Tylermaniac

agree with Benjamin on saying that if there were more people... , but I've come to the realisation that the mentality change, together with some other unnecessary or unwanted changes in the playerbase or mission composition has caused a lot of the older veteran players to quit and do sometihing else or totally leave the community -smiley (using my phone and don't know how to quote)
 
One of the ways I think we could change this is enforcing default loadouts and only being able to say change your gun, sights, and being able to get more supplies. One of the things I hear right now is "wait for me I am having arsenal problems" which isn't ryko's fault but points to the fact that people are more concerned about looking cool than playing the game. I know some people would be pissed they can't were M81 in the desert but ffs you will be ok. And for the second point of contention I feel like some people might think it is becoming milsim which is a argument but I feel a closer to milsim type style of play is what eu3 used to be (that last part is option as I obviously wasn't around). But I feel people could look past being tacticool for the sake of better team play. I would also stop the waistline of a lot of time.
-Ben 

This is the biggest issue EU#3 has right now and quite honestly no-one taking squadlead sums up well enough what is going on, even though it is supposed to be and has always been teamplay server; people are treating it as a third public server, but with mods and seem to have lost what EU#3 stood for, as long as they get to be tacticool they don't mind that they aren't the way EU#3 is meant to be played.
I agree with Benjamin on saying that if there were more people... , but I've come to the realisation that the mentality change, together with some other unnecessary or unwanted changes in the playerbase or mission composition has caused a lot of the older veteran players to quit and do sometihing else or totally leave the community.
To be honest, trying to change this without taking measures to the rules is going to to take more than changing around the squads, people who use EU#3 as just another casual server won't really be affected by changing such as these and in my opinion these players should just remove themselves, change their mentality or get removed.
#meutga
 

So currently within the 12-Man squads we have a two man command unit, followed by two Fire teams consisting of 5-Men. Currently we don't have much issue filling the team leaders and the rest of the fire team along with the medic however not many people enjoy the squad lead role. 

This has lead to the team leaders often taking charge as a squad lead which alone isn't much of an issue however why have the player slot available if its really not wanted? Hence my idea of reducing the squad size by a factor of 2. In the current standings once we have both fire teams full people go towards the specialist roles, MMG, MAT and HAT and sometimes even the second Vortex which leads to A1 and A2 splitting and essentially acting as two separate elements sharing the same radio frequency which once you throw in some Pilot and specialist teams and the current mind point of TLs don't need/take LR Radio's it doesn't take long for organisation to breakdown.
 
Now a simple solution that may be suggested is why don't people just take the Squad Leader role however there is only one reason people don't take it as of now, they don't enjoy it. Just saying to 'man up' and take the roll would have no effect as why bother if you don't enjoy the role?
 
A brief example of the kind of layout I would suggest to hopefully go towards fixing this:
Platoon Command
Platoon etc
 
Alpha Squad Lead
Alpha Medic
Alpha Autorifleman
Alpha Autorifleman Asst.
Alpha Rifleman AT
Alpha Marksman
 
Bravo Squad Lead
Bravo Medic
Bravo Autorifleman
Bravo Autorifleman Asst.
Bravo Rifleman AT
Bravo Engineer
 
And then the same old repeated stuff below. No change to Spc squads and such. Hopefully this would reduce the weight upon ASLs shoulders as an extra 6 men is taken out of the equation along with such a small squad would mean the ASL would have more of a combat role rather than the sitting back that often occurs. Additionally those who enjoy the commanding from the back still have the platoon command as an option. 

Could we not find a selection of possible temporary winter maps then hold a Poll on the Forums? IMO winter Cherno is boring compared to some other snowy maps out there

I cannot think of a better team to lead EU3.

Thats Nice i can't play it but i can watch it really hope it turns out good 

I don't think there is any need for a password. I haven't had any issues with people joining who don't have TS. Most "issues" I've had is with people who don't know how to use ACRE properly (Proper keybindings in TS/ingame, ACRE shortcuts, etc.)
 
Also, keep in mind that if someone joins without TeamSpeak they get a black screen with a message saying they MUST be in TS in order to play - http://prntscr.com/apbd5m .
 
On top of that, putting a password on the server may discourage new players to try EU3.
 
What I think may happen:
 
A - Server without password
1) Player sees another open AW Server - eu3
2) Finds out it has mod and installs them to give it a try.
2) Joins the server without TS (for whatever reason)
3) Sees the black screen - http://prntscr.com/apbd5m
4a) Joins TS and plays
4b) Doesn't want to play with TS and leaves
 
Result: potential new player in EU3
 
B - Server with password
1a) Player sees a locked/passworded AW server.
1b) Player has his filter setup to not show passworded servers - never sees EU3.
2) Assumes it is private or for testing and doesn't bother to see what it is about
 
Result: potential new player lost because of the password
 
Those examples probably are extreme, but what I want to illustrate is that there are players who directly ignore or don't see passworded servers. AW offers public servers for everyone to join, I see no reason to limit that with passwords. Of course there will be people who will investigate what EU3 is even after seeing it is a passworded server, but I think those players are a minority.
 

When: Wednesday, April 6 20:00 GMT (16:00 EST) *Starting right on the dot*
Mods: Standard EU3
Mission Length: 1 Hour (No JIP)
 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Description
PvP Mission "Suits"
BLUFOR and OPFOR need to negotiate for the release of an American ambassador held in Chernarus.
 
Considerations
This is meant to be just a quick, fun mission (no waiting time, no dillydallying) in preparation for a multi-mission PvP gamenight hosted sometime later. 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Teams
BLUFOR (Attacking) (~30 Slots)
OPFOR (Defending) (~20 Slots)
One Hostage
 
Reserve Your Slot Here
 
*If enough people are up for it, we can even do a second match

Hello, so as some of you may be aware, we are now in British Summer Time. That means we are 1 hour ahead of GMT. So when planning gamenight times / turning upto gamenights be aware of this. Turing up an hour early is good however...
(Posting this due to my recent gamenight with people turing up early and Mr Collider gamenight meaning to be at 8:00 BST I believe.)

Ingame Name*: Miczils
 
Why do you think you were banned?:It is said i was harrasing people, my side of the story \/
 
Why (in your personal opinion) should your ban be lifted?*: What i did was, i joined Duffyman's channel and asked him how is it to be banned(he got banned after teamkilling me twice yesterday. I don't remember who was in the channel with him but i heard that if i wont get out of the channel they will report me for harrasing them, so i did went out of the channel. Few minutes later while talking in Ts3 channel with moonfire i got dragged to a channel by the admin and was told that i am harrasing banned duffyman and moonfire *i don't think i was harrasing moonfire at any point, maybe S0zio just read the wrong nickname but it may have sense to write it here*     and i will be out for a day for doing that. I agreed, even i believe it wasn't that much of harrasing. I got the ban, today i tried to join again, and i see that i am permanently banned now. I was told that it is because something else was unveiled in my case, I don't know what can that be.

I believe it could be me "harrasing" duffy before, true, i have said few stupid things, but we did shittalk eachother for some time, and i wouldn't call that harrasing as he was also throwing some meat at me, i just took is as casual "banter" shittalk as i believe he also did
(Im sorry if i hurt your feelings duffy, you called me a shit pilot tho, thats something man can never forget ;_;
 
 
Which administrator banned you (ArmA 3 only)?: Soziopath
 
When were you banned?*: 26 hours until now
 
Thank you for reading my poem, Cheers Miczils

Ingame Name*: DuffyMan
Why do you think you were banned?: I was most likely banned for being very bad at teamkilling. I failed to Teamkill Miczilzszszsz. This was the correct thing for the admin to do and I believe they do there job very well.

Why (in your personal opinion) should your ban be lifted?*: I believe, in my personal opinion, that I should have my ban removed because I failed at teamkilling. Not only that but everyone loves me… #duffyforcorestaff. I’m very sorry for being bad at arma and I will not fail to teamkill someone again. Your admins do a very good job here, and I support them in every move!

Which administrator banned you (ArmA 3 only)?:Origins

When were you banned?*: Some time in the history…
 

When: Wednesday, April 6 20:00 GMT (16:00 EST) *Starting right on the dot*
Mods: Standard EU3
Mission Length: 1 Hour (No JIP)
 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Description
PvP Mission "Suits"
BLUFOR and OPFOR need to negotiate for the release of an American ambassador held in Chernarus.
 
