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Hi, Having been absent from the life server for a few years (been playing I&A), forgetting how most of the "life" key functions work, seeing heaps of side chat Q's from new players (can send them here now), not being able to find anything in one place (other than this thread by Yuri from a couple of years back) I thought I might help out by putting most of the simple stuff to start out as a new player into one post/thread, rather than lots of Q&A's scattered all over the place. As said I’ve only just got on again, still picking things up, info may not be complete/correct, but hopefully others will post below with anything I’ve missed, got incorrect, which I’ll do my best (with time) to update this post. Firstly- If your totally new to Arma and skipped the Arma virtual tutorial (like many do) I suggest you go back and do it to learn the basic keyboard functions/controls, otherwise your going to be in for a world of pain/frustration, no idea what to do other than move around, likely asking stupid questions on side chat (frustrating others), if you can work out how to use that. Starting out Server Rules - Are here Team Speak Server Address (For Help Desk Support etc) - ts.straya.life If not by now aware, pretty much what the game is all about, is making Money and lots of it, on your own or via teamwork with others, via Role Play (RP), whether making it legally through different means, including wages, or as many prefer, illegally. You start out with some money in your bank account, plus get a regular auto (dole) payment, but it won’t go very far… So what are your easier choices to make $’s, while learning the basic key functions, so you can buy better stuff? OK, I've selected the server (hopefully without any mods) what's next? You'll see all these names on the right side of the screen, that’s everyone on the server atm, on the left side names taking up slots, (don't select one yet) and some vacant slots for selection. To the left of that you’ll see a blue box with “BLUFOR” (for Police/Cops to join the server), a green box with Independent (for Medics to join the server), and to make it easy lets call it a pink box for “Civilian” (General Players, like you for now, to join the server). For now click on the Pink “Civilian” box, find a vacant slot (not taken up by another name) mouse click on it, down the bottom right of screen click OK. The required sever file will now download onto your PC, after load-up you'll be presented with a console screen which has a selection of spawn locations, for now all you'll see is, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. But which one to choose? I guess being first on the list, like most you’d be tempted to simply select Sydney, However... Sydney - it’s 1st on the list so the most populated area on the map, with the largest safe zones (supposed to not get robbed/killed in one) however like any populated city you have lots of good and bad, but the bad usually makes it unbearable for most new players simply wanting to learn how the game works before getting into the fun stuff, hard if you keep getting harassed by dickheads. If your one, please stay there, have fun. If you select Sydney you’ll likely find yourself spawning into a building somewhere, can hear lots of gun fire, sirens, perhaps explosions, and possibly have no idea where you are, which way to go, what to do etc…. Melbourne - is where the more experienced players tend to spawn, trying to stay away from the newbies and dickheads (they eat them for breakfast, lunch, dinner & light snacks in-between), usually not interested in being a cop, likely more into illegal activities, rarely want anything to do with new/inexperienced players, unless they know them, a friend etc, if your not one, prob prepare to be robbed &/or killed, hard to comply with their demands if you don’t know what function key to press yet. Brisbane - most of the time, for now, tends to be the quietest less populated area, but you still need to be wary/cautious. From the above spawning options, if you simply want to log-in, learn the game basics before deciding what your next move will be, Brisbane would be my choice for now. OK? I’m in a building somewhere, now what do I do? For now, your pretty safe, standing there in your underwear (cute), you have nothing on you anyone wants (sorry), if you've actually spawned at Brisbane, your in a city with likely no one other than perhaps a few other newbies like yourself, perhaps the odd vehicle or chopper passing by. However there could also be a dickhead around, so for now move yourself to a spot not exposed to street view. At the bottom of the screen it shows how many civs, cops & medics are on the server, how much cash you have on you, how much is in your bank account, your heath, how full your stomach is with water and food etc. Press "M", this will open the Map, look around, lots to see and do, but what you choose to do can either be easy with low income, or very risky for high income. While here click on the writing to the top left, this will show you miscellaneous server control functions, plus the server rules which you should read if you want to be a good player, rather than a dickhead. However, many don’t read them until they get into trouble, or banned from the server, so I’ll continue… Press the "I" key (inventory), this shows part of what you have on you, at the moment its nothing. Press the "Y" key, this is also part of what you have on you, but also has many other functions, most you'll learn along the way, but for now click on "Market" This obviously shows the current market for items, have a browse, see what gets good & crap coin. Before moving on, Firstly, there’s one vital setting we’ll sort out that many have trouble with, the “Use” key function, which is supposed to work with the left Windows key, but doesn't for many, including myself. USE key Function Fix The Use key interacts with certain things on the server, picks fruit, uses a pick for mining, collects items you’ll come across, perhaps when nothing else works, try it. To make sure it works, press Esc, click on “Configure” click on “Controls” select “Custom Controls” from drop down list, click on “Use Action 1” press the ~ key (to the left of the 1 key on most keyboards) nothing else should be in this action selection, click OK, now do the same for “Use Action 10”. This should resolve any issues with the “Use” function key, which we’ll get into later. So back to, Where am I and What do I do? To get you used to the basic function controls, we'll start out with something easy first, won't make a huge amount, but wont cost you much to kit up either, if you stuff up and die, no big loss. Everything is close to where you are right now, the fruit fields and the place that buys it off you. All you need is some clothing (optional), a backpack, basic supplies, and assuming you don’t want to walk, a drivers license and cheap vehicle. Open the Map again, use your mouse to find your location on the map (says “YOU” with an arrow), use scroll to zoom in/out. Find the “Market” in the town your in, then locate the nearest ATM to it. Hold down the left Shift Key and with your left mouse button click on the ATM, this should place a small round black target, called a “way point”. Press M again (or Esc) to close the map, look around and you should see in white writing a dot with numbers showing the distance and direction to the way point. Go to the ATM, if you want to run hold down Shift+W, when you get there look at the ATM and press space, or mouse scroll. Type in the amount you want to Withdraw (it also allows Deposits, and transfers to other players), lets say 30k for now. Now go to the “Market”, you’ll find a room with signs, move ~1mtr from them and you’ll see what they offer, look at the clothing one until some further writing pops up (you may have to move around, some can be a bit buggy), select to open it by either pressing the space bar or scroll mouse. Select the outfit you want and a backpack, quality, style, size etc is not really an issue yet, so save your $’s, you maybe dead in 5min and will have to re-kit/spend again. The other signs offer food, water, utilities etc, as you play you’ll learn what you do & don’t need etc. For this we’ll start with the basics; 1 x water 1 x bacon 1 x GPS 1 x Night Vision Goggles (NV’s, you’ll need them if it gets dark) 1 x Drivers License 2 x Tool Kits and 2 x First Aids (in-case you have a crash or two, likely). If its dark, press “N” to turn on/off the NV’s. Now go to the vehicle garage, each vehicle has different storage capacity, price etc, for now just buy a Quad bike. Go outside and you should see it waiting for you. Important – after all your purchases you now prob still have cash on you, keep it and risk having it robbed from you, or go to ATM now and deposit it. Go up to Quad, press the “U” key to unlock it, also locks it. Press space or scroll to get on, if you find yourself on the rear seat, scroll and select drivers seat. Open map, mark a way point on fruit field you want to pick (apples or pears, which ones worth more on the market atm?), close map, press “W” to go forward etc, head to way point, Shift+W for turbo. Oh shit I crashed and I’m dead? If a medic is nearby atm request (prob none near Brisbane) or wait for re-spawn timer and start over. I’m still alive but the Quads