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Not possible to rescue the work, no. Because: Quote Darkxess from that other thread. I will not comment that any further. Now the only thing left to do is searching our local drives for addons and missions we stored there. And make use of the tools Jerry is developing.

If you just want to place a wounded guy at a random position, you could use this in your init.sqf: if (isServer) then { _location=floor(random 4); switch (_location) do { case 0 : {guy setPos getMarkerPos "marker1";}; case 1 : {guy setPos getMarkerPos "marker2";}; case 2 : {guy setPos getMarkerPos "marker3";}; case 3 : {guy setPos getMarkerPos "marker4";}; }; }; guy is the name of the wounded, marker1-4 are empty markers on the map where he should appear. For the "check if in hospital", create a trigger which covers the area and make the wounded the owner of that trigger.

And Scotland is the end of the world. No mobile internet, no WLAN, no nothing. Heard otherwise, but mkay. I'm more interested in what progress you made, rather than telling us that we can wait until the end of days until he responds to his (former) friends. Sorry, but meanwhile I presume he doesn't have the files anymore. Which is why we better continue with Plan B.

Me. Never got any reply in like a week now. If money is a problem for you but bandwith not, upload your stuff to a remote storage (google drive, onedrive, Dropbox, Mega etc). Jerry and me grab them and keep them safe and warm. Storage ain't a problem here. That would save you until you can afford another drive.

There are probably a lot of missions and addons out there which are not on the missing files list. Like there were addons at armaholic listed but hosted externally, like at OFPEC or Kronzky's website. And some files failed to download while we were at it for other reasons like invalid session or blocked for duplicate file requests.

This is one of the problems. Most of the pictures used for the download pages were created by the creators of the respective addon/mission. He hold no rights on these pictures, hence he can't sell them. If I were him, I'd also not sell the email addresses used for forum registration. That said, everyone who is using his armaholic password somewhere else is better off to change it sometime soon. Needless to say that using the same password multiple times is... stupid. 😉

Well he asks for money for the 2 other armaholic domains, the website database and pictures. Not for the addons/missions hosted there. But he also won't give the addons/missions away so anyone else can host them. That's his very own problem though he might have to deal with. In my opinion, I wouldn't pay anything for the domains. The 'brand' Armaholic is burned since that 'Casino' took over the main domain.

I'd rather say, if Valve stops his activities we have a lot more problems than just the lost game content. 😂

As Jerry mentioned above, I was able to retrieve (almost) everything from Arma1. Except MPMissions and Weapons. And of course some files hosted external like on OFPEC are not covered. In total it's about 42 GB. No reply on my emails from him. And as sad as it is, I guess I give up. If he's not interested in talking, well it is as it is. It's just sad to see more than a century of good relationship and partnership is thrown away like this. Matter of fact is that Foxhound is around and - most probably - is reading this thread. Yet he's refusing to talk with the community nor at least giving us the possibility to retrieve the files. He however is fine with replying to externals. Talk with us Peter. Whatever happened, we - this community, your loyal visitors for years - are not your enemy nor responsible.

Checked only the pictures yet. Very well done. 👍 Yes, it's pretty easy to make an addon out of it. Just needs a config written. Hautautujaaa, could you please provide the faces a one .zip archive? Or store them somewhere at google drive, one drive or dropbox? Can't download the folders from mediafire without a premium account.

A bit late and only a wild guess as the config snippet looks good so far. Do you have smokeLauncherOnTurret=1; in your config? And if necessary, do you have memory points defined from where the smoke is launched from?

No reply here either. Sent two mails on both that joocoo.nl and his private gmail. Wayback machine is horribly slow, but without Jerry's approach, gathering all the information would be much, much more slower. And painful.

As Jerry mentioned above, he's crawling the wayback machine archive and creates an index of what files were hosted there. With that index available, everyone can check his local files if he has one of the missing addons/missions. Then provide them and they will be hosted on a new (or existing) website. No database needed, it just takes some time because wayback machine is not the fastest. Steam is all fine, but useless when it comes to OFP, Arma and Arma2 content.

