Sniper_Hog

I'm also experiencing this issue and would appreciate any assistance you can give, When people try to connect to the server they get 'Connecting Failed' Any solutions? Please.

My comments are dumb (although were not intent on starting flame war or whatever), I can accept that upon reflection. But it does encase my frustration they weren't intelligent or thought through and really not intended to be just me angry because I have alot of hopes and passion for the game. I can respect the difficulties the dev's face and that with their limited resources and legal issues. And although i stand by my distaste for the handling of PR regardless of the legal situation they clearly do care about Arma 3 and have alot of themselves invested in it Obviously I should've kept those comments to myself - Sorry.

I'd like to respond to you with 2 things, Firstly if you are calling me an idiot then surely you must think that BIS have handled this in an appropriate fashion correct? I don't care so much that the game has been delayed for like a year! its the fact that they have been so inconsiderate of the people they have left wanting by the decision to prolong the developement that gets me. I am not a game developer, And thus i can't judge or make comment on the well-developed itself or insinuate in any shape that the effort these people have put in is sub-par. However im aware of the very basics of customer relations and i can tell you that they have attempted to jump the hurdle and landed face first 5m before it..... Its been pretty appalling and with the goal to for any dev with an upcoming game (Their mindset late 2011 early 2012 :P) to be to get people as excited as possible, the only customer relations aspect they have managed (rather the game manages on its own) WOULD INEVITABLY leave one bitterly disappointed when something they have followed closely for so long is faced with delay upon delay. This is the basis of my comments however misguided and childish they may be, And although far to harsh I accept this, are relatively fair. Anyway thats the way I feel label it as you wish. ---------- Post added at 09:07 ---------- Previous post was at 09:03 ---------- Also I feel a response to that is appropriate also, Not really.... Much.. Although my comments were clearly exadgerated and out of frustration rather then an attempt to provide legitimate constructive criticism, You can reffer to my previous response to understand that if they want to hype their game up and get people excited, it should be expected that a large number of people are going to be biterly disappointed when the release is delayed WITHOUT WORD, for month upon month upon month. Also I don't care about (other games) im sure if you do enough wikipedia searching you can find some game that took 10 years to release, And im betting it was a ____ game that few cared about. And I didn't ask for responses. That was not my intention, my intention was to express my genuine frustration with the way they have handled their fanbase. IMO ---------- Post added at 09:10 ---------- Previous post was at 09:07 ---------- Sorry for spamming the thread with responses perhaps I should've tied them all in one, but Professionalism?? of what? Gaming? And the fact that you would immediately draw a comparison to COD and BF3 says something. Ofwhich there is nothing wrong with, not everyone is interested in spending 30mins just getting to the AO, although I do. Some people are casual gamers who have time restrictions and want to maximise their action per minute. (Not trying to start anything with that :) ]

Screw. That. I've been left hanging with no F*ck*ng information from them for so long that they don't deserve positive feedback... The original update on New years was that the Alpha could be expected to be out by no later then mid january, Then they updated their thread... Then they come out saying (Maybe this was even before then!) that there approach is that they don't want to come out saying they'll meet a deadline and not do it (WHICH THEY DID SO MANY DAM TIMES AND CONTINUE TO DO) and now its late feb and no news worth reading since E3, I've been following the development of this game since 2011 and never did I think i would be left so disappointed in the entire team and the way they have handled this its truly a shock. I have had to give up my positive thoughts and hopes for this game because i may well be 89 before I hear when the ALPHA IS RELEASED. So for all the days i've checked the arma3 site repetitively praying for news I say F U!

Says the guy with 5,150 posts??? Haha

The entire site of Arma3.com is now unavailable and you are presented with a message "Intel Redacted, Check back soon" Any ideas what might be coming here? Release of alpha in a few days. Any kind of information at this point would be great considering their original SITREP from december had stated some time in early january for the release of alpha again no fruition on that claim.

Yes, I understand what your saying completely. Are there enough quality Arma clans in australia to make something like that viable? Can't just be the same 3 clans competing or something like that :) As im an Aussie I would be as much interested in that.

