zissou

I kicked you telling you to practice in the editor. When I dragged you to the channel I was in you were adamant that you were a competent pilot yet you struggle to land the chopper and crashed multiple times. 

Nope not happening, resignation denied. 
 
You can try again in a few months but at the moment it's not happening 

Nope not happening, resignation denied. 
 
You can try again in a few months but at the moment it's not happening 

Nope not happening, resignation denied. 
 
You can try again in a few months but at the moment it's not happening 

Nope not happening, resignation denied. 
 
You can try again in a few months but at the moment it's not happening 

Nope not happening, resignation denied. 
 
You can try again in a few months but at the moment it's not happening 

Nope not happening, resignation denied. 
 
You can try again in a few months but at the moment it's not happening 

Nope not happening, resignation denied. 
 
You can try again in a few months but at the moment it's not happening 

Nope not happening, resignation denied. 
 
You can try again in a few months but at the moment it's not happening 

Nope not happening, resignation denied. 
 
You can try again in a few months but at the moment it's not happening 

Nope not happening, resignation denied. 
 
You can try again in a few months but at the moment it's not happening 

Nope not happening, resignation denied. 
 
You can try again in a few months but at the moment it's not happening 

Nope not happening, resignation denied. 
 
You can try again in a few months but at the moment it's not happening 

There is my little cutie born at 17.12.2016 with 3375g and 50cm ♥ Happy Christmas everyone ♥ *EDIT* Its´s a Girl

AW MVP 2016: me
AW most friendly admin/staff member 2016: me
AW most helpful admin/staff member 2016: me
AW most helpful user *Non-staff* 2016: me (a brief few hours a couple of weeks ago)
AW friendliest user 2016: marvin
AW most tacti-cool ARMA player 2016: John Mclane
AW best ARMA pilot 2016: muckduck 
 
AW best Teamspeak singer 2016: me
AW funniest person on Teamspeak 2016: me
AW best moment 2016 (can be in any game or on teamspeak/forum): 
 
AW best forum post 2016 (please put url in): any of mine
AW best drunk member 2016:me
AW best driver 2016:me
AW worst driver 2016:me
AW best baby 2016: you
AW most absent staff member 2016:jesters IPad
AW best fail 2016: "I was on the racing line!"
AW best banned member 2016: it's not over yet could be me 

AW MVP 2016: Harambe.
AW most friendly admin/staff member 2016: Nicolai
AW most helpful admin/staff member 2016: Hmmm, I dunno, PERO I guess because I see him EVERY SINGLE TIME ON THE FRONT PAGE SOMEWHERE.
AW most helpful user *Non-staff* 2016: Anyone called 'Phil' because how the FUCK can you not trust someone called Phil, Phil is the guy that will bring your ladder back when done with it.
AW friendliest user 2016: Tough call, definitely one of the regular players.
AW most tacti-cool ARMA player 2016: Entire population of Ahoyworld 'Enhanced' because operate operationally and "they'll never see this coming because we have supressors" when planning LZ's inside the AO space.
AW best ARMA pilot 2016: Probably any one of the chaps on EU1 that don't get enough recognition for being able to fly in a straight line where as doing so on EU3 makes you a real life pilot apparently. (>inb4 autorotation is hard)
AW best Teamspeak singer 2016: Josh? I dunno.
AW funniest person on Teamspeak 2016: The entire staff.
AW best moment 2016 (can be in any game or on teamspeak/forum): Any one of the old MAT Team fire fights on EU3.
AW best forum post 2016 (please put url in): I dunno, probably any one of the feedback threads because they always turn out to become bollocks and banana's in the end.
AW best drunk member 2016: Pancake because who doesn't love confused screaming.
AW best driver 2016: me because "no time to explain get in" moments with Civilian cars on Eu3.
AW worst driver 2016: Duffy, like every year.
AW best baby 2016: Copey because I love loosing 2 headsets when I connect to EU3.   ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
AW most absent staff member 2016: Elcour because where are you dad?
AW best fail 2016: Me deciding to make brutally honest become a bit more public.
AW best banned member 2016: Myself.

AW MVP 2016: me
AW most friendly admin/staff member 2016: me
AW most helpful admin/staff member 2016: me
AW most helpful user *Non-staff* 2016: me (a brief few hours a couple of weeks ago)
AW friendliest user 2016: marvin
AW most tacti-cool ARMA player 2016: John Mclane
AW best ARMA pilot 2016: muckduck 
 
AW best Teamspeak singer 2016: me
AW funniest person on Teamspeak 2016: me
AW best moment 2016 (can be in any game or on teamspeak/forum): 
 
AW best forum post 2016 (please put url in): any of mine
AW best drunk member 2016:me
AW best driver 2016:me
AW worst driver 2016:me
AW best baby 2016: you
AW most absent staff member 2016:jesters IPad
AW best fail 2016: "I was on the racing line!"
AW best banned member 2016: it's not over yet could be me 

Psychological analysis of arma-players and their squad roles:
 
Team-lead: Charismatic but power-hungry demagogue. Always a alpha-type male and mostly highly educated. Would be a (bank) manager or lawyer in civilian life. Likes to eat his own cooked food, specially T-bone steaks. Has ferrari as favourite car. Most loved weapon would be a nuke. Favourite movie: Wolf of wallstreet.
 
Squad-Lead: Power-hungry sadist. Mostly a alpha-type male lacking some self confidence with normal education. Would be a police officer or salesman in civilian life. Likes to eat his own cooked food, specially fish like trout. Has mercedes as favourite car. Most loved weapon would be a Jdam. Favourite movie: The green mile.
 
Sniper/marksman/spotter: Einzelganger who dosnt express himself when it comes to emotions, medium educated. Would be a IT employee or accountant in civilian life. Likes raw food but isnt a vegetarian. Drives most probably vauxhall. Most loved weapon is M40. Favourite movie: American Sniper
 
Demolition: Temperamental and dominant type of guy. Mostly non very well education and often dyslectic, only spells the word boom correct. Would be a miner or truck driver in civilian life. Like to drive a ford. Eats spicey food, preferred curry's. Most loved weapon is a grenade. Favourite movie: Sum of all fears.
 
Rep spec: Manipulating perfectionist with a bad feeling for timing. Educated in physics on a medium level Would be a mechanic or busdriver in civilian life. Likes to drive a pimped caterpillar excavator. Eats his steaks well done, dosnt like vegetables. Most loved weapon: a hammer. Favourite movie: Gone in 60 seconds.
 
Medic: Over emotional and politicly correct person. Mostly only educated in biology and somethimes chemistry. Would be a politician or nurse in civilian life. Is a strikt vegan. Has a mountainbike as favourite car. Most loved weapon would be love. Favourite movie: My little pony
 
Machinegunner: Paranoid schizofrenic whom gets over emotional sometimes. No education most of the times. Would be a amateur body builder or construction worker in civilian life. Wants to eat rice with every meal. Prefers to go around with the bus or subway. Most loved weapon: Saw with extended barrel. Favourite movie: the A-team.
 
Pilot: Addicted to social interaction who never argues, always blames himself if something goes wrong. Educated in history or economics. Would be a airline pilot or test driver in civilian life. Only eats MC Donalds and skips breakfast. Favourite car is most likely a porsche. Most loved weapon: his own hands. Preferred movie: Top gun.
 
AT/AA Specialist: Clownesque type without a sense for humor. Did many educations but never finished one. Would be stand up comedian or construction worker in civilian life. Prefers a gravy at all times with his food. Has a lada or renault in his garage(edit:) or worse. Most loved weapon: the javelin. Preferred movie: The good, the bad, the ugly.
 
