Ryan

Happy New Year from Olympus 

As the year comes to a close, we want to thank everyone who made Olympus what it is. The long nights, intense moments, and everything in between only happened because of this community.

The new year brings fresh momentum and a lot more ahead. Whether you’re celebrating big or keeping it quiet, we hope you head into the new year safe, rested, and ready for what’s next.

Here’s to another year of solid moments and even better ones to come.

This community never fails to amaze me. I am excited for the next year. 

Thank you for an awesome  year.

Thank you to all the Development/Administrative Staff
Thank you to all of the Design Team

*and most importantly...*

Thank you to this amazing community. Despite all of our challenges, ups and downs, we always continue to stand. Every year we hear the same ole yap, and every year we defy the odds. This place will always keep pushing, and who knows what the next year will bring us. I will be getting absolutely hammered for New Years, so to those that plan on doing the same, stay safe. Those that are expecting something casual, enjoy your night. You may catch me on super late tonight, if you do GL to whoever gets to deal with me  

Giveaway entries have been extended till the end of today, any entries after 11:59 PM EST will not count. I will roll the winners once I recover from tonight  

Happy New Years Everyone  

– Olympus Entertainment

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16 hours ago, Ex Community Director Sov said:

Uh idk who you spoke to but I did not make any comments

33 minutes ago, The Sovereign said:

@ hawkg   There you have it.  Opinions aside, logic dictates it would hurt the server to mass unban.  You have to take into consideration what he said added to exactly how strict they are with unbanning people, meaning that percent would be much higher if it were given out feely.  Mass unbans destroy servers.

I mean proof is definitely in the pudding considering how many "mass unbans" we did in the past. 

Honestly, we seem to be comparing Asylum and their demise a lot in this thread, yet I see those same people are asking for a mass unban, which Asylum happened to do multiple times... and unbanned those cheaters... which killed their server more... just saying  

Stats show how many new players a day we get on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Realistically we get 2k new players a month give or take. Retaining them is what makes it hard, but we are working on solutions to make sure we fix that  

8 hours ago, The Sovereign said:

Curious @ -dante- by your quickest estimate, how many banned scripters reoffend after being unbanned?

About 90% of people who were scripting banned and then unbanned on restrictions end up getting re banned within the next few months after they get off restrictions.

33 minutes ago, The Sovereign said:

Just randomly all caps'ing side chat in broken english?

It was for emphasis!

I’m not dnukn 11/10 was sober the entire time  

Based on recent feedback, this has been raised to $500k per clip.

Thank you!

It’s that time of year again! We are doing an end of year recap video! If you have anything from this year you want to submit please do so here  

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Each entry into the final video edit will earn you $500k. Good Luck!

17 minutes ago, Grandpa Bob said:

where can we see the changelog its blurred out

Its not out yet

17 hours ago, Grandpa Bob said:

Nexted update should fix that

18 hours ago, dennoz said:

My friend is on a consecutive 89 days and the best thing he had won is an SUV.

 

17 hours ago, Saul Goodman said:

thats been said a million times already and yet there is still base hatchbacks in the pool 

Our next changelog for the new unreleased update:

Did promise in my post here we would be looking at reworking it  

I aint a liar my friend  

57 minutes ago, HyperGoat said:

What's the point of putting all that work into a server that will just die in 2027 bc of Arma 4. Not saying, it's a bad idea, i'm 100% on board, but from the multiple posts it sounds so hard on a dev perspective. 

Should just work on player retention and getting more new players into Olympus Arma 3. Get a marketing team  

Continuing on a community retention perspective - you ever thought of just growing Olympus into a multiple server community - Minecraft, GTA etc. While keeping Arma 3 at the source of Olympus. 

We don’t have 100% focus on reforger, more of a side project when there’s time. Nobody is dedicated to it currently though.  Olympus has tried other games and not only has it been proven to be a waste of dev time but also kills the arma along side with it. Player retention changes for arma has been discussed and will be implemented in coming updates. Also, arma 4 will be nothing different from reforger, reforger basically a beta for arma 4 at this point. So if we did anything there’s it’s basically copy paste and calling it a day so all in all time wouldn’t be considered a waste on there.  

54 minutes ago, Grandpa Bob said:

i think we should be slowing dev work down on here truly and putting the focus in to Reforger. I think it Olympus could make a huge name for them self's on there as the current servers suck balls. not to mention more people will know about Olympus once Arma 4 is out so i see it as a win win for Olympus   

also they should do a mass un ban on here for anyone who has been banned for 2 years + call it an early Christmas gift

We have had slowed down dev work over the last few months and our pop sliced literally by half since then. Can’t afford to stop here all together unfortunately. Mass bans don’t ever work either. Maybe for a month but after that 9/10 times the person we unbanned gets rebanned for the same thing again. 

I’ve always said I’m down to do reforger, getting devs for it are tough. Doing both with the current team will also be tough as there is a huge learning curve. I have nothing confirmed but will say we have been looking into it more recently. If anyone feels they are good enough to join the team and assist they are welcome to apply as well  

8 hours ago, The Sovereign said:

Ain't rage bait.  Speaking truth.  Don't inject yourself into my matters, as you don't..matter.

3 staff members openly agree with me, for the record.  

Drop their names then so we can all publicly ask them  

13 minutes ago, The Sovereign said:

Different times for sure.  Imagine if there was a guy who was banned multiple times for scripting and selling money that got promoted to staff in 2019 and it really brings out the differences.  

@ Xlax  Blew up the servers with M5 in that era too. Was permed for scripting way back when before we took it as serious as we do now. Don’t see you talking shit on that one, quite frankly nobody here can. 
 

