=VG= SemlerPDX

Final straw is your way of thinking, and your shallow defense of your racism, calling it "just a word" depending on it's use - I've banned for that before, and you are now banned. Grow up. Bingreding LAN_WROTE ... Lastly, the term nigger, is not necessarily racist. If you used with a harmful intent absolutely. But without harmful intent it is not necessarily a bad word. This is why you see it in use today, as an alternative to my bro-> my nigga. I would not use it with harmful intent considering that I am half black myself, this would be effectively shitting my on own background;s) You're done, I'm getting sick of reading your bs. /locked

Bingreding LAN_WROTE ... Let us dig deeper into these shall we? As you wish... I didn't quote all the things I found in the logs as I was attempting to remain on my point while allowing you grace and benefit of the doubt in my attempt to show you the impression you've given Martin, and just one proof example of how Martin is not trying to "lie and smear your good name". Your ability to single out and eliminate my point by disecting my post makes me distrust your integrity and ability to account for your actions, or to be cognizant of them at all. So, here you go: LemurLemur =VG= LAN_WROTE ... You have been warned, kicked, and even resigned by multiple admins for many things such as: Racism, asset stealing (multiple times on different maps, i have also personally resigned you many times), tking, soloing assets, duplicate squads, wasting assets, and one man locked squads.... ...calling people "fucking germans", Saying "nigger" (which is a banable offense) and calling admins idiots. You are lucky i wasnt there to see you type out and call someone a nigger because that shit wont fly with me on this server.... And you won't fly on this server anymore, either, unless some admins can convice me here that you are worth giving a chance to. Some of my best friends here are "fucking germans", and you deserve an outright ban for saying "Nigger" no matter WHAT context you intended. Consider yourself banned unless someone wants to make a case as to why we need you on our server, which at this point is near impossible. The simple fact that you want us to sling a halo around your head while the logs and many, many admins tell a more down to earth story is a case for you finding another COOP PR server to frequent.

Bingreding LAN_WROTE ... ...I would kindly suggest that in the future (Martin) refrains from baseless unsubstantiated accusations which are nothing short of a vile attempt to smear my name... ...The (quote) stated by Martin is nothing short of a disgusting attempt to smear my name... TED answered your report, it was a mistake, not malicious. As for Martin, <br />bingreding: vehicle repair/supply drop available, call squad 6<br />joe98085 TEAMKILLS  bingreding<br />bingreding: never play chicken run with apc xDD<br />vystrel: Why squad 6 is using IFV?<br />Martin: !w bingreding Drive back that apc to main<br />bingreding: m8 im passangerrr<br />bingreding: I know the rules, well most of them ;D<br /> Looks like Martin may have good reason to feel how he does. Seems to me Martin was under the impression you were in squad 6, though you may not have been driving. There is no reason to turn this into a debate, but I see how Martin may be under the impression that you were involved with that vechicle and it's improper use. I don't think he is trying to spin lies, but his impression of your gameplay. Obviously, the MAIN ISSUE of this report is that you were in the first trans squad, and a mistake was made by a remote admin which is rare. It was a mistake based on a verbal report as stated by TED, but since you stated that all these impressions Martin has are outright lies to smear your name, I though I'd pull this out of the logs as well... <br />ToRoLibert: xD fail<br />bingreding: omg<br />bingreding: how high do I need to be to swap from hover to forward<br />bingreding: i was at 160 feet ;s<br />Martin: !w bingreding STOP WASTING ASSETS AND SHOOT THE BOT AIRPLANES<br /> It seems you did not know how to fly the VTOL aircraft you were piloting. This is a COOP server, not a practice server. That was a waste of an asset. I read logs here and there, searching for admin names and checking their activity - and I've never gotten the impression that Martin is an outright liar with intent to smear the names of decent players such as yourself. All reports are taken seriously, though, and this one is now logged.

Come tour Castle Semleria with me! This is a LONG Screenshot post... It was a work of over 5 months, off an on; my first foray into playing this game - and as a noOb I died many times! From my humble beginnings in my Cobblestone Keep, to the construction of my first Citadel which inspired all this, I played vanilla 1.7 Minecraft in Survival Mode on Normal Difficulty. I'll admit I did "cheat" in a ton of coal blocks when cooking my thousands of stored stone from the mines into bricks, and a dispenser full of squid for Squid's Galley Aquarium - I just plain got impatient on one or two things; also, I did all my redstone with a crate of "cheated in" parts, as I wanted to focus on building. All building was done back in Survival Mode with said items, cooking raw stone into the castle bricks, and each book and book shelf came from cows and paper from the farm. Everything is my own design, except for the working portcullis, which came from a YouTuber's design. It took awhile, but was great fun! I hope you Minecrafter's enjoy seeing another player's works here. Just Keep Scrollin' Every castle needs secret passages! Functional aesthetics like working portcullis, murder holes, protected walkways and towers along castle walls, over a dozen secret passageways, hidden switches, and secret rooms including a multi-function Nether Portal that goes to the farm, the Nether Mine, the castle, and the Nether Railway (turns 2 days travel into 45 second ride to nearest Village). Paradise Ranch Forgive me if I'm overly proud of my semi-automated farm. With the barn, it's 2 stories above ground, and 4 below, with hopper/railcart harvester, and materials transportation to and from the Castle Kitchen. All you gotta do is feed, breed, slaughter, and plant - if the hogs don't get out, you don't even need to hoe the dirt! Fishing spot is better than my Log Cabin on the lakes up North, and it's right by home: many magic books and items get hooked. My Log Cabin up North Up at Lake of the Woods, Semtario, I built a log cabin out of full trees from surrounding forests. It has an ever burning hearth, and another burning brick near the top of the chimney to produce a smoke effect. This was WAY too much fun to build! At this point, I'm hooked on Minecraft for life. Thanks for reading! !cheers A Glitched Final View of the Mines under the Castle:

