Max_Caine Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 ...and not getting very far. At first, I thought the chance of an escort appearing was connected to a percentage chance for an escort happening. However, this doesn't seem to be true. I set up the AM_AirSuperority mission to appear very early on (when the ticker hits 10, or 3 game days in) and fiddled with various escort chance settings, from 10 to 1000, and it didn't matter what it was set to, no escorts would appear. Thinking it might be that escorts can only appear after a given boundary, I then set AM_AirSuperiority to appear later (100), and played through for a game month. No escorts appeared. For the same reasons, the escort chance isn't linked to the ticker, either. I'm currently looking to see if the escort chance is linked to the players' score, perhaps escorts can only appear when the player has accumulated enough points. I'll get back to you on that. However, I did find out that the AirSuperiority mission is only initally triggered when you shoot down your first aircraft. So... that's something! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 The air superiority missions do normally have multiple craft don't they? I haven't played the latest version much recently, can't remember. If they normally do and all you have changed is the ticker level to trigger the mission then that must be the problem. Have you tried leaving the ticker set to 500, playing until you start getting those missions spawn and then altering other settings to see what affect they have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max_Caine Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 The air superiority missions do have escort craft. In fact, they are currently notorious for having escort craft. The two values I have mostly fiddled with are escort chance and the mission start ticker. I boosted the base chance of the mission occuring (up to 70) so I can rapidly try out new ideas, and (to start with) decreased the mission start ticker so I could see the effect of any changes early on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Did you have any more luck with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max_Caine Posted October 4, 2012 Author Share Posted October 4, 2012 Well... yes and no. I set the ticker and the escort chance back to the values they were before I started messing around with them. Then I just shot down UFOs while waiting for the airsuperiority missions to start. BUT. When they did start (at the tail end of the first month, as expected), the first air supriority fighter to turn up had no escort! So, just in case this is a result of me twiddling files, I'm doing a clean re-install and trying again, to see if ground mission score is somehow tied to escort chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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