damaged? Use a first aid kit on yourself, toolkit on the Quad (“~”) then when able (after fruit run) go to a hospital for 100% heal (scroll medkit on counter). I’ve got some guy/s chasing me telling me to pull over and get off the Quad? It’s Role Play (RP). Personal choice, try & out run them (they likely have guns tho), prob crash the quad and they get you anyway, or, do as instructed or likely die, lose ALL your stuff anyway, have to respawn, spend more $'s to kit up again.. In the end, right now, you have no value on you their interested in, however if their dickheads picking on newbies they could take your Quad to the chop shop (little value), leave you stranded without food & water etc, with which you may as well press Esc and re-spawn. You can report this to admin, via Team Speak, but the outcome is rarely worth the effort, and the dickheads know it. If you wish to comply; Do as instructed/demanded. Stop & get out of your vehicle = pretty simple. Drop your weapon (assuming you have one, it will be in your hand when you get out ("Shift+H" for holster), unless its in your backpack) = press "I" (Inventory) select gun with mouse, drag left to ground. Put your hands on your head = press "Tab" Lay down on the ground = press "Z" Anyway... you made it to the Fruit Field, go up to a fruit tree (you won’t see any hanging off it), kinda look at the ground, press the Use Key (~, which we setup earlier) keep doing it until you get a message (top right) that says you can’t carry anymore, go to the Quad, press “T” (for trunk), transfer fruit from yourself to the Quad trunk, go pick more fruit until both you and the Quad can’t carry anymore (why a big pack pack helps). Now look at the map, find buyer, add way point, head there and sell it. Now you have cash on you again…what to do? Head for the closest ATM maybe... Providing all's gone well, you've now completed your first legal income, whilst surprisingly also earning the dole (like Aus no wonder the countries finances are fk'd :P). You now have more money in the bank than you started with, if you like can store your Quad in the garage and buy a bigger vehicle, pick some more fruit, &/or do one of the following; Other “somewhat” simple legal options for income, with higher risk; Fishing Fish – requires a boat license from the market, purchase a boat at marina (un/lock like vehicle). Mark way point at fishing ground, head out, scroll for fishing net (boat must be stationary), sell at fish market. Turtles – Whilst classed "illegal fishing", and somewhat risky to kit up, it’s good income; As well as the boat (unless swimming offshore) you’ll also need a dive suit, respirator & goggles from the dive shop, and a gun (SDAR) which you can get from the contractors arsenal (can be risky to get in/out of there alive) which is near the main Airport/Melbourne, or perhaps find one on Gumtree (in the game), or via black the market. Dive in, spot a turtle, shoot it, go up to it, collect it, keep storing in boat, sell at fish market. Iron & Copper - requires a mining license from the market, and a processor license which you purchase from the processor, which means you have to risk carrying cash to it. Go to the Iron or Copper mine, press use key, load up, go to processor, buy license, process, take it to buyer, sell, head to ATM. Oil – purchase 1 x oil barrel from market, head out to Oil Platform in Boat, or Chopper, get up on platform, stand near yellow creates, look at concrete floor (it doesn't come out of pipes), use key like other mining/picking, load up, take it to Oil processor, buy license (need to take cash for it), process, take to Oil buyer, sell, head to ATM. There are other types of mining on the map, but there either shit income for effort (salt, concrete, timber etc) or it seems there not available/working, like Diamonds (unless I’m missing something?). Warning – Even with a weapon/s, working alone, or with one or two other newbies, leaves you vulnerable. Bandits can hang-out around the buyer locations, hidden, or see you on the way to an ATM, let you do all the work, move in and demand your cash earnings, and whatever else they desire, before you get a chance to bank it. Apart from that - there’s also the illegal activities like hold-ups, chop shop, drugs etc, etc, which you’ll get the hang of as you go along, difficult without a confident group to work with, with good leadership. In the end it all depends what your interests are, you may find you want to be a Cop or Medic, both pay wages, cheaper equipment costs (+ a few bonuses), lower outgoings, hang out with a group doing the same thing, but have to go through a training/supervision process. Anyhow.. trust that helps. Good Luck and Enjoy!

