Ryan

On 8/20/2023 at 4:00 AM, Rexo said:

Thank god I don't pay taxes

Government this is a joke plz no audit

If this is a joke... why scared of the audit 

3 hours ago, Grandma Gary said:

Ghosthawk comps come out of my unlimited personal stash tho =(

I felt the dent in your inventory all the way from here

3 hours ago, Noble said:

@ Ryan

A true man of culture that knows my tolerance 
 

Promise you nobody here will outdrink me, my inner Russian comes out. I just don’t need to make a post bragging about it lol

My god Olympus went from being a sausage fest with cartel rats roasting and doxing eachother back in the day to now having woman fighting on the forums over their looks… AND IM FOR IT!!!

@ Dante  you ever think to find Olympus like this in 2023?

50 minutes ago, ScreamingEagle said:

ladies dm me nudes and ill judge

id be lying if I didn’t genuinely laugh when I read this. 10/10 

boxing match when?

Unlocked for content ^_^

2 minutes ago, fat female arma 3 player said:

this is the post everyone was hyping up?

May have slightly been my fault I planned on going into detail but then I realized it’s best to let Walt do it lol

On 6/2/2023 at 9:23 AM, Hurricane said:

"There will never be another coup as long as I am owner" from @ Ryan himself

This guy made up a quote thinking I wont see this smh never said that

On 5/23/2023 at 2:12 PM, codeYeTi said:

It's been a busy month with fixing multiple things that don't end up in new content, but we have a few fun things coming down the pipe.

If you have ideas, skills, and drive, then we can always use the help as well!

In the meantime, I'll leave you with this heavily-redacted teaser image of the WIP UI for "something" .

removed for leaking

4 minutes ago, Noble said:

you better get a bonus this month, bring the total to 7$

Actually bumped it up to $8.01  

About damn time

Still remember the day we stole you from your original gang. It all was a roller coaster from there. 
 

o7 \|/ Hurricane, you will be missed

If ya need anything you know how to reach me  

Alright im gonna keep it  with you guys on this.

7 hours ago, Tally said:

So as every single ArmA fan from 12 to 52 knows, Arma reforger is out, and it is the forerunner to Arma 4.
Arma 4 from my understanding will use the same language and engine as Reforger, so in theory porting anything you build for Reforger to ArmA 4 should be far less taxing than A3 scripts / mods.
In that regard I am wondering if the Olympus Team is considering a Olympus Reforger server?
Getting a head-start now as they say could be good, and be ready with almost everything needed for when A4 comes out.

Going to A4 without the toxic hellhole that is Olympus seems kinda sad honestly, it would be like when ArmaHolic died.

Anyway just a question, I'd love to hear everyones thoughts on this!

GG

Olympus will 100% move to A4 when it is released. It will be all hands on deck as soon as we have word regarding it. As for a reforger server, that is TBD. Myself and the devs have played around with it, and at its current state it doesnt have much to offer regarding a server outside of the gamemode Bohemia released with it. We will announce anything as time comes, but I will say we are not putting all of our resources into it at the moment, this does not mean we are ignoring it though.

7 hours ago, Strafe said:

not really a waste when BH themselves basically said whatever you make on reforger will be able to be easily ported to A4. Its either stay with the dying game that is A3 or move on to the newer game in the series and work from there. From your POV i can get why staying on arma 3 would be reasonable but that would just be ryan digging the grave for olympus.

Reforger's playerbase isnt any larger then A3 at the moment, and naturally the news regarding reforger actually brought a lot of attention to A3 again. So we have our spike in playerbase as if it was summer ^_^ But like I said earlier, reforger is a WIP and cannot make any promises as of yet regarding what we are doing with it.

6 hours ago, Rafa said:

Reforger is essentially a tech demo for ArmA on the enfusion engine and, as such, it’ll only be receiving 12 months of support from BI. 
 

Personally, might be fun to have a server for conflict or any other fun game modes that get made or released but it might be more beneficial to utilize the development tools so that, when the framework for Life servers are put out, we can hit the ground running in regards to making Olympus a unique experience well suited to our community. 
 

All of this is way above my skill set and pay grade of course so that’s just my two cents  

We already got word of a life framework being in the works. No need for us to waste resources and re invent the wheel when someone else already is doing it. Will see what that, plus other game modes that will be released have to offer and work on it from there. I mean hell, our current mission file doesnt even look remotely close to what Tonic's original looked like.

6 hours ago, Sploding said:

The real goal is A4, but information on that is minimal. Like many have said, reforger is a glorified tech demo and test-bed for Enfusion, don't expect a server anytime soon, but as @ Ryan  has already said and implied multiple times that when the time to transition comes, it will happen.

