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How are you finding it for your diy projects? Have you done anything for your multicopters? I'm interested in getting a printer. I'm likely going to end up heading up my department's sUAS projects. I figure since we're in the process of applying for a COA, I just got my 107 cert and am putting together a training course for some of our senior officers, and am working on our waiver applications, I might as well consider embracing an sUAS sidehustle, even if just for enjoyment. A 3d printer would obviously be a great tool and I've wanted to delve into it for a while. Don't know anyone personally in the RVA region who has one. I'd love to hear your thoughts, especially on autocad and the process you are using to create custom 3d objects and how accessible that has been. Did you have prior autocad experience?

I like Arma 3 a lot. The lack of interest here has been a bit disheartening, but then again it has been quite a while since LOS was active with Arma. I'm looking for an active server or group since I really miss the old days. If you're looking to get back into it I'll let you know if I find anything of interest.

I've been playing a lot of Civ 5 lately, and while it is nice I am kind of dissapointed by its lack of depth. I think Sim City would be a great game to migrate to, but I just don't know that I can abide by EA's bullshit. I've done some bitching about EA in my time, and I don't feel like relenting now. It is not acceptable that a company with EA's resources handling a franchise as coveted as Sim City provides a gaming experience that is bested by independent developers releasing alphas. Obviously this fiasco has caused a well deserved shakeup at EA, but I doubt that anything will ultimately change. Nice to see you all are starting to enjoy the game but EA has a long way to go to redeem itself in general in my book. I wish it didn't come at the expense of such great franchises though. Que lástima.

In my short time with Arma 3 so far, I thought it was much improved. Not just the animation but the first person aiming is significantly less clunky than Arma 2. Not quite where I want it but definitely a step in the right direction for something that was much needed. More importantly, you can now hit moving targets! Last night we were in a multiplayer game on an end user's desktop and we were picking people off at distance while they were trying to retreat. That's probably the first time I've ever had sucess with that in Arma, and was easily my biggest gripe (not to mention the most ridiculous issue in the whole game for an "infantry simulator) So for me the ground operations are soo much better and more enjoyable even so far. Sadly my short run with the helicopters left me soured. Flying helos is my favorite part of Arma multiplayer, given that the new Arma supposedly uses the Take On Helicopters engine, I was hoping for more realistic and challenging flight models. If anything it is easier than Arma 2. Hope there's a mod for better flight models and that Sparta would consider using it.

Sometimes it is a shame that there isn't such a thing as 'attempted involuntary manslaughter.' Wreckless endangerment might be applicable here. Cy might know. Anyhow this guy deserves punishment.

If I got into a confrontation with someone and they pulled that thing out I think I'd just dookie a shooter and run like hell.

Downloading now.

Making us bust out our check books in advance I see. So be it...

sssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwBBBRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPP. Love the hog. Gonna snatch up DCS A-10 next time it is on sale.

On that note, that the names of the two games are so similar is bothersome enough. That so many websites seem to almost intentionally draw the two together is all the more frustrating. Logged on to steam the other day and clicked on ARMA 2. The top story's headline blatantly stated how WarZ sucked and no one should buy it. Why in the hell is this listed under ARMA news? This isn't an isolated incident. Lots of websites are doing this and it worries me that people will see so much "WarZ sucks, Warz is total shite" listed as DayZ and Arma related news that a good number of people will not make the connection that they are separate games. Even the Day Z devs said the sitaution is stressful because it is close to bringing bad PR or worries of bad PR to their game. Maybe that's making a mountain out of a molehill. I just hope the good press that hopefully flows after the release of Day Z will leave no doubts about how good it is. Anyway I am glad to see the WarZ people getting stomped. Bad enough they chose such a similar name, even worse their game doesn't deliver.

Well, after the Gatling Bow of Death incidents I am sure I don't need to emphasize how much I like shooting things in MC. Bring on the guns. Biome mods are the shit. I ran Extra Biomes on my personal machine in the past, really cool. LOVE the fall foliage biome. Others are cool too. Not sure if the tree decapitator mod would work with the redwood forests but if it did good lord watch out. Wood for everyone More varied terrain is great and adds much needed flavor to the game.

