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@=VG= Kavelenko You mean the game doesn't have an input bindings GUI under game settings where one would normally bind controllers, keyboard keys, mouse buttons, etc.?!?!?! IIRC this game has been in early access for 4 years with a seemingly hardcore fan support base.... Surprised they don't have standard video game settings menus for controls.... What is this, Falcon BMS?!

Thank you so much for the gift! Got SQUAD installed, and ready - will get it all set up and blast out the dust bunnies from my PC so I can play soon. greatly appreciated!

Hope you can figure out your issue. No idea what could be causing it. FTR, this is an English Speaking group, and while we completely understand that this is not everyone's first language, and we welcome everyone from all over the globe, we feel that unless something is just not translating well, it is more than sufficient to copy and paste in English from Google Translate or other applications. We don't mean to be exclusive or to reprimand anyone for writing in their own language, but if you could please try to write in English only (again unless it is not working) we would all be grateful. Thank you all for understanding! At all times, if these means of communication fail, communicate however is necessary. No worries.

Just a small progress report - slow going as I'm busy with other things, but just got the server cleaned up enough to fit the ridiculously large sized Dedicated Server Files package for SQUAD - fucking 23GB. Gotta do some reading, something must be wrong with that - maybe they don't know how to distribute server files without user file textures, media files, etc.... Kinda pissed off after an hour of this BS, scrambling to erase files to make room when I saw the disk allocation drop to 19GB free after launching the steamcmd to DL the server files. Pricks. Okay, I feel better now. I'm sure they're not pricks, and there's some trick or reason to sending server files so fucking large. Again, pardon my french - you can't imagine what I just went through, the stress of worrying if our Dedi would drop off existence due to an accidental consumption of all available freespace. Time for a break. Will work on configuration later this afternoon, and other bits, and then do some tests. I suppose I better purchase the game myself and get it installed so I can test. Bills, games, PC parts. It's where my money goes edit: maybe Summer/Fall 2020 I might upgrade the VG Dedicated Server from this intel 7700 quad-core with HT to an 8700 hex-core with HT and a whopping 2TB of NVMe SSD's in RAID-0 and the same 64GB of DDR4 - would get access to Windows Server 2019, instead of the Windows Server 2012 R2 we're currently stuck with. We'll see - looks like the price per month would increase by $10-20, but might be worth it given the servers I'd like to be able to host (some rather CPU intensive like Space Engineers and potentially Stormworks)... we'll see as Summer approaches. Size on disk limits have been nagging me for awhile, was great at first, but now it's straight annoying to work around such small disk space on our dedicated server, and to try to cram everything onto shared CPU cores instead of dedicated server cores like how we run PR COOP (has it's own 2 cores, no other VG servers/processes using those two, and only uses 20% of them)

Very good deal on that SSD, unfortunately not looking for any SSD's at current (not SATA anyway). If I was, I'd have gotten the Samsung 1TB's that were on sale for $90 this past Black Friday. Best time of year for certain parts in USA! I have a bunch of very useful SATA SSD's already; a couple 120GB's in RAID-0, a 250GB, and a 500GB - but gonna move up to the NVMe standard for this next build. Will be at least 2 weeks before I do any purchasing, so plenty of time for consideration.

Welcome back Chaz! Not sure what could have happened to your forum account, one of the cool things about the VG website migrations over the years is that we seem to have been able to pull all old users. But I guess yours got lost somewhere. Wish I could restore it, but just checked backend and it's nonexistent. Been super busy with my next update for Voice Controlled Radio Menus for BMS (a profile for VoiceAttack), but I'll be flying on the server again soon as I run out of such excuses See you around! Any issues with the server, feel free to let me know. It's just me and Jeffu managing it right now.

Medicine isn't so hard if you think outside the box:

@Golden I might have found your problem, for real this time. ...and funny enough, my first joke response was actually the correct answer, believe it or not. When you play PR, or other older games, are you restarting your computer to disable a number of those CPU cores on your 9980XE before booting into Windows to play PR? Because that would be the route to try if you experience a lack of performance or loss of FPS contrary to the three extreme graphics cards you are running. At the very least, this is a route to explore for more information for odd and rare issues experienced in PC gaming with an HEDT processor such as the one you have. You might want to monitor core usage and thermals per core during PR COOP gameplay so you can see what is happening when you experience these issues. I'm more than certain this is the path to investigate. You're also running an OC and that would be something to disable for a long period to see if it affects the issue. Really hope it helps.

