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Ladies and gentlemen, convicts one and all! I've had a few suggestions for some time now to perhaps make your exile experience better. 1. Bicycles. Holy lord almighty these spawns of satan are terrible. I've talked to numerous people on the server and they all agree they should not be a thing. You dsync to easily on them, people hit them at fast speeds and break their stuff which leads to our admins favorite call "Admiiin I need help!*, and as we all know that's been getting old for a while Now. With that said, what I suggest is rather than having a bunch of bikes spawned all over these towns how about a smaller amount of something you don't see others having trouble with? preferable quads? Karts? I understand the reason for them, to get back to wherever quickly and not have to run 3000m or whatever, but that's all fine and dandy until you die two more times trying to get there and losing whatever you died with anyway. Its happened to me more than I can count on both hands. 2. Spawn Kits. Now I love these spawn kits to say the least but I feel they are not up to par with what you get. Now my math is probably way off so bar with me. say you have 300,000 respect and you spawn the kit with the AK and long range optic. That's great but after 500,000 respect (I think) you spawn with the M24 sniper that has less range than your last kit. It could be me but it seems a little off. And wheres the NVGs man? you would think that after half a million respect you would earn the right to at least a pair of NVGs right? 3. Static (AT). Now this is more of a personal "I think it would be cool" type of suggestion. I know of alot of players who save the static (AA) missiles and keep them at their base. How about those (AT)s though? could be used for base raids or help in assisting in the slums missions if you have a close enough base build to hit them at. Just a thought 4. Server Notifications. So we have had problems of people joining the server and not knowing the rules or not knowing the teamspeak. and I know that it all pops up in the bottom left and rolls through chat but take into account that its small and hard to read. Now I've seen in other servers that when you join it pops up in big, colorful letters right in your face for a few seconds. really gets the message across and I feel it would help our new players get the help and info they need

love the suggestions guys... keep 'em comin!! here's what i know pertaining to what you guys have put forth. bicycles - they spawn randomly, which i know can sometimes be in the middle of the road.. which leads to problems, because they're considered static objects/vehicles until a player enacts with them. i think the most direct cause of action would be to do away with them completely, but that would also hinder new players who have no way of getting around. something we can do a poll on or chat about for sure. spawn kits - trixie and random hero put a TON of work into these, so i'd hate to see that 'go to waste'. i think maybe some revision of the kits themselves would benefit players. granted the map IS full of loot, and it's not a difficult process to gear up, i think that doing away with them completely would be an error. static ATs - you're always going to run into players who 'exploit the system' with unlimited ammo, doesn't matter if it's an AT launcher or a Kamish. i know that this topic WAS discussed at our meeting earlier this month, and we're working on that 'happy medium' level of play on a daily basis. having said that and not knowing how to make arma NOT recognize statics as vehicles, we may be in-between a rock and a hard place. something else we can talk/poll about for certain, but it would seem that the only way of eliminating people abusing them would be to do away with player usable static launchers entirely. that would kinda negate the need for sales prices for these items, but i like where you guys are going with the prices.. they seem pretty fair. server notifications - i think having something pop up that says 'server rules are on your xm8' along with our web address would benefit all players, especially the newer ones. as far as i know, we have something like that implemented. once again, something that can be discussed. what i will continue to ask from you guys (a lot of you can ignore this..) is a little bit of patience. troublesim has literally just finished his exams last week, and he's more than likely in need of some rest, relaxation, and decompression. please don't expect results/changes overnight, when he chooses to do work on arma 3 is TOTALLY up to him or anyone else involved in that area. overall, i love the suggestions guys and gals.