6 hours ago, Lucien said:

not really what i meant, Olympus, Asylum, etc. are all generally based on the Altis Life Framework originally made by a guy named Tonic that does a lot of heavy lifting. Database calls, factions, the run and money making framework are all publicly available if someone want to make their own server. No such thing exists for Arma Reforger, so someone has to figure out the hard stuff like how to call a database in particular which was already done for Arma 3 before Olympus's existence. Not that our devs don't do hard work, but it is very unreasonable to expect Jay and the rest of our devs to learn how to do that and be able to dedicate their time to learning a new engine and game when their own work could end up obsolute from collaborators with more free time who are willing to share their work.

Nailed it, same response that I gave rafa earlier  

4 hours ago, Bloodmoon said:

Keeping the server on a deprecated/outdated game with the other large communities moving to reforger or arma 4 would be a great way to kill the playerbase. Even though reforger is early access it still almost plays better than arma 3, with the bad parts for me being combat and lack of guns and vehicles in the base game. Also new engine has a non scuffed scripting language that anyone with a moderate level of programming is able to learn quick, so dev shortage won't be as much as an issue.

Like I said, we are working on seeing what we can actually do with reforger, but our time would be minimal as of now. As for the other communities, myself and the other server owners speak quite frequently and although we are all keeping our eyes on reforger it seems every large community is just as focused on it as we are. Believe me, we all know how I feel about A4 or any other new arma title, you best bet ill be on that thing quicker then anyone once time comes.

3 hours ago, Tally said:

Yeah, I can mos definetly see the point where having to learn a new language, and re-build everything from scratch being a quite heavy workload, then having to do that for free on your offtime as well, fook, I probably wouldnt....


That being said, Enfusion and Enscript is the future in ArmA, and SQF will be dead within 1-2 years, so even if the plan is not to build an entire framework from scratch it could be beneficial To dip our toes into it.

The language enfusion uses actually to my knowledge is one that our devs already know very well so I dont see much of a learning curve for them. Yeti himself said from a developer standpoint Enfusion looks really good, so will see what we get out of it.

From a very reliable source I have that has been 100% correct about everything within this last year/two, they said A4 current release timeline is 2024/2025, however with reforger + tencent funds that can always be moved up. As of right now though, we shouldnt expect A4 for at least another 2 years until some progress is made. 

10 minutes ago, Rafa said:

We could get into a whole “gaming company finance” discussion here but we probably don’t know Jack about it and, at the end of the day, “Don’t buy from the game studio as it will only delay future projects”, is a bit of an oxymoron 

Well over 50,000+ people tried to play on the servers on release date. Considering 50k is the minimum, in just one day they made 1.5Mil. Id say they are properly funded lol

9 minutes ago, Heritage said:

Bohemia actually sort of has a track record for this kinda thing.

 

Generally, they say what they mean so I'm pretty sure this is going to be an Arma announcement. 

All im saying is, if this is true then expect all hands on deck for Olympus Arma 4  

4 minutes ago, Strafe said:

Let us dream ryan

I dont think you understand... ive been waiting for A4 since the day I got owner. Trust me, nobody is more hype then I am if thats the case, but they have baited this before and I dont want to get my hopes up again to get shut down lol

They are announcing their new launcher for all their BI games and reforger for pc and xbox. Not getting my hopes up unless they throw a curve ball out of nowhere. Will see though  

On 4/30/2022 at 2:46 PM, Strafe said:

i was under the impression peter also got it for $0 but i rlly dont remember much from the time especially cus i wasn't close with many staff. Either way anyone saying anything over 20k is smoking meth.

You would be surprised with the offers other servers/people have given me ever since the release of Oly+ lol

Gonna miss you as a staff member buddy, had a lot of fun times both in and out of Olympus  

I don’t need to go into this whole paragraph cause you always been a real one and already know about all the times we had, wether it was late night, or all nighters just talking and not realizing the time passing. Don’t be a stranger, and im sure you know you can hit me up for anything so I don’t even need to get into that. 
 

Was a pleasure my dude

o7

1 hour ago, Ajax said:

Way back when we had someone, I can't exactly remember who, create a montage called "Best of Olympus" with submitted clips from the top Olympus players.

The man, the myth, the bohemia interactive policy breaker legend... @ Viper

Doing a $50 gift card giveaway of your choice in our discord. Gonna probably start doing these irl prizes more often, such as headsets, mice, keyboards, etc so make sure you’re actually in the discord and are active in it  

https://olympus-entertainment.com/discord/invite/general/

7 minutes ago, [OP4] Dominic said:

Any chance you dudes could open this up to the public? Maybe using a “lastLoginedIn” datetime paired with the name would help. Like if the person hasn’t logged into the server in the past 14 days then they don’t appear in the search. It would help with the duplicates.

