Incorporate some of MOOSE functions into the base Mission Script Editor

[Tank50us]

The specific thing I'm aiming for here is the ability to allow units to respawn.

The respawning options I'd like to see is as follows:

• "Respawn at start location": Basically, the unit respawns at the location it's set up at in the Mission Editor. An example would be a group of tanks spawning at a base.
• "Respawn at Base/FARP/Ship": Limited to aircraft and helicopters, but this would allow a unit that initially starts in the air, to respawn at a base, carrier, or FARP if applicable. For example, a flight of F-15s can spawn at an airbase, but can't spawn at a FARP or on a carrier.
• "Respawn in Zone": Akin to above, this is more for those instances where after a unit is destroyed, it respawns somewhere in a designated zone.
• "Respawn on activation": Basically, the ability for players to manually spawn a unit. An example of this is if a multiplayer mission is set up so that there are selectable missions, for example a Bomber Escort mission, where after the mission is complete, all of the units involved that weren't killed are deactivated, and all of which are 'put back in the box', ready to spawn back in once a player chooses the option again.

What do you guys think? Would you like to see some of the MOOSE scripting being available as part of the base Mission Editor?

[cfrag]

5 minutes ago, Tank50us said:

What do you guys think? Would you like to see some of the MOOSE scripting being available as part of the base Mission Editor?

I believe that giving us the functionality that you describe above would indeed be nice. How that is implemented in a Miz (using Moose or ED's own internal (hopefully C based) framework), OTOH should be ED's decision. 

[Exorcet]

Respawn functionality has been requested for years, so I imagine many DCS users would find it helpful. It's common to see people running into limitations from needing to define every unit in a mission explicitly.