parking location priority

[kunterbunt]

I am creating a single player mission in which I start dark and cold with F-14 and have 4 AI F-14 starting hot on the catapult (to show off the new supercarrier).

Additionally I added a E2 parked hot.

The target was to have the C2 launch, which is pretty cool to watch, while my F14 starts up. But what is happening is that I and my wingman get to stand on parking location 1 and 2, cold and dark (which are right behind catapult 1) and the E2 AI starting hot gets parking location 11, which is behind me and it cannot taxi to the catapult until I move.

In the manual it is stated that this will happen, as AI cannot use parking location 1-4. But there is no way to direct the E2 to a different spot not behind me. A little bit frustrating.

Does anybody have a way to solve this, or do we need to wait for EA to find a location?

I have a huge supercarrier and I want to see it launching all kind of planes while I start up.

[kunterbunt]

Found a workaround. First I tried to moved all static planes from parking locations 14-16 to 11-13. This made the E2 span on parking location 14. Nice, but then it actually taxed from there to catapult 1! And while doing so it actually moved right on the red/white separation line that separates the parking area from the landing deck. This made it go right through all of the static objects placed inside the parking area (I used the example mission from ED for the supercarrier). Looks like a bug.

 

Next I moved the static planes from parking locations 8-7 to 16-14. This made the E2 span on parking location 7. It then taxied very nicely to catapult 3 and launched behind the F14. Perfect and very, very exciting to watch while you startup your bird. Remember when you start cold and dark, your canopy is open. Very exhilarating.

 

But I believe that the only good solution for single player missions is, to be able to specify the parking location, similar as with at airports.

 

P.:S I attached my mission (actually nothing to do but watch the busy carrier).

PG-SUPERCARRIER-F14B-LAUNCH.miz