Public Operations
Important information first.
The whole idea if public operations is not completly worked out yet. We hope that we can get some good feedback and input from you, regarding some of the open issues.Public OperationsWhat are public operations?
- Public operations will be special events, with the goal to reach players that are not already players on the public servers and have little or no contact with our unit yet.
- We hope to achieve this goal with special operations which we are planning to hold once per month (max).
- Those operations will be similar to our wednesday operations. Meaning that we will be using a zeus template and that the mission itself will be designed and build with zeus. We also aim for a mission lengh of about one and a half hour.
How will they be organized?
- The fact that we will do one of these every four weeks/once per month at the most, will give us enough time to properly organize these operations.
- We already have a lot of capable zeus operators in our unit and we think that this is another great chance for them to shine.
- We will advertise these events on social media and forums and invite players to it.
- We will certainly define some very basic set rules and prerequisitions for players interested in those events (basic knowledge of ACE3, TFAR, willing to follow orders etc.)
- We will open up a normal operation post here and we will make sure that we fill important roles like Coy/Troop/Section lead with members of our unit. On the day of the operation all players will join into sections etc,
How do we run these?
- We expect the that the Coy/Troop commander has already some kind of plan before the usual briefing starts. He will then normally start his briefing for section commanders and other important roles T-30 before the start of the operation.
- We will need 1-2 moderators that at T-30 will explain the basic rules to the players and also do a bit of advertising for our unit.
- Inside the mission we will need 2-3 players as zeus. One zeus that has basically created the mission and 1-2 zeus players that will assist him and make sure that "action" is provided as balanced as possible for all players.
One large point that is open for discussion is the way we handle mods. My personal opinion is that we should use a very reduced/minimal modset for these events. The benefit that this makes those operations attractive for people who are not already guests on our server and do not with to download a large modset for something that they may only visit once. A minimal modset could look like this:
- ACE3
- CBA3
- CTAB
- 3CB BAF Equipment
- 3CB BAF Units
- 3CB BAF Weapons
- 3CB BAF Vehicles
- TFAR
- STHUD
- STNAMETAGS
- ENHANCED MOVEMENT
That would mean that we would only be using vanilla maps and opfor factions of vanilla. Personally I think that a scenario against AAF would work well and we could do some kind of very loose campaign on the vanilla maps with this.
Another option is to use the public repo for these events. The benefit is that you have a much wider variety of maps, factions and equipment, but on the other hands you might loose people due to the download size etc.
I feel like this is something we should discuss and reach some consent for it.