Blueangelman36

On 2/11/2025 at 12:10 PM, Noble said:

A word of advice; Go out more, talk to the girl, GO TO THE GYM, invest your money, focus on school and work.
This is a game, for fun, dont let it become your life.

Amen brother. I'm only a little hurt I didn't get a callout. Godspeed my dude, welcome to life on the outside. 

Some things never change lmao

On 7/1/2023 at 9:54 PM, The Sovereign said:

I worked on that for quite a while... and I forgot a ton of people.  

All the first generation CTF:  Xyla and crew now Boats and Hoes.  Ya'll were the rdmer's that cleared out Sofia so we could take over in the first place.  Glad to see you guys back.

@ Hawkgnewaccount @ hawkg23   The loyalest little dude.  Only forgot you because you stopped playing and started playing ws with me.  Didn't click in my head as an arma player anymore.  You're a real one.

The good sillas @ Tammy @ ivy @ GracieGirl @ lukie @johnnyjerusalem ... thanks for being retards with me at 4am.  Most of you don't even play anymore but I love you guys.

The OG noble:  @ Noahhh! @ Poon @ Roo  @ Blueangelman36 @ nman  Fucking amazing ppl.. and I always strived to reach Roo's level of tages even if I'd never hit it.

@ Mudiwa  and his dwarves.  Keep hustlin.   The only people I gave up on with competing with stats against.  


@ Big John1   It's easy to say people play because of their friends, but most play because of their enemies.  You were always the best enemy. You might have been surrounded by retards,  but there was always some lines you didn't personally cross.  Thanks for keeping the game engaging...  I hate you.  Have a good life.  Hitler is bad though. 

@ CHEESE1   I see you on here too lol.  Love you my dude.  You never stooped to the level you were always surrounded by.  A nice mf.  Stay yourself. 

I knew I logged back on for the first time in a year today for a reason. All the best and godspeed.

Found this in my youtube folder today: 

@ Noble  Miss you dude glad you're killing it here!

Selling the DP23 shed. Yes, that one. PM or post best offers.

@ Headless let's make this happen please

Shed is still open if you need shine money to fund your initial investments 

On 12/2/2021 at 12:14 PM, anti said:

The simple mindset of the zerg gang. 

I feel attacked

14 hours ago, Kyle McDonald said:

Is it worth coming back on the server,

Unfortunately, no. The days of the players you mentioned (Bow and Trumper will always have a soft spot for me) are behind Olympus. Having played back then running 501st and then starting Noble a few years later, I can say the servers best days are probably in the rear view mirror. Cartels are still active and decent but the days of robbing or exciting fed events are probably behind. I'd encourage you to check out the blackwater armory if you want to try something new but at this point just wait to see if Arma IV comes out. 

On 9/19/2021 at 8:23 PM, Nooble said:

375 to 0, 2  hours money isnt happiness on this server 

throwback to when you wanted to quit the server after you lost all your money

miss ya bud  

This is a post I wasn't sure was ever going to come. Even though you're stepping away from Olympus, I'm not sad because I don't think we will be stepping away from each other anytime soon. You joined 501st at a weird time and stepped up perfectly to fill the holes we were missing in Bots (whew throwback) and became the biggest driving factor in making Noble what it became. I don't think either of us realized it at the time during those late night strategy sessions, loosing 50 man BWs, or working on our roleplay excel sheets (which I still use as an example to show how roleplay Noble was) that while we were working to build Noble, we were building a  genuine friendship too. Of all the things I took away from Olympus, that was the biggest value and your friendship is one of the closest I have on this server, and something I'll always value (even more than the DP 23 shed).

It's amazing how far you've come over these last few years. From an excited kid to a jaded mod, your persistence has never ceased to amaze me. The server is loosing one of its most dedicated members today. The amount of work you put into Noble, Civ Council, Mod application v1 and v2, APD, the Wiki, everything you do you charge headfirst into and kill it. Looking forward to seeing what you decide to do next in life and know I'll be rooting for you from the sidelines, and of course only a phone call away if you're ever bored and want to chat with ol' Boomer Blue. Long Live Noble

Although we have a lot of memories on Oly, this might still be my favorite: 

+1 to this. Thanks for bringing it up, especially in this community 

On 8/23/2021 at 4:06 PM, Bubbaloo Burrito said:

I take offense to that SIR. I also smell like cheese. 

