kamaradski

A couple of battle screenshots
 
Willam Wallace, Danne and I, collecting nice vehicles and messing around, while our fellow soldiers are dying in the battle field (I'm a bit ashamed to admit that this has happened more than once )

 
Same here, with Kamaradski and Danne I believe.

 
Evening assault on Maxwell(?)

 
(I don't know how to get the screenshots into the post, without thumbnails)
 
That's it for now!

Looking forward to operate operationally with you operators. I don't actually have Arma 3 at the moment (only the lite alpha), but hopefully I'll get to see you guys soon.

"How do you kill, that which has no life"  Answer
 
Case and Point Danne is nearly immortal.

Hello all. My name is Jeff, I'm an ArmA3 player that's been enjoying the Invade and Annex server the past few weeks.  I've really been enjoying it so I figured I'd sign up and meet some of you lot behind it all.  I currently live in OKC, so I'm 6 hours behind you all.
 
Anyway, I look forward to posting alongside you all.
 
~ Jeff

These organized desks remind me of the good old times i also had more time to spend sitting there.
 
'ell i practicly used to live only behind my desk, so everything i would ever need would need to be in arms lenght
 
Now however i might be lucky to spend 2 or 3 nights a week... as a result, my desk is as clean as a museum (not a good thing).
 
PS: good to see that most of you atleast a dual monitor setup
 
PSS: Bambi, your desk is not messy, i suspect you just put that there for the picture, hahahaha I love the can of beans tho !! LOL

So from that I guess we can conclude, get what ever suits you best razgriz33  
 
<waffle> I've got a couple of SSDs, I did have them in RAID0 as soon as TRIM was available for SSD RAID0 arrays runnign Windows 8. One day I was adjusting with my cable management but accidentally unplugged an SSD when I meant to unplug my CD Drive- RAID0 aray = broken But now you can have your Steam Apps on different drives I've just gone back to single drives. I'm going to have to throw another SSD in soon as I'm running out of space! That's when I wish I'd gone for Intel SRT cause of the costs, though I guess SSDS are coming down in price. </waffle> 

Ola George,
 
I agree with you that ISR is cool and quick, and if you already happen to own a z77 also very cheap to implement with great speed increase even in a existing setup without re-installing your windows. All very good plusses !
 
However there are a few dis-advantages and reasons why i wouldn't use it in this situation:
1 - First time you run your application\OS it still loads from a normal HDD, and thus the first time not any quicker. Second time you use this same data is is very quick. (maybe even quicker then normal SSD, as it works a little similar to RAM-disk i think)
 
2 - ARMA streams the data live, unless pre-cached your game will still be slower when loading some terrain or other content for the first time.
 
Most other games pre-cache their content when loading the level, however ARMA is just too huge to do this and therefore streams what should be on your screen, and forget about it when out of view distance again.
 
So again it's also depending on budget again, (hey for 50 quid you might have a very good upgrade on a existing PC...).
And i would recommend this technology for every office PC in the world, and even for most home PC's this is very useful. However for a dedicated ARMA machine i would go with proper HD, or lots of memory (16GB or more) and RAMDISK (be aware of a slight CPU impact), 
 
 
 
What i personally have:
A single 256GB Samsung SDD, due to budget (i didnt even have money ávailable to get the PRO edition..) However i can also easly buy a second one later and put them in RAID.

Thanks kam that helps a lot

As a optimization for ARMA i would do the following (depending on budget):
 
2x 128GB SSD in RAID-0 (the 2 drives will show-up as one C:\ on your pc)
1x normal HDD for your documents etc.. (d:\)
 
Since ARMA is streaming it's content live from the HDD, it will help you to be able to use almost twice the speed of SSD, specially on higher view distance.
And put a normal harddrive for storage of your documents etc.
 
In case budget or connectifity is a issue: 1x 256gb is also lots quicker then any normal HDD and more then big enough for windows + ARMA + a whole bunch of other crap.
 
RAID-0 background:
+ speed, lots and lots and lots of speed
- any error in the filesystem will result in raid loss, and you will in most cases not be able to rebuild without loosing data.
 
