CAP List:
[+] Mig-21 #1372
[+] Su-34
[moved up] F-15C above the F-14 (probably contentious to some but IMO the AI never capitalizes on the AIM-54 range and the Eagle AI seems to do better in general)
[moved up] JF-17
[moved up] Gripen
[moved down] Su-33
[moved down] Su-27
[moved down] MiG-31
[moved down] MiG-25
[moved down] MiG-29G
[moved down] MiG-29A
* Downgraded MiGs and Sukhois that do not have Fox-3s due to this disadvantage. From personal experience, the 31s and 25s also won't use the longer range of their Fox-1s to warrant for a higher spot on the list.
CAS/BAI List:
[+] Su-33 #1367
[-] Su-24MR (dedicated recce platform, no AG munitions)
[moved up] Su-34
[moved down] Mig-19P
[moved down] UH-1
Strike List:
[-] Su-24MR (dedicated recce platform, no AG munitions)
[moved up] JF-17
[moved up] Harrier
Runway Attack List:
[+] Mirage 2000C
This is as much as we can do until pydcs actually adds the py.typed
file. Once that's added there are a few ugly monkey patching corners
that will just need `# type: ignore` for now, but we can't pre-add those
since we have mypy warning us about superfluous ignore comments.
Mod selection is now done via checkbox in the new game wizard.
The MB-339 is being turned into a paid module, and the free mod no longer works, so it's been removed.
This is an attempt to remove a lot of our supposedly unnecessary error
handling. Every aircraft should have a price, a description, a name,
etc; and none of those should require carrying around the faction's
country as context.
This moves all the data for aircraft into yaml files (only one converted
here as an example). Most of the "extended unit info" isn't actually
being read yet.
To replace the renaming of units based on the county, we instead
generate multiple types of each unit when necessary. The CF-18 is just
as much a first-class type as the F/A-18 is.
This doesn't work in its current state because it does break all the
existing names for aircraft that are used in the faction and squadron
files, and we no longer let those errors go as a warning. It will be an
annoying one time switch, but it allows us to define the names that get
used in these files instead of being sensitive to changes as they happen
in pydcs, and allows faction designers to specifically choose, for
example, the Su-22 instead of the Su-17.
One thing not handled by this is aircraft task capability. This is
because the lists in ai_flight_planner_db.py are a priority list, and to
move it out to a yaml file we'd need to assign a weight to it that would
be used to stack rank each aircraft. That's doable, but it makes it much
more difficult to see the ordering of aircraft at a glance, and much
more annoying to move aircraft around in the priority list. I don't
think this is worth doing, and the priority lists will remain in their
own separate lists.
This includes the converted I used to convert all the old unit info and
factions to the new format. This doesn't need to live long, but we may
want to reuse it in the future so we want it in the version history.
This Pull Request lets users plan Tanker flights.
Features:
- Introduction of `Refueling` flight type.
- Tankers can be purchased at airbases and carriers.
- Tankers get planned by AI.
- Tankers are planned from airbases and at aircraft carriers.
- Tankers aim to be at high, fast, and 70 miles from the nearest threat.
(A10s won't be able to tank)
- Tankers racetrack orbit for one hour.
- Optional Tickbox to enable legacy tankers.
- S-3B Tanker added to factions.
- KC-130 MPRS added to factions.
- Kneeboard shows planned tankers, their tacans, and radios.
Limitations:
- AI doesn't know whether to plan probe and drogue or boom refueling
tankers.
- User can't choose tanker speed. Heavily loaded aircraft may have
trouble.
- User can't choose tanker altitude. A-10s will not make it to high
altitude.
Problems:
- Tanker callsigns do not increment, see attached image. (Investigated:
Need to use `FlyingType.callsign_dict`, instead of just
`FlyingType.callsign`. This seems like it might be significant work
to do.).
- Having a flight of two or more tankers only spawns one tanker.
- Let me know if you have a solution, or feel free to commit one.
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/74509817/120909602-d7bc3680-c633-11eb-80d7-eccd4e095770.png
Many of the aircraft that we use for DEAD are not actually capable of
the SEAD task in DCS, so they were being loaded as some other task type,
usually one that doesn't support Attack Group, which made them lose
their waypoint actions and do nothing.
This switches them to using CAS which supports a superset of the SEAD
capable aircraft.
I've also audited the SEAD/DEAD lists. The F-117 was removed because it
is not capable of Attack Group *at all*, and all the non-SEAD aircraft
that are capable of ground attack moved from SEAD to DEAD.
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/1086
Still a work in progress (the missions don't actually perform their task, just orbit). Currently:
* AEW&C aircraft can be bought.
* AEW&C missions can be planned at any control point and at front lines.
* AEW&C will return after 4H or Bingo.
Also separate out SEAD and DEAD taskings. Some aircraft can DEAD but not SEAD.
Also make the recruitment menu use the pretty names in the alphabetical sort func.
Rather than randomly selecting compatible aircraft for missions, perfer
the *best* aircraft for the job. This removes the "preferred" lists in
favor of sorting the capable lists in priority order. To maintain some
amount of variety the procurer has a 50/50 chance of buying when it
finds a match.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/510
AI aircraft purchase decisions are now driven by the missions that the
flight planner was unable to fulfill. This way we're buying the aircraft
we actually need instead of buying them at random, in the locations we
need them, in the order they're needed.
There's a bit more that could be improved here:
* Unused aircraft could be ferried to where they would be more useful.
* Partial squadrons could be completed rather than buying a whole flight
at a time.
* Aircraft could be ranked by their usefulness so we're not buying so
many Hueys when a Hornet would do better.
* Purchase a buffer of CAP capable aircraft in case too many are shot
down and they are not available next turn.
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/361