Excellent report, and good suggestions! I may be the 'invisible VG admin' as my crappy laptop barely lets me use the forums and admin the Falcon BMS server, but I'd like to address all the admins and experienced regulars who read this thread, and tho most of you PR guys don't even know me, I hope you can trust in the 2000 or more hours I've played in PR and my experience with server administration over the years - please read this if you have time and want some ideas to change this server back to what it was - the best Squad-based COOP server in PR for 5 years running! When any game suddenly opens up to a new flood of players, it can "ruin" the flow of the server and it's goals. I've seen it happen a couple times with a couple games - I wish I'd have afforded another gaming PC by now because I'd help this new war effort - and it does take direct effort of the experienced players and a soft touch from the admins to re-establish the SOP's and ROE's that make the difference between an online free-for-all and a Squad-based COOP experience. Like Sol said above, the first step involves leaving your comfort zone and spreading out the clique. Over time, friends and good players gravitate towards each other, and eventually, the majority of the 'dedicated' players roll in squads together - it happens in most games and servers, but when few others group, the main groups need to break up and spread out. Good squad leaders are around 1 in 10 players, and new players don't even know the role - if you know how to SL, but prefer an infantry role, you and the server would benefit from spending rounds here and there as an SL with a goal to teach new SL's, increasing the surplus population of confident leaders, and ensuring a future with more squads to choose from in which to play the less demanding infantry roles in. In the past, we've found keeping it to two game vets in a squad with the rest open to the public is better than splitting up all the vets as single squad leaders - we did this for Arma COOP events. For one, you still get to play with a 'battle buddy' who knows how to play, and additionally they can help you as the Squad Leader of noObs to enforce and maintain status-quo while you take on a more 'teaching' role to new players, informing them (without being bossy or overly instructional) about the game, and how it should best be played at the VG PR COOP. Careful not to 'teach' too much or your noObs will get sick and leave as if you fed them castor oil. !bad Keep all your veterans buddies and regulars on TeamSpeak and/or use Mumble and you'll still be able to socialize on Command Channel if you're all Squad Leaders - having fun as well as running things as usual - just not all piled into 1-2 elite squads of game veterans. Eventually, after several weeks, the people you teach and inspire to play better will pass it on and good gameplay will spread like a virus, with a majority of players flooding into and filling created squads, and blueberry squad leaders will once again have the confidence to build a good squad by kicking out players who don't follow the leader; so long as players learn WHY it's better to be in a squad (better infantry weapons choices, 'revivability', squad spawn points, etc.) they will make the choice themselves to always join or create a squad over running around solo. For enforcement, a light touch is required. Admins seeing a server filled with non-squader's or multiple squads of 1 man should begin in information campaign - use the Admin Message system to get the attention of the server over the course of time - don't expect full compliance immediately, but repeat your statements and when possible, talk to solo's directly, stating that you are trying to combine squads, and fill out the roles, and after so many rounds or so much time, players will be temporarily kicked from the server to make room for those who want to play Squad-based COOP PR at VG. Just be sure to be patient with non-violators playing solo - they may be new, they may speak a different language, and they may be just trying out a new game with no idea how it's supposed to be played. It's up to you regular, dedicated players and admins to bring them into the fold instead of giving them a bad experience of "follow the rules (which you may not yet know exist) or be kicked from the server". Be diplomats and ambassadors for your favorite game, be friendly and welcoming to new players, encourage them to browse the PR Manual which talks about kits, roles, and game modes, to better inform them about why YOU love this game so much. They'll either make the same conclusion, or find another game and server. As we move forward, be firm with your enforcement but try to identify those brand new players and give them the benefit of the doubt, and maybe seek out lone wolfs directly and ask them if they want to join your squad and see how it all works.

Same here - been keeping an eye on the posts about Squad for awhile, it looks like it could be cool, but that kickstarter is pretty funky... Seems realistic to show what they can afford to add, and where their priorities are, but still... I would not want to play it if they only ever got to level 3 of that kickstarter to be honest.

Send a private message (that white box that says "PM" under each of these posts) to TAC - I'm sure you and he can set up a time to do this. Best I could do would be to get you online, I don't even have a computer capable of running BMS at present. Free Flights are easy on our server - we call them TE (Tactical Engagements) and they can be initiated on our server without harming it, and without joining the full blown Korean War campaign in progress. I gotta say, it's been a hell week for me. I'm not retired at 35 because I'm lazy - and if it weren't for my family's help this last week, I'd not even be able to "fake usefulness" for a few hours day. Like I said, contact TAC via PM - schedule a time and he'll meet you. I may be unavailable until my body settles down. !hi

(we must apologize for the camera, best we could do on short notice) The mini-back story: I heard a noise at the park, and curiosity got the better of me. I met a nice gentleman flying an Oxy 3 RC Helicopter. The stunts he was performing were unbelievable. As I didn't have a camera, he let me use his cellphone to record a flight. It's dim screen made near impossible to aim, but this video shows several examples of the capabilities of the Oxy 3 in the hands of a skillful pilot, including highly controlled upside down flight! Thanks, Mat!

TAC! Wassup!! Another person that is keen to help. Just in time - I am unavailable today, things have come up (mostly eye, neck, and muscle pains to a severe degree). Unless things improve by 12pm, I'm afraid I gotta take the day off as it were. I know TAC will help you !fans

*my laptop is just to crappy to stay logged into teamspeak. I'm afraid I've gotta log out for today, but I will keep checking back here at the site for your reply. See you soon!

