requested Random time options

[Baldrick33]

By default the QAG is set to random time, which adds variety but I think it would be nice to have a day or night option as well. My first mission after taking ages to load I was plunged into darkness for a ground attack in a Mosquito which really didn’t work. So to avoid a night mission you have to specify a time.

[Weta43]

Came to post the same suggestion - rather than 'random', randbetween(start, end) - then you don't need a time specifier, you just make the start & end the same.

[NineLine]

You can set the time of day instead of Random. Once you set it, unless you change it back, it remembers that choice. 

I do agree Random tends to put aircraft in positions they shouldn't be in like a Fw 190A in the dead of night attacking 4 infantry units. 

[Blazkovitch]

So maybe additional options like night, morning, afternoon, golden hour?

[Baldrick33]

9 hours ago, NineLine said:

You can set the time of day instead of Random. Once you set it, unless you change it back, it remembers that choice. 

I do agree Random tends to put aircraft in positions they shouldn't be in like a Fw 190A in the dead of night attacking 4 infantry units. 

That was the point, it makes random too risky to use, especially given the loading times. Hence the desire for more options as suggested above.

Edited yesterday at 08:42 AM by Baldrick33

[Weta43]

I suspect when you're generating a random start time you're probably already using a randbetween(0,1) function or its equivalent anyway.

If that's the case giving the user more control would require virtually no coding, just 2 input boxes and pass the variables back so the user can enter something like randbetween[(0.25,0.75) {06:00 - 18:00}] to get day, [(0.25,0.375) {06:00-09:00}] for the morning etc...

If the plan is to make the QAG simple to use, set the defaults to (0.250,0.667)