Morgan

What is that annoying circle thing on the right?

As I understand it it is a matter of invoking the garbage collection module within the game. Dunno if that will fix the lag that crops up but several players have mentioned they start to bog badly after 7 or 8 towns have been taken. So, may not be the 'big fix' but it sure couldnt hurt...

Im in.

Hehe... an orbiting spawn point would be uber kewl except I wonder if the game would see the mhq as being in transit and disallow teleporting...

Great to see you in the forums 6-4, always a pleasure to run with you in-game. Dont be a stranger round here, now, ya hear...

In previous GR squad play we would nominate people to fill the 'radioman' position. Squads Alpha Squadleader Radio* Rifle MG Sniper Bravo Squadleader Radio* Rifle MG Sniper Charlie Squadleader Radio* Rifle MG Sniper These 3 people would set up keybinds in TS to communicate with the other radio guys. Squadleaders would relay all comms/requests/orders thru the radio guy. This way only 3 people were tied into a specific role and squads could otherwise be very fluid role/personnel wise. It takes some getting used to.. but we found that this reflected battlefield conditions quite well.

Using an Add-on "face pack" wont work. Using a specific face installed individually without the need for an add=on does work.

The g36 in the Harntrox 4 mod had the most satisfying thump... ArmA2 has a decent version too...but nothing quite satisfied like the GR version.

Or install the Editor add-ons from armaholic that provide all of the arma 1 and 2 buildings, there are even full new maps available there as Ive previously covered with you Halo.

We had some issues last night... my game crashed/froze 6 times in less than 20 minutes. Crashes were rampant throughout the server population. Noticed that the same old problem with AI mysteriously populating the userlist (especially when they are sitting in the top Engineer Team leader slot) was back again, and again it made the server terribly flaky. I punted the AI out of the top slot and everything smoothed right out pretty much. Didnt crash again after that... this was a bug we encountered pretty early on, but I havent seen it since 1.03 came out. So, might be worth checking if the server seems to be getting flaky/touchy.

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Wow..u should just write a mod for Sparta.. call it *Spartination* and just set it to run the way everyone wants rather than trying to modify a buggy Dom mod....

Heheh.. yeah, sorry MH6 I guess we did kind of hijack the thread. Weve been focusing on adding this or that to the servers..more infantry, less air etc etc etc. The real solution to this dilemma is actually pretty simple... there is one step we can take which will nearly correct every issue raised by everyone in this thread. The real underlying issue is 30 players wind up with 20 sitting around doing very little once the uber stuff rolls out. Limit the server capacity to 15 players. We have two servers (US and UK)... we wont lose any players, the server load will lighten, the difference in ping is minimal really even on the UK server...some players will be slightly higher some will be lower. Smaller squads makes the game last longer, allows pilots to fly, infantry to infant, everyone gets to play their role and work together, and with smaller teams it will likely be necessary to double up on some duties and expand the players usefulness. Apologies again to MH6...

Yup..pilots have very little role other than transport in an infantry based game.

The good points for Sparta, in Domination is the ever-changing objectives and side missions... these update automatically and allow the sever to run without interference from a human bean. The game pretty much runs itself 24/7. The bad things for Sparta, in Domination, are the uber rewards, jets and attack choppers that take the ground troops out of the equation in latter parts of the game. So...ideally, if we are going to play a game that provides rewards for effort without unduly destroying the balance of Spartas game (ie, heavily infantry based), then we need to take a serious look at the reward tables and make some adjustments that reward infantry and make it easier to be infantry. Adjust the possibility of a tank reward to extremely small... the occasional tank is a nice change. Nuke the jets, nuke the choppers, ramp up hummers loaded with TOW's and anti-aircraft stuff that infantry dont usually have. Crank up the AA personnel carriers... what we are looking for is to be rewarded with support vehicles for the infantry effort. The tank should be the ultimate reward and happen very, very infrequently. Now, that said, we should also add one or two tanks to the motorpool that spawns at the base. Players will learn to look after them pretty quickly or learn to live without them... Thats going to create the game that Halli and others pine for.

No, not a single person on the servers is saying its wrong, but most of the people discussing it here in this thread are. Domination is about starting with crap, working together to get not-so-crap, and finally ruling the day with non-crap. If you take out the rewards, then you take out the very foundation of the game mode. Rewards are the key for the entire mode, otherwise it is just a simple infantry game where we run in, kill the town, rinse and repeat. Im all for the infantry game, but thats not Domination.

So... the underlying sentiment Im hearing from this discussion is: "Domination is wrong for Sparta" Take out air, take out armor, take out teleports... which is fine, but thats what Dom is. Bottomline, judging from what im reading here... it is time to look at a different game mode.

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=84832

Hi sleepy... if there is enuff interest I can run training sessions any weekend. I will keep an eye out for you if we get another one going soon.

Hot da-yum! Im all over this...!

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Except that when choosing missions no one can see the full name... so we wont know which version has the fix. Better to put the Revive SM Fix at the beginning of the filename.

Hey MH... just wanted to add my own thanks for the work you are doing...you've been a great asset to our Dom team, and Im glad you found us...

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