[CommanderDJ]

So, yeah. Say I've got two missions, one leading into the other via red alert. If I've got the second mission flagged as a Red Alert Mission in Mission Specs, does the first mission need to end via the red-alert SEXP for it to work properly, or can I just have the player warp out normally with a debriefing etc and lead into the second mission that way?
Thanks,
CommanderDJ

[Droid803]

You need to use the red-alert SEXP, but you can trigger it off a few seconds after the player pressing say, Alt-J

[FUBAR-BDHR]

You can also carry stuff via variables. 

[Rodo]

From previous experiences I can say that Red Alert is kinda buggy, I would recommend you to use variables to carry stuff to the next mission.

[TopAce]

Depends how much you want to carry over. If it's a few larger ships, then it's quite manageable, if it's a whole fleet - that's gonna take a while to script. It's not very complicated, but a VERY boring endeavor.

[Rodo]

True, but for the record FREDing is not that fun anyway  

[General Battuta]

True, but for the record FREDing is not that fun anyway  

you LIE

* General Battuta painstakingly handwrites 100 arguments

so much joy and laughter

[Rodo]

My statement does not apply to robot-like life forms, nor supar AI's

[General Battuta]

these tears are tears of happiness

*snerk*

infinite happiness

[CommanderDJ]

Lol. I'm just carrying over the player's status (hull, ammo). Nothing major.

[General Battuta]

Use vars. Red alert is stupid and buggy.

[Droid803]

Use vars. Red alert is stupid and buggy.

But it shouldn't be. If its buggy it should be fixed, seeing as it is a retail feature...

[CommanderDJ]

Has it been buggy since retail? Or is it something to do with the SCP upgrades?

[Droid803]

Something to do with the SCP upgrades I'd reckon. Something broke somewhere along the way, resulting in a whole bunch of red-alert missions not working anymore.

[The E]

Please stop speculating about bugs, and start an effort to find them. We need test cases, people.

[TopAce]

The bug has long been found. It's already the SCP's turn. So far they have failed to eliminate this bug.

[Solatar]

What is specifically wrong with it? "Buggy" is pretty nonspecific.

For those of us who don't get to play much anymore and don't seem to have the same "sense" of the problem. 

[General Battuta]

The bug has long been found. It's already the SCP's turn. So far they have failed to eliminate this bug.

What's the Mantis ticket number?

[karajorma]

The bug has long been found. It's already the SCP's turn. So far they have failed to eliminate this bug.

Cause so far they haven't been entered into Mantis.

A search for the word "Alert" found only two bugs that hadn't been fixed. One was a duplicate of one which has been (and no one said it was still a problem) and the other one required a very specific set of circumstances which don't occur in retail missions and really should be considered more of a feature than a bug.

So it's not the SCP's turn yet.

[Goober5000]

It's more that the red-alert code needs a general rewrite, as it was poorly designed and took numerous shortcuts that it shouldn't have.  Its problems were evident way back when the original Silent Threat was released in 1998.

It's just like the asteroid code rewrite or (moving to a larger scale) the collision code rewrite -- someone just needs to bite it off and start chewing.  Hopefully the job will become easier now that Taylor's pilot file upgrade has been completed.