[karajorma]

Originally posted by Flipside
I think taking the intelligence of AI wingmen for granted is an easy mistake to make. Attack-any-ship is a dangerous sexp in the hands of the uninitiated

That's true. I had one mission I made once where I placed a ship 100,000m away only to notice a group of Mara's ignore the main battle and fly off to attack it

[Annorax]

I get to plead not guilty because I haven't FREDded anything yet.

I laughed my ass off at this... now when I finally get off my ass and learn to do something, I'm going to plant the GTD suck my balls and a wing of Dragons named Cockmonger into a mission for Karajorma to playtest.

Shouldn't overuse of medal and promotion granting SEXPs be in there too? I seem to remember a campaign I played on FS2 retail that was like four missions, I played with a new pilot on Easy, and I was a goddamn Captain by the time I was done with it. Either that Demon I took out was worth about 200k, or the fredder was an idiot.

[kasperl]

If it was DEM, then it was for comedy.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Annorax
I get to plead not guilty because I haven't FREDded anything yet.

I laughed my ass off at this... now when I finally get off my ass and learn to do something, I'm going to plant the GTD suck my balls and a wing of Dragons named Cockmonger into a mission for Karajorma to playtest.

Sounds like fun but I only playtest for the FRED Academy and MindGames teams now Too much work otherwise.

When it's finished that will be a different matter

Originally posted by Annorax
Shouldn't overuse of medal and promotion granting SEXPs be in there too? I seem to remember a campaign I played on FS2 retail that was like four missions, I played with a new pilot on Easy, and I was a goddamn Captain by the time I was done with it. Either that Demon I took out was worth about 200k, or the fredder was an idiot.

While I agree that it's dreadul I didn't include it in this list because

a) It's more of a mission design flaw than a technical flaw and the list was meant to point out the mistakes people make when actually FREDding.
b) It's not that common a mistake (just hugely obvious when it does occur).

If I ever do a top 13 errors of mission design though I'll probably include it along with things like thinking that including 5 Saths and 4 Colossi is a good idea

[Nuclear1]

Originally posted by KappaWing
If you look at my missions, you'll see event names like "poop" or "BeamzAhhhh!!!!"

I laughed my ass off at this... now when I finally get off my ass and learn to do something, I'm going to plant the GTD suck my balls and a wing of Dragons named Cockmonger into a mission for Karajorma to playtest.

These two posts made my day