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It's not like this is possible, and for some reason, we're just not doing it.... There's no shortage of quality of life codings that I've created on our server, but we have to work within the realm of what is feasible (and which doesn't create a gigantic back door into our server to accomplish a task), and not what merely sounds ideal on paper. PR is an extremely old game.

See those low peaks I've circled? Those are the average "lowest population times" over the past 7 days on the VG PR COOP Server, and they usually correspond to between 0300-0800 GMT. See how the peak is not exactly in the same place each day, how it fluctuates between a larger period and some days is WAY higher than others? This is because even though the server empties for the most part every day, 'when' that happens is an organic factor, so it varies with the day of the week, the season of the year (re. Holidays!), or with the phases of the moon itself (believe it or not). Since I cannot automate my daily restart/map rotation swap system to know how many people are online at a given time and then decide itself that the number is as low as the population is going to get in that 24 hour period, there is no way I can force our server to recognize that the "most off-peak hour possible" has changed for that particular day by, say, 45 minutes or more. Some of my automated systems on the server are able to wait for all players to empty out of the server, but this one needs to be forced to prevent issues where no one empties out and the server runs for 48 hours without it's scheduled reset/map rotation swap. PR is a mod built on a 12 year old game engine, and even some of the most recent, modern games aren't fully capable of such 'average player count rationalization' automation. It is already set up for the average "most off-peak hour possible" for sure, averaged over about a month. I wish it were possible to float it, but at times, we have to accept that what would be ideal is not always as easy to implement as it seems in discussion, if even possible at all. But, hey... better than Mutrah City starting map every single day, and after every single server crash, right? Could be worse.... your story could read, "every night we get into a good map, late when no admins are there to change the map - then it crashes back to Mutrah and the server empties out"

@Echo1 We're not trying to be mean, here, buddy. Seriously. Believe it or not, but I am personally quite sympathetic. When I began playing Project Reality COOP at VG back around 2010, it was during US midnight hours, and there were not only no Admins online, but I didn't see an actual =VG= member until I had been playing here for about a month. They just did not happen to have any clan members who regularly played during those late hours back then, and all of us regulars on the server knew it. It could get unruly at times, for sure. Not everyone who plays video games is a mature, level headed adult (to state the obvious). It's like, welcome to the internets, right? ugh We used the report function in game to make sure players knew we were all united in supporting the server rules even when Admins were not present, and once in awhile, we had to give up on an area, or asset we had rights to claim, or take a break for a few minutes to wait for a griefer/troll to get bored and move on. Yea, it pretty much sucked.. but we knew all the admins were sleeping or away, and our choice was to either not play, or play and just deal with it (without breaking the rules ourselves, or taking matters into our own hands). We didn't cry foul because there was no one to Admin, we just understood that rarely do ANY game servers ANYWHERE have 24/7 admins online, and even still a few of us fell in love with the community and it's values & spirit enough to make friends and eventually join the group, and then subsequently found ourselves as Admins in the game as a bonus. We also did not have non-VG Clan Member in-game PR Admins back then - this evolved over time to enable us to cover even more timezones by allowing players (who may even be in a different clan) to get vetted for integrity, respectfulness, level headedness, and a maturity level consistent with the values and spirit of the VG Clan.

that further makes my point

re. Steam - yes, we have one, but it's incredibly difficult to manage an online community in 5 places at once, which is why groups such as Steam, Facebook, Discord, etc. are less effective and less popular than our standard forums or TS3 -- also, because those services are so seldom used by the public OR our group, they just lose out as "the" way to make a community work, and end up as just sign posts leading to our true home - the TS3 and website, and game servers.

Like 8-bits said, look for PR Admins on TS3 first*, and use the report function in game so we can review any activity later. It's not a useless function - though there are always going to be times around Holidays or just in general, where no admins are online at that time. We are very careful in our Admin selection process and therefore it is not easy to simply fill the server with Admins who are covering all 24 hours of the server's uptime. It's not something that can be "fixed" on any server anywhere, it's just a thing that happens during non-peak times or during Holiday seasons such as this, and especially on older games such as this. We do appreciate specific reports here on the forum such as this, as it will direct our attention to the logs for the time period you are referring to. *I've been on TS3 for the last several hours, and I have PR tags next to my name which means I'm a PR Admin, and you could have maybe got my attention to sort out a mess. Not everyone might respond, if they were AFK for example, but it's still worth a try. Cheers!

