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Evolution vs Creation Quite funny, not. Science vs. Religion! It's the old fight going on and on. Could you believe, there was a time when scientists were thrown to jail after they had presented their opinions on how things really are, based on their own observations, experiments and logical thinking. I once had a chat with a religious person about how things are. I asked a question of what will we find if we go as far into space as possible (possibly no stop in sight). The response I got was that the the Universe must be God's creation as we can't reliably explain how does it look like and how was it formed. My reply to this was: when human beings can't understand something, they say it is God's creation. I think I insulted that person at least slightly. Not by intention, but that's how I think. When human beings can't explain something, it is easy to say it is God who did it.

Please don't do this I am sure there a a lot of idiots in U.S.A. but hey I know those exist elsewhere too. Sometimes we all are idiots and don't even try to deny it, you would be just cheating yourself. Ah but me thinks, it makes me angry when people come to me and ask me a question THEY ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER FOR, and then they laugh at me when I didn't know this particular detail they asked. I have been a victim of this, and it is for sure very annoying - those people should get a life and concentrate on something else.

Well I see it as a natural consequence that Russia feels threatened by USA, or should I say "NATO". I knew that right away when I heard the news about the new military bases planned to Czech Republic and to Poland. What else could happen? The Russians cheering for it? No way. I understand their reaction, even though I'd rather not see this kind of reaction at all. Russia is just too close to my home to be ignored. Please do not create more political and military tension for us, it's the last thing we want! It is the same thing that can happen while you are walking along the streets of your home town in a dark, late Saturday night. You get surrounded by aggressive people who you don't know, and you have no idea what their intentions could possibly be. Of course you get nervous and start to look for a way out of the situation, either by just running away or by using force. Russia can't run away, it has to come up with something else. The same problem is with the question of North Korea and Iran possessing nuclear weapons. USA wants them to not have nuclear weapons - such demands have no effect if you possess a lot of nuclear weapons yourself (and place your radars and missile stations so that you reach the mentioned countries). I really hope I do not see a war break out during my lifetime. It was too big prise that my country was forced to pay during WW II, as being one of the small playing cards in the game between Hitler and Stalin lead us having no way out of the situation without fighting. Alternative would have been to just surrender and give our land to the Russians. There is a whole lot more than just the big countries in this game. Think about the consequences to the smaller countries that will have to pay for the political decisions made by the big players. The USA is very much related to these kinds of issues all over the World and I hope they realize the consequenses their actions might have. The same goes for Russia of course.

This forum is a hostile place and it seems that the moderators do their best to make it even worse. Better place for beginners is definitely at http://www.ofpec.com/. All the friendly people are there. Best Wishes, Baddo.

CrashDome I don't know if I understand you right but there is a website http://toadlife.net/. Maybe it helps to understand or maybe not, I don't know because as I said I am not sure if I understand what you mean. The guys at www.ofpec.com know more about this character if you want to know more.

Hi Just learn how to navigate without the map - it is worth it and really a needed skill if you go to intense multiplayer sessions. Use the compass, that helps me a lot. Just go around the island for a couple of days, that should do it. Baddo

I must add that the sound of the UAZ has improved compared to OFP - it is now closer to what it is in real life. The sound I mean is the sound that comes from the transmission and everything that is between it and the wheels (can't now come up with the correct term in English, transmission line or something like that probably). Can be quite high sound and for sure not comfortable to listen to it on a longer journey. I were lucky to drive a ZIL-131 (Ural's close family member) most of the time, where the noise in the cabin was not as annoying but much softer.

You can also relocate the whole Windows user profile folder away from its default location. If you want that is. Wamingo, by restricting the usage of an administrator account on your computer, you can seriously limit the damage malware can do to your operating system. That is the main reason why you should not use an account with full privileges but instead make the users of your computer use different accounts with restricted privileges. Unrestricted account is meant to be used only for installing programs and doing maintenance work. It was very bad decision from Microsoft to not make this very clear for people during the installation process of Windows XP (they call it convenience or something, but think about all the viruses, is that convenient?). Users are of course free to ignore the added security of using restricted accounts. I know many many people use their computer as non-restricted user but it shouldn't be so. Not a question of what your family members can do, its a question of what the Evil people at the Internet can and will do if they possibly can.

