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  1. Posted

    Mike,

    Thanks for the reply, I do hope this is true. However, Tonic also has asked you to remove his work; removing content 'in and when' it suits you still doesn't seem to rectify the situation.

    If you could also stop referring to people as 'forum warriors'; you've claimed to be conversing in a mature manner, however this is a direct contradiction, and is starting to give me deja-vu.

    AMatt,

    I totally see your point and that I am unable to get them to budge on until the new framework is ready. I ensure you that I am pushing heavily to get off the Altis Framework so that this can be resolved. Fair enough on the comments as well.

    Thanks,

    Mike

  2. Posted

    We sent hackers to your servers to get the server files? I think not - https://github.com/TAWTonic/Altis-Life

    You have over $30k in the bank from your commercial acts which will most likely be a merry christmas for you but not for RobertHammer and the other innocent modders that you have stolen content from and monetized it.

    LOL. A Merry Christmas for me - that's a joke as I have no access to Caiden and Zannaza's accounts. As to the hackers, those individuals know exactly who I am talking about and if you feel that you were singled out then most likely you had a part in the hacking attacks which by the way is more illegal to hack into servers hosted by a commercial entity. So

  3. Posted

    This seems incredibly incriminating! You basically say we're going to rip off the other games for our Bohemia "mod", but then you try to say that the A3L files are proprietary, and legally yours!

    Here's what I think is going to happen to this "Life" mod, just has it has happened to every other mod based on Tonic's framework; People will be using your files, people will be hosting your models, and I guess scripts but honestly when I looked at your mission, and server files I couldn't really see any new scripts written by A3L...like ZERO SCRIPTING. Lystic has some neat stuff in there, and of course Tonic's work, but I didn't see anything that was written by A3L. Anyway, what is going to happen is people are going to run A3L in parts, or maybe even in it's entirety. The burden will be on A3L...just as it is for every community... to admin, and maintain the server in such a way that it remains populated. Other than that you don't have any leg to stand on. Sorry guys, but you haven't "created" anything, and people are going to run it. Just make sure you run it best!

    Do you really think I care if other communities tries to run a community off the server files. All you have accomplished by having your hacker friends take our server files and release is now hundreds of smaller Life Servers filling their pockets for personal gains. At least the funds we generate goes back into our community. So all you have done is made this situation worse because at least in our case were not profiting for personal gain. So who is really the one hurting? The hundred of other servers that are now using Robert Hammers and everyone's mods in the same but possibly worse way of monetizing their servers.

    So you tell me, has your work actually accomplished anything or made it worse? The burden isn't with us but you forum warriors that are against change in the Arma community because others are turning into life mods in which Bohemia knows draws more attention for new player base to purchase Arma 3 from them. However in our situation that we used without permission for someones lack of fully knowing about licenses and built off of because of what everyone else has done it so why not them.

    So you can point fingers, kick tires and blah blah but at the end of the day nothing is accomplished. So what we can do is move forward by removing the current shit we've have and move to our own framework that has our full custom work and addons that has permissions to use.

  4. Posted

    ok Mike try this for size...

    can you explain why you demanded $150+ from your community members to port in cars stolen from other games and you even gave them links to a russian pirate site to go shopping for the models.

    http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t247/eggbeast/vecdonor_zpseae219d4.png

    explain that?

    Eggbeast,

    If you cared to actually read the thread that was to pay for a freelancer to use those example vehicles listed there not use those exact websites. But nice try and by the way that has been removed a while ago when advised to remove it.

  7. Posted

    Steven,

    It shows nothing but what was originally in the beginning files. Nothing has been changed or modified since the beginning. This is a configuration file not the make of the actual vehicle is what you don't get so move on dude as it proves nothing. You say its stolen and I am saying our mod dev worked with BlueVein on a configuration or used his configuration at that has never been denied. Doesn't mean we would label it CL3 instead of A3L because of a config file.

    Do you have anything else to grip about or can we move on or you can continue to bump the forum thread.

  8. Posted

    Okay, let me explain this to you plainly so you can understand.

