[PL_Harpoon]

Well... I have a little problem with my red-alert mission.
I wanted to create a "mission" which take place in two systems, so I made two missions. In the first one, I added a red-alert SEXP, when the player presses Alt-J. In the same time I ordered all allied ships (about 15, all wingmens) to warp out. The second one was a red alert mission. Then I made a campaign to test it.
So, I finished the first one (3 allied ships was destroyed) and everything worked fine, but when i started the second, 2 wings (8 ships) was already destroyed. Not to mention, one of them was guardianed in a previous mission. So, I changed the first mission, that, instead of adding red-alert SEXP, when Alt-j is pressed, i added it when the mission is complete.
It worked, but is there a way, I could do a red-alert mission, when player actually starts warp-out sequence?

PS. The strange thing is, it doesn`t work even when (due to never-warp SEXP or "no subspace drive ") you cannot warp. But, when I add a force-warp event to the mission complete event everything works just fine.
So, is the red-alert somehow linked to alt-j sequence?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Well there are ways 2 things I can think of off the top of my head.  First one probably won't work buy you could try putting red-alert in the has-departed-delay alpha 1 event.  Second is using persistent variables for the ships and not doing a red-alert.  Just store the hull strength of the ships to variables and have the ships arrive if the the variable for that ship is > 0.  Of course this has the downside to not preserving the the status of subsystems. 

Probably some easy way but I've never really messed around with red-alert missions.  Maybe I'll play with it tonight.

[PL_Harpoon]

Ok, I fugured everything uot and it was my fault. I should add "red-alert carry status" to my whole unit.
When I did it, i can do everything, jump out, end mission, force-warp etc...
Oh, and putting red-alert in has-departed-delay event doesn`t work, because the mission is over, when it gets red-alert status.
Thanks for the help anyway.

[Snail]

Try
key-pressed
Alt+J

[PL_Harpoon]

Yeah, after I added "red-alert carry status" it works that way.

[CP5670]

Try
key-pressed
Alt+J

This works especially well if you know what ship the player has. You can time it so that the red alert kicks in just before the subspace warp closes.

[Colonol Dekker]

Just break the drive at the start and still use the red-alert and use a fade to white to simulate the jump.