Problems in mission generator

[Raffson]

Affected versions

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Description

Running a standard Golan Heights campaign with no changes except for auto-purchase/repair options I've noticed a number of issues in the past. I've decided to investigate this a little further and I concluded the following:

1. There's a 2-ship Su-17 flight that spawns inside one another, sending them both down to the ground.
2. A whole lot of flights are spawning in-flight over Marj Ruhayyil (including the one above), but they seem to be entering a holding pattern to land. As soon as I touch them in the mission editor, i.e. simply clicking on them, the mission seems to somehow repair itself and those flights actually start flying towards their holding point. However, the mission suggests the "holding" stops at 12:57 (mission starts at 12), and I can also find a trigger to push a given group's task, so I wonder if these flights aren't spawning in too soon.
3. Point 2 applies to both sides, I've had a similar issue with another campaign while testing the Su-30 mod.
4. Trying to start a given aircraft from the ramp puts it at Damascus, so that means there's no more room at Marj Ruhayyil, which explains why so many aircraft are starting in-flight. However that still doesn't explain why those flights are entering a holding pattern to land unless I "touch" them in the ME.

This suggests there's 2 problems to be tackled:

• To avoid collisions, I recommend introducing a random altitude offset of about 1000ft upward, pretty much what I wanted to do in #2212 for the minimum AGL altitude
• Avoid flights spawning in-flight from entering a holding pattern to land, and if applicable fix the "spawning too soon" problem. Mind that this could potentially solve the first problem, until the next "collided spawn" occurs of course.

Save game and other files

GH-standard-v6.zip

[Starfire13]

This is a long-term problem with that campaign because a lot of the parking spots at Marj Ruhayyil are not suitable for larger aircraft but Pydcs doesn't differentiate between parking spots of different sizes, so when aircraft get assigned a parking spot it can't fit in, DCS force-spawns them in mid-air over the runway at the exact same coordinates.

[Raffson]

Pydcs doesn't differentiate between parking spots of different sizes

I just looked at pydcs and there's definitely extra info available that we're not using, definitely something I'll be looking at.