MonnSTAR

Hey guys, I am having an issue with my DMS Missions always grouping in tight clusters on Tanoa and not spreading themselves out on the map, I have tried adjusting the surface normals and stand off distances from other missions/traderzones/etc, but it's not seeming to do anything. Any pointers?

So I found the trader that I wanted out of the InitPlayerLocal.sqf and deleted the code out of the file, save it, then went into the mission.sqf and found the marker for that trader and deleted the two class sections associated with that marker and changed the class item number from 58 down to 56, because I deleted two sections...saved it, re-pbo'd the file and the server wouldn't show up, so I am obviously doing something wrong here. Does anyone have a Discord or Teamspeak they would like to help me out on, as this is a lot to try to cover via forum posts and rather annoying because I'm not getting full answers from anyone.

Do you recommend commenting them out or just simply deleting them from the code? Also, how do you recommend dealing with the mission.sqf to get rid of their icons?

Hey guys, What is the best way to remove traders from the Tanoa mission.sqm file? It's structured a bit different from the Altis mission.sqm and I could just use some pointers as how to best remove it from the code and what other parameters I need to change as a result of removing them , as there are too many traders on the map right now and we want to narrow down options for traders giving players more freedom to build places and also so it won't affect mission spawning. Thanks in advance.

I've been thoroughly enjoying crucifying them on Twitter.

So get this after reading your reply about instantly going to their website, it got me thinking, they surely wouldn't have banned me from their website would they? So I tested it out one more time on my computer, connection error timed out. I picked up my iphone that was currently connected to my home WiFI, and tried to get on their website, connection error timed out. I disconnected my phone from my home WiFi and tried to connect to their website, instantly connected. They literally banned my IP from their website after openly criticizing them. Amazing.

As an update, nearly 8 hours after posting this SurvivalServers.com is still down. What a superb service they provide, am I right? Further cementing my argument against them and my decision to write this post, because if I can save just one person from spending money with them I will feel like I have done my job.

