Late Activation for Static Units

[NineLine]

Dear all, this came up in internal discussion. Would Mission Builders be interested in having late activation for Static Units?

 

This is the only topic for this poll, doesn't mean its priority over anything else, or that its the only thing we are doing, we just value your opinion on this specific option.

 

Thanks.

[LazyBoot]

yes! more options is more better!

[Eagle_01]

yes please... and also being able to group static units like normal active units.

[AlexCaboose]

Yes, that would be awesome.

[Deliverator]

Please yes! This is something that it has been a limit for us! It will allow us to create new target zones as the mission progresses just to say something over the top of my head without getting into MIST, MOOSE or similar scripts!

[cosmicdoubloon]

Absolutely. Something like this as a core feature of the mission editor is essential!

[Saber2243]

I know that one of the big appeals of static units is that they have less impact on performance compared to other units, would this affect that?

[Hawkmoon]

YES please especially becuase static object don't impact as much as unit and have way more variety than units

Edited April 22, 2021 by Hawkmoon

[Viking 1-1]

Of course.

 

More options are always better and you could easily change to look of certain areas by trigger...

[TREEamble]

It would also be nice to have a late deactivation for carriers that way after a certain time in the mission or maybe even a way to use it with triggers the carrier changes it's deck layout from a launch layout to a recovery layout and vice versa

[Pikey]

I had to learn how to script to be able to do this. To imagine losing that would be hell. I forgot it couldnt be done outside scripting

Edited April 22, 2021 by Pikey

[jmijnen]

This is a no brainer, the more easy to use functions we have the better!

[Raptor9]

As someone that has tried and failed multiple times to learn scripting to accomplish things the mission editor does not provide, I have been wanting this for quite some time.

 

Strong yes vote from me. Thanks.

[VTJS17_Fire]

Yes please, useful in carrier ops, imo.

[bitboy]

That would be great, thanks all the recent ME updates and additions as well. 

[Borin]

YES

 

dont like it to solve this everytime by a script

[The_Dan]

That would be a handy feature for sure. But in my opinion a lot better would be, if most of the assets in the static category (like structures, FARP assets, factories,...) would be available in the group section in the structure type. You can do a lot more and easier scripting and ME handling with the groups as with the statics. And one can add some of the statics by lua modding so it wouldn't be a huge task for most statics. E.g. spawn a FARP with tents and generators, use all the triggers with it as you can with the other groups, copy your FARP layout and use it in other locations on the map and so on.

Edited April 22, 2021 by The_Dan

[Alpiinoo]

Would be AWESOME.

[BlackLibrary]

+1

[Yurgon]

I can't think of a single practical use case for myself, nor for my squadron.

 

9 minutes ago, Borin said:

YES

 

dont like it to solve this everytime by a script

 

 

Hold on, we DO have a use case for late activation of static units? Darn. Consider my "No" vote erroneous.

[Razer-VAF]

+1 also

[evilnate]

Is a frogs anus water tight?

[Tank50us]

I'd like it if we had a way to move multiple statics in one go, along with the ability to activate them in the trigger list. That I'd like to see.

[Alpenwolf]

If you only knew how often I wished for this! FINALLY!!!

[Killshot0597]

Might be a dumb question, but I assume this will be shipped with a "Deactivate Static" Trigger action?