If I spent the same amount of money on a Ryzen 9 3900X system, tweaked a few things, I could end up with a crazy large amount of storage for my projects, with a full size backup drive (8TB at 5400RPM) just for peace of mind... Still would be around $140 a month for 15 months, which is just barely what I can afford. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor $418.89 @ Amazon CPU Cooler NZXT Kraken X63 98.17 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $149.99 @ Amazon Motherboard Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard $379.99 @ B&H Memory Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-4000 Memory $109.99 @ Newegg Memory Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-4000 Memory $109.99 @ Newegg Storage Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $169.99 @ Amazon Storage Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $169.99 @ Amazon Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 8 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive $151.99 @ Amazon Storage Seagate BarraCuda Pro 8 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $299.99 @ Adorama Case NZXT H510i ATX Mid Tower Case $89.99 @ Amazon Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA G1+ 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $121.99 @ Amazon Case Fan Noctua NF-P14s redux-1500 PWM 78.69 CFM 140 mm Fan $14.95 @ Amazon Case Fan Noctua NF-P14r redux-1500 PWM 78.69 CFM 140 mm Fan $14.95 @ Amazon Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $1750.71 (adjusted with 8TB drives removed) Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-03-12 22:42 EDT-0400

Red Dead Redemption 2 + GTA:V take up around 250GB... ARK Survival Evolved + ATLAS take up another 300GB, Arma 3 and DCS World add another 100GB, still haven't really gotten sick of Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War and play them from time to time (together a combined 165GB easy), and my Skyrim (with over 200 mods) at 86GB, and about the same same with my modded Fallout 4 start getting darn close to a terabyte for titles I'd like to stop using on my aging and slow as hell 5400RPM HDD, or even trying to fit a few on my 5 year old 500GB Sata SSD. (edit: also 250GB of Oculus VR titles) You say loading times are not that different, but I've seen the real world comparisons in a number of titles I play on various drives and I'm happy to toss a little money at saving 30 seconds here or there, sometimes much less. I know it's not gonna be like night and day, just another modest improvement. Looking at $140 a month for 15 months, luckily at 0% interest. Still not ready to do that, still checking out stuff. That list of decent Ryzen motherboards is helpful, running through them, checking out user manuals, reviews, etc. Thanks again

Roger that. I've done that before ... bought half the RAM to start, complete the set down the road. The 2x 500GB's are actually for the crazy value they currently have, and for a steam library (5 of the games I play most often can fill up one of them easy, could use the other 500GB m.2 for the rest of the library of 5-30GB games of less crazy size) and mostly for those that have long load times. The little crap games that really don't care can go anywhere. I'm not insane, just considering a different level of storage than I've ever had. edit: Also a few of the games I play with >200 mods, i.e. City Skylines, KSP, maybe others in the future, fill up my current 16GB of RAM to the point of low overhead and having to limit the active mods I use, limit multi-tasking operations (recording/streaming while playing, etc.). That's the reason I'd go for slower timings overall for higher capacity RAM in this case. Cheers for the suggestions!

...aaand I already feel like some kind of Intel fanboy for even writing what I did above... having re-read it, it just feels wrong knowing that the 3900X Ryzen is not only $70-90 cheaper than the i9 9900KF, but in most tasks 20-30% faster (or more) than it's Intel counterpart. This is why it's gonna be a bit before I pull the trigger on this, been mocking up builds since last Halloween, and trying to push myself to a decision, but it's hell of a lot of money no matter how you slice that cake, and I certainly don't want to have wasted my money on something I could have chosen more wisely in the build like Ryzen 3900X instead of the 9900KF. More research, more input, more time needed.

