Basically you're flying manually, but the moment you switch seats the mini Auto Hovers for you right away
Auto-hover when switching seatsSuggestion
Sorry for completely neglecting your suggestion for so long, I just found this thread while looking through the support section. Just so you know I am currently working on implementing your suggestion and it should be ready soon.
I'm actually working on a really similar plugin concept that will do something like this. It's implementation is probably simpler since it doesn't use components.
The scope is to alter engine start up time, restart time and idle time of heliciopters. The following will be configurable.
Minis and scrap helis will probably be configurable separately, and each will have a permission for instant start. Not sure yet whether to do basic permissions based on pilot or the owner since a lot of these features aren't really tied to the concept of a pilot.
The scope is to alter engine start up time, restart time and idle time of heliciopters. The following will be configurable.
- Engine start time (vanilla is 5 seconds)
- Engine idle time while no players are mounted (vanilla is 1 second for no pilot)
- Engine idle time while only passengers are mounted (no pilot)
- Hot restart time - for example, if the engine is off for less than 2 seconds, allow restarting the engine instantly to bypass engine start time
- Warm restart time - for example, if the engine is off (or not hot) for 3 seconds, only require 3 seconds to restart it instead of the full cold start time. Might expand more on this by decaying the "warmth" more gradually. This was originally intended to address the issue where the engine takes full 5 seconds to restart even while the blades are still spinning quickly.
Minis and scrap helis will probably be configurable separately, and each will have a permission for instant start. Not sure yet whether to do basic permissions based on pilot or the owner since a lot of these features aren't really tied to the concept of a pilot.
The plan is to eventually rewrite this plugin since it is quite old and this was one if the first if not the first plugin I submitted to the site so it is filled with poor programming practises etc. and is I feel quite overdue a rewrite.