Sounds like the two incarcerated ARMA devs have been released on bail and will be headed home. http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/01/15/arma-developers-will-be-released-from-greek-prison-on-bail-free-to-return-home/

Awwwww sheeeeeeeeeeet... http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/bukkit-the-next-chapter.62489/

Some of you late nighters might recall the miserable failure of my truly brilliant idea of creating instant AO clearers in Arma by stuffing a Blackhawk full of an unhealthy number of satchels, a maneuver I gleefully dubbed "Magic Trick." Highly entertaining, minimally effective. It stemmed largely from my attempts in 1942 and Desert Combat and even BF2 to carefully balance explosives inside vehicles, drive them to enemies, and hopping out and detonating them. It never felt quite right. I'm thrilled to tell you that with BF3 all that has changed and DICE has given us the canvas to finally realize our "leaping out of CF packed vehicles" dreams. May I present "Operation Asshat"

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That could be a great idea. I think that the BTW mod world should probably be resources only. It feels very community oriented as is so resources only would probably maintain that feel. We can leave another world or an existing world for megaprojects. As Medic said it's a shame Minecraft doesn't have better integration for mods.

Also I might add though I'm sure everyone is aware and it's probably an issue with WE not being current but a lot of the automated construction commands don't work such as making spheres and cylinders. I'm guessing we'll have to wait for both Bukkit and WE to get updated to fix that.

Woohooo!! 1.7 is out. + Added pistons + Fire or redstone is now required to trigger TNT + Fences can be stacked + Added shears + Shears can be used to pick up leaf blocks + Shears can be used to shear sheep without hurting them * Sheep no longer drop wool from being punched Don't anyone tell unicorn but I suspect pistons can replace his amazing cart holding system. Guess we'll see. Notch seems to think it will be a long time before 1.8 sees the light of day. Maybe given the protracted release we can implement the 'Better than Wolves' mod that Medic found if it ain't a huge pain. Along with updating the server maybe we could update the old and new google maps.

This is pretty much awesome. Looks like a pretty heavy modification (microblocks ect) which makes me a bit nervous. In the case of the development stopping or falling behind with beta updates leaves you pretty screwed. Nevertheless it's so awesome it may be worth implementing regardless. I supposed we can also pray Notch includes this in a future release just like the pistons. Edit: Yeah seriously, awesome.... The added obsidian pressure plate (along with the existing stone and wood ones) have been adapted to track versions. Cool shit.

If you need any rotorcraft action for your footage I'd love to fly for ya.

That would be awesome. All relevant items are on that one flattened area you made for me due east of your church, the one with all the gizmos like the corkscrew, mob slaughterer, and piano/light thing. There was a slight extension made to the north of the flat area that has a corner piece of bridge, though the original flat part is the most crucial as it houses our station template. If you have any questions let me know. I'll check this thread periodically and will probably be on the server and TS. Also just noticed I no longer have access to the clearinventory command. If it's ok can I get that one back? It's helpful in preventing people from picking up stuff I have to drop. Thanks for your time Kal! PS: Not sure if anyone who was online at the time can add anything but before the server crashed we were getting what seemed like maybe 20 minutes of pretty intense and progressively worse lag.

Oh dear god no, our station! Find the offender Kal. Destroy them. KILL THEM IN THE FACE. Seriously would there be any way to pull a small area from the map from before the server crashed or is it totally gone? We put a lot of work into our station template and some other things. Rebuilding from scratch will be a real pain since even our initial testing samples are gone from the map. If not I'm gonna request a copy of the map or at least that section we have been working on so we can continue prototyping off the server and we can import finished products later. Don't think Unicorn, Halo, and I can afford to have it happen again.

Server is down. Everyone seems scared to post to let Kal know even though that's exactly what he asked us to do. I had to get Zeno to modify my permissions just so I could post this. Anyway Kal if you happen to read this and it's no hassle the server could probably use a restart.