Hi all.
I completed the stock Volition walkthrough for FRED2, but after going back to fix some issues, I've realized I'm stumped about a couple of things - specifically, chained events. It's probably so simple that I'm just overlooking it, but I'm having trouble understanding.
The series of events that controls Sleipner wing docking with the Relentless has me boggled. This is not about the events themselves, but how the chaining controls the execution. For example, if I have only the events "Sleipner 3 going in" and "Sleipner 4 going in" chained, the Sleipner wing behaves as expected during the mission. If I keep those chained, as well as chain in "Sleipner 2 going in" and then destroy Sleipner 1, the other three ships just sit still. That way to me seems to make more logical sense since we only want these events to occur once the others have completed. This is why I'm thinking my understanding of chained events is just plain wrong.
Also, let's take the scenario that Sleipner 2 is docked with the Relentless, and then a fighter takes out Sleipner 3. Since "Sleipner 4 going in" would be true at this point, how does Sleipner 2 being docked prevent that "Sleipner 4" event from occurring? It works that way if I only have the events for 3 and 4 chained. According to the freddocs, this is why chaining is necessary here, but I just don't understand how it's affecting it the way it does.
I had one additional question not related to the chained events (or maybe it is). I wanted to make a scornful debriefing for the player if he jumps out to early, and used the "Relentless out of picture" (figuring it would be false if mission was ongoing) event to evaluate for that, but I get a "no debriefing avaiable for mission" message when I try to test that. What am I doing wrong here? I do have my "Relentless out of picture" event chained to the final return to base event, so maybe it does have to do with the chaining.
Thanks for any help!