I have a comparable AMD build in Excel... believe it or not, it about equals out in that the feature-similar Motherboard for Ryzen that i'd want is about $70-90 more than this Z390, where the comparable Ryzen CPU is $70-100 less than the i9 9900KF... Since I'm more familiar with Intel particularly with regards to technical features I'm used to even down to not having to learn new methods for overclocking, I decided to "go with what I know" since the price difference wasn't as large as some YT vids or other builds would show. If anyone has any good Motherboard recommendations for Ryzen, I'd love to look at them. It's not "essential" to have 3x M.2 slots (even the 9900KF has 24 PCIe lanes, more than enough to run my GFX card at 16x along with a controller like Golden uses for 4th M.2), but I'd very much like it for the next ~5+ years of use. Using all 3 on the Ultra version of the MoBo listed negates 3 of the 6 SATA ports, dropping the additional storage to 3 drives max - will use them for the 8TB and 4TB slow HDD's (5400RPM) and my old 500GB Samsung EVO SSD. Was gonna put the OS on the 1TB M.2 and use the other two for Steam Libraries and swap folders/work flow folders to keep down throughput for rendering projects, etc. My own fault if I take a monetary hit going Intel v. AMD, there's a few things I want, and it's not Enthusiast level but higher up the mid-level nonetheless. If I was going to build a system like the one I have now, a lower-mid level gaming system, I'd save loads by going Ryzen. But I'm shooting for the upper tier of the Mid level now, just to the edge of the start of Enthusiast, and I'm not seeing much price difference here Intel v. Ryzen. For general reference, Golden's system would fall squarely in the Upper-Mid level of the highest level of gaming PC's (Enthusiast grade), where one of the only things between his system and the High level Enthusiast would be (wasted) money spent on an Intel i9 10980XE (barely any performance gain over Golden's Intel i9 9980XE) or Intel W-3175X at nearly twice the price, or perhaps the AMD TR 3960X or 3990X, also quite a bit higher or double the price. My last system (current system when it had GTX 970 SSC) is a lower-level Mid Tier gaming PC. Adding this 2070S takes so much load off the CPU for 3D gaming that it is now essentially mid-level Mid Tier but being CPU bound, can't keep up with certain modern compute tasks and falls short in a number of workstation and 3D gaming tasks despite the Haswell i5's excellent single-core performance (especially with my 4.2GHz/core overclock). Any suggestions or recommendations are very much appreciated!!! Thanks for the input guys! (FTR, I'm poor as fuck, disabled and living on a shoestring, I got a rusty car and a tiny home, but playing PC games with you guys, running VG and doing all the technical stuff here is about the greatest fun I have in my life, so I don't mind going into debt for 15 months for something that will last 5 years - also really praying I can make back a good $400-500 by selling my old system on Craigslist or whatever)

(hidden the first intel concept build - final build is the Ryzen 3900X listed below) (link on PCPartPicker: PCPartPicker Part List ) Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i9-9900KF 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $489.99 @ B&H CPU Cooler NZXT Kraken X62 Liquid CPU Cooler $179.99 @ Amazon Motherboard Gigabyte Z390 AORUS ULTRA ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $246.00 @ B&H Memory Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-4000 Memory $114.99 @ Newegg Memory Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-4000 Memory $114.99 @ Newegg Storage Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $89.99 @ B&H Storage Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $89.99 @ B&H Storage Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $169.99 @ B&H Storage Seagate BarraCuda Pro 8 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $299.99 @ Adorama Video Card Asus GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB STRIX GAMING OC Video Card Case NZXT H510i ATX Mid Tower Case $89.99 @ B&H Power Supply Thermaltake 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $99.99 @ Amazon Case Fan Noctua NF-P14s redux-1500 PWM 78.69 CFM 140 mm Fan $13.95 @ Amazon Case Fan Noctua NF-P14r redux-1500 PWM 78.69 CFM 140 mm Fan $14.95 @ Amazon Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $2014.80 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-03-11 22:52 EDT-0400 Thoughts? Ideas? Gonna have to pretty much finance it over about a year so it won't be paid off until 2021, but I'm thinking it's worth it - PC gaming is pretty much the only hobby I have that costs any money, only takes gas to go camping (and ice... and ammo ) So, gonna rebuild my old PC with it's Intel i5 4690K and EVGA nVidia GTX 970 SSC, and RAID-0 120GB (240GB) OS Drives, and a 2TB 7200RPM HDD -- will sell used in USA to someone looking for a cheap used entry level gaming PC... should be able to recover some costs there (otherwise I'd reuse the case and PSU, and have a bunch of parts I'm not gonna use). UPDATE: Final Build purchased - Adjusted parts list (including carryover parts from current build listed at $0.00): Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor Purchased For $418.89 CPU Cooler NZXT Kraken X63 98.17 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Purchased For $149.99 Thermal Compound ARCTIC MX-4 2019 Edition 8 g Thermal Paste Purchased For $11.90 Motherboard Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard Purchased For $379.99 Memory Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-4000 CL19 Memory Purchased For $109.99 Memory Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-4000 CL19 Memory Purchased For $109.99 Storage Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (already owned) $0.00 Storage Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Purchased For $169.99 Storage Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Purchased For $169.99 Storage Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Purchased For $49.99 Storage Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (already owned) $0.00 Storage Seagate BarraCuda Pro 8 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Purchased For $299.99 Video Card Asus ROG GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB STRIX GAMING OC Video Card Purchased at $369.99 (*in Nov2019 using $200 rebate) Case NZXT H510i ATX Mid Tower Case Purchased For $89.99 Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA G1+ 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Purchased For $121.99 Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (already owned) $0.00 Case Fan Noctua NF-A14 industrialPPC-3000 PWM 800-3000RPM 158.5 CFM 140 mm Fan Purchased For $27.95 Case Fan Noctua NF-A14 industrialPPC-3000 PWM 800-3000RPM 158.5 CFM 140 mm Fan Purchased For $27.95 Case Fan Noctua NF-A14 industrialPPC-3000 PWM 800-3000RPM 158.5 CFM 140 mm Fan Purchased For $27.95 Case Fan Noctua NF-F12 industrialPPC-3000 PWM 750-3000RPM 109.89 CFM 120 mm Fan Purchased For $29.99 Monitor Asus VG248QE 24.0" 1920x1080 144 Hz Monitor (already owned) $0.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $2196.53 **(in new parts -- or $2566.52 w/ GFX card) Edited from Generated List from PCPartPicker 2020-04-01 19:14 EDT-0400 Estimated Wattage used range: 142W - 538W

