Thread: What makes a good mission?

What makes a good mission? TG Mission Team... stay tuned its coming..

Something I read that made me think of this topic. What makes a good experience. Quote: 1. Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernible and goals are attainable and align appropriately with one's skill set and abilities). 2. Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentration on a limited field of attention (a person engaged in the activity will have the opportunity to focus and to delve deeply into it). 3. A loss of the...

Quote: Originally Posted by GeneralCarver If we got a 40 player mission and they hit a beach defended with even 60 a.i. it will be lag-o-ramma. Even the best ArmA 2 servers can't handle it. ArmA engine just can't push that type of activity. Recreating the opening scenes of SPR is probably not within ArmA2's remit - but it is perfectly possible to run a mission with playercounts of 40+ that feature 60+ AI whilst maintaining a...

I see carver. I made such a mission with my total lack of editor and scripting knowledge in OFP . So I thought it would be do-able on ARMA2. Pity. THat is something to wait for in future games.

Last night I heard some pretty harsh "criticism" of various missions, and some gushing "love" of some other missions. One of the responses was that they did not like "generic infantry assault town" missions (the mission being played was infantry defending a factory, but anyways). Mission editing takes a considerable amount of time, it's not something that you do to a mission type/game...

Well as seeing how much of the criticism seems to be leveled at my missions in particular I thought would try to explain my motivation in making the decisions I do so that other people can voice their opinions and create some constructive criticism. First off my missions are designed to simulate a full blown military conflict between two superpowers in the 1985-1990 era. This alone changes many of the assumptions that people hold about...

In my mind, a good mission is one in which a mission designer does not need to explain the rationalization behind why it is the way it is. This, in principle, is exactly why I dislike Falcon's thematic co-op campaigns: although the idea behind them is often interesting, the implementation is such that the enjoyability of the mission is superseded by the mission designer's intent. In short, a good mission is one in which no...

I was the one saying I hated "generic infantry assault town" missions. I wasn't saying this out of the blue, it was in response to some criticism of F16TAC missions. The complete line was "I hate generic infantry-attack-town missions, but I don't voice that often". I wasn't criticizing the mission choice, as I actually quite like F16TAC missions, I was just (hopefully light-heartedly)...

To me a good mission involves challenging conditions, and replayability. A good example are some of Beta's maps and Falcon's (wac maps i think), some happen at night, do not give unlimited supplies, include cool scripts like disposable at-4/rpg18 and paraflares/tripflares, etc... I just played a Wac mission (grozovoy pass, or something), the map (briefing) was good, with LOA's, some info on the larger ops (other platoons) and...

TIME: A good non-respawn mission should last no longer than an hour. A good respawn mission should last no longer than 2 or 3 hours. GEAR: This is where i disagree with falcon the most. I think that you should have a limited number of scoped weapons(2 or so per squad). I to think ammo should be limited especially for AT weapons, I have to agree that no-NVGs is awsome except for pilots. IMO maps should be given to the lowers. It doesnt add...