Tips on contact acquisition in Baltic

[Trevally.]

Originally Posted by gap

Hi Trevally

Wouldn't be possible to get rid of the ridiculous merchant sinking requirements of the tutorial? If possible, I would entirely replace the tutorial with an improved version of your Baltic Operation mission, instead of linking them together.

I can change some of it

The cinematics, objective names and some actions would have to stay as they are scripted into the mission:-

def ShowNextObjectives( objective ):
 name = objective.ObjectiveName
        if name == "ReachObservationPeriscopeObjective":
  Mission.SetObjectiveAsHidden( GetObjectiveByName( "RotateObservationPeriscopeObjective" ), False )
        if name == "RotateObservationPeriscopeObjective":
  Mission.SetObjectiveAsHidden( GetObjectiveByName( "LockOnFirstShipObjective" ), False )
 if name == "LockOnFirstShipObjective":
  Mission.SetObjectiveAsHidden( GetObjectiveByName( "FireTorpedoObjective" ), False )
 if name == "FireTorpedoObjective":
  Mission.SetObjectiveAsHidden( GetObjectiveByName( "SelectNextTorpedoTubeObjective" ), False )
 #
 if name == "Sink the ship or fire all 4 torpedoes":
  #Mission.SetObjectiveAsHidden( GetObjectiveByName( "Sink 2 more ships to complete the objective" ), False )#it's done by triggers 
  Mission.SetObjectiveAsHidden( GetObjectiveByName( "OpenTAIObjective" ), False )
 if name == "OpenTAIObjective":
  Mission.SetObjectiveAsHidden( GetObjectiveByName( "PlotCourseToSecondShipObjective" ), False )
 if name == "PlotCourseToSecondShipObjective":
  Mission.SetObjectiveAsHidden( GetObjectiveByName( "Reach second ship area" ), False )
 if name == "Sink 2 more ships to complete the objective":
  Mission.SetObjectiveAsHidden( GetObjectiveByName( "Dock at Kiel" ), False )
  Mission.SetObjectiveAsHidden( GetObjectiveByName( "OpenNavigationMapObjective" ), False )
 if name == "OpenNavigationMapObjective":
  Mission.SetObjectiveAsHidden( GetObjectiveByName( "PlotCourseToKielObjective" ), False )
 if name == "PlotCourseToKielObjective":
  Mission.SetObjectiveAsHidden( GetObjectiveByName( "SetTimeCompressionTo1024Objective" ), False )
 if name == "SetTimeCompressionTo1024Objective":
  Mission.SetObjectiveAsHidden( GetObjectiveByName( "ReachKielObjective" ), False )
 ShowFeedbackForAllObjectives()

But these are set within an mis file and I can change that.
So we would need to come up with a tutorial that had the following points:-

1. goto obs scope
2. rotate scope
3. lock on target ship
4. fire torps
5. sink ships or fire x4 torps
6. open TIA
7. plot course (set waypoint)
8. sink 2 ships
9. use nav map
10. plot course to Kiel
11. set tcx 1024
12. reach Kiel

So many of these things are fixed, but some can be changed:-

1. Targets
2. map zones (possitions)
3. more or less units - any type