Hello all, First of let me say that 3 weeks ago, I came into the world of hosting an Exile server with little to no knowledge about running a server on my own. I was lucky enough to have a friend who guided me along the way and helped me out as part of my admin team as he was experienced in running an Arma server. Needless to say, I as a newbie admin have learned quite a bit in the past weeks. A lot of headaches, but a lot of valued learning nonetheless. I am here writing this so you don't make the same mistake that I did, here's why. I found a solid thread on these forums discussing server hosting and saw Survival Servers and they seemed to have good reviews from sources I was looking at and matched my price point so I decided to jump in head first. initially I had paid for a service for installs of 4 mods that would help me alleviate more work on my end, on their website they advertised 24-48 hours for mods to be installed. After day three I opened up a support ticket to find out where my mods were and pointed out the fact that they were over their stated install time by nearly 24 hours, about 6 hours later, I get a reply telling me that my mods were installed...The first couple days afterwards were solid, and we got lots of compliments on server stability, frame rate, the whole 9 and despite the slowness on the mod installs, support AT THE TIME, seemed adequate enough in responding in a timely manner to issues I had. After the first week of an operational server, we started having issues both with server issues and response times culminating into our mySQL database exploding causing players duping gear left and right, after dying on respawn, spawning back at their bodies 30 seconds before they died, in full gear, with their duped body in front of them. On our end, we had done nothing to cause this error, we started to get reports of these issues happening and I decided to stop the server and to a manual restart to see if that would resolve it. After stopping the server, it wouldn't come back online no matter what we did like uploading old sterile files to make sure we hadn't borked anything in any recent hotfixes we had implemented, we tried everything, even changing server locations and attempting to start from scratch... then finally opened up a support ticket. After nearly 24 hours with no response, no tweets from their company account, nothing we FINALLY get a response on our ticket with "We forgot to update our mySQL certificate. The issue should be resolved." Gee, thanks...now that I'm staring at this fresh new server directory. Not once did I receive an apology, a "we will make this right" statement, or any sort of compensation. Wow.. So grudgingly I spent the next 15 hours getting the server back to where I had it, with an unhappy player base because all of their progress had been wiped due to no fault of my own, that was 3 days ago. This morning I logged in to all kinds of reports by my players that our BEC timers were conflicting with infiSTAR restart timers, the night cycles were off, etc...nothing too hard to correct. So, I log into my admin panel to which it shows that my server is "stopped" which was obviously impossible due to me chatting to players currently on my server with Rcon/Battlewarden. So I tell my players to log off as I was going to do a manual restart, and when I did that, it said server "online" and so then I immediately stopped the server so I could upload my fixes to the timers and night cycle. I get greeted with FTP error 550, and all files failure to transfer. I do a manual restart again, then stop the server again...try to upload my fixes and new .pbo files....error code 550. So, I opened a support ticket at around 9:30am EST with a detailed description of the issue, and listed the error code not once, but twice.... 4 hours later since they are on the West coast I finally get a reply... "Please upload a screenshot of the error. I am looking into your issue now." I was livid but I complied. I waited a few hours and checked my support ticket again, still no replies...and so I laid into them about their customer support on the support ticket and waited a few more hours....still no reply. At this point, I decided to dive deeper into the internet to find more honest reviews of Survival Servers and I came across this website with appalling reviews of their service. https://www.trustpilot.com/review/survivalservers.com I was so mad at myself for not having seen this before giving these guys my money, because I am big on customer support and when an overwhelming 70% of reviews are only giving you 1 star out of 5...something is seriously wrong. So I took to Twitter and started to fire shots, because at this point I was out for blood, because to me if I am paying for a service, especially one like a hosting service and there is a game breaking issue of me not being able to upload to my FTP, I would expect that to be a critical issue on their end & handled in a timely manner. NOPE, so again, I took to social media especially after having read through the mountain of terrible reviews. About 2 hours after making those post and taking my hate out on Overwatch games, I get a message from my other admin telling me to check Twitter. I log in to see this...a company who was not my provider saw the disdain in my tweets and hit me up nearly 1 hour and 10 minutes before Survival Servers hit me back telling me to wait 12-24 hours for a response. Classic. So at that point, I still wasn't able to upload to my FTP, no issue had been fixed, and I still had no new replies on my support ticket I had opened at 9am... and that Tweet from another company that I wasn't a customer of having a faster response time than my current provider was the straw that broke the camels back. I opened up another support ticket and requested a full refund or I would be contacting the BBB. Survival Servers responded to my refund ticket from a ticket that was probably 8 days old telling me that I was being refunded in full from their "CEO" Ryan Pennington. I bought their service on 12/27/16 and since then, I have probably put in 10+ support tickets concerning issues not able to be handled on my end resulting in about 7 days of downtime due to incompetency on their end. That's nearly 1/3rd of the time I've had their service being spent in server downtime. Somehow, my now old server is still up and running as there are players on it now as I am typing this, I tried to log into their website to see if I could still access the control panel and low and behold I get this gem. Normally, when I get a bad customer experience, I just chalk it up as just that, bad customer experience and perhaps it doesn't reflect the overall quality of that particular company and I move on with my life and take my money else where, keeping to myself about my bad experience. I don't write reviews, they take too long and I just don't care that much. With Survival Servers, I felt that it was my duty to let you guys know about my experience so that you don't make the same mistake that I did in choosing these guys to "run" a server hosting service for you. Survival Servers is straight garbage, please don't ever give them a dime of your money.

Damn I'm blind, thanks for the quick reply man. I feel dumb as hell now, lol.

@infiSTAR hey man, I was curious if there would be a way to implement either myself or something that you add in to where when we as admins use the !admin command to switch back and forth between admin and regular player that it would announce to the server that we were switching to player or admin. The reason being for this is with my community me and my admin team still get out there and play with the community and it would help give them some peace of mind that we are playing legit instead of abusing our admin powers, which inevitably we've been accused of simply because we are good players & not even having admin powers on at the time & the fact that the general player base have no way of knowing if we had our admin powers on or not at the time. It's something minor, but I think it would be a nice touch and help squash any doubt as to wether or not admins were playing legit or not. Any help with this would be much appreciated.