You can also relocate the whole Windows user profile folder away from its default location. If you want that is. Wamingo, by restricting the usage of an administrator account on your computer, you can seriously limit the damage malware can do to your operating system. That is the main reason why you should not use an account with full privileges but instead make the users of your computer use different accounts with restricted privileges. Unrestricted account is meant to be used only for installing programs and doing maintenance work. It was very bad decision from Microsoft to not make this very clear for people during the installation process of Windows XP (they call it convenience or something, but think about all the viruses, is that convenient?). Users are of course free to ignore the added security of using restricted accounts. I know many many people use their computer as non-restricted user but it shouldn't be so. Not a question of what your family members can do, its a question of what the Evil people at the Internet can and will do if they possibly can.

My Documents is the right place for games to store user-specific data as default setting. Many applications fail to operate because of insufficient folder permissions when they stubbornly try to write files somewhere else. I've seen too many applications which fail to do this right. Luckily ArmA isn't one of them. So ArmA does The Right Thing by default. Just a comment, nothing more

My Documents is the right place for games to store user-specific data as default setting. Many applications fail to operate because of insufficient folder permissions when they stubbornly try to write files somewhere else. I've seen too many applications which fail to do this right. Luckily ArmA isn't one of them. So ArmA does The Right Thing by default. Just a comment, nothing more

Hi Please don't even try to drag me into that fight, I am really not interested. If you interpreted my post as some kind of an attack against consoles or console players then you got it completely wrong. Best Regards, Baddo.

This must be a joke, right? The wheeled vehicles are not realistically simulated. My guess is that the forces acting in a car's ground contact points are not simulated anywhere near to how they are in real cars, the cars are just turned around their principal vertical axis to simulate the turning. This makes it so that the car appears to slide on the ground when in reality that would not be the case. That's what disturbs me somewhat but this is not a driving simulation so I accept this. Maybe it is made so that it is easier to turn the car around in tight places like between buildings, or to fit better a console controller. My guess is that you mean more of the experience of going along a road and seeing the landscape and not about how technically correct the car is simulated. The sceneries can be quite nice (for a game) that is true.

Get permission from the copyright owner of the files before you start to distribute anything. The copyright owner has the right to say what you can and what you can't do with their files. If it is not explicitly allowed, then it is prohibited. This is always how it is with copyrights (when the work in question is original work and not trivial). I must add that, of course, copyright laws vary between countries but this is how it is in Finland.

Hi I have to disagree with you. There is very noticeable difference between the A.I. in Operation Flashpoint and the A.I. in Armed Assault. My observations this far: - A.I. flanks more agressively. I have many times been suprised of the direction the A.I. soldiers are approaching me. They often go behind my back, compared to the direction I first saw them. This leads to much more exciting battles as I have to really watch my back and make sure I still have a way out if such need arises. - A.I. picks up ammunition from dead bodies without external help. Did you see them doing that in Operation Flashpoint right out of the box? I didn't. - A.I. uses buildings more actively. In Operation Flashpoint it was possible that an A.I. unit would enter a building without external help but it was very rare as I remember it. In Armed Assault it has happened often during the one month I have had the game. Now I can't feel safe in buildings anymore, like I did in Operation Flashpoint. I am sure this list isn't all because I have played Armed Assault relatively little and there is much more to explore and test. But it shows you some points were there has definitely been improvement over Operation Flashpoint. Best Regards, Baddo

Hi bennie1983nl In addition to the tutorials which you have found from http://www.opflash.org/, be sure to head over to http://www.ofpec.com/ and read all of the Mission Editing tutorials in the Editors Depot. Also take a look at their forum, there is quite a lot of mission editing information in there. Baddo

If you open the mission.sqm file into a text editor, you could remove the references to an unofficial addon by carefully looking where it is used and taking the related chunks of text away from the file. Or Macser can fix it for you if you have time to wait.

