Some love for FOBs

[Mad_Max2]

I came across a pretty awesome resource that has all the known FOBs/OPs/PBs/Etc. in Afghanistan during OEF. 

Link: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/11ea962acdac4706a172d72f5de85781/

In a perfect world I would ask for you to model the dozens of FOB's found in Afghanistan during OEF, but that might be a bit much. Perhaps a handful of the bigger more well known FOBs could get that treatment, who knows.  

A more reasonable request imo would be to clear out the generic neighborhood assets that obstruct many of the FOB locations (leaving the footprint that is visible on the sat image) so that mission makers can build FOBs/OPs at their actual locations on a case by case basis.

Whatever the solution, a little love for the FOBs in Afghanistan during OEF would go a long way.

 

Edited June 7 by Mad_Max2

[razo+r]

As a workaround, until ED implements it themself:

There's already a trigger that lets you remove scenery objects, to clear an area of obstructions.

There are also already a few FOBs available as a template on the user file section.

[EricJ]

 I think there was mention of adding FOBs (I'll have to check your mission, even though I know where mine is) or something along those lines somewhere. I think NineLine responded, or something like that in a topic about FOBs. I tried looking for it, as the OP deleted it, or something like that. Anyway I found where I was deployed at, and may attempt a template or whatnot to mess with, but for now I'll just fly out of Jbad and see the sights.

[Weta43]

In the interests of making the map useful to people who don’t want to play as the US’s coalition during OEF, what say ED just make templates, distribute them through the user files section, and let users add 2000 - 2020 bases as they see fit ?

Maybe they could do some Soviet in-fill too…

[Mad_Max2]

I've seen a few posts now around the forum that really don't want FOBs included because it would limit the era of operations on this map to OEF.  If the Soviet-Afghan war is your thing then obviously that's what you're going to push for, which is cool, that's what forums are for.  I'm just making my case for leaning into OEF on this map and including some FOBs .  I in no way feel entitled to get my way.

- Based off the cities, infrastructure, and airfields the map appears to be modeled after modern day Afghanistan, not the 1980's.  Adding in some of the bigger/iconic FOBs isn't going to be anymore immersion breaking than the rest of the scenery on the map.
- The current blufor catalog would thrive in OEF based missions and campaigns, as most of them are modeled after aircraft in this time frame.
- Most of the other maps lean into specific eras and model certain things to build that atmosphere.  Not modeling things in order to keep it vague enough for multiple eras is a no win scenario imo.
- I'm assuming the remove scenery object trigger would work on any FOBs that would be put in, so if you really didn't want them you could get rid of them. 

To wrap this up I'll just refer back to my op.  I'm not asking for much, just a little love for FOBs.  In whatever form that may come.  I really think it would facilitate mission making on this map as many sorties revolved around supply/transport/cas for FOBs.    

[EricJ]

This. Templates are fine either way, but even now I don't fly the Afghanistan map as much as I'd like, and don't make missions to satisfy my need to relive days long past. Overall this isn't a shooter sandbox like another game I play, that's fine. Overall if I can at least put my former FOB on the map as a template I'm all for it.

Edited July 10 by EricJ