I agree with this in general, with a few tweaks from my experiences on other servers. PLEASE NOTE: I mean absolutely no disrespect to the owners/admins of OGG; think of this as a "product review" and not as a "you failed, you're bad" post. 1. Bicycles. Definitely can be annoying, and I understand why they're there. I don't think they HAVE to be removed - you need to be watching the road if you're driving and they really are quite easy to see and avoid if you're doing so - but there are certainly better options. One option I've seen is to be able to spawn in an ATV by double clicking on your radio in your inventory. This can be made so you can only do it while in bambi status, and can spawn in a $0-sell, non-persistent ATV that allows for quick transit back to your dead body, and without all the glitches and headaches of bikes. (I've also seen bikes be the thing that spawns, and while that solves the "bikes in the road" problem, it doesn't address the unreliableness of the bike itself). 2. Spawn kits. I do think these are quite good, but I also agree that nvg's (not the nvg helm from apex, but the generic nvg's) would be a nice addition at some respect point. Perhaps these just need revisited/rebalanced/updated in general? 3. Static (AT). Here I think exists a problem. If you setup a static - of any kind - and park a ammo truck by it, you get infinite ammo. The whole point of not allowing vehicles to participate in the static missions is to provide a mission type for people who desier something harder; a mission that requires a higher tier of awareness and finesse. Having anyone able to do these missions because they can just bombard the town with free, unlimited AT rockets seems to defeat that idea; but maybe I have the wrong concept about those missions. As far as how to keep them from being used on static missions...idk. The game clearly recognizes them as a vehicle - since they rearm off an ammo truck - so maybe there's your answer. 3.a. I would like to see those Titan launchers you pickup from other missions be worth something in the shop for selling purposes. Maybe a little rework on how these and the mounted 50's show up and their costs? For instance: for each MG (mounted gun) that will spawn at a mission, it has a 70% chance to be a 50-cal, a 25% chance to be an AT titan, and a 5% chance of being an AA Titan. BUT we also change the pricing a little. ALL tripods sell for $1000. 50-cal's sell for $1500. AT sell for $2000. AA sell for $5000. This will make picking up those MG's worth it, but not make millionaires out of people over night. 4. Server notifications. I DEFINITELY agree that the current server messages are far from adequate. As a long time Exile player, the very first thing I do when I join a new server is open my tablet and read the rules; but brand new players don't even know they have a tablet sometimes. Currently, the server doesn't welcome you in any way. No MOTD or anything like that. You just have to wait for the timed messages to appear in chat. And then, it's just a huge block of text in the chat box that is at best ignored/hard to read, and at worst, interrupts conversations and fails to communicate the important info. A short MOTD that appears when you join asking you to read the rules on your XM8 (while explaining how to open said tablet) and to ask for an invite to the OGG player group would be much more clean. Also, the server rules on both the XM8 and forums need to be updated as soon as they're added to/changed in any way (just a quick edit of the config files for the next time the server restarts). If the rules on the tablet don't state "you cannot claim the static missions", for instance, then it's nearly impossible for the "public" to enforce that rule and leads to calls for 'admin' and/or disgruntled players. Once again, I'm trying to both provide feedback on the current state of server play and provide some possible solutions to those problems. I'm NOT trying to be a head-basher or anything I know you have a whole list of bugs and other issues to deal with as owners, developers, and admins. I hope these can be addressed, and would be willing to help in any way I can. Happy hunting!

Thanks for the reply Johnny! I would hate to see the spawn kits go away also but i agree a tweak would be great. Also I didnt mean to come as saying bikes should be gone but replaced with something more i dont know safe I guess? Very understandable about trouble also I've been there lol. myself nor anyone else should expect anything to be fixed right away and I think I speak for all of the OGG memebers when I say we appreciate the effort in not only hearing us out but the work you all put into the servers also!

Exile 12 to 24 hour day/night cycle so we can get rid of vote day/night Bring back the HALO spawn drops in Exile as you were intended to be dropped in with nothing* since we were intended to be dropped in with minimal supplies maybe we could get rid of the magical reputation gear Virtual Garage with no limit or high limit Pretty please JSRS maybe even coupled with ENHANCED SOUNDSCAPE because it is so very awesomesauce SPEC4. GEAR TASK FORCE RADIO would be very cool there is a mod on steam that has the guns drop cartridges called BULLET CASINGS* ADVANCED SLING LOADING BLASTCORE is awesome, makes explosions actually look and feel like explosions RHS as much RHS as possible because it is awesome ADVANCED TOWING ADVANCED URBAN REPELLING or the other REPELLING mod ADVANCED MOVEMENT IRON FRONT 1944 the weapons look great USAF? BLOODLUST some sort of blood mods would be nice BNAE is pretty cool too... LAPUA for X8... check it out X, different versions of the LAPUA I have been playing on a server that has a lot of these mods plus a bunch of other mods with missions, with town invasions, with a holy crap ton of roaming AI vehicles(militarized and very dangerous) as well as random spawning GI roaming AI so I know it can be done BTW, I know somebody who coded his own server and he offered help a while ago. I asked him if he wouldn't mind helping me with coding, he seemed like he wouldn't mind helping. If any of the Devs need help with coding I could talk to him and get you all in touch with each other.