Sure man - I see that you are online right now, I'll help you get onto the server. !hi Edit: Though our forums are having issues showing the posts or other items, I found this info page for you - VG Falcon BMS Server Details: http://www.veterans-gaming.com/page.php?224

**On that note, I could add it to the quick site links at the very bottom of the webpage, Perhaps under Helpful Links - we could call it PR Admin Reports and you'd never have to worry about the Top 10 posts or it dropping off that list. Edit: done and done. PR Admin Ban Report link can be found at the bottom of any page on the site now, under Helpful Links !cheers

site search for it or google search it with quotes around the word veterans-gaming... "veterans-gaming" admin ban outlanders will probably do it in this case. If that happens to any thread that drops off the top 10 (which we cannot control), just google like above with some key words you remember from the thread - it will come up in the top 5, we get crawled a lot by google. !hi ...and here's a direct link to the thread you requested, just remember the tip ^ http://www.veterans-gaming.com/vg-plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?37095.last PR Admin Jedi can use site search (Search VG) to get quick info about these forum posts that are presently difficult to find in the forum list for some people (or just blank pages of forum posts lists - that's what I see. ug). Say this is you, playing PR and you notice something, "Hmmm - the name Bottio sounds familiar. Was he banned or something?" Site search says: Remember to use the Force, Jedi Masters! !gam

Here's an actual user review from a person who went through the VOID (buried in the comment section of that vid on YT): Amethyst Gaming wrote ... "I was able to try it as well because my friend is involved with the graphics/art side of things, so it wouldn't surprise me if other developers were able to get their friends in." ..... "I only got to do one playthrough and it was somewhat early on, but it really was amazing. I put the headset and backpack on (they had gaming laptops and an oculus for testing at this point) and turned around. Suddenly, there was a gun floating in front of me. My friend told me to pick the gun up, so I reached out and picked up a prop gun that was the same model that I was seeing, including a functioning trigger. I walked down a short corridor and there was a glass tank with a monster thing inside. The tank broke and smoke billowed out (in game, no special effect smoke that I could tell), blocking my vision. When the smoke cleared, my friend told me to look up. What I saw above me was a ceiling probably 100 feet high (the room we were in was ~30-40 feet high), with a ledge along one wall. The monster had scaled the wall and was peering over the edge. I looked down sights, pulled the trigger, and killed it after a few volleys. Next, I left through a sliding door, and went down a short corridor. I turned left and stepped out onto the balcony. The air felt cold, and I could feel a light breeze blowing. I could see miles out, an entire landscape blooming in front of me with a sheer cliff thousands of feet deep just below me. I turned around and there were spiders crawling all over in the corridor, so I spray'n'prayed and killed them all. I went through the next door and entered a claustrophobic utility room. There were spider webs hanging from the ceiling that brushed against my arms as I walked past. I exited through the opposite door, and was told to take off the headset. I did, and I was in the same room I started in. Overall a very realistic feeling experience, my favorite part was being able to literally reach the gun around a corner to fire. PROS: Very realistic experience. The graphics were awesome. The special effects were present and noticeable, but not overdone. CONS: I think it was just me, but the image seemed a bit blurry. I've never used a virtual reality headset before, so I'm not sure my brain knew where to focus, especially with so many new things happening at once. I couldn't see my body. I stepped off the cliff SUMMARY: Overall an amazing experience that I would happily pay for as a finished product. This was a pretty early playthrough and was more of a tech demo than an actual game, but it was enjoyable with the little content it had. My friend said they were working on full body tracking so you could see where you're standing and where your arms are, and they're planning on doing larger, more storyline-based levels for the release. I think that both of the aforementioned would vastly improve the experience. The demo I played gets a solid 8/10, even with the minor bugs and missing features."

