Custom Mission Definitions

I created a fairly decent sized mission with sea & air units from two sides spread out more than 4k.

I know the COMBAT LINE paramter is a circle of 3k radius where an enemy can detect YOU if they get within that range.

I had aircraft from both sides, but they were on timers not to arrive for 300 seconds or more.. but during the opening minutes, it seems like every enemy unit was identified immediately on the big tactical display..

Now in some missions I have seen, there are units far away that show up as BLUE dots until they are identified..

But in my mission, the distant enemy targets were all RED immediately even out to 6k maybe?

My units were all green dots, but still I seem to remember the TACTICAL PATROLS have blue for friendly early in the mission also..

So the question is, when designing a mission that you want some mystery in it until things get moving.. how do you keep them unidentified? I'll bet I just dont know the minimum distance needed?

(I did not have aircraft over the enemy until later in the mission)

East, got time to solve this one?

currently only the random (combat) patrols do the blue dot thing...I believe if you use random taskforces it will do the same for them - anything else and you will be seeing their colors.

Question: I have unlocked the battleships for both the IGN and LFN. When I use the mission editor to create one battleship vs. one enemy battleship with nothing else.. and I go into custom patrols menu option to choose to be the LFN battleship.. it doesnt give me the option of a BB in the pull down menu for either the IGN or LFN forces..

But I can choose tactical patrol and be a battleship instantly if I want.

So is the mission editor or the game not recognizing my custom mission properly?

Um...it looks like Battleships can only be specified for player control in Tactical patrols or Campaigns, not standard (or user created) missions...

Is this intended to be this way or will you be scheduling this to be fixed to allow player created missions to also play the BB?

at the time we weren't going to be allowing player created missions. It's not likely it will be fixed soon as no patches are currently planned for version 1.