Kyle Clements

Cant wait to see people putting a pile of tires at the end of the runway like arma 2 so that inexperienced pilots don't fly off the end of the carrier.
found a video of it in use
 

So I have two theories for this one.
 
1. He is just a thoughtful guy and made an appropriate and well thought out decision that is highly respected. 
 
2. All the dumbass mother f&@$kers in the ban appeals section drove him crazy and he is never coming back. 
 
You decide.
 
Seriously though thanks for all the work.
-Ben 

like the above posters i do not miss this shitty piece of "equipment" for the UAVop
it mostly needed to be repaired constantly and used alot of Choppertime that  could be spend better (imo)
then there s the countless FF issues with it on base
therefor - DECAP this idea
 
 
 
 
this is actually a thing i missed since the first days of I+A 3 - AO´s NOT spawning in order nxt to each other/on top of each other
it decreases the importancy of transport (whatever sort of) and adds a certain frustration being spawned on by a new AO
But - its very easy to fix that (in parameters)(if Bacon did set a parameter for that on creation of I+A 3)(which i m not sure of as i stopped using the editor on A2)(and i m lazy)
 
 
 
 
To add on topic i approve (75%) of the OPs idea(s).
Good thinking.

you know,funny thing is i just fought a battle with myself about making a
BRING BACK I+A 2.8x
threat to making a clean cut on a operation gone wrong.
 
In fact,i have yet to see the server being able to handle all four FOBs live - it starts to struggle mostly on the 2nd and the whole idea of spread spawn points just clutters up gameplay alot.Not going all to deep into my arguments (yet) - but lets face it and delay/abort the project I+A 3 untill it performs like wanted and doesnt require fixes of stuff continuesly.Till this point rehost I+A 2.8x to ensure a straight and continued gameplay on public servers.
Open a version of I+A 2.8x in editor,pack it new with current A3 patch and put it on the server (with minor adjustments if necessary).
Simple,logic and less frustration to us all.
 
Yea,i said it.
I m not advocating to cut the whole I+A 3 concept/idea.
I vouch for a re-release once its ready to.
As its not yet/was before.
 
Discuss ...
(or wait for me to open said topic to discuss it there)
 
//shots fired

So yesterday I wen't onto I&A 2 files and saw a lot of stuff from that update that we don't have now, Quite a lot. Now I am not talking about bring back altis airbase but I mean some smaller functions that will be really nice to see come back. So lets start!
 
Bring back the old billboards 
 
So in old I&A 2 we had some billboards that were very good at explaining what to do in situations and also to advertise more of the community. I mean who doesn't like big teddy bears with a shovel e.e
 

 

 

 

 
So there are some of your billboards that I took pictures of, Some are outdated but it won't kill us to change em a tad.
Next up
 
Helo Doors
 
Now i'm sure everyone has to remember the old helo doors, When a ghost hawk reached the correct speed and altitude the doors on the side would open and close as such.
 

 

 
Now I can guarantee if we bring this back pilots will brag about rpg's flying through the passenger area while attempting evac.
 
Flags
 
Nothing big, But let the community express our countries, In I&A 2 we had some flag poles, Add em back, Lets see who comes from where.
 

 
Medevac
 
Now to be fair I actually cannot remember this but in the map I saw it there, I suppose if it did work, but if not do tell me, we should add it back, Im sure it would make pilots have a reason to get risky and fly into AO's e.e
 
Request Supply crates
 
So instead of just having these supply crates laying about maybe we can be allowed to request them again, I remember how this system works just not too sure if it would work with this one.
 

 
AO Spawn location
 
Okay so the big one and probably most questionable one, We will see, Anyway I would love it if instead of having the AO spawn next to the old one we bring back random AO spawning locations, or at least give the AO's a bit of space in-between them. It completely removes the point of EVAC and I always see people trying to get a lift to the next AO even though its 500m away, Maybe people want this back?
 
UGV
 
The UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) was available for use in I&A 2 maybe bring it back as a Base, FOB or Reward Asset, I have never seen it been used once before since I&A 3.
 
Minefield around Radio Tower
 
Back when radio towers spawned a minefield around them would also spawn, This is no longer a thing and since I have never seen the EOD Specialist actually do the role of mine clearing since most of the time there are no mines.
 
Conclusion
 
Anyway I hope this gives people some ideas of stuff to get back, I'm sure a few of you remember more than me and might suggest some other things, We will just see how this topic works. Also hope you enjoyed the photos e.e.

