Muthinator

Isent Altis Life already hard enough as it is?

Simple fix, pick up your stuff...

KOS was allowed until people abused it. Now it went away and its probably for the best. You can still kill a non complaint medic in a red zone. But now you need to at least give them a chance to leave. Thats pretty fair. Still with ETA's. People know that when I do play I give ETA's when I can. Sometimes we dont always see that moment in side chat when a person asks either. Its all very subjective and I wish we had some extra futures to make it better for boths side. Bottom line is we dont and we have to make the best of what we have. Honestly, I think a lot of you are starting to forget how cool the concept of Arma 3 Altis Life really is. You get impairment and angry over the silliest things. Sometimes we need to take a step back and re-evaluate the situation and think. Is it truly that bad? Just saying.

The issue with ETA's is that people are not satisfied with what they hear. You can tell someone the ETA is 5 minuets. 9 times out of 10 you will get another request from the 2 minuets later asking for another ETA. At times it is neither practical nor realistic. Another thing to remember is medic do NOT need to give out ETA's. There is nothing written anywhere that they MUST give an ETA. ETA's are a courtesy that people do not always get. Also, again I reiterate that it is not practical to give ETA's when there are a dozen or more calls pending. I spoke with Posiedon about this issue in the past. At some point he may try to implement some code that tells the medic what time the person requested. He may also add something, if able, that tells the dead person how many other people requested a medic before they did.

Something funny to ponder. I use to complain about APD doing the same thing. When the rules were once different, we as medics needed APD to escort us into areas and extricate bodies from inside of vehicles. I would run into these situations and send APD a text and ask if they could respond. There would often be 5, 7, or more cops on when I sent this. I would estimate that I got a reply about 30% of the time, and a physical response about 50% of the time. One of four things would happen after I messaged APD: APD arrives a time later without replying to the message, APD does not reply and never arrives, APD replies and advises that they are en-route and eventually arrives, and APD does not reply or respond to my request. This all transpired prior to me joining APD. I would complain about it and say things like "how hard is it to send a stupid message", and "why do they only respond half the time". One day I was ranting to someone about the aforementioned and they stopped me dead in my tracks and told me not to complain about something I did not understand. After having a discussing I had to concede that I did not know what APD did most of the time. I simply assumed they were just messing around or that they didnt care. Little did I know how much APD has to deal with at times. I quickly discovered that it was not an issue of they were lazy or didnt care. I found out it was because they were engaged in a fight or inundated with calls. Medics dont choose not to respond to messages because they dont care. They choose not to reply so they can get to the call faster. When one medic is managing the entire server and 6 people in different places have requested medic it becomes stressful. Medics need to respond to every location, arrive/land, locate and revive, and leave or take off and travel to the next location. Each one of these actions takes up time and that time quickly adds up, which is why medics cannot always get to every single request. Each time a medic has to stop what they are doing and give and ETA they are adding a little more time to that response. It adds up. Also, the burden of needing to constantly stop and asses the situation to see if they can even give an accurate ETA is difficult. Often, if the dead person is 3 or 4th in the mental cue that the medic is trying to keep track in their head it becomes almost impossible to give an accurate ETA. Unfortunately people dont care about these factors. All they know is they are dead and it takes a medic to revive them and they want to get revived NOW! There is no system in place that tells a dead person how many other dead people asked for a revive before them. All they see is how far away the medic is. Also, most people dont accept the fact that there bodies, at times, get camped and the medic simply cannot revive them because they would die if they tried. If they die then they need to worry about their vehicle sitting out in the boonies and they need to re-evaluate where they need to spawn again so they can quickly transition to the next call. People assume medic is a simple and laid back operation. What they dont realize is that it can be really stressful in and of itself at times. Add a bunch of people asking for ETA's and a few people sending toxic messages and it can quickly become to much. At the end of the day people need to accept and appreciate that it is a game and people playing medic are doing so because they enjoy it and take pleasure in helping other people, which is truly and admirable trait in an otherwise self centered game and society. Also, it is up to the medics to report any harassment so that the staff has the opportunity to take action. The staff cannot fix a problem they dont know exists.

Hopefully next update.

Doubt it. I have no control over when it is implemented. I think this update is mostly fixing a lot of bugs, which is a boring yet necessary evil. I made them if thats what your asking, well the Red Gull anyways.

The blue is Poseidon approved. Keep in mind it will look slightly different at different angles, time of day, etc.

Soo after some feedback from the big guy I made some changes and here is the result. This should better represent the final product.

Gimp

The rebel camo issue would be a developer issue. I will try and remember to mention it.

It was mostly in relation to this response. I am fine with suggestions, especially if they are new. Whats getting old is the same crap like this coming from the same few people. Some would argue and say I need to accommodate the communities needs, which is true. However, it is not possible to please everyone and I would like to think that most people are happy with what is currently used. Unfortunately, there seems to be a select few that assume the world revolves around them and that everyone shares their views and that if they dont like it then it should be changed... Anyways, I am not opposed to a Sheriffs vehicle; however, I think that would be an overkill since APD has a ton of textures and it would be a third hatch texture floating around. Personally I think its great we have APD and AHP. However, if the Chief says he wants it I will look into it.

You will have to fill me in on rebel trucks. Whats wrong with them?

Honestly no. If you dont like the APD skins then go play elsewhere. Stop complaining about police textures. I am getting sick of hearing about it. A select few of you are beating a dead horse and you need to knock it off. If you cant stand what you have then play elsewhere or go make your own server and design and use whatever skins you like. If you cant stay on topic then keep your opinion to yourself.

Let me know if you change your mind.

R&R has 5 uniforms already. We are not getting any more. If you like I can demote you and you can use the Paramedic uniform all you like .

Thanks for the positive feedback! Red Burger and Blue King are good ideas! Again any and all implementation is up to Poseidon. No I am not re-texturing the entire police force. It was just re-textured not that long ago and it took a really long time. I also dont see a need as the Olympus APD textures stand above most of the other life servers by comparison. Also, the corporals are getting new uniforms. The uniform was supposed to be implemented in the last update but the developers have been really busy with other various tasks.

It cracks me up that something new gets added and the first comments by a select few are completely unrelated to the topic. I know its trolling by the usual trolls but its still a tad annoying. Especially when its beating a dead horse. As far as implementation of this skin is concerned. Nothing is changing as far as the Monster Hatch is concerned as far as I know or can control. This is simply a new texture. It will be up to Poseidon to allow it outright or make it a donation type perk. On a side note. I still need to texture the remaining vehicles. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions that are reasonable?

This is literally the worst community to do anything for...

Ill make sure everyone gets one seps you...

This is the first of the group of new textures that will be implemented in the future. To come are 1 each new textures for the SUV, Offroad, M900/Hummingbird, and Orca. It should complement the Monster Hatch nicely!

Throwing down lame RP to try to get out of a ticket or delay processing until your buddies arrive to help doesent count ya plebs... Dingle Pooper! is #1 in my book. Budah was also pretty good!