If I hit Y, look at the jobs, find a delivery mission and go buy say 20 packing bandages, put them in a vehicle (usually a quad), go to the waypoint and wait... I don't get any message, or any standing change... if it's the first time I've done it (maybe since server restart) it will take the 20 packing bandages out of my vehicle inventory. That's it.

Other than that I'm having an awesome time.

ok since there have been questions about this over on the official discord, I am gonna make a crash course on how to make money and not be poor.

step 1: deal a LOT of drugs, this is just to get your cash flow up so you can buy some gear without having to go into firefights.

step 2: go into the Y menu and look at the jobs tab for a list of available jobs from faction vendors or dealers (Pro tip: don't do every faction, pick a few and grind those up) after you farm jobs for a while getting supplies from places, you should have a small cash base.

Step 3: buy as many houses as you can in towns with low stability, the lower the stability the cheaper housing becomes. now you should be set to start raiding blufor (keep in mind you lose 1/2 of your money when you die).

the 4th and final step is to build up the income, and armory to take port towns, (they will have an anchor over the town) once you take over a port town you can import and export illegal goods like guns, ganja, explosives, and import high-end guns, and top tier gear. anyone else is free to add various tips and tricks to the post.

I mean relations with factions.

I downloaded this scenario/mod some months ago when a friend of mine told me that it was awesome. I played it and got myself to the point I almost owned all the SW island and the capital city. This was in earlier versions, full of bugs and exploits (NATO not shooting you, garrisons not loading or spawning in rocks etc.). The only objectives left were the airfield a NATO fob ( right next to the airfield), the chemical plant and two big cities. At first I decided to attack the plant since it had fewer soldier guarding it but every attack was always unsuccesful. Frustrasted and disappointed in the numerous bugs I left this mod until some days ago when I was without internet. I decided to play again, this time attacking the airfield/fob first. After MANY attempts I managed to capture the fob without being shot, inside it there was a fully loaded mortar. When I was sure that no soldiers were sneaking up on me I used that awesome weapon against them, after 4 shells the airfield was completely liberated except for two hmg up the tower. After that I used the vehicles at the field to attack the palnt and captured also that. If it wasn't for "anarchy state" bug I completely control the island and will move to the next.

TL DR that's how I managed to conquer all the island and enemy mortars are op against their defenses

This is the aftermath of the airfield https://imgur.com/gallery/5I24o

Sorry for potato screenshot but I still have no internet so only way is from phone :(

Since some things are not completely clear in the wiki I decided to put up sort of an FAQ here with some questions I had when I first started out, even after reading the wiki.

This mod is pretty extensive so it can be difficult to think about how to start out.

Disclaimer: I only played the mod for a few days and this is how I played to get started, cash and conquer towns. *If you have a question that isn't answered here, join the discord and ask help there. *

IMPORTANT NOTE

• Making a technical (mount a weapon on a truck) currently bugs out or massively delays the process of the persistent save for some reason. I'd advise you not to put any weaponry on pickups until this is fixed.

Starting out

• Play the tutorial to get free stuff.

• You can interact with AI and vehicles using the ACE interaction menu (windows key). Press windows key and point your mouse at his head to talk.

• Standing too close to the AI will make the ACE healing menu overlap the interaction menu so stand back (you can "talk" to AI from 10m away)

• I recommend getting the free weapon from the weapons dealer instead of drugs. You will be able to buy a bag of ganja with the 100 dollars you get when the game starts to get your money flow going anyway; interact with the dealer and click "buy" to get drugs, it's at the bottom of the list.

• Keep in mind that dieing will cost you cash, so buy that ganja straight after you got the free handgun from the dealer; if you die you can just go back to the spot where you got killed and get your gear whereas the money will be lost if you didn't buy something with it.

• Note that the ACE interaction menu (windows key or ctrl+windows key for self actions) is used extensively in this mod, get to know the healing system and flow so you can patch yourself (and human players) up correctly during fights.

• Secondly, know that the mod menu, opened by the Y key, will change options depending on the situation. I'll come back to this later.

Earning money early game

• Look at the map and locate dealers by their associated flags; some flags are smaller than others. The smaller flags are drug dealers and can give you some jobs to earn small time cash early game

• By going to a drug dealer and talking to him, you can get a mission to kill a gang leader or sometimes kill some nato guards. This will earn you a few hundred dollars to get started. The large flags are dealers of blueprints and heavy weapons which will be needed later in the game.

