How about a mission editor?

[Dwight Halpert]

Is there a plan for something like this? I didn't see in the roadmap but I think this game totally needs one.

[Dusty Tiger]

I also hope that there will be a mission editor. Such an option makes every game more interesting and gives the player the opportunity to implement his imagination or real situations from books (Tom Clancy - "Red Storm Rising") into the game.

[Jake Grafton]

This would be amazing. +1

[orcbuster]

Its on the "would be nice to have but no promises" list

[Twelvefield]

Not much sense in devoting dev cycles to a mission editor when there's so much work that need to be done on the game to get it past EA. That said, when GHPC goes gold, it would be great to get a mission editor.

[Nikoli Kalishnikov]

Originally posted by Twelvefield:

Not much sense in devoting dev cycles to a mission editor when there's so much work that needs to be done on the game to get it past EA. That said, when GHPC goes gold, it would be great to get a mission editor.

There is precedence for consumer-side mission/map editors when made properly to help development, since many times these are easier to use than those in development software, let alone allowing for much greater testing possibilites by the community, freeing up effort the dev teams use to make missions as they do currently.

With that said, for a relatively small team with limited resources it is understandable why they would not want to dedicate time and effort to developing such tools.

[harry]

to actually do this means maintaining a second piece of software. We would like to get the first one to 1.0 first.

[Dwight Halpert]

Originally posted by harry:

to actually do this means maintaining a second piece of software. We would like to get the first one to 1.0 first.

Totally understandable. Actually it was just a "what if" idea. I hope one day we can experience this but until that day, we will keep enjoying what we have. Thank you for your reply and good luck for next steps of the game.

[Hawg]

A mission builder would be awesome and bring this game to the next level. ARMA is what it is today due to its mod-ability and the mission editor.

[stburr91]

Originally posted by Hawg:

A mission builder would be awesome and bring this game to the next level. ARMA is what it is today due to its mod-ability and the mission editor.

Yes, providing a means for the players to create content for the game makes the game infinitely more replayable, and therefore helps drive sales.

Arma is the best example of this, the mods, and mission editor has allowed Arma 3 (a 12 year old game) to still have a very active community, and is still selling quite well.