It writes half your file to both drives simultaneously, and is thus almost twice as fast as a normal SSD (and normal SSD is already very fast !)
Keep your documents save on a normal hardrive (and backup)
Keep a basic image of whatever is stored on the SSD's handy so in case stuff goes sideways you quickly up and running again.
 
Don't bother with RAID-1
2x 128gb would only give you normal speed (normal SSD speed that is) but only 128gb storage, the second drive is all redundancy
Read REDUNDANCY, NOT backup. since the "backup" is live if you would you accidentally delete a file, it's also gone in the "backup".
 
RAID 5 \ 6 \ 10 are also not interesting for you as they would need more then 2 drives and are normally only used for bigger storage like NAS or other File storage, and only make things slower instead of quicker.
Example: with RAID-5 and 4 drives you loose the 4th drive from your effective storage capacity, however in return there is 1 disk redundancy so one disk can fully fail without loosing data (after a slow and painstaking rebuild process)
 
PS: If money is no issue to for the PRO-line from the Samsung SSD, they are very quick Without PRO they are cheaper but also a lot slower (specially writing)

It's once again proven that I have no life ;-)

This won't be a long news article, but it is an important one.

Since it's creation on the first day of the ArmA 3 Alpha, Invade & Annex has received an incredible reception. Played on over 70 servers and our own server now stretching over 15,000 hours played collectively by its members (that's 1.7 years), the Ahoy World staff is absolutely ecstatic.

With our server being played so heavily and, as a lot of members are aware, regularly having to wait a long time to even get in, we've soared up the server leaderboards. Today we've hit #2. In the ArmA 3 global community we're #2, only surpassed by a 50-slot "Life" server; a long-running ArmA II game-mode ported straight over from the old engine.

We here at Ahoy World would just like to express our thanks; the absolute enthusiasm and helpfulness of all of our members is staggering and I'm proud of this community with all of you in it. A solid amount of you come on TeamSpeak and have a chat and are already becoming pillars of the community, which leads me on to my final point.

Most of us have jobs and so, understandably, we can't be on anywhere near as much as we'd like. After the popularity of Ahoy World grew, a jerk reaction was to hire some "Honourary Administrators" from across the globe to keep tabs on the server while we were away. Another huge thank you goes out to all of you who have been administrating the server and keeping it clean.

I personally haven't spoken to all of you, but a few will be aware that I linger around in the evening, breaking the mission and claiming to be "developing" it. I thank you all for playing on the server, coming here and registering and generally taking part in the community. It's fantastic to see Ahoy World grow with such good members in its grasp. Keep on keepin' on and I'll see you on the battlefield.

Salute!
 
I played your Invade/Annex mission in Arma3 a lot lately, and i want to say thanks for all your effort in it! I played a lot of different missions in arma, arma2 and in this alpha phase of arma3 and your's is the best by far!
 
Best luck with the developement, looking forward to transport some troops in your mission!
 
Keep up the good work lads, cheers from Hungary 
 
 - Leferath 'Wolf' out

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Hi there!
I'm Ben. My written nickname is n69ky, you can call me nooky and my Ahoy codename is obviously 'nightsky'. I live in Liechtenstein (Thats between Switzerland and Austria, for those who don't know ). I've started playing dayZ last summer and wanted to test arma3 as soon as it came out. if it wasn't for your 'PvE' server/mission I wouldn't have played the alpha this much. thanks for that.
you might not have noticed me on the server, that's because I'm a very shy one and I almost never speak/write.
I'm looking forward to sit next to you in the chopper, to put my boot on the ground with you and to have fun
if you wanna know more google for n69ky. there's me and a plane...

