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  1. Posted · Edited by Max Power

    On behalf of the team, I would like to invite you all to join us at our new home on armaholic.

    http://www.armaholic.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=24909

    There you can follow any releases, news, and interact with the team. We apologize for any inconvenience our move might cause. Armaholic is more flexible and will make it easier for us to keep the first post of our threads updated, since any of our team will be able to do it.

    Admins please lock the thread, if you would :)

    Please note over the course of our next releases (a new build is imminent!), the links in the first post will slowly become invalid.

  4. Posted

    only it's also a firecracker that directs most of its blast in one direction.

    No, it uses shockwave focusing to form a jet of molten copper all in one direction. The explosion itself goes in all directions.

    The result of all this is a high degree of randomness. I remember some guy on this forum telling a story about how he watched his friend completely disappear inside the cloud of smoke produced by a bursting B-10 (practically the same warhead) that landed at his feet. He emerged from the dust without a scratch. The U.S. Army Manual on the RPG-7, however, reminds us that the warhead breaks into a small number of very large pieces, which are ejected at such velocity that they are lethal 150m away.

    "Some guy on a forum" is at best a case study conducted by a layman which doesn't account for factors he is not aware of. I would imagine that this specific situation is not representative of most situations where a someone has a shaped charge detonate near them.

  5. Posted

    A few things:

    • You are not involved in a professional relationship with the modder.
    • There are no mod customers here.
    • If you're so used to being treated like dirt by your dysfunctional customers, it would stand to reason that you'd be more inclined to treat people with respect in your spare time, not less.

    So let's pretend for a minute that everyone here is a human being. If you have a suggestion to make, trying phrasing it as if the modder doesn't owe you a god damn thing.

  6. Posted

    Look most discussions on ai is about them seeing and accuracy and cover ... People want a good ai I want a good ai but you know we all cant have what we want, but I can express my opinion on what I would like to see,and as other people on this forum have. Yes Tpw has done a great job and like what he has done. Truthfully people would like to see Ai act more human and what tpw has is close but cover could be better and using houses would be great...If I knew how to script or code I would try to fix stuff but unfortunately Im not that talented.

    The problem is that you did not express what you wanted to see, you expressed what you thought tpw was wasting his time on. So, let's not kid ourselves and pretend like you were merely expressing your opinion, or that all opinions are valid. Modders are not here to make do what you or anyone else wants. They are here to be creative and to do things they are interested in. If you want to get involved in their projects by making suggestions, the least anyone can ask is that you show some manners.

  8. Posted

    Here is how damage is done to a hitpoint, at least in theory.

    A bullet is shot by a unit and impacts the firegeolod.

    There is a check to see if the bullet hits near any hitpoints on the hitpoints LOD.

    Hitpoints must have named selections that correspond to a config entry, so it checks the properties of the named selection via its name.

    Based on the data in the hitpoints class that correspond to the name of its named selection, damage is done to both the damage capacity of the hitpoint (as defined in the config), and the total damage of the vehicle.

    Hitpoints are not like the number of points you have to decrease by hitting, like in Dungeons and Dragons maybe. They are physical points you have to hit (near) in order to damage a thing on a vehicle. Hitpoints themselves have their own damage capacity and other properties.

  11. Posted

    Especially I can't get the next: why has, f.e., Benny not written to me yet concerning the mission/script's rights.

    Perhaps he is not aware of your activities.

    Allow me to quote a passage from the forum rules that may be of particular interest to you.

    §19) Posting addon/mod other content without permission

    [...]

    it's not acceptable to edit someone's work without permission and then to post screenshots of it on the forums

    [...]

    doing any of the above without the permission of the original creators risks a permanent ban, for individuals, for whole mod teams or squads.

    So it would be extremely helpful for me and for you if you were able to PM me and justify your use of Benny's scripts while posting screenshots on the forum. This topic will remain closed until the issue is resolved.

  12. Posted

    That's exactly what you're doing by calling Windows users simple minded people living in the dark as blind, dismembered people. Maybe you should think about your words and stop being a Linux elitist, because nothing about using Linux makes you special.

    I think he's talking about the accessibility options in windows. Namely, the screen magnification tools, on screen keyboard, and the voice recognition interface.

  14. Posted · Edited by Max Power

    so there's no difference between lying about it or blowing it out of proportion and just having a donate button that just sits there or having a real problem and asking for help? how so? how are these two exactly the same?

    Lying about it is fraud.

    There is no difference between saying you need x money for y thing, regardless of what the reason, because that need is unverifiable. If mod maker says he needs money for a new hard drive, but spends it on hookers and blow, you will have no way of knowing as long as he keeps making addons. But, if you are lumping Fraud in with saying you need money for something in order to continue, then you are denying vilas his donations, since this is exactly what he did.

    I don't think that either of us were talking about 'just having a donation button lying around' at any point in this conversation.

    why do you ignore my request to provide a better word to describe what i mean?

    Why didn't you address every little last speck of my last message? Because you didn't care about it or didn't want to waste your time on it? I understand. That's why I didn't answer this question as well.

    If you recall, in my very first first post on the subject, when everyone still remembered that we were talking about, I used the word 'crowd funding'. We were talking about the use of the word extortion to describe the situation where a mod maker says, "I need money to continue". Not, "I need money to continue" then run off without doing anything, or just letting a donate button sit there for people to trip over.

    At any rate, I can tell I have said everything I want to say on this topic because I've been repeating myself. You can make a reply but if you wish but if you want to discuss it further I think we should take it to PM.

  15. Posted · Edited by Max Power

    please read what i write. there's a difference between not being able to continue a project and holding it back after showing it to people to make them want it and then telling them "oh dear my PC broke down. if i don't get like 500 bucks from you guys i won't be able to finish it" to make them donate more or at all. the person extorting doesn't have to have the intend to go through with it. much like kidnapping. the key is making the other side do something.

