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[SAS~Malone]

okay, while i've been modifying yet another mission for what must be the quadrillionth time, i decided it's time to make an official request for this, if at all possible.
whenever we place ships in FMB, they are set at default Veteran setting, with R.O.F setting 1.0.
now, i'm pretty sure that most of us will agree that at these settings, any mission is just ridiculous with the amount of AA fire, and the accuracy of these ship gunners.
inevitably, most of us end up having to adjust each individual ship's settings to something more reasonable, either 'average' or even 'rookie' settings, and also perhaps with a reduced R.O.F.
so, i propose that we need a mod that will make any ships placed in FMB, have a default setting of, say, average, or even rookie.
this will save many an FMB'er from having to constantly change every single ship's experience/accuracy level's.
please, if any modder thinks he could tackle this issue, many, many guys will be truly indebted to you.
please consider, if possible.

[asheshouse]

Below is an extract from the *.mis file

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[Wing]
  r0100
[r0100]
  Planes 1
  Skill 1
  Class air.A_20B
  Fuel 100
  weapons default
[r0100_Way]
  NORMFLY -642487.96 -613194.22 500.00 300.00 &0
  NORMFLY -300593.90 -399711.08 500.00 300.00 &0
[Chiefs]
  0_Chief Ships.USSYorktownCV5_42 1 0 2 5.0
[0_Chief_Road]
  -644093.13 -634863.56 120.00 0 892 13.88888931274414
  -643745.44 -634665.38 120.00
  -643397.75 -634467.25 120.00
  -643050.06 -634269.06 120.00
  -642702.38 -634070.88 120.00
In this section the figure at the end of the text line "5.0" corresponds to the rate of fire

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[Chiefs]
  0_Chief Ships.USSYorktownCV5_42 1 0 2 5.0
Easy and quick to change with a Text Editor

The figure before the 5.0 corresponds to the Experience rating
0 rookie
1 Average
2 Veteran
3 Ace

The 0 is the Sleep figure in seconds, so 600 would be 10 minutes.

The 1 figure corresponds to Red Team. Change to 2 for Blue Team

If you adjust these in a text editor your new figures will be used in FMB next time you load the mission.

[SAS~Malone]

wha......?! when? where? how...? 
glory be, i didn't know about that - okay, well a bit of text editing in the mis file is much easier than cycle/repeating through the ships in FMB.....
big thanks for that info, ashe...that will make life much easier.