Tom212

Warning this is a very, very, very, very long post as it describes a very, very, very, very long standoff that lasted around 4 hours maybe more. I am afraid I may have missed details, it was a great night though lol. Last night myself and my group of 3 mates were travelling up the coast in our fishing boat. On the way north to Solchiniy I, the driver, thought I saw someone run into the water and start swimming on the coast. It was someone being chased by a zombie who had ran out of ammo and took a last desperate attempt to escape into the ocean. Can't believe how lucky this guy was but I moved the boat in and we got him, he came on our TS too and he joined up with us. Was very cool. Moving up the coast we were raiding the factories in Solchiniy among other places, we were trying to find fuel to get us north to help some friends out. Very short on fuel we found nothing and moved on to Berezino. In Berezino we eventually found a jerry can after a long search. I told my team to check the last of the building down the docks while I went back with someone to get the boat. The boat was gone. We went back to the docks realising without a boat we could not save our starving friends. However we then saw a Pbx in the water. I knew of a group made up of Alpha Royale, JAK, Toad, Dracon and Will because I had accidently wrecked their helicopter and they had threatened to kill me if they saw me. I also knew they had a Pbx because when I died at the helicopter they did not realise I had more shooters in the woods watching them who then followed them to the coast. Its funny as these shooters I had in place had CZ 550's and were not far away at the same time I was receiving death threats so really I could have had them killed :P. Now realising we had a chance to get a new boat I got my team in position on the docks for a ambush. They had seen one of my guys on the docks as they passed but no-one else. They started to ask for the person they saw to answer their messages. I figured we would need some good bait to get them into this trap, so told my team to hang tight and I said it was me, hoping this would make them interested as they said they were after revenge. Surely enough they asked more questions and said they were wanting to land to look for fuel. I said to them my boat had been stolen while I was searching for fuel here in town so now had fuel and no use for it (all true actually :P). I said I would give it to them for free (hoping they wouldn't get too suspicious and think I was simply trying to redeem myself and apologise). I said about it taking up my inventory etc and we continued to talk about making a meeting. As I was actually set up in a tower with my winchester I figured from my experience the key to a best lie is in the details so continued to talk as is I was still looting, "Lol found another jerry can but got no room for it, always finding the stuff you need, when you don't need it anymore." As they were very cautious of me and wanted to have a meeting where they wanted I said that I would not move to meet them as it would be going out of my way to give something away for nothing...So said if they want me I am in the dock area. In the end I said I was sitting down on the dock unarmed waiting for them so I can carry on with my business. The man actually sitting on the dock waiting for them was one of my men, communicating by radio I got him to do a number of things they were asking to be sure it was me, "Stand up" etc. Convinced the man sitting down was me they sent someone in, it was at this stage I realised we weren't going to get a boat and this would turn into a standoff. They sent in one, lightly geared man to negotiate while the rest were watching with rifles, one of my guys spotted one with a rifle to the south. Although I realised we were not likely to get anything out of this anymore I also figured we would have to go through with it anyway as we did not have the fuel and it would become obvious I wanted to fuck with them or there was a ambush set. So sadly we had to strike and I shot the negotiator in the back of the head. Shortly afterwards my guy was shot by their overwatch. However this is where I also realised I could get out of this yet. I started to act as if I had no idea what was happening, I conjured a story to cover why it wasn't me who died on the docks but my friend and said I did not trust them because of their death threats so I was covering with a sniper while my friend met them. I also said I had just been shot by someone but managed to patch myself and move cover. This carried on and although they doubted me at times I always managed to push myself out of the lime light. We then set about hunting a "bandit" who must have listened to our side chat and moved in on us. I had convinced them so greatly that they were accusing someone else who had randomly been in town on their own minding their business, of being the bandit and were ready to kill him. They were even apologising to me for shooting my friend and for thinking I could have done such a terrible thing. In order to help them boost their belief of this innocent bystander being the bandit I actually tried to point out they don't know its him etc knowing if I agreed and said it was him it may look suspicious. By doing the opposite of what someone would expect they would begin to believe it was this bystander more and more. Myself and my team were still all in place, one of us was killed by zombies but the other two were in a hanger and I was still in the tower. It had all gone to shit and there was very little to win but there was no escape while they had the dock covered. I then had been trying to convince them that I had seen someone with a bandit skin run into the hanger on the south end of the docks, when my team was in the middle hanger. I was shouting at a pretend bandit in side saying give yourself up I have the door covered you cant get out etc. My plan was to try and move up their guys to the hanger to move in, so that when they did I could send my guys in the middle hanger out to come from behind and kill them. However they were too cautious and did not want to move in, saying that they were leaving, continuing on to say they were at Three Valleys, far from the combat. (I knew obviously as i could see them, this was a lie, a very poor lie to be honest :P) After more waiting, I realised they would not move in on the hanger and started my next ploy. I said if you are not going to move in on this bandit for revenge and to find out who the bastard who fucked this deal up is I will. Do not shoot I am coming out onto the docks. I sent one of my guys from the middle hanger out and pretended to go check the south hanger. He looked in and I said that the bandit inside must have logged out because I didn't see him leave. After saying it was clear they asked if I was still on the dock so they could move in and meet me, probably cos they still wanted the fuel. Toad came back in again and we once again shot him and my other guy ran into the hanger still pretending to be me. Obviously I kept the act up and was "Like holy shit! Was that you?!". Lol was quite funny. We heard gunshots as one of their guys was shooting zombies to the north to protect himself. I saw the guy and opened fire. He was over a 100m away and my slug shots were not very much compared to a AK. However my rounds still made him take cover. He shot at one of my guys trying to get a view of him at the docks and hit him. However while I provided suppressive fire on the AK wielder one of my other guys flanked around and shot him as he took cover. Around this point another one of their shooters started shooting right below my tower, Will and we took care of him too. At this stage we had dealt with 3 members of their team, 1 of them twice lol. All with ineffective weapons and zero casualites apart from a injury from AK fire. Our weapons consisted of me with a winchester, 1 of my guys with no ammo, another with a makarov and another with another makarov lol. However this standoff had been going for around about 3 moving on 4 hours and over that time most my guys had logged out as it was like 2 in the morning in UK lol. After the shooting of the AK wielder my last guy left and I was alone. I was still the innocent however and these guys were still friendly to me after all this I had planned. In the end I figured it was far too mean to keep this all under wraps lol and came out with the truth when I pretended I was looting around the docks and said "Cool I found an AK". Someone then said that the owner, one of their team, was angry I was looting his stuff. I said he should be more angry I ordered his killing lol. And it all came out and it was very much, in the words of another player on the server who had been observing, like a James Bond Villain revealing his plans lol. I still find it hilarious that they were apologising to me and wanted to blame a innocent bystander. Alpha even shot another innocent bystander called Cedric who wandered near his shooting spot, after I revealed myself he asked if he was with me, I said no and he realised what he had done lol. Was a crazy night, first time I have literally sat in the same spot in a shooter standoff like this for 4 hours. Respect to Alpha's team for being so well organised, their good planning really foiled my plan to get them all at once and get their boats. Do note though I do not condone killing players and have always kept away from it, however I saw a chance here to get ourselves a new boat and get a step up on people I believed were out to get me. Great, great standoff lol.

