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    Having issues connecting to our teamspeak?

    By Mavy, in Server news, , 0 comments, 3,853 views
    Over the weekend I have enabled some extra security features for our teamspeak server. If you are having issues connecting please check:
    if you are using the latest version of Teamspeak. if you are connecting to the correct address (ts.fkservers.eu). If you have checked the above and still need help, please post a thread here and attach screenshots of:
    the version of TS3 (Help > About Teamspeak 3). the error you are getting. Many thanks,
    Your friendly neighborhood admin.
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    Costs and donations (October 2017)

    By Mavy, in Server news, , 1 comment, 4,499 views
    Its been nearly 6 months since this last update and a lot has changed since then. Not only has a lot changed within the community, this month will also introduce a new system for donations. Below is an explanation and breakdown of the new system.
    Goal changes:
    As a lot of you have undoubtedly noticed, the past few months have been hard on us money wise. We are not getting nearly as much donations now as we had earlier this year. Because of this we decided we needed a way to see where the community wanted us to invest. What servers to keep and what servers to drop. To do this we decided to split the costs we have over different donation goals. By splitting up the goals it is easier to see where the community wants us to invest. We can then use this as a guideline when making decisions, not only on a server level but also on a community level. So lets break down the current costs and their goals.
    What do we have:
    First lets start with a breakdown of what we/I own, lets start with the easy stuff. There are currently 4 machines that are dedicated to FK activities, these are:
    ARMA #1 - €55,-/month (This one runs the headless clients) ARMA #2 - €55,-/month (The main arma server) ARMA #3 - €55,-/month (The test/second arma server) Gamebox #1 - €70,-/month Currently hosts teamspeak, minecraft, blackwake, space engineers and garry's mod. This box has 64GB of ram and a 6 core cpu, in combination with virtualization it is highly flexible so I can swap games quickly depending on demand. These are easy because these machines are dedicated to FK. The rest of our machines are hosted in combination with some of my other virtual machines, these are:
    Web server #1 - €12,50,-/month (The main website) Web server #2 - €5,-/month (Test site and gitlab runner, used for compiling missions/templates) Mail server - €5,-/month These 3 servers are hosted on 2 dedicated machines I use for testing and some private stuff. Since they are shared I wanted a good way to share the costs between myself and the FK community.
    Breakdown of the costs:
    The 2 servers that I use to host from both have 8 cores, 32GB ram and several TB of storage. Each host costs €70,- making a total of 16 cores and 64GB ram for €140,-/month. I have decided to base the costs on the CPU usage, ram is not shared between the different virtual machines so any ram used by FK machines is unavailable for my machines. Dividing these makes a cost of €2,19/month per GB, I have rounded this up to €2,50/month (I too enjoy a beer for effort).
    For the gamebox I have broken the costs down per IP address (we can use 7 for games/ts). This breaks down to €10,-/month per game which seemed most reasonable. These costs are at the bases of the new goals. Each goal will list the costs per server based on these calculations.
    License costs:
    Originally we where using an old license for our website. Support on this license had expired and there for renewal was needed. In total this currently adds another €10,-/month for the website. We also pay for the admin panel for our ArmA servers, this costs €25,-/year. Breaking down to €2,08/month, for sanity reasons I rounded this down to €2,- in the goal.
    Donation methods:
    I know a lot of people have asked for other ways to donate, sadly Paypal is the only viable gateway we can use. This is mostly due to the fact that other gateways do not payout transactions until a certain threshold has been reached.
    Rainy day fund:
    This month sees the end of the rainy day fund. It caused a lot of controversy as people felt it was being used for personal joy. In fact it is quiet the opposite. It was used to pay for FK servers while the donations where low. We are now out of spare funding and because of that making our goals is even more important.

    New Moderators: now live!

    By greybeardralph, in Website news, , 6 comments, 5,643 views
    Hello Everyone!
    After a time of exactly soon(tm), the moderator rank is now live on both Teamspeak and the forums!
     
    The list of moderators (still the same as in the announcement meeting report):
    Benji/Winters Andyt90 Forked Zenthar Rezonath Servok BigT TimberHawk Chuck Yeager Anden3 Vados Hope to see you on the battlefield
    Your friendly neighbourhood staff team.
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    An update on the new website. Steam profile integration, New front page and more.

