Kuro5hin420

You can't bullshit a bullshitter. "Networking opportunities" is a clever way to say, "Fuck yeah I got a trip that I can write off for business purposes that is really just me talking shop with some dudes in a different place". I saw what you showed at PAX. Dogs. Wow Rocket good job, you put dogs into ARMA, something that was already in ARMA, and they don't even work properly yet. I am not trying to underplay your successes because I love the mod and the chance that you took but jesus christ don't piss on me and tell me its raining. You are not the same dude now that you were when this was just starting, and I think you need to realize the reason it took off was because it was clear you were dedicated to bringing a good idea to fruition and you were working on it constantly. Updates were frequent and large and you were a visible and vocal part of the community and when shit was broken you promptly fixed it but that has all but stopped. Graphical glitches are just a part of the game now. You have basically bound admins from doing their job, and you are running around the globe chit chatting with gaming press. Fuck the gaming press, they have been sucking you off since this first exploded and you don't need to go to them to make shit happen PR wise. The gaming media doesn't buy your games, we do. The gaming media didn't suddenly start buying copies of ARMA 2 so much so that your bosses decided to back your project because it was making them mad cash, we did. Stop circle jerking with IGN, put nose back to the grind stone, and fix that shit that is obviously broken. Fuck dogs, it is a cool idea but with things the way they are you are adding needless shit onto problems without fixing them. Might I remind you what happened to CCP after using that exact same model for years. "Regarding patch 1.7.3, I'm not going to make the mistake of releasing a patch before it is ready. 1.7.3 just isnt ready yet." This is the most sensible thing I have seen you say in a while. I can wait for a patch until it is ready, so long as I know you are actually working on it and not just sitting around throwing around "wouldn't it be cool if's" with developers who aren't working with you. Good luck man, I really hope you get this shit sorted out because this has the potential to really be one of the great games but you have to steward it carefully.

The funny thing is that with over 4,000 servers that leave less than 1 person from the coalition to a server. This is really no threat at all and the fact that you are even touting them as a threat not only gives them way too much credit but also gives them free advertising. Bandits gonna bandit bro. No trade camp has worked yet and more than likely none will ever work in any real way with things the way they are. Video is proof: http://www.youtube.com/embed/28cCU648kEw

No proof at all, not an actual report

This is a bad thread and you should both feel bad

I apologize for what has happened and I promise you we are trying to do all we can to get the responsible party globally banned. I didn't want to shut the server down because we were hoping he would do something else so we could be 100% sure and they indeed did. The person will be held accountable. As for your gear, I'm sorry for your loss bro, wish there was something I could do

Well altering my mission file by myself is a blacklistable offense and I am not going to do that, so anything you PM me is not going to be used unless I get express permission from a dev. But feel free to shoot me a PM with that.

Which leads to only one of two options: 1. People are altering their mission file themselves and are not being blacklisted for it. 2. Many of the server owners know and are on friendly terms with the devs. Given the amount of servers that have it I am assuming number 2 is not the actual answer, though I could be totally wrong. Please can I get a plain, black and white, straight up answer to a legit question about hosting a server? Am I able to turn on server messages/side chat myself, or do I have to have a dev do it. If a dev is the only one that can do it, can I please get a dev to alter our mission file because without that you are binding my hands as an administrator from doing something that you have listed as an exploit.

So wait a minute, from what I am understanding from this thread is that the only way to actually get server messages re-enabled is to modify the mission file, but that is a strict no no per rocket. So the only way to actually have this done without getting blacklisted is to have a dev do it, but I assume devs won't be spending their time re-enabling side chat on servers which now leads to some servers having it because they know the devs or are friendly with them and others being S.O.L. because we don't know them/aren't friends with them. How is this a fair landscape? It really shouldn't be this hard to get a reliable answer about this. Can someone grow a set and lay it out straight so we don't have to continually guess about shit like this? It is really getting old playing these word games. If I am not allowed to alter the mission file, but side chat/server messages are not a blacklistable offense and the only way to do that is to alter the mission file, isn't that effectively the same thing as saying if you enable side chat/server messages you will be blacklisted?

Yeah, I really do not understand why the bar for acceptable proof of a death dodger is so high. It is almost as if it is being intentionally set so high as to be impractical. If anyone is going to be proving anything malicious going on, which there is quite a bit of still going on, everyone has to be recording their game play at all times, just in case something stupid happens. That would require an insane amount of hard drive space and despite resulting in some awesome videos is impractical completely. If we can't use your own logs to stop something that has been already said to be an exploit, and you apparently can trust us enough to pay money for your servers but not enough to moderate said servers, what position does that put us in? I am happy to contribute to the community and help grow what is an awesome idea into a fully supported game but binding our hands as moderators during development doesn't make any sense. I understand you do not want admins abusing their powers and that is a real concern but why is it the rest of us who man up and play the game the way it is supposed to be played get penalized when we do something about the people exploiting? How is the burden of proof on us and not on the exploiter? Can we please have the ability to turn connect and disconnect messages on and off as a server option, and if not can we please get clear guidelines as admins on what to do against exploiters and hackers who are ruining the game experience for legit players?

I agree something along these lines would be awesome, but also troublesome to impliment and also use in a fair way.

I know our server, Seattle 124 should be inverse time for the US.

Well fuck, then I have no idea how I lost mine then. I had it in my pack after I found it at a heli crash site but when I logged back on it was gone. I figured it was a hacked in item and the devs had removed it from my inventory but now I have no idea.

As an admin who was present While these shenanagins were going on I can attest to the fact that there was someone indeed hacking on our server tonight. I can not confirm who it was, though I have my suspicions. I saw the killed by friendly fire message and was going to message rick and tell him to stop killing in debug, and then the side chat erruptted and I had to tell people to simmer down and stop lagging the server. Whoever it was that was hacking had blown up the hospitals and markets and has placed fence barracdes absolutely everywhere. It will take a while, but we will get back to normal.

I have a clan mate who has gotten 10 kills in about 20 minutes. It isn't impossible

So wait a minute, you are accusing him of using gear that you claim he got by exploiting it into the game and yet you brag about picking it up and taking it after you killed him? So you and your buddies are now in possession of weapons and gear that were gotten through cheating? This thread was a good idea and I am glad you posted it. Good proof 10/10 Would read again