SE Mission planning hints and tips

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1. Always keep your victory conditions foremost in your planning.
2. Know your enemies strengths and weaknesses. Do not hesitate to take advantage of an opponents’ misstep.
3. Fly to stay alive! Do not make suicide attacks unless you are sure of achieving your victory objectives for your army.
4. Do not become predictable. Change the flight paths and altitudes if attacking the same target over multiple missions.
5. Use your human reconnaissance. If your pilots report enemy contacts try to determine 3 things: their destination, their model and their target. You can use this information when plotting future fighter sweep missions!
6. Do not schedule too many missions. When playing missions online, using average priced equipment, with a high number of moving objects the frame rates WILL fall to as low as 2-4 fps. This is a limitation of the computers and the network linking them. A general consensus amongst the user community is no more than 40 scheduled missions/game hour unless high-performance PCs are being used by pilots.
7. Know which aircraft are AI only. If you are plotting a mission for AI planes there is no need to supply a briefing.
8. Sometimes when laying waypoints for a mission left clicking on the map will not produce a waypoint. Try right clicking to bring up the map interface menu. Next dismiss the menu and try placing your waypoint again. If this does not work you will have to click on the refresh button and start again.