    There's no difference, and you can't know even if there was. What you're talking about here is a difference in wording which is pretty much meaningless. Moreover, the door is already open to what you are cautioning against. And I see you used the word extortion again, and yet you don't mean it. I don't know what to tell you, man.

    it's funny how you put the whole essence of what i mean in your little "EDIT".

    Well I guess someone had to :p

    sure you can't know if someone bullshits you. that's exactly my point :rolleyes: how is it being common on the internet or it being possible already weakening my point?

    I'm attempting to 'weaken your point'? I think if you recall, I was attempting to help you strengthen it by saying that the word 'extort' isn't appropriate ;)

    as i said if there's a public culture of donations as a payment model for addons you can be sure that people will abuse it. and more than before.

    How does that work? It's already possible to do that. It's perfectly acceptable to ask for donations. So you think that it should be allowed but no one should know about it?

    you are cheaply bringing vilas into this because you know exactly what i mean and that's the only way to prove your theory that i'm trying to blow things out of proportion. how about you just tell me which word describes what i said instead? i really don't see what you are trying to achieve here.

    No, I am exactly extrapolating what you said to its inevitable conclusion based on your use of the word 'extortion'. If you don't think that's fair, maybe you shouldn't use the word 'extort'.

    edit: I find it very confusing that you excused your use of the word 'extort' by saying that english isn't your first language, now you're holding on to it like your life depends on it. Sorry man, using that word was not appropriate in this circumstance by the definition of the word and by the logically cogent conclusions that directly and inevitably follow. Period.

  16. Posted · Edited by Max Power

    And what I'm saying is it doesn't matter what you put behind it, words mean what they mean. First you say you're not a native English speaker so you don't know what you're saying, now you say you knew exactly what you were saying so you put tactics behind it. Very interesting.

    And when we're saying 'nitpicky' I think what you mean is 'accurate'. Like I said, all of these histrionics do nothing to help people understand the situation. Calling vilas an extortionist DIRECTLY FOLLOWS calling a situation where someone is asking for money to continue making mods extortion. Accuracy such as 'meaning what you are saying' and 'knowing what your words mean' is required.

    edit: Something you have to get comfortable with is that you will never know if any claims that are made on the internet are true. Mod makers can already ask for donations, seemingly, so the framework is already in place for any modder to claim that their videocard blew up therefore they need money, or their car broke down so they need a new car so they can get home from work earlier so they can mod more or whatever the story is.

  17. Posted

    well in my language it means "do this or i'll (not) do this". so what's your point exactly?

    What I was saying is you can't mean extortion yet not mean extortion at the same time. Either extortion is a good description of the idea or it's not. In this case, it is not. What you meant to do was to overdramatize the issue with rhetoric, and I get that. That can even be a good part of a reductio ad absurdum if correctly applied. In this case, it was not correctly applied, and I don't think we need any more barriers to understanding this hypothetical situation in the first place. Running around going, "asking for more donations in order to move forward is like extortion" is appealing because it is a shortcut to thinking. If memory serves me correctly, Vilas has already used these 'tactics'. He asked for donations to cover the cost of a computer so he could continue modding for the community. Vilas is a lot of things, but he's not an extortionist, and to equate him to an extortionist is a slap in the face.

  19. Posted

    i see some extortion tactics like "pay us or we won't release" or mini kick starter like things like "if we reach amount X, we will go on working" happening.

    That's not extortion. That's crowd funding. It's saying, "give us some money, and we might give you something in return", which is sort of the opposite of donations which is kind of like, "we will give you something and we hope you will give us some money in return"... it's kind of like gambling. Even direct sales would be preferable, since there is a one to one exchange of product and money. Since it's different, hopefully it will be disallowed if this thing goes through. In order to disallow shenanigans this whole thing would have to be very tightly controlled.

    All in all it would be up to the consumer to decide what's good and what's bad, and I'm not very certain that the consumer is a very good person to rely on for that sort of thing.

  22. Posted

    This comment can basically be ignored as soon the workshop supports mods. According to the workshop license anything you upload is free to the public to be used, altered and reuploaded by other people. That is now also the case with missions you upload, where you may have used custom sounds, video's, textures, etc. It is owned by the public as soon as you upload it on the workshop.

    Fortunately, I think we've already debunked this in the workshop thread. I hope this mistaken idea isn't widespread because many users may be in for a shock if they act on it.

  24. Posted

    I have the latest beta public 5, and I claim that the campaign won´t work as-is trasfered from OFP. Problem is, that AI behaves differently in Arma than in OFP, but probably all triggers in missions are original, and it make the campaign missions to act with no since (as I see it). I played 3 first missions, and I had to skip every one of them to next mission with "endmission" cheat. I believe that problems are with original triggers imported from OFP, and new AI acting more fast and effective. For example, the second mission in Cold War Crisis compaign, where the capturing of village fails because enemy tanks are comming there. In OFP, you have lot of time to retrieve, in CWR2, T80s will kill every time my entire squad running back (including me).

    A lot of work has gone into the missions. However, you're correct in that you are playing a different game. You will have to play the missions differently and adapt to the new situations. In Combined Arms, for example, you have to ditch and run when command issues the order to retreat. Occasionally, some of your squad will make it out alive, but if you pull back when ordered, you should make it out almost always.

  25. Posted

    The community has already changed a lot i'm afraid.

    That is true. But at least people are still exchanging information.

    ---------- Post added at 10:34 ---------- Previous post was at 10:29 ----------

    While I'm not saying that poorly made addons are acceptable

    Of course they are acceptable. These are people doing stuff in their spare time for free, and sharing it with others. Who are you (or me) to say what is acceptable?

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