=VG= SemlerPDX

[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

greywulf LAN_WROTE ... Where can I get the complete download for this mod with a Falcon exe. and the BMS updates that actually is real and working? You are not the first person to ask this, and won't be the last. Let me explain this for all future prospective BMS players, as not everyone has the same technical background (read: this isn't obvious for everyone). Please feel free to post up any questions and I'll be happy to answer them. The reason you have a hard time with the actual BMS updates/installs is because they are very large in size, are produced by a not-for-profit group and it is SO popular that hosting all 7 of those updates in full size would cost the BMS group way too much money. Instead, they use a peer file sharing setup to distribute those files (for those who are unfamiliar, this kind is referred to as "Torrents", which are key files that locate other users sharing those exact files, resulting in bits and pieces being downloaded from the entire community of users who actively share through "Torrent Client Software") Just so you know, you do NOT need to be one of those "sharer's" -- you can run uTorrent, for example, load the BMS Torrent files, and turn off uTorrent once you have downloaded the files you need. Luckily, many users keep it open so people like you and I can always download these files when needed. The process can take some time, depending on your internet speed, and the size of the files being downloaded, but I can attest that I use uTorrent and consider it safe. So, to make this all work, do the following: Install a Torrent Client (uTorrent link below) then run the program. Next, download the BMS Updates Torrent Files, and locate the files on your computer - drag and drop them into the uTorrent window and they will begin looking for peers to download the files from. Finally, when a Torrent says "Finished", just double click on it to open it's location. After all the Torrents are finished downloading, you can turn off uTorrent by right-clicking it's icon near the Date/Time and choosing "exit"; otherwise, leave it be and your PC will continue to help share this file with the public. You do not need to install Falcon 4 in order to run BMS, it stands alone. BMS will however want to know the location of the Falcon 4.exe file on your PC, so download it and place it anywhere you can remember, and tell BMS that location when it asks during installation. These are links from my DropBox: uTorrent (run this program first, DECLINE the 3rd party software options when they come up): https://www.dropbox.com/s/cm3oejvi5ckzct3/uTorrent.exe?dl=0 Falcon BMS Updates 1-6 (in Torrent form): https://www.dropbox.com/s/kjro7urcncsr8m4/Falcon_BMS_4.32_Setup_plus_U1-U6.torrent.zip?dl=0 Falcon BMS Update 7 (in Torrent form): https://www.dropbox.com/s/7qp1tt1jk0j06z7/Falcon_BMS_4.32_Update_7.torrent.zip?dl=0 Falcon 4 EXE file (same as meiz posted; use ALTERNATE DOWNLOAD LINK): http://www.veterans-gaming.com/download.php?view.148 Good luck! !cp

Yea, something seemed odd when I restarted it yesterday - I was wondering if it loaded okay, and I guess this means it did not. I've restarted it now, and the server behaved properly this time. Pretty sure that it porks out during a restart if players re-join before I actually launch the campaign (takes ~1 minute to push all the buttons, 2 second delay to the server of my button presses - it is difficult to do the process rapidly). RESTARTED! !hi *p.s. to any BMS players, if the server goes down before noon (US time zones), do not rejoin the server for a few minutes to give me time to initialize the server.

Poffadder and several others play it. I watch Poff's stream a lot - but he won't be back until the 29th, I think... I cannot wait to play this game!! Feel free to post any screenshots or whatever about this awesome game! !fans

Poffadder has spoken with Teejay - the matter has been dealt with now. Please feel free to report any further incidents to an admin or here on the forums. *for the record, the video was posted as a worst case example of what happened to the OP - I the vid, we had no CAS and worried they may appear and kill us. Do not attack AA/SAM sites as infantry, unless for some special reason, like in the video, and even then, you risk death from BLUFOR (accidental TK's). /locked

saheen - your Unban request is here: http://www.veterans-gaming.com/vg-plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?36928.last Do not keep posting up about your ban. Wait for the admin to post.

MikelZeplin LAN_WROTE ... Question, why was it necessary to have three people on one stinger? LMAO! We had arrived without C4, and with prior plans with TRANS to drop us a crate to that roof, and due to the Zero Cooldown, a spawned Bot can instantly fire upon said TRANS friend coming with the C4 and the crate. We ensured that would not happen with triple coverage. The funniest part, though, was that the TRANS came with the crate, and dropped it right off the roof. Then came back several minutes later, and did the same exact thing. Again, several minutes later, is when this video picks up, when he's coming back. We C4'd the SAM (every few minutes), Kept all OPFOR vehicles downed by AT, and most of the BLUFOR started spawning there. The entire South was taken much faster, and we coordinated a lot of teamwork from our vantage point. Again, few PRO CAS players want this, as they do fine against SAM - we had poor CAS and helped out the big picture this way. Make sure you talk with CAS if you do this, like TEDF said!

