I get zero points flying my own missions

[wolle]

I have been trying to design my own missions using the mission editor. I start with simple missions, and then make them more and more complex. At various stages I test fly the missions, and get some non-zero score for destroying enemy units. So far so good, but from some moment in time on I keep getting a zero score. So, I thought maybe the last addition of complexity to the mission messed up the scoring system, so I delete the new part and fly it again. I again get a zero score. From that moment on I can delete whatever I want from the mission, no matter what I get a zero score for flying the mission.

 

What is wrong? I want to find out, because I don't want to upload missions to the User Files for which people get a zero score for flying them.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. What are possible reasons why you would get a zero score while destroying enemy units? (I do not destroy any friendly units, of course).

[Charlie_01]

What score are you talking about?

There are goal points that you set by yourself in mission goals and single unit points that depends from enemy units' destruction and they are by default.

[wolle]

Charlie,

 

Thanks for your reply. I am talking about the score that shows up on the screen after exiting a single player mission, that is the third number from the top in the middle column under the heading "general debriefing".

 

To be honest, I am not sure which of the scores that is, but I would assume those are the individual unit points. This brings me to another question: I could never figure out where the score for the mission goals shows up. If I set 100 points mission score for destroying a group of tanks, I do not get these points awarded if I destroyed all those tanks, I mean it doesn't show up in the middle debriefing column I described above. How and where does this mission score show up, is it simply added to the individual unit scores? If so, then that feature does not seem to work on my computer...

[EtherealN]

Have you set any mission goals in the ME?

[wolle]

EtherealN,

 

I tried it both ways, with or without assigning mission points in the ME. My experience is the following: start with simple mission, I get score if I test fly it, then make mission more complicated, at some point suddenly I get zero score, then I remove the things that made the mission more complicated, still keep getting zero scores. I have designed three missions recently, this phenomenon happened each time.

 

Another question: does the way you assign points in the ME affect the individual unit scores?

 

Another question: is the score you get for killing a unit a fixed number, or does it depend on the environment. E.g. if there are many enemy SAMs around protecting that unit, do you get a higher score?