[23:58:01 GLOBAL] Ranger >>>12<<<: !r 2tarek steal [23:58:06 TEAM 2] KevinIsMyName: top stealing CAS squad's A-10! [23:58:10 TEAM 2] 2tarek: what [23:58:12 T2 SQUAD 3] KevinIsMyName: !admins [23:58:19 GLOBAL] Ranger >>>12<<<: hurry before he crash it :D [23:58:27 GLOBAL] Ranger >>>12<<<: please im not gonna wait 10 m [23:58:30 GLOBAL] Ranger >>>12<<<: please ! :D [23:58:48 T2 SQUAD 3] Ranger >>>12<<<: !r 2tarek steal [00:00:42 GLOBAL] Ranger >>>12<<<: 2 tarek i know u can understand my fucking language right now. bring the I10 back [00:00:50 GLOBAL] Ranger >>>12<<<: if you crash it its a bann for you [00:02:33 TEAM 2] 2tarek: i can understand you im not stupid like you Reviewing the logs, we found similar behavior under an alternate account as well. Because of this, 2tarek has placed on the banlist, and will be eligible for an unban provided he takes the time to read the rules here, and agrees to follow them. Thanks for the report! posting this just for fun; in that same log, I also uncovered some infighting between two of our VG Clan Members who are also PR Devs - time to ban some bots! (j/k) [00:19:52 TEAMKILL] [R-BOT] Fastjack [mec_jet_mig29_sp_bomblauncher_1] [R-BOT] melonmuncher /locked

Merry Christmas everyone!

We are going to go ahead an extend an Unban to you. You will be placed on the watch list and if you intentionally violate our rules again, the ban will be reinstated permanently. Understand that this is your one and only last chance. Unbanned and /locked

You were banned by Sausage for mass intentional teamkilling at the end of a round. Please wait while we discuss and review your unban request. In addition to the logs below, your account has far too many teamkills and if you are unbanned, you will be expected to watch your fire and spend more time identifying your targets before engaging - and if you intentionally teamkill another player again, you will be permanently removed from our server(s).

LMAO - even the base game isn't from the 1990's Weird thing, according to the wiki's, Battlefield 2 (the game PR is built on) was released 2005 (June) like he said...but the history of PR says PR was created July 2004.... so, maybe they started building PR on a alpha/beta of BF2 while it was in development? Odd... Falcon BMS, on the other hand, is a mod built on a base game (Falcon 4.0) that was released 20 years ago. Of course, the current iteration of BMS is only a few years old, and BMS only took the forefront over other Falcon 4.0 mods like Red Viper, etc. about 5-6 years ago.

Well, it happened - FCC voted to kill Net Neutrality, here's the gist of it: (if you didn't know, don't be fooled by the accent, Jim Sterling IS an American, and lives in the deep South - having moved here many, many years ago from the UK)

I can add Harrier Squadron(s) to the current carrier in the campain, the Vinson -- but I'm not familiar with adding another carrier battle group. I'll look into it this weekend and get it done.

Looks very cool! Huge PvP events are what make the Arma series so awesome! Best of luck! Some friends of ours over at LAMBs might also be interested (link: nopryl.no )

If it does become a problem, I can always revert changes or fix them without resetting the entire campaign by editing the save in Mission Commander. Also, not going to assume anything malicious with the Bullseye being moved. I've done it myself when attacking the region of the Bullseye in order to make it less confusing when requesting information from AWACS. I'm sure if it was moved to an area that made it difficult for the entire theater to get easy to use data from AWACS, that it could be viewed as an unwanted/unhelpful, though - but of course, you can always just move it back anytime, so no harm, no foul (in a way). Thanks for the report and keep an eye out. If you see anything else, feel free to post it up and we'll have a look at it.

I very much enjoy DCS Warthog. I wish I could say I'm ready to jump into a flight with you, but I'm a bit out of practice. I have been thinking of retraining so I can jump into a mission here and there. I was also a bit turned off by the lack of realism in the missions, etc. The best one I found was a dynamic on-call CAS mission that has many "sub-missions" that you are randomly tasked with through 9-Line CAS requests over the radio. It takes place in the mountainous regions to the North/Northeast to give it a feel of the Afghanistan conflicts. The name was Operation Bactria COOP - here's a link: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=89051

You may not fit into a 1:1 cockpit, and in real life, the physical limits for a pilots body also include a minimum and maximum height as well as girth and weight. But this is not real life, and if you got into this as a hobby, how cool would it be to make a home cockpit that can comfortably fit a big and tall person such as yourself?