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There is much room for improvement with the ME. Here are my suggestions, some can be easily implemented, others not. I sure hope some of these suggestions will make it into the next patch.
1.) Selections, copy & paste. It would be great if we could use the mouse to select, copy and paste units. For example, Someone spends a bunch of time making a FARP. They decide they want to have more than one FARP so instead of doing the whole process over again they could just make a selection box around the FARP units and then they would be "selected". Then the user hits CTRL+C and the units are copied to memory. They de-select the units, click on the area they want the clone placed and hit CTRL+V and wholla, all the units they selected and copied are now the same distance from each other and a bunch of time is saved. This would also be handy for creating multiple clients, copy and paste units, waypoints, targets, etc.
2.) Realtime 3D object placements. Instead of placing a object in the 2D editor and loading the simulation to see where it actuly ended up, it would be awesome if we could place the units in the real 3D world. Mission development time goes way down and mission quality goes way up!!
3.) Auto-rotation (not the emergency landing). If you go out into the cyber crimea and play on a server without a admin you will notice that the mission never ends. If it did, the server wouldn't select a new one. Being on a server without a admin there to select new missions brings this glorious combat simulator down to a very boring helocopter simulator. Please make the dedicated server listen for the mission to say "ok i'm done" and have it allow the users to play the next mission.
4.) Static objects. Please allow destructable static objects. When we place aircraft or other items that should explode when a vicker impacts it please allow it to go boom.
This is a great simulation for sure. The only thing it needs is CONTENT. If the game doesn't allow the community to make FREE QUALITY content that will ultimatly boost ED's sales revenue then people will get bored with it along with military simulations. If you want to see a quality mission editor check out Armed Assault and see if you guys can incorporate some of those goodies.
Thanks for making a great game!