Reappeal as Pero is no longer the community referee
In-game name when banned: Miczils
What message displays when you attempt to connect? Miczils Harrasing and general bad attitude - Sozio
Why do you think you were banned? Bad attitude towards Duffy 
Why (in your personal opinion) should your ban be lifted ? 

At that time i had a slight beef with Duffyman, we would exchange childish insults etc.
And that day, after duffy called me a bad pilot, i got everyone in my helicopter to say "fuck you duffy" as i flew over him in the base. 
I understand why that is an offense, and generally bullying, even i wouldn't say it was one-sided.  At the same i believe the ban was fair, and my behavior was very far from what it should be. I also believe that I've learnt from that, and changed quite a lot.
As stated before, i ask fro another chance because everything has changed quite a bit in those 9 months, and I've gotten in contact with some old friends who convinced me to try an appeal. 

Cheers Miczils
 
Which administrator banned you (if known): Sozio (not sure)
When were you banned: 6-4-2016

so as I quote the person I poked calling me a "whale fucker" and calling my girlfriend "fat" is acceptable ? this is the area I was on about... I'm thankful you lifted it but the other person said those words :/ if I was trolling I would'be been in a happy tone however after a while after those were said I went and joined the bot room to take my time and enjoy the game however it is hard to enjoy it when I hear that. (P.S. the person who said has seen who I am dating and did this purposefully as I have the person on snapchat. I like this community and I don't mind directed jokes at me as I don't mind that but when it gets personal to someone else who I know would hate that... that's just unacceptable to me, I don't usually intend to come on here to that especially on the team speak to get the person I'm dating insulted.

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
 

In-game name when banned: TheScar
What message displays when you attempt to connect? Admin Ban
Why do you think you were banned? i got my Hunter stolen and hunted down the offender with a Titan + killing 2 "associates in crime" in the process
Why (in your personal opinion) should your ban be lifted? Rrrrrright,altho i got warned (multiple) times not to - on that particular evening i didnt care about and took "justice" in my own hands and hunted em down.
I just got online and was loading a Hunter (not a HMG) as usual,as a guy named "matteo" took it while i was @ Arsenal procedure.
I typed 2 sentences in chat in order to make him stop and return my car,but got no response from him.
Spawned me a new Hunter,and pursuit em while watching map for their route.
Catched em just before they crossed the nxt hill line and took em down by a locked Ttan while i was aware the offender hat 2 "associates in crime" on board that prop. were not aware of the action of the driver.
Got banned as i was back in base.

Ofc i m aware of the ruleset and like mentioned above i got warned about this "a few times" (by Zissou 2015,Mk 2016) in the past 2 years.
And i could of had choosen a smarter way of solving this issue (get a ZEUS,get a admin,drop the issue + move on,fire a AP shell and not a AT one) but i didnt give it a thougt and just gone for "pure revenge".
I´m sorry for taking down 2 players with the offender that prop were innocenct (Darko,not sure on the other guys name)
I´m not sorry for taking down the offender. (matteo)
I waited 2 days before filling this appeal just to reflect my position on the issues with a bit distance,but thats the best i m willing to come up with.
tbh.

I m not appealing for a removal of the ban,but i m vouching for a time limit of this ban.
For various reasons as EU1 is my home and i m aware of there s no other game/server that keep me occupied with A3 as (my) beloved EU1.
Finding a new occupation likewise is a though one.
Therefor i pledge for a removal (0,5% chance) or time limit (30%) on this ban or a verification of the ban being kept up (69,5%).
In the end,i m not that kind of a bad guy "some" might assume i am,altho i sure got issues - the good does outweight the bad most of the times.
I rest my case.
 
Which administrator banned you (if known): Sozio
When were you banned: 10.01.17 est.21.15

Hey it is what it is, I found it hilarious yesterday. Honestly I expected to get kicked and told to grow up and change my name, but instead I got straight banned. Which surprised me because over the years I have played here I've seen Far worse names result in nothing more than being kicked off.
 
If being blind drunk and deciding it would be a great idea to play videogames when i got home and play the prick is not a valid excuse then i don't know what to tell you.
 
Have mercy on me PERO...   

