Not convinced this a a great way of arming the Apache. But what we will do I think is provide some quick defaults, option A and option B.

Only the client sees the weapons appear on the ground ready for selection. The crewman loading the weapons clicks the weapon which is then sent to the highlighted pylon. Internally the helicopter entity receives a message to load pylon x with missile y.

To do: Tooltips for the pods to say what they are and I think highlighting the selected pylon might be a good idea.

I can optimise memory usage a little by pre-loading the Apache stores and instancing then missiles which I meant to do earlier. Pre-caching some of these objects will reduce that awful machine lag that occurs when it needs to show a model for the first time.

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