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Can anyone point me to a tutorial or wiki for Arma 2 server side scripting? I'd like to put a script on my clan server that auto-kicks people with BAF_AS50_TWS in their inventory. My google fu has failed me.

Thanks a bunch. Took forever to find that file on our managed server, but I got it.

Another idea occurred to me so I thought I'd toss it on here for feedback. Padlocking doors. Find a padlock, use it on a closed door, get a key on your toolbelt. Only you can open the door. To break padlocks you could use a crowbar or find breeching rounds for shotgun. Whatcha think? Edit to add: (Thought occurred to me, because shotguns kind of suck right now and this would give them a realistic tactical use.)

This is called ghosting and only noobs need to do it.

This idea may need to wait for base structures, but I really like shotgun breeching rounds.

Ok, make it a radio beacon or whatever you like. Still think it's a neat idea that would work well and is fair to both sides.

Make barbed wire only usable if it doesn't intersect with any structure.

I agree that on Chernarus every door should not be lockable due to low number of lootable buildings anyway, but a few key ones would be neat, like the barracks or the rusty sheet metal barns for storing vehicles as suggested here. Lockable doors on Lingor would make more sense as nearly every building is enterable and it would be cool to lock the door on "your house." Barbed wire is a whole different story. 1) It causes graphics glitches. 2) It can be placed in a way as to be inaccessible to remove. 3) It respawns on restart. 4) It can be stacked infinitely deep. (<-Edited to add) Finding breeching rounds or a crowbar should be much easier than finding a toolbox and hitting the sweet spot on barbed wire. Padlocks wouldn't stop anyone, merely slow them down. If you get locked in a building... you're a dumbass for entering a building with only one door. The "using item" animation should be plenty of time for you to run out the back door.

These guys will ban you if you beat them at PvP or find their camps. 5 of my clan, including myself, got whitelisted. We quickly kicked their asses and blew up several of their vehicles. Then while no one else was online we were bored and went camp hunting. (They had already taken all the choppers before whitelisting us.) We found their camps and stole a few choppers. Now my whole clan is banned from their server. lol That doesn't bother me, but accusing us of hacking is lame. Especially after they broke their own server rules by shooting unarmed fresh spawns. While we left them alive with a pistol, cuz the fight wouldn't have been a challenge. One of my members also reported some fishy actions on their part, but as I have no logs to post, I won't go into that.

Satellites are stable in orbit for 10 to 1000 years depending on exact distance, conditions, and if it has thrusters. I don't see why a zombie outbreak would cause us to shoot down satellites, so most satellites would be working for years if not decades after the outbreak. Some might last millennia. Edit to add: Power to ground installations is much more likely to fail before all satellite coverage is lost. :)

So they never plant milspec tracking devices on other people? Edit to add: It's a fictional world! Complain about the impossibility of zombies and leave me alone! lol >_O

For the sake of the videogame can we assume that each map's Green Mountain equivalent is relaying the signal? (Military base with large transmitter [and buried backup power]. Military tracking devices.) Further thoughts: Currently the GPS is a fluff item. It is purely for convenience. You can easily find your position with map+compass+landmarks or just map+waypoint dropping. This would give it purpose. Also, I don't know much about game coding, but I don't think this item would be that difficult. Install Locator, If Locator=true, Install=false, If Locator=false, Install=true. Generate LocatorID (Algorithm generates random string and saves it to vehicle+toolbelt locator.) On map open, If LocatorID=true, If GPS=true, Display LocatorID location. Just a rough idea of how it would work.

Three of us on TS are having same problem.

These guys ban for pvp: 69.162.105.74:2342 Go kill 'em. ^_^

Heh

Surviving is too easy; It's boring. Killing people is the only challenge and therefore more entertaining.

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