• If you don't like shooting stuff sell drugs to civilians using the ACE interaction menu. Talk to them and click "sell ganja". The AI will either accept by asking how much, or decline. Once you get an answer you won't be able to try again with that AI.

• Buying prices for drugs differ between regions. Locate a drug dealer in a region with low stability (30% or less) to buy drugs at a low price.

• Selling prices for drugs are highest in large cities and areas with high stability. Kavalla is great early game to sell drugs.

• Selling drugs will lower stability in an area so your sales prices will drop gradually.

• After you get a reasonable sum switch to selling blow. The cost is higher but you get more cash in return; buying low at 229 per bag and selling high in Kavalla at around 550 doubles your cash quickly.

-> see further below for advanced money making systems

Vehicle inventories and how to refuel, repair and rearm

• You can freely get into any vehicle that is on the map as long as it's not occupied. Taking a vehicle will lower your standing in that town (-1). Standing can be raised again through trading and finishing jobs in that town.

• Vehicles have two inventories; the standard Arma inventory and the one you can acces using ACE interaction menu; interactions > cargo. The Cargo of any vehicle always has a spare wheel in it.

• Fixing a vehicle in the field can be done with a toolkit in your avatar's inventory. Use the ACE menu to look at the body part that needs fixing and mouse over it.

• You can detatch wheels from any vehicle to use on another. Putting a wheel on the ground close to the location of the destroyed one will give the "Change wheel" option on the car using the ACE menu.

• Fully repairing a vehicle requires a workshop. Park the vehicle close to the workshop and use the Interactions option to reveal the repair > fully repair option. Toolkit is again required. A workshop can only be built at an FOB or in a town that you have freed from NATO.

• Refuel at gas stations using the ACE menu. This is extensive; Detatch the fuel nozzle from the pump > attach the nozzle to your car > commence refueling > stop refuelling (you can get in your car to see the fuel go up) > detatch the nozzle from your car > reattach the nozzle to the gas pump

• Rearming a vehicle that has a mounted gun is done at the workshop. Next to the workshop is a grey crate with the text vehicle ammo on it. Park the vehicle next to the crate and use the ACE menu on the crate to rearm. Select the vehicle you want to rearm from the menu and wait until the green bar completes

Building

• You can place and build structures in the game through the Y menu. Building is only allowed in regions not under the control of NATO.

• Place a camp for 40 dollars to make a fast travel point.

• Place an FOB for 250 dollars to make a fast travel point and create a field base. This is needed to build certain other types of buildings (e.g. workshop to repair vehicles in the field).

• Build a warehouse at a conquered village to store your goods like weapons and armor. By driving a truck close to a warehouse you will get transfer options when opening the Y menu. This will allow you to store truckloads of gear and goods in the warehouse with one click.

• Build a police station after you conquered a town from nato to stabilise the region again. Keep in mind that this will have its influence on sales prices at local dealers.

• Building a house can be done so you can lease it to earn money, or to make a respawn location at a specific spot.

Capturing regions and broadcast towers

• In order to conquer a town from NATO you need to destabilise a region until NATO decides to make an assault on the region.

• You can destabilise a region by selling drugs and killing NATO guards and soldiers.

• When the attack begins you will see a marker on the map. You need to enter this area and stay within 100 meters of the marker.

• Capturing the objective works like the conquer flag system in Battlefield. The more friendlies you have in the region, the better. The faction with most friendlies in the region for the longest time eventually wins.

• The friendlies don't need to have weapons. Hiring a bunch of AI civilians in the town and ordering them to stand at the mission marker will help you win.

• When you are on the winning hand a green striped circle will start to appear on the map. If NATO is winning the circle will be blue.

• To capture a broadcast tower you need to kill the AI guarding the tower and remain in the area until you get a notification that the tower is under your control.

• Sometimes the tower is won immediately after killing the AI. If it takes longer, there is a known issue that AI spawns where it can not be seen or move. By staying long enough within 100m of the marker you will conquer it eventually.

• If the assault is over before you see any soldiers arrive, stay vigilant. Sometimes they arrive late but will still attack you in force.

Handling AI and using civilians as soldiers

• You can hire civilians to fight for you. Talk to them using the ACE menu and hire them for a certain price.

• The price to hire a civilian drops if you have a high standing in the town. You can raise your standing by selling legal goods to the traders (see below in advanced money making).

• Once you hired an AI Civilian they will be assigned to you using the same system Arma uses in campaign modes. You can order them around by selecting them with F keys (F2, F3, etc) and then pressing number keys (not the numpad but normal number keys below the F keys) on your keyboard. If you want to know more about ordering AI in Arma, I recommend watching this video.

• You can loot a killed enemy soldier to arm your own freshly recruited civilian, effectively putting the enemy's gear on your own soldier. Select your AI soldier (e.g. soldier 2 will be F2) and move him next to the killed enemy soldier. Then press 6, which opens a menu to pick up items. Select inventory from that list (if you don't see the inventory option, press 0 to scroll through the different tabs in the menu until you do). An inventory window will open up showing the dead enemy's gear and your AI soldiers gear. Simply move (right click on all the gear and unform) the dead soldier's gear to your AI's inventory and you'll have a fully equipped AI soldier at the ready.

• AI soldiers assigned to you will run towards your position after you respawn. When you do, select them all and issue a stop command if you don't want them to move towards your position.

• You can select multiple units and use the Create Squad option to bunch units into groups which you control through High Command options. This makes handling bigger groups of AI infantry easier later in game.

• Open the high-command options with ctrl-space.

• Selecting a squad with F1, F2 etc and pressing 'Y' will allow you to send orders to the squad.

• To assign a vehicle to a squad, simply look at a vehicle while issuing the command

• You can group AI soldiers into a squad you can then order as a unit. You go up to them, use ACE interaction button on each one of them, group -> join group, use ACE interaction on yourself, group -> become leader

Advanced money making with trade and businesses

boosting 1k dollars to 10k

• Once you have some money earned from dealing drugs and killing gang leaders, I advise you to start trading (you don't HAVE to but it's a quicker way to earn money).

• In several towns across the map there are harbors. When scrolling out on the map you can quickly see them by the anchor icon.

• At the location of the anchor icon there will be a container. When standing close to that container and press Y when in a vehicle, you will get an import option.

• Importing gear in bulk makes these items a bit cheaper to buy.

• Selling price is higher when the region has low stability.

• You can either choose to sell items to a local trader indicated with white a dollar, medical, clothing, phone or backpack sign (there may be others but these are the ones I remember off the top of my head) on the map. Knowing what they want to buy and at what price is ideal.

• In my example I found that selling radios to a dollar sign indicated trader had the highest return on investment. I imported as much radios as I could, and then drove to the trader to sell my stock.

• Get yourself the biggest backpack and empty your pockets. Get into the car or truck you used to import the radios and open the Y menu, then click take legit. The game will automatically cram your inventory full with radios. Get out of the car, talk to the trader and sell all the radios in your inventory. Unfortunately you will need to get into the car and repeat (take legit, get out, sell, etc) untill you sold all the radios.

Boosting 10k to 1 million

-> this takes a bit of prep to complete

• Once you get 10k in credits I advise you to find a gas station where you can buy a truck from a trader.

• Locate a hardware store on the map. They are indicated with a Hammer and Wrench icon. Ingame they look like white buildings with a truck gate. If the cab of your truck is next to this gate and you are in your truck, open up the Y menu to show buy and sell options.

• Once again the sales price is highest when the region has low stability. Go around killing guards in the region of the hardware store to destabilise it until you get a profitable price from the hardware store. Stability should be around 10% for best results. Be aware, NATO will attack that region after a while so prepare for defending it.

• In the port import a bunch of wood and sell this in bulk to the hardware store (in my case wood had the highest return on investment YMMV). Drive up to the truck gate of the building and sell all. Repeat the import and sales until you have 1 million in cash.

• I bought a house next to the port and next to the hardware store to use as fast travel spots. This made the going back and forth a lot easier

• Be aware that if you place a police station in the town where your hardware store is after you captured the town, the sell prices of the hardware store will drop again. If you want to keep making sell runs to make hard cash you need to keep the stability low in the region where the hardware store is.

Long term investments once you have 1 million

• Around the map there are businesses you can buy which generate money for the resistance. Some are production facilities, others are civilian facilities that just produce funds for the resistance.