#TeamCheese

On 8/20/2021 at 3:35 PM, Gunhand said:

Ok yall I think I might consider trying to attempt to make some positive changes in a few of the areas of Olympus. Now historically this has been met with alot of negative bs from the community.  If yall think I should knuckle down and push for civ council and a leadership position or two I might go for it.

Any constructive thoughts out there in the ether?

I mean go for it man. Fair warning it takes a lot of work to get anything changed in here. There are big personalities on staff and Civ Council doesn't have a ton of authority. If you want to start I'd recommend support team to become intimately familiar with the rules and a civ council spot and go from there. Don't forget to join APD and R&R as well.

Don't forget though: this is just a game. I spent some time pouring my life into this game and building it up but now that I'm out I'm glad I'm not doing that anymore. I like having a real life (roasts welcome at that last comment)

Damn another old timer, love to see it. Wb man

Lost a good one today 

18 hours ago, Hoonter said:

Like ok man established people have practically unlimited money like who cares nerf diamonds and plat and It would be like shit money but help new players get established.

 

 

I think you misspelled cement and glass runs

o7. Miss the days pushing into Sofia and the only person to get my undercover name references.

Good luck with the new gig!

14 hours ago, lvy said:

or a gang that only does runs

I feel personally attacked

6 minutes ago, Skateezy said:

You hit it spot on. None of us are interested in being involved in staff affairs - it’s almost a subconscious dislike towards us because we don’t want to be in the video game janitor volunteer circle. We stick to civilian because it is a fun time and nearly none of us want to hear some super Arma 3 Roleplayer Extremist tell us what to do on APD so we have that exclusion also. I and others have been banned multiple times for it to be lifted near the second we join TeamSpeak and resolve the problem. This could be staff farming staff points, could be anti-Silla bias, whatever it is. It is hilarious to me that when you look at Olympus as a business, which it is for a select few, then it is entirely inadvisable to try to push off a large and consistent group of players/customers when that product is on the way out.

I speak for myself when I say there is  nothing keeping me engaged with not just Olympus, but Arma 3 in general, other than the people I play with. This game is entirely social to me, so for staff to handpick their favorites and repeatedly ban players (not just Silla) that are consistent for minor inconveniences is simply a huge mistake. Groovy was banned for a short-while for DPIng over a rock on cartels, I got banned shortly for jumping over sandbags during a non-combat situation and was told by two staff members they saw me “jump through a window” over the sandbag when not only had I not, there was no possible way they could have interpreted that. There is definitely a huge push for lower-level staff to remove players from the service for fake internet EPEEN promotions and it is probably the stupidest system Olympus has in place.

Circle jerk time - the best part of Noble was the people. Did we suck? Yes. Did we loose a 40 man BW? You fucking bet we did. But we had a ton of fun. There was limited drama and personal vendetta in the gang, it was cool people who enjoyed playing together. That's what kept the gang together and what kept me playing for so long. Looking back with our senior team, we often talk about how we miss playing on olympus but the conversation quickly shifts to "well I really don't miss arguing with staff or spending half my day in support, or nitpicking over the rules with OS"

Olympus is ultimately a business, but its being run like a mafia. We had someone get permed (and their appeals fall on deaf ears) after having a very unfortunate fail RP moment (tried to Sui vest the gang, ended up killing 9 noble members and not a single APD member) and hes still permed. But a developer makes a map that allows them to cheat? Oh its fine. When you raise these issues with top leadership you're told "oh you just don't know them like I do" which is correct, because they aren't slobbering on my knob to keep their position. If you're not in your out, and they'll continue to push people away while moving the goalposts to continue to justify their own success 

This is what happens when you have a successful gang on Olympus that's able to push up against the existing power structures while remaining outside of it. People hate you, they shit on you, and you get targeted by OS and sAPD because you have some clout. 

When Noble was the hot girl on campus, we were constantly targeted. We had staff spawn in gear to blow our shed up, would be hunted down by the awesome map DB players had, had sAPD members camp our shed and houses for hours, and when I say hours I mean hours. When we tried to fight back, our player reports would be ignored and the players would be unbanned in minutes. So we pushed further, started new gangs and owned new sheds. Rules were implemented in a matter of days to stop us.

Ultimately, Olympus is dying. If it has to be dying is a discussion for another thread. But Olympus is realistically down to one server and they've resorted to reduced bans and unbanning people who were permed. New players are run off the server by the established player base. If that isn't grasping at straws idk what is

21 hours ago, Skateezy said:

DB GPS, no problem. Well renowned smart and strategic RDMers like DEI Paul Menard and Pilot Williams, no problem. Prolific Kavala Scats that nearly have more combined kidneys stolen than the collective of Silla, whom I will not name, no problem. Staff telling new players who decide to post on the forums their opinion/montage is stupid, no problem. Community manager calling a player a “fucking cocksucker” for taking kidneys (an Olympus game mechanic), no problem. 

Get RDMed, once, and all of a sudden it’s a problem? If he wasn’t in Silla he would have RDMed you regardless @Civak.

 

If we are the scapegoat for inaction of the staff team so be it, but what did you do after you logged off your “new character” besides ban the guy and save it in your head to post a “gotcha” on the forums? If you guys are heads then hold your team you’ve created more accountable.

 

Kavala is still #1 in spawn list and new players have no direction besides a billboard that is terribly hard to read and the occasional “staff help” so they can look like they do more than volunteer help desk. You could probably just hire $2 an hour Fiverr Indians to deal with Reports and Compensation requests and look for players who want to actually staff the server in real time - 80% of the staff list doesn’t play, and if they do it’s under a different name. 
 

The devs play more than the staff and tend to be quite nicer... it probably has something to do with the fact it’s their work.

This. This is beautiful.

On 4/15/2021 at 1:00 AM, Smackkk said:

saw 3 + different people in multiple different gangs running the Noble gang tags and they had a 10 man, I was warred with one of them and of course when he shoots the whole 10 man can pull up

I'm sorry we have superior tactics.

But for real, Noble is inactive and some of the members joined other gangs. When we get on every once in awhile, we want to play with our friends. Rather than make them leave the gang they're in or have some complex af engagement, its easier to just have everyone put the same tags on. If we had a long engagement message we'd have others in here complaining about not having time to read the whole message (complaints we've had before - some even got a 3 day for it). Once you start shooting at someone with a tag in their name, you're engaged with all of them. Easy.

Just be glad you weren't here when a fully staffed Noble was running four gangs at a time, each with different wars and one that was a vigi gang (oh yeah and four sheds on server 1). The amount of complaints we got (and people we got banned for RDM) was through the fucking roof. You could have been at war with Noble and Fuck Noble but not Nooble or Narcos, all of which ran N tags. I miss those days sometimes.

Yeah the system is abused as fuck but it's the least worst option IMO

16 hours ago, Smackkk said:

When a 10 man is auto engaged because 1 member rocking there tags is warred with us, it can be hella annoying

Agreed but like welcome to Olympus kid. 

*insert outstanding move meme here*

Having so much money and resources you don't have to care anymore. Lost a hawk? Who cares, got more. Lost an AT? WHO CARES HAVE MORE

59 minutes ago, Ryan said:

 

 

There is no official zone for it, hence why its not in the rules. If its quite obvious they are going to that cartel to fight you, then if its beyond 500 meters by just slightly we obviously wont ban for it. If its something as simple as driving past right, and they get tapped out then thats when we'd say its RDM. Being that this cartel is fairly deep, you should be able to easily tell whos coming and who isnt.

You can't "drive past" a cartel that has a dead end road, and if you're referring to people getting shot out of helis or titaned, many people use titans or shoot at helicopters that drive by there. It just seems easiest to identify on the map the KOS zone just like we do with warzone and every other redzone on the map, including federal events.

Mostly my fear are inconsistent rulings from admins. If there's just "common sense" or "obviousness" to drive it, it basically gives the admin free reign to rule on it however they want. You indicated a zone in this post, and anyone who is curious about how far they'd have to go to avoid the cartel would have to come into this thread and find your specific post. Why not avoid all that pain in confusion with a red line or identified KOS zone like we do with *every other KOS zone on the server*

13 hours ago, Ryan said:

Id say its scenario based, but typically id give it at least 500m from the cartel itself. Thats not a set number, but a general area you want to stay in.

Can this be confirmed and put in as a rule, or a visual indicator on the map? It seems very easy to clarify.

1 hour ago, anti said:

As long Noble storms in and objects and you two have to duel. 

Excuse me hes my true love I'd be the first to object!