Mission IDEAS thread (any are welcome)

[fargo007]

The purpose of this thread is to tease out ideas and concepts for missions, without necessarily conducting all the work to create them.

 

There are many of us that can materialize ideas.

 

Frequently, but not always, there's a divide. There are those with mega technical skills, and less idea powers, and those with mega-idea powers and near zero technical skill.

 

I'd like to create a team including both of those.

 

Precious few walk in both worlds. This thread is for the rest of us.

 

Coming up with a great idea that either fledgling or skilled mission designers can expand upon is EASY!

 

Think about what you'd like to do. Fixed wing? Rotorcraft? Combined?

 

What's a basic story line we can work with? Lay it all out!

 

No rules, just ideas. I'm sure some have been done, but that's okay, put a new spin on it, and it's reborn. Let's build a library of concepts!

 

Go!

[VZ_342]

Something inspired by “Flight of the Intruder”, but with a pair of SU-25/25T’s. Navigate over water, low level NOE flight, followed by heavy SAM defenses against a small set of “valuable” targets...then RTB.

 

Given the -25’s nickname is “rook”, and skillful use of two Rooks are easy to make checkmate against a target, should be fun to develop and fly.

[fargo007]

Good one -

 

In my mind, I'm hearing the guys singing "DOWWWWWNTOWN! THINGS ARE MUCH BRIGHTER THERE...."

[dark_wood]

Nice thread idea :)

 

Here we go: enemy drones attack our base. They are commanded from an AWACS plane. Take down the AWACS and all the drones will crash (use explode). Be careful, two F-15 (or whatever you want) are escorting the target.

[tn_prvteye]

Anything with more Su-25As would be welcome. Something with some replay-ability...no story really needed. Lots of tools out there with MIST and MOOSE (who names these things anyway? ;))...dynadd, random functions, trigger zones. Many possibilities. I'm working on something now, mainly by stealing other people's code (I can't code myself). But it's REALLY messy.

 

And after having worked on this, I can fully appreciate other's magnificent work. I don't know how you do it, to be honest.

[Delta99]

I like this idea. I’m inclined to try and develop some missions but poor at coming up with story ideas and background etc.

[fargo007]

Anything with more Su-25As would be welcome. Something with some replay-ability...no story really needed. Lots of tools out there with MIST and MOOSE (who names these things anyway? ;))...dynadd, random functions, trigger zones. Many possibilities. I'm working on something now, mainly by stealing other people's code (I can't code myself). But it's REALLY messy.

 

And after having worked on this, I can fully appreciate other's magnificent work. I don't know how you do it, to be honest.

 

There's no shame at all in this. If it's re-usable, re-use it. I start personally by checking the MOOSE missions to see if the basic concept is already fleshed out. If so, I copy/paste and change the variable names.

 

Another thing I am doing in my squadron is furnishing pre-built scripts that deliver canned functionality such as unit placement/route randomization.

 

I really like the drone/awacs thing. That could also be done with helos by naming a ground controller for the drones....