OK I see now you have edited your first post Well initially you only said that you could use some help and you gave us a link to a file with no additional information what kind of help do you need. That doesn't tell us much what you want us to do, or does it? You really need to give people more information right in the first initial post you make, other than just "i could use some help". This advice is for your own good, people will help you much faster and better and everyone will be happier. But enough of this already. You are now receiving help Best Wishes, Baddo.

Hi I really don't care much if the U.S. Army or whatever isn't completely accurately represented in this computer game. Of course it would be nice if everything was just like in real life but I think that is a practical impossibility to achieve. With this I mean that you can get different opinions on what is accurate and what is not even from inside your own Army (How do I know this? It's how human beings work.), so how can a foreign game developer get it right? It's the information they have acquired and have been given by others that makes them do what they do, in the time frame and resources they have available for the work. Also are you absolutely sure that throughout the whole U.S. Army the used vehicles and other equipment, order of battle etc. are exactly the same everywhere? I doubt it very much, that would be a practical impossibility too. Don't get me wrong, I prefer realism and accuracy to real life but it's really not a disaster of any kind if your opinion of what is accurate enough and Bohemia Interactive Studio's opinion of what is accurate enough don't match. I must add, aren't the U.S.M.C. and U.S. Army never co-operating? Maybe you could imagine that in this case there is co-operation and because of that the equipment is mixed. Isn't that a possible scenario in real life too? In the event of war it doesn't matter much for a country whom's motorcycle is being used and by who, all it matters is that it is possible to use it. Cheers, Baddo.

The problem was, there was no questions asked. It is quite a difficult task to answer a non-existant question. bennie1983nl, I suggest that in the future you state more clearly in your posts what you want to know or what you want to get done, so it is much easier for others to help you. We want to help but it is very hard to do so if you write like your first post in this thread. Best Regards, Baddo.

Hi Head over to www.ofpec.com there you will find tools and more information about editing sounds. Check the Editors Depot at the website. Baddo

Please try to avoid this type of mission designing - do you really want to hunt the last enemy for many hours just to finish the mission, especially if that enemy soldier went hiding under a rock? Find alternative methods please. Like check if enemy is fleeing scared to death already, check how much enemies are alive (if only 1 or 2 is alive do they pose a real threat anymore...), do the enemies have weapons and ammunition to pose a threat, can enemy vehicles shoot at you anymore or move anymore, etc. There are a ton of better approaches.

Sorry for double posting. Moderator is free to remove this post.

It's used in the campaign right? Take a peek inside and see how they did it.

Hi, just a comment on should you be able to keep your ArmA settings at the highest level or not. There is an article Postmortem: Bohemia Interactive Studios' Operation Flashpoint at gamasutra.com written by the Spanel brothers. It is a thriller story about the development of Operation Flashpoint. If you want to read the full article just create an account and login, it's free. Some quotes from the article: As you now think of it, it really makes sense to target current and future hardware, if your plan is to have a long life for your game. In my opinion ArmA can be sufficiently run on current hardware as I can run it sufficiently enough for me on very low-spec hardware mostly dating back to year 2001; Athlon 1.4 GHz, GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB VRAM AGP 4x, 768 MB 133 MHz SDRAM, old and slow hard disk drive, need I say more? ArmA also has potential to be even much better on upcoming hardware as many people here have acknowledged that they can't run the game in the highest settings. Which is of course perfectly fine if the game is not meant to be used for just a couple of months but for many years instead. A real problem with ArmA is the lack of multithreading in the game engine, that has to be acknowledged. That takes a lot of the growth potential away. Best Regards, Baddo.