Download the client software on the right side of the screen. Installation is pretty simple, as there's a wizard when you first start the application to help you set up your mic and audio.I highly recommend using a button to activate it, rather than having your mic turn on automatically when it picks up noise. This is especially true for laptop users or those using a webcam w/ mic. You'll have this option towards the end of the wizard (my push-to-talk is set to mouse button 5, your scroll button (click, not scroll) is also free in aos for you 3 button mouse owners). If you choose to do push-to-talk, keep your threshold rather low (so that it's easier to pick up sounds), this means your blue part of the meter should be small. If instead you are using auto-detect, be sure to keep your threshold toward the high end, or else the rest of us will pick up your game and background noise, which can get quite irritating, especially with 16 people. Once you've setup your microphone, click the picture of the world icon. Then click "Add New" and enter the following:
Label: Aloha Address: Mumble.aloha.pk Port: 64738 (unchanged) Username: Your username. Please stick to your most common username, as after you register, you'll never get to change it.
For more detailed mumble setup information, check out this post here:http://aloha.pk/index.php?topic=3721.msg34375#msg34375 Once you're connected, double click on Aloha to put you in that channel. On the event day there will be channels for Blue and Green team.
aloha player killers is a mere 3 years old today! initially launched with a conceptualized plan - based on the aloha spirit - to be a different kind of gaming community; one that honors close-knit, respectful behavior. it has already grown way beyond my imagination, not only in numbers but also as something that i can only describe as an explosion of the pay it forward phenomenon, fueled completely through mutual understandings reflected by members like you and me. i'm amazed by the remarkable community that we have become and i'm so happy to be a part of it. i can't thank every one of you enough for everything you do. here's to another great year ahead!
You can check your local time this event is happening here: Times Worldwide
To improve the gameplay we encourage players to use the aloha mumble during the event. For further instructions read:
Spoiler for mumble:
Mumble can be downloaded here: http://www.mumble.com/ Download the client software on the right side of the screen. Installation is pretty simple, as there's a wizard when you first start the application to help you set up your mic and audio.
I highly recommend using a button to activate it, rather than having your mic turn on automatically when it picks up noise. This is especially true for laptop users or those using a webcam w/ mic. You'll have this option towards the end of the wizard (my push-to-talk is set to mouse button 5, your scroll button (click, not scroll) is also free in aos for you 3 button mouse owners).
If you choose to do push-to-talk, keep your threshold rather low (so that it's easier to pick up sounds), this means your blue part of the meter should be small. If instead you are using auto-detect, be sure to keep your threshold toward the high end, or else the rest of us will pick up your game and background noise, which can get quite irritating, especially with 16 people.
Once you've setup your microphone, click the picture of the world icon. Then click "Add New" and enter the following:
Label: Aloha Address: Mumble.aloha.pk Port: 64738 (unchanged) Username: Your username. Please stick to your most common username, as after you register, you'll never get to change it.
Once you're connected, double click on Aloha to put you in that channel. On the event day there will be channels for Blue and Green team.
There are several maps to choose from, and I'm allowing everyone 3 Votes. This way you can vote for your backup as well. The maps are listed in the spoiler below:
Spoiler for Map Selection:
Capitol
classicgen
normandie
PAdesert
siberia
favela
hiesville
mesaV4
paradise
urbantankfightfinal
marketgarden
Of course during this event you can also record your game statistics by logging in to our new leaderboard with your forum name and password. Read this for more information about our leaderboard. Caution: only log in with this name and pass on aloha.pk servers. You can set a specific aos-password in your forum profile.
For now, all we're tracking is kills and deaths. In the future, we will add stats about, for example, intels captured, blocks placed, and accuracy. For example, how cool would a page like this be? If you have ideas for additional stats to track, reply Ideas we already have: linklinklinklink
To be tracked, you have to be logged in. Use your forum name and password. The command is: /login <username> <password>. Make sure you only log in on official aloha servers! All of our servers are on the serverlist on that page. If your forum password is too long to comfortably type, or you're worried about leaking it, you can set an AoS-only password in your profile.
I have another pic that I would like to share tho, exacly two years ago I did the same thing on supercoolbuild, today I replaced the last number with 4. http://i.imgur.com/fVfJ7Nd.png
Soccer/Football Event Over GoodGame Gather around everyone its time to get your football following and get out on that field because its FSOM!!! So put on your shin guards, get your strikers in place, and sort out your goalie so you can bring the cup home! As usual have mumble on
Download the client software on the right side of the screen. Installation is pretty simple, as there's a wizard when you first start the application to help you set up your mic and audio.
I highly recommend using a button to activate it, rather than having your mic turn on automatically when it picks up noise. This is especially true for laptop users or those using a webcam w/ mic. You'll have this option towards the end of the wizard (my push-to-talk is set to mouse button 5, your scroll button (click, not scroll) is also free in aos for you 3 button mouse owners).
