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I will be allowing sound modifications to work on the mission soon. JSRS 1.4 or 1.5 along with CBA, CBA_A2, and CBA_OA will soon be implemented. Thanks, Cheesecake, for the feedback!

At Team DA, we would like your feedback about our new life mission as it is in its BETA form. It is Combined Ops and under public testing. In 2010, we hosted one of the original zargabad life missions for all to play. Now we are back with a revised mission and over 20 reasons to CHECK IT OUT! Filters: [occ, occupation, beta, takistan, life] or filter team mission in drop down menu and search for Takistan Occupation Life Beta. Why play this NEW mission? 1) New Merit System A system of checks and balances and goal oriented game-play! 2) Reduced Administrator headaches for players Death-matching made obsolete as the Merit System handles deviant players who kill other players! 3) Multi-functional weapons that use both stun and lethal ammo interchangeably. Go lethal or non-lethal with the same weapon! 4) Different Map layout The Takistan map has a different layout of objects compared to other missions running Takistan Life scripts! Enjoy three major cities of interaction! 5) Occupation Concept Introducing roleplay in a life where the nation is under occupation! 6) Five Factions Introducing new Factions that follow their own laws! -Civilians (Cops and Citizens) -Opfor (Rebels) -Blufor (NATO Occupation Force) -Independent (UN Occupation Force) 7) Zones of Control / Dominance Battle over zones of control and utilize your AI (Operatives or Bodyguards) to increase your income! 8) Massive array of weapons, vehicles, and items Enjoy place-able static weapons, New vehicles such as the A-10, Tusk, or Apache Longbow and new items for roleplay! 9) POW Camps Coming soon and still under development! 10) Enhanced Hunting, Fishing, and illegal cattle poaching Earn an income hunting with a permit, poaching cattle illegally, or fishing with a permit! 11) New licenses and Permits Fish or hunt with a permit or buy a drivers license in any of the three major cities or use your jihad training to purchase a T-90! 12) NEW service and repair points for vehicles Buy ammo for your A-10 or Abrams Tank at a arming point or repair your vehicle at a service point! The money is drawn directly from your bank account! 13) Buy AI to protect you in the Occupation life Purchase Operatives as UN or pilots as NATO or even bodyguards as a citizen! They kill enemy faction players and AI on the spot! 14) New Side Missions Enjoy side missions to increase your money and merit! (NEW Missions being added and developed while in Beta so give us your feedback!) 15) New Revised Money System Paychecks look like real paychecks and carry-capacity limits reduce your stress when your robbed! You cannot carry more than 100K so use your vehicles! 16) Illegal Human Trafficking Slaves? Not anymore... welcome to human trafficking! 17) Complete Mission Story-line Takistan Occupation Life (TOL) has a story included... read it in the map tabs and choose your role in the life of occupation! 18) New Map Legend Tired of Life missions with markers all over the map? TOL has a new map legend to ease the strain on your eyes! Learn the icons!!! 19) Improved Server rules and Takistan Laws Server rules reduced so players can enjoy the mission! New Takistan Laws provide the standard for player interactions... easy to read in the map tabs! 20) Ticketing Guidelines Don't know how much to ticket someone for speeding or for repeat offenses? Check out the map tabs for a quick reference on fines and prison times! 21) Gang and Gang Area Enhancements Buy an armed truck or place-able house at gang areas you own! Access golden AKs and Revolvers and fight for control over your gang area! 22) New Place-able Objects Whether its a Tower, a house, or a static weapon... dominate Takistan with what you need to survive! MUCH, MORE COMING SOON in this NEW Combined Ops Life Mission with NO MODS to download! Give us your feedback on our server or visit us: Teamda.enjin.com nyc01.mainvoice.net:7038 We hope you enjoy this open mission and feel free to host it on your own server after a little customization!

This seems to be a simplified version of the grep tools that can be used with Windows or Linux servers. With the tool, you are able to identify "who" is giving a command. I would call this an Arma version of grep which is a move in the right direction. We have been using grep tools in our life mission servers for a very long time. We catch hackers in a matter of a few seconds. The greatest challenge is knowing the search criteria. For example, its easy to catch someone who spawns a tank in the mission when the mission does not even come with tanks... you just grep M1A1. Other cheats are more complicated to find unless you know exactly what script commands to search. I recommend EVERYONE use grep tools on their servers combined with this new tool. Not a bad combo. Now, if we can just stop the DDOS kiddies a lil quicker =). They are the worst.

