Faction Agression

[bright willow]

This would by default be present in free flight, and maybe low intensity stock missions.
This would also be for the mission editor.

So, what I'm thinking is the enemy faction may not attack immediately, but will not allow things like bombers near their units and would send escorts to aircraft that get within a certain radius,and will only attack if fired at.
They would still allow aircraft to land at their bases, but would keep SPAAGs and such targeting them just in case, unless it was a logistics aircraft.

Ground units would not attack each other unless they see a SAM shoot down a friendly aircraft in self defense, which would cause them to fight for a minuite or so before stopping (lorewise this would be considered them being ordered to cease fire after being told it was an accident)

If you anger the other faction enough (eg. Nuking a base of theirs/sinking destroyer) then they will become all hostile like normal.

[buoyant beacon]

This kind of more complex behaviour of AI would be great for an open world campaign/ PvPvE game mode. Preferably with more than two teams so youd have to track who you're currently allied with, who is hostile and who is neutral to you.

I guess a good comparison would be the Mercenaries games for PS2? Kinda like that but with planes.

[hazy path]

Yeah, more option for factions in the editor plus this idea would be a banger

[feral oracle]

Not so understand. But squad system for fleet and maybe for aircrafts

[bright willow]

So that factions don't immediately try to kill each other and wait for the other to make a move

I really want the intercept/escort mechanic at least

[hazy path]

Its sounds like a "setup" time 👀
and its quite good of a concept for mp now
because well, it would be nice to adjust that setup time, so you would wait either when lobby gets to certain amount of people or time will run out
tho, that is a little bit off of your idea