nannal

Thank you.

aside from straight up zipping up my ARMA2OA folder and uploading it to the box is there any other way to get the files needed for the server onto my box? for example can I point wget somewhere and get them, or are there only a few critical files that I can upload (3GB was a 24 hour upload so cutting the 10gb uncompressed upload down would be nice) I'd love to get an OA server up but the hinderence is that upload.

okay, lets bash this out firstly, I understand you've probably answered these questions before so I'm totally ready to accept copy/paste answers but my situation is thus I bought ARMA2 on steam, all was good and well, then OA came out and having the cash on me and having seen it in-store I bought it retail, now firstly can I somehow have combined operations on my steam games list (and does that count towards having OA on steam) and secondly can I buy BAF and PMC through steam and have them work with my retail copy/Combined operations my issues are concerning "Requires the base game ARMA II: Operation Arrowhead on Steam in order to play." on the DLC pages on the steam store, if the answer is "no" to everything, does that lead me to shift to sprocket or another digital distributor and finally what is goddamn special about the steam versions that they can be broken with a standard patch, or the steam versions of the DLCs that crave OA steam so much they refuse to work without it? also as to why I didn't read the entire thread, none of the information I need was found within the first post (that's where I look first) nor did I notice anything important as I skim read the next few pages, I decided that considering the posts were chronological I would try and find the section that delt with OA coming out and having not found it among the 1800 posts (20 per page/ 90 pages) I would simply ask the question thereby decreasing the total time wasted from hours to mere minutes although admittedly sharing the load with someone else.