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Wow! Nice work, man!

This part is the same for everyone. Servers displayed on that list are no indication of your ability to connect to them. It must be something else. I wish we could help, but this is not something we have access to any deeper than ensuring you are not on the ban list and that you can at least connect to that server in team speak which is also the PR server, so you know your account is good with us. Again, wish I had answers but we need to keep working through this with advice from smarter people Hang in there bro! Keep the faith! See you all when I get home from vacation

No, you are just fine as far as the server thinks ... Do you get this same issue on other PR servers? That would be a large indicator of the issue being on your end...

Event is on, technical issues delayed the start.

Wow! Cool!

^ What he said ... spend a little more now on the CPU so it can be capable of a gaming PC without being the bottleneck. i3 too underpowered for that rig - and like he said above, i7 too much money for marginal improvements - i5 FTW (research a good one!) *Don't even think about using the included heatsink/fan combo - gotta get aftermarket CPU cooling either dual fan with heat pipes or a single block liquid cooling would do well, too. Either one should cost no more than an additional $40-60

I'd love to be a rifleman if it's still available, H8ter (otherwise, if we're lacking squad leaders, I'll open another one up and lead it)

We'll make the 4th of July Memorial Event happen - not sure about the OPFOR idea, though, so if unable to make that work, let's just go with H8ter's original suggestion (24 hours at Muttrah). OPFOR would require a completely different setup and configuration. **For that to happen, we need someone to do the code/config work - volunteers welcome to apply. I will be out of town on the 4th, but I'll work with the Admin team to get it all set up before I leave.

I'll be there (will fill out whatever squad needs people)

I am in shock. VincentJames was a very fun person to play with, was friendly with people he didn't even know yet, and was a good person. We're honored to have known him. My sincere condolences go out to his closest friends and family. He will be greatly missed.

Great video, PBAsydney!

^ good one, Rotblut! took the words out of my mouth

This will be a good way to filter for publishers we choose (if we can browse by "favorite publishers" instead of one pub at a time) because we could essentially exclude all those no-name shovelware peddlers that overwhelm any game searches on the store, hiding the good gems in pages and pages of asset flips and "baby's first video games".

This was an idea I had a ways back, and after a few discussions we came to the following conclusion: Glad others have noticed this fact as well. This is on point. "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" I think it would be great to host more group gaming events rather than "workshops": There would be less micro-management of the rules, less concern for too many attendees vs. "tutors", and more fun to be had by all. __ All that being said, we do have the server capacity and we can spin up one of the others behind a password anytime we want. If someone would like to volunteer to host a small group training session for some people, that would be just fine and we'd support you all the way, providing tools and access as needed to make the venture a success. Just contact me in any way and I can set it all up. As far as VG just hosting these, and waiting to see who shows up, I feel that would be more work and less fun for the show runners as well as the attendees. If ANYONE would like to host a training session on a private VG server, that is something we can do, again, just contact me. If this was a job or if we were a competitive lot, we'd certainly run these weekly -- but this is all just for fun and making too much work out of your hobbies is a good way to get burned out by them. Whatever you do here, do it for fun. If it becomes more than just a challenging project and turns into work that you'd rather avoid, then you're doing it wrong, and should just stop and focus on having fun with your free time. __ Maybe you have a small group you've already discussed it with and have expressed interest in joining a training session or event -- that would be the best way, pre-RSVP's. We make Public Events "come as you are" but workshops should be scheduled where people sign up (no more than a squad or so); and the day of the workshop, we can give that squad it's own server to run whatever maps they want, we can even lower respawn timers for assets and player to a few seconds so that training is not interrupted too much by accidents or deaths, if needed for the new players. Realistically, it would take a day or two to set this up, so account for that if you wish to contact us to set up a one-time training session. The idea way back was to create a set of maps with additional assets or modified respawn timers so a training group would not have to worry about limitations of the gamemodes and can jump right into whatever they want to focus on.

Where would this info go? If I have created more confusion by doing this, I can undo it. Time zones display locally on websites, most all websites. When you look at a forum post, it says when it was posted (not in the poster's time zone, but the reader). example: Note the time displayed of those posts -- they are displayed to ME in PST because that is where I live. Again, all I did was add the time of an event to it's Calendar entry -- it's the person's browser that changes it to their time. I can't add notes to every online detail/concept, and if it's not intuitive enough (and requires over-explanation), then it's likely not a good system to use, and should be removed. It's not easy to account for people who would be confused by a concept when one cannot understand how it is confusing, or in what way. Not exactly sure what to do, but input is welcome. **EDIT: Added a small block below it to explain, but IMO it looks bad, ugly and unprofessional:

I've updated the Calendar with a date and time with the base time zone set to GMT, it will display locally to the user in their time. Check the date of the PR Event, 30th at 1800 -- the calendar will tell you when that 3 hour event runs in YOUR time.

For explanation, go to this thread, and scroll down to Step 7: (just below that are links to two tutorial videos) Best wishes and good luck to you!

Yea, the EVO instead of PRO is the way I went, too. You'll see a very slight reduction in capacity for the very fastest SSD speeds at consumer level pricing! I have four of them, a couple 120's, a 250, and a 500.