GrandBravo

Hi all, 
 
It always interest me how carefree everyone can play the missions on AWE and I&A. Side mission secure, return to base and rearm. AO complete, return to base and rearm. Its a complete back and forth activity with minimal pressure and excitement. Sometimes something interesting happens but those situations are mostly Zeus interactions. That's why I came up with this idea to make players scratch their heads and improvise on the spot. I've been working on this idea for quite a while but I have minimal to no programming experience in Arma 3. I'm hoping that AW will look at it and might consider this as a new game-mode to make AhoyWorld stand out compared to other Arma 3 communities.
 
Idea/story-line:
SpecOps, works in unknown territory. Gathering intel, securing or executing objectives. There are around 5 missions active (see it as side missions on I&A). Each mission is different form the other. Secure a chopper, destroy a radio tower, execute an officer, save a hostage... you name it. Some missions can be succeeded very easily (execute an officer, sniper team just kills him). But some missions may contain intel that you can find on the spot. These intel packages can trigger a random mission nearby that might be time based (a hostage is going to be executed within 10 minutes, rescue him!) or story based (We're known of general Copey's location, get him before he relocates!). This forces you to improvise because RTB might take too long. The Marine's are there to support the SpecOps if shit hits the fan, extracting the SpecOps/hostage/VIP or take care of secondary missions. The main goal of this idea is to put pressure on you and your teammates where critical decisions are made on the spot and RTB is not the next task after a mission. 
 
Start-up:
I can understand that this might be quite a challenge to program. That's why I suggest to start in steps. AW already have tons of scripts and programming experience due to the I&A and AWE servers. It might be possible to setup a trail server to test the basic and obtaining the opinion of the community. Divide the map in 4 a 5 sectors (like you guys did with the FOB's and the AO spawning near that FOB) and spawn in each sector a so called "side-mission". If that side mission in that sector is complete, a new side mission will spawn nearby. AW obtain most of the scripts to complete this idea, they just need some tweaking. The collecting of intel in these mission (further explained in the Idea/Story-line) would be excluded in the beginning just to monitor server performance and game experience. After reviewing the community opinion about this idea, further steps can be initiated like adding the intel related factors and more mission idea's.
 
Server settings: (optional)
Mission time-based: Continuously (Game night)
Accessibility: AW members (can be public of course but fear lone-wolfing attitude)
Map: Tanoa (due to the density of the forest and theme)
Enemies: Rebels
Mods: None
Player count: 20 - 25
- Pilots: 2
- UAV/Commander: 1
- SpecOp team: 6
- Recon team (snipers): 2 (1 sniper, 1 spotter)
- Marine squad: 10 - 12
 
Optional/secondary idea's:
- If you have infiltrated an objective, a random event can occur where (for example) a jeep with a few guys (unaware what is going on) approach the objective. Forcing you to get out of there quickly and miss critical intel or risk being engaging in a fire fight.
- Mission location divided in 4 a 5 sectors (top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right, middle), each sector can obtain a special character that the SpecOps team is trying to hunt down.
- Add civilians to some missions for experience game play/realism/intel gathering.
- Destroying ammo crates on side mission will lower gear quality of up following missions in that sector. [24-7-17]
- I got a script where you can go undercover as a civilian and not be detected as a hostile. So maybe 2 slots for like CIA? [24-7-17]
- *To be continued*
 
Please give this idea a think-over and I hope that you guys get my vision. Its all a concept so don't assume that whats post here is a must. Additional ideas are welcome as always but lets keep this post clean for now and add suggestions in the steps beyond. 
 
Greets,
 
GrandBravo

I just want to comment that (although I did voted on it (accident)), Town Sweep is the same like any other basic Arma mission. Move in and kill every living thing you see... It would be nice that we get pushed to or limits in a hopeless and stressful situation where we need to rely on or partner next to us. Swap out ammo, shoot your best friend in the head to spare him the pain while he gets eaten by zombies... that kind of stuff. Much more fun and challenging than tactical insurgents and kill every zombie, it becomes a little boring. 
 
Hope you guys see my point and vote on a different mission than Town Sweep!
 
Ps: DIBS ON VIP!