3 Commando Brigade

I've got MCC + ZEUS working with our 3CB Template Mission (standard unit structure, modded gear + Xmed etc) on Altis running on our bikey'd Private Server.

Look out for a week day Op coming soon. 

Someone get training on how to use both Zeus and MCC so you can be the GamesMaster.

I remember that well and am still traumatised from fighting in that gully against hordes of bad guys! At the time I had no idea you were MCC'ing them in, but it was awesome fun!

A couple of people have expressed interest in being GM for a mini-Op (or maybe even a large one) - catch me online and I'll get you some time on the private server so you can 'play' with MCC and Zeus in a multi-player environment. I'm thinking we open the server to the public (using private Ops repository and bikey'd), use MCC to set-up an auto-generated mission (my template already has the players spawning with appropriate kit), then the trainee GM can add "extra's" with MCC and/or Zeus - no pressure to produce anything special as the main mission already exists.

As mentioned above - loved the "idea" of the MCC nights - however they just seemed to get bogged down in planning, which ultimately killed the intended spontaneity of them for me.

If we do bring them back; perhaps now and again, we could keep the initial brief short. E.g. Section A must move to Town X and clear/find cache - while the mission editor's main goal is to not let them reach the town at all - whether ambush their convoy mid journey, attack the base before the group sets out, etc...Just keep everyone on their toes by throwing the odd spanner in the works. In other words - don't give people the ability to plan the mission to death. 

Well the easy response to that is if they're taking forever to move out hit them with an attack of ei ;)

Or you could just have the mission maker and SL join first, get the mission, make their plans, then get the rest of the squads to spawn in, like we do on Sunday.

Not sure what to make of this...given you and shay were the carpenters during our mcc mission nights. Perhaps we should blame the wood. Anyway, I think you've misread the thread or it's intent - some of us are trying to revive the use of spontaneous mcc generated missions and are excited about the integration of Zeus. No one's knocking the power of the tool, but reflecting on why it didn't work well for us and how we can fix that.

I think the problem we had initially was that vanilla Arma was too far removed from what people were used to and we needed a modded mcc mission template sooner - 3CB unit structure and gear (acre radios, meds, Brit uniforms & weapons etc) pre-set up and ready to go would have cut out a lot of the confusion/time wasting at the start. On the public server we regularly plan and execute missions in extremely short time with random players so this is not necessarily the issue.