Yuri

@Unit_3397 makes a good point. Therefore the game has changed.

The money will go to the least funded server on Saturday (lowest percentage of funds not lowest $$)

If there are two servers that could benifit from it then they will split the cash according to need.

The second have of the game will retmain. If you have voted for the server that gets the money then you will be entered into the draw to have the cash put under your name.

Good luck to you all.

57 minutes ago, nclem said:

*cough* implementation of off duty police officers *cough*. 

Isn't that what SAD is?

@sirgeneralj You forgot to mention the other Helpful Civ that pointed out the house for you to raid which began all this (P.S It was me)

At work ATM in lunch break so only a quick post (will put my ideas down in more detail tonight)

In my opinion there are a lot more issues with bank/fed than who can actually participate (but ill go into that in tonight's post)

1) Once it is hit (i.e when the global email goes out) numbers are set (this used to be the way and it worked, what happened is that cops started logging in and attending mid fed/bank so then the rebels started doing it because the cops were)

2) Once it is hit you can no longer place any more defenses (i.e walls, towers gates etc.) or remove defenses until the situation is over (all cops and/or rebels dead or deserted) - I have seen cops (and rebels) deconstructing walls in the past to get in/out of the area.

3) There should be a rule in place that at least x amount of SRT have to be on to do bank/fed (as this is their job, Maybe make it so bank has to have at least 6 SRT on and fed 8 SRT on instead of cops on) this way SRT are doing their job and the 'regular' Police are holding the scene (i.e keeping onlookers away etc.) This way you can have a drone up watching fed/bank.

4) the declare of bank is good and I like the idea

I know that many people are not going to like my 3rd point but I personally like a challenge and bank/fed are supposed to be the highest risk/reward  and by doing this It means that you are really putting decision into your robbery

I'm sorry but the thumbnail said #InternalAffairs but I saw nothing to do with internal affairs in that video. Thumbs down for false advertising

@ExcelForce,

What are your other PC specs if you don't mind me asking

13 minutes ago, Jared said:

@Yuri been and seen everything in Altis and I smash you in wasteland

That is only because you choose to play on the easy team

Terms to Learn

Rp - Role Play

NLR - New Life Rule (When you die you may not go within a certain distance of the area you died for a certain amount of time, server specific values)

RDM - Random Death Match (This is randomly killing killing a person for no valid Rp reason and is often a ban-able offence)

VDM - Vehicle Death Match (This is using your Vehicle as a weapon either to kill someone or destroy a vehicle/property)

1. Beginning on a Server

Now the first thing before anything on a server that you need to do is read through all the rules, Especially if you are new to Altis Life as there are a large amount of things to learn, these can be accessed by going into the to the forums (https://strayagaming.com.au/forums/topic/6288-altis-life-rules-new-210516/).


So to begin on this server your best option is fruit picking as if you spawn in Sydney (Kavala) there are 2 fruit field near. To do this I recommend getting a large backpack, Drivers License and Quad bike. Of both fruits I recommend picking peaches as they earn you a slight bit more than apples and the drive is quicker, so you need to drive to the peach field then walk up to a tree and use the Custom Control 10 (windows key by default) it will do an animation and then they will be in your Altis Inventory. When your backpack and vehicle are full drive back to the Market and there you can sell your fruit to the 'market' vendor and rinse and repeat until you can afford to begin the next stage (see below)

TLDR: Backpack, Get Driving License, Quad, Pick peaches, Sell at market

When you can afford to do something better such as copper. Of the legal methods (I shall detail all later) copper is arguably the safest as it is one of the shortest drives, is all on the eastern (police controlled side of the map) and you can start straight away. Get a backpack (or use the same one from fruit picking) at the clothing store and a pickaxe from the market, buy a truck licence from the Licence shop then go to the truck store and buy a truck that you can afford. Now you will need to keep all your money remaining on you to buy a copper processing licence at the copper processing but for now you need to head to the Copper mine located just outside of Sydney (Kavala). When you reach the mine you need to exit your vehicle, and press Shift+T to mine using your pickaxe, you will now be mining copper fill you inventory and your trucks trunk then you need to head to the Copper processing NPC buy a licence then process all of your copper. Finally you need to head to the Copper Trader so that you can sell your copper and make some money, continue with this and collect money so you can proceed in doing what you want.

TLDR: Get Backpack, Truck License, Truck, Mine copper, Get Processing License, Process Copper, Sell to Copper Trader

2a. Legal Money Making

There are a few ways to make money Legally as a civilian on altis. This is either done through fruit picking or mining and processing resources.

Fruits to pick: (Basic servers, there may be more)

• Peaches
• Apples

Fruit picking is often something you do when starting the game as it is a short distance from most towns and can be traveled to and sold relatively fast compared to other methods. However it yields little money so is not very effective when playing later on in the game. If you have a choice peaches are often more profitable than apples.

Resources to mine;

• Rock
• Copper
• Sand
• Salt
• Iron
• Diamond 
• Oil 

Mining is a step up from fruit picking you get much more money but it often required the greatest amount of time and some threat may be involved with higher tier resources. Mining mainly depends on the locations on your servers as you want to find a route you can take from the Mining to processing to sales as fast as possible. In order to mine you will need a pickaxe and use it from your inventory and also a processing license that can be purchased from the processor him/herself at the location so the first time you will need to carry money, they prices of these vay per server from as low as 5k for copper to 100k for a diamond license.

Copper is most commonly the basic resource this will yield the least amount of money (while still being a reasonable amount) so is the resource you will want to start with, this can be done with a basic vehicle such as a pick up truck or the first tier truck and be worth it. From here you move up the tiers which can be very variable, at the top if often diamond which takes up a high amount of inventory space before processed and sells for a lot of money but you may encounter bandits on this run as diamonds is very lucrative. Also your alternate option is sand/salt which people with good gear often do (this may be friendlier) as you can take large trucks out onto an open plane and harvest this so you are safe and the route to drive is not exceptionally long while having a good payout. By the time you are at one of the higher tier resources you want a large truck and a basic legal gun like an PDW or Handgun if you are able to afford just so you have some protection.

2b. Illegal Money Making

Illegal money making is where the rewards become greater as drug runs can bring large amounts of money but are often very risky.

Methods of Illegal money making (not in order):

• Cocaine
• Heroin
• Weed
• Pingas
• Blood Diamonds
• Uranium

Each drug yields different amounts of money on servers which can vary but typically weed is the least expensive and Uranium the most expensive with risk scaling for each. However you must take note on drug runs there is a high chance any other person will have a gun and you require a gang to be safe doing this or to be cautious at night time.

Police also add a greater risk on drug runs as with enough officers they are able to raid drug fields, processors and dealers, while also being able to search trucks if they think anything is suspicious or in a big convoy this means as groups you should try to stay close or split up and avoid police at all cost you don't want to end up in a 4 truck escape from 10 police officers with cars (as I have experienced). If police find you, try to ditch the drugs or one of a group distract them and do this so you guys can escape, as long as police don't find drugs on you or in your vehicle you are safe if they do it will be impounded and you most likely arrested.

Before you start doing illegal methods as above you want weapons and a group, the best idea is to do something legal till one of you can get a rebel license and then give them money to buy guns and camo outfits along with having a number of larger trucks so you can take large amounts. Again this is risk vs reward, it can be very lucrative but you are likely to see people and die losing gear so do not waste money use as little as you can.

2c. Police Money Making

As a police officer money making is very simple. If someone has a bounty on their head then you will get a proportion (or all) if you arrest them and up to half if you kill them. However for ticketing someone you get the full amount. To make it for the difficulty in money making police start with basic gear, get a larger paycheck and have cheap cars.

2d. Medic Money Making

As a Medic money making is very simple. If someone has died then you go and revive them (as long as it is not in an active combat situation) Just talk with your higher ups to find out where you can/cant go. You also receive the largest paycheck.

2d. Rebel Money Making

As a rebel you are most likely going to be going drugs to get most of your money but when you aren't there are also other methods. All of these methods are very risky!

Rebel methods:

• Police/Player Ransom
• Bank/Federal Reserve
• Robbery

Police/Player ransoms can be very difficult and require a number of people but if enough people have guns on a police officer he has to surrender due to rp rules, this is the most RP thing to do and may often lead to no money. You need to take the officers communications (at least say) and text the police demanding money (this works best if more senior officers are online with money) and they may payout for the officer. However when there are often larger groups of police they will try end it with a gunfight to save the officer or just do something sneaky so you need to watch out. The aim here is to capture someone important / multiple officers and you might get money but often not.

Bank/Federal reserve is the most common this for rebels in an organised group. This can either be done directly by just going to the bank when there are 6+ officers or the Federal reserve when there are 8+ officers online.

Robbery is only available inside towns when there are 6+ cops online and outside of towns whenever, this can be done if you have a weapon at which point you can declare on people (see the Declarations tab in the rules section)

Quick Tips!

ALWAYS check the server rules (often on the map) when you start a server as many rules and general thing vary.

Do not VDM (Vehicle death match - Running over people) as this is a banable offence on the majority of servers if done repeatedly or used in combat situations.

Do not RDM (Random death match - Randomly kill people) as this again is ban able and not allowed on all servers.

Try to stay in RP (Role play) in player interactions as being out of RP can be disallowed e.g. with Cops and if you rob someone don't just shoot them if they say now (just most general interactions).

Follow NLR (New Life Rule) which means if you die you cannot go back to where you died for 5 - 15 minutes (always check) this is again another bannable offence.

Q&A

This will be updated with any common questions people have about Altis life.

This is a work in progress and if you feel like i have left something out or something needs to be changed then send Me a PM on the forums

Best Regards,

Yuri

Player Name: [SP] Father Yuri

Donation amount: $50

Server: Wasteland

@Quantum wanna hit us up with perks

fair enough. then i challenge you to meme yuri

@Brodie WTF is dis

Agree with this 100%

@Tiggati or @Littleblacksheep any way we can get this done?

NSWRFS all the way

Hello @Rat66,

If you use the method stated in the first post (https://armasquads.com/) then I can help you out with any issues that you have there.

When I get home I am going to make a post (and I'll link it here) with a more detailed approach and some common troubleshooting methods but until then I can walk you though some things.

In the new Arma the location of the profile managment has changed follow these steps to get the space to add a XML link (from privately hosted website i.e armasquads.com)

1. have your link copied to your clipboard (highlight link and press CTRL+C).

2. Go to the main menu of Arma.

3. In the top right hand corner you will see a figure of a person, Hover over that person and then click on your name.

4. Select which one of your profiles you want to attach the squad URL to.

5. In the top bar you will see two sections 'Avatar' and 'Unit', Click on Unit.

6. In this page there might not be anything yet so click edit and you will see a section called unit. Click on the little arrow next to that and select 'Custom'.

7. Once you have selected custom you will see two new boxes appear 'Squad XML' and 'Player UID'

8. Your player UID is the your personal identification number which servers use to tell that you are you (no matter how many profiles you have) It is linked to your STEAM ID.

9. Go to the Squad XML section and click on the box next to it and then just paste (CTRL+V) in your Squad XML link that you copied before.

10. Press apply and you are good to rock an awesome logo in the battlefield (assuming you set up your XML properly)

GAME ON

If you have any more questions feel free to ask as I see myself as a bit of a subject matter expert on most things to do with XML

Best Regards,

Yuri

I have no idea if i have been affected. But if i have well then too bad, that is life.

Just now, Nclem said:

It looks as if even though people were active with the houses, they are still gone.

oh well, start fresh. It will be good for you

If you haven't used it in 3+ months then when will you?

Quit complaining and just start doing runs to build yourself back up.

It happened, get over it and move on.

$170 better be a good game. (beta is good but the 1 map is getting boring)

But yea im down for an SG server and I would defs help get it off the ground

Mint lookin trip bro.

Hope you enjoyed that R&R

On 8/29/2016 at 1:16 AM, Unit_3397 said:

Not sure if its already been mentioned else where, but getting some stickers/ magnetic patches in the shop so that we can put on our cars or what not would be a great way of advertising to locals... honestly, 1 out of 6 young people that drive past you are gamers...  (ok,ok, its just a guess ;P ) 

Anything that represents advertising our community and to narrow down, our wasteland server, I'm keen. Sorry other folks  only play wasteland. 

On 8/29/2016 at 10:59 AM, Mozkelby said:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/strayagaming/works/22869721-strayagaming-official-logo-light?p=sticker&size=small&size=large

Chuck that beauty on the back and you'll be all set.

As soon as @Mozkelby fixed the sticker to be black instead of white I went and bought one and Represent in my area

Nice to meet you Mr. Enis. I will see you around

+1

3 hours ago, Snowwiiee said:

Lets hope she doesn't peel off.

I hope not