Arma Reforger Life Server

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Athenasby Regalado

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Aug 3, 2024, 3:24:11 PM8/3/24

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I'm sure this is an idea in some way already, but if possible we should try making a Reforger Asylum server as soon as possible. As someone who understands marketing quite a bit now since that's a big part of my career, being one of the first ones to place your foot in the door in something is a huge advantage. I'd absolutely love to see this community thriving in numbers like it used to and with new game, that could be a massive reality.

Again, I'm sure there would be so much work into doing something like that, but having a very basic server at first would be great. There will be a huge wave of popularity revolving around the game for about 1-2 months until the peak starts to move down with the eyes on the game. That time frame is obviously when you want to try to get as much out of it as possible. That being said, getting people from Reforger would also trickle to A3 and the main server. It would arguably be a necessary leap of efforts for the likely future betterment of the servers longevity overall and a great first leap into the future of Asylum for Arma 4 down the line.

I can guarantee others will have pop up servers and will successfully take advantage, so if Asylum can figure that out and execute it before they do, we're in the lead. As much as it isn't a competition, it really is at the end of the day. Business is business ?

Really hoping that can happen and if it does, we'll do our best to help populate servers and spread the word!

Edit:
Looking into the map and game further after almost a day and speaking to a handful of others, this map has quite a bit of potential. The different buildings, furnished insides, etc. Saint-Philippe is big enough to be the Kavala of the map. With many other town areas, and even another 2 quite big towns (Saint-Pierre and Lamentin) there's loads of potential for a 60-80 person life server. Once mods come rolling in that help with skins, clothes, UI, weapons, systems, etc - this will be amazing. This is the next big push for Asylum in mine and many others opinions. Really looking forward to what the future holds. So much opportunity.

Genuinely would be great for Asylum to consider branching out to some extent. New community to dip into?

Right now it looks like it wouldn't be the BEST life rp server type situation, but having some sort of basic base server that has basic stepping stones to that kind of system would be a great at first. I'm hoping they'd add more vehicles and other things moving forward to the game so it would make life easier for Devs and enable more possibilities for life rp.

I can guarantee others will have pop up servers and successfully take advantage, so if Asylum can figure that out and execute it before they do, we're in the lead. As much as it isnt a competition, it really is at the end of the day.

That's amazing to hear. If Asylum is able to hop on that ASAP they can take massive advantage of that. I really hope to see some dope stuff soon! I think Gen. Henry mentioned in the discord they're already working on a life server. Super excited for that.

So far I don't really like how much it feels like DayZ, but in terms of a life server I think it's a much better base both graphically and mechanically. There's some good hope there. Maybe Mitch can summon the souls of cuckratus, Fat G and Jesse to create a quick life server

not to be rude, but other servers with devs with more incentives will be more likely to seize this idea. as u said this is a fresh market and being the first means a lot in the grand scheme. bit optimistic but would be cool if possible

I see where you're coming from, but I haven't been around in ages so cant comment fully with confidence. I hope there still is a spark. From what I've heard, it seems a life server is already in the works - but if this happens and is executed properly, this could be THE spark to ignite things within the entire community. If a Reforger server pops off and is able to be maintained, it could boom the entire community like I've mentioned previously. Most people that have Reforger will have A3, and if they like our Reforger server a % of that community would likely try out our A3 server, etc etc. It would be a very nice snowball effect that could make way for quite a handful of new faces in the community -> again leading to a nice boom for us, moving Asylum to even more of the face of (vanilla) life RP

Sure, can someone do me a favor and build a life framework first?
Perhaps a extDB would be a good start as we don't even have a hook into Database like Dayz does. We have to make our own.

SQF is entirely useless now. Luckily the new language seems reasonable from what ive seen.

It doesn't take a marketing genius to know sooner is better.
But you're asking for a lego set before we even know what the building blocks are.
Its also a Tuesday. Not like anyone got advanced warning of release to take time off work.

THANKS FOR INFORMING ME, REALLY INTERESTING THANKYOU. I DID NOT KNOW THIS. I AM THANKFUL FOR U INFORMING ME THIS IS NEWS TO ME. BREAKING NEWS YOUVE JUST INFORMED ME OF. THIS IS INSANE THANKYOU SO MUCH IM APPRECIATIVE THANKYOU.

Ofcourse we will be looking into getting asylum to reforger as soon as possible, but as of right now I do not see that happening anytime soon. Reforger is only a paid tech demo in a way and documentation is far from existant as of right now. Ofcourse there is autocomplete and syntax highlighting in the editor that can bring you a long way but its far from being great to develop an entire life framework on it.

So, back in A3 we had the extension api to communicate between in-game SQF and external native code. With a bit of work or existing extensions like extDB it was possible to export data, store it persistently and load them back in after a session restart. That made DayZ and AltisLife possible.

Now with the new enfusion engine comes the new C# based enforce script language. Unfortunate I wasn't able to find any informations about any way to persistently store data or connect to some external native code.

Is there anything available in a similar way? On github there's a reforger life mission which uses either in-memory storage or accessing a json-file. Although a file-based storage is fine for developement it ain't enough for big sessions with dozens of players.

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

im 99% sure they will be working on making the server file & scripts, im not sure whether or not they will actually release a server for reforger or just use reforger to get ready for arma 4's release. But as a simple answer to your question yes odds are they are working on making a life mission & scripts to go with it, now will it release in reforger or arma 4 is the real question. My guess is they will eventually release a reforger server but i wouldnt expect it any time soon. The game itself is basically a glorified tech demo but as time goes on and more modding is done for the game im assuming more and more servers will pop up.

I personally feel like it's not the play. Maybe in some smaller capacity to figure it out, and having oly players help beta test.. but a loooot of time and money was put into making A3 olympus what it is... and in any serious capacity, Ryan has to pick one server type and run with it.

Going hard on the stepping stone game would effectively be abandoning the full and complete version of the game we have now to play on a half created version of olympus that nobody would want to put too much effort into until A4 came out.

It would be neat to see, but a waste of resources that could risk killing the loyal playerbase in that time.