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My real point is we don't need to change rules about kit stealing to protect Volod's ability to keep his MG. If someone steals a kit, you see it and you're an admin warn him, kick him if he does it again, ban him if he persists. Its pretty simple really. Sem is right we should not be condoning TKs for something admins can handle. I don't always trust someone who !reports a person allegedly stealing kits unless I witness it. Same thing with TKs. We are not expected to be everywhere at all times. If you're an admin do your job, if you're not report it.

I don't agree entirely Double but I do understand the player's frustration. But where do you draw the line? Kits cannot be owned by anyone, if you are dead unless your medic revives you why should that kit remain yours because you happened to pick it from the crate before anyone else? There's also the assumption that the guy who has a specialist kit actually knows how to use it properly. Do we let a complete noob "own" the HAT kit because he got it first and the whole squad gets blown to hell because he has no damn clue how to kill a tank? So there's a whole lot more to kits than simply saying don't steal kits. The squad leader should have the right to tell someone to drop their kit if they think that member is incompetent and someone who has the skills should be using it. If you have a squad of noobs then it doesn't matter. The issue on the VG server is limiting kits for the entire team once the noobs have grabbed the HAT kits and left them on the battlefield we're all left with buggarall to defend ourselves. Happens quite a lot, not when the server is full I'll admit.

Noted. Thanks for that Melon.

Cheers Melon! Is it back to 6 squad members for full kit access?

Ok no problems I thought it was a bug. So how many to get one HAT?

Hey guys, I was on Muttrah Std the other day with 7 squad members and no-one could access a HAT kit, have there been changes to the kit restrictions or something? We kept getting "unavailable for your forces right now message". This makes life difficult enough when there are only 7 players on the server but I always thought any kit was accessible with 6 players in the squad?

I still reckon the Harrier lands smoother and with more control than that F35, holy crap they must damage the under-carriage a lot!

Good points there CptHawk, what I'd like to know before I screw up my default settings is what the hell do we use for picking up kits, using the T command, using H for local? Plus when a noob starts the game and cannot even talk using mumble , now we've got to remember not only our own key binds but we also need to remember the default ones? Not very practical imo. I get it done with WASD, no idea what he's whinging about.

Stick ya key binds, HOTAS rules!! Love the accent though.

Holy crap Hater! At least you're back Bro!

I always take ages to login to a map, for me it sits on 15% for more than 9 minutes sometimes it used to take longer but since I've created a static IP address and set up my game ports for port forwarding its a lot better. I personally think the speed is down to an old crappy laptop which I'm resisting to upgrade because my mate BrokenArrow can login before a lot of other people because he's running a better spec machine.

Was on Fallujah West and built a TOW, unfortunately you cannot get on it because it thinks you are trying to enter a vehicle! Nice one. Oh I see Stark mentioned this already so it looks like a common problem across several or all maps?

Yeah you're right Colbalt, I just checked this out on my laptops, and PR will not let me join the same server, I get a error message, "Wrong CD-Hash" something like that. But I can login to a different PR server on one laptop and also login to a different PR server on the other laptop using the same internet connection. I just assumed I could the same server. I even tried a new PR account and same error. I'm not going to do an install of BMS to see whether this is a thing so if someone wants to test that out be my guest. Vanilla suggested using a VPN which might work, don't know I don't have an account.

They should be able to create a static IP address for each computer and connect that way, I can connect to the PR servers on two separate computers using the same internet connection, never tried it with the BMS server but I imagine it could be done.

No problem that's your bloody image that you gave me to use to set my BMS configuration!!!

Hi Bamma, It could be those JanHans models that are affecting it or you could have one of the configuration settings out. Have a look and see that Same Acdata Files Required' is unchecked as below, and get back to us.

If you did something like this on the Falklands Map I'd be real interested. So would Sem, I bet!

Daniel and myself are flying BMS this coming Saturday and possibly Sunday. I'm in South Australia so we're hoping to meet up from 9:00 ZULU and fly a few sorties. Its been 3 months since I last flew BMS so I'll be a little rusty. If you want to join us meet up in TS this Saturday 28th.

Sounds like Ranger's provider could be throttling his internet connection, apparently if a VPN increases your speed that's usually a good indicator. I've tried a VPN for a month and it actually slows my speed down.

He got that from my speedtest.net results. According to this page the Veterans IP address is coming from the data center in Nuremberg. Not sure which server that would be on the speedtest.net page so just picked one.

I set up a static IP address and port forwarded my router specifically for Project Reality, that takes a wee bit of time to setup but I find it is more stable and reliable. "Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game ". quote from this page on port forwarding". You add the following ports for Battlefield 2 TCP Ports 4711, 27901, 28910, 29900, 299 UDP Ports 1500-4999, 16567, 27900, 29900 I used the following link to help me set that up but there are other threads on the net that go into more detail if you need it. https://portforward.com/battlefield-2/

Have you done a speed test to the server? This is what my connection speeds are like from Adelaide to Veterans Server:

Haha yeah I did own up....eventually but you cant hear me cause I only record my voice when I talk in squad chat.

For those who missed this event I recorded the first map, Muttrah City from Hater's Squad perspective. Enjoy. Loved the Carrier that was renamed USS Vincent in honor of Vinny.

Count me in Hater, whatever position.