I would love to have elevators, we even seem some unused ones in the mod, such as those Imperial outposts.

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Elevators are cool and all since its super futuristic starwars, and in the future they will have elevators and doors that open as you approach!
The problem is the practicality of an elevator anywhere that is not indoors.

There are very few maps that would benefit greatly from powered lifts- ladders are fine for a lot of places, such as the Imperial outposts.

For places like Null, it makes sense that the first thing the Imperials would do when under attack is lock down the express elevator to the control room!

For a map where a starship or station is boarded, it also makes sense that the elevators would be disabled by either side to prevent invaders/reinforcements moving freely around vital areas.

My advice would be to model disabled elevators, possibly throwing out sparks from half opened doors and have the players rely on our other scifi staple, the man accessible ventialtion shafts/sewer tunnels/ jeffries tubes

''Its over. Angel won.''   RSF Gurd

Some stuff I can remember being told about elevators before.

The BF2142 came with some improvements over the BF2 engine, however it also lost some pretty cool stuff.  IIRC, one of the things which were lost going into BF2142 were Triggerables, which is basically a map object which if condition X happens (someone standing in a certain area), then outcome Y will take place (elevator moving up).  Because triggerables no longer exist, elevators in the Imp Outpost structure would no longer work.

Elevators for the Landing platform were originally meant to be in the design I believe (it makes sense, looking at the thing), however it was probably either decided that they'd take too much time, or be too difficult to get working.

There's one issue with having an elevator controlled by someone at the top/bottom, and that is how boring it'd be for the person controlling.  To allow everyone else up the stairs then have to walk themselves? Bah.  There's also the fact that it'll take 2 models to do elevators in this case: one with the controls up the top, the other with controls on the bottom.

The primary issue that exists right now in FS, regarding elevators, is that there isn't a music guy.  Without a music guy, how are the devs meant to make realistic elevators, considering there won't be the catchy lounge music playing as the things rises/descends?