Boards.ie Battlefield 3 Server

Dav

So, I've convinced the boss that paying for 6 months worth of a BF3 server is a good idea and I've just sorted it all out. I've purchased a 48 man server with a 64 man Mumble voice server attached from Multiplay.co.uk.

So in order to make the most of this, I'd like people interested in playing on it, please give an "On" or "Off" on the following questions:

• AutoBalance
• Friendly Fire
• Regenerate Health
• KillCam
• MiniMap
• Mini Map Spotting
• HUD
• Cross Hair
• 3D Spotting
• Name Tag
• 3rd Person Vehical Cam
• Vehical Spawn
• Only Spawn on Squad Leaders

On top of that, I'm thinking RUSH and CONQUEST are the 2 best Game Mods to alternate through, so please list your preferred maps for these 2 game modes. It seems I can have either one or the other mode enabled, so for the moment, I'm going to just log in and manually switch mode every morning when I get into work, but if people vote overwhelmingly for one mode over another, then we'll stick with that.

It also gives us options of running special events on a night.

When we get all these configuration issues squared away, I'll post the details of the server for everyone to add to their favourites list I'm just about to leave the office and so will be online from my gaming machine at home this evening trying things out. I'd be much obliged if there were some of you online this evening willing to help me test things out, so I'll pop back to the thread later and see who's about

Spear

• AutoBalance ON
• Friendly Fire OFF
• Regenerate Health OFF
• KillCam OFF
• MiniMap ON
• Mini Map Spotting ON
• HUD ON
• Cross Hair OFF
• 3D Spotting ON
• Name Tag ON
• 3rd Person Vehical Cam ON
• Vehical Spawn ON
• Only Spawn on Squad Leaders ON

cherryghost

+1 on everything Spear said.

karma_

Cross Hair on please.

Burgo

Spear wrote: »

• AutoBalance ON
• Friendly Fire OFF
• Regenerate Health OFF
• KillCam OFF
• MiniMap ON
• Mini Map Spotting ON
• HUD ON
• Cross Hair On
• 3D Spotting ON
• Name Tag ON
• 3rd Person Vehical Cam ON
• Vehical Spawn ON
• Only Spawn on Squad Leaders OFF

Those are the 2 changes I'd make.

K3v

• AutoBalance ON
• Friendly Fire OFF
• Regenerate Health On
• KillCam OFF
• MiniMap ON
• Mini Map Spotting ON
• HUD ON
• Cross Hair ON
• 3D Spotting ON
• Name Tag ON
• 3rd Person Vehical Cam ON
• Vehical Spawn ON
• Only Spawn on Squad Leaders OFF

Conquest only please.

seyeM

Spear wrote: »

• AutoBalance ON
• Friendly Fire OFF
• Regenerate Health OFF
• KillCam OFF
• MiniMap ON
• Mini Map Spotting ON
• HUD ON
• Cross Hair OFF
• 3D Spotting ON
• Name Tag ON
• 3rd Person Vehical Cam ON
• Vehical Spawn ON
• Only Spawn on Squad Leaders ON

This

Headshot

Great news thanks

sorry for the newbie question but Cross Hair OFF/ON about?

cherryghost

Headshot wrote: »

Great news thanks

sorry for the newbie question but Cross Hair OFF/ON about?

Do you even PLAY shooter's? :pac::pac::pac:

Headshot

Enderman wrote: »

Do you even PLAY shooter's? :pac::pac::pac:

Yes im pretty sure I know what it is alright but why would anyone want it off?

I just presume it must be something else to what im thinking off

Spear

To explain the logic I was applying, I suggest turning some of the more noob friendly aspects i.e. health regeneration and crosshairs, restoring the function and value of the squad leaders, through squad leader spawning, but without removing any functionality such as spotting.