Considerations
This is meant to be just a quick, fun mission (no waiting time, no dillydallying) in preparation for a multi-mission PvP gamenight hosted sometime later. 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Teams
BLUFOR (Attacking) (~30 Slots)
OPFOR (Defending) (~20 Slots)
One Hostage
 
Reserve Your Slot Here
 
*If enough people are up for it, we can even do a second match

When: Wednesday, April 6 20:00 GMT (16:00 EST) *Starting right on the dot*
Mods: Standard EU3
Mission Length: 1 Hour (No JIP)
 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Description
PvP Mission "Suits"
BLUFOR and OPFOR need to negotiate for the release of an American ambassador held in Chernarus.
 
Considerations
This is meant to be just a quick, fun mission (no waiting time, no dillydallying) in preparation for a multi-mission PvP gamenight hosted sometime later. 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Teams
BLUFOR (Attacking) (~30 Slots)
OPFOR (Defending) (~20 Slots)
One Hostage
 
Reserve Your Slot Here
 
*If enough people are up for it, we can even do a second match

When: Wednesday, April 6 20:00 GMT (16:00 EST) *Starting right on the dot*
Mods: Standard EU3
Mission Length: 1 Hour (No JIP)
 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Description
PvP Mission "Suits"
BLUFOR and OPFOR need to negotiate for the release of an American ambassador held in Chernarus.
 
Considerations
This is meant to be just a quick, fun mission (no waiting time, no dillydallying) in preparation for a multi-mission PvP gamenight hosted sometime later. 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Teams
BLUFOR (Attacking) (~30 Slots)
OPFOR (Defending) (~20 Slots)
One Hostage
 
Reserve Your Slot Here
 
*If enough people are up for it, we can even do a second match

When: Wednesday, April 6 20:00 GMT (16:00 EST) *Starting right on the dot*
Mods: Standard EU3
Mission Length: 1 Hour (No JIP)
 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Description
PvP Mission "Suits"
BLUFOR and OPFOR need to negotiate for the release of an American ambassador held in Chernarus.
 
Considerations
This is meant to be just a quick, fun mission (no waiting time, no dillydallying) in preparation for a multi-mission PvP gamenight hosted sometime later. 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Teams
BLUFOR (Attacking) (~30 Slots)
OPFOR (Defending) (~20 Slots)
One Hostage
 
Reserve Your Slot Here
 
*If enough people are up for it, we can even do a second match

I'm in! First game night, please be kind

When: Wednesday, April 6 20:00 GMT (16:00 EST) *Starting right on the dot*
Mods: Standard EU3
Mission Length: 1 Hour (No JIP)
 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Description
PvP Mission "Suits"
BLUFOR and OPFOR need to negotiate for the release of an American ambassador held in Chernarus.
 
Considerations
This is meant to be just a quick, fun mission (no waiting time, no dillydallying) in preparation for a multi-mission PvP gamenight hosted sometime later. 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Teams
BLUFOR (Attacking) (~30 Slots)
OPFOR (Defending) (~20 Slots)
One Hostage
 
Reserve Your Slot Here
 
*If enough people are up for it, we can even do a second match

When: Wednesday, April 6 20:00 GMT (16:00 EST) *Starting right on the dot*
Mods: Standard EU3
Mission Length: 1 Hour (No JIP)
 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Description
PvP Mission "Suits"
BLUFOR and OPFOR need to negotiate for the release of an American ambassador held in Chernarus.
 
Considerations
This is meant to be just a quick, fun mission (no waiting time, no dillydallying) in preparation for a multi-mission PvP gamenight hosted sometime later. 
Mission will be locked to first person only
 
Teams
BLUFOR (Attacking) (~30 Slots)
OPFOR (Defending) (~20 Slots)
One Hostage
 
Reserve Your Slot Here
 
*If enough people are up for it, we can even do a second match

Are you perhaps looking to purchase the coins for the equipment on EU3 server?

You finally got promoted from recruit?

April Fools?

You finally got promoted from recruit?

You finally got promoted from recruit?

i am leaving ahoy world today and wont be returing 

I also think adding the golden Ak for 10000A¢ would be great!