[Nocturnum]

Hi again,
You know, this really is a nice map already. I've been flying over various parts trying to get this mission working and have often paused to admire the scenery.

MY PROBLEM
I can't get a Player flight to take off! It always airstarts! Can anyone repeat this problem I'm having? It must be something I'm doing.


At Henderson AF on Guadalcanal I have set two flights of fighters to take off from the main airfield's largest airstrip. One of these flights is player controlled. I also have another flight set to take off from the smaller separate airfield. Both AI flights appear on the tarmac in the correct place but no matter what I do the player's flight always airstarts.

I've tried this many times and I swear I've set the waypoints correctly. I have switched the player's flight between all three fighter flights and every time the player's flight airstarts. I have also tried every permutation of flight/runway assignments.

Curious to see if it was due to the number of flights/planes, I selected a Japanese seaplane located at a cool seaplane strip miles and miles away as the player's flight. I had watched it before and it always started in the water. When i tried this option all three of the abovementioned fighter flights spawned on the tarmac as they should have done yet the Japanese seaplane AIRSTARTED!!!

Next I tried changing one of teh fighter units to a divebomber unit - the SBD-5 - to see if it was related to plane-type AI. The same problem happened.

Finally I shifted the player flight in the SBD flight to one of the northernmost airstrips on the map, set it to take off from the little runway perched on teh edge of the beach. Sure enough - airstart. The fighter flights and the IJN seaplane all started on the ground or water.

It may be that the mission itself has got some kind of corruption in it so tomorrow I'll try to open the map and make a fresh mission.

Could someone else try this out to see if anythingn similar occurs? I'm sure someone would have spotted this already if it were really a bug. I'd only used airstarts prior to tonight so hadn't encountered this problem.

Anyway, I'll leave you with some images of MacWan's lovely RNZAF skins showing the planes nicked off the obliging US forces by scrounging NZ airmen.