=VG= Acro1

@=VG= keed 600dpi? You know I can just send you the SVG's, right ?

@=VG= keed I made some 2D and 3D models of our logo (full text and '=VG=', as well as a 3D-printable coin and some other WIP mockups. I will upload them when I'm home. Which formats are you looking for?

@=VG= SemlerPDX has a few resources too.

Thanks Flame!

Resolved, locking.

Hey all

When loading the website today, I was presented with Chrome's warning message saying "Your connection is not private".

If anyone else has experienced this, please post below.

2 hours ago, Connorsponner01 said:

Wow thanks this is exactly what I was looking for! By any chance will VG be like this too?

While not impossible in the future, there's no focus on our ARMA III server right now to become highly populated. 77th JSOC, au contraire, runs an entire clan ecosystem around Arma with events, many active admins etc. They have a very nice, teamwork-based server like Blizz pointed out.

Do note though that 77th JSOC is very strict. Literally waiting in line, strict hierarchy, and certain commanders are even such doofuses that they won't reply to you unless you address them in the exact way they want  . That said, there's an amazing grade of teamwork to be found. The 77th JSOC servers always run Invade And Annex, which is a mission system that spawns a main and side objectives. The main objective (Area Of Operations) has a few tactical targets and enemies. Take them down and the AO is over, and it will respawn in a new place shortly after.

While Arma 3 has a VAST range of vehicles, you won't use many on that server. It's highly infantry-tailored gameplay. There are 4 helicopters, 1 jet, and 1 armored unit max. Armor can only serve as support and must stay out of the AO until called in by inf, which RARELY ever happens. Command can flat-out refuse to issue armor squad and then you're out of luck. 

It's a very fun way of play in itself, but bear in mind you will be waiting and walking for very long times. Depending on the commander, it's not uncommon to wait 20 minutes between deployments or to be stuck in base for half an hour before you can be sent out. If this is your style of play though, there's no better game and place than Arma 3 and the 77th JSOC at the moment.

Hey all, if you can find the time please report your server crashes through this form instead. This allows us to easily compile our gathered info  . This is only for crashes, not for other 'server down'-issues.

Yeeeesssss

I love how more ppl started recording. We're gonna flood VG with videos now!

@=VG= TEDF Nice! Can't wait  

I'm not seeing the fastroping mechanic that was rumoured and shown earlier tho. Any news on that?

I'd love to man the camera and get some cinematics (and this time not miss the event because I have the big dumb and mess up timezones...)

@=VG= Sausag3 a Squad rules file is in draft already  Events like this one will serve as experiences from which we learn and adapt our rules. We'd best have a short version for players to read quickly, and a long, extensive version for when a specific case needs resolving.

I'd also love to require microphones, but it's hard to require them 100% of the time. Some play while family sleeps, forgot their headset at uni, or have guests over and can't be talking to their computers. Even the best of players get into these situations, and then they can't do the thing they're really good at (leading, CAS, support,...) so our team loses that benefit.

I'd turn that into a 'Squad leaders, Heavy asset users etc must communicate'. 

Thanks @LangMaster @The_Polish_Guy and @Golden for your thorough information  Your reports are extremely helpful and allowed us to easily verify log information. Thank you for the mature style in which you responded to this situation.

I just saw PFC. Blackburn in-game and presented him with the information we found and a stern wake-up message. His response was pretty positive, so a good second chance seems in order.

Let us leave these cases behind us and move towards the future with an open mind. Everyone deserves a second chance to redeem themselves. Thanks again for your accurate reports and helping us with your experiences. Please encourage others to do as you did when they spot someone who breaks our rules, which will lead to the quickest, fairest action being taken.

Thank you for playing Veterans Gaming and keeping our community clean!

Thank you for bringing this in guys. I've noticed the same as you have over the past few days, and have told him already that his selfish thinking will get him in trouble. 

@LangMaster, could you provide some details on this  tank incident please? If you can give us the map name and time, we can sniff our records and find solid information

Thanks a lot for helping to keep your server clean!

