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I'm with sheep on this one, I donate and part of the fun is the variation of different roles I would no doubt get bored if I could always get the role i wanted. There's never that long of a wait anyway. I'd prefer to see more player slots on the servers rather than having 'exclusive reserved for slots'. But unlike sheep I get my kicks from knowing I have more ahoyworld coins than him!

yeah it was mainly as how to adjust the scoring system to incentivise the guys on the public server rather than my own gameplay (i know i'm the most awesomest player in the world evaaaaa!!!!) It's not a panacea to end all bad gameplay rather imagine it as a piece of cheese at the end of a maze as a reward for a lab rodent! :-) also here's me licking a camera!

Good afternoon chaps, just a thought on adjusting the scoring system if it's even possible to adjust how people play the game. now i know that it would add complexity so I can see it's not an ideal solution but hear me out and feel free to comment with different weightings. so the issue, sometimes, is that people don't carry out tasks with the role they've chosen so I wonder could we give a reason to get more involved with the role they choose. For example as a medic it pops up that you've saved a teammate which gives you +2 how about adding a few more incentives. Medic: reviving someone in your squad reviving squad leader Repair Spec: repairing a helicopter away from base Marksman/Sniper: longer range kill AT spec: Disabling/destroying armor in the AO Pilots: Insertion/Exfil based on number of people in heli or proportion of how full it is These are just a few ideas and I'm sure there are more suggestions as to actions we would like to see more often from players. It would be great to see in the chat actions that are lacking like revive e.g. "Raz revived Hoax" to show people that the medics are being active in the game. also reward/punish players who are revived/hit respawn immediately. e.g. 2 death points for death resulting in respawn but only 1 if you are revived to push medics into their role. Another thing that probably should be a different forum post but also to do with scoring: While casually lasering my foot a mod, who will remain nameless, and another player in a blackfoot shot some class of a missile at me. Sad times I know but we were testing the laser, so anyway what i noticed was that the pilot was credited with the team kill but on the scoreboard it was the gunner who was racking up the kill count. would there be a way to distribute the kills amongst pilot and gunner more evenly. (tho I'm of the opinion that the scores possible wiht haymaker and blackfoot are completely disproportional to the rest of the game we'll leave that out). Also most likely already mentioned would it be possible to stop chopper crash kills to be classed as teamkills? anyways just a few ideas thoughts etc. z

yo dog, can't answer the second question but i can answer the first. It probably won't happen as it would require everyone to download and install the mod which would exclude a huge number of folks, so it's unlikely to happen. Try an look at it in a positive light though those helmets just make it easier to make a head shot! see you on the servers z

hey something's not right here???? how'd you take those photos? a long stick perhaps?

naa they're just really far away! but yeah pfft only one gpu what is this 2002?? (hides his jealousy with misplaced passive aggressiveness)

Don't go!!! they'll scan your retinas and clone you cause your a genetic oddity over there (ginger) no good can come of this!

Raz I'm talking directly, yet slightly drunkenly, to you! Call that a laser? This is a shark with frigin' laser beams. http://i.imgur.com/1fJ5t.gif

so someone who is considering building their own computer asked me recently to pick out a few parts for a hypothetical price points one at around £1000 and another at the £600/£700 mark. I've put together two systems at each of these prices and am looking for feedback for everyone. a few caveats first though: im an intel and nvidia guy i just am, don't want to start a debate, but i wouldn't know where to start with amd so my choices are intel/nvidia nothing against them but i haven't included them. you are more than welcome to recommend them. it's a first build and i've recommended that they buy from scan for the benefit of scansure their insurance scheme that covers the first 28 days for any damage during installation i didn't have to use it but it was great knowing that if i pooped the build up i wouldn't be out of pocket. okay first up the £1000 build: http://www.scan.co.uk/savedbasket/43ce55f9e74042dd9b801a183aa12a5b First prices are ex VAT (uk sales tax) Noctua NH-U9B SE2 Dual Fan Quiet CPU Cooler, Intel and AMD S1366/1156/775/AM2/AM2+/AM3 HTPC Ready £36.65 £43.98 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Jet Black Low Profile, PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC, CAS 9-9-9-24, XMP, 1.5V £49.80 £59.76 650W Corsair Enthusiast Series TX650M, Modular, 85% Eff' , 80 PLUS Bronze, SLI/CrossFire, EPS 12V, Quiet Fan, ATX PSU £69.65 £83.58 Fractal Design Define R3 USB 3.0 Black Pearl, Mid Tower Performance Case NEW Cable Routing Noise Absorbing w/o PSU £50.98 £61.18 2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 Barracuda 7200.14 SATA 3 6GB/s 7200rpm 64MB Cache 8ms OEM NCQ £57.20 £68.64 2GB MSI GTX 670 Power Edition OC, 28nm, PCIe 3.0 (x16), 6008MHz GDDR5, GPU 1019MHz, Boost 1079MHz +Free Game £166.67 £200.00 256GB SanDisk Pulse, 2.5" SSD 7mm Slim SATA III - 6Gb/s, Flash Storage, Read 490MB/s, Write 350MB/s, 7300 IOPS Max. £104.25 £125.10 Intel Core i7 4770, 1150, Haswell, Quad Core, 3.4GHz, 3.9GHz Turbo, 1200MHz GPU, 34x Ratio, 84W, Retail £205.17 £246.20 MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate, Intel Z87, S 1150, DDR3, SATA III - 6Gb/s, SATA RAID, PCIe 3.0 (x16), D-Sub (VGA) DVI-D HDMI, ATX £67.87 £81.44 Net Total Carriage VAT Scansure Inc IPT £808.24 £9.15 £163.47 £29.12 Total £1,009.98 this pretty much is a balling machine that runs 4 gen intel cpu and a stunning gpu great cooling with the quiet case and ssd for boot and hdd for storage next up is the £6/700 model where i did have to take a shortcut or two tp://www.scan.co.uk/savedbasket/95363fe1b6de498fb7a28cab5a789132 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Jet Black Low Profile, PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC, CAS 9-9-9-24, XMP, 1.5V £49.80 £59.76 550W ThermalTake SP-550M SMART 80 Plus Bronze PSU with ATX 12V V2.3/EPS 12V, 140mm Fan with Auto Control, PSU £48.50 £58.20 Intel Core i5 3570K,1155, Ivy Bridge, Quad Core, 3.4GHz, 5 GT/s DMI, 650MHz GPU, 6MB Smart Cache, 34x Ratio, 77W, Retail £149.15 £178.98 Corsair Carbide Series 200R Compact ATX Case Black w/o PSU - With Solid Side Panel £41.20 £49.44 2TB Toshiba DT01ACA200, 3.5" HDD, SATA III - 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache 8ms NCQ £56.65 £67.98 Thermalright Macho 120 inc 120mm 600~1300RPM PWM-Fan (56.2CFM MAX) For Socket 2011/1366/1156/1155/775 & AM2/AM3 £24.68 £29.62 1GB EVGA GTX 650 Ti Boost, 28nm, PCIe 3.0 (x16), 5012MHz GDDR5, GPU 980MHz, Cores 768, DP/ 2x DL DVI/ HDMI+Free to Play* £103.65 £124.38 MSI Z77A-G41 Plus, Intel Z77, S 1155, DDR3, SATA III - 6Gb/s, RAID, PCIe 3.0 (x16), D-Sub/DVI-D/HDMI, ATX £63.41 £76.09 Net Total Carriage VAT Scansure Inc IPT £537.04 £9.15 £109.24 £19.33 Total £674.76 so we've dropped haswell for ivy bridge and the gpu has been taken down a notch as well as i've dropped the ssd from the squad. case cooler and psu i've gone from my first choice to something more affordable while still being fairly good. this system is far from a budget piece of poo but i would really recommend that a ssd be added maybe even only a 120gb one for windows so boot speed is increased. so what you all think? these again are just my suggestions and are not set in stone also i realise that im missing out a huge segment by ignoring amd but i simply wouldn't feel comfortable including them as i don't know them well enough. answers on a postcard! z

my 'w' key is already dreading the massive distances involved for altis i dont want to have to put my body through something like this.... http://youtu.be/dP48cLFeBms?t=3m57s

Hi Everyone, You've probably met me in hanging around in the Arma servers,sharing terrible jokes and showing off my amazing skills (I may not be good at this game, but I am very very bad!). Took the plunge and subscribed to Ahoy+ as I'm really enjoying my time with the great community that you've built up and the people who work everyday to keep it fun. Since my time here and from talking to people like Raz, BigAl, Hoax, Liabilities and many, many others I think I've gleamed somewhat of a picture of who and what Ahoyworld is. But what would you think of an 'about us' section on the front page? Like a short paragraph just explaining what it is that Ahoyworld is. Then maybe a page with a who's who and what we do page with details of the organisation and people behind it all. Just a suggestion to help people get a better understanding of what goes on and the effort that you all put in to making it happen. Keep up the amazing work. See you all soon. Z

It's Gandalf!!!!!!!