Just a few questions about tents, 1. How do you aquire them? 2. When placed are they saved in stats saves and loaded after restarts? 3. Are they destroyed if you die or do they remain for you to return to?

I'm sorry, but after administrating and working on development on dedicated-RP servers I can tell straight away this will lead to a death-match. You may have guards, however you forget how vulnerable guards are to the likes of e.g. Mr. Bastard with his sniper rifle and all the other low-life losers on the server, as they will be standing watch and these people can attack from any angle and know where to find you (also the option they have of just walking in as friendly then turning on you). By creating this place, while you are creating a nice place for us normal players and RP'ers to visit and socialise, you are also creating a hot spot for guaranteed action for DM'ers. In my experience this is what they will be craving, a location where they can return to for prolonged combat. "Why? Sounds like you've already got the equipment you need - it's not like you'd need to loot anyone..." The players who kill you on sight are not necessarily after your loot (most will just see this as a bonus), more after the weird thrill they get off shooting disadvantaged players (players with lower power gear or just not a malicious intent), even if they cannot take the entire place down to loot it they can at least kill a few people. I love running events/things like this on our servers but I think it depends on the players around. I do not think this will work unless you have some sort of scripted protection I am afraid, just the way of this particular game and the players who play it. However not to say I am against it, don't let me stop you, I would love to see it succeed. Just experience tells me it won't.

1 More thing, they are only on the server you deploy them?

I own ARMA 2 on CD and Arrowhead on steam, always ran CO this way and never had problems. I just reinstalled both games, linked the addons in ARMA 2 to OA and ran it with the addons, SAME problem. Any more solutions?

No-one has any idea how to fix this?

Same problem, I have arma 2 on cd and OA on steam, works for all other mods.

I have been trying to get a download of the mod so I can play on the server. The media-fire site that armaholic links me to gives me 7 rar folders, I downloaded all of those and put them in a mod folder but it does not seem to work. I got the feeling this wasn't right, I think I am supposed to download the complete pack from this site however the link seems to be broken to your download page as when I go there its all white with jumbled text and links that do nothing. Can I please have a simple step guide to where to find the correct addons. Thanks