People get banned for misconduct all the time. Bohemia gives us the ability to lift the perms as long as it’s taken care of and isn’t a repeating offense. It’s been a private agreement we had with them for over 6 years now. He got banned, he served his time, he got unbanned. Simple as that not sure what you trying to do here but it won’t work lol

I don’t know anything about his scripting ban, and tbh I don’t care enough to look. I trust the team enough to decide on who’s good/bad for staff. If he was unbanned and allowed to become staff I highly doubt there was any viable evidence for him cheating. 

Just now, The Sovereign said:

Despite his long tenure I've had very few interactions with him in game, and haven't seen any really retarded shit come off form him.  I never said a bad word about @ Millennium  in any serious capacity.  

 

Look back at the forums from 2019-2020 and you will understand  

8 minutes ago, Millennium said:

Looks like Sov needs a professional pot stirrer to go after you again 

If Millennium isn’t a prime example of my unbiased Idk what is. Man chewed me out on the forums every day and still got staff 

10 minutes ago, The Sovereign said:

I apologize for waking him.  Who woulda known one tag would be all it takes as long as he's been gone.

I been here and back for a hot min now even been in game with players almost every day too running events. Once again, incorrect statement

Disappointed you replied to everyone but me though smh 

4 hours ago, The Sovereign said:

If you're friends with staff and keep getting caught cheating, they won't ban you, they just give you admin so you don't have to pay for your subs anymore.  

At this point it feels like the server wants to shut down.  You ever been in a relationship that you didn't want to be in but you didn't want to go through the drama of breaking up with someone, so you just make yourself so fucking undateable that they break up with YOU and spare everyone the heartbreak and drama?

That's what @ Ryan   has done with this server letting most of these people be in charge.  He's tired of owning it, and wants it to die, so he has to make sure the playerbase hates this server.

Normally I ignore these cringe ass posts and laugh but since you decided to @ me ill give ya this since your posts pretty much is the only entertainment on these forums nowadays ^_^

Im usually nice to everyone so for me to say this means im just tired TBH.

This post is unironically cringe and is the most prime example of spitting shit out of your ass ive seen to date. Your entire perception is wrong, everything you have ever really brought up is wrong. You believe you got all the answers yet you have never provided a good solution that would actually work. Its very easy as a player that loses to a group of people over and over again to accuse people of cheating. In my 10 years of being in this community I have seen it all, from the legit good players to the cheating ones. The staff here work diligently to make sure they make the right decisions, just because we dont spin up a post to notify you for every potential cheater we are looking into doesnt mean it isnt happening, and quite frankly past a report we dont owe an explanation at all. Its tough to distinguish long time players from legit vs cheating. Olympus as a whole has the most scripting bans to date from any other community, even when other servers were up and running, quite literally a whole discord was made with other server owners for us to "Cross Share" information, yet Olympus was the only one really providing the info.

This game is too old for us to care about whether we should or shouldnt ban our friends. I have seen numerous staff over the course of the last few years personally ban their own friends over evidence they found on their own. People like @ Mako  who has invested more time and work into this server then 99% of the people here doesnt care to let his cheater friends run wild. If he was certain they were cheating, he would of banned them no questions asked. He has just as many buttons as I do, with all the same abilities I have, so I highly doubt he cares about his friend having esp when in reality if he wanted to have it he can flip his own switch and nobody would know a difference unless we checked the logs. Fact is, one of his own close friends was also permed in this wave.

In this ban wave, I personally lost a friend I was in channels with on a daily basis. He was permed for being part of the dox, and I had no idea he would even be capable of being part of it until the evidence was shown to me, despite what others have said to me about it. It is very much possible to be ignorant or just not pay attention to your own friends. Especially since those friends withhold information from you because they know you will ban them. Staff are still god damn human beings just trying to enjoy the game just like everyone else.

Regardless, ive never seen someone have so much hate for this server, to a point where you get yourself permed on purpose and keep coming back thinking you know it all and try to stir the pot. I have yet to see you spit an actual fact that has been correct once, but hey you keep the forums alive I guess.

Appreciate you for at least showing up once in a while for some mindless entertainment though.  

Ngl I didn’t even know I had a suppressor in my bag… LMFAO

12 hours ago, ares said:

@ Ryan i will get an oly tattoo for 200mil

12 hours ago, Bek said:

Ill get an Olympus Entertainment tattoo for 250m

Don’t make promises you won’t keep, I do hold people to it ask @ Sir Mitch The Third   

4 minutes ago, Gorlomi said:

Well well well. If it isn’t Ryan making a return. A return without a single fuck you to @ Milo  I’m disappointed in you @ Ryan . I thought you were better than this but it seems in your absence you’ve changed. Is this even the real Ryan? In all this time of abandonment of the people of this server you’ve forgot the one thing that truly brought us together. If we don’t see a change in you Ryan I don’t think we can forgive you. Also @ -dante- fuck you now Ill never get you to look at my support tickets.

Actually, if you were in teamspeak I made sure to call @ Milo  out multiple times in public channels with him in it  
Bastard broke my jumping on Civ, had me in jail for basically the last 3 years and somehow NOT actually be in jail. All Milo hate on this thread gets +1 Erep  

23 minutes ago, Mc Pooperson said:

gimme some of that shit @ Ryan

i did help persuade you into getting bf6 after all with the help of nsm Devon @ Xlax

Persuaded me to get it, just to give me the biggest issue with my pc to date we got beef now

I am telling you all right now every year I disqualify at least 20-30 people that win due to not playing in game. Your in game time 100% takes account to the drawing.