Interesting thoughts Grimes, 100% support here. IMHO the mission editor is the most important feature of the DCS series. Ultimately, after learning all of the avionics and stuff (months, I know) is what will keep me busy with the Sim. After a while, if all boils down to boring and repetitive missions, you'd get tyred very quickly. But our heroes at ED are doing an Epic work with the ME, arming it with powerful features and evolving in a tool that even the most haxor users can toy with making incredible triggered missions. They got my confidence, until then I'll use my imagination.