Headshot

Spear wrote: »

• AutoBalance ON
• Friendly Fire OFF
• Regenerate Health OFF
• KillCam OFF
• MiniMap ON
• Mini Map Spotting ON
• HUD ON
• Cross Hair OFF ON
• 3D Spotting ON
• Name Tag ON
• 3rd Person Vehical Cam ON
• Vehical Spawn ON
• Only Spawn on Squad Leaders ON

That would be my only change other wise looks great to me

People might actually heal team mates now with no health regeneration

karma_

Spear wrote: »

To explain the logic I was applying, I suggest turning some of the more noob friendly aspects i.e. health regeneration and crosshairs, restoring the function and value of the squad leaders, through squad leader spawning, but without removing any functionality such as spotting.

That's fair, the only thing I'd say to that would be that crosshairs have been a staple in the BF series from the off.

I can live with everything else, although I'd ideally prefer to be able to spawn on any squad member.

James74

• AutoBalance ON
• Friendly Fire OFF
• Regenerate Health OFF
• KillCam OFF
• MiniMap ON
• Mini Map Spotting ON
• HUD ON
• Cross Hair ON
• 3D Spotting ON
• Name Tag ON
• 3rd Person Vehical Cam ON
• Vehical Spawn ON
• Only Spawn on Squad Leaders OFF

Conquest, & thanks btw

W_T_P_twister

AutoBalance: On
Friendly Fire:Off
Regenerate Health:Off
KillCam:Off
MiniMap:On
Mini Map Spotting:On
HUD:On
Cross Hair:Off
3D Spotting:On
Name Tag:On
3rd Person Vehical Cam:On
Vehical Spawn:On
Only Spawn on Squad Leaders:Off

Dazza

+1 on Spear.

Will there be an option to donate? I think there are servers that have a set number of slots (1-4) that are free for people who own/donate to them to get on to the server instantly if the server were to be full.

I might be wrong on what I said though :P

MajesticDonkey

So...it'll be online when?

ktulu123

Its online now: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/servers/show/258d02cf-f658-44ab-9a3c-07553211cab2/Boards-ie-BF3-Server-CONQUEST-www-boards-ie-battlefield/

I dont mind what settings are on the server. I do like the idea of no health regen though and the squad leader spawning. Deffo Conquest Large for me too

ShadowHearth

I would prefer normal standart game with kill cam turned off.

Just please no hardcore as it will be "boards.ie bastard sniper bananza"...

Spear

Hmm, it uses a dud link to www.boards.ie/battlefield

Dav

I'm just looking at it now guys and seeing what's what.

The link should be live tomorrow - I put a request in with tech team to sort it before I left the office.

Shlippery

Sooo....anyone fancy a game or has everyone jumped ship to MW3 :P?

heebusjeebus

I'll try it out tonight. See ye there

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/servers/show/258d02cf-f658-44ab-9a3c-07553211cab2/Boards-ie-RUSH-boards-ie-battlefield/

Sanjuro

Great idea, Dav.

This-

AutoBalance ON
Friendly Fire OFF
Regenerate Health OFF
KillCam OFF
MiniMap ON
Mini Map Spotting ON
HUD ON
Cross Hair OFF
3D Spotting ON
Name Tag ON
3rd Person Vehical Cam ON
Vehical Spawn ON
Only Spawn on Squad Leaders ON


And mixed game type would be awesome. Seeing as people like a bit of variety, and only one game type can be a bit taxing. Mix it up a bit.

Maguined

AutoBalance ON
Friendly Fire OFF
Regenerate Health OFF
KillCam OFF
MiniMap ON
Mini Map Spotting ON
HUD ON
Cross Hair OFF
3D Spotting ON
Name Tag ON
3rd Person Vehical Cam ON
Vehical Spawn ON
Only Spawn on Squad Leaders OFF

Conquest only, not a big fan of Rush

jonski

Normal settings and conquest

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it's what Battlefield is about .

BlitzKrieg

standard map rotation?

Shy_Dave!

• AutoBalance ON
• Friendly Fire OFF
• Regenerate Health ON
• KillCam ON
• MiniMap ON
• Mini Map Spotting ON
• HUD ON
• Cross Hair ON
• 3D Spotting ON
• Name Tag ON
• 3rd Person Vehical Cam ON
• Vehical Spawn ON
• Only Spawn on Squad Leaders ON

Conquest & Conquest lage!

Genghiz Cohen

y u no FF on?!