In-game name when banned: FuckingCunt
What message displays when you attempt to connect? Bad name
Why do you think you were banned? Because I am bellend.
Steam/Arma UID: 76561198038233939
Why (in your personal opinion) should your ban be lifted? Man I was so wasted last night and was playing on EU1 when the server crashed. It was like 20 minutes before the server came back online during that down time I thought I would change my profile name for maximum banter, like a said before I'm a proper bellend when I have had a drink!
Which administrator banned you (if known): Can't remember being banned
When were you banned: 31/12/2016 - 01/01/2017

(Insert stratis map here)=

Hello All,
 
Unfortunately Tanoa is not as popular as we had hoped, therefore we will be reverting this back to Altis to test for a week or two.
But fear not, Tanoa will be hosted on our EU4 server during this time: 144.76.82.169:2602
 
We will keep you updated and inform you on any plans that we may have for its future.
 
AhoyWorld 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.

So for a while now I have noticed that AO's can go quite quick when people work together, This can be at around 15 minutes, With the general time of 20 - 30 minutes. I thought about a way that these AO's could be slightly more time consuming and I got myself an Idea.
 
I think a way to make them longer if necessary would be to have the simple Kill everyone and do the sub objective and then give everyone around 1.5 - 2 minutes break before an enemy counter attack happens from a KNOWN direction. This should allow people to prepare for the counter attack and defend positions, the counter attack would hopefully break out about another 10 - 15 minutes of combat depending on the troops efficiency.
 
If the counter attack ends up taking up most of the AO nothing will really happen, They will just be reinserted and simply continue on as if they are doing the AO over again. I would not expect the counter attack to have many troops, Simply just a few trucks, cars and APC's, Possibly some transport helicopters too.
 
Anyway I hope this idea has given you some though, I would love some of you input on this at anytime.

Reviving this thread as I got a little inspiration after playing on Enhanced this evening. Soldier is credited to @Numbnuts.
 
Obviously the AW logo looks a bit weird, but I was focusing more on the blend between the soldier. 

Back in I&A2 we had little fuel trucks that could be lifted by most helicopters.
They were super useful for the (common) times when a pilot crash lands far away from base and needs to be refueled.
 
Currently the only options we have are:
 
1. Drive a fuel truck - Not practical when on the other side of the map, you can't expect a player to spend 30+ mins driving to you
 
2. Get a repair specialist to refuel - This is a script which very rarely works, it's a great idea but until it's fixed it isn't a reliable solution 
 
3. Sling a Huron fuel container - Requires a Huron since no other heli can lift it, so if the Huron pilot isn't responding or if it's the Huron that needs to be refueled, you're screwed. Also since it needs to be close to the heli to refuel, the pilot slinging it can end up hitting the downed heli's rotor in an attempt to drop it close (the fuel truck can be driven closer instead)
 
This should be pretty easy to add as we'd only need a couple of them at base. 

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

6 of the big boyz explained you already ...
I was there too,no such thing as "haxxorz" seen,so dont make up lousy exuses.
Most propably it was a Arty mission spawning on your ass and you got wiped in the process.
See how easy that was?
Move on!
 
sincerly,sprinkled with pink unicorns
TheClownthathatesYourAvatar
*kiss kiss*

It may have been a mission that spawned right ontop of you, it happens, just bad luck happens to the best of us. 

In-game name when banned: WAHAHAHA
What message displays when you attempt to connect? Mass TK
Why do you think you were banned? I did not TK anyone before the ban!
Why (in your personal opinion) should your ban be lifted? cos i am a serious and respectful Arma player! a Player like me is needed in your server to provide better playing experience for other new players!
Which administrator banned you (if known): i don't know
When were you banned: 11th Jen 2017

I am confused as well, I`ve been told you were in a Slammer, wasting anyone that spawned at the Terminal FOB. I don`t see that as defending yourself.
 
You have agreed to our rules when you wanted to play on our server. It clearly states no teamkilling is allowed, same goes for retaliation for teamkills.
 
Please, use a EDIT function and don`t post 4 replies in a row.

Actually, I`ve done some digging and checking the IPs. Should I just say "Nice try bro"?
 
I bet you thought "my IP has changed, I should come up with a lie that I bought the Steam account on eBay (which is totally legit) and post a ban appeal". I am sorry, but this is the worse (or the best) excuse I have ever seen. Lying about this just made you lose your option to get the ban removed. I say goodluck playing on other servers, where you will be more friendly to admins.
 
Ban appeal DENIED.
 
Pero
Community Referee

You`ve been banned twice (2x) in the past, for the same stuff, teamkilling at base and being a knobhead.
 
Good luck playing somewhere else.
 
Pero
Community Referee