So today i decided to set up a RBT at PC1 with the medics we set up big checkpoint with medical check ups and even sent out a alert saying we have set up checkpoint for roleplay purpose and hope we can have a friendly event. But as we all know i guess civs cant role play and we just get deced on. If this keeps happening when we try and do role play events on the server we just wont do them or carry big guns to stop my officers always dying. What is it going to take to be able to run some role play event seems like most CIV's and GANG's on server just kill hungry maybe u should play wasteland then. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1285294493 Here is photo of checkpoint @DyNaMiiC.dFuZR @Michael Steiner @LM' @WickedGamer57

If I'm online next time you guys are running an RBT, I'll be there to moderate it and make sure it's a strict rp zone.

This is exactly what I'm talking about regarding the relationship between Civs / Rebels and Cops. Cops are obviously trying to roleplay, Civs just come and try to mess them up. It goes both ways, sometimes the cops just want the money from somebody and refuse the fake ID. I understand there's combat to every server, however, when there are multiple posts coming up about the lack of roleplay and how Cops are doing nothing about this. To put it simply, they're trying; people aren't giving them the chance. It would be much easier if the Civs just didn't kill each other or the cops for 45m. I even got asked today if I could spawn in Safezones to prevent these things from happening. I understand that sometimes the Civ / Medic want to roleplay however the cops just need to arrest somebody and it turns into a gunfight. It's always going to go both ways and it's never going to be a onesided argument. I'm happy to join into this discussion as long as people show respect and write propper responses. Pezza

Even then we still get dec'd on. Lets say we have the numbers to deter people from deccing on us, they still avoid the checkpoint forcing a car chase which ends in a desync ram/crashing into a wall. Voiding any and all roleplay.

I wasn't able to participate in this particular RBT, but previously the only way to half decently setup a "Non-hostile" and fluent checkpoint is to have about 15+ units and place it around peaches or an area around a safezone. I personally try to cut my roleplay as far as possible and sometimes it's impossible with every 2 minutes i attempt to perform a traffic stop on a unarmed civilian with default clothes and turns out i get ambushed by 13 civs t-bagging my body with pistols. To be fair the most common roleplay i get is someone shouting "hands on head or ded". Honestly i'd love to see an improvement, the couple times i have practised an RBT properly with about 20 officers it has being brilliant. Although there were only about 30 civs on at the time it was good fun. But a lot of rebels and in general, the cops get accused of not going outside city limits. And this is a clear reason. Today alone we responded to PC1 because we were in a current pursuit, 30seconds later we had 7 officers lying on the ground screaming. A lot of officers attempt to patrol and often respond to incidents outside of city limits, but to be fair it's blatantly annoying and frustrating that we can't go further than death bend without getting dec'd on, desync'd or trolled in general. The stuff happening in Sydney is bad enough so please allow us to spread out and please help us encourage some more roleplay into the cops point of view.

Hi everyone- not sure if anyone from the old crew plays anymore, or if anyone remembers me, but Stalker and I were the founders of AInc. I have been reading and old thread today in which someone asked the question, "what happened to AInc?" After reading some of the replies to the thread, I just want to say I'm sorry. This post doesn't reflect the position of stalker or anyone else in AInc, and is only my personal beliefs. It looks like AInc continued to provide the core moral values that we wished on it after I left- a solid RPing environment and support for all players, new and old. I wish I had kept playing and not left stalker and the others to basically pick up my slack. I got busy with university and struggled to find time to get back to the community and I essentially got burned out. Not sure if anyone even cares at this point, since it's been almost 3 years since AInc's inception. But on the off chance anyone sees this, hopefully I can make it up to you one day. You guys were like family. Having people tell me my RP and the companies RP was the reason they kept playing made me feel like I could actually make a difference. Who knows. Maybe one day AInc and it's subsidiaries will be reinstated. Thank you all so much. Best of luck and hopefully we meet again soon. - Origin, [ AInc ] Senior Executive

Most the people who wanna RP either 1) can't be ****ed trying anymore or 2) they've left cause of their own reasons. All i can say is keep at it. Maybe hit up the mods/admins for RP events instead of just endless combat ones. I had ideas but they don't want anything to do with me, cause **** me right? Hopefully they listen to you guys but i highly doubt they will. Hit them up with your own ideas, you have new mods coming through now and I'm sure they'll wanna do the best to help everyone out. I find just simple fun ones work best, aka when i brought a bunch of jet skis at Sydney and just set up some random races. Things like that is what you will get people to join you at start then make them more complicated/intense.

From my point of view it is disappointing when we have a massive checkpoint and I've setup a medical branch and we have blood donations/blood tests setup, you know it is just so rare I find these days too be able to setup the medical blood tests at checkpoints and for it too play out, I mean there have been some instances were someone has 'blown' over the limit and they come in for a blood test. And I understand not everyone wants to role-play being drunk and too commit a DUI but at the same time for those who do I just wish the civilians would leave us alone for at least 20 minutes. I would also love to see more civilians role play with medics, the same goes with cops. I know the cops can be busy at times but medical role-play can be some of the best fun, so at least give it a shot. I certainly see my fair share of civilians that just run off without any sort of contact with the medic.

send me money plz :(

To be fair i'm sure people are prepared to download mods, they are quick, easy and fun. Only problem i have is navigating and finding all the mods, if we could combine or at least folder the pack together allowing an easy accessible download. Otherwise even a modded pop-up every now and then in the holidays or peak times would be brilliant.