*Note: the study is still in progress and can be updated. It is not based on any Ahoy member whatsoever. If you disagree, youre in denial or forgot to take your medicine.
*Note II: the study is based on the dsm IV for professional psychiatric personell but not really.
*Note III: if you take arma or this post too seriously you should go play a racing game instead.
*Note IV: all copyrights are reserved to fishbone publishing.

So here's the list I came up with, I'm willing to accept ideas and suggestions and hope this goes somewhat to reassuring players, also remember you can at anytime contact the admin team with any concerns or complaints. 
 
Spartan Dos and Don’ts
1.      Your main role is one of making sure the mission runs smoothly. That means alerting admins of any rule breaking. If it becomes clear that you are not reporting troublemakers your Zeus access will be revoked. It’s absolutely pointless having staff members on a server if they are not prepared to act in the best interests of players.
    If an admin joins the server sees lots of TKing that hasn’t been reported and multiple AFK players you will lose your spartan status.
2.      Do augment the existing missions in novel ways. Make sure that it looks organic and never give players the impression that the mission is unachievable. Example: if sending in reinforcements do it once don’t keep dropping paratroopers down again and again.
3.      Don’t spam that goes for; lightning, artillery, mortars or units. Think about what you’re placing and why.
4.      Don’t entertain requests: Don’t lightning or teleport stuck players, they can respawn. Don’t fix broken vehicles they need to sort it out themselves, don’t do the job of a player if they need ammo let the team do it don’t spawn in an ammo box. If you don’t you will get nothing but a list of shit to do when players could be doing it themselves.
5.      Don’t suspend the main mission you might think your mission is great but that’s not what people joined the server for.
6.      Don’t spend too much time on your mission server restarts happen all the time and you will feel shit if you’ve spent an hour on a mission just to have it disappear.
7.      Spawned items should not appear miraculously no one should see a unit being spawned in.
8.      Until it’s resolved taking control of AI and killing players is not permitted it will be classed as teamkilling.
9.      Observe potential troublemakers Zeus is an incredibly powerful tool for seeing how people are playing. Keep an eye out for AFK players, keep spawn area relatively tidy.
10.   Don’t play container Jenga.
11.   Do go easy you don’t have to be building missions all the time.
12.   You must be on teamspeak if you are in Zeus.
13.   Do not interfere with other people’s work if someone is Zeusing (you’ll know because they’re on TS) don’t do anything Zeuswise when one is already active, one Zeus at a time is enough.
14.  Custom missions should be not longer than 20/30 minutes. The creator must be present for the entirety of the mission. The mission should be cleaned up afterwards. If the creator has to leave he must delete all traces of his mission.
15. Don’t give perks to players you know. Don’t punish players you don’t like.
16.  Missions should be small, don’t use the big premade ares bases don’t place too many objects or units and don’t waste time on fluff.
17. Artillery and mortars, don’t aim and don’t spam, a round should land before the next is placed, never aim exactly on players but around them it’s much more entertaining for them.

So here's the list I came up with, I'm willing to accept ideas and suggestions and hope this goes somewhat to reassuring players, also remember you can at anytime contact the admin team with any concerns or complaints. 
 
