SiegeSix

I voted yes, because I like to aim

I voted yes, because I like to aim

I voted yes, because I like to aim

I voted yes, because I like to aim

I voted yes, because I like to aim

F/A-18C Hornet
F-16C
Ka-50
UH-1H Huey
Flaming Cliff 3
MiG-21Bis
A-10C II
 
Dynamic PVE missions

F/A-18C Hornet
F-16C
Ka-50
UH-1H Huey
Flaming Cliff 3
MiG-21Bis
A-10C II
 
Dynamic PVE missions

While I want to remain neutral, this point is excellent. 
We are lacking players and I've had to cancel two otherwise perfectly accomedative operations because of this. 
 
Knowing what has happened on (almost) every side of this drama, I know that every decision made by individuals can be defended. When I found out about the whole charades, I didn't care initially until we started dropping in numbers, that's when I started having an unsatisfied attitude towards the ordeal. While I know some of the members of this other community is still playing from time to time, I still see a lack of attendence in general.
 
As a mission maker, I want players to attend gamenights.
As a veterinarian & critically acclaimed diplomat within AW, I find it sad to loose so many friends, regular players and staff members because of this.

While I want to remain neutral, this point is excellent. 
We are lacking players and I've had to cancel two otherwise perfectly accomedative operations because of this. 
 
Knowing what has happened on (almost) every side of this drama, I know that every decision made by individuals can be defended. When I found out about the whole charades, I didn't care initially until we started dropping in numbers, that's when I started having an unsatisfied attitude towards the ordeal. While I know some of the members of this other community is still playing from time to time, I still see a lack of attendence in general.
 
As a mission maker, I want players to attend gamenights.
As a veterinarian & critically acclaimed diplomat within AW, I find it sad to loose so many friends, regular players and staff members because of this.

I think the filing of the report was a perfectly reasonable thing to do and I would say you did the right thing. I doubt most people are mad about the report being filed but instead bothered by the way the report was ultimately handled and discussed.

While I want to remain neutral, this point is excellent. 
We are lacking players and I've had to cancel two otherwise perfectly accomedative operations because of this. 
 
Knowing what has happened on (almost) every side of this drama, I know that every decision made by individuals can be defended. When I found out about the whole charades, I didn't care initially until we started dropping in numbers, that's when I started having an unsatisfied attitude towards the ordeal. While I know some of the members of this other community is still playing from time to time, I still see a lack of attendence in general.
 
As a mission maker, I want players to attend gamenights.
As a veterinarian & critically acclaimed diplomat within AW, I find it sad to loose so many friends, regular players and staff members because of this.

While I want to remain neutral, this point is excellent. 
We are lacking players and I've had to cancel two otherwise perfectly accomedative operations because of this. 
 
Knowing what has happened on (almost) every side of this drama, I know that every decision made by individuals can be defended. When I found out about the whole charades, I didn't care initially until we started dropping in numbers, that's when I started having an unsatisfied attitude towards the ordeal. While I know some of the members of this other community is still playing from time to time, I still see a lack of attendence in general.
 
As a mission maker, I want players to attend gamenights.
As a veterinarian & critically acclaimed diplomat within AW, I find it sad to loose so many friends, regular players and staff members because of this.

While I want to remain neutral, this point is excellent. 
We are lacking players and I've had to cancel two otherwise perfectly accomedative operations because of this. 
 
Knowing what has happened on (almost) every side of this drama, I know that every decision made by individuals can be defended. When I found out about the whole charades, I didn't care initially until we started dropping in numbers, that's when I started having an unsatisfied attitude towards the ordeal. While I know some of the members of this other community is still playing from time to time, I still see a lack of attendence in general.
 
As a mission maker, I want players to attend gamenights.
As a veterinarian & critically acclaimed diplomat within AW, I find it sad to loose so many friends, regular players and staff members because of this.

While I want to remain neutral, this point is excellent. 
We are lacking players and I've had to cancel two otherwise perfectly accomedative operations because of this. 
 
