Separate launchers for each terrain

[Lixma 06]

So you can fire up DCS with your preferred terrain ready to go in the mission editor.

 

[Buzzles]

Wouldn't it just be easier for ED to add a terrain selector pop up when you click on the ME menu option?

[Zarma]

Bah it takes less than 10 sec to load a different terrain...

[VZ_342]

Bah it takes less than 10 sec to load a different terrain...

 

Awesome! Tell me how...? (I’ve never gotten anything but Nevada and Caucasus, and that’s only by choosing 1.5 and 2.0)

[Northstar98]

Seeing as 2.5 will be unified for every terrain, having different launchers makes it a pain as we now have to open a separate launcher every time I select a terrain - it's better off being on the initial window you're greeted with when you hit new mission inside the ME.

[terminator363]

Is this 2005? No thanks.

[Gladman]

Awesome! Tell me how...? (I’ve never gotten anything but Nevada and Caucasus, and that’s only by choosing 1.5 and 2.0)

 

In 2.??? when you enter the mission editor and click on "new" you will have the option to choose between Nevada and Normandy at this time. I can only assume when 2.5 comes you will have the other options in the same fashion.

[Kayos]

Why?

[drPhibes]

Sorry to say so, but this seems pretty pointless. Do you want separate launchers for each plane as well?

[NeilWillis]

Choosing a mission will naturally provide whichever terrain map is appropriate. Once there is a unified version of DCS World, you'd simply launch it, select a mission, and fly.

 

Why would you even want to restrict yourself to a single map when you run DCS World?

 

Definitely an unnecessary way to deal with 2.5.

[Mars Exulte]

Bad idea is bad, booooo

[Jester986]

No

[cichlidfan]

No.

 

My reason why would be to ask you if you have a separate 'button/icon' for every website you visit regularly. I am sure you don't and the reason why is that it would be a silly thing to do just to save a couple of mouse presses.

[Yurgon]

They like to describe DCS World as a "simulation operating system".

 

Sure, OS's can be launched with different options, but the whole point about 2.5 is to have a unified working environment.

 

Not saying it isn't a valid wishlist item, but personally I see little to no benefit and would rather see developer's resources focused elsewhere. The current system works very well in 2.2 IMO.

[Northstar98]

They like to describe DCS World as a "simulation operating system".

 

Sure, OS's can be launched with different options, but the whole point about 2.5 is to have a unified working environment.

 

Not saying it isn't a valid wishlist item, but personally I see little to no benefit and would rather see developer's resources focused elsewhere. The current system works very well in 2.2 IMO.

 

This

 

Once DCS is unified we only need to select a map from the mission editor (hopefully they'll make it so the 'new mission' window appears when you launch the mission editor (at the moment in 1.5.8 it skips past the new mission window and cuts straight to the editor - not sure how it is with DCS 2.x which already has multiple maps.

[Lixma 06]

The idea wasn't to restrict DCS to one terrain at a time.

 

It was to give the OPTION to be able to fire up DCS with your desired terrain ready to go rather than having to wait while the mission editor loaded whatever terrain was used last session and then wait some more while it loads the terrain you want to work with.

 

You can still switch terrains, nothing changes.

 

There is no downside.

Edited January 4, 2018 by Lixma 06

[cichlidfan]

There is no downside.

 

Yes there is. Wasted coding labor for the sole purpose of saving you a few minutes, at most.

 

If you are building a mission (which will take quite a bit of time), which is the only purpose for your suggestion, then you should not be in that much of a hurry to load the required terrain.

Edited January 4, 2018 by cichlidfan

[Lixma 06]

Yes there is. Wasted coding labor for the sole purpose of saving you a few minutes, at most.

 

If you are building a mission (which will take quite a bit of time), which is the only purpose for your suggestion, then you should not be in that much of a hurry to load the required terrain.

 

lol Jesus Christ

[Gladman]

Put DCS on a SSD. Problem solved.

[probad]

well, its not uncommon software will have shortcut params you can tag on to fastrack you to directly to a particular map or mode, but foisting this on the general audience when the goal is centralization is a nonstarter

[Lixma 06]

well, its not uncommon software will have shortcut params you can tag on to fastrack you to directly to a particular map or mode, but foisting this on the general audience when the goal is centralization is a nonstarter

 

 

Nothing is being decentralised.

 

Nothing is being foisted on anyone.

 

They are optional , time-saving, desktop shortcuts.

 

That's all.

 

Who knew the humble desktop shortcut could be so triggering?

[probad]

quite frankly it's the concept that you want other people to waste their time to save you time, that's what makes your thread annoying.

 

in addition, its presumptuous to try to head off the developers for an implementation that they already have a solution for. if you want to run a software house go start your own.

Edited January 4, 2018 by probad

[Home Fries]

Wouldn't it just be easier for ED to add a terrain selector pop up when you click on the ME menu option?

 

I get where the OP is coming from, but I think that Buzzles' idea is a bit more elegant and also saves on desktop space when we inevitably get more theaters. I would also like to see a terrain selection upon clicking the ME button so that I don't have to wait for the theater to load, though included in that option should also be to load an existing mission.

[Lixma 06]

quite frankly it's the concept that you want other people to waste their time to save you time, that's what makes your thread annoying.

 

in addition, its presumptuous to try to head off the developers for an implementation that they already have a solution for. if you want to run a software house go start your own.

 

We're reaching peak autism here in the DCS: Wishlist thread, chaps!

[Northstar98]

Calm down guys, let's not get to feisty here (yeah I just said that).

 

The problem is, if we have desktop shortcuts that lead to a particular map, the shortcut in effect would bypass the 'new mission' window inside the mission editor so when you click it, the editor loads with the map you selected from the shortcut right?

 

The problem is, the mission editor is not a separate application, so you'd still have to load everything through to get to that stage in the first place, unless there's some way of getting a shortcut to bypass through stages of an application - it all sounds a bit complicated but it would still entail work, plus if you were to retain the centralised DCS 2.5 and even after you selected a map from the shortcut you'd still be able to select which map you want defeats the point of having the shortcut in the first place. When you might as well just load up DCS like normal and select the map you want there - which is probably what you'll have to do anyway...