Yea, send me a letter from a lawyer because that is garbage, man. You cannot claim code in an A2 mission as intellectual property. The code is written in A2 language which is shared. Give me a break. I hear that threat ALL the time! Like I said, I have a script/s that you claim supposed ownership... sue me. The feedback you give me is getting more and more ignorant as I read your reply. Besides, I do not live in Germany nor are my servers in Germany so it really doesn't matter. Go privatize your scripts... they will still find their way out and will be used... as long as they work properly. Regardless, speaking with you is a waste of time and energy. Good day, sir.

I will take any script that works, use it if I like it, and give credit if I can for ethics sake. In the end, it makes little difference because making something work, regarding scripts, can only be done so many ways. It is foolish to try and reinvent the wheel. I am glad others took the time to write something for 2 reasons: 1. It saves me time. 2. With awe, I learn from their work. Only the developers of the game can claim ownership and your written code in a script is nothing more than an idea transformed through a vehicle that bohemia interactive provided for EVERYONE... not just you...regardless of the value you place on your time spent scripting. YOU will never have COPYRIGHT to YOUR alignment of commands, codes, functions, or ANYTHING you "think" you devised. This is the hard truth that you fail to recognize, Mr. TeeTime. You only privatize scripts for financial enhancement... to make money.... and you do it on BI's genius. I am developing a life mission with scripts of old and I am commenting most of it to give meaning to the code so OTHERS CAN LEARN FROM MY EFFORTS and how server admins can customize it to their liking or to represent, through branding, their own organization. I can only say to you that you have the wrong attitude about the things you claim to write. You contribute NOTHING but a server and a mission because you care NOTHING about others who just want to play the game and be creative on their own level. You attempt to monopolize player preference towards servers and actually, in my opinion, are a threat to BI's existence regarding the influence towards server hosting of BI games. I have the scripts you "claim" to have written. It means nothing because in the end... a good server and its administration requires competition... the little guy whom I recognize and assist when possible, and it takes a helluvah lot more to make a great mission than just lines of code, sir! It is unfortunate that many who have become experienced with scripting arma missions have fallen by the wayside with the same inferior attitude you seem to carry. It is only in your own best interest to privatize a script... and will never be in the interest of the community. The code you use is Arma code, not TeeTime code, and uses parameters developed and defined by BI. Once again... it must be donation money as sneak mentioned that motivates such activity. Well, we ask donations on our servers but we pay for our own servers by our own means... like the passionate gamers we are so I am not restricted or hindered by donation requirements. Our financial contributions come from our members 1st... the players last. So I will share everything freely. You say you are sick of what you have dealt with regarding credit for scripts but I will not reply to this as others here already responded with wisdom regarding "credit" for work. I am sick of individuals who carry a destructive mentality as you have regarding this topic. I have already spent 4 and a half months on a mission and not for a second am I concerned about others breaking open my PBO and taking credit. This is because others will simply say "Nice job Trade.. thanks for making something fun". I strongly urge you to return to your original passion regarding mission development and focus your efforts on making something fun. Enjoy that others enjoy your contributions. Then, realize it was never about "control" or "money"... just laughs, friends, and great ideas brought to creation. In the end, you do not control what you think you do because you operate in the back of BI's coyota 4x4. Since I understand this and accept it... it is easy for me to give freely... because it can easily be taken away. Server sided scripts and the privatization of scripts is completely selfish and ill willed. Now, can I have a banana?

