=VG= SemlerPDX

I'm here, too. I'll be doing what I can to catch up and help out with these things. I am rusty, but as these guys are a bit busier with life right now, I will dedicate my time to learn what I need to in order to help maintain the health of the server. Don't change the server to some other system or even I won't be able to help. I've resolved the issues with the PR Server and the TCAdmin web panel. Please keep things as they are - the server is powerful, affordable, and stable - and I will step up and help with tech support.

holy shit is right! wow!

I wish I knew what to say -- I have no idea how this works normally, I assume it works just the way you are trying... then again, could it be that we aren't able to frag Tankers and stuck with rendezvous at the location of one of the AI Tankers already in the air? If anyone knows how we can fix or adjust this, please advise. Thanks!

On the subject, I know I'm not the only one using VoiceAttack for my AI comms - I may be one of the first to use the new "wildcards" that allow any sentence ending with "*request picture;*requesting picture" for example - but this past time, before the stream I did a few hours of testing and found that "recording" the keystroke actions made VA control BMS just fine it seemed... then when I was flying the 2nd and 3rd missions, VA was trying to send the macro or command T pause 1 pause 1 or just Numpad1 and not only did the commands not go through, but the Windows focus was changed from BMS to ??? Any pointers are greatly appreciated, this one bit of troubleshooting makes me pull out my hair!! If I had this much trouble with other games (Elite Dangerous for example) I'd have never started relying so heavily on VA. Hell, my Modules Menu Control for ED in VA is over 20 functional controls linked to as many commands, some menu trees near 400 lines in notepad++, and they all work exactly as I wrote them, just like a small program. But BMS and VA do not play nicely on my machine! Of course, I play in a sort of "borderless windowed mode" the way I have cockpit display extraction active, the Main window is just a window made to fit on the first monitor, unlike any game in my library (except perhaps DCS). Again, any tips are more than welcome, even if I may have tried them, no worries.

I need a little practice, I was going to make BMS a weekend stream thing, maybe Fridays and Saturdays, but after some of the technical issues I had and some of the tumbleweed issues ( ) I'm gonna do a wee bit more offline re-training before next weekend. I may not have shown it in the video, Cobalt says he didn't notice anything, but I was STEAMING on the inside. I can do better. I feel like no experienced BMS pilots would enjoy watching me flounder in the air each week, and any new players might pick up bad habits -- lol! Only ways to counter the couple issues I had... "practice, practice, practice". At least offline, no one else is waiting on me and I can pause and read a line from the manual as needed. Luckily, the training materials and missions are well made enough that I often "remember" something after going over it again and don't need to refer to the Dash1 and Dash34, just gotta go through the motions once more to refresh. Thanks for your interest! I can't wait to do this again (with less tumbleweed).... (and in the stream I used "furball" twice when I meant "tumbleweed"... i even need to brush up on my brevity lol )

Cool video - I like the spectator cam idea for the event!

Just now, server was sorta hung up on inspection, and as I could not interact with the frozen server BMS GUI/interface, I assumed no one was flying, and I restarted the server. I verified that Kadena has active flights and aircraft available, and we'll see if you have the same problem today (if you fly today that is). Try it again now. The tankers are out of the 909th @ Kadena, and I believe the livery number is more than 2-3... Ensure you are hit the lock symbol as described by Brain, which you may very well have done correctly, but it's worth noting for troubleshooting purposes that every single waypoint in the flight plan should be unlocked before adjusting any of the steerpoints. Can't imagine you made a mistake and I'm certain you know how to frag flights and that this was indeed an abnormal game bug. Hope it fixes with the restart.

You should have no issues, but I've looked into that bad timing thing once on the forums with regards to fragging flights (not what you are doing for tanker) but same issue "bad timing"... I cannot recall if I found the answer, but I can assure you that it's not restricted by us or the server campaign.

I may not have a killer home cockpit like some BMS pilots, and I'm certainly no Pro at BMS, but I'm going to be streaming Falcon BMS today on twitch @ https://www.twitch.tv/semlerpdx

Server restarted - sorry for the late response.

*I should note for you, BLuD - the server has very good bandwidth - a very stable 25Mbps UP speed, and I think twice that DOWN speeds. Players use about 1Mbps of it's bandwidth and that means we can safely run a server up to around 22-24 players at one time. But Brain has some notes as well below - I added this comment to my reply here for clarity. It's not too much more than normal - it crashes once in awhile - sometimes 2-3 times in a 2 week period. Sometimes more, particularly around day 8-9 when DPRK tries to slam the server airbase, and around day 1-2 in the first days when so much is going on. But today, I was busy and missed this report - could have restarted it in less than 5 minutes if I saw it. Once you get your new computer, BLuD, I'll write down the procedure for restarting the new way I do it from an autosave, and the way we get the server plane back to the 2D map for increased performance after launching the campaign. Again, sorry for the late response time, pilots!

