In ODS30AE, we did it in a few aircraft, and even in birds that did not have enough weapon groups to spare. Example - F/A-18 A/C... Since wingtip launchers are only to carry Sidewinders and in general there are not many options to change that (it is just sidewinder, so why would you change something - (Unless you have a modern setup and want to load AIM-120 on your F-16), we made them as weapon group=8- invisible in loadout menu but fully functional. Thanks to that, we gained one weapon group on the wing station for an asymmetrical loadout.
We have 8 weapon groups on F-18. 7th is for laser pods (loaded via loadout.ini) and 8th is for Sidewinders (also loaded via loadout.ini)
ok.I just launched ODS30AE...We did that on F-16 too. We have 7 group stations on F-16. The 7th is for ECM, which is always loaded.