intel system

[jtoppins]

Intel System

Request

As described in the player UI documentation[1] implement the needed functions to affect the described Intel maps.

[1] https://github.com/jtoppins/dct/blob/master/doc/01-playerui.md#intel-menu

Goal

Provide a way for players to participate in the gathering of intel and refinement of coordinates that result in more detailed and accurate briefings in follow-on missions.

Execution

Provide ways of improving situational awareness of a given coalition;

1. allow players fly reconnaissance flights
   • These recon flights will automatically "reveal" various assets with the level on intel gained proportional to the level of risk (distance) the recon flight must get to an asset
   • recon flights as part of their mission criteria must return to base before the intel they have gathered is revealed to the rest of the team
2. allow players to provide 'pireps' via use placed F10 marks to identify location and type of enemy assets
   • use a syntax to identify the type of asset and what kind of type
     • Example: "PIREP SAM SA2"

Questions

• how/can the player generated intel feed into the AI system? This being mission assignment and target list generation
• What kind of intel needs to be reported?
  • The fact someone was "mud spiked" or launched on?
  • that a player sees a factory/ammo dump previously not known?
    • how does the player communicate the efficacy of the location and the self reported accuracy of the report?
• does this intel influence how missions are assigned?
• does this intel, specifically recon missions, inform BDA instead of the perfect information system that is currently in effect for reporting when a strike mission is complete?
• how can players 'cheeze' the system?
  • for the PIREPS they could be abused by exposing or hiding information, some examples; Assume the following abuse prevention critera are in place
    1. Marks must be within 5NM radius of the asset type claimed or the pirep is considered invalid
    2. Marks identifying the same type of asset cannot be within 10NM of another pirep, otherwise it replaces the previous report
  • Example of Abuse/Exploit
    • Example 1: information leakage
    • An abusive player can place marks on the map until until the ones that fall within 5NM are accepted thus exposing locations without having done any real work
    • Example 2: information loss
    • A trolling player could intentionally degrade the accuracy of a previous mark by placing a mark next to it, thereby loosing coordinate accuracy
  • Mitigations?
    • if the player is not in the air and within X miles of the report it is considered not valid?
    • instead of overriding a previous report incorporate with the previous intel and take the centroid thereby increasing the accuracy over time To provide a confidence level to the intel track how many times different units reported the similar location for the same type of asset. This also implies using the scratchpad so it moderates how quickly a player can enter data to influence the reporting.

[Moguy164]

i've seen players mark targets they find on missions, what you could do is save that mark, and then it's kept on next restart, maybe assigning it to the target's mission could also improve it, i don't know if it's possible, but could you not make it that if a mark is set within a set distance of unit/area, then it can assign that mark to a mission and remove it once complete