Burgo

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

y u no FF on?!

I would take great pleasure in murdering any team mate who comes near me with a tac light, revive them and kill them again :pac: feckin tac lights.

MajesticDonkey

y u no FF on?!

Don't even mention Fianna Fáil! :pac:

feckin tac lights.

Best yoke goin'!

Drexel

Whats the story with the boards server? i added it but there is no one on????

dreamers75

jonny666 wrote: »

Whats the story with the boards server? i added it but there is no one on????

If you join it they will come!

BlitzKrieg

popping onto it now if anyone else is up for a game!

BlitzKrieg

Can we get this stickied please?

And can someone be given mod powers?

Its just that a lot of people are missing that we have a boards.ie server.

Also can the boards.ie platoon mods add this server to the platoon pages.

ktulu123

Would be great if it was always active!

BlitzKrieg

well I see it on all the time, but beyond me and wonderboy I can never get people into it.

Hence awareness is the key.

BlitzKrieg

could try some weekly competition set up to pick up traffic?

the starcraft 2 forum did a sort of king of the hill tournament for quite a while that was popular.

Could do something similar with squad deathmatch for weekly tournaments?

Winner gets???

cherryghost

was on it with one other lad for about 10 mins on 2/3 occassions. Nothing developed.

C.D.

Would be interested in playing on it. Do we have a voice comms server? We could congregate there and play on other servers until we get enough people. I know Mumble has been mentioned, but I couldn't find the details.

Burgo

C.D. wrote: »

Would be interested in playing on it. Do we have a voice comms server? We could congregate there and play on other servers until we get enough people. I know Mumble has been mentioned, but I couldn't find the details.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75374473

maybe add this post to the servers sticky or something?

MajesticDonkey

BlitzKrieg wrote:

Winner gets???

A free subscription to Boards.

Spear

Burgo wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75374473

maybe add this post to the servers sticky or something?

I'll rejig the sticky next week I think, the current has too much chat, and is PC specific as well. My current travelling is an obstacle though.

cherryghost

Quit travelling/work and become a full time moderator! Who needs money when you have satisfaction? :pac::pac:

Dav

OK, you've had plenty of opportunity to make suggestions, so here's the way we're gonna run this server for now:

• Boards.ie - Conquest - boards.ie/battlefield - stick it in your favourites
• Game Mode CONQUEST64 (normal Conquest has only 32 player limit and we're paying for 48 slots - I'm happy to change if necessary)
• Player Limit 48
• AutoBalance ON
• Friendly Fire OFF
• Regenerate Health OFF
• KillCam OFF
• MiniMap ON
• Mini Map Spotting ON
• HUD ON
• Cross Hair ON
• 3D Spotting ON
• Name Tag ON
• 3rd Person Vehical Cam ON
• Vehical Spawn ON
• Only Spawn on Squad Leaders ON

I'm also going to make it "start with 2 players" so people can grab a friend and get some practice in with aircraft and stuff like that. I know I need it having successfully planted a helicopter into the side of a mountain 2 or 3 times this weekend

I also want to let everyone know about the Mumble Server - details are mumble://85.236.100.59:17187 It's a 64 slot server, so plenty of room for everyone playing and a few hangers on

I really hope we can get some people playing on this server, it took a lot for me to get the boss to agree to it.

witnessmenow

Dav wrote: »

I really hope we can get some people playing on this server, it took a lot for me to get the boss to agree to it.

I should be around most evenings this week if there is poeple on

Shiminay

Switching back to personal account - I'll be on myself this evening around 9ish I'd say. I have Batman to be playing too and my Assassins Creed just arrived earlier than expected and I won't let myself play that till I finish Batman

battser

anyone gonna be on TS later for a few squad games?

Shiminay

I'm on the Mumble now and am waiting for someone to say "HELLO!" before hopping into a game on this server

Dazza

Was on for a while there but only three people were on. I think we need a launch night to get more people aware of the server and invite the TIG players and other Irish clans. Some day this week preferably. Juust a thought :P

Shlippery

5 peoples in there now, soon to be 6. the more the merrier. if we get a few in now hopefully it'll stay full!