This will get you most of the way through. These videos by keefygeorge01 saved me hours and I was doing things I never did before in seconds. I feel these videos are THE BEST place to start learning camera scripting. http://www.youtube.com/user/keefygeorge01#p/c/0/ipCJ_lL2LVo

So is it possible to make an item that is in the game already, such as a object(furniture), to be picked up through the action menu/mouse scroll but when it is picked up, it is transformed into a gear item of my choosing... maybe a strobe marker or red smoke flare? Upon transforming it into a gear item, can I change its name within the gear menu? What would a script look like to accomplish this? Thanks

We ran a server on the free side and it was retarded. Our ban list grew, and grew, and grew, and then we realized... what a waste of time and resources. I will never play vanilla again because of this. I hope A3 has a more effective means of countering all the idiocy but I am sure it wont because of the nature of Arma.... its customizable. This opens the door for all of the lil kids with mental issues. Then again, we can just privatize our servers, hehehe. FUN

Hmm, Our servers have died down.... I THINK WE BANNED EVERYONE!!!! Lol, for real though... I have battled hackers for months especially because of life missions... they just draw that sort of crowd. However, you will find that once your ban list reaches over 200 plus players... you start to wonder how many people actually play the game anymore. Im almost led to believe that the majority likes to cheat in some way shape or form. ... but we will keep banning.

We enable voting on our CTI server but not our other servers. We disable it. Admin Voting is usually enabled in case an actual server administrator is not available to take care of things or adjust parameters.

Its not us. You need an advanced scriptor to create server side anti-hack files until the new BE update that will hopefully fix things. Otherwise, play in your server, catch him red-handed like we do, and 3 way ban his ass =). However, I do agree... it IS a community problem. I DISAGREE with your title of this post. How about a title like this: WTF My server hacked? Stop bringing my organization up just because some script kiddie said they were from teamdeadly and showed you a penis! How about search the forums and READ previous posts first. I hate wasting my time here. ---------- Post added at 03:18 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:27 AM ---------- Actually, Im sorry if I came off rude and disrespectful. I spend much time trying to do whats right and lead by example. Its tough for me to come on here and post about something and I do it when I feel I have to defend our name. So, sorry. I suppose I am just human and I carry the burden of many players on my shoulders. We are really close at Team DA and when I catch wind of evil or mischievousness then I tend to walk to the front of the battle line that I may lead my people into conflict under a banner of justice and , well, in this case... fairness. I hope I didnt come off too rude or harsh concerning the subject at hand.

I am not confused. This is an open forum and its a response to someone in an open forum in correlation to my organization. It is my stance against hackers on our servers and on the servers of other gamers who just want to run a fair game. Also, its not my community... its the Arma community which includes YOU with all due respect. =) The term "harm" is very general, however, Im not the least bit concerned.

Hi Matt, I am Trademark, Clan Commander of Team DA @ teamdeadly.com. I would like to reassure you that Team DA does NOT participate in actively hacking public servers for the Arma 2 community. I would like this post to also be a "shout out" to the rest of the Arma 2 community that wishes to run a fair and ethical gaming server. We, at Team DA, have a code of ethics that is open for all to read at our website under our "Rules and Regulations" link on the left hand side of our home page. It is open to the public. Team DA has existed for 7 years in multiple 1st person shooters as well as other games on all ends of the spectrum. It is NOT in our best interests to be actively involved in shady endeavors on the internet. I do not support it nor do I promote it and most of all, I do not tolerate it from ANY of my members. What I CAN offer to the community as a gesture of our good will and for the purpose of positive posture to reinforce my statements here to you and the rest of the Arma community is free access to our ban lists that we run currently on 5 of our servers... soon to be 13 servers. We will provide ANY clan leader, community leader, or server administrator with these ban lists upon requests. Just come visit us on our website or ventrilo and make your request. Lastly, please... everyone in the community, be aware that many players who hack wish to visit random populated servers and hack and redirect the blame towards whoever they please by stating that they are from a particular organization. Do not fall for a wild goose chase. We admin one of the most popular servers in Arma 2 right now and we have seen it all and we are still running one of the most hack attempted servers in the history of Arma 2. Our experience with hack attacks places us on the forefront of anti-hack scripting or software. We are in the business of online entertainment and no where in this concept does the self serving activities of a hacker fit in. We deal with it hourly and take pride in our success and we learn from our failures... and we learn even more from each hack attack. I hope all the community finds closure in my statement here and realizes we are team players and have selfless attitudes. If anyone needs assistance with concepts within our realm of experience, we are glad to help. I wish you the best on your endeavors! Trademark

I went to play multiplayer and saw 0 servers using Operation Arrowhead alone. All of the servers you had to have British expansion pack as well. I was looking under CTI(capture the island). Whats up with that? Did I do something wrong by chance or am I really seeing no one play OA alone? thanks

Dont throw grenades? =)