If you choose to do push-to-talk, keep your threshold rather low (so that it's easier to pick up sounds), this means your blue part of the meter should be small. If instead you are using auto-detect, be sure to keep your threshold toward the high end, or else the rest of us will pick up your game and background noise, which can get quite irritating, especially with 16 people.
Once you've setup your microphone, click the picture of the world icon. Then click "Add New" and enter the following:
Label: Aloha Address: Mumble.aloha.pk Port: 64738 (unchanged) Username: Your username. Please stick to your most common username, as after you register, you'll never get to change it.
Event is over, Blue won by the skin of their teeth, with some pasta FSOM: December 7th 9GMT Click here to sign up! If you want the time for your city just add it here and look at the 9pm GMT column http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?pl=1&lid=0,5,2643743,8&h=0
This is an effort to make it EU and US friendly if there are to many conficts it will be changed
Welcome AlohaPkers, its that time of the month again where you get to clean that rifle, smg, or shotgun and check your magazine hoping to win and have some fun on a "dead" gamemode, its FSOM! Since Infiltration is an empty server, and because some of the community have taken an interest in having it revived, it is going to be the gamemode for FSOM. Don't forget to reserve your seats by replying to this thread remember that blue can only have about 10 or so players.
Essentially what Infiltration, in a nutshell, is that Green are the attackers and play a capture the flag gamemode, while blue defends their Intel for an amount of time.
Download the client software on the right side of the screen. Installation is pretty simple, as there's a wizard when you first start the application to help you set up your mic and audio.
I highly recommend using a button to activate it, rather than having your mic turn on automatically when it picks up noise. This is especially true for laptop users or those using a webcam w/ mic. You'll have this option towards the end of the wizard (my push-to-talk is set to mouse button 5, your scroll button (click, not scroll) is also free in aos for you 3 button mouse owners).
If you choose to do push-to-talk, keep your threshold rather low (so that it's easier to pick up sounds), this means your blue part of the meter should be small. If instead you are using auto-detect, be sure to keep your threshold toward the high end, or else the rest of us will pick up your game and background noise, which can get quite irritating, especially with 16 people.
Once you've setup your microphone, click the picture of the world icon. Then click "Add New" and enter the following:
Label: Aloha Address: Mumble.aloha.pk Port: 64738 (unchanged) Username: Your username. Please stick to your most common username, as after you register, you'll never get to change it.
in an effort to encourage donations for our growing debt of expenses, every donation of $10 is good for:
one 32 slot Ace of Spades Classic server (pyspades/pysnip) for one month upon request
the warm-fuzzy feeling of knowing you're supporting aloha.pk, and our eternal thanks!
optional recognition on aloha.pk forums: your name will, if you want, appear green in some areas and also be listed on the front page, Donations page, and Donors section of the Staff List page
other than running on the same hardware and network, your server will be completely separate from aloha.pk AoS servers; it's your own, unbranded, 100% customizable server. it will have its own IP/AoS address. aloha.pk staff won't have access to your server, and it won't look like aloha.pk is hosting it. think of it as renting a server from any of those "professional" hosts out there, with the bonus of personal service quality that's expected of aloha.pk servers, grown from over two years' worth of experience invested in AoS and pyspades/pysnip. plus your server will run natively on our hardware alongside our servers, so there won't be "time drift" lagginess that can occur in virtual environments i.e. VPS, and ensuring minimal lag/service disruptions is a topmost priority because if your server is being affected by something out of your hands then aloha.pk servers are probably being affected as well.
managing your server is pretty straightforward, you don't have to mess with any commands or SSH or anything like that. use your web browser to access the control panel and from there you can:
restart your server with the click of a button
update or reinstall your server with the click of a button (automatically download and build pyspades/pysnip from source)
upload and edit files through a File Manager to install scripts and customize your server however you wish (FTP also available)
view your server's live console
backup and download a copy of your server with the click of a button
please understand that you'll be self-managing your server. i can point you in the right direction as well as offer a helping hand from time to time at my convenience, but i'm just being upfront when i say it's unrealistic for me to walk you through all the ins and outs of pyspades/pysnip. keep in mind that the asking donation amount will barely cover a regularly full server's bandwidth costs. thanks!
after you donate please send me a private message here (e-mail is ok, too) that includes your PayPal e-mail address so i can reply with your login credentials, otherwise i'll send that information to your PayPal e-mail address. setup will usually happen the same day, but please allow up to a couple days.
this isn't a profit venture, i'm just trying to help aloha.pk break even. all donations will go toward present and future aloha.pk expenses.
Hello Aloha PKers! We invite you all to FSOM - Halