A plot for life HELP ME -,-

[SlagBlox]

I have been trying for 3 days.

 

A plot for life will NOT work EVERY DAMN TIME I've put it on my server.

 

Text based instructions for people that have never done this before do NOT HELP AT ALL.

 

I've read everything 3 times and then 3 times over and I still DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHERE I'M GOING WRONG.

 

 

 

Will someone..

 

PLEASE

 

Help me install this by talking to me via skype/teamspeak.

 

If you're looking at this, reading it and scrolling past thinking someone else will help when you know how to do this, get off your ass, help and stop being so ignorant.

 

Thank you in advance to the person/s that help me, you are amazing.

[raymix]

Maybe that's because you are demanding not asking for help.

Either way, most people able to help are not interested in private sessions... keep it public, post your rpt logs and current server configuration, maybe someone will respond.

 

Skype/TS/TV sessions usually end up with tons more irrelevant questions over next few days and leads to blocking these people... *sigh*

[SlagBlox]

Well:

"Will someone..

 

PLEASE

 

Help me install this by talking to me via skype/teamspeak."

 

Seems like a question to me.

 

You say keep everything public? I don't know what to post. This is the first time I've done this before and I blindly leading myself with vague instructions that I don't understand so I apologise If I'm not public about how much of a dumbass I am.

 

My server is public, everything In the server files will be public if you tell me what you need, where I find it SPECIFICALLY like a file path and someone helps.

[Shak]

Well:

"Will someone..

 

PLEASE

 

Help me install this by talking to me via skype/teamspeak."

 

Seems like a question to me.

 

You say keep everything public? I don't know what to post. This is the first time I've done this before and I blindly leading myself with vague instructions that I don't understand so I apologise If I'm not public about how much of a dumbass I am.

 

My server is public, everything In the server files will be public if you tell me what you need, where I find it SPECIFICALLY like a file path and someone helps.

 

After you try, and fail, post your arma2oaserver.rpt file.

 

This will tell anybody trying to help you what is wrong.

 

This way if others have the same problem as you they can fix it themselves without having to do what you're doing now.

 

As Raymix said, private help usually turns into getting annoyed every 20 minutes with stoooopid shit like how to add deploy, vectors blah blah.

 

Heck, one day I was in a nice mood gave some beggar a copy of DZMS that I'd customized, his way to repay me was to change his server name to the same as mine to try to attract some players.

 

lol

[SlagBlox]

After you try, and fail, post your arma2oaserver.rpt file.

 

This will tell anybody trying to help you what is wrong.

 

This way if others have the same problem as you they can fix it themselves without having to do what you're doing now.

 

As Raymix said, private help usually turns into getting annoyed every 20 minutes with stoooopid shit like how to add deploy, vectors blah blah.

 

Heck, one day I was in a nice mood gave some beggar a copy of DZMS that I'd customized, his way to repay me was to change his server name to the same as mine to try to attract some players.

 

lol

 

You have to realise that not everyone is a dick and some people actually want to learn from what you're telling them and need actual help.

 

Please, stop saying I'm asking for "Private help". You're assuming someone is going to help me and then I'll run off with the information. All I need help with is putting "A Plot For Life" onto my server and playing with friends, THAT IS ALL.

 

Please, if you're here to tell me stories I've got one, this mod is pissing me off and nobody has tutorials because the ones that do know how to do it are sheltered and don't want to help.

[Antichrist]

You do realise that the more you post here the more you sound like a dick and go over the installation instructions few times to even understand what the hell you're about to install else you will even fail at installing one line edit scripts and trust me, i've seen that happen a lot

[SlagBlox]

You do realise that the more you post here the more you sound like a dick and go over the installation instructions few times to even understand what the hell you're about to install else you will even fail at installing one line edit scripts and trust me, i've seen that happen a lot

 

I'm sorry to sound like a dick but apparently that's the only way I've gotten people to reply to my post, correct me if I'm wrong?

 

Listen, If I have to fail for someone to help, then that's not right. If I was taught and shown how to do it correctly in the first place and the instructions showed me FILE PATHS [How many Chernarus map files are there?] then I might have a clue how to do it but the instructions are written like, as I mentioned before, for someone that has done this before.

 

Is it really that hard for someone to just help someone asking for it? If so then you & others need to think about how they treat people.

[Antichrist]

Let me break down P4L installation to you right here and now. (I'll cover v2.5 install)

 

 

 

-= Mission Side Install =-

 

Open your MPMissions init.sqf

Search for
call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "\z\addons\dayz_code\init\variables.sqf";

Replace with
call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "Custom\A_Plot_for_Life\init\variables.sqf";


Search for
call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "\z\addons\dayz_code\init\publicEH.sqf";

Replace with
call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "Custom\A_Plot_for_Life\init\publicEH.sqf";


Search for
call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "\z\addons\dayz_code\init\compiles.sqf";

Replace with
call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "Custom\A_Plot_for_Life\init\compiles.sqf";

Search for
_serverMonitor = [] execVM "\z\addons\dayz_code\system\server_monitor.sqf";

Replace with
_serverMonitor = [] execVM "\z\addons\dayz_server\system\server_monitor.sqf";

Open up your MPMissions description.ext and add this at the very bottom

#include "custom\snap_pro\snappoints.hpp"

And now copy Custom folder in your MPMissions\%YOUR INSTANCE%\ folder

 

-= Server Side Install =-

 

Unpack your dayz_server.pbo , take contents from P4L Server folder, drop them in your unpacked server pbo file and overwrite every file it prompts you to overwrite, if it didn't prompt you then you fucked up (read this line from the start again).

