Fabs

..or Good Evening All in Finnish!
 
Been playing for a while on the #1 and AWE servers, loving it so far, now if I could just learn to land that chopper properly!

Welcome!

Ahoy Ladies and Dent's,
Expert UAV op Two Socks here, I have never lost socks in the dimension at the back of a tumble dryer or the dreaded black sock holes at the bottom of a washing machine. A mate started calling me Two Socks and it stuck, simple, boring; lets go blow shit up super stealthy tactic stuff - like a high five to the face with a GBU or four. Anyway just saying hello o/ you will find me in TS or near the AO turning tanks into smaller, more.. manageable, less tank like things.
Keeping our grunts safe for near 4000 hrs, Ill always have your back.
  

Better use this guide:
 
and this spreadsheet: (the effectiveness values at the different wound-types are meant like: when there is a 1 it can patch up one small of these wouds, at a 2 it can patch a medium wound and at a 3 it can patch a large one; the chance of reopening is self explaining I think; and the Minimum and Maximum times from and until when the wound can reopen are in seconds.)
 
Don´t use the Guide/Spreadsheet from the ACE Wiki because it is outdated by a lot!
 
 
Hope I could´ve helped you
Noah_Hero

Locking the thread before it gets out of hand/off topic as what needs to be discussed has been discussed and Copey has provided a good answer.

Okay I'm going to put this nicely.
 
The rules are fine as they are.
If people wish for every event to be thought of in the rules, tough. It isn't happening.
If people interpret should as to mean may, or can; then I will interpret staff discretion to mean kicked from server.
 
The rules are simple, they are easy to follow; and failure to display behaviour in line with the spirit of those rules means you might as well have broken them.
If people want to deploy to an AO without appropriate protection, expect an earful from me.
 
 
 
It's really quite simple.
 
 
Sent from my ONEPLUS 3t using a phone app that is really irritating because it constantly advertises itself.
 
 
 
 

Then you have 20 rules that nobody reads. Like before. Clarity and simplicity should suffice. If it doesn't, it falls to the staff's discretion as stated. But we're not here to discuss rules. Let's keep it on topic.

I doubt anyone on the team thought it was intended to be incorrect. Just not something that's immediately noticeable.

the though of seeing TheScar in a mankini sends shivers down my spine lmfao, and congrats to all for reaching the goal so fast.....

Hi all I whould thank every one who have donated and supported this project 
 
Atm our goals are reached and we are in   the process  off the transfers and setup we will give more info in a other topic 
 
Thanks again and more info to follow

So we've been saying this over the past 2 weeks now and we *finally* have something down to announce with a good week's notice!

Starting on the 12th of April, we're going to bring back dedicated Zeus ops to recreate the good ol' days when Luetin09 was here. Ops will begin around 8:30 pm GMT on Wednesdays and will go for a few hours, with 2-3 ops in mind for the evening. The map will be either on Tanoa or Altis (and we might even bring back Stratis for a day), so make sure you prep yourselves! We haven't decided which server will be used yet, but expect anywhere from 40-60 slots to be available to the public, first come first serve.
 
Any Spartan is allowed to be on the zeus interface and we're going to encourage multiple zeuses acting at once to deliver a good experience, so expect these ops to be pretty large scale! We will do our best to keep them simple, however, in order to accommodate for various player skill levels!

This brings us to our next point: above is a poll that i'd like people to answer regarding what type of ops they'd like to see on these nights. I'd also appreciate any feedback below!

And before you ask: Yes Scar, some ops will let you have tanks to use

We hope to hear from you all soon!

Regards,
-Wiwu and the Spartan team

Hello AWE players,
 
In the background we have been busy milling away, trying to brainstorm ideas to shape the future of AWE into something that's refined and easy to play. Someone suggested an idea. We've all had internal votes on the idea and we believe its going to revolutionise the way we play AWE.
 