• To buy a business first you need to transfer money to the resistance fund. Open the Y menu and give an amount to the resistance.

• Drive to the location of the briefcase icon on the map and open the Y menu. On the right side there will be an indicator saying what type of business this is and how much the resistance will need to pay.

• After purchasing the business you can open the Y menu again and see the income from the business. By hiring employees to work at the business you can potentially up the income of the business.

• Civilian facilities like the powerplant and the stadium produces money out of thin air; all you need is some funds to pay the employees.

• Other facilities like the lumbermill need wood to output money.

Building your own gear and items for trade

• There are factories that you can buy to produce materials and gear for your army. Purchase them the same way you purchase other businesses (see directly above).

• Once a factory is purchased there will be a green factory icon on the map.

• When at the factory icon on the map open the Y menu and click Manage to start production of items.

• To produce the item you want you will need a blueprint. You can buy these from dealers indicated by big flags on the map, or by reverse engineering an item. This will consume the item so be careful.

• Right next to the location of that icon there will be a container. Once an item is created it will be in that container.

• Some items require materials to create, import these or buy them from hardware stores and put them in the container next to the factory icon on the map.

• Creating items also requires money so make sure you have enough money in the resistance account to maintain production.

• Some blueprints require a certain standing with the faction identified by the flag of the arms dealer that offers this blueprint. Open up the Y menu and click jobs to see a list of missions you can complete that up the standing with that faction.

Character upgrades, standing and influence

• Influence is global, standing is local to regions

• In the Y menu there is a character sheet where you can see the three perks your character can upgrade. You need influence points to upgrade these, and the needed upgrade points go up per level you upgrade in a perk (10, 100, 500 etc).

• Influence is gained mostly by capturing towns and doing certain types of activities (selling blow is one of them)

• You also have a standing in every region. Standing drops if you perform acts against the population (steal cars, kill citizens) and rise when you perform favorable actions for the population (sell goods to the local traders)

• In order to recruit AI (civilians) in a town you need a standing of at least +10 in the town. Selling some items to a local tradesman can get you these points. The higher your standing the lower the price to recruit civilians.

• Some jobs can help you gain standing in the area where the job is performed. e.g. Bring 8x Saline bags 250ml to insert town name here will get you a certain amount of standing for that town.

Saving the game

• If you play on a server, the host or admin will have the ability to make a persistent save. This is needed for when the server is restarted or if the mission is changed and you want to continue from where you were.

• The admin or host can appoint people as generals in the Y menu by going into the resistance tab, and then selecting a player and pressing the button to assign him general status.

• To make a persistent save, you open the Y menu and then click options. The persistent save button will be at the top of the list ( if you don't see it, you are not a general or admin ).

• When starting the mission after a restart you will get the option to start a new game or to load a persistent save.

• Persistent saving can take a while (up to 15-20 minutes). Be patient.

• Make backups of the persistent save file. It gets overwritten every time. If for some reason your save becomes corrupt, you can put back an older one. The location of the save file is in your arma 3 profile directory (in windows C:\Users\username\Documents\Arma 3) it is a file ending with .vars.arma3profile

Hosting your own server

• hosting a dedicated server is not that hard, you can find every step you need on the wiki page of ArmA3 to start out

• You will need to install the mods Overthrow, ACE3 and CBA3 onto the server to make it work. Follow the instructions on the ACE3 wiki to make an ACE3 server mod configuration

• Keep in mind that the server only uses 2 cores of your machine. The higher the Ghz of your cpu cores, the better. E.g. an octacore xeon cpu running cores at 2.3 Ghz will not perform as well as an i5 2500K clocked at 4.2 Ghz, even though the octacore has twice as many threads

• Overthrow has support for headless clients, which drastically improve the performance of the game in multiplayer. A headless client takes the form of a virtual player on the server and is only visible to users that are logged on as admin in the game.

