Option to show/hide civilian car traffic when in mission

[Jascha]

I think it would be useful to have an option to toggle civilian car traffic on/off during missions as well. Right now the civilian traffic density can be set only in DCS main options and this setting is locked when mission starts.

My reasoning for it is - in some missions / campaigns civilian traffic feels just off (when operating in war zone). In others - it's a highly welcome addition. It's kind of annoying that we can control it only from the main DCS menu.

I'm talking from a SP perspective. No idea how this works in MP (to be fair it should be controlled by server settings same a external views, labels etc. I guess...).

[sirrah]

24 minutes ago, Jascha said:

I think it would be useful to have an option to toggle civilian car traffic on/off during missions as well. Right now the civilian traffic density can be set only in DCS main options and this setting is locked when mission starts.

My reasoning for it is - in some missions / campaigns civilian traffic feels just off (when operating in war zone). In others - it's a highly welcome addition. It's kind of annoying that we can control it only from the main DCS menu.

I'm talking from a SP perspective. No idea how this works in MP (to be fair it should be controlled by server settings same a external views, labels etc. I guess...).

I'm not against your wish (not sure why anyone would be against it, although I know at least one sharp community member that will probably tell you that it'd be a waste of dev resources), but personally I'd prefer to have the ability to exclude civil traffic from a trigger zone.

That way the mission creator can determine where civilian traffic is allowed an where it's not. I wouldn't mind civil traffic to just despawn/become invisible when entering such zone. No fancy solution needed really imho.

 

I just have no idea how difficult it would be to implement this. Probably quite difficult, otherwise this very often wished for function would already be available.

Edited August 7, 2022 by sirrah

[MAXsenna]

@sirrah I was thinking the exact same thing. Exclusion zones would be very handy for realism indeed! 

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, Jascha said:

It's kind of annoying that we can control it only from the main DCS menu.

 

Actually, you can set it on a mission-by-mission basis (except probably the payware campaigns), using this option:

[Jascha]

2 hours ago, sirrah said:

I'm not against your wish (not sure why anyone would be against it, although I know at least one sharp community member that will probably tell you that it'd be a waste of dev resources), but personally I'd prefer to have the ability to exclude civil traffic from a trigger zone.

 

Sure, but this is a "wish list" section, right? I'm fully aware that it would be high on priority list, but I don't think that this would take a lot of time (my best guess).

But yeah, option with trigger zone would be nice too.

PS. I'm just tired of forgetting to switch civilian traffic on or off, depending on what SP missions/campaigns I'm currently playing. That's all.

1 hour ago, Rudel_chw said:

Actually, you can set it on a mission-by-mission basis (except probably the payware campaigns), using this option:

Thanks. I had no idea.

Edited August 7, 2022 by Jascha

[sirrah]

6 minutes ago, Jascha said:

Sure, but this is a "wish list" section, right?

Indeed, that's why I said I'm not against it

(I was just expecting incoming flak from a certain someone )

[Jascha]

40 minutes ago, sirrah said:

Indeed, that's why I said I'm not against it

(I was just expecting incoming flak from a certain someone )

Understood.

But it's not like I'm asking for something that it's not already there at all. We have the ability to configure civilian car traffic. I'd just like to have the ability to change this setting also after mission starts. Considering that civilian traffic is loading only for nearest proximity (I think), it should be doable.  

Edited August 7, 2022 by Jascha