[DONE] Spawning missions at base coords

[Meridian]

no base defense missiles, no warning, no detection, no nothing

full surprise attack

[Solarius Scorch]

That's what I wanted, yes. (Assuming that the standard missionScripts flags work, so you don't get a hard mission on month 1, or before a certain research, etc.)

[Finnik]

would that new base defenses have own deployment properties, like breifing data?

[Meridian]

I don't know, I haven't done it yet.

[Finnik]

I faced that problem when making FTA, for nice solution it needs pretty invasive change so for my solution I end up with very dirty hack that is easy to code but even I don't like it  Base defense mission is very special, it uses both deployments (attacking ufo and base defense), where `data` is taking from attacking ufo and all other properties are taken from base defense deployment. So with that, we can change only all base defense at once, without having separate briefing for the special one.

[Solarius Scorch]

would that new base defenses have own deployment properties, like breifing data?

I certainly hope so, a separate deployment is necessary for, well, almost everything about my request. This includes custom info screens.

[wcho035]

I would like to support this feature. One day, I would like do to arch mission spawn from base. It is not base defense but can be, without the UFO.

I am thinking in the line of Stargate Command. Start at gate room in your base, step through the gate, next level is another planet and etc.

[Solarius Scorch]

Sorry, is this suggestion still being considered, or has it been dropped?

No rush, I am only asking to know if I should be accounting for such a possibility in the future.

[Meridian]

still todolisted

[Meridian]

I have implemented the above ideas in 3 separate independent features:

1. Instant retaliation: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,10808.0.html
(as a replacement for comm waves workaround)

2. Option for retaliation UFO to ignore base defenses: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,10809.0.html
(for alien attacks not targetable by ground-to-air defenses)

3. Mission sites at xcom base locations: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,10810.0.html
(for mission sites)

Hope that covers everything.

Please test carefully.

[Solarius Scorch]

Thank you very much, kind sir!