Not much more than in all the years back. I'm pretty sure he had his reason for what he did. Yet it's unfair. I would have gladly driven the few kilometers to Holland and taken over the files. And had a beer or two with him. Anything would have been better than this stunt.

Of course he can do with his website whatever he wants. But: He knew very well that armaholic was hosting a lot of unique files which are long time gone elsewhere. If you want to call it like that: He was hosting the memories and history of Arma back to the Arma1 release. At the very least he could have mentioned that he has enough and will close the site in xx weeks. This way, everyone would have the chance to get what was important to him. Leaving us behind like this, with a 'slap in the face' for many of his loyal visitors is just not fair. That's not the Foxhound I knew for years. And it makes me sad to see that he obviously knows what's going on here but yet doesn't bother to talk to us.

Can't recall the name of the other guy, but he was gone many years ago already so I guess he wouldn't be any great help. Former staff member was BIG, last active long time ago. Most probably has no backup - if he ever had one. However, the website and forums are archived by the great Wayback machine. So at least what was posted in the forums is still there.

I sent him an email yesterday to that joocoo.nl address, he hasn't replied yet. Either doesn't bother anymore, or got more mails than expected. Have only little content stored locally, and only from Arma2. Maybe not even 1% of what was on armaholic. Who could have seen that drama coming. As Whirlybirds said, there's a hell lot of stuff gone forever probably. I really hope Fox gets back to us and hand over what he got. 😞

We have a Russian in our team, yes. That might explain it. 😂 The orange/white scheme we used because the other police cars are also in that scheme. And it was faster to only change one color scheme. "GM" should be replaced with Policie at some point, that's true and just on my list of stuff to do.

Propaganda Time! FIA getting stronger and stronger, they use every chance to get new hardware: Nogova Police Department have their good old CJ5 back: After years we finally were able to get rid of a very old and ugly model: A big thanks to all our contributors, without you this would be meh!

I sent him a message yesterday and I seriously hope he will get back to me. I would be really disappointed if he doesn't. As for 'sent enquiries and offers to...' He can't sell the content that was hosted on Armaholic, because he didn't made it. It's not his property. If he must end it like this, then at least give the addons and mission away so the community can continue somehow.

Yes, the immediate redirection to a gambling sounds indeed is a bit weird. I know Foxhound for many, many years and this doesn't look like him. But then, his hosting contract maybe just ran out today and the gambling honks have registered the domain ahead of this. Don't know, I hope that Fox will clarify this some time.

As of today, Armaholic is no more. 😑 https://twitter.com/Armaholic_com/status/1397545060527398915

I throw in an old script good guy Ghost once made. It's pretty easy to use and works most of the time. You need two empty helipads and a name for your helicopter: "helo1" is the name of the helicopter "pad1" is where the cargo unloads "pad2" is where the helicopter is flying to after (and then is deleted) // nul=[helo1,pad1,pad2] execVM "scripts\heloinsert.sqf"; _helo = _this select 0; _lz = getPos (_this select 1); _exfil = getPos (_this select 2); _helo doMove _lz; _helo setBehaviour "CARELESS"; _helo setCombatMode "STEALTH"; _helo disableAI "TARGET"; _helo disableAI "AUTOTARGET"; _helo disableAI "WEAPONAIM"; _helo disableAI "AUTOCOMBAT"; _helo setCaptive true; while {alive _helo} do { sleep 5; waitUntil {unitReady _helo}; _helo lock false; _helo land "get out"; waitUntil {getPos _helo select 2 < 1}; {unassignVehicle (_x); doGetOut _x} forEach units (crew _helo select 4); if (true) exitWith {}; }; sleep 10; _helo doMove _exfil; _helo enableAI "TARGET"; _helo enableAI "AUTOTARGET"; _helo enableAI "WEAPONAIM"; _helo enableAI "AUTOCOMBAT"; waitUntil {_helo distance _exfil < 150}; {deleteVehicle _x} forEach crew _helo; deleteVehicle _helo;

For the time being, we keep the old model. Not forever probably because it would be a shame not to use AlWarren's fine model. 🙂