I personally would love a modded server, I just don't know if other people are willing to download the mods on Australian internet.

You're forgetting "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah the police raided my house! I lost all my stuff! I quit!" It'll literally just be more of that

If there is enough people willing to play a modded server we could do a modded version as well. Unmodded is the primary focus though.

It is not RP to declare and kill cops for fun.

Wtf did you expect? Im sure there was a part of you that knew you were going to get decced on, If you want to do this type of thing go into city limits and do it.

Yeah I mean I'm not always apart of these setup roleplay situations due to being out doing SRT things but it is nice to come into Sydney purely just to have some fun roleplaying. It is rather annoying when we are dec'd on by people when I'm "On break" in a sense from doing combat related things. It is disappointing that these events are disrupted by these sort of things but there isn't much we can really do other than sit there and hope for civllians/rebels to accept what we're doing and understand that we're not looking for a fight and just some good roleplay with the active community within Sydney.

Conner if it a hole new framework then does that not mean it will take long for the scripting

remember what happened the last time a popular youtuber made a video on our server?

Some of you may already know most likely not, but 2 days ago Aobe did a successful federal reserve we got the gold out and left 1 in there, some of us went off to a drug shipment and some of us stayed to let the federal reserve truck come through with more gold to get more, AL staff was notified and came over to look at what we are doing some of us received a 1 week ban for exploiting. We didn't receive a warning to back off or anything 1 week ban straight up we decided to go to HelpDesk to see what's up I got support team banned and am now staff banned. I'm not going to involve names but the staff member decided to ban us for a week and on top of that wipe our money and houses. I myself got wiped of 100mil i worked very hard for this money and put a lot of hours into this server and to see my money get wiped like that when we did not gain any money advantage from the federal reserve or though we would have in future events and our house inventory's which has nothing to do with the fed other than them storing the gold bars. A roll back could have occurred but besides the point. Last year one of my really close mates committed suicide and ever since then I have never been the same I have been on and off antidepressants for the past 12 months, Although the pills don't always work I started to smoke a lot of weed and some days I don't wake up for school and go for a walk and get stoned. I decided to upgrade my computer and pumped around $2000 into it and once I did so I instantly started to play Arma 3. The first server I found was straya I instantly fell in love because it is so unique and I have never found a server like this before. Arma 3 took my mind off things for a little bit I stopped smoking weed for a bit and started taking my antidepressants again, things started to get better I saw a brighter light in my life. Arma 3 is my escape from drugs and depression and i have never had so much fun in my life on this server up until 4 months ago when my friend was hit by a car and killed in Geelong. It was a whole repeat again, back smoking weed everyday didn't leave my room didn't want to go out and ride my motorbike or push bike anymore didn't wanna see friends, just curled up in my room all day everyday. I have been on and off weed for the past 4 months and I was getting to the point where if I tried quitting I would have withdrawls I got help mentally I haven't healed since then, then roughly 2 weeks ago my 5 month old kitten was hit by a car and i have never felt so shit in my life. it was a birthday gift and it gave me so much happiness to come home from school and see my cat, that following week I had multiple break downs in Sydney LAC channel and HelpDesk where I burst into tears, I couldn't bear and had to buy a new cat that looked the same as my other one and name it the same I started to feel happiness again. What i'm trying to say is I have had a very very rough past 12 months and Straya Gaming and Arma 3 has been a great escape to get away from my feelings and emotions, some of you may know who I am and some of you may not but besides the point I don't think you will see me on Straya ever again you might see me on Teamspeak from time to time and if you ever need anyone to talk to I am here for you because I have been their and I can tell you from experience to stay the **** away from drugs. I am not restarting on Straya thats why I have decided to leave this biased community. I would like to thank a lot of people for making my stay on StrayaGaming very special I would tag them but there is so many people, but a special thanks to @LuckyB33f Everything happens for a reason whether it would be from your girlfriend breaking up with you or your closest mate dying it all happens for a reason If you ever need someone to talk to please feel free to add me on steam and talk, I will happily listen to what you have to say :) http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198073784601/

Hey guys, I'll be making Gang Logos for a fee of 1M in-game currency. All you need to do is provide the name of the gang, what you roughly want the logo to look like, and a colour scheme. After that all you need to do is make a unit and attach the logo and it will be in-game for all of your gang to use. Previous Work: