Mark T

//AHOYWORLD End of Year Awards 2016!
 
The end of 2016 is around the corner, So it's time to vote for the end of year awards!
 
We will use both a poll and some entries which you will have to reply to yourself!
 
You have until 23/12/2016 1800UTC so get voting!!!!!
 
 
Questions (Please post below):
 
AW MVP 2016:
AW most friendly admin/staff member 2016:
AW most helpful admin/staff member 2016:
AW most helpful user *Non-staff* 2016:
AW friendliest user 2016:
AW most tacti-cool ARMA player 2016:
AW best ARMA pilot 2016:
AW best Teamspeak singer 2016:
AW funniest person on Teamspeak 2016:
AW best moment 2016 (can be in any game or on teamspeak/forum):
AW best forum post 2016 (please put url in):
AW best drunk member 2016:
AW best driver 2016:
AW worst driver 2016:
AW best baby 2016:
AW most absent staff member 2016:
AW best fail 2016:
AW best banned member 2016:

//AHOYWORLD End of Year Awards 2016!
 
The end of 2016 is around the corner, So it's time to vote for the end of year awards!
 
We will use both a poll and some entries which you will have to reply to yourself!
 
You have until 23/12/2016 1800UTC so get voting!!!!!
 
 
Questions (Please post below):
 
AW MVP 2016:
AW most friendly admin/staff member 2016:
AW most helpful admin/staff member 2016:
AW most helpful user *Non-staff* 2016:
AW friendliest user 2016:
AW most tacti-cool ARMA player 2016:
AW best ARMA pilot 2016:
AW best Teamspeak singer 2016:
AW funniest person on Teamspeak 2016:
AW best moment 2016 (can be in any game or on teamspeak/forum):
AW best forum post 2016 (please put url in):
AW best drunk member 2016:
AW best driver 2016:
AW worst driver 2016:
AW best baby 2016:
AW most absent staff member 2016:
AW best fail 2016:
AW best banned member 2016:

//AHOYWORLD End of Year Awards 2016!
 
The end of 2016 is around the corner, So it's time to vote for the end of year awards!
 
We will use both a poll and some entries which you will have to reply to yourself!
 
You have until 23/12/2016 1800UTC so get voting!!!!!
 
 
Questions (Please post below):
 
AW MVP 2016:
AW most friendly admin/staff member 2016:
AW most helpful admin/staff member 2016:
AW most helpful user *Non-staff* 2016:
AW friendliest user 2016:
AW most tacti-cool ARMA player 2016:
AW best ARMA pilot 2016:
AW best Teamspeak singer 2016:
AW funniest person on Teamspeak 2016:
AW best moment 2016 (can be in any game or on teamspeak/forum):
AW best forum post 2016 (please put url in):
AW best drunk member 2016:
AW best driver 2016:
AW worst driver 2016:
AW best baby 2016:
AW most absent staff member 2016:
AW best fail 2016:
AW best banned member 2016:

After putting up with the laptop for the last year, I have finally decided to get myself a new PC. 
  Case Phanteks P400 Eclipse Windowed Gaming Case - Gun Metal Grey  -Red LED strip Power Supply Cougar 750W 80+ Bronze Rated PSU CPU Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor Motherboard Asus Z170-E (Socket 1151) ATX Motherboard Cooler Alpenfohn Matterhorn Black Tower CPU Cooler Memory Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black Primary Hard Drive Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive Secondary Hard Drive Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD Graphics  KFA2 GeForce GTX 1080 EX OC 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card Audio 7.1 High Definition Audio Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit DVD

After putting up with the laptop for the last year, I have finally decided to get myself a new PC. 
  Case Phanteks P400 Eclipse Windowed Gaming Case - Gun Metal Grey  -Red LED strip Power Supply Cougar 750W 80+ Bronze Rated PSU CPU Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor Motherboard Asus Z170-E (Socket 1151) ATX Motherboard Cooler Alpenfohn Matterhorn Black Tower CPU Cooler Memory Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black Primary Hard Drive Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive Secondary Hard Drive Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD Graphics  KFA2 GeForce GTX 1080 EX OC 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card Audio 7.1 High Definition Audio Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit DVD

http://www.ahoyworld.co.uk/topic/3738-sign-up-for-the-squadxmls/
 

Like Pancake said just stick around be active

The squad XML is currently down for maintenance,  we were simply transferring the tags onto a new server which has unfortunately caused intermittent problems.  We are currently working on it and hope to have it solved very soon, I will announce once its up and running fully.
FYI it has nothing to do with recent events.

Beat me to it,  I updated a post regarding this here

 

Currently there's no hill camping, I 'might' change some of the gear limitation around, but it will depend on how the gameplay flow change.

I'm more focused on fixing performance degradation over time (Nearly all fixed atm) and adding more side missions.

Hi Eljas, Welcome to AhoyWorld.
 
It is a long path upon you. We need to know more about you so get yourself involved in lot of activities on forums, TS3 conversations. Make your identity well known in AhoyWorld. Be active, constructive, supportive, helpful, and respectful all across servers and forums of AhoyWorld. Learn how AhoyWorld operates and contribute to AhoyWorld creating features.
Don't forget, you are creator of your career on AhoyWorld.
 
-Plant

We successfully upgraded to IPS4 and moved webhost, it should now be much more stable after the background conversion finishes! Do mind that the front-end part is still WIP and the forums are not 100% where we want them to be at the moment concerning features etc. but it is safe to start posting again!

There is no such animation on the content side of the new content page or the upgraded forums. I.e I made it as readable as I could with the only bling bling is paralaxing on the background images ref Valiant Infopage
 
Around midnight tonight im closing the forum down for maintenance and movin the sql db to the new host and doing the background stuff which hopefully(worked on my local sql\php server) should go smooth and no loss of posts\user info should happen!

http://www.ahoyworld.net/

Hello people of AhoyWorld,
 
Today is the Dutch day for Remembrance; a day on which (hopefully all of) the Netherlands commemorates the victims of past wars or peacekeeping missions.
This is why I would like to politely ask you all to keep quiet for two minutes on our Teamspeak server at 20:00 using this time application.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/netherlands/amsterdam
 
Thank you very much for your cooperation.
 
With greetings,
 
MessedUpSmiley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_the_Dead

As title, 

Hi all,

I would like to gather you all on 30/4/16 at 1900UTC for our first community meeting since the exchange of ownership from raz. I have a number of topics I'd like to discuss and I want to hear your views too.

Hope to see as many people there as possible, hope you all have a good week!
 
 
Link to Recording

Probably not, because BI was so stupid and released it via a mod feature instead of including in the update this week, it doesn`t fit our policy of EU1/EU2 being without mods (beside client-side stuff like sound mods, ST mods, etc) that add weapons, vehicles, etc.
 
If we would use this, everyone who would want to play the mission would have to have this mod. Not everyone knows how to download and use mods.
 
On the other hand we haven`t looked into this new "feature" of defining dependency mods in the Arma Launcher. So for now, the answer would be no, but it`s not the final one.

Giving an option for multiple LZ's can come in handy aswell, i mark them as follow:
 
Alpha
Hotel
Oscar
Yankee

Over the last while we have noticed a trend on the public servers of piloting getting steadily worse. One way pilots, constantly crashing pilots, pilots abandoning aircraft, pilots unable to land to list but a few of the issues.
 
These rules changes will not affect competent pilots.
Pilots are in charge of their aircraft they should make all efforts to keep the aircraft airworthy.
If aircraft are damaged they need to be fixed, not destroyed. If this means getting a repair specialist to travel to fix the aircraft so be it.  
Flying in a manner conducive to having you aircraft destroyed will result in discipline.
These rules will be enforced and pilots will be expected to abide by them.
The respawn time on Aircraft will be increased to encourage better flying.
 
They will be coming into effect on 01.04.16
Pilots seen to be breaking the rules will be asked to leave the pilots slot in which case they should return the aircraft to spawn and switch roles. If they refuse they will be kicked and if we see repeat offenders we will be forced to ban.
 
Examples of Poor Piloting:
Misuse of aircraft: CAS with the AA jet, practising, showboating and wasting resources. Landing too close, or flying over, the AO. It shows the pilot is not aware of the situation around him and if it results in the lost of aircraft or team mates will considered destroying assets or teamkilling. Abandoning aircraft in the field, this is all to prevalent and steps will be taken to weed out pilots who do this. Making no effort to repair damaged aircraft. Allowing your door gunners to teamkill. It's the pilot's responsibility to lock turrets. Teamkills will be attributed to the Pilots. Pilots should make a reasonable attempt to land if damaged. For example engine failure or tail rotor loss are not unrecoverable. If you don't know what autorotation is you simply should not be flying a helicopter. Not repairing aircraft in the field. If your aircraft is repairable then it must be repaired. While these are not technically new rules they will be enforced much more actively, and it is the pilots responsibility to make sure you are able to fly within the rules.
 
For any possible scenarios not mentioned here or indeed any questions about the rule change please feel free to add a comment. 

It should be fixed by now...

Just wanted to thank Mark for the Zeus Mission on *cough*EU #1*cough*

was really good fun, thoroughly enjoyed it.