@=VG= Kavelenko That would be DCS, it's easy to miss (only noted in part of the forum category) - no worries at all, man! (text sucks - I'm not being sarcastic, I missed it myself at first! didn't want you to read that wrong) Great for small little missions, models most systems in the F/A-18 well. DCS is pretty much the TE's from BMS, and it has a mission builder like how you can make missions in Arma 3 - some are pretty cool, and there's plenty available to just download and try out with a few friends. Iffn and I used to fly around in the Op. Bactria mission (in Warthogs, though). Very cool stuff, very hi-fidelity graphics. Gotta note that we gotta get you @=VG= keed into the F-16 someday, too, cuz there's nothing like taking part in a 24/7 persistent virtual war over the scale of a country the size of Korea (and part of China) spanning several weeks in real time. Rock on with your Hornet in DCS and have a blast!! I bought and learned the A-10C in DCS, and would have to completely re-train before I jumped back in the cockpit, right down to setting up all the controls and display extraction for the program itself, otherwise I'd find a way to join you. Best wishes and watch your six! Cheers!

I hate to be a wet blanket, but Future Proof is a fallacy. This comes from a serious base of knowledge in computer parts, and years of learning from actual pros through their videos on these very subjects such as Gamers Nexus and Linus Tech Tips, and many other lesser known channels on YouTube. It's more appropriate to call these efforts "Future Resilient" and sorry for splitting hairs on that one. The storage will enter the unreliable zone before ten years, the graphics cards will also fall prey to time when some new feature that they physically lack is introduced or a new standard of any kind develops and while they will continue to chug along year after year - DirectX 10 and 11 had major feature changes in the last decade or so and including DirectX 12, each new standard requiring new hardware - with FPS getting lower and lower due to a number of factors from increase complexity of future games to general degradation over time, to the point where one of the GFX cards fails and must be removed from the triple setup (and irreplaceable but for a higher than original price or for an unknown used variant located elsewhere) - dropping future FPS even further. This as opposed to the concept of buying a single or dual high level GFX card(s) once every 3 years, of the latest technology. Again, LOVE THE SYSTEM!!! But realistically, triple GFX cards of that type for cost to performance over time (I guess that would be a DeltaV in this case?) would net an indication of 2 similar cards being purchased (and old ones sold before they are dead) every 3 years for the next decade. No part will last forever, some longer than others though, but all can be considered at a Cost to Own Per Day, with the end of that equation being solved when the part dies or is replaced, and these things should be foremost in consideration when money is a key factor. Very cool to see a system like this when money is not the limiting factor, and I'm just drooling over those specs It's not everyone's preference, but again IMHO, these are some of the things I've gleaned from being deep into this hobby for so long. Apologies for the unsolicited commentary - again, big fan of things as fast and awesome as that beast you've built! OORAH! Kick ass and take names! You very well WILL be at the top of Enthusiast PC gaming hardware for many years. Just be ready to replace one or two things as you go. Monitor your Liquid Cooling well, when they fail, they fail quick and shit dies - having alarms or temp monitors if you're overclocking can mean the difference between noticing a problem before it occurs and replacing a nearly $2000 CPU that will only go UP in price for new replacement models over time. BTW - what motherboard are you running? Obviously the Z390's for the "mortal men" Intel chips are damn hard to find one with support for 4x M.2 / NVMe slots, so that's likely a feature for the type of dense core count CPU you're running and the motherboards available for it - super curious, wanna check under it's skirt and poke around it's user manual .pdf Edit: Last comment - if you're overclocking, and don't already know this - push for the absolute fastest RAM overclock first, then push your CPU as there is only so much voltage to go around before limiting factors come into play down to the VRM's themselves and their quality, etc. High capacity RAM has the drawback of slower time to search for bits and with respect to PC gaming, what we want (even for something pushing the modern limits like Red Dead Redemption 2 for PC) is very high single core CPU performance and the fastest RAM we can get, preferably at least 8GB of it, but these days 16GB has become the standard. If I was looking to run heavily modded games with shit-tons of mods, like City Skylines, I'd maybe push that up to a 32GB across 4 slots. if I was working with an eight slot beast of a motherboard like you have, I'd likely still work within the realm of 32-64GB of RAM for sake of speed specifically as it relates to PC gaming. Will be awhile before you build another system for sure, likely this will be obsolete knowledge by then. But for anyone reading this now - just know there are negatives to 128GB of RAM across 8 slots, and you'll see the highest competitive overclocking working on a single set of dual channel RAM of a lowered capacity and very high speed. Food for thought. When you get into the workstation realm, editing things like huge files or 8K Red camera footage files, 128GB of RAM can let you scrub through scenes and render previews in full scale, and batch process tons of files with speed. But for gaming, a good tip is "only as much size as you need for what you do" and the fastest possible speed and timings you can afford (and your chipset supports).