    A3L has taken a file from another mod author and go inside the configuration file and renamed all the CL3 lines to say A3L, missing a few of course. They have also renamed the original file to contain the A3L_ prefix which in the disclaimer says "is strictly forbidden to be used in any other game server (no matter what game) unless this server is hosted by arma3-life.com itself." This is stating that you own the content and do not want it used elsewhere.

    Do I need to explain it more plainly?

    And I am telling you that you are full of crap that any of our staff went and edited configuration files to remove CL3 lines. There is only 1 vehicle in question here and the modeler swears up and down that BlueVein assisted him in the work and I believe him. So unless you have proof that line items have been changed, then show that proof or otherwise your grasping or falsely accusing us of doing something that we have not done. Do you clearly understand that?

  10. Posted

    mbaxter,

    You enter here, galloping around as if your actually pleased with the results. Do you truly believe that the A3L group is in good standing with the Arma community?

    When I first started this thread I did a quick search to see if anything related came up. Were a few threads, spread across multiple websites but nothing that received much attention. What happens if this thread didn't receive this amount of attention. I suppose we would have just relied on the good nature of the A3L staff.

    Takus,

    You might call it galloping but in the real world I call it being a grown up by taking a situation that someone else made and trying to fix it. You can call it how it is as I don't have to answer to the Arma community but reply and update what is taking place to give a courtesy that what you all have stated has been heard and the owners of Arma 3 Life is indeed working on resolving.

    You can continue to trash talk and blah blah all you want but at the end of the day, we stated that we will remove the requested mods in due time and that is exactly what we will do.

    So have a great day sir.

    ---------- Post added at 16:13 ---------- Previous post was at 16:12 ----------

    Okay so all the addons that you renamed to begin with A3L_ have been said to be made and owned by A3L itself. You have renamed CL3 content to being with A3L to claim it as your own.

    And where is your proof that has been done sir? Another wild accusation without proof I see.

  12. Posted

    Removed? Or simply renamed like a certain car was from CL3.

    StevenW129,

    I'm sure the moderators told individuals to stop making false statements unless you have proof. But I appreciate the forum bump to help keep the community updated that we are making an attempt to correct our wrong doing and requests to remove individuals mods from our community.

    ---------- Post added at 14:04 ---------- Previous post was at 14:02 ----------

    Mr Baxter

    Will your team be giving any proof said content has been properly and fully removed?

    A. Cyprus,

    Sure be more than glad to show you that the mods have been removed. Regarding the weapons, we imported our replacement weapons from Arma 2 and not using anyone else's weapon packs.

  15. Posted

    The way you fix the issues and act honorably is to remove the stolen content immediately, right now, today. This "working toward" nonsense that you guys keep repeating is offensive.

    Yes and if I had fully control over things I would be doing that so thanks for the lecture of how to do things right.

  16. Posted

    My views entirely. He never seems to comment or respond to issues raised, rather, just try to redirect the blame/controversy to other communities.

    The fact he is still part of the A3L team suggests he views the situation in the same way as other members of their community such as Caiden.

    I don't think his word is to be trusted the next time he tries to act as a mediator.

    AMatt,

    Thanks for your comment and instead of playing forum wars I am more simply going to show through mine/our actions that were working towards reverting the issues I have mentioned we will be fixing. You can sit and post all you want but at the end of the day, you have your view and I have mine. I feel as if I can instead of quitting the project but fix the issue and ultimately save a little face as A3L does have a large community to continue building for and I've made many friends here that I will continue to strive for and provide content for them by utilizing the correct means of obtaining items, mods and etc the correct way than previous methods used.

    So until Matt or another member of Bohemia says were in violation of their EULA then I need to not worry about commenting. As for the mods that we are using, they are almost ready to be removed except for Tonic's Altis Life which is more pushing towards end December on the new framework.

    - Mike

  20. Posted

    No official permission, we just quote the license to them. They take that as permission to violate the license is not obtaining permission. They did credit us though, you know, as in "CSE added" in the changelog, so there's that.

    Janus,

    I do apologize that you might not have got the notification of our approval for utilizing CSE but we spoke directly with Cage. Please speak with him directly if you have any further issues.

    Thanks

    Mike Baxter

    P.S. As stated moving forward I will absolutely be making sure things we utilize will be given permission to utilize.

  22. Posted

    thanks i removed the image hoster.

    anyway, im confused. one says that .net is theyr other website, other says that someone fake A3L website but there are certain things i dont understand:

    when someone fake the website of A3L, where are the donations from the fake website going ? the .net site has a donation system too and people donated there.

    Havatan19,

    I can help you with this as the arma3-life.net is definitely not associated with Arma 3 Life. However if you look very closely that the person behind the website is Goatboy which last I looked was a forum administrator for Tonic on Altisliferpg.com so I am sure they are sharing the donations they are making.

  23. Posted

    Arma Pilot,

    Not sure why your high five one another as the image you just took was from a graphic designer not a modeler for us. If he wants to try and learn to model then that's fine, doesn't in any way show that we imported cars from forza. Liam is definitely not a modeler for A3L .

  24. Posted

    @mbaxter Great to see your answering questions in a mature manner. I would like to ask you - as you speak on behalf of A3L, if you are or A3L as a whole are aware that some models A3L are using are taken from other games for example this post that brought it to everyone's attention that the bus model being used was from Crysis 2. I'm sure it was mentioned also that there were some assets being used from the racing game Froza as well.

    Hi Deltagamer,

    I will ask our modelling team where they came from this evening when I get home but from my understanding they have been using vehicles and editing/importing their own versions of original items.

    I also noticed earlier before posting a comment made regarding taken vehicles from City Life regarding a volvo. That was a vehicle that had help from bluevein by one of our modellers and was not an actual vehicle they use directly. So there has been no stolen vehicles from other communities that I am aware of.

    ---------- Post added at 19:21 ---------- Previous post was at 19:15 ----------

    This is going to be the last time that I say this as I have said it to many times over the past 3 months, remove my work entirely and we are fine and I would also suggest that if you want to stay in 'good standing' with the community then you should uphold the original authors right and requests of their content being removed as well. We do not care that you are in 'good standing' with BI's EULA and are no longer using the content in a commercial way because the cold hard fact is the damage has already been done and we as content creators do not want our work associated with A3L period and no I will not discuss this 'privately' with Caiden because I knew from a year ago what type of person he was and everyone has seen his actions in this very thread so I have no interest what so ever of 'working it out' with him or speaking to ANY of the A3L members outside of the public view. I have voiced where I stand on this far to many times so there is no working it out, I want my work removed period and so do other authors.

    Tonic,

    Thanks and do understand your point. I am working to get off of being on Altis Life onto our own framework that isn't based on any framework of your own coding whatsoever. As to the others requesting their mod items removed - will deal with them individually.

  25. Posted · Edited by mbaxter
    edited last portion of reply as some got left off from copy/paste

    Pardon me for reposting, I fear my question may have been lost in the flurry.

    In that case, would the A3L team see it as the decent thing to make these members fully aware of the situation and prompt that they claim back the donations themselves?

    The A3L team could inform them that donations were accepted in violation of the eula and should never have been accepted in the first place. Hence they have the right to the refund.

    That would be a good step forward.

    Thanks for continuing to reply.

    Acyprus,

    That will not be done as I can see as A3L were not instructed that is something that needed to be done by Bohemia themselves when we talked to them. I am sure that it would satisfy your needs to get everyone to get refunded but no one was ever forced to donate as there has always been other ways to get accepted into the mod and that has always been clear to access closed beta no matter how you look at it. It was against their EULA but not as it was done on purpose as every other mod out there does the same to get donations to run the mod and was doing as others. So blame us for being like other communities but don't hold our feet to the fire when others continue to profit in such manner. I guarantee you were probably one the first to remove the donation system to not include ingame perks so instead of harping on this topic - please direct your inquires to other communities that are still abusing this EULA violations.

    There needs not be any more comments on my part on this subject of donations and refunds but will pass on the recommendation from the community here on the forums to A3L Team.

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