    By Mavy, in Website news, , 0 comments, 5,018 views
    The new website:
    Over the past few weeks I have been hard at work getting our updated site ready for the masses. Sadly the progress has been hampered by the ammount of new features introduced by Invision in this so called "Minor" Update. These new features sadly broke quiet a few of our add-ons and thus I am relying on the add-on makers to get things compatible with the new version. With the add-ons out of my hands I have focused mainly on the new theme. And as the website developers among us will know debugging CSS is a P.I.T.A. Because of this it is taking longer then I had hoped to get things looking decent. However you can see a sneak peek of the new theme above this post.
    The old website:
    Of course the work on the new website does not mean I wont be working on the old one. In reality its actually quiet the opposite. With the add-ons broken on the new site it is actually easier to test and implement them on the old site. This saves me a lot of work when the updated version become available as I can just upgrade them without any side effects (I hope). This week I have introduced two new things.
    The first is the new front page layout. The new look makes our site feel a little more flashy and a little less "Texty". This same layout will be used on the new website so get used to it
    A bigger change is the addition of the new Steam profile integration. The integration can be found in your profile under the "Steam Profile" tab:

    When no profile is linked it will show a guide on how to link one. In short, edit your profile and fill in the Steam ID field, click save when done:

    Your profile should now look similar to this:

    Congrats, you have now added your steam profile to the website.
    Whats coming next:
    One of the bigger things I am working on are forms, all tho they sound boring they allow us (CM's and Admins) to create predefined forms that can be used to submit a range of templated information. Expect things like the admin white list requests and the ban disputes to be converted to a website form for easier use. Another thing that will come with the new website is a better reputation system, it is now called the reactions system. It allows for more responses then just the positive and negative reputation. Sadly this new reactions system also broke our prestige system, meaning a new way to keep track of our members activity will have to be developed. The CM's are working hard on this and I am sure the new system will be communicated with the rest of you in due time.

    Mod changelog 11/09/17

    By NeilZar, in Server news, , 33 comments, 14,105 views
    The week of mod testing is over. We have come to a decision on which mods will be added and which mods will be removed from the collection on monday 11/09/17. Note that some of the mods listed were old mods that were temporarily not available.
    MODS/MAPS BEING ADDED
    MNP -  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=687513604 Schwemlitz -  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1124186682 Tactical beards -  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=738178286 PLA Infantry Mod -  http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=655153321 Hoverboard -  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=718477667 Thirsk -  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=721084874 Napf -  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=920257026 Tactical Banana -  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1113082381 Extended Fortifications -  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1109237932 TRYK's Multi-play Uniforms -  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=779520435 RM SWAT Uniform -  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=888504004 Chemical Warfare -  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1095745477 Hazar-Kot Valley -  http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=766294759 New mods total size: 3885.8 MB
    MODS/MAPS BEING REMOVED
    3CB BAF Units NIArms Minigun NIArms M1903 Sprinfield Rifles Removed mods total size: 149.8 MB
    New modset total size: 37239.7 MB
     
    MAPS ON TRIAL
    These maps will be added for a limited time to see what the community thinks. We think these may have some troubles, but are still great additions.
    Vis -  http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1120714022 Porquerolles -  http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=639497064 Imrali Island -  http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=317432405 G.O.S. Leskovets -  http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=855464203 CLA Clafghan -  http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=761349672 Trial mods total size: 1998.3 MB
     
    All these changes will take effect during monday, exact time to be determined. This post is subject to change up to that point.

