I'm trying to play on a server that requires a lot of mods. I have the all required mods installed but arma is saying I'm missing two of them.
I'm supposedly missing NIArsenal and RHS: United States Forces, but I have both of them installed. I even have 2 sets of the RHS mods one from RHS.com and Armaholic.com and it still says I'm missing it. Everything else is fine RHS: GREF, RHS:AFRF and CUP mods; Everything but RHS: USF and NIArsnel. I need help this is frustrating; My steam name is KashInc7 if anyone needs to message me directly. Hello Kashinc7, If the error is that they are missing, then they are not being loaded in.
You may have downloaded them, it does not mean ARMA can use them. If have seen people download the zip file and think that is all there is to do to use it. Sorry, no, you have to unzip and point the launcher to load that mod. Try This: Ensure you have the mods loading via your launcher Start ARMA, open up the editor (any map) and see if those added mods show in the editor If they do not, then you do not have the mod loaded. If you have a wrong version than the server AND if they have the server setup correctly, you should get kicked with a ' You were kicked from the server' message upon joining because the file verification will fail as the checksum on your end will not match the server's checksum.
Also, try to go to other servers using the same mods as the one you cannot get on. Most likely, those mods are not installed correctly and/or not being loaded when ARMA starts. Edited November 6, 2016 by Z80CPU.
Third Party Content - What's the big deal? Is anyone else perplexed by EA's attitude towards third party content?
I get the feeling from them that they only allow third-party content begrudgingly. Maybe they distinguish between cc and mods, because there is plenty of cc on EA's exchange, but at least on the official Iforums, the attitude is 'You don't talk about mods, you don't link to mods, you pretend mods don't exist.' They only recently added a folder to put third-party content in. So my question is: what gives? Why the chokehold on the community? To use an example, Blizzard allows people to make addons for World of Warcraft all day every day to their heart's desires, as long as they don't exploit the game. But because there is no 'goal' in the sims, there is no 'exploiting'.
It's not a player safety concern either, though sometimes they like to pretend it is. As long as I'm not violating the EULA, (which to my knowledge modding is not) I should be allowed to do whatever I want to my game. I bought it with my money, it's my property, and if I want to ruin my game forever for myself with a bad install, it's my terrible decision and you should let me roll with it. In my opinion, recognizing third party content would be better for EA because they don't have to be responsible when I bork my game because I was installing random crap. Maybe they want to keep a monopoly on the store items, and that's fine. (I also ask 'What? The billions and billions of dollars you already have isn't enough?'
) But if that was the case, then they should stop featuring items with third-party content on the exchange. So is their stance contradictory?
We like cc but we don't like cc? Maybe if you had a team actually working full-time on fixing problems on the sims that people have been reporting forever, and maybe if you would change a lot of the stupid things that people complain about, people would have less reason to turn to mods. Equitrac office manual.
Maybe I just have no idea what I'm talking about. Anyways, that's the end of my rant. What are your opinions on EA's stance on third-party content? Do you also find it perplexing?
Makes perfect sense to me. It's not a conspiracy against CC. The Sims 3 forums are for The Sims 3- not to discuss Twallan's story progression or ask questions about awesomemod or find out when some creator is going to update some object, or anything like that.
Dalian University of Technology. Therefore, CC discussion is not allowed. It's not because they hate you and want complete control over your game and think you aren't allowed to use CC, and it's not because they want 'A monopoly on content' (not sure how not allowing CC discussion leads to either of those, actually), it's simply because it's The Sims 3 forums, not The Sims 3 Custom Content forums. Makes perfect sense to me. It's not a conspiracy against CC. The Sims 3 forums are for The Sims 3- not to discuss Twallan's story progression or ask questions about awesomemod or find out when some creator is going to update some object, or anything like that.
Therefore, CC discussion is not allowed. It's not because they hate you and want complete control over your game and think you aren't allowed to use CC, and it's not because they want 'A monopoly on content' (not sure how not allowing CC discussion leads to either of those, actually), it's simply because it's The Sims 3 forums, not The Sims 3 Custom Content forums. Good point, but it seems to me that even mentioning mods in passing is frowned upon. For example, if someone was to post a help topic, you could say 'Well EA-SP does this this and this but if you install X-Mod, their SP does this this and this' which isn't explicitly against the rules unless you linked to it, but I feel is still generally frowned upon.
Also, EA keeping a monopoly on shop items meaning that if they encouraged more custom content, people would stop paying for shop items when they could just download essentially the same thing from a third party for free. Therefore, EA makes less money, so it would be in their best interest to discourage custom content as a good business plan. Third party developers are competition, in a sense. But they aren't discouraging custom content. They're discouraging off-topic discussion of it on forums that aren't intended for talking about it. But since 3rd party items are such a big part of TS3. You would think it would have occured to them later to make a place for that discussion.