I remember the original BF2 - it felt "small" compared to PR. Also, the nade spamming and dolphin diving bothered me, which is why I turned to BF2: Project Reality mod. In my opinion, BF4 is far more playable than BF2. But it's still a very cool game! I remember learning how to fly the Cobra on (IIRC) Dragon Valley offline, hoping to get into flying online. But, again, there was little teamwork online with active comms squads rare, just a bunch of grab-astic pieces of amphibious shit. I found the best cooperative team play in PR and PR COOP where people who lone-wolf are the rarity.

Combined Ops is Arma 2 Original plus Operation Arrowhead - CO can play on OA but OA can't play on CO.... No worries, we can fix it, we can do anything - the webpanel is awesome, but I just need someone like PITN who knows the Arma 2 config stuff to help out.

BLuDKLoT brought up that he'd like a few tours of duty on the old Domination by Xeno edited by Oniblood and I think we'd be able to run it on the 2nd Arma 2 server. Problem is, I stare at those lists of custom config lines that used to make perfect sense to me, and it's like I'm looking at chinese characters while drunk. I'm sure I could get it if I was the only one on the planet - but I know we gots peeps here like PITN who are currently active in that, and know their shit. TCAdmin is a sweet panel, we don't need to remove anything that's already running, just add a switch option for yet another game mode on that #2 A2 server. It already has options to start as an A2 ACE mission, and several others, but it is off cuz we're not using it right now, and we keep CPU usage to minimum by keeping our secondary servers off. They are still there, tho. We just need the old Domination mission file uploaded and configured. So... hey, PITN - what you doin this weekend? Wanna help add another custom command line to TCAdmin for the #2 Arma 2 server so we can swap over to the old VG Domi and turn that server on whenever we want? I can help with any of the TCAdmin stuff, I just don't know all the old Arma 2 config params and config edits that tell which map to load, etc... Or anyone who knows or remembers how to do this at VG using our TCAdmin panel - I just know that a few of them are busy or working (Poff, Savage, etc.). Whoever is available, whenever - let's make this happen.

Coders like Fastjack or Melon need to spend hundreds of hours coding the bots and updating the navmesh (whatever that exactly is) -- it's what Melon did to most all of the current maps people play on when PR 1.0 came out - it was going to launch without a COOP mode, so Melon got busy --- like biz---ay. Only a few people with the knowledge and some no longer have the patience or desire, AFAIK.

Sweet candy!

We're talking in ts3 but I'll write it here for the record... if you go with Haswell Intel (LGA 1150) you can reuse your RAM - if you go with Skylake Intel (LGA 1151) it's DDR4 and you'll need new RAM.

Falcon BMS Server restarted (actually it was around 7pm PST that I last restarted) - I must have missed this thread. Thanks for the report!

Change the SSD to Samsung 850 EVO: Sequential Read/Write Performance : Up to 540MB/s and 520MB/s Respectively,and Random Read/Write IOPS Performance : Up to 97K and 88K Respectively retail $92 avg. Currently Selected 240GB SanDisk Z410 SSD is the middle set of numbers -- retail $71 avg. Sequential Read/Write3 Up to 535/410MB/s Up to 535/440MB/s Up to 535/445MB/s Random Read/Write3 Up to 36/54K IOPS Up to 36/66K IOPS Up to 37/68K IOPS It's worth the extra $20 to have the best SSD available right now - Samsung for the win! I use that same 550c Asetek liquid cooler, and it's quite as a mouse and rarely gets hot (maybe with games like GTAV or Arma 3). Also, if you can spring for the Pro Wiring, since you're not building your own PC, it might be worth the extra little $$ -- makes cleaning out the dust bunnies a breeze the way they route all the wires on the back side of the motherboard. also looks cooler, more airflow, lower temps by a small margin as a result. 600W is more than enough for this build, including the GTX 1070 beast of a GFX card... Should pull at least 120FPS in all games with gfx settings on ultra high, no need to dick around with lowering settings to get the games to play well. Just jam the sliders in most any game to max. A worthy investment, man - you'd only save around $300 if you were a PC builder and bought the parts separately, and for that $300 you're getting rush delivery, a warranty, and no headaches from the issues of building a PC (1 in 10 RAM sticks are DOA, I think that's the figure). Plus, if you can sell your old PC on craigslist or something, this build is even cheaper. Pro shit man.