Arma 3 Epoch Thread

just been on empty sandbox at moment not really worth playing. atleast sorted so i can join now. will check back when more done .
 
How have you not been finding loot? We've been playing as a 3 and every town we've gone into has had loot. Try and get on one of the servers that restarts often - Dev one does, as does OCFR01/02 and DE01/02. I'm playing on the Dev server at the minute with plenty of gear already, so enough to offer some rifles about if anyone wants to collect them from me.

ETA - And if I don't have the guns on me, I can meet at a trader and buy guns for you
 
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No IP - It's listed as a development server. Whether that's true or not I don't know but it should be there when you filter by 'Epoch'. Believe that it's Skaronator or something similar. I'll confirm later DG. You in the mod and playing regularly? Would be nice to get a larger group going
 
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ill join anyone on here if you want to group up.

the damn arma 3 server list plays up on mine and half dont show up :(
 
Nightmare. Not sure if you can find them and join through PlaywithSix?

Drop me a FR on Steam and we can see about joining up at some point. Is there a particular server you play on at any point? My ID is 'sparr0w'.
 
It's kicked off over at Epoch with one hosting company withdrawing support of the mod because of a dispute.

I'm lead to believe the hosting company wanted their company header displayed in return for supplying free servers. The lead developer apparently flatly refused. This is just hearsay, but what is fact is that they lost a host through it.

Also, another hosting company is no longer on the server list, whether they're connected to the above issue is beyond me.

I'm beginning suspect we have another Rocket on our hands.
 
I have no idea, but I'd guess on the loading screen. If true, I think the developers are in the wrong as hosting companies are businesses, and if they're providing something for free, then why not ask for something in return. Even if they've moved the goal posts, it's not a big ask, is it?
 
Prestonian said:
It's kicked off over at Epoch with one hosting company withdrawing support of the mod because of a dispute.

I'm lead to believe the hosting company wanted their company header displayed in return for supplying free servers. The lead developer apparently flatly refused. This is just hearsay, but what is fact is that they lost a host through it.

Also, another hosting company is no longer on the server list, whether they're connected to the above issue is beyond me.

I'm beginning suspect we have another Rocket on our hands.
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Sourcey?
 
Archeum said:
Sourcey?
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Some of the dispute can be seen on page 2 of this forum Look at the locked threads.

The details of the dispute has been verbal hearsay, so I cannot give you a source.

However, in a Twitch stream, someone claiming to represent the hosting company was posting messages which were being immediately deleted by that channel's mods.
 
To be honest Axle does seem a tad elitist about some of the things he's coming out with... However I think he does mean well, instead of opening it up to the public he's helping to support the twitch streamers who have supported the mod.

What actually happened was a server provider pulled out and put a claim into paypal and reclaimed $2000, which caused Axle to potentially lose his home as a result as he couldn't pay bills.

The mod has potential, but its a long way off having anything of worth in. I'd be more tempted to stick to Arma 2 Epoch CCG for the time.

Also something to watch out for is standalone, once they released the files to the community i'm expecting some pretty big things to come out of that! Still think its absolutely crazy how we had to pay for mod of a mod which will be handed back out to modders.
 
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didn't think it would work but id rather it work than not work.

what makes epoch better than any other arma 3 mod ?

base building/trading rest is already in many many other mods. also other mods have been working or got base building working so the standout things that made epoch great are now just the normal.

you have to have your selling points and epochs are literally none now.
 
I think the real question here is:

Why was Axel given $2K by a single server hosting company and who else on the team was given this or similar especially if they were being given free server hosting by the companies to. I'm pretty sure the BI terms are against this. I'm also pretty sure that all the files are supposed to be public (when released/out of testing which if you look at DayZ will be never ;)) and not given to cherry picked hosting companies.

I thought it was suspicious when I took this screenshot of their donation box:
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Apart from being an awful company (I have experience with them), I suspected this was happening with many other companies as shows of good faith to secure their ability to host and make money from being a handful of hosting companies given more publicity to earn more money, the Epoch devs arent stupid and they'll see this so they will want a cut, as proven by the fact that Axel 'lost' $2K.

This is more important because the 'head dev' over at Epoch posted this a long time ago: http://epochmod.com/forum/index.php...osed-to-be-given-without-return-consideration and caused quite a bit of a stir. I hope now that they have clearly received money for their work and rightly so of course but I hope they see that server hosting isn't cheap and that communities need to be able to accept donations, though they shouldn't be making money.. CCG for example.

I also suspect that there will be an application process for hosting Arma 3 Epoch servers and this process will ban you from having donation modules and perks, which is good and bad.. I hate pay2win but it will kill communities off or there just won't be as many hosts.. other than cheap pre-made servers with poor and slow support, so only those with the ability to pay for dediboxes without community support will flourish creating a cornered market, one of the main reasons I run my own servers is because I don't trust other admins (other than the ones of CPC of course!) to not be cheating scrotebags that don't like being killed. I've always said games like DayZ should be managed and hosted by companies like an MMO.. I hope H1Z1 will not be a flop.

There isn't an application that finds Arma 3 Epoch servers yet either, I'd guess there will be one made by the devs before release to cement their ability to blacklist servers that don't conform to their wishes, as soon as an application is released for quick connecting.. people finding servers in the ingame Arma 3 browser will stop happening.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if they banned you from making modifications that they didn't approve of, Epoch devs have had a habit of being against many ideas because they didnt see that the balance of them was needed and then they realised that it was the community that helped develop the mod as much as they did, examples: I had my nametags script and indestructible buildables script implemented into Arma 2 Epoch.. not code for code of course they wrote it better but its there :)

Overall, this reeks of Origins again.
 
ToejaM said:
I think the real question here is:

Why was Axel given $2K by a single server hosting company...
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I was listening to his stream on Tuesday morning when he'd just discovered that they'd reclaimed the $2k. He was saying (whist almost crying) that he'd done some work for the hosting company, work that was nothing to do with Epoch. I don't know what the work was, he never said, but he did stress that it had taken him away from Epoch duties for several days.

I know this guy is not a developer/coder. He described himself as more of an 'ideas man' and a good manager of people... so I guess he does some sort of Project Manager or facilitator role. Although that makes it harder to work out what he might have been doing on the side for OC Networks.

No doubt he's made a lot more via donations than he lost to OC Networks though...
 
Yeah fair enough I didn't watch the stream. Clearly some unprofessional-professional dealings going on between the two.
 
If he did this "work" he would have made sure the payment was "gifted" so they could not claim it back. What idiot does work and gets paid by paypal using a method that could always be claimed back anyway. You would make sure the payment was gifted or by bank transfer. It all makes no sense to me.
 
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