Roger that. Yea, there are no associated costs. The VG Dedicated Server in Germany has an unused CPU average of 80%, and we are only using 15 out of 64GB of RAM. Storage space is often an issue, so we'll do a bit of cleanup, there are plenty of redundant archives that can be eliminated, so we're not at capacity there either. Basically, we're good to go for any game you guys decide to start hosting. Squad. A dedicated Space Engineers server. Maybe a Stormworks server. We're good to go. @=VG= ciro has hopefully begun the license application, but we should really just get a server up and running. This way we can have some time to craft the rules we would want specific to Squad, get our Admins trained on how to operate in this new game, and get our SOP's in order, create our GameTracker links, and begin to understand the flow of the game from a server perspective. We can always apply a license later. I'll get the files onto the server later today and begin the process to install it. May need Ciro for some technical stuff. I'll probably have to install Squad myself to test, etc., so that's a bit for the to-do list. The ball is rolling, the server is coming. Hold onto your butts

I've possibly found the problem.... Game Mods based on games from 2004 do not like being run on systems that cost more than $5,000 - just speculation. Probably has something to do with the $3,000 worth of graphics cards on the system, or possibly the nearly $1500 of NVMe SSD storage. It's also possible but not necessarily probable that the >$700 worth of DDR4 RAM is just too expensive for Project Reailty, but again, it's just speculation. I'm totally kidding, of course. That is a killer system there - and obviously your system hardware is not the limiting factor. Unless this is an issue with your operating system or programs, then the problem lies with the PR program itself. Again, these issues are going to fall squarely in the realm of folks like Alon or Mineral, and those who understand the mechanics of this program on very, very low level. I wish we could help you, but I feel that this is something that needs the expertise of those who actually wrote the program to provide any satisfactory technical reason or solution. I really gotta upgrade my own CPU/AiO/MoBo/RAM very soon, but the sticker shock of around $1200 for those parts keeps triggering my "fiscal responsibility" and though I have several credit cards with 0% interest until 2021, I just can't bring myself to place that order (yet). So you can imaging how wide my eyes were and how low to the ground my jaw was when I was perusing Golden's system specs.... I get the impression that you have a good career (or you're like me, and all your fun-money goes directly into your favorite PC gaming hobby ). I also get the idea that it's good I'm on a 2015 Haswell i5 if I'm developing apps or software for general public, because if I was on the most recent modern CPU's I might be ignorant of performance on lesser systems. Whatever lets me sleep at night, anyway. Killer Fucking System! I mean, super overkill for pretty much any game mankind has made to date, but seriously badass!