Because it is a big deal. At least that is just my personal opinion. All in all, I feel that EA looks out for EA. And 3rd party items are not in EA's best interest, so EA is going to pretend that it doesn't exist.
I have a friend who also loves playing the sims 3, but she is an absolute stickler for no 3rd party stuff because she heard trash about the breast sliders. So I had a whole debate with her about how cc doesn't ruin your game and is actually really helpfull in gaming, pointing all the pet peeves I've had like psycho police, no teen only families, and a lack pf personalization items.
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I've got my other friend totally converted though. We play sims at my house cause she can't download cc without confusing herself lol. But since 3rd party items are such a big part of TS3. You would think it would have occured to them later to make a place for that discussion.
Because it is a big deal. At least that is just my personal opinion. All in all, I feel that EA looks out for EA.
And 3rd party items are not in EA's best interest, so EA is going to pretend that it doesn't exist. That's another thing I noticed. Off topic, but lurking one day on TS3 forums and I immediately thought that there needs to be more sub-forums, period. I'm sorry, but frankly, I don't care about the heir to your legacy family, nor am I interested in your 'Tell me how awesome I am!' I don't want to wade through 20 of those to find a thread that promotes legitimate discussion. Also, the forums are slow, unresponsive, and bug out often.
But it seems like they're not failing at maintaining a forum, they just don't care about it. They gave us a couple umbrella forums for discussion just so that we would have one, but other than that it just doesn't feel like they really have any interest in it. I don't want to wade through 20 of those to find a thread that promotes legitimate discussion. Also, the forums are slow, unresponsive, and bug out often. But it seems like they're not failing at maintaining a forum, they just don't care about it.
They gave us a couple umbrella forums for discussion just so that we would have one, but other than that it just doesn't feel like they really have any interest in it. EA doesn't give a damn about what we think. They care that I made my bf get me LN and now I'm wishing he got me Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep instead.
But before I rant on LN, forums are where people share their opinions. Therefore, if you care about your consumer you would make them not buggy, you would monitor them, and you would have them easy to look through to gather information.
EA doesn't give a damn about what we think. They care that I made my bf get me LN and now I'm wishing he got me Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep instead.
But before I rant on LN, forums are where people share their opinions. Therefore, if you care about your consumer you would make them not buggy, you would monitor them, and you would have them easy to look through to gather information. I've started to ask myself this question more and more as the day goes on: Why doesn't EA do beta testing for their expansions? It would save so much grief and be better for everyone. I've started to ask myself this question more and more as the day goes on: Why doesn't EA do beta testing for their expansions? It would save so much grief and be better for everyone. The more people you pay the less money for you.
But I think if they let people like JM and Twallan, modders that most simmers know and respect, test out the games before they put them out on the market the game would be far better. Heck, EA could hire Delphy and make a Creation Pack, that would have all the things needed to create to your hearts content. But alas it is just a dream.
You're crazy if you honestly believe that no beta testing is done of these games. It's just not possible. Why aren't you making up conspiracy theories about why we aren't allowed to make requests on MTS? By your logic, MTS hates us, doesn't want us to have the content we want in our games, and disagrees with us wanting any CC in particular that doesn't exist yet. But you're not making a thread about that. It's just a rule of the forums- they aren't CC forums, so you can't discuss CC. There's absolutely nothing more to it.
I don't think I ever said or implied that anyone hates us, lol. And a lot of bugs like the ones that existed when LN first came out are pretty glaringly obvious and popular- ones that an average beta tester would encounter, so you'd have a hard time convincing me that there was beta test involved. Maybe an alpha one sure, but you have to be realistic and accept the fact that there are games that go out without any sort of testing at all.
Assuming that beta testing is part of the process that every company employs is a little idealistic- there is just too much evidence otherwise. And the reason why you can't make requests in the discussion section on MTS is because there is a specific area meant for making requests, and this is not it. There are no specific areas for different topics on the official forums.
There is 'Sims discussion' and 'Not sims discussion'. So by all means, you should be able to have topics about mods in the sims discussion area. It's the most related forum.
Also, there is a 'stories and legacies' sub-forum, and yet everyone seems to post their stories and legacies information in the main discussion section on the official forums, and no one says a word. But there WASN'T an area for making requests until recently. And we still were not allowed to make requests.
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Your logic follows very simply that if there's no special area for something, and you're not allowed to talk about it, the people in charge have something against it because they worry it will damage them. You refuse to accept that 'CC discussion is simply off topic because it's not a site for CC, it's a site for official content', so I'm just trying to explain to you why your whole 'They're evil and want to destroy CC and dont want us to use it' argument is ridiculous and baseless. Official sims 3 forum. Discussion for official sims 3 content. How hard is this, really? Seriously, Claeric.
Have you still not learnt that your brash personality is what gets you caught out every single time you try coming back here (and what got you permabanned in the first place)? There used to be a section for requests ages back but it was removed for reasons I can't remember.
Technically a requests section doesn't exist now, rather there's a place for individual creators to advertise what they will take requests for. Back on topic: I don't spend time on the official forums because I always saw them as being restricted because they always seemed to me to be a place for just discussing the game, whereas MTS is really comprehensive. I don't think I agree with the opinion that they don't want people to make CC, because if that were the case then they could probably have made the game harder to mod, and actually they support TSR.shudders. IIRC they worked with them to develop a modding tool. I think it's likely to be other reasons than DNW CC which means that conversation of it gets the topic locked. Personally I would think they would like that kind of stuff.
The game is all about creativity and imagination and what-if's. The mod community is a living embodiment of this since it takes a LOT of skill and creativity to pull these mods off. I've even known some modders to go on to become game designers after taking their first steps designing addons for the game.
The Sims franchise has encouraged and nurtured the minds and creativity of millions for as long as I can remember. The only thing that I could see them having reason to hate is the people who make CC and have you pay for it. Pay sites are evil IMHO, and the people who do it are making a profit off it so it kinda goes against the sims user agreement. But whatever. As long as there is a game out there with easily crackable code, people will exploit it. It's what we do. EA is just gonna have to learn to either go with the flow or wrap up their code a lot tighter.
Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgment (most posters aren't looking for a fight), but here's my two bits. Maybe they DO hate custom content, the creators, and people who take focus off their store or even in-game items.
They're trying to run a monopoly here, mainly because they're a business and like money. If I were a business, I'd like money, too. You can't ever get enough, because you're a business - they'd just close up shop if that were the case. I dunno if that's right, ethically, but it's logical at the very least. If people have options for hacks and hair and general stuff that's better, AND it's free, who'd be crazy enough to buy the stuff they shell out that sometimes looks half-done, or worse, like it shouldn't have been done at all?
But maybe they don't hate CC. Maybe they know that it's a losing battle to fight it, and banned it from their forums for a different reason. Maybe they think of it as plain old insulting to talk about outside content on their boards. Well, when you talk about things like Awesomemod, especially on their forums, it's kinda like saying, 'Hey, your game sucks. Check out what this other dude did that's, you know, more awesome than you.'
Even if you don't mean it, it's a valid way to interpret things like hacks that switch up gameplay in a way the original creators didn't intend. Besides, even on MTS, you're sometimes told to go find the creator's site, instead of talking about it here - like when asking for help with it, which I expect would clutter their already less-than-keenly-monitored-forums at the official site even more. The OP already said that they don't want to spend forever sifting through posts to get something worthwile, and if they introduce CC sections, then there'll be hundreds more threads along the 'Help! My game's broken!' Line, and make the problem worse. I mean, people don't even follow the guidelines correctly HERE 100% of the time, and I'd say this is community is rather more savvy than the official-forums one.
Maybe it's best to just ignore the official forums, and come to sites like this one. Granted, your opinion may not be heard, but then again, it's not really as if they're listening anyway. In all, I'd say not to worry about it, 'cause it's not too big a deal. I honestly don't think EA cares that much. They're the gods of the video game world, so why would something so microscopic like CC make them act so petty and stubborn?
I remember back a few years ago I saw an interview with Will Wright on TV. It was back in the development stages of Spore so TS2 was the big thing. He was saying really good things about the TS2 community and how creative we all are. Not one bad thing was said about us. In fact, he almost seemed as if he was encouraging people to make CC. If EA really wanted rid of our free mods and creations in TS3 to make way for the Store, they would have changed the game so that custom content couldn't be made by third parties. Simple as that.
I don't think a 'Mods' folder would even exist if they cared that much about it. I highly doubt the Store brings in that much revenue anyway. I think people have been booted off message boards not because they're linking to third party sites but because they're disobeying the rules. Any troll can go on there and link to some virus-ridden site, but there must be some way of preventing that. And this is it! If I were EA, I wouldn't be too caught up in the little things.
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I'd be too busy brushing my shoulders of at this beautiful monster I've created. I don't think EA HATE mods/CC. I was always under the impression that the reason EA forbid people to talk about mods was because of the rating of the game. In the UK the game is rated 12+, and obviously if the game had things in it that mods allow such as teen pregnancy, and the ability to 'murder' other sims, the rating might be made higher, to like a 15, or maybe more. The higher the rating - less people have access to the game - EA makes less money.
And it may be censored because the people who decide on the games rating have people monitoring the official forums to see if they can spy anything suspicious like mods going on because if they knew it was even possible to do such things EA would be in bother. Im not sure if that makes sense, haha.:-D.
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