Hi @human315

You were banned for attempted teamkilling in the main base, where you shot anti-air missiles around and were reported by multiple players. 

The admin who banned you has been contacted. Please be patient for his reply.

@=VG= HaterOneActual actually OBS is much more powerful It can capture video at any resolution and any framerate (within hardware performance limit ofc) and output to a variety of files. I've recorded several 1080p60 videos with it. Just gotta change a couple settings and see what your machine can take

@Golden This is OBS, the most popular screen capture tool with a ton of features and great performance. It's free and open source.

https://obsproject.com/

Server restarted and visible in list again. Thanks Ranger!

Taking a look now

Server restarted, showing up in the list  

Restarting now

No worries

Issue resolved, locking thread.

VG server is now up and detectable in the list again  

Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

Thanks for bringing this up boys looking into it now.

Hello @soldfive! Can you still join TeamSpeak servers? That way you can at least have contact with some of us while you play. We can also walk you through some possible solutions there. I'm on Teamspeak now, so feel free to hit me up.

TS3: 5.9.23.136:9987

Another favourite of mine are health quacks If you want some good eyes-stretched-wide-open Youtube shenanigans, check out Sun Fruit Dan and Happy Health. The stuff these people promote is downright dangerous, but it's a good testimony to good ol' Darwinism . You'll notice the same kind of praise and anti-corporate-system speech in the comment sections here. People drowned in bias, kinda sad.

I'm also a firm believer in extraterrestrial life, but this video is not proof of anything at all  The woman uses bias and forced belief to try and convince us that she's seeing space ships and docking stations, but her methods are simply BS. Most of the 'aliens' she shows are mere photo artefacts, which she produced herself by editing low-quality images.

- The telescope outputs a super compressed image full of artefacts. Look at the sun, and you see it's very blocky. She takes a screenshot of this, then inverts it and works some contrast magic (all on her phone, super professional) and BOOM, full-detail space docking station. This is the same as those NCIS episodes where Gibbs says 'sharpen that photo' and the 4x4 pixel grid becomes a 400MP DSLR image. Digital photos don't work that way. She's creating detail where it wasn't before, so the 'space ships' are just bunches of pixels generated by her own editing. Why do they look like space ships? Because their shape resembles space ships like we know them from science fiction. Our brains have that primed image, so we make the association.

- The photo is a giant mipmap. Mipmaps are essentially 'blurry pixels'. At 3:40 she's in the editor and you can see the image doesn't consist of nice square pixels. Phone cameras make mipmaps to give an illusion of greater detail, even when taking a screenshot. You don't want this in scientific photography, since it can skew the result. Click here to see an example of mipmapping.

- The 'docking station' consist of super static pixels. This is a first red flag that point to a camera glitch. a body this close to the sun should be in orbit, or using constant thrust to not be sucked in by the sun's gravity. Either way we would see some movement, which we don't.

- The photos at 8:45 are pictures of asteroids, taken with a low shutter speed. It's like your phone's camera taking blurry photos in low light. You can even see the curvature of their orbit in the lower half of the picture. If they were spaceships, they wouldn't all look exactly the same size despite being 1000s of kilometers apart. 

-She mentions an iPhone 8 with a clip-on lens, but I don't know why. All these photos come from a NASA camera probe. Perhaps she's confused and think the camera is used to take screenshots too? 

Gina isn't exactly a model scientist either...

- Her videos are all about chemtrails, bullshit UFO theories and conspiracies.

- She constantly talks about herself and her excitement, referring to previous discoveries she has made. This kind of egocentrism is rarely seen in true scientific spotters.

- Her video description is basically all her social media links + her postal box. Again, pure egocentrism. No link to original photos or the NASA satellite.

- The comments on her video are 70% unconditional love for her amazing work, 20% conspiracies and 10% crop circles. This kind of sugar sweet support is common in niche groups like UFO spotters and the essential oil moms. Professional astronomists are analytical, not spraying lovely compliments around.

She's not trying to sell anything afaik, but nonetheless her video is a total hoax. I don't think she's intentionally doing it but she definitely craves the attention that comes from her achievements.