FOB strucutres can't be repaired and the player can't target them.
SAMs are targeted by DEAD already, so considering them for strike double
plans the mission.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/686
DCS features a massive range of aircraft and land vehicles, and not all of them make their role(s) clear just from the name alone. What this commit does is add an "information" button (and resultant window) to the recruitment section. This should allow new players to understand what each unit is/does.
Current state - every aircraft has a country of origin and an introduction date for that variant. Some also have a small placeholder description, taken from ED's store page for that aircraft. There is also a placeholder picture (taken from a rejected image from my own personal photography) that will, in time, show a banner image of each unit.
Todo - add appropriate screenshots for each aircraft's banner, replace the placeholder text for each aircraft (this will take a while...) and add more data points for each unit type, such as a unit role (i.e. "air-superiority fighter", "multirole fighter", etc) or perhaps a list of weapons carried. I also haven't made a start on the huge number of ground units yet.
The default loadout is now displayed whenever the custom loadout checkbox is unchecked.
The custom loadout is reset when the custom loadout is checked, to force the user to be prescriptive about the loadout.
Contributes-to: Khopa/dcs_liberation#725
This makes the names of the aircraft displayed to the player in the UI more verbose and readable.
It allows allows specific countries to display an aircraft's name differently. An example of this would be the JF-17 Thunder, which is known in China as the FC-1 Fierce Dragon - this now displays correctly in the Liberation UI.
Follow up work:
* Data entry. I plan to do the air-to-air missiles in the near term. I
covered some variants of the AIM-120, AIM-7, and AIM-9 here, but there
are variants of those weapons for each mounting rack that need to be
done still, as well as all the non-US weapons.
* Arbitrary start dates.
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/490
If there are not airbases withing ferry range with available parking for
the aircraft then the aircraft will be captured and sold. Otherwise the
aircraft will retreat to the closest available airbase.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/693
If the captured base has no connection to other friendly objectives (the
base was encircled) then the enemy equipment will be captured and sold.
Otherwise the units will retreat toward connected bases.
Partial fix for https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/693.
Still need to fix this for air units.
Inexact name matching targets the first group that partially matches the
given group name. aa|71 will match aa|7.
The inexact match that was here was only needed for an early attempt to
use skynet where group names were not used consistently. That's no
longer a problem so we don't need this workaround.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/676
(cherry picked from commit 89f313295e6be36ad0fd6db08907006c25a7d187)
Inexact name matching targets the first group that partially matches the
given group name. aa|71 will match aa|7.
The inexact match that was here was only needed for an early attempt to
use skynet where group names were not used consistently. That's no
longer a problem so we don't need this workaround.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/676
On station time for CAP is only 30 minutes, so plan three cycles to give
~90 minutes of CAP coverage.
Default starting budget has increased significantly to account for the
greatly increased aircraft needs on turn 1.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/673
We were never resetting the dead state for repaired SAMs. Rather than
tracking that manually, determine liveness from the number of units left
alive.
For building objectives where the group is not assigned to the TGO until
*mission* generation time we still need manual tracking.
(cherry picked from commit d3b1f6110f23b72c67d2ab86585087115004390d)
We were never resetting the dead state for repaired SAMs. Rather than
tracking that manually, determine liveness from the number of units left
alive.
For building objectives where the group is not assigned to the TGO until
*mission* generation time we still need manual tracking.
Some SAMs have multiple groups (such as an SA-10 group with its
accompanying SA-15 and SA-19 groups). This shows each group's threat and
detection separately on the map, and also makes it so that an SA-10 with
dead radars will no longer contribute to the threat zone just because
the shilka next to it still has a functioning radar.
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/647
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/672
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
* Add enemy air and ground unit reports.
* Changes the summary to be a comparison of relative strengths rather
than raw enemy numbers.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/658
(cherry picked from commit 3bdf1377c0d7d375ae3f48e377c2e6da8cfef77b)
