More Official Co-op Missions

[Ninjia^ 0]

Just a suggestion for BIS, when releasing patches would it possible to take the best co-op missions from the community and add them as official missions? Dont think you would even need user permission as you own the game...

At the moment there are just too few official co-op missions in general and definatly not enough that support more than 8 players, also many of the server hosts wont go looking for community maps i.e. Jolt.co.uk that will just set up a map rotation and only ever use the official missions.

Just an idea?! What you do think?

P.S. Id also like to use the thread below related to mission download problems as another example of how more official maps would make the game more accessible.

http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=57588

Thanks

[deady 0]

Just a note to say Jolt.co.uk are actually looking for good community made coop missions. Theres already a couple added to the rotation, but we are very picky about the quality.

[TeeCee 0]

Quote[/b] ]also many of the server hosts wont go looking for community maps i.e. Jolt.co.uk that will just set up a map rotation and only ever use the official missions.

Hi Ninja, thanks for dropping by. As you may be well aware, UK ArmA is still pretty fresh on the market. Jolt have only just got their free, dedicated servers up and with the somewhat iffy beta-release 1.05 dedicated server we've been going through various stability and setup testing. This has included trying out a large scale coop server and CTI - both of which were pretty ropey due to bugs, poor scripting, instability or extreme system resource usage resulting in a below-satisfiable experience for the endusers.

What we have settled on for now are a series of smaller coop servers - which from our observations has more hope of actually promoting coop play and interaction. As you have noted there is really very few missions on there at present - but there ARE custom missions, and will be growing day by day. We aren't just going to throw any old coop mission on there though and are spending time choosing things that are suitable towards its target audience (smaller 8 player missions with appropriate respawns and file sizes) and have been verified to work with the current game version (plenty of broken mission scripts out there, mostly due to game patching altering things).

However, we welcome feedback and input! As well as posting here (which we monitor), why not quickly pop onto arma.jolt.co.uk's forums and drop in some comments? We'd be glad to hear from you