Knowing what has happened on (almost) every side of this drama, I know that every decision made by individuals can be defended. When I found out about the whole charades, I didn't care initially until we started dropping in numbers, that's when I started having an unsatisfied attitude towards the ordeal. While I know some of the members of this other community is still playing from time to time, I still see a lack of attendence in general.
 
As a mission maker, I want players to attend gamenights.
As a veterinarian & critically acclaimed diplomat within AW, I find it sad to loose so many friends, regular players and staff members because of this.

The following is a statement about the current affairs within AW, and the opportunity to provide, an open, constructive platform raising issues currently present within AW. Whilst I understand the decision to lock the other thread due to fears of exacerbating the situation, AW is a community ran by the players, and one that provides complete transparency and a space to openly discuss differing opinions. This is the way Mark T originally set out to run the community, and one that I followed up on myself, and therefore I ask for Core Staff to respect the right to openly discuss, without having to delve into private discussion. The following replies to this thread (If I get any) will be from members who wholly care about AW, and therefore CS should see this thread as a foundation to build on, and to read the criticisms provided and use it as an opportunity to shape the future of Ahoyworld.
 
 In an ideal world, members of the community can openly play within other communities, and there should be no repercussion in doing so. Perhaps, they seeked out other communities due a lack of what AW is offering. Other players want to be in communities that have operations on a massive scale, with a playerbase that provides that. Some people want operations that are more tuned to the milsim aspect, and again I see no issue in that. People have different wants and needs, and therefore they can seek out other communities if they cannot find that here at AW.
 
The issue comes when it is from a community that openly incentivises and rewards players for recruiting within their own, and other communities. In this, they create a discourse and divide in other communities, and as a result gain a healthy boost within their own playerbase, without any repercussions or remorse about the divide they create in other communities. And we see this clearly now, said community has managed to create an argument within Core Staff about how the situation should be handled, as such this has then leaked down into the staff team, creating further arguments, and ultimately leading to the loss of some of the most senior staff, setting AW back again into a dire state that we found ourselves in not too long ago. So, in conclusion, who got the last laugh? Ahoyworld, or the other community that managed to create such a discourse within the highest ranks of staff, that ultimately, they benefitted themselves a lot more than it benefitted us.
 
I love Ahoyworld, but once again there are blaring issues that will lead once again to the downfall of the community. The first comes from the lack of unity within Core Staff, and the lack of swift action to reduce the impact created. If CS were united from the start, do you really think this many staff would of left, or if the member of CS who stepped down was so wrong, why did half the staff team leave with him?  While I understand there were guidelines to follow in how a report should be handled, the lack of input from the other members of staff and the wider community in general, made the final decision seem like it benefitted the bias of CS rather than what the community themselves felt was the right decision to make. Ahoyworld is not, and will never be a monocracy, the lack of transparency and willingness to hold open, public discussion has once again led to the downfall of the community.
 
And then after all that, leaves the AW we have today. Many others and I involved have spent the last however many years building up a solid, dedicated playerbase once again after AWE had originally fell apart. It was a long, gruesome process, and it was a struggle finding new players as the ARMA community is extremely aged, and therefore there is not a constant flow of new players or talent anymore. This is a concern, because it means that rebuilding the staff team is a hefty feat, as there isn’t a flow of fresh blood to promote, but more importantly, it means you’re struggling now to get the large scale, combined operations that AW has always loved, with the 25-30+ people that we all desire. It’s evident from Sieges and many other people’s operations, where he now has to scale his operations down to accommodate for the lack of players, rather than creating these massive, expansive operations. I just wonder, how many “rebuilds” will it take for Ahoyworld to finally flourish or is it’s “golden era” limited to the memories some of the more senior members have about the past of the community.
 