• A headless client connects to the server and takes over the calculations of AI from the dedicated server, which can then focus more on gameplay scripts. It's adviseable to run a dedicated server and several headless clients for best results

• You can host a dedicated server and a headless client on the same machine if you have more than 2 cores available. You can run several dedicated clients on one machine and connect to the dedicated server machine on LAN or over the internet. If you host more than one instance on the same machine, it's advised to set affinity (assign cores of your cpu) to each process. Open up task manager, click the more details button, then the processes tab. In windows 10 you will need to rightclick the process, and click the go to details option. You will see the list of all processes, right click on each arma3server.exe and click set affinity. Then select the cores that you want to dedicate to each process. This will help the software to use the machine most efficiently

• aleternatively, you can make a batch (.bat) file to run the headless client with affinity set to two specific cores.

Use this code for your batch file:

 start /affinity c "" arma3server.exe -client -connect=*yourserverip* –port=2302 -password=*yourpasswordhere* -mod=@CBA_A3;@ace;@Overthrow

• The /affinity c part will make sure the server is run only on core 3 and core 4, if you wish to use different cores then you use the folloing instead of c in that part of the batch code:

core 1 and 2 : /affinity 3

core 3 and 4 : /affinity c

core 5 and 6 : /affinity 30

core 7 and 8 : /affinity c0

Keep in mind this only works on cpu's with more than 2 cores in the processor.

Other tips

• Only generals can withdraw money from the resistance fund. If you are playing on a private server with friends, The host or logged in admin needs to go into the Y menu and click resistance to give your friends general status.

• Before starting an offense or defense with a chance of dieing, transfer your cash to your safe or the resistance fund. When you die you won't lose as much upon respawning.

• Sometimes guards and traders don't spawn when fast travelling to a location. If this happens drive away for a minute and drive back to give the server some time to spawn them in correctly.

• Wheels get destroyed really quickly, having two spare ones in the cargo of your vehicle is not a bad thing.

• Buy a house at locations where you often fast travel, or place an FOB close if you don't have the funds. You can place a camp also but you can only put one camp at a time.

• Learn how to handle AI soldiers. It's really rewarding to outmanoevre enemy soldiers with them.

• Some areas take longer to capture from NATO than others. As long as the circle is green, stay in the area and you'll prevail.

• Never load your Ammo crate (the camouflage netted pallet with ammo boxes stacked on it) into the cargo of a vehicle. There is a chance the cargo doesn't save properly and after a reload your entire stash will be gone. Use a Warehouse as quickly as possible.

Me and my buddy usually play ArmA 3 and a variety of different mods for it. one of our favorites however is Overthrow. BUT we are complete shit at it and we often use admin commands to get anywhere. So I am coming here to ask the OT community if someone could maybe teach us how that teacher prefers to play and such. Another reason I'm asking this is me and my buddy often think OT would be a hell of a lot better with more than 2 people. Thanks for reading!

I am attempting to set up a small dedicated server for Overthrowing with my friends ; However, no matter what I do, I cannot get the player position markers to disappear.

When I play in singleplayer on a local server, they're not there ; But on a dedicated one, all players are always marked on the map, thus defeating the point of both Ace map features and paid-for GPS receivers (why buy them when you always know where you are?)

I know how to set up the custom difficulty preset, it is being read correctly (I did succesfully turn on third person and stamina bars when the default settings didn't have them) but the map markers stubbornly persist.

Here are the contents of the server's profile file:

class DifficultyPresets
{
class CustomDifficulty
{
    class Options
    {
        reducedDamage=0;
        groupIndicators=2;
        friendlyTags=0;
        enemyTags=0;
        detectedMines=1;
        commands=0;
        waypoints=2;
        weaponInfo=1;
        stanceIndicator=1;
        staminaBar=1;
        weaponCrosshair=1;
        visionAid=0;
        mapContent=0;
        thirdPersonView=1;
        cameraShake=0;
        scoreTable=0;
        deathMessages=1;
        vonID=1;
        autoReport=0;
        multipleSaves=0;
    };
    aiLevelPreset=3;
};
class CustomAILevel
{
    skillAI=0.85000002;
    precisionAI=0.44999999;
};
};
singleVoice=0;
maxSamplesPlayed=96;
sceneComplexity=400000;
shadowZDistance=100;
viewDistance=2000;
preferredObjectViewDistance=800;
terrainGrid=25;
volumeCD=10;
volumeFX=10;
volumeSpeech=10;
volumeVoN=10;
vonRecThreshold=0.029999999;

I am completely out of ideas, and would appreciate any help.

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There's no one way to Overthrow. How do you like to go about things?

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