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Well, looks like I sparked some decent discussion. Glad to see there was very little hate amongst peers. Admittedly I'm not very well versed in ARMA editing, so thank you to everyone for bringing up the different aspects of the rank structure built into the editor. If you can edit the displayed rank of a particular soldier, airman, marine, sailor, coast guardsman than that is all I'm really looking for. Antoineflemming brings up some very good points for an additional rank to add that extra layer of "management" within the editor. I'm sure a lot of these things could be accomplished via scripting, I was just hoping to have something hardcoded into the editor that provides more ways to manage your personnel and add an element of authenticity to an already mature and detailed game. It looks like all the nuts and bolts are there, so I need to get savvy with scripting and editing. Thanks guys.

Dear Bohemia Devs, Being former military, one thing about the OFP/Arma series has kind of irritated me over the years. I don't feel that there is enough granularity in the editor when choosing rank for personnel. We've gotten the ranks of Private, Corporal, Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain, Major, and Colonel for years now. What about the other ranks? I want to see E-1 through E-9, O-1 through O-10, and W-1 through W-5 ranks represented for all services including the U.S. Coast Guard. The E, O, and W designation aren't important, but let's get it right and represent all ranks by their specific service nomenclature. For example a U.S. Air Force E-4 is a Senior Airman or abbreviated SrA and a U.S. Navy E-6 is a Petty Officer First Class or abbreviated PO1. Let's get it right this time. While we're at it, let's get the ranks represented for the militaries of nations other than the U.S. I know this may sound very trite to some, but it's always irritated me when playing as a U.S. Air Force Combat Controller (mod of course) and the rank is set to Corporal for example. The series has always had a high degree of realism/authenticity - let's get it right. Hell, I'll even do all the research for you and draft it up and e-mail it to you. What does everyone else think?

Placebo, thanks for following up and I must say it's great to see you still in the community after all these years. I believe the problem did indeed have to do with my bank and the BI Store bank not agreeing on the purchase being legit. So yesterday, I re-purchased the Supporter Edition yesterday with my credit card this time and all seems to be fine now, for 24 hours at least. I'm still showing two purchases of the Supporter Edition in "My Games" on the BI Store though and the ARMA2 ACR DLC is missing from "My Games" on the BI Store now, but I've contacted Jan at the BI Store about that issue separately. So, the lesson learned here is perhaps don't use a debit card if you have a credit card as an option. I've seen a few various other posts about issues with debit cards as well......now it's time to start digging into the Alpha to make it the best release yet! ---------- Post added at 22:06 ---------- Previous post was at 22:03 ---------- Follow up, just checked the BI Store and the first Supporter Edition purchase is now gone, so looks like the Store crew is keeping things tidy. ---------- Post added at 23:28 ---------- Previous post was at 22:06 ---------- 2nd follow up, I received a notice from my credit card company that there was some suspected fraud on my account. Turns out it was the 2nd purchase I made for the Supporter Edition. Apparently my financial institutions aren't too keen on working with Czech banks. Oh well, better safe than sorry. Playing the Alpha now. Looks like this issue is finally resolved.

Still nothing from either Steam or BI....still can't figure out why the Alpha is gone from my Library.

Well, it looks like the "charge back" scenario may be to blame here as I checked my card transactions and there is no record of the transaction, even though I clearly received the key and receipt e-mail from the BI store. I can't explain why this transaction never showed on my card because on the 1st or March I purchased the ACR DLC from the BI store and there is a record of that transaction on my card. Also when I log into my BI Store account, the ARMA3 Supporter package is clearly there under "My Games". Perhaps it has to do with the fact I'm an American living in Germany, using an American Visa card, purchasing from a Czech website? Oddly enough BI has tagged my forum account as a legit "supporter" after purchasing the AMRA3 Supporter package. Wondering if my card company somehow blocked the transaction after BI Studio received payment, then somehow my card company revoked the payment.....ugh. Now to spend hours arguing with my card company.......will keep you updated on the results. ---------- Post added at 19:55 ---------- Previous post was at 19:54 ---------- Oh and still nothing from the Steam Support Ticket or BI Support Tickets I've opened, but they did say it could take up to 48 hours for a reply. ---------- Post added at 20:30 ---------- Previous post was at 19:55 ---------- Ok, well my card company says they can see where the transaction with BI Store was authorized and put in Pending status - meaning they had released the funds to BI Store, but then the transaction just disappears almost as if BI Store didn't complete the transaction. This is pretty damn bizarre, but maybe the BI Store billing system is having problems??? Has anyone else seen anything similar to this?

Yes, I have submitted a support ticket with Steam, just wondering if anyone else has had similar issues.

Copy of my Steam Support ticket: Ok, so I'm a little upset. I just purchased the ARMA3 Alpha Supporter package from bistudio.com. It runs fine for a couple days and I come home from work today to find that the game is nowhere to be found in my Steam Library. I also checked the Gifts in my account and they're gone as well - No ARMA X: Anniversary Edition and no ARMA: Cold War Assault. So I check the Steam help and of course I do the obvious, ensure my Library view is set to all games, try to launch the game from the install directory, and follow the help guidance to reinstall DirectX from the game install directory - all efforts failed. So then I get on the ARMA3 Group Chat in Steam and one of my fellow ARMA enthusiasts advised that another person in Germany had the same exact problem. I am located in Germany as well, so I'm a little confused why this could be. I'm an American living over here, so I fire up my VPN, connect to a U.S. server and log into steampowered.com, check my account details and still ARMA3 Alpha is completely missing - it's like I never purchased/installed ARMA3 Alpha, but the game files are clearly there in my Steam directory on my PC. Please help, I've been waiting ages for ARMA3 and I'd really like to get back in the game. I've restarted my PC and I've restarted Steam several times - still no luck. Could this problem have something to do with the fact that I am in Germany?