To conclude, I want this thread to be a civilised, open platform for Ahoyworld. Respect the privacy of others, and more importantly keep it constructive and make it somewhere where we can state our desires for the community moving forward, what it is doing wrong currently, and how it can be improved in the future. Staff have every right to remove abusive comments and directed hate, so I ask you to keep it civil and behaved.

I have to work for 2-3 hours every evening from about right now.  I'll be joining in with game nights later in the year when the days are much shorter and I get finished much earlier.

Modset:
Teakettle.html
 
Briefing: Tanoan rebels are ready to make their first big move against the occupying CSAT forces in the region.  With CSAT recently deploying more modern assets to quell the uprising, the Americans have offered to covertly assist us in attacking a CSAT held airfield.  In exchange, the Americans would like us to steal the cutting edge aircraft stationed there, and deliver it to them.
 

 
Mission: Disable a series of radar stations, timed perfectly with American fire support and our assault, in order to execute a surprise attack against the airfield. Steal the aircraft and escape before reinforcements arrive.
 
Expected Mission Length: 60-90 minutes
 
Player Slots: 30
Command // 2-man element
Alpha-Delta // 6-man infantry squads
Mike 1&2 // 2-man vehicle crews
 
Player Assets:
x4 RHIB
Variously lightly armed land vehicles
 

Community mission making is for everyone.
If you ever wanted to host your own mission or just into mission making yourself for Ahoyworld, then I've made a nice little guide on how to get started.
 
CLICK ME
 
If you still need any help with creating your mission, then don't hesitate to send a private message.
 
- SiegeSix

Community mission making is for everyone.
If you ever wanted to host your own mission or just into mission making yourself for Ahoyworld, then I've made a nice little guide on how to get started.
 
CLICK ME
 
If you still need any help with creating your mission, then don't hesitate to send a private message.
 
- SiegeSix

Community mission making is for everyone.
If you ever wanted to host your own mission or just into mission making yourself for Ahoyworld, then I've made a nice little guide on how to get started.
 
CLICK ME
 
If you still need any help with creating your mission, then don't hesitate to send a private message.
 
- SiegeSix

Community mission making is for everyone.
If you ever wanted to host your own mission or just into mission making yourself for Ahoyworld, then I've made a nice little guide on how to get started.
 
CLICK ME
 
If you still need any help with creating your mission, then don't hesitate to send a private message.
 
- SiegeSix

Community mission making is for everyone.
If you ever wanted to host your own mission or just into mission making yourself for Ahoyworld, then I've made a nice little guide on how to get started.
 
CLICK ME
 
If you still need any help with creating your mission, then don't hesitate to send a private message.
 
- SiegeSix

Community mission making is for everyone.
If you ever wanted to host your own mission or just into mission making yourself for Ahoyworld, then I've made a nice little guide on how to get started.
 
CLICK ME
 
If you still need any help with creating your mission, then don't hesitate to send a private message.
 
- SiegeSix

#blamestaff

Operation Second Sun
Mission Length
~2 hours
 
Modset
 
ChernarusReduxOPs (1).html
 
Situation
Chernarus Loyalists are losing terrority faster than they anticipated themselves. They know they are losing the war and is anticipating all out ballastic missile warfare. In anticipation Russian special forces has gotten in contact with their fellow Ultranationalist milita to gain some intelligence on the whereabouts of the missile site.
 
Friendly Forces
Russian Special Forces, Motorized Special Forces
- 6x6 Special OP teams (mixed structure)
 
Enemy Forces
Chernarus Loyalists, Combined Forces
- Motorized/Mechanized
- Possible Armor
- Rotary & Possibly Fixed Wing CAS Aircraft
- Rotary Transport Aircraft
 
Independent Forces
Chernarus Ultranationalists, Militia
 
Mission
Our fellow Ultranationalists have gone radio silent in anticipation of radio interception. We are to link up and discuss mission whereabouts with them.
 
Execution
At CMD's discretion.
 
Command / Logistics
Overall command falls on company commander "Overlord". Operational command falls on CMD.