[Drones]

I have a feeling it is the first thing most servers will turn down going forward. Drones and sappers are not really fun to begin with, so more of them does nothing but alienate the player base. 

[Weird thing (a disease? a bug?) in 0.2.5.2]

Sounds like you were too wet for too long. A hot pack and a dry place would have saved your life. 

[Will 3.0 Bring and overall wipe?]

How do I properly Wipe the DB?

 

Accidently have too little memory and swap available for the dump.rdb to be written and then restart redis. Works every time.  :P

[Antagonists]

Could this be dropped into an Epochmod server install? It would be hilariously awesome. 

[[FORM] The status of Epoch development]

 

I really don't care if I ever see a zombie again. The new antogonists are a welcome change. Yes, I do like the occasional swarm, it does keep you on your toes. But having them explode and leak gas, sap your energy is way more then any zombie ever did in A2. I'm not a big fan of the Rock-Monster, but watching it in twitch crushing buildings as it was stomping around while chasing the guy shooting at it was pretty amazing. Even though I wasn't in game, it felt like a real threat.

 

WIthout zombies, A3Epoch is quite boring on all but the most populated servers where PVP takes over. The new antagonists are more annoying than scary and looking at the rolling changelog, the fact that they are going to become more prevalent is disconcerting at best.

 

In another survival mod game like 7 Days to Die...you don't go out at night because the running zombies WILL get you. That keeps you on your toes. That makes you fear the night. That makes you build defences. That makes you hide from hordes. You respect the environ. 

 

With Epoch, there is no reason to base build beyond to stash a few guns. There is nothing to fear at low pops with such a benign environ. There is no overall point as it is not really a survival mod being food and drink are prevalent. The most dangerous thing in A3 Epoch is stairs....

 

 

I personally don't see anything in 0.3 that is going to bring back people in sustainable numbers as nothing has changed at the core of the mod to make it interesting to play over the long haul. 

 

It hope that changes in time. 

[Release Epoch 0.3.0]

It's not legacy - it's the gddmn previous version.

 

Actually, by that very definition a version update does make the previous version legacy software. Not that your comment added in any meaningful way to the conversation.

[Release Epoch 0.3.0]

There is no wipe needed.

 

It's suggested. Kind of like how snow tires are not required, only suggested in Minnesota during the winter - but if you skid off the road and crash it's your own damn fault. 

 

There are already enough issues and frailty with the redis database system. I don't think our community is willing to risk any unforeseen issues, especially being 0.3 is for the most part being heavily tested on cleanly wiped servers - not legacy configurations. 

[Release Epoch 0.3.0]

Why not combine 0.3 and 0.3.5 and give players more things? everyone who is rushing is probably a server owner and not a player, have you really all got bored of playing epoch and adminig servers is your new thing? it seem like it! there are hardly players other than handful of servers !

 

I am seeing a server population slowdown because people are anticipating 0.3 and thus don't want invest heavily in a server that is only going to be around for a short time going forward because of the need to wipe the db. 

 

Basically, the community is on pause until the release. 

[Side chat name display]

I appreciate the assistance!

[Side chat name display]

change: VonID=1;

 

for the difficulty level of your server. 

 

I'm unfortunately not grasping this statement. I have the VonID=1 in SC.Arma3Profile and difficulty = "veteran";  in my config.cfg file. How do I connect the two? As set, VonID is not shown on the server. I don't see where there is a VonID for difficulty variable or file. 

 

Thanks

 

 

 

Contents of  SC.Arma3Profile

version=1;
blood=1;
singleVoice=0;
gamma=1;
brightness=1;
maxSamplesPlayed=96;
sceneComplexity=1000000;
shadowZDistance=100;
viewDistance=3800;
preferredObjectViewDistance=3200;
terrainGrid=3.125;
volumeCD=10;
volumeFX=10;
volumeSpeech=10;
volumeVoN=10;
vonRecThreshold=0.029999999;
VonID=1;