is frustrated by the lack of proper coop implementation in CoD, and i dont want to spend weeks learning some complex and complicated new scripting method, however good and advanced it might be, its not very usable for most current coop users.

your screenshots with the comments illustrate very well how this issue can be solved fairly simply and quickly by luthier. i would add to those:
1) once coop has started new players should still be able to join, and either choose a new plane on the tarmac or join an existing aircraft (taking over an AI plane, or taking up a crew position in a multi crewed aircraft). that way we get past the boring wait times waiting for a late comer to join, and when people get killed early they dont have to wait 60 to 90 min for the mission to restart in order to play again.
2) when RL players get killed in a mission, they should be able to continue playing by similarly taking over a friendly AI position to control a new aircraft, or take over an AI position on a multi crewed aircraft.
note: server owner should be able to prevent new people from joining if he chooses, and be able to limit numbers of planes a killed player can take over (to prevent abuse by some disruptive players online etc..)


by all means keep the advanced scripting methods that have now been added in CoD, so people can start using them as their skills evolve and they get used to the new system, but additionally it needs at least some kind of console/interface added to make that advanced scripting method easier to use.

I'm just not getting your use of "limitations" here. If getting Co-op to work becomes less user friendly, isn't that making more limitations where only advanced scripting folks can do it and 95% of the customers cannot? It mostly seems that software innovations usually include a more user friendly way of using said software. That doesn't seem to be the case here?

Frankly a simplified GUI for making DF missions is needed as well.

I used to make a lot of DF and a few CoOp missions for the BlitzPigs, but I can't even place a base on a map in CloD.

You should not have to understand a programming language, or whatever it's called, to be able to make missions at least at a basic level.

I think that developers often fall into a trap that has them thinking that their customers are developers as well. It's easy to do if you work with it all day long. Not seeing the forest for the trees.

I don't work in IT.

I'm not a programmer.

I do (or at least used to) enjoy making missions, from the research to the placement of objects. I derived a great amount of satisfaction from seeing my work come to life online.

So how about a simple GUI option for the FMB for those of us that don't want to write scripts and dink about with all that computer boffin stuff?
I know I'm not alone in thinking this. At the very least just implement the ability to use IL2 FMB controls.