The difficulty settings in the stock Foothold Config.lua (that can be kept outside of the miz so we can still update frequently) seems good for what we need?
-- ============================================================================
-- Difficulty Settings
-- ============================================================================
-- Valid values: "easy" | "medium" | "hard"
-- Here, you can adjust how many cap should spawn. medium, is the default (Balanaced)
CapDifficulty = "medium" -- RED CAP amount. This can be further custommized in the advance section.
CasDifficulty = "medium" -- RED CAS amount. This can be further custommized in the advance section.
SeadDifficulty = "medium" -- RED SEAD amount. This can be further custommized in the advance section.
RunwayStrikeDifficulty = "medium" -- RED RUNWAYSTRIKE amount. This can be further custommized in the advance section.
FriendlyCapSupport = "medium" -- BLUE CAP support limit. This can be further custommized in the advance section.
FriendlyCasSupport = "medium" -- BLUE CAS support limit. This can be further custommized in the advance section.
FriendlySeadSupport = "medium" -- BLUE SEAD support limit. This can be further custommized in the advance section.
AiPlaneSkill = "Random"
-- AI skill used for spawned airplanes Red only (MOOSE SPAWN:InitSkill).
-- Valid: "Average", "Good", "High", "Excellent", "Random" (case-insensitive). Unknown values become "High".
AiGroundSkill = "Excellent"
-- AI skill used for spawned non-airplane units Red and blue share the same config value (ground/ship/etc) (MOOSE SPAWN:InitSkill).
-- Valid: "Average", "Good", "High", "Excellent", "Random" (case-insensitive). Unknown values become "High".
-- Controls whether SAM groups are hidden on MFDs.
-- Valid values only: false | true | "random"
-- false = always shown on MFD
-- true = always hidden on MFD (default)
-- "random" = 50% chance hidden on each spawn
HideSAMOnMFD = true -- if random, use "random" (string)
-- ============================================================================
-- RED Reactive Counterpressure
-- ============================================================================
-- RED Reactive Counterpressure (simple explanation):
-- When BLUE players get close to RED frontline zones, RED starts reacting.
-- RED reaction has 2 parts:
-- 1) Soft reaction: RED speeds up some supply and Patrolling CAP groups for pressured RED zones.
-- 2) Hard reaction: RED can force-spawn attack groups to strike BLUE zones.
-- If you do NOT want red supplies groups to be boosted in speed to spawn faster, set softSupplyBoostPerZone to 0.
-- If you do NOT want red CAP groups to be boosted in speed to spawn faster, set softCapBoostPerZone to 0.
-- The coolDownSec is how often this stuff triggers, you can increase / decrease.
-- Valid values: "easy" | "medium" | "hard"
-- "Modern" or "Coldwar" ("Gulfwar" if the map is Iraq).
-- In the editor, Don't copy to all ships, make sure all planes in every warehouse are set to LIMITED!!!
Era = "Modern" -- does not work in Afghanistan or kola
-- If true: remove SA-10 and SA-11 (replaced by older SAMs).
NoSA10AndSA11 = false
-- There is no Pantsir or Tor M2 in the coldwar Era, but in modern, you can stil replace them.
-- If true: Pantsir and Tor M2 will be replaced with random groups, including SA-15, SA-19, SA-8 and SA-13.
NoTorM2AndPantsir = false
-- If true: SA-15 will be replaced by random groups, including SA-19, SA-8, SA-13 and SA-9.
NoSA15 = false
Anything else just seems gravy, but there is lots more to fiddle with if we want. Attached
Foothold Config.zip (12.0 KB)
There are switches in the config file to mitigate some of that such as making certain aircraft invisible to RED air. I’m not sure how vigorous that is..but there are things like being able to set the Harrier and A-10 to invisible..so either RED air doesn’t see them, or doesn’t count them in the equation to scale the mission towards harder as more clients join. I kind of liked it the way it was because some of my most exciting moments where getting into turning fights in the A-10A with an Su-25 or MiG-27 and 90% of the time dying..but occasionally scoring that oh-so-rare strike pilot air-to-air kill.
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