    RE: "Missing/Removed" Mods and Workshop Update

    By Rorkiy, in Server news, , 8 comments, 13,408 views
    Following the recent move back to the Steam Workshop, we encountered a problem.
    We had previously bundled the majority of our mods and maps into two packs, the "FK Mod Pack" (which contained things like NI Arsenal, BWMOD etc.) and the "FK Map Pack" (which contained the maps such as Lythium, Lingor etc.) for what was essentially ease of use for the community. However, this did in fact go against the Steam Workshop EULA, with the possibility of DMCAs, and so we had to take them both down.
    As a result of that, there are some mods/maps that will be missing from the Collection and from the Servers themselves and this mainly boils down to two possibilities, either:
    It is not on the Steam workshop (such as with the LAV-25, Schwemlitz, the Hover Board etc.) or, We might have missed then when we had to scramble to take down the "combined" packs and replace them with what we could find on the Workshop. Do note that we did not intentionally remove any mods that might be missing, they're missing because we essentially have no legal way of using it without undue complications for everyone.
    Any changes to our modset that are decided upon by the Management team will be communicated clearly via our Meeting Reports.
    There may be a time when some of those mods missing from the Workshop may be uploaded at a later date, either by the original author, or with the original author's permission, in which case we will plan on adding it to the Collection and the Server, so keep an eye out on the Collection page every now and then to make sure you aren't missing anything that we might've re-added to it.

    Moving back to steam workshop

    By greybeardralph, in Server news, , 10 comments, 7,460 views
    Hello everybody! As mentioned in the meeting report (which you all read every week, of course), we are switching back to steam workshop for our modpack starting tomorrow. You can find more information on how to do this here. A modlist update will follow shortly after the switch to steam workshop, after which arma3sync will no longer work, so be sure to switch over quickly to avoid downtime!
     
    Your friendly neighborhood staff team.

    Main Op size changes

    By greybeardralph, in Server news, , 4 comments, 5,338 views
    Hello everybody!
    As some (Hopefully most) of you have seen and voted on by now, we held a recent poll for changing the missions sizes. The poll can be found here:
     
    Following the results of this poll, we are now going into a week of testing this new format (until Saturday 19 Aug). During this week, server 1 will be the "restricted" server, meaning priority goes to regular+ (with one FNG slot per squad), while server 2 will be open for all. Both servers will have a player limit of 40-50 players, depending  on the amount of assets used. During this week of testing, we will also have a number of smaller things to look at, Including (but not limited to):
    Cycling stricter and more casual rule sets The effects of Headless clients There will be a specific feedback thread whenever we try some of the smaller points, as well as a global feedback for the new format. We hope to hear your thoughts, good or bad, related to the change in format. Normal feedback can still go in the post-mission reports, like before.
     
    We will see you in the fight and in the threads,
    Your friendly neighbourhood staff team.

    Weekly overview #2

    By Linnet, in Website news, , 7 comments, 7,110 views
    Morning/evening/good whatever time you're reading this everybody!
    Let's get right to it:
    Meeting report
    Other than this overview, last weeks meeting report has actually been on time. You can view it here if you haven't already because you're an upstanding member of the community and are excited for the off-chance of new rules being announced (spoilers?). 
    What's happening this week? 
    Not much, again.  Because of the overambitious spawn of EI, the mission by @NeilZar from earlier this week has been rescheduled to friday. Keep in mind that this is a scripted mission with a few pre-assigned slots, so if you had one in the original mission, you'll have it on friday. If you can't make it - fine. But please let Neil know beforehand so we don't spend unnecessary time with waiting for people who are not going to appear. Check out the Calender Event for more info. 
    Also, a few might have seen it already on the Forum, @Slouchy Orc is currently lost somewhere in the canadian wilderness, doing biological stuff and hopefully avoids getting eaten by Grizzlys. Read up on it here. While he is gone, @Chuck Yeager will take over the Training Missions, now renamed to "Chucks Convenient Classes". The first one of these is happening on monday, if you are an FNG or haven't been playing with us in a while, I'd suggest you try them out. Every further info is on the Calender Event.
    Now - the sad part. @Woody will be gone from friday on - hopefully not forever. Something along the lines of driving tanks IRL and "teaching them how to fly". Go nag him about it yourself. At this point we haven't come up with a plan on how we're going to survive without his memes and horrific flying accidents, but we'll make it. Somehow. 
    A bit more lighthearted
    First of all - check out this thread. What is your unique, based on real events FK-fear? 
    Furthermore: @anden3 asked me to raise awareness for this. Apparently there's a Rocket League Tournament coming along. So if one of your unique skills is crashing into cars and fucking things up while pretending to hit a giant football, this could be the perfect event for you.
    Until next week!
    PS: Be nice to your medics, patching you guys op is fucking hard work. Especially when the system is broken. 
     

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