On a dedicated server, how do I force the nest mission to load from in game?

[undertheradar]

***Title should read NEXT, not NEST***Hello all,

 

New server admin here. I edited the Bear Trap Missions to allow for multiple human players. We finish a mission and land but the next mission does not kick off. How do I end the mission so the players can see the debrief and start the next mission in the campaign?

 

Thank you!

Edited May 6, 2020 by undertheradar

[ViFF]

How do I end the mission so the players can see the debrief and start the next mission in the campaign?

 

I don't think it is possible to see the debrief in the multiplayer environment.

 

From what you write I am assuming that you are hosting the mission from a client host, this can only be done manually.

 

If you are hosting from a remote server, there are several ways to do this depending on your server setup, so please elaborate if you want help.

 

Cheers

[undertheradar]

 

If you are hosting from a remote server, there are several ways to do this depending on your server setup, so please elaborate if you want help.

 

Cheers

 

It is a dedicated server on my LAN, not the PC I play from.

 

I would like to be able to do this without having to manage the server, if possible. I am hoping there is a way for clients that are not server admins to accomplish this.

 

Thank you.

[ViFF]

Is it a dedicated server with webgui?

Are you able to manage the server by logging in with the server's username and password on ED website and get to the DCS Server Dashboard via the user profile page?

Edited May 8, 2020 by ViFF

[undertheradar]

Yes. Right now I use the web GUI to end and start missions.

[ViFF]

Yes. Right now I use the web GUI to end and start missions.

 

If you prefer not to give your clients the login details to the webgui you have two options:

 

1. SLMOD Admin menu (designated admins can choose mission to load via chat menu).

 

2. Using the Mission Editor, create in each mission a radio menu trigger that will either "End Mission" which will load the next mission according to the playlist of missions you have in the webgui -or- use the trigger action "Load Mission" which will load a specific mission file from the missions folder.

 

In the latter you can have several missions that upon ending will all load the same mission, which would function as a "mission to choose missions" of sorts. This "mission to choose missions" would be a mission that has a list of missions in the radio menu, allowing multiple choice of which mission to load next.

 

Keep in mind though, the second method allows any client to end the mission and load the next, so they might misuse it and grief other clients. You can protect this by using slot blocking such as Ciribob's Simple Slot Blocking Script that allows only the client IDs authorized in the script to go into the slot that has the radio menu choices for ending and changing the mission.

 

Hope this helps

 

Cheers

Edited May 9, 2020 by ViFF