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Gripe I understand where your coming from, however I personally think with the implementation of ACRE will require a more set-in-stone structure or hierarchy. Otherwise how would you call in helicopters for evacuation? Is everyone going to have a long range radio? Do you know how much space those radio's require within the inventory? Without this hierarchy then how would you designate who took these radios? Without this hierarchy then I personally think having ACRE would feel like a crowded Team speak channel with constant radio chatter resulting in most people turning off their radios and resulting to typing over side chat to avoid the headache otherwise involved.
How to call an evac? Like we do on EU2, mark an evac site and call vortex in side chat. I understand where you're coming from, but you're also thinking of a mission from the perspective of "insertion, maneouver, action, exfil" as a whole coordinated force, where as we would be more concerned with squad level communication where the exfil part is an afterthought. We could also do away with the terrain occlusion in ACRE with the http://acre.idi-systems.com/api/api_general.html#acre_api_fnc_setLossModelScale API, leave us with the soundscape immersion but ditching the terrain occlusion realism/hassle. Meaning no need for the LR radio.
I've re-read this a few times and there is a lot I could reply to however I'm going to suggest that everyone who has posted in this thread re-reads their own posts. There's a lot of contradictions, especially from those trying to exclude others from voicing their opinions, but then stating there is a divide in the community. I am thankful the moderators have dealt with this. What is also clear to me is that the original post doesn't accurately describe what is being requested, and to that end others can only reply to what's written, so please be clear and concise when writing your opinion, as ambiguity will lead to less focused discussion. In summary, my interpretation is that the request is actually for a slim-modded I&A server, NOT a 'stepping stone' to EU#3 as inferred. Either way, I still think that many players from EU1/2 who want more from Arma would get it from EU#3 if thy gave it a chance (by admissions many have not yet tried it), yes it would involve an initial push of effort, however the rewards are definately worth it, and there are many players willing to help those who are willing to help themselves.Parabolic, absolutely agree with you. We are not, repeat *not* trying to take anything away from EU3! I cannot emphasize this enough. Forgive my my bluntness battlebuddies, i'm trying to cut through the fog of war here and get the thread back to where it should be. Yes, we are looking for lite modded I&A, although other missions would not hurt if they could be put in. A lot of guys have expressed willingness to try to put together missions, although i cannot say how they wold be implemented. That is a bit beyond my skills as a scripter. I believe John would also be willing to regularly slaughter the lot of us in Zeus.
I think as we have to start somewhere, that running I&A would be a perfect testbench. Variations on the theme can always be added later.
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For me, saw a reference on Reddit. Incidentally, it might be an idea for the mods to post to https://www.reddit.com/r/FindAUnit now and again, seems that subreddit gets a fairly regular traffic, and might be a good recruiting tool.
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Your co-worker is a wise man, you should probably buy him a beer and a pizza. Welcome mate!
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> Obey the orders of your superiors. (Which are, in 99% of cases, perfectly reasonable.)
The above is the thing that (note, in *my* opinion) makes eu3 something i would be able to tolerate in only fairly small doses. Didn't like arbitrary ranks when i was in the military, still don't like them. Reasonable or not. Probably the above is also the reason why the references to milsim abound in this thread.
The other rules are perfectly fine, and as you say, common sense.
This is why this thread was posted, to sound out the playerbase and see to the feasibility of such a middle ground server, where the hierarchical rank structure doesn't exist but which offers the expanded possibilities of some mods to spice up the gameplay. That, and the enforcement of TS and a mic is pretty much what we are after.
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Yeah, the only tweak i'd make would be to maybe know beforehand that this particular AO will have to be defended once taken. A lot of people were instagibbed by spawning AI because they weren't expecting it at all.
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Except that the whisper systems falls foul of the TS permissions. Non-mods can't whisper to mods because of the perms, so squad leaders can't reply to the commander, which is pretty vital, and especially in cases of tactical command essential. This was the case when we tried it on LTs zeus night, dunno if something's been done to the permissions since?
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Umm, not sure if the previous gamenight slots are still valid? I was never marked down for either the Squad lead or marksman slot for that, but i presumed that i was marked down for them as it's still the same thread?
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> I do not like idea of AA-laucher only slot. AA lauchers are very niche use, unless Zeus creates specific scenario for it.
It's no more niche than the AT slot is, there's just more targets for the AT. After your missiles are gone you revert to a regular rifleman. AA requires more skill/luck though, as the tanks don't have flares. I usually play AT, and i'd gladly take an AA launcher if there was more use for it. Mostly it's not needed, and you arrive to the AO with all of the enemy air already gone. It's only when going in among the first troops when AA would be useful.
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Welcome mate. See you on the servers.
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> That is true and a scenario that will have to be taken into account perhaps a reduction in the number of enemy jets?
I'd rather have *more* enemy air, perhaps that would give enough reason for some AT guys to carry AA launchers. Almost nobody uses them now. Maybe less jets and more helos though? Or maybe there could be a separate AA squad section?
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Man, now i'm jelly that i missed it :\
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/me munching a cookie
Welp, i'll get on this with the rest of the potato squad guys, i'm sure we can come up with new side missions, or tweak existing ones just to keep it fresh.
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If you just want side missions to be more of a challenge then wouldn't it be easier to just add more units to them?
The variety would become bigger if you had a pool of say, 10 different side missions, and it would sometimes randomly select two of them to put together, or even three in a rare case.
- Ezlann and RehabitedHamster
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Hey.
I was thinking of things to maybe spice up the gameplay on the vanilla I&A servers, specifically the side missions.
If you could sometimes have two or more sidemissions spawn close enough together that they would be able to mutually support each other, it would totally change how people view them now. Other than the Intel side mission (which people don't know how to do generally), all of the side missions are fairly easy knockovers. But if you put an AA side mission and an Arty side mission next to each other at the same time, it's a whole new ballgame.
Thoughts?
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Welcome mate!
Although, i have to ask, are you John McClane in disguise?
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Is it possible to script it so the helos don't pretty much automatically lose fuel when they are damaged? The big problem is that we would have to basically do two trips to get the downed helo back up, tying up either two helos for a fairly long time, or three helos for a shorter time. Coupled with this, if the original helo went down in a hot zone, we would be risking additional assets to get one back.
I believe it would be in keeping with real life tactics for pilots to blow up a helo thats in danger of falling into enemy hands?
I would maybe consider rewording some of the rules a little, right now it reads pretty harsh, and doesn't take into account that combat flying by definition is dangerous. Are we going to basically punish the good pilots who wait with their downed helo, possibly until the AO is done etc before repairs can get there? That could be 30 minutes or more. It will be boring, to put bluntly.
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I'd suggest putting an airliftable repair truck and a fuel bladder into base so they can be airlifted to helos. Otherwise it will take too long.
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Bad Religion - You
Social Distortion - Don't drag me down
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Offspring - All i want
Circle Jerks - Live fast die young
Billy Talent - Viking death march
Flogging Molly - Black friday rule
The Clash - Guns of Brixton
...and others way too numerous to mention.
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Hey Chrono! See you tonight.
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Lol, perfect Zissou.
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Hey peoples!
I've been active on EU2 for about three months now so if you've played there you must have seen me around. Dunno how much more of an intro you need other than that i'm a founding member of the Potato Squad.
Suggestion, make a base billboard saying "Don't shoot the mines", "Walk softly and carry a mine detector", "If someone is in the minefield already, run the other way" or whatever else we can come up with so people know to leave the minefield alone when people are in or near it.
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- slick, RehabitedHamster, Ezlann and 2 others
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Bravo 2-1
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I'll play squad lead if it's still open?
Alternatively, the Bravo 2-1 Marksman
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The ingame VON is a non starter. It doesn't work, it never has and never will, unless BIS redoes the whole thing. We get it every day, especially bad in helos, where it both cuts out so you can't understand a word *and* lags out the helo. This includes group and vehicle. Direct works up to a point, but it's very limited.
Teamspeak works fine for squad level comms, and between squad leads, but because of the way Ahoy TS server permissions are set up, regular users can not whisper to John McClane for example.