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I see well we will need to discuss that and come back to it. How would you suggest a selection procedure is done?

I opted for Sunday in agreeance with @OrionSync and @Noskire because it works better for all of us. Saturday night are when quite a few people are out socially. But I'll put up a poll to see what consensus is.

It seemed to me that the missile was pretty intent on your destruction. I know a few drivers that will turn the engine off once in a position to remove the heat source.

Just a point of some of that stuff @Zombine45. In zeus Orion and I did plan a fair bit in advance what was to happen but as I reiterated we are limited to by what can be preplanned so it does kill the fps which tbh it did anyway (hence a dedicated event server). Also in Zeus Orion and I cant see each others actions at all times and we manually sync the entities which again caues the server fps drop. We had a bunch of preplaced structures enroute and tbh they werent difficult to counter. Im unsure what happened with the AT unit because they actually barely had line of sight and were a significant distance away but again it was an unfortunate series of events. I think due to the OP state of titans for missions we will need to avoid Titans. This is a big point from me I do not specifically place forces in behind players and never have, assets will often be placed 500m+ on a flank and more than often they are unseen and in this instance it will appear that we have placed something behind you. I always use a forward momentum approach to zeus. As mentioned we can't pre place lots of stuff purely due to server resources. As for the paratroopers that's when we had 30+ randoms drop into the town and a large majority of those were killed in the air. As for the mission fail evac at this point it was redundant so overwhelming the evac was the intention. My prerogative as zeus has always been this: To provide a varied and fair difficulty for resistance. Having even numbers from an enemy stand point is pointless because AI are pretty much dead after a few taps while players can not only be revived but also have reduced damage. I will point out we were unaware that the friendly AI could not be moved and so at the time couldn't understand why no one was trying to protect them. In future we will do some testing to iron out those issues. At the end of the day it was a learning curve for all of us and to be honest having a dedicated mission space will enable us to create a scenario earlier on rather than try and counter the whole server population of 60+ players without having to check whether the server fps has dropped off the face of the earth. On a final point I always want you to succeed at the objectives. IT IS NEVER my intention for the mission to be a failure. It is in no way shape or form fun for me to just kill everyone.

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Takes a while to run out of ideas and theirs plenty of different spins you can put on them. And the more the community contributes the more that can be added to the queue.

For Steel Sunday their were 3-4 squads. 2 infantry from memory and a couple of vehicle squads. Close to 20+ in that divide.

These are all good points and I will point out everyone likes to play their game their way and that's really the flexibility in invade and Annex. Sometimes I'm full kit carrying the kitchen sink, other times I will go into an ao with clothes and a handgun with 1 clip and make it a requirement to get everything I need from the dead. In my eyes if players (much like what @War Machine has pointed out) want to be full mil Sim they can by limiting themselves .

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Oh and most players like looking at themselves so ?

Im 40/60 on fp only. The main reason is I've never excluded third person because irl you have environment awareness that can't be duplicated in a game like Arma . Third person does to some extent provide this. Just my opinion.

We are currently working on changes to mix things up a bit. Just bare in mind we are also limited to what the server can handle.

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Ah ok is that new?, Last time I looked I didnt see that oh well their you have it

Time is actually managed by a file that keeps it persistent and isn't easily manipulated unfortunately. This is also why only @Fitz is able to actually change it using debug but it doesn't have a huge effect anyway because the server will revert it back to some extent . Their is a possibility of voting but generally speaking voting always results in a day vote so not worth the time.

Its been discussed many times over many years. A much higher percentage dislike night. I think maybe the 90 mins would be ok but staring at green for more than that would be ?

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You know I always enforce this when I'm on. Never made sense that a case can request to be requested and technically is already covered under the rules. I brought this up with Fitz becuase I got sick of seeing cas requesting to engage a target and someone at base saying yeah go ahead. Just dumb.

Don't Forget today is the final Invade and Annex Tanoa Xmas Event at 6pm restart! Due to the popularity of the last race event, the same will be be run again on a different course! Participation gets you an entry into the draw for a buttload of prizes!

Moving on, here is some stuff from the event courtesy of @OrionSync.

As I said theirs alot more moving parts to I and a and doesn't just operate out of a single mission file. We are all more than knowledgeable on how to operate servers but their alot of backend files that go with that including the database

@Fitz is the server manager. I am an administrator and just doing my bit and don't have access to those parts. Its also more work than just doing a new mission file because of the way parts of I and a work. At the end of the day it would be Fitz's call but I doubt the amount of work involved would be something that would happen.

First off I agree with you completely but here's some factors to consider. Majority of these events I run by myself. I've tried to do events previously and no one participates so I don't go out of my way to do them unless I it is for a special occasion. Having said that it's pointed out I need to advertise them but what would you suggest be a suitable timeframe? Method? The I and A servers have a very heavy load on them already and while yes it is a sandbox their is alot going on that I don't have control over so is also a big factor in actually making sure that normal gameplay isn't interfered with either. All events need to be setup via vanilla Zeus which is inflexible at best. Air races aren't possible because you need to be a pilot to fly planes. I have previously done chopper races. A few of suggestions have their a quite good but what works in theory doesn't always happen in practice. My primary objective on top of all my other things has been to boost Tanoa . Also please remember that without participation from players , motivation to do them will also lack. I will keep your thoughts in mind though.