Spartan Dos and Don’ts
1.      Your main role is one of making sure the mission runs smoothly. That means alerting admins of any rule breaking. If it becomes clear that you are not reporting troublemakers your Zeus access will be revoked. It’s absolutely pointless having staff members on a server if they are not prepared to act in the best interests of players.
    If an admin joins the server sees lots of TKing that hasn’t been reported and multiple AFK players you will lose your spartan status.
2.      Do augment the existing missions in novel ways. Make sure that it looks organic and never give players the impression that the mission is unachievable. Example: if sending in reinforcements do it once don’t keep dropping paratroopers down again and again.
3.      Don’t spam that goes for; lightning, artillery, mortars or units. Think about what you’re placing and why.
4.      Don’t entertain requests: Don’t lightning or teleport stuck players, they can respawn. Don’t fix broken vehicles they need to sort it out themselves, don’t do the job of a player if they need ammo let the team do it don’t spawn in an ammo box. If you don’t you will get nothing but a list of shit to do when players could be doing it themselves.
5.      Don’t suspend the main mission you might think your mission is great but that’s not what people joined the server for.
6.      Don’t spend too much time on your mission server restarts happen all the time and you will feel shit if you’ve spent an hour on a mission just to have it disappear.
7.      Spawned items should not appear miraculously no one should see a unit being spawned in.
8.      Until it’s resolved taking control of AI and killing players is not permitted it will be classed as teamkilling.
9.      Observe potential troublemakers Zeus is an incredibly powerful tool for seeing how people are playing. Keep an eye out for AFK players, keep spawn area relatively tidy.
10.   Don’t play container Jenga.
11.   Do go easy you don’t have to be building missions all the time.
12.   You must be on teamspeak if you are in Zeus.
13.   Do not interfere with other people’s work if someone is Zeusing (you’ll know because they’re on TS) don’t do anything Zeuswise when one is already active, one Zeus at a time is enough.
14.  Custom missions should be not longer than 20/30 minutes. The creator must be present for the entirety of the mission. The mission should be cleaned up afterwards. If the creator has to leave he must delete all traces of his mission.
15. Don’t give perks to players you know. Don’t punish players you don’t like.
16.  Missions should be small, don’t use the big premade ares bases don’t place too many objects or units and don’t waste time on fluff.
17. Artillery and mortars, don’t aim and don’t spam, a round should land before the next is placed, never aim exactly on players but around them it’s much more entertaining for them.

So here's the list I came up with, I'm willing to accept ideas and suggestions and hope this goes somewhat to reassuring players, also remember you can at anytime contact the admin team with any concerns or complaints. 
 
Spartan Dos and Don’ts
1.      Your main role is one of making sure the mission runs smoothly. That means alerting admins of any rule breaking. If it becomes clear that you are not reporting troublemakers your Zeus access will be revoked. It’s absolutely pointless having staff members on a server if they are not prepared to act in the best interests of players.
    If an admin joins the server sees lots of TKing that hasn’t been reported and multiple AFK players you will lose your spartan status.
2.      Do augment the existing missions in novel ways. Make sure that it looks organic and never give players the impression that the mission is unachievable. Example: if sending in reinforcements do it once don’t keep dropping paratroopers down again and again.
3.      Don’t spam that goes for; lightning, artillery, mortars or units. Think about what you’re placing and why.
4.      Don’t entertain requests: Don’t lightning or teleport stuck players, they can respawn. Don’t fix broken vehicles they need to sort it out themselves, don’t do the job of a player if they need ammo let the team do it don’t spawn in an ammo box. If you don’t you will get nothing but a list of shit to do when players could be doing it themselves.
5.      Don’t suspend the main mission you might think your mission is great but that’s not what people joined the server for.
6.      Don’t spend too much time on your mission server restarts happen all the time and you will feel shit if you’ve spent an hour on a mission just to have it disappear.
7.      Spawned items should not appear miraculously no one should see a unit being spawned in.
8.      Until it’s resolved taking control of AI and killing players is not permitted it will be classed as teamkilling.
9.      Observe potential troublemakers Zeus is an incredibly powerful tool for seeing how people are playing. Keep an eye out for AFK players, keep spawn area relatively tidy.
10.   Don’t play container Jenga.
11.   Do go easy you don’t have to be building missions all the time.
12.   You must be on teamspeak if you are in Zeus.
13.   Do not interfere with other people’s work if someone is Zeusing (you’ll know because they’re on TS) don’t do anything Zeuswise when one is already active, one Zeus at a time is enough.
14.  Custom missions should be not longer than 20/30 minutes. The creator must be present for the entirety of the mission. The mission should be cleaned up afterwards. If the creator has to leave he must delete all traces of his mission.
15. Don’t give perks to players you know. Don’t punish players you don’t like.
16.  Missions should be small, don’t use the big premade ares bases don’t place too many objects or units and don’t waste time on fluff.
17. Artillery and mortars, don’t aim and don’t spam, a round should land before the next is placed, never aim exactly on players but around them it’s much more entertaining for them.

So here's the list I came up with, I'm willing to accept ideas and suggestions and hope this goes somewhat to reassuring players, also remember you can at anytime contact the admin team with any concerns or complaints. 
 
Spartan Dos and Don’ts
1.      Your main role is one of making sure the mission runs smoothly. That means alerting admins of any rule breaking. If it becomes clear that you are not reporting troublemakers your Zeus access will be revoked. It’s absolutely pointless having staff members on a server if they are not prepared to act in the best interests of players.
    If an admin joins the server sees lots of TKing that hasn’t been reported and multiple AFK players you will lose your spartan status.
2.      Do augment the existing missions in novel ways. Make sure that it looks organic and never give players the impression that the mission is unachievable. Example: if sending in reinforcements do it once don’t keep dropping paratroopers down again and again.
3.      Don’t spam that goes for; lightning, artillery, mortars or units. Think about what you’re placing and why.
4.      Don’t entertain requests: Don’t lightning or teleport stuck players, they can respawn. Don’t fix broken vehicles they need to sort it out themselves, don’t do the job of a player if they need ammo let the team do it don’t spawn in an ammo box. If you don’t you will get nothing but a list of shit to do when players could be doing it themselves.
5.      Don’t suspend the main mission you might think your mission is great but that’s not what people joined the server for.
6.      Don’t spend too much time on your mission server restarts happen all the time and you will feel shit if you’ve spent an hour on a mission just to have it disappear.
7.      Spawned items should not appear miraculously no one should see a unit being spawned in.
8.      Until it’s resolved taking control of AI and killing players is not permitted it will be classed as teamkilling.
9.      Observe potential troublemakers Zeus is an incredibly powerful tool for seeing how people are playing. Keep an eye out for AFK players, keep spawn area relatively tidy.
10.   Don’t play container Jenga.
11.   Do go easy you don’t have to be building missions all the time.
12.   You must be on teamspeak if you are in Zeus.
13.   Do not interfere with other people’s work if someone is Zeusing (you’ll know because they’re on TS) don’t do anything Zeuswise when one is already active, one Zeus at a time is enough.
14.  Custom missions should be not longer than 20/30 minutes. The creator must be present for the entirety of the mission. The mission should be cleaned up afterwards. If the creator has to leave he must delete all traces of his mission.
15. Don’t give perks to players you know. Don’t punish players you don’t like.
16.  Missions should be small, don’t use the big premade ares bases don’t place too many objects or units and don’t waste time on fluff.
17. Artillery and mortars, don’t aim and don’t spam, a round should land before the next is placed, never aim exactly on players but around them it’s much more entertaining for them.

So here's the list I came up with, I'm willing to accept ideas and suggestions and hope this goes somewhat to reassuring players, also remember you can at anytime contact the admin team with any concerns or complaints. 
 
Spartan Dos and Don’ts
1.      Your main role is one of making sure the mission runs smoothly. That means alerting admins of any rule breaking. If it becomes clear that you are not reporting troublemakers your Zeus access will be revoked. It’s absolutely pointless having staff members on a server if they are not prepared to act in the best interests of players.
    If an admin joins the server sees lots of TKing that hasn’t been reported and multiple AFK players you will lose your spartan status.
2.      Do augment the existing missions in novel ways. Make sure that it looks organic and never give players the impression that the mission is unachievable. Example: if sending in reinforcements do it once don’t keep dropping paratroopers down again and again.
3.      Don’t spam that goes for; lightning, artillery, mortars or units. Think about what you’re placing and why.
4.      Don’t entertain requests: Don’t lightning or teleport stuck players, they can respawn. Don’t fix broken vehicles they need to sort it out themselves, don’t do the job of a player if they need ammo let the team do it don’t spawn in an ammo box. If you don’t you will get nothing but a list of shit to do when players could be doing it themselves.
5.      Don’t suspend the main mission you might think your mission is great but that’s not what people joined the server for.
6.      Don’t spend too much time on your mission server restarts happen all the time and you will feel shit if you’ve spent an hour on a mission just to have it disappear.
7.      Spawned items should not appear miraculously no one should see a unit being spawned in.
8.      Until it’s resolved taking control of AI and killing players is not permitted it will be classed as teamkilling.
9.      Observe potential troublemakers Zeus is an incredibly powerful tool for seeing how people are playing. Keep an eye out for AFK players, keep spawn area relatively tidy.
10.   Don’t play container Jenga.
11.   Do go easy you don’t have to be building missions all the time.
12.   You must be on teamspeak if you are in Zeus.
13.   Do not interfere with other people’s work if someone is Zeusing (you’ll know because they’re on TS) don’t do anything Zeuswise when one is already active, one Zeus at a time is enough.
14.  Custom missions should be not longer than 20/30 minutes. The creator must be present for the entirety of the mission. The mission should be cleaned up afterwards. If the creator has to leave he must delete all traces of his mission.
15. Don’t give perks to players you know. Don’t punish players you don’t like.
16.  Missions should be small, don’t use the big premade ares bases don’t place too many objects or units and don’t waste time on fluff.
17. Artillery and mortars, don’t aim and don’t spam, a round should land before the next is placed, never aim exactly on players but around them it’s much more entertaining for them.

Zeus at the moment while directly controlling ai killing players results in a TK message and for this reason is not being permitted at the moment.

This is not up for debate.

If a player joins and sees multiple tk messages and someone explains "oh that's fine he's an admin" it reflects terribly on all of us.


 
The manner in which I use Zeus is as follows, others may use it differently.

Lightning should be used in moderation and only for discipline for players who are tking spamming or otherwise breaking the rules. Players will get stuck for tking with no explanation reminded that tking is not permitted and will be kicked the next time an infringement happens.

New units are spawned out of sight of players so as not to appear from nowhere. This ruins the immersion and gives players a feeling of helplessness whereby the feel as if they can't win.

 Zeus missions: I don’t do them because we have a fabulous canvas of mission within I&A that have stood the test of time and keep bringing back players. I find having Zeus missions dilutes it takes away from the main mission and adds little. Also it takes time and resources and there’s no guarantee that the sever won’t have to be restarted just as you’ve finished delicately placing all your items/units/buildings.

I’m going to write up a list of do’s and don’ts for all new Spartans so hopefully this won’t be an ongoing issue.


 

Zeus at the moment while directly controlling ai killing players results in a TK message and for this reason is not being permitted at the moment.

This is not up for debate.

If a player joins and sees multiple tk messages and someone explains "oh that's fine he's an admin" it reflects terribly on all of us.


 
The manner in which I use Zeus is as follows, others may use it differently.

Lightning should be used in moderation and only for discipline for players who are tking spamming or otherwise breaking the rules. Players will get stuck for tking with no explanation reminded that tking is not permitted and will be kicked the next time an infringement happens.

New units are spawned out of sight of players so as not to appear from nowhere. This ruins the immersion and gives players a feeling of helplessness whereby the feel as if they can't win.

 Zeus missions: I don’t do them because we have a fabulous canvas of mission within I&A that have stood the test of time and keep bringing back players. I find having Zeus missions dilutes it takes away from the main mission and adds little. Also it takes time and resources and there’s no guarantee that the sever won’t have to be restarted just as you’ve finished delicately placing all your items/units/buildings.

I’m going to write up a list of do’s and don’ts for all new Spartans so hopefully this won’t be an ongoing issue.