Found the server dead today. Woke up late (after noon US PDT) and server was sitting at Windows User Login, no programs running, and Task Manager noted uptime of 22 minutes (at least 20 minutes before I woke up/logged in) and the worst part, the BMS Campaign never created the first auto-save. Long story short, the server has been stared, and the campaign has begun (again) from the Day 1 Master Save at 0500 (Korean Time) -- I've logged back in a few times since to be sure it's working, and auto-saves are being created. Sorry for any loss of progress if any of you were flying yesterday. These things happen, computers are fun like that.

If this is happening on many maps, it may be worth reporting this in the actual PR Forums Support Issues/Bugs section. Would like to know if anyone else can recreate this issue, too, and they'd want to know that as well. If you do make a report, be sure to include details such as system specs, and the maps you've noted, and of course the steps to recreate the issue. This definitely does not sound like anything specifically related to the VG Server, but to PR in general and/or the client software. Definitely worth investigating further.

Seems like it's over. The server was a-okay when I checked it, but when I closed to the 2D, Pyongyang was fully captured. Maybe the end trigger didn't fire. Either way, Server Restarted to Day 1 -- Saved the JSTARS from the last campaign, will use it when we get the video issue fixed here. Cheers!

I check the server daily, but when I see people flying, I just exit out so I don't mess up their flight. Pyongyang is nearly captured last I checked - normally we have people requesting the server to restart to Day 1 by now, and I've not been flying so I rely on input from you guys who regularly fly here. If things have gotten too dry/dull/boring and all the remaining targets are better suited for UAV's, then we can reset to Day 1 -- just let us know. Otherwise, we'll make sure it keeps running towards hopefully a proper Campaign Complete Trigger -- AFAIK, Pyongyang is the last target, so if it gets taken, the Campaign will end, and we'll restart to Day 1. Gonna start saving the JSTARS replays, working on a project to display the last campaign JSTARS reply here on the website, still having issues with the video file, but should be ironed out before too long.

Well, everything seems just fine so far... except one gigantic fucking glaring detail.... Shipping. I've found several nice items that would be within the realm of possibility, problem being that a $80 order of 500 custom bottle openers has a shipping fee from China of $189 for fuck sake! Then each individual "bottle opener" (for example) would cost around $80 for me to ship just one $10 bottle opener to somewhere across any ocean like UK, EU, AUS, etc. Whether I ship one or one hundred from USA overseas, it's at least $80 USD for a tiny package even as small as 6x2x2 with less than a half-pound of weight. Now, I realize we've discussed regional distribution, so we could have some items at a member's house in UK, someone in EU, someone in US.... But follow along here because the initial delivery and shipping charges for the bulk orders are far and above the cost of the order no matter what address I plug in (whether US, UK, or several places in EU) -- and minimum order quantity (MOQ) is often 50-500, meaning that the initial order would need to be placed and delivered to one location, and then split up and sent to regional distribution volunteers.... after that, money would need to be transferred to said individuals so they could cover the local shipping fees.... transferring money involves additional fees and comes with it's own set of issues... and ALL OF THIS IS A FUCKING LOGISTICS NIGHTMARE! This little project is going to need some rethinking, as it seems the only possible method so far includes flat items like stickers, embroidered patches, and potentially (risky) dogtags with the designations "Member, PR Admin, or Clan Member", the clan name, player name, and maybe one more line if allowed. I note this is risky because Eclipse sent me my dog tags in a letter envelope, and it had some holes torn in the paper and tape patching them. The cost for these individual custom items is low, and flat mail is cheap.. less than $15 (USD) all said and done. So -- I've sent out some inquiries to factories through Alibaba for die cut stickers and embroidered iron-on patches -- the process would be to get questions answered, decide on sticker type, size, and specifications with the manufacturer, and then to get a few samples sent or just trust that it's a big company and go straight to the main order - depends on the company for that flow. Either way, it's not a fast process, and so we will not have items for sale yet and until this natural process works it's way through. So, no Merch for March (yet), we'll see - shipping from China, etc. takes weeks, let alone the turnaround time to manufacture. I will keep you all posted as I dig deeper into the logistics of all this. Thanks for your patience and understanding!!

By changing up the physical spawn points to even another building nearby I could imagine would be a lot of work, but a randomization with a number of choices would make it far more interesting for a lot of people!

Very awesome tips!! Have used voice commands for nearly every toggle state for holding a key, from walking to shoveling, but one I've always wanted to improve was the crouch - if I forgot it was toggled, I'd have odd results when other keys or key combos were used, because a literal keyboard key was being held down by a third party software. Gonna have to get this AutoHotkey setup, that will really improve things!