 

Now crack open your unpacked servers Init\server_functions.sqf file and find this or i should say all 5 instances of this

custom\

Replace it with this

\z\addons\dayz_server\

Repack your dayz_server.pbo and away you go.

 

Now tell me, how is this hard in any way ? Yes, i know that by install instructions want you to drop server files in your servers root folder (i think, might be mistaken) but how can you be unable to figure it out.

 

 

P.S. If you want to run a server you should at least know which instance (map) you're running and know the basic layout of server structure.

 

Edit: One more thing i almost forgot about, navigate to your MPMissions Custom\A_Plot_for_Life\Init\Compiles.sqf and find this line

call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "custom\init\server_functions.sqf";

Replace it with

call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "\z\addons\dayz_server\init\server_functions.sqf";

[SlagBlox]

 

Let me break down P4L installation to you right here and now. (I'll cover v2.5 install)

 

 

 

-= Mission Side Install =-

 

Open your MPMissions init.sqf

Search for
call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "\z\addons\dayz_code\init\variables.sqf";

Replace with
call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "Custom\A_Plot_for_Life\init\variables.sqf";


Search for
call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "\z\addons\dayz_code\init\publicEH.sqf";

Replace with
call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "Custom\A_Plot_for_Life\init\publicEH.sqf";


Search for
call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "\z\addons\dayz_code\init\compiles.sqf";

Replace with
call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "Custom\A_Plot_for_Life\init\compiles.sqf";

Search for
_serverMonitor = [] execVM "\z\addons\dayz_code\system\server_monitor.sqf";

Replace with
_serverMonitor = [] execVM "\z\addons\dayz_server\system\server_monitor.sqf";

Open up your MPMissions description.ext and add this at the very bottom

#include "custom\snap_pro\snappoints.hpp"

And now copy Custom folder in your MPMissions\%YOUR INSTANCE%\ folder

 

-= Server Side Install =-

 

Unpack your dayz_server.pbo , take contents from P4L Server folder, drop them in your unpacked server pbo file and overwrite every file it prompts you to overwrite, if it didn't prompt you then you fucked up (read this line from the start again).

 

Now crack open your unpacked servers Init\server_functions.sqf file and find this or i should say all 5 instances of this

custom\

Replace it with this

\z\addons\dayz_server\

Repack your dayz_server.pbo and away you go.

 

Now tell me, how is this hard in any way ? Yes, i know that by install instructions want you to drop server files in your servers root folder (i think, might be mistaken) but how can you be unable to figure it out.

 

 

P.S. If you want to run a server you should at least know which instance (map) you're running and know the basic layout of server structure.

 

Edit: One more thing i almost forgot about, navigate to your MPMissions Custom\A_Plot_for_Life\Init\Compiles.sqf and find this line

call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "custom\init\server_functions.sqf";

Replace it with

call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "\z\addons\dayz_server\init\server_functions.sqf";

 

Thank you for at least trying to help.

 

"And now copy Custom folder in your MPMissions\%YOUR INSTANCE%\ folder"  Now would that be Chernarus if I'm playing Epoch_Chernarus_11? And do I put the contents or the actual Custom folder?

 

"Unpack your dayz_server.pbo , take contents from P4L Server folder, drop them in your unpacked server pbo file and overwrite every file it prompts you to overwrite, if it didn't prompt you then you fucked up (read this line from the start again)."   Could you explain this in more detail? Where do I drop it? You mention the unpacked server pbo and I know where that is but do I go into sub folders? What's the file path once I've placed it?

 

Your instructions, if a bit like the other ones are less bulky, you've actually typed them out for someone that you deem to be a dumbass and that makes them easier to understand. 

[Antichrist]

%YOUR INSTANCE% is the map you're using, for example DayZ_Epoch_11.Chernarus or DayZ_Epoch_13.Tavi

 

And for packing/unpacking pbo files you should've realy used google but here's one video you must look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYN5wMH7oZ4

[SlagBlox]

%YOUR INSTANCE% is the map you're using, for example DayZ_Epoch_11.Chernarus or DayZ_Epoch_13.Tavi

 

And for packing/unpacking pbo files you should've realy used google but here's one video you must look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYN5wMH7oZ4

I know how to unpack and pack the PBO but the PBO is inside an archives folder.. So it would be [Unpack .PBO - Archives folder shows] do I put it /serverip/archives/here or do I put it somewhere else?

[theduke]

it took me a month of trying to get plot for life working.. on multiple servers... I finally gave up and made a post in the forums.   No one would of been able to help me unless the would of had my files.  And not knowing what i had already done, is very hard for others too.

In the end, i had not merged 2 lines in the fn_selfactions.sqf

Tools i used

PBO manager

Beyond Compare   <<< Amazing IMHO  Right click each file to compare

Notepad ++ obviously, but the find in files function is amazing also.