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Mandrake your problem is that there arn't many outright 'public' servers for ArmA2 / ArmA2 OA, mainly coz they are pigs to admin effectivly, Outright public servers should be for the good of the gamers, and there should be a place where you can vote for mods etc.. but not on the BIS forums. Public servers have been tried before by a few of us and failed misrebly. Most of the good admins on these forums have been running servers on OFP/ArmA/ArmA2 for quite a few years now, and they have experience of what thir squads require. I think you tried to ask a polite question but from the few flames that got thrown it cascaded into somthing different when a polite no would of sufficed. Like Tax says his squad create there own maps and unless they feel a mod will drastically improve the experiance for them it wont get added, and also for me the less mods the better. On the other hand the newer admins that I have had contact with, and there has been quite a few, add mod after mod after mod then wonder why the server doesnt perform very well.

obviously including the bigger mods like ace would be silly, but if all servers had the bigger mods on, and a tag in the server name to indicate this, then the subtle mods that are not so big can be added into the missions as and when...the mods on a dedi take a few minutes to download and install, so its not that big a deal to add big file size mods to a dedicated server...and if I'm right, the mods are only used if the mission requires them, so running a non mod mission would enable players with vanilla installs still be able to play...Is that right?? :j: If you want to test this mac, i'll give you acces to a server to try it for testing. i'll get you ftp access etc, pm me or get me on msn or steam... TaxMan can get hold of me also.

can the mods be added into the actual mission folder before its pbo'd?? I'm not sure about that coz i have done no scripting... but i think you should be able to answer this one mac:confused: that way when you connect to the server, the mission would download, with the included mods... but would only be related to that mission... again just thinking out loud if its a load of :j: then just ignore my ramblings...

your going into the realms of a community server setup again here, where all nominated servers include certain addons, tried to do this a few times with very poor response, think it is what it is, certain groups play together all the time and they use the addons they feel suits them, nothing wrong with that, just the way it is...

As a GSP this is a godsend $able, but I have a question, I use TCADMIN to run some servers, and this localizes all the files into the ARMA2 Root folder, (creates a users file, intead of in my documents etc..) for some reason I cant get RCON to work when I run them through this, is there any way I can change where it looks for the config file?:confused:

Hi all , just a quick question, is it possible to seperate mission files in the mpmissions folder into their own folders? we have quite a few missions on the server atm and think it would be better/easier to keep them updated if the mission packs (e.g Dom by Xeno) could have their own folders. any ideas??

Thanks guys for all the hard work, so many improvements;)

Hi guys, looks like we all have a common goal here, to get the community playing together in regulated servers, I'm all for helping each other out, let me know what s needed;)

Thanks Norrin much appreciated:)

Is there a key for this mod, tried running it on my server but unless i turn key checking off the server wont allow anyone in...

I had problems like this on one of my servers, I Installed directX and that seemed to sort it out for me, but yer could also be the way the config file is set up, if you havnt manually set up the .cfg file in your documents folder, make a copy of the folder then delete the arma.cfg file inside, the game should rewrite the file when its relaunched, keep us updated!!:)

Well this is more like it, constuctive and helpful ideas for the community:D tractorking your welcome to become an admin on the community server that is now set up, it also does have a teamspeak server set up....non commital, play when you want, admin when you can. offer is open to all to who are interested, would like to get opinions on map rotations etc as well....maybe have a different map type each night, to see which is popular...

Server is now up and running 24v24 devastation....

they are all on our GSP IP range, the admining side is simply to admin the server, kick team killers make sure everyone play properly etc...

regarding the voip issue, there is also a teamspeak running, but if people would prefer vent or mumble i'm sure something can be sorted out...

well lets get the ball rolling then, lets add some features we would like to see in a pvp map, and the ask sbsmac nicely if he could implement them into a map for us all...:)

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=89029 Posted in the multiplayer section..still cant believe it???

yes the offer still stands, but more interest from the 'community' is needed.... tell you what if we get five applications to admin it in this thread the server will go up straight away.......:rolleyes:

well to be honest I tried to do somthing about this by providing a free community server (quad core 4 gig ram etc...), but the response was almost zero, Players were invited to apply to admin the server and i got zero requests, players were invited to suggest maps but not one request, the community side of this game is probably the worst its ever been, as there is probably one popular 'public' server atm that is capable of hosting a descent amount of players, and the rest play in there locked servers with the same people against AI every night....not complaining about it, its just how it is...

Fixed a few things, the server should run better now, for some reason there were 2 other arma servers running in task manager, must not fully shut down when the game is restarted, i'll keep my eye on that. Had around 60 on the other day and people have said its running ok... was thinking about adding server side mods.. any ideas?

Hey all, As was mentioned in a few other posts, I have a dedi server that i am willing to trial to the community, its a quad core with 4 gig of ram so should be good for around 50 players i would have thought. The only services running on it are ArmA 2 and a teamspeak server. IP is 81.19.223.20 for both the game and ts. Obviouly we are going to need some admins, so there will be a number of slots open to apply for admin rights on the server. Please apply in this thread and all those who apply will be considered:) There are also curreently quite a few maps on the server but as this is a community server we can have whatever maps people think we should have, i would prefer to keep it pvp though.... again the same for Mods, not really sure we should use any but opinions on this are also welcome... I will later, depending on if this works or not, get a site up with a forum to make it easier for admins to control... Also any ideas and comments are welcome, both the arma 2 server and the ts are up and running. lets see how it goes....;)

EDIT: Certain people have now apologised for their behaviour, I will give it another go.....

I would be willing to let the community use my server for this project as a public server, its a quad core with 4 gig of ram, the only game running on it would be arma 2 so should hold 50+ players, I think it would be cool if we had a few decent admins on running some good PVP maps etc.. I cant give access directly to the box but could set up ftp accounts for admins to upload maps etc...

hey SRRViper, thanks for the offer, i will set up a box when i get home tonight for you to log into and upload the files, i will pm you with the details;) ---------- Post added at 04:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:59 PM ---------- Thanks Viper you are a top man, and it was nice talking to you as well;) Servers will be up tonight (hopefully):D

Hey guys, just wanted to ask amongst the server admins/hosts out there if they would be willing to share their game files for setting up dedi servers, its going to be a ballache havin to upload all the files again, and seing as the download versions dont come out till the 29th i'm a bit stuck.. If anyone is kind enough to do this can you send me a pm.. hopefully this will help to get some u.k. clans servers up and running.:bounce3: