FARP on an Oil Platform

[Captain Orso]

Is there anyway to set up a FARP on an Oil Platform?

[buur]

If you use a Gas platform from the sea shelf objects, you can rearm and refuel. 

But you have no radio communication with the platform.

[Captain Orso]

Hi Buur, thanks for the reply.

So without doing anything, the platform simply allows rearm and refuel?

[buur]

in my testings yes

[Captain Orso]

Yup, I see in the ME, both the Gas and Oil platforms have supplier selections, so just like and airport. Too bad they didn't give them a radio too. 

[cfrag]

28 minutes ago, Captain Orso said:

Too bad they didn't give them a radio too.

I’ll see if I can spawn the hummer there by script, you should then have radio as well methinks…

[Captain Orso]

22 hours ago, cfrag said:

I’ll see if I can spawn the hummer there by script, you should then have radio as well methinks…

Yeah, I tried that. Unfortunately DCS does not recognize platforms as able to hold units on them; not like building do. So if you try to place a vehicle on them, the ME just tells you that you have to place this unit on solid ground 

[cfrag]

41 minutes ago, Captain Orso said:

So if you try to place a vehicle on them, the ME just tells you that you have to place this unit on solid ground 

Challenge accepted  

[cfrag]

13 hours ago, Captain Orso said:

So if you try to place a vehicle on them, the ME just tells you that you have to place this unit on solid ground 

Challenge met!  

Admittedly, not a great step forward since you aren't connected to a FARP, but still...

Hummer on deck.miz

Edited May 9, 2024 by cfrag

[Captain Orso]

Thanks for the reply cfrag.

So they way to do it is to add 87,000 lines* of LUA script to spawn it in on the Gas Platform. Why didn't I think of that 

Can your scripts also spawn an invisible FARP, set call sign and radio frequency, and then all the other vehicles required to make it a working FARP? Now that would be a breakthrough, even if it's an enormous amount of work, which should work out-of-the-box, but...

 

* May be a slight exaggeration.

[cfrag]

13 hours ago, Captain Orso said:

Can your scripts also spawn an invisible FARP, set call sign and radio frequency, and then all the other vehicles required to make it a working FARP?

I haven't tried (yet) - I seem to recall that DCS can be a bit (ha, ha) wonky with spawned FARPS. As soon as that's squared, I'll add another 80'000 lines just for that  

 

[Captain Orso]

47 minutes ago, cfrag said:

I haven't tried (yet) - I seem to recall that DCS can be a bit (ha, ha) wonky with spawned FARPS. As soon as that's squared, I'll add another 80'000 lines just for that  

 

[TEMPEST.114]

4 hours ago, Captain Orso said:

Have you looked at MODS? The Civilian Ship mods have oil platforms with a built in FARP I believe. 
 

 

 

Edited May 10, 2024 by TEMPEST.114

[Captain Orso]

I have the Civilian Asset Pack - Naval. This is basically how I came up with the idea of putting a FART on the Troll A Oil Platform  The rest snowballed from there.