[IPAndrews]

The problem:

You have a wing called "Wing" which consists of 1 fighter (yes I know it's dumb but it's just an example case). That wing has 6 waves. It launches from a carrier ship called "Carrier".

How do you detect that the wing has been dealt with (destroyed/departed/can no longer affect the mission) when there is the potential for the carrier to be destroyed before all of the waves of the wing are launched?

Existing code:

This is what I have at the moment.
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event called "wing destroyed"
when-argument
   every-of
        Wing 1
        Wing 2
        Wing 3
        Wing 4
        Wing 5
        Wing 6
or
     and
           has-arrived <argument>
           is-departed-or-destroyed <argument>
     and
           not
                 has-arrived <argument>
           or
                 is-subsystem-destroyed
                      "Carrier"
                      "fighterbay"
                 is-destroyed-or-departed
                       "Carrier"
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My question. Can anyone come up with something less bloated that achieves the same thing?

[Al Tarket]

i have wondered the same thing, ive had to compromise my 1st campaign a few times before it was destroyed. everytime i want to get some fighters out their i have to have them launched as asson as the mission starts.

take for example the PVN Pinnacle which launched the Elimini wing and Takami wing. their are supposed to be 4 waves each but the objective was destroyed and the pinnacle warps out leaving 2 waves missing and hence the objective remains uncompleted. the only way around it is by putting them from ship dock to warp in.

[Black Wolf]

Maybe use destroyed-or-departed-delay and every-of sexps to modify variables? When every ship in wing one is destroyed or departed, add ne to "Wings-gone" variable. When Wings-gone > 5, all the ships are dead, or flick the variable up to seven when the carrier is destroyed and 8 when the fighterbay is destroyed?

I think. Though It's kind of hard to understand exactly what you want.

[IPAndrews]

I think. Though It's kind of hard to understand exactly what you want.[/bw]

Some smaller code that achieves the same thing that's all . The counters idea is a good one. It will be interesting to see if the counter variable version is as compact as the complex logic version above. Anybody want to post some code?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

I believe you can just use destroyed-or-departed-delay and the wing name.  I think that sexp takes into account the remaining wings not being able to arrive and returns true.