These guys at VOID are trying to make VR centers, buildings with rooms padded in generic foam forms that get overlaid with VR environments through the headset (like a portable Oculus Rift). When I was a teenager, we had LaserTag centers - is this what the next generation gets? LaserTag was so big, you had home sets you could buy, and buy addon packs for more friends, turning your house into the warzone, instead of the LaserTag Center's blacklight arena that you had to pay money to enter. So, how long after this comes out before we have home sets that use cameras and lasers to map our halls and then paint them with a video game overlay in our home VR headsets, running through our own hallways fragging friends in VR? Only a matter of time... until then, these VOID guys will fill the void with VR Centers (they say it could be 10 players with no lag). No idea on how much they'll charge, when they will be finished with development, or what major cities they'll open it in - but this sneak peek video is set to go viral; near 2 million views in a week. The sweetest peek has to be the vehicle chair - looks like the player was strapped in and getting tossed around as he moved his flight stick. Sick shit!

Best of luck! !fans

Normally, I'd resize pics for people's posts - But this one actually looks good while "too big" Nice screenshot!

Offer to run a server for us is greatly appreciated, but unnecessary... We have a server running right now for Falcon 4 BMS. I personally attend to it each morning, even though I do not have a computer capable of playing in it at present. It crashed today, I had it back up within hours. Any issues, let me know and I'll kick it's rear in gear. =VG= Falcon 4 BMS Server simulates a North Korean Invasion each week, and though few of the pilots frequent our forums, our 24/7 IVC Server connected to the BMS Server ensures easy communications, and you can look in our TeamSpeak 3 Server for players in that game channel, as well. I'd also like to note that this is a FREE game. Those of you who play other combat flight sims could try this one out FREE! The F-16 Falcon has similar systems to the Warthog that many fly in the DCS World... you'd cross over to an F-16 Falcon easily. Anyone interested in joining the server, and flying this great sim with XeroX and others, just know it's as easy as following the download/install instructions here (about midway down, post by SemlerPDX): http://www.veterans-gaming.com/vg-plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?37148.last !cp (I voted Yes, even though I can't play at present. BMS Rocks!)

[EDITED: IP address must contain port number as well, now shown above. -SemlerPDX] [Edit 2: tried without the port number and i worked fine for me, but just to be sure fill it in too. -Lordvlad30] HA! You know what that was? I was thinking of a time when we had a non-standard port and had to enter it - that was awhile ago. I think I had some kind of flashback when I entered only the IP into "Bookmark Manager" address bar and it didn't resolve. Clearly it's different if entered under the "Connections" tab. Thanks again, lordvlad! !cheers

Cavey - do not worry about asking for help. Most of us here can remember when we were new to this as well. It is not easy at first, specifically knowing where to get truthful information - too many websites are just ad scams or incomplete impostors that merely look like the "official site". A perfect example is that "tsviewer" website you linked. It looks official, but it is NOT owned or operated by TeamSpeak and it is severely lacking in truthful information. We've had the same IP for years and that site doesn't know it - because it's just some guy's website for some e-Sports project. Don't get discouraged by misleading info like that. Our TS3 does exist, and if you follow lordvlad's instructions, you should find us just fine. ** If you are new to Voice over Internet, you need to know a few things: You need to set a button to push to talk - like a CB Radio. At first, many people want to have TS3 act like a phone, picking up any sound at either end - this is not always ideal. If you want the Microphone always on, it would help to assign one of the keys on your keyboard as a "Mute" button. Once you get TS3 installed, go to the Options (keyboard shortcut Alt+P), and review the different catagories. From Microphone to Speakers to other more advanced options, you will want to look through and adjust settings as appropriate to your hardware and preferences. Not trying to overwhelm you with information, just do your best to get up and running. If you have any more questions, feel free to post up here again. People here like to help others, you are not bothering anyone at all. Good luck! !hi

Thanks, guys! So bored lately - my brother "took back" the guitar he "gave" me, so about all the fun I get is watching Star Trek re-runs on Netflix on the ol Kindle while building this Castle on my shitty laptop... (**my father just surprised me, Dean Guitar's are on sale 50% Off - he's ordered an exact duplicate of the Dean Guitar I was playing, should be here Friday!!! WOO HOO!) I LOVE this Redstone stuff.... Spent days in my Creative world trying to make a working gatehouse, and tried and failed to make a working Portcullis.... I ended up watching a How To on YouTube for the design, but I modified the switches to have push buttons on the gates, as well as master controls for both gates inside including 2 locking switches. Too fun!!! Here's a night shot that I thought I'd die trying to take, but I made it safely back inside: And here's a close up of the double-gate house with Portcullis (portculli?): Gonna craft TNT to help remove chunks of the mountain inside - I'm certainly not hurting for the materials anymore, and strip-mining the mountain is taking wayyy to long... !2cool

I believe the best advice for you, BLuD is what they said above about the GTX 760 or the GTX 770 - and consider that next time you have money for PC parts, if you're not already running iCore CPU and modern motherboard, to get a new CPU/RAM/MotherBoard setup, all your old stuff will cross over just fine, including whatever Graphics Card you purchase now. A final note about VRAM - for a single monitor fullscreen game on a monitor that is not a "4K" display, you can run a 1080p resolution just fine at the 2GB VRAM. Cards generally come ready for most basic uses, and the amount of VRAM a card has should not influence your decision one bit, even if you want a second monitor for, say, looking at teamspeak or other non-3D applications while gaming on the first monitor. It's just a non-factor if purchase ANY decent card recommended in this post, period. If you want multiple monitors for gaming, high-res, or other expensive things, THEN you can consider the witherto's and whyfor's of VRAM limitations(great tests and articles on that over at Tom's Hardware that I've read - check them out if these things appeal to you). !cheers

WhiteWolf LAN_WROTE ... poffadder =VG= LAN_WROTE ... WhiteWolf LAN_WROTE ... "bottleneck" ... that word is withering away, Lolz soon "bottleneck" will never be a thing, Most places (INTEL) shot them selfs in the foot, LOLz they cant make CPUs faster just use less power ... its funny really. Wut? None of those statements are true. think what ever you want to think, But its True, No, sir, it is NOT true... Careful there, young WhiteWolf - you're trying to contradict an accomplished professional there; Poffadder is a computer engineer with the lambskin to prove it - years of intense study, matlab's, and competent Professors are something that our internet research and personal opinions cannot compete with. Although, it's not a competition - we all should help where we can, but defer to the pros and maybe learn something along the way instead of confronting a correction with statements resembling "Don't confuse me with the facts - I've already made up my mind" - seriously, bro? "think what ever you want to think" ?!?! I don't mean to get defensive of my friends, but if you knew Poffadder and what he's gone through these past few years, you'd offer an apology after such a statement, or at least a retraction. Please be more respectful in the future as there may be more for us all to learn about computers after all..

I gots some screenshots to share.... (and, Poff, you were right - despite my most careful gaming, I've died several times - lost a several quality items, ambushed by more than one creeper, and stupidly dug open a lava chamber and promptly fell right in...) My minecraft survival world (pretty proud of it, tho it gets lonely - wish this laptop could game AND be online at the same time...ugh): Here is my original keep, made it first over a month ago; farm land, main house, good "spider proof" cobblestone walls: It's at the base of a mountain that I've been mining, and I decided to build a stone brick castle around and out of the mountain: I've started with a huge citadel and then made the perimeter wall, and then started designing and building turrets Here is the South Wall, with the gate house entrance: My biggest task is to remove huge sections of the mountain as they get too close to the walls - I've spent the last 3 days just removing 5-7 block perimeter inside the new stone brick walls. Here is the North West corner, where I will resume today: **no cheating either, this is all stone I mined, then cooked into bricks, then crafted into stone bricks. Have had to stop just to stockpile coal at times, searching surrounding areas on a "coal only mission". Still, fun way to pass the time!

It may have been the server. It was not functioning this morning - but it is now. Try again to rejoin, and feel free to ask for help if you cannot get it working. We're glad to help another PC gamer! !cheers