Also huge thanks to Matosh for 2 seperate supply drops, and to Shax for the brilliant Mortar support.

Welcome to the forums! 

welcome!
 
did you use the correct directories and plugins?
 
quote from Josh
Once the TeamSpeak plugin is installed, make sure that you enable it. In TeamSpeak go to Settings->Plugins to enable it.
That is it, you should be ready to start playing!
Remember to run TeamSpeak 3 and Arma as administrator
unquote
make sure ACRE2 is ticked, if its not showing then click reload all, if you still have problems like chicken said hop in to TS and we will be more than happy to help

Hi all, those who attended the meeting (and from looking at this forum) will know, Raz stepped down as leader today, handing over to me.
 
For those that missed the meeting, here is the link to the recording.
 
So what is changing?
 
As I said in the meeting nothing will be changing immediately, I need to survey properly where our weaknesses are and how we can improve. I will however be looking at the following:
 
Improving coordination between staff members.
 
At present it is difficult to keep track of user records, in particular users who have been warned but not banned, it is easily lost information and tracking will become tedious if it’s not done properly. It won’t happen overnight and it will require careful planning.
 
Improve communication from staff to the community.
 
It was raised in the meeting that quite often things are pushed through without consulting with the community, this is a problem all through the ranks not just between users and admins. I recently made a judgement call which blew up quite spectacularly which highlighted the fact this is prevalent everywhere, we knew it was a problem, but underestimated the extent to which it reached. Consultations will be on the up!
 
Removal of the US server
 
I brought this up in the meeting, it costs us £85 per calender month, was hosting Squad which is not populated and not bringing us any income. It was incredibly quick to resolve, here’s why:
 
 
Graduated offences
 
Something I have been looking at is a graduated offences system, instead of warning, kick and ban for all broken rules there would be 2 or 3 thresholds, racism would be your top tier and get you and instant permanent ban from our servers whereas spamming VON would land you a warning. Another possible avenue was different consideration dependant on membership status. This is just at idea phase.
 
EU3 Mods & Spartans
 
We have all regarded Spartans and EU3 Mods as the same rank, it isn’t clear though. I am not a fan of different routes for different play styles as it may not be equal, one route may favour another. I’m not sure what to do with this as I don’t really want to shake these up too much. Again, this is just an idea.
 
Community engagement
 
Our current community engagement is very low, far lower than it should be. Basically a lot of our admins don’t play on EU1/2 a lot, this means we don’t engage with the non members and that means they don’t become members. My plan is to drive up community engagement, gain members, promote people into the lower ranks (Field Ambassador etc) more frequently to end up with a broader admin team, this spreads out the workload for admins and in turn makes playing on EU1/2 less stressful for them, making them more likely to play. In short, not playing on EU1/2 means it’s more work in the long run.
 
Regular community meetings
 
Something we are lacking is meeting with the members, we do it from time to time but nowhere near enough to really connect, I’m aiming for quarterly.
 
Delegation
 
Both my predecessors got caught up with was delegation. I work away during the week but I keep in contact via the forums, both my predecessors found themselves trying to do so much and ultimately succumbing to stress. I’ve been a part of communities where the owner eventually took his own life, I have no plans to get in that deep. I can’t afford to be trying to do everything, I work away during the week and the rest of the admin team have my complete trust and are more than capable of making educated decisions about their sectors for me not to worry about them. I aim to be guides on the side of a bowling alley and nothing more.
 
Taking suggestions to the top
 
I can’t stress this enough, we will always listen to you, you can come to us any time on TeamSpeak with a suggestion, failing TeamSpeak we have the ideas forum, specifically for this, please don’t be hesitant in bringing things to us, we don’t bite.
 
New website
 
For a while we have been developing a new website and this was discussed in the meeting this evening, it’s not been a matter of urgency and it’s not an overnight job. We were planning for wordpress, it’s on the cards for the future, but it’s not our top priority.
 

 
Raz has done a fantastic job for the last two and a half years since Rarek left in which was not a clean break. Leading from this is remarkable and we have made great strides in the years. It truly is incredible. I have known Raz for over 7 years, I am nearly 22, that’s over 30% of my life and he has been nothing but a great friend to me.

Now on to me, I will make mistakes, I am not perfect, I do not have a handbook, I do not have any business or management experience. I got to where I am by making good decisions, but I will no doubt bring some terrible ideas to the table and horrific mistakes. I managed to delete half of TeamSpeak and the entirety of EU3 throughout my time here and I will continue to make mistakes (although I hope these are few and far between) and I rely on you the community, to tell me when I am making errors.
 

Thank you Raz for your service to this amazing community! Also goodluck Muckduck, try not to go insane over running this place