If you are going to go for the "big" team play goal of cross squad help, like Squad vs. AA for the benefit of all, then communication must come first. As CAS, I always had 2 initial targets on Mutrah: AA - on other maps there were more, I knew just where they were. Most infantry did as well, and rarely did we get that one squad who was gonna help. Kudos to you for your attempt!! Do not get discouraged, just get more players on the same page the next time. And, I agree with you with regards to the rather apathetic apology you received after the event happened. WhiteWolf, you are not responsible for Teejay's shit - but shit does need to stop. A game without rules sucks, and the lack of personal accountability on part of these other gamers like Teejay is something that good regular gamers should not be shunned by. Just know, we are trying to curb that TK attitude, and there is a consensus to pay closer attention to what is happening in the PR server - rest assured, I'll personally be spending plenty of time there if I am able to get a working rig before new years. I personally feel for you - I often ran AT squads that focused on CAS AA assists - not talkin out of my ass, it can be done, but communication is the first thing! You will get accidentally killed in an area that is so frequently fragged by CAS if they do not know you are there or do not actively acknowledge it. Hell, spam the text box if you have to just to get a response, just know that there are language barriers, so como-rose can be your only way. Finally, barring that, your job is to keep your team alive if you are the squad leader, if you cannot pop smoke and communicate that the AA roof is now BLUFOR, you are the one who should evac otherwise face known and expected friendly fire on the AA. It is your job to communicate, but that was indeed a sortof dick way to apologize (if that was what that was). Here is us doing just what you said, and died doing, but we communicated (and forced a solid response) from como-rose commands, popped smoke, and text messages in game. We didn't even have the C4 this time and needed another chopper to deliver (which he failed at twice before this vid, dropping the crate off the roof into the courtyard full of bots):

I read everything I could on that website about kali, and I think it would be the starting point, but it looks like a client side game finder, and I am not sure it has a web page display function that we could use as a website widget or whatever. Someone with coding experience may need to write something small that pulls info from this program and sends it to a php page here at the site, then someone with php experience could make THAT page into a widget that could exist on any page, like the gametracker servers list in our Game Servers page. This laptop I have is all I have, and it overheats if I fart too much - it's that shitty. Otherwise, I'd download kali and fuck around with it. Once I get a proper PC, I know I'll be looking for some VG projects, sucks I can't do more than read and report at this time. !dash

MikelZeplin LAN_WROTE ... I can't help but think that the server crashes are completely Melon's fault. !rofl

I also very much want this! If anyone can help, or knows someone who could - the game runs in Basic AFIK and it has an additional exe called IVC (used for comms) that also runs in what looks like a DOS prompt window - perhaps it could be polled for changes, each time a user enters a channel, their unique name is displayed in the IVC window. Gotta be a semi-simple way to pull this info to a php window we can display here at the site. I worked with ASeptik before and we successfully pulled ARMA 2 info into a web-based php for display, maybe he could have some insight into this project?

These posts are very welcome! Thank you for your report. It will happen, from time to time, that the server breaks down into chaos, and it can be hard to get it to recover without an admin present. We all have different time zones, and what is 8 am for me is afternoon for UK. But, aside from in-game admins, there may be a PR admin not in game, but online in the VG Teamspeak somewhere, and you will never know unless you try that route as well. Pop into Teamspeak, look for someone with =VG= tags, and kindly ask if they are able to do anything to help, or if they know someone that can be contacted to help. If no one is available, it is helpful as you did to take pictures and get some evidence so that in the aftermath, =VG= Admins can assess what happened and address specific players and violators of the rules. Please feel free to report here anytime you find an issue that cannot be resolved in game at the time you are playing. Thanks again! !hi

VG Admin aliases should be secret and registered in the admin section, at least once some bans start appearing under them, unless you plan do as Robot said... Non-VG Admins beware: You never know when you are being watched!!

Ah - thank you Gaz. I thought I had missed something there. And on that note - I can't wait to take part in this SHAPE thing. I think I had gotten bored back in the day with constant trials and testings looking for that "one good" mission when all along this type of intercommunity large event operations was what I really thought Arma should be. Looks like others had the same mind and created a system to smooth the process of it all. Looks very pro! !2cool

SavageCDN =VG= LAN_WROTE ... ... will be at the admin meeting tomorrow however. ?? I know I'm not around much, but I'd like to keep up and at least listen in - was just talking with Poff the other day about the previous meeting that I had missed while up in the mountains... Not sure why he wouldn't let me know about this one??

"When the sun's comin up I got cakes on the griddle. Life ain't nuthin but a funny, funny riddle... Thank God Ima country boy!"

not NAKED! Geez, Bob! I do have leaves stuck to my nipples, for shit sake! I'm not crazy! !crazy

When we had one of those Super Moons, I put my digital camera up to the lens of my little 70mm Meade telescope to see if I could capture what I was seeing to share it with you all. That evening, the light was so bright, I didn't need any flashlights or lanterns to see, and everything cast shadows like daylight for several hours while the Moon was over my river valley. Only one of the photos actually focused, and this is it. I have 2 lenses for the scope, and with the strongest power one, I can see the ridges of craters, contour lines and heat waves coming off of the surface of the Moon. I recommend clicking on the photo for full size so you can zoom in and see some detail - it seems only the left portion of the Moon in this photo is in focus, and also note that this would be the right of the Moon to the naked eye as this is a refracting scope (we're looking through a mirror at the Full Moon).

Thanks! Here's where I got my drinking water (still ran it through the "Gravity Works" .2 micron filter system for good measure)