Stagger Lee

Freedom of speech unfortunately does have limits on a privately owned forum. I totally understand this thread would be locked and possibly deleted. Nevertheless I felt the need to post it, and I'm sure it will be read by whom it was intended.

You're directing your question to me alone, why didn't you send me a private message instead of posting it to this thread?

Where is this rule in writing? If nowhere, how is one expected to follow it? I have no problems following the rules of a forum. I do have a problem when I am expected to read minds.

His actions were public, why shouldn't mine be as well?

Quite possibly. All I know is I moderated a technical support forums for a living for a three year period and it would not have been acceptable for me to have locked a thread in such a manner with no explanation. For those who doubt me it was the Dell Support Forums, my username was DELL-Rance and I had over 28 thousand posts before last year's purge to save space.

Regarding my "Is the Evolution mod too prevalent?" thread you locked this within a few minutes and posted this at the end: "Moved, now locking, use the Evolution thread." Why should all talk regarding Evolution be restricted to a single thread? Why is this thread not Pinned to the top of whichever forum it belongs to if we're supposed to intuitively understand that any talk regarding this mod belongs to this thread alone? Could you at least provide a link to the thread you are referring to if we're supposed to understand what you're talking about? I'm fine with having my thread moved to the Multiplayer forum, but locking it? Considering the majority of multiplayer servers available seem to be using this mod/map, forcing all talk regarding it to be restricted to a single thread is a bit over the top. What is the meaning of this? Please explain yourself and your actions. All of my communication on this forum has been extremely courteous and responsible. I expect to be treated the same.

Is there a website or single location where I can find information about this map/mod? Because although I've been playing it for a few days there's a lot of its functionality I'm not sure about.

Is there a website or single location where I can find information about this map/mod? Because although I've been playing it for a few days there's a lot of its functionality I'm not sure about.

It seems a good 70% to 80% of servers are using this map and only this map, and this greatly reduces the variety of missions available in online multiplayer. I have nothing against the map/mod itself, it's pretty fun, in a sandbox sort of way, but the fact that it has multiple objectives means that players tend to each be doing their own thing and there's not a lot of teamwork going on. You may have players in 2s or 3s running around, but usually not much more than this. Maps with a focus on a specific mission, give all the players the same goal to work toward, encouraging better team play and organization. I just hope some server admins think about this and maybe the novelty of a "big map that tries to do everything" will wear off over time. This is not supposed to be an MMO, after all.

It seems a good 70% to 80% of servers are using this map and only this map, and this greatly reduces the variety of missions available in online multiplayer. I have nothing against the map/mod itself, it's pretty fun, in a sandbox sort of way, but the fact that it has multiple objectives means that players tend to each be doing their own thing and there's not a lot of teamwork going on. You may have players in 2s or 3s running around, but usually not much more than this. Maps with a focus on a specific mission, give all the players the same goal to work toward, encouraging better team play and organization. I just hope some server admins think about this and maybe the novelty of a "big map that tries to do everything" will wear off over time. This is not supposed to be an MMO, after all.

No one else has problems getting their joystick recognized by the game? This is on a fresh install..in fact I recently uinstalled, defragmented my HD, reinstalled and applied the patch. No other issues. Any help would be appreciated.

The stick is detected by WinXP, calibrates, all buttons work. Made sure the "Joystick Enabled" checkbox was checked in ArmA. But it's just not working..made sure the correct axis assignments were chosen..but no buttons or sliders, or movements have any effect. Is there something I'm missing here?

Make sure you put it in all caps. I had that problem till I did that.

For those of you with problems with hard drive thrashing and longer load times try this: Completely uninstall ArmA, defragment your drive or at least the partition you plan on installing it the game into, reinstall ArmA, apply patch. This will ensure that the files for ArmA are in one contiguous area of your hard drive which should increase loading performance. This has helped me greatly.

Ahh timezone issues..my mistake.