CMO RUNNING POLL - Gameplay feature requests

[Dimitris]

Hi Dimitris,

If you have a pattern or lines of buoys you should be able to tell which ones are reporting a return and the strength.
That would indicate the real area of interest that could then be focused upon. On the other side of the coin, the sub would need to use tactics to avoid buoys. Perhaps reading Red Storm Rising was not the best briefing!

This already happens. Detections from buoys provide an AOU for each hit, which varies according to the buoy type (directional or omni). These successive AOUs are automatically merged (and steadily grow as a contact ages), providing you with the probable area of localization for the target sub.

So, again: Why bother with showing the signal strength? This is not Dangerous Waters, you are not a sonar/sonobuoy console operator, you are (at the lowest possible level of commanding) the ASW TAO of the ship/sub/aircraft.

[Knightpawn]

Some wish list functionalities (but I don't discount the possibility of my being totally blind and the feature is already included)

1. Allow for ENEMY ONLY range circles (both merged and not merged)
2. Allow for filtering out categories of units on map. For example it would be nice - especially at planning stage - to be able to see Radars only, or air defenses only, or naval units only, or bases only, etc.)

Just saying

[kahta]

It would be nice if there was a way to change the missile waypoints the same way a strike mission axis can be changed.

[Nikel]

Add graphic for exo-atmospheric interception.

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Source and explanation.

https://militarnyi.com/en/blogs/exoatmo ... er-israel/

[TempestII]

I know that this can be done via LUA, but it's beyond my capabilities (at least at the moment). The ability to link SAMs and other air defences to Sector Control Stations, C3M Bunkers etc, which means that destroying / heavily damaging one of these causes the SAM site to lose comms.

[thewood1]

It can be done several ways now...

1) with a full lua script. Most flexible, but most complex and risky to changes.

2) Using the event editor and one line of lua code outofcomms(unit). For a less experienced scenario designer, this is the easiest and most stable approach.

3 Three sides all arrayed as friendly and neutral. The sides are Comm center, Shooters (SAM), and Eyes (early warning radar and observers). Just make sure the SAM and radar have UHF radios, they are spaced properly, and emcom is set. You can then kill the Comms center and if set up properly, the radar and the SAM, being on different neutral side, will lose comms. If someone is deadset against any lua, this is the way to go.

And there are combinations of these three. You can make it as complex or simple as you want as a designer. I used to use three a lot but have started using 2 a lot more as comms disruption was added to the consumer version. Of course there might be other and better ways to do it, but 2&3 are fairly simple and well within the capabilities of most scenario designers.

[BDukes]

Would it be possible to gate out the more obvious, unrefined, or inaccurate detections from the display? Not looking for perfection or advanced processing on phase one, just handling some of the more obvious things. Things like sub detection on land, ground, or facility contacts in water.

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There have been a number of tickets on the sub-contacts on land in the past.

M

[DWReese]

I would like to see a 3-plane Strike Package. There is a need for it. Right now there are 1, 2, and 4. Why not 3? There are times when two is not enough, and four is too many.

[tylerblakebrandon]

I do three commonly. Just set the flight size.

[Nikel]

Small QoL request, though perhaps it is a bug.

I see that it was working this way in CMANO.

Start Menu. Cursor of the mouse on the top right closing window X, red background to get a better visibility and an "close" text appears.

In CMO, no red background and no "close" text, the text is of the map, coordinates, depth, etc. that is in the background.

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[Quark73]

I would like to make following suggestions:

- the fireball of missiles should be turned off as soon the boost phase is over
- warheads and decoys that reach space should separate from missiles after end of boost phase (at least ICBM do so to my knowledge)
- missile tracking radars and satellites should calculate point of impact with decreasing area of uncertainty over time to give the player the choice to act or not depending on where the missile aims

[thewood1]

I thought the fireball was only on re-entry. I have never really looked in detail.

[Quark73]

I thought the fireball was only on re-entry. I have never really looked in detail.

Valid point. So there should be another fireball from 122 km downwards until it goes slower than below Mach 10 or so. But in between it should turn dark during its travel between boost phase and re-entry.

[Schr75]

QOL suggestion launching aircraft.

I would like to suggest that airbases would prioritize launching aircraft instead of recovering then as long as none of the returning A/C are critically low on fuel (or another set fuel limit), or at least reserve one runway, if there are more than one, to launches.

It can be a bit frustrating to see your strike package taxiing around on the ground while another strike is returning with plenty of fuel to stay in holding for a while, and the ATC won´t let them launch.

Thanks for considering this.

Søren

[Nikel]

Perhaps there is a way to do it, but do not know how.

Possibility to add more than one units to the scenario.

I want to add all the Poseidons available in the db, but right now have to do it one by one.

With control and shift keys could select all or more than one.

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As you have to choose where in the map you want to add the unit(s), perhaps you have to create an area before to fit several units?