• Clans a.k.a. "Families"

    Vishpala

    By Vishpala ·

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    The much anticipated clan system is finished!  We will be referring to them as "Families" in keeping with the Mafia story. You will now get the option to "Create a family" at the office trader. The registration fee is configurable in the mission file under CfgClans.

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    Once you have created a Family you will be able to manage your Family in the XM8. In the Family app you can see who is currently in the Family and who is the leader/"Papa" of the clan. Only the Papa can kick/add members to the Family. If the Papa is the only member of the clan he/she will get the option to Disband the clan. If there are other members he/she will get the option to leave. If a Papa leaves a clan a random Family member will become the new Papa. The Papa will get the option to invite new members to the family in the 8G Network.

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    Families provide you with a few specific benefits. First, the first member of a Family that joins a server is put into a party. Any member that joins after will automatically be put into this party. You can leave this original party and make/join a different party if you choose. All Family members not in the party will display on the map in red. Second, you can create persistent map markers. These are saved to the database and visible by all clan members. There are two types of markers:  text/icon or polygon. To create either marker you need to right-click quickly on the map. If you right-click slowly you will drag the map as is the normal behavior in ArmA.

    Creating icon/text markers are very simple. To delete them you need to right-click the icon/text and press remove.

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    Polygon markers can be a little more tricky. You need to make sure that you close the polygon and that you use less than 10 lines. If your polygon lines do not connect you will see that the Linked field is red. If you have created a complete polygon the Linked field will turn green. (See pictures below.) To delete a polygon you need to click inside of it and then press the remove button.

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    Also, the Bounty system has been scrapped. After months of discussion we came to the decision that there were too many ways the system could be abused.

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    Skelly

    Damn looks awesome, everything i was expecting from such a system, and I love the names they sound quite funny! A shame that the bounty system couldn't make its way into the mod, but im sure if some servers really want to have it implemented they can just do it themselves. And as per usual, cant wait for the update to be released, you guys are giving me so much to work with here! :D

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    HunterGaming
    39 minutes ago, Skelly said:

    Damn looks awesome, everything i was expecting from such a system, and I love the names they sound quite funny! A shame that the bounty system couldn't make its way into the mod, but im sure if some servers really want to have it implemented they can just do it themselves. And as per usual, cant wait for the update to be released, you guys are giving me so much to work with here! :D

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    This is awesome, and make things much easier for us when playing in a large group :D

    I'm calling dibs on "Papa" LOL!!!

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    kuplion
    1 hour ago, Limitless0 said:

    Can we have an option to change this papa, family words.

    I second this. Whilst Exile as a standalone Mod is all about Prisoners and the Mafia, lots of us have modded it to be different kinds of scenarios. Would it be possible to have these titles/names configurable in the exile_server_config, so as to save the need to mod client/server files.

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    Skelly
    4 hours ago, BetterDeadThanZed said:

    What Mafia story? I thought we were prisoners...

    Well we are prisoners, but I guess the inhabitants of the island we were sent to had a system of mafia running or ruling it, making it easy for prisoners to join a sort of gang to continue a life of crime?

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    Field_Sweeper

    I woul'd like to say about the bounty system, if making it so server admins can enable or disable it. (they can enforce rules etc) it would be really cool to have.

    also you could do it similar to eve online.   making it only pay out a portion of their bounty equal to a percentage (10% in eve) of the amount of items that were lost when he died (item cost based on server cost of those items etc sale value) MAYBE also make it that bountied players have an insta delete of their items when they die.  piss someone off and you get a bounty, then when they die the gear is automatically and instantly "burried"

     

    maybe just instead of a bounty a pay x fee/respect to mark him on the map for x amount of time.  I love the idea of a bounty and hope you can end up finding a way to make a good version of a bounty / bounty like system. 

     

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    OrbDamu
    On 5/19/2016 at 9:33 PM, Sgt Smash said:

    Looks good, hopefully this keeps players here that are turned off by all the other changes coming.

    The way I see it, the changes thus far are in line with what are/were the intentions of the game. If players are turned off by that then this may not have been the mod for them from the start.

    Myself (and most other players, I assume) greatly appreciate the work they've done and I'm going to focus on not shitting my pants when this comes out (I sometimes squirt a little skid when I get really excited).

    Edited by OrbDamu

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    Sgt Smash
    37 minutes ago, OrbDamu said:

    The way I see it, the changes thus far are in line with what are/were the intentions of the game. If players are turned off by that then this may not have been the mod for them from the start.

    Myself (and most other players, I assume) greatly appreciate the work they've done and I'm going to focus on not shitting my pants when this comes out (I sometimes squirt a little skid when I get really excited).

    i'm with you guys on this,

    i was just pointing out that this is great and might make some people pipe down abit about the other things.

    i was trying not to be blunt for a change but you forced it out of me lol:P

    Edited by Sgt Smash

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    BetterDeadThanZed
    On 5/18/2016 at 4:24 PM, Limitless0 said:

    Can we have an option to change this papa, family words.

    So, any chance of configurable names? I'm not sure what this mafia reference is but it would be nice if we could tailor it to our servers.

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    Goblin
    17 hours ago, BetterDeadThanZed said:

    So, any chance of configurable names? I'm not sure what this mafia reference is but it would be nice if we could tailor it to our servers.

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    Goblin

    I guess the Hell's Angels , Bloods , Crips , MS13 , etc , weren't strong enough in this exile to survive , so the Mafia took over ...... which ethnic Mafia anyway ....... 402-Taxi-Driver-quotes.gif

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    Guest
    19 hours ago, BetterDeadThanZed said:

    So, any chance of configurable names? I'm not sure what this mafia reference is but it would be nice if we could tailor it to our servers.

    Exile has always been a mod based on mafia/prisoners. Respect, pop tabs, pay the head honcho at the safezone etc...

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    BetterDeadThanZed
    3 hours ago, Flosstradamus said:

    Exile has always been a mod based on mafia/prisoners. Respect, pop tabs, pay the head honcho at the safezone etc...

    Until this changelog, I've never seen a reference to mafia. Still, would be nice if we could call them what we want without changing core files.

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    Storm18

    I rather have them be called gangs instead of families. Don't you know a true gangster will always be bigger than any Mafia father. (American Gangster anyone?)
    We are convicts after all. 

    Edited by Storm18

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