Hey all, Lost my server recently and having to do everything all over again. I got Enhanced Base Mods installed, but whenever I try to place anything and it goes to preview mode I get kicked for SetPos Restriction #1. In my setpos.log this is the error I am getting. 10.01.2017 16:42:02: MonnSTAR (142.197.105.161:2304) 6f85fb7c566c808bbff86fba367f96ea - #1 2:844 Land_BagBunker_Tower_F_Preview [8438,25083,111] Where do I fix this error? and do I have to do this for every new thing that Enhanced Base Mod adds? Hopefully not

Hey guys, just experiencing a small issue and not sure what I am doing wrong. Basically I'm trying to modify the basic customization for chat commands, & notification messages and when I do, my server still loads but infiSTAR doesn't. Here is the string I had, just curious if I could get a second pair of eyes on it, or maybe tell me what I am doing wrong for this to make infiSTAR not load. This was the only section I was modifying. @infiSTAR /* {chatCommand (text typed in chat),text shown to player} only triggers if the EXACT text is typed! */ chatCommands[] = { {"!discord","discord.gg/XxTUXDj"}, {"!website","deplorablegaming.enjin.com"}, {"!taxi","Jorge, Deplorable Airlines pilot will gladly take you to each of the 3 traders free of charge."}, {"!admins","Admins of this server are MonnSTAR, Lucid_Games, and Bonnin."}, {"!commands","!discord !website !taxi !admins"} }; /* {chatCommand (text typed in chat) partitial,text shown to player} "Hello, why is there no loot on this map?" <- will trigger the example below! */ chatCommandsP[] = { {"what shaking","That's called an earthquake, princess. Now get out of and away from buildings."} }; /* Noficiations shown to all players on the server. Could be used to replace BEC messages. {first occurrence after x min, show again after x min, show message for x seconds, font size (recommended is 0.6), xpos, ypos,text color, font, text (<br/> is a linebreak)} if you want the client to see a message only once when logging in, you put the first and second entry in the array to -1. Example: {-1, -1, 4, 0.6, 0, 0, "#ff0000", "OrbitronLight", "Welcome to our server"} xpos and ypos need to be within your monitor. to high numbers and you simply won't see the text.. ~ x-range is between -0.7 to +1 ~ y-range is between -0.4 to +1 Arma Fonts: PuristaLight PuristaMedium PuristaSemiBold PuristaBold LucidaConsoleB EtelkaMonospacePro EtelkaMonospaceProBold EtelkaNarrowMediumPro TahomaB Exile Fonts: OrbitronLight OrbitronMedium PressStart2P RobotoMedium RobotoRegular */ ENABLE_NOTIFICATION_MESSAGES = "true"; NOTIFY_MSG_ARRAY[] = { {-1, -1, 6, 0.6, 0, 0, "#ff0000", "OrbitronLight", "Welcome to Deplorable Gaming"}, {-1, -1, 4, 0.6, 0, 0, "#1900FF", "OrbitronLight", "Making Arma Great Again."}, {-1, -1, 5, 0.6, 0, 0, "safeZoneX", "0.5", "#048B5B", "OrbitronLight", "Protected and administrated by<br/>infiSTAR.de AdminTools, AntiHack and more!"}, {-1, -1, 6, 0.6, 0, 0, "#E600E6", "OrbitronLight", "Admins: MonnSTAR, Lucid_Games, & Bonnin."} };

You're the real MVP @Sgt. ScrapMetal

Thanks man, and then take the new keys from the 1.8.1 folders and put them in the server keys folder, correct? I shouldn't have to change any code?

New server admin here, we just got CUP finally working last night and get on today to find out that CUP has updated to 1.8.1 while our server is still running 1.8.0. My question to you guys is what is the easiest way to update without having to completely rip the code out and basically start from ground zero? Any help at all would be appreciated.