Are people sure he is necessarily referring to the zooming aspect, OP you should clarify.

Nothing is stoping me but by making this thread im gauging peoples interest, Im not going to invest the time to create something that large and find out no one gives a crap :) And i'm not sure I agree entirely as the fact its not happening doesn't necessarily mean people don't care, Just means they haven't been introduced to the idea in a well thought out way. Or maybe they just don't care :) Better yet do you care?

I was also thinking pride orientated as much as prize orientated, As special forces elements have a fierce level of competition between other international elements, It would be something special to have a level of competition between clans to be the best. With each striving to have the best riflemen, Best air support, Best sniper team etc. And have various missions and PvP challenges and scenarios that test a wide range of the clans abilities and if the team is well diversified and skilled in multiple areas there success will be far greater then the team that is purely xyz, Although the team that is purely xyz will still have bragging rights over its own success in that field. And then into this mix of pride based combat large competitions are created with various events with prize incentives which should bring out the best and have them work as hard as they can for the extra incentive, But i think it's unrealisitic that a competitive scene ranging more then a few clans could be sustained on prize based competition due to the lack of resources to consistently fund such an enterprise as companies who will donate items will not do so every thursday, Needs to be Pride orientated with monthly prize based fighting and maybe your rankings amongst the clans will qualify you for different tiers of competition which the size of the prizes will vary accordingly with the highest ranked pool of clans fighting for the best gear like Gpus, High end gaming equip. However the lower level clans and players will still be pooled and can compete for prizes amongst similarly ranked clans and each division will have an overall winner. Anyway this is all just being spat out sporadically as i think it because I feel if something like this could be sparked it could self sustain and encourage a level of competition that would encourage everyone to better their own skill set and thus enjoyment. Any thoughts on this? Any responses are appreciated. Am I being ridiculous with fantastic ideas that can never materialize? If so why?

Loads of views but very few replies? No one else wants to contribute to this discussion with some thoughts? Would be great to hear from any of you?

Let me be more specific as to what I had in mind just wanted to gauge how people would react if there was something flawed in my original approach Im certainly not talking about who does it the fastest, I think that comprimises the realism and can deteriorate the gameplay experience if its just a sprint through. But what im suggesting is a leaderboard type system (Not nescesarily but one possible competitive system) Which encourages teams to hone their skills and teamwork and have missions created with alot of optional objectives that increase the difficulty and clans are ranked on how they performed the mission, what objectives they undertook and how successfull they were in carrying out those objectives. Or something similar that can spark some not child like competition but a level of wanting to as i said hone down your skills and work even more efficiently to compare against others. Certainly tournaments and what not in the future would be a great idea but just to start off some form of event or something where there are multiple missions and you can select the mission you want to attempt, Take that on and record your results along with proof via some form of recording from one or more of your members. Then this is uploaded to that missions top ranking charts or something and once verified positions your group accordingly. Then this goes across various missions and what not and is not nescesarily prize orientated but just for bragging rights and in the interest of doing this as effectively and precisely as possible having to employ all manner of skills to have a perfect run. Im an aussie so as soon as I get my new comp and Arma 3 comes out ill be right there with you guys, but just see potential for there to be an exciting broadly engaged in competitive community that can be international and not that we have to commune together but just all come to the one place to prove ourselves and have a bit of fun. Then maybe if that matures into something bigger and people enjoy it there can be better thought out versions and competitions which are prize oriented including cash prizes or possibly sponsor gear? Anyway this may not even be of interest to many playing but its something that makes me excited to envision how that would work and if there were people enthusiastic about atleast the idea of this then certainly with Arma 3 coming out there is potential for this to be explored. Thanks,

This is nothing sensational and likely misguided but im wondering what the feel is amongst clans with competitive events, Not saying necessarily tournaments but I mean standard missions that have different objectives maybe some optional but if taken on increase the overall difficulty of the mission and these things can be compared and challenged from clan to clan? Just wondering if there is much of this sort of competition present in the Arma 2 community and likely to be present in Arma 3, and if not why not. Again im not highly experienced in Arma and if this comes across as stupid I apologise.