The change is that we would like to change AWE into a FULL MIL SIM server. This change may take time to edit the mission files ect but we should get it done by the end of today. As an added bonus we are only allowing donators to join for the first weeks off testing.
 
Hope you guys can support us in our endeavours. 
 
AW Staff Team.

Ahoyworld is calling all of you to arms to fight a common enemy called 'Hardware ageing' !!
 
 
 
Our Current Situation
 
At Ahoyworld we are currently running flagship server on:
 
Intel Core i7-3930k Hexa Core
64 GB DDR3 RAM
2x 3 TB SATA III HD
 
Which Covers:
EU#1 EU#2 EU#4 EU#5 and TeamSpeak.
 
Now while this might have been top of the line back in the days this is slowly getting dated, soon we will not be able to keep this running for much longer, not without having to cut back on the amount of available game servers, Thus risk losing slot capacity or cutting the number of supported games. This is the reverse world, as since AW is growing we are actually looking to expand the amount of fun on our server, not cut back on them.
 
Over the past 3 years the AW landscape has changed, the membership has grown significantly, and the requirements for gaming servers has also gone up. Not only up, we also see that the shift to high capacity servers is still growing as expected.
 
As a side note we also own:
Valiant Server
AWE EU#6 and EU#9
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
What We Are Planning
We can already say that this will have a big impact on how we will do our server-planning from now on. The way things look now we will move away from Flagships massive server and for the same amount of money we will rent several smaller units instead:
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 64 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
This is what we Plan to do
TS   -Flag 1
EU1 - Flag 1
EU2 - New Server
EU3 - Valiant
EU4 - Flag 1
EU5 - New Server
EU6 - Valiant
EU9 -Valiant

For those of you that know a little about computer hardware you will notice 2 things:
1 - This is not the professional server hardware like Xeon, Hexacore, dual CPU, etc..
2 - Though less cores these little servers have higher CPU frequency and are actually close to the same power as our current older machines.
 
Explain 1:
Not running Xeon-awesome-super-duper-mastermind-takeovertheworld server hardware reduces the cost by...well A LOT  so we can have more for the same price. Allowing us to obtain our own Windows consumer-end licences, instead of the overpriced big-boy Server 2012 stuff.
 
Explain 2:
Moving away from a single-point-of-failure setup, to a way more flexible and scalable situation where we can get more servers up and running quickly and at a low cost. and in addition make better use of the available power. As you might know most of the software is not built to run on multi-core cpu's or even multi chip setups, leaving a lot of the power unused. With multiple smaller servers, we will be able to for example run a dedicated EU# machine with more players, or heavier maps and smoother AI and add any other additional servers with who knows how many slots. 
 
Now What Can You Do?
 
Basically I will not avoid the obvious topic here: These things cost money, and we need that from YOU !
 
Though the price eventually will be similar, we cannot avoid the 1 month double running costs and in addition there are setup costs involved, together creating a hell of a monthly bill that would even make Santa Claus look pale 
 
So as per above text, I hope you are confident we are not just wasting your valuable donations, but actually spending a lot of thought on our IT infrastructure before going to buy things we don't actually need.
 
The current donations are just about covering our daily running cost. And any additions like the REPO server (40 Euro per month) are currently covered from our own pockets. As you understand, this leaves us no room to obtain these extra servers, pay the setup costs, and run a double monthly bill until we migrated all the data & servers.
 
So we are looking for:
1 - MONEY, lots of hard cash to go get the migration going, and obtain these server rentals.
2 - Legal (second hand) windows licences. Anything from windows 7 to 10 pro to run as a base OS on these servers. 
 
HOW ?
 
 
Paypal (preferred payment method!!) :
https://forums.ahoyworld.net/donate/make-donation/
Above link will take you to our paypal donation page
 
Then at the Goal tab select server funds so we can differentiate between the two. 

