What you can do is set the station time to 1 second or so. Then take some serious A/G ammo along, and go hunting for ground targets after you have "finished" your BARCAP station time.

They are repairing their damaged airbases and strengthening, and I can't do anything about it but fly the occassional BARCAP with bombs.

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Originally posted by barney:
What's with all the barcaps? No matter how I change the priorities all of my airbases are flying barcaps. The kicker is I knocked out a bunch of airbases right when the campaign began so I own most of the airspace in koreo. What I need is some more SEADs and Strikes. So what's with the barcaps?

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We've limited the BARCAP's in the falcon4.aii file.

I've gone through the Rolling Fire campaign 4 times throughout the various patches, and every time day 2 rolls around, it's all BARCAPS, so that's normal.

But, the nice thing about BARCAPS is, they're a GREAT way to snag an AFC. Usually 4 or so bandit you can kill during your station time, and there's always loads of artillery units along the FLOT. You'd be surprised at how many units a Mk84 can kill when they're clustered together.

Setting DCA to 0 will eliminate barcaps. If you set it to 0, you should not get a single barcap. You may not get many flights at all though.

For pure interceptor aircraft (F14, F15 and DPRK mig 29s) there seem to be 2x as many BARCAP missions generated at any one time as there are available aircraft.

I've spent some time messing with the values in the Falcon4.aii file ( /campaign/save/ directory), epecially with the AirTaskTime and AirPlanTime variables, and found that AirPlanTime = 1 kills most F16, Mig19, Mig21 BARCAP missions. However, dedicated interceptors (F14, F15, Mig 29s) are still over assigned.

Rhino, may I ask, how did you reduce BARCAPs in the .aii file? Is it similar to Saint Viper's approach above?