HOVERING MEDITATING MAN
http://i.imgur.com/NKkOxMJ.jpg
 
LKYING DOWN ON THE JOB
http://i.imgur.com/9uVIu1m.jpg
 
UPSIDE DOWN HELI IN HANGER
http://i.imgur.com/IQERtI1.jpg
 
WHAT RAZ HATES MOST
http://i.imgur.com/PPWQfZa.jpg
 
A HELI MEETING
http://i.imgur.com/eHbc9Mo.jpg

A couple of the guys here doing loops.
 
http://i.imgur.com/H4DIFQf.jpg
 
A few friends of mine who three of i introduced to Arma 3 and this mod to today on a private server.
 
http://i.imgur.com/PDCdHhZ.jpg

Hi, I figured it was about time I registered since I have been spending so much time on the server lately!
 
I'm a Swede living in Oslo, Norway. I spend my time at work as a project manager and lately I have enjoyed ARMA in my spare time. Even though I played quite a bit of operation flashpoint and also some ARMA 2, I have to say that the ARMA 3 Alpha really surprised me in a positive way.
 
In game I have both been lone-wolfing (in the mornings) and playing with other regulars, and even though driving around alone in an Ifrit, sniping Iranians from afar, is fun (and almost therapeutic) in it's own right, I much prefer the company of a good crew, which is what I seem to have found on this server.
 
My experience with the AHOY crew, the server, (and most of the people on it), has been great so far. I won't be playing as much as I have these last few days, but I hope to be a regular in the future as well!
 
See you on the battle field!
 
/Govent
 
 
 

Here are some i took while playing on the AW server:
 
Littlebird waiting to be loaded:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859230005160010/B2A8415071B662F1461F87D8408ABD2E7E6AF2C9/
 
Raz and his fancy chopper:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859230005137113/85F0CAA480617F7387E48BA892606E154318DEA6/
 
Driving my hunter under water:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859230005122147/1D908949CEA1ABC02ACD5F3E733ABE5CBAA85B7C/
 
Who left the BBQ on in town ?
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975875376/287944E4A5B83047387407E89CB169FD9FAC1DD5/
 
Someone left the lights on inside, i wonder if anyone is home:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975850269/C5A4A6FEEB15F19F40F5FEAAF9D2E09D108993B6/
 
Full scale attack on Camp Maxwell, including Mortars:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975824569/070D9A67F6BCF929B8AF8F41C7780FEEFA2F2B16/
 
Convoy at night:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975780695/2FB937ED36B999B435D7E5F87A21958061B7BF3A/
 
Airlift in the moonlight:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975768678/625387877C7CFCF03598A74EBE99E08D492CD53C/
 
Raz coming in hot to unload on hot LZ in the Marina:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975741054/3183B5FB6818F29270E64EC997A44B448E61539C/
 
Sending tracers into town:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975725273/B2D99D2C5756070850603AD3C46DB89201B7AE78/
 
Awsome lightshow while taking the town by night:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975704853/041916D2779135B2A99060488842C7BED250626F/
 
Maintaining overwatch while Raz is keeping the airbridge open in the background:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975677147/841A3C9E46BEEB5F45472EC50EC422D9B3C38D37/
 
Sunset over Stratis airfield:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975653722/2F58F13F584695A0750C95A117E9761F263FFCD7/
 
Danne and me waiting to headout for a sunset convoy across Stratis:
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975634011/6E5758697F8D13D5C3CE80E7C577820E70177F8F/
 
Some serious sniping:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975610807/A3EC44C127AF5C86D7521988CCE3A221E5D1EB15/
 
Captured 4 Ifrits from the enemy:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975579868/5636EE7BE789F3CCA9099F49A9A49DE8BFBC7D8A/
 
Blackhawk UPsideDOWN:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975563576/3963F3EF29A1DCB6749FA76A76D2754779EDF6C9/
 
Tension is high when Raz mentioned that our LZ is going to be hot 'n heavy:
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/577859229975546280/1B2025755794A98229DC1D13C6769634005473B6/
 
Enjoy

Hi all,
 
Just popping in to say thanks for letting me play on your excellent arms-3 server. I had a lot of fun so far, and for sure more to come !
Special thanks for Rarek and the time spend on creating the custom mission
 
Steam: kamaradski1
Website: kamaradski.com
 
Cheers,
Kamaradski

Welcome aboard!