Windows licence:
Please send an email to legal at ahoyworld dot net with proof that your licence is official:
- Purchase bill
- Photo of your non-oem sticker, box or cd
- Make sure your licence code is included in the email
- Make sure your licence is not currently in use on any other computer
- Anything is welcome at this stage, just no Home-Editions (Windows 7, 8, 10, Even: Server 2008 or 2012)
 
NOTE: important that your licence is not OEM, ergo: not linked to specific hardware. Otherwise it will not work on our server (so please do not send us the old licence that came with your laptop\computer, those are all linked to that specific hardware)
 
 
Donation Target:
 
In total we need about £550  to complete the migration, and this is still without windows licences.
 
For now, we are looking to collect 3 windows licences in total. Legit cost of around £480
 
We will add another donation target on the website so you can see its progress live.
Once we have reached a certain amount we will complete phase 1, move EU#2 and #5 onto the 32GB server then
Phase 2 will involve transferring EU#1#4 and TeamSpeak onto the 64GB server. 
 
 
 A Massive Thanks From Us To YOU
 
We would like to thank our regular donators, you guys have kept AW running over the last 5 years or so !! well done !! without YOU we would not even be here today !
 
The same as above goes to our one-time donators, however big or small, thank you very much !!
 
We would also like to mention our staff, (often they are also donators in terms of money) that constantly offer their spare time to work on making the AW servers such a good place for your daily gaming needs. Time is often more worth than money, we should not forget this. In addition they often give-up their own gaming experience by constantly being on stand-by to help anyone of you players and sort out disputes and remove grievers. We appreciate the HUGE efforts of this group !!! 
 
And finally the players that makes our servers such a nice place to be, it's you and your high quality gaming that attract the many new players we have boarded into our community over the last few years !!
 
TL;DR: In order to upgrade our server hardware, we need your money  So please donate, every little helps.

I play r6s daily, so id be more than happy to play.

Nope.

Congratulations Ryko!
 
Will be good to see some fresh leadership and ideas at AhoyWorld! 
Also excited to see which direction you take the community and team. Lets hope for a big fresh start and some much needed changes! Good luck to you and the team.
 
Fair winds to David.
 
Josh.

#ModsLikeSquadTagsToo

Seeing its turning off-topic and into a meme war I'll be looking the topic.
 
I hope you see it more clearly now Mr. Punisher.
 
Might any future dodgy situations arise, feel free to message me first, before starting up another thread throwing badly based accusations around. 
 

What mods?
Please don't say AWE repo... Please don't say AWE repo... Please don't say AWE repo... Please don't say AWE repo...

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

I`ve thought in which section should I post this, here should be the best.
 
I`ve decided to step down from the role of an admin to a regular member/player, purely out of personal reasons. I`ll drop all the boring details behind this decision, the only thing I`ll add is, it has not been made over-night.
 
I`ve had a lot of fun, I`ve met a lot of new people, a lot of great people. I want to thank Staff (new and old - yes, you Raz) for giving me a chance to contribute to the community, be a part of its leadership. I hope we`ve all learned things together, in good or bad times, and I have no regrets.
 
I`ll stay around, just as a regular player and user.
 
Pero

Oh well, can do. Just add me to steam and ill fix it this or next week.
Funny to see gamerbug getting mad at food getting rotted: it was my idea about food getting rotten and the devs implemented it directly in the next patch after. He hasnt found the book i wrote yet... the seventh seal (also a real movie), i adjusted the story to the game, told the story to @Fabs a few months ago on teamspeak...

In b4 the Princess is in another castle.

I understand you get frustrated by people "stealing" the vehicle, especially when you have load of your stuff loaded in it, I has happened to me as well. I do warn people not to steal vehicles, but sometimes it`s hard to track that. Either way, it is no reason/excuse to decide to take matters in your hands.
 
As you said, contacting a Zeus or a admin would have been the best thing to do. I am glad you took a day or two to think about it and not post a angry ban appeal.
 
Ban appeal SUCCESSFUL, ban lifted.
 
Pero
Community Referee