Multiple infantry phone option with configurable cable length

[altar-of-needles]

I use the infantry phone on helicopters sometimes as basically an ICS cord, to communicate with the crew on ICS while outside the aircraft. I noticed that only one person can have the infantry phone at a time, but in real aircraft operations multiple crewmembers outside the aircraft can connected to ICS (especially during startup procedures / fire guard / etc). These cables can also be up to 50 feet long.

The solution I'd propose is additional config entries for the infantry phone:

• acre_infantryPhoneMaxConnections (numeric) - optional, defines the number of active connections to ICS via infantry phone if more than 1 is desired
• acre_infantryPhoneCordLengthOverride (numeric) - optional, can be used to define a different cord length than PHONE_MAXDISTANCE_DEFAULT.

Additional quality of life feature for this could be animating the infantry phone cord (via ropeCreate) attached to the vest of the unit that has grabbed the phone. Makes it more clear who has the infantry phone(s) and how much length they have to work with.

I have a few other mods I'm working on currently but if no one gets to this over the next few weeks I'll try to implement it myself, haven't looked too too deep into the codebase but from what I've seen, this should be relatively straightforward to add.

[mrschick]

Nice idea, that would indeed be a QOL improvement 👌🏻

Additional quality of life feature for this could be animating the infantry phone cord (via ropeCreate) attached to the vest of the unit that has grabbed the phone. Makes it more clear who has the infantry phone(s) and how much length they have to work with.

Already being developed in #1290, compatibility with config values for rope length should be easy enough to add once implemented 👍🏻