Pretty sure Zahzi had another good reason to not make it public. Not sure though, but I can imagine he would of done it by now if he didnt have any issues.

4 hours ago, JD Connor said:

Personally I have my opinions on this system. 

On one hand, they literally make it impossible and give 0 incentive to report a player and they are making it impossible.

On the other, it gives someone the chance to get a resolution before even escalating to staff (but let’s be real who actually has had a successful dispute yet)

 

I just think it needs revamping and this should NOT be a requirement to submit a player report. At all. It simply is staff not wanting to do their job. Just cause a dispute wasn’t opened, doesn’t mean the rules suddenly changed? So why can’t the report be processed, who knows?

Funny enough, ill be the first to admit the admins and mods were the first group of people to fight against the dispute systems, because of the exact reasons you are listing. They prefer to deal with the ticket and not be accused of being lazy. It was the seniors that kind of just... did it. Adjustments obviously have to be made as its a new system but thats natural with anything new we will announce. I will say, looking at the numbers, out of 1,445 disputes that have already been submitted, there is roughly a ~66% resolve rate through disputes. Thats roughly ~900 bans that were either avoided or reduced. Long term think about how that effects population on our servers. My numbers can 100% be off, but this was just at the quick glance I had.

4 hours ago, [OP4] Dominic said:

I think it's extremely pointless to comp someone if a player can still report. I can get comp for what I lost and then report the person. I definitely think a moderator/admin should take into consideration punishing players if comp was received.

Also, it would be helpful to have information like their Steam ID on the disputes.  I disputed one guy and he said "I don't have enough money..." I eventually found him on the stats page (lacking a search by name feature) and he had more than enough money to comp.  I never escalated it to staff.

Everything is logged on our end, even if you cant find their steam id, we 100% can. Doesnt matter if they have a forum profile or not. A dispute is looked at during player reports, and if comp was received its very likely they will not be punished, however it is a case by case basis. As for the search name feature, it actually does exist but for people within life control only. Reason being is because there is so many duplicate names it would be just as hard to find with that name as it is without a PID if not worse. Also this post below says it best:

4 hours ago, Poon said:

ok, im not staff but when a staff member is looking at a player report they also look at the dispute and if they go in there and see that the player being reported comped a reasonable amount of money then chances are they arent going to get banned.

Disputes have the players names in there which can easily be used to find steam/forums profiles and then player ID's to put into the stats page.

4 hours ago, coopacarp said:

Actually if you both agree to accepting comp and you still report the player, they can very easily show staff you agreed to accepting compensation and they will not be punished. If you comp them without agreement then that's your fault for assuming throwing money around will keep you out of trouble.

I appreciate the response however you haven't really given any input that is new/helpful. I already mentioned that I am aware of the time in which I have to submit a dispute on said person and I am very aware I made a mistake which consequently made it so he is no longer on my dispute list but the question is does me making a mistake that prohibits me filing a dispute mean that I do not deserve to be comped or that player that blatantly broke rules doesn't deserve a possible ban or whatever punishment? My simple mistake shouldn't cost me so much especially when the player was blatantly trolling (I can show the vid if you would like). 

Im sure if you sent a PM to the denying staff member, or asked for an escalation in your case certain exceptions can be made. This is not a promise on my end for comp, but it sounds like if the situation is really scuffed against you, the staff team is more then capable of handling it if necessary.

4 hours ago, [OP4] Dominic said:

Yeah man out of the four people I was trying to hunt down for the dispute only one had a forum account and the forum account was barren.  No steam ID on their forum account.  The other three don't have a forum account to my knowledge, and their steam names were not the same as their in-game names.  I think a simple "search by name" feature on the stats page would more than suffice!  I'd gladly volunteer myself to write the feature into the website.  Open that ish up for me to make a pull request and I'll get it done when I can.

Read my statement above about the search name feature.

1 hour ago, coopacarp said:

Damn man why you gotta make it public, they're gonna found a way around that ;( lmao

A lot of my disputes have been solved or I got told to fuck myself and they got banned, I just don't think you should be required to dispute every single time you want to report someone. There should be special circumstances where you aren't forced to dispute. I have no idea when I will be able to report the guy that VDM'd me because I guarantee he changed his name or just doesn't get on often. So that's a pretty big flaw they gotta work on because it allows people that break rules to get off free

Every report/dispute is a case by case basis. We just want to see a dispute being placed to see that there's at least effort being put in to resolve your issue and not a witch hunt for a ban.