Advice on multiplayer server.

[bootleg soldier 2]

Hello all...

First let me tell you the problem (this isn't a rant btw, just me tryin to have fun)

Have recently got myself a nice new quick internet connection (4meg) and have been playing around in MP for a couple of days and had very similar experiences each time. I'll recount last nights attempt.

Spawned in a coop mission with the usual objectives of Masbete, pita, enemy base etc and it became pretty obvious that 99% of hostiles were dead and all and sundry were wandering hopelessly around trying to find the last one or two. After 15 mins of trying to get everyone to restart the mission we succeded and i was quite excited as some of the guys looked like a decent bunch and wanted to work (loosely lol) together.

Everyone spawned i and had my lovely SAW already so jumped on a Little Bird and waited while everyone mounted up.

5 secs later DEAD  

TK'd hmm well no matter as i spawned pretty quick and jumped on the same LB, will i die, will i die. No both LB's manage to take off with full loads and head for 1st objective.

Phew this is more like it, six guys skimming low over the Sahrani plains. The pilot seems accomplished and he manages to drop us off in a field just outside an enemy base, my heartbeat quickens as i race up the slope to the outside wall and throw myself to the ground as two hostiles come through the large gap in the wall surpising me, but not for long as a couple of my team mates at the bottom of the slope open up and take the first down, while my now recovered reactions put 10 rounds into the second.

All this noise suddenly turns the front of the camp (right on the other side of the wall) into a hive of activity as more and more hostiles come to investigate and are cut down by my SAW or the guys at the bottom of the slope. After 2 or 3 mins i dare a peak around the wall into the camp and the scene is a grim one for the SLA to say the least as there is a very big pile of dead bodies and burning vehicles (don't know who was doing that but it was good to see), i duck back into cover and for some reason looked at my score, 11 kills woot i is on fire  

However just then a shot rings out and i am dead (could have come up behind me, where was my cover    lol)

While waiting to respawn i am thinking to myself "we can take that base on the next try just need to go through the back".

But sadly this is where my evenings entertainment ended as it had the previous 4 nights when spawning back in base i was not allowed to leave by 2 or 3 jokers killing everyone who respawned. It got really frustrating as up till then was the best (and longest) i had ever done in an Coop game and was really fun.

BUT i am gonna try again tonight, what i need from you guys out there is some servers where this does not happen as they have admins and take a dim view of this. My microphone is not working at the moment and can't get one for a few days (hope this doesn't count against me).

All i want to do is play the game well and work in a team, can anyone help.

Will be playing from 9pm onwards thnx in advance

Bootleg

[desertfox 2]

You need a squad to play with

JOIN SWAF !!

[ck-claw 1]

Hey cut that out Desertfox!

Whats wrong with =22SAS=

[dirtylarrygb 0]

Hello all...

First let me tell you the problem (this isn't a rant btw, just me tryin to have fun)

Have recently got myself a nice new quick internet connection (4meg) and have been playing around in MP for a couple of days and had very similar experiences each time. I'll recount last nights attempt.

Spawned in a coop mission with the usual objectives of Masbete, pita, enemy base etc and it became pretty obvious that 99% of hostiles were dead and all and sundry were wandering hopelessly around trying to find the last one or two. After 15 mins of trying to get everyone to restart the mission we succeded and i was quite excited as some of the guys looked like a decent bunch and wanted to work (loosely lol) together.

Everyone spawned i and had my lovely SAW already so jumped on a Little Bird and waited while everyone mounted up.

5 secs later DEAD

TK'd hmm well no matter as i spawned pretty quick and jumped on the same LB, will i die, will i die. No both LB's manage to take off with full loads and head for 1st objective.

Phew this is more like it, six guys skimming low over the Sahrani plains. The pilot seems accomplished and he manages to drop us off in a field just outside an enemy base, my heartbeat quickens as i race up the slope to the outside wall and throw myself to the ground as two hostiles come through the large gap in the wall surpising me, but not for long as a couple of my team mates at the bottom of the slope open up and take the first down, while my now recovered reactions put 10 rounds into the second.

All this noise suddenly turns the front of the camp (right on the other side of the wall) into a hive of activity as more and more hostiles come to investigate and are cut down by my SAW or the guys at the bottom of the slope. After 2 or 3 mins i dare a peak around the wall into the camp and the scene is a grim one for the SLA to say the least as there is a very big pile of dead bodies and burning vehicles (don't know who was doing that but it was good to see), i duck back into cover and for some reason looked at my score, 11 kills woot i is on fire

However just then a shot rings out and i am dead (could have come up behind me, where was my cover lol)

While waiting to respawn i am thinking to myself "we can take that base on the next try just need to go through the back".

But sadly this is where my evenings entertainment ended as it had the previous 4 nights when spawning back in base i was not allowed to leave by 2 or 3 jokers killing everyone who respawned. It got really frustrating as up till then was the best (and longest) i had ever done in an Coop game and was really fun.

BUT i am gonna try again tonight, what i need from you guys out there is some servers where this does not happen as they have admins and take a dim view of this. My microphone is not working at the moment and can't get one for a few days (hope this doesn't count against me).

All i want to do is play the game well and work in a team, can anyone help.

Will be playing from 9pm onwards thnx in advance

Bootleg

Join a server, ask if there is an admin. If there is, someone can kick TK'ers, truck nickers, bad pilots, etc. No admin online then play at your own risk, just one idiot can spoil the game right now

Then play a fun coop mission.

The joker's TK all the time can get away with it right now as there are not many admins online.

BIH need to change the amount of votes needed to boot a disruptive anti-social player offline and make banning them from the server easy.

A simple GUI vote interface to vote an admin or boot a disruptive player would make ARMA MP x10 more fun. no need for punkbuster, make a simple system to let players boot a disruptive player. The typing the player number just aint working.

[Tom_Anger 0]

Did the server have website information? If you had some enjoyment and no lag I would visit their site and just let them know. More than not there may not be something that they could do about it, but you never know.

I say hit the squad sites and as you play make a list for reference somewhere in your favorites. Also get teamspeak information because that is how you really meet the right people to hang with. There is an Arma Launcher that you can use to add your favorite servers to and use that when you are looking for a game. I have it, but haven't had the chance to use it yet.

We just bought a 20 man U.S. server and are looking to get some real well balance players to hook up with.

Shadow Company Elite US International server.

I have been misison making for a little while now and am learning the scripting language which will take time, but I have an Attack & Defend Fuel Dock map which we will be running from time to time to beta test it out. It is not Coop though. It encorages convoy and fighter jets to be fueled up and used with the loading up vehicles with weapons to attack a remote location. The other team has to prepare and defend until the threat is over.

In time it will help me make future maps. I work 3rd shift and will be heading home in a few minutes so I will probably be puting it up for some simple testing in around 30 minutes if anyone is interested. The map is TVT, but does have civillians, a Tobacco Plantation with workers, and more to bring out some more realism to the gameplay.