3 Commando Brigade

What are you on about with the roles? I've written the f***ing scripts myself and there's nothing in there about roles?? The slot that you're in has exactly 0 influence on the list of things you see in the arsenal?!

I'm sure that there are some items that we missed. The process of compiling these whitelists involves lots of config-dumps, regexp and manual processing of classnames. Some mods (like EvW) have 'nice' classnames that include e.g. "nato" or "ussr"....others tend towards a "vest_1","vest_2","vest_3" kind of naming which means it's much more likely that we've missed stuff from mods with bad classnames like that. 

If your favourite squeaky-toy uniforms/weapons have been erroneously missed, please post them as (comma seperated) lists of classnames (in quotes), divided into [uniforms/items], weapons, magazines and backpacks so that we can look at them and include them in the next mission version.

Just to calm the waters and move on here. Hench whether you meant to or not, your post came across a little aggressive - I assume that's just a perception thing etc.

We're not trying to nanny-state anything Promise.

The overall objective is to just eliminate kit we felt wasn't adding value or could hinder public server gameplay.

As above lets not over-react - if a bit of kit was overlooked - apologies - get us the details and we can white-list it back in.

SJ

Lol how would you be able to tell Howl?

Not sure why this is becoming such an issue. In the past, before the virtual arsenal, we had a restricted VAS ammobox, removing enemy uniforms, vests, and weapons. No one had an issue with it as we were all aware that we shouldn't be using any enemy gear due to the increased difficulty in correctly identify targets / friendlies. The weapons were restricted as it was difficult to tell if a friendly was firing an enemy weapon, or an actual enemy. So they were removed to prevent random pubbies running around with inappropriate gear and spoiling the enjoyment of the majority. We survived. When the Virtual Arsenal was released, we all had access to everything as the old restrictions could no longer be enforced on the public server. It has taken until now to have a simple way of putting in place the ORIGINAL restrictions, i.e. remove Opfor, Independent, Civilian equipment and weapons, thermal scopes, explosive sniper rounds etc... Apart from the period of time between the end of the old VAS system and the new XLA, these items have always been restricted, and they will be restricted in the future. Opposing faction mods are used to give us access to opponents to shoot at, not to use their gear.

While I cant find it written down here (in fact I cant find any server rules at all) I am 100% certain that several admins made it clear that you should not use OPFOR gear, or weapons in general. Of course there are exeptions, like when you run out of ammo and have no chance to get ammo for your original weapons. Also when you do special events (3CB after midnight) where it is official that everyone will for a example leave base as russians etc. Beside that I have seen severak people getting warned, or kicked on the server for using OPFOR equipment. Since this is a established rule, it is only logical that the whitelisted arsenal deals with this.

So in the end this is just a rule, that is now directly being enforced by server mechanics and not all the time by admins.

If the majority wants to do some crazy leeway stuff on the public server in the late hour, this should still be possible if you get somebody online with zeus.

I doubt the stkr uniforms will make a reappearance. With 3cb skins they're redundant. And when we release the equipment pack we'll stop using stkr all together.

Can't comment on the African skins I assume those are all blufor skins?

The whitelisting thing is mission-specific, yes. The whitelist is defined in a script inside the mission. Since we don't usually use the arsenal on private missions it shouldn't really be relevant for those anyway.

Regarding STKR: I wouldn't bet on STKR being around for much longer - the @3CB Equipment pack will include updated versions of stalker's vests + all the other equipment from his mod so that in the medium to long term, @3CB Units (which will use @3CB Equipment and @3CB Weapons) will replace stalker's mod completely. 

@Hench: Thanks for the classnames!  Expect to see these* coming in with either the next mission or the next mission update (depending on what Apollo has planned for the public)

*minus Stalker, as mentioned above.

Answered you on TS already but for everybody else: The @3CB equipment has the uniforms without the RM badges so you'll still have that capability 

... but not with STKR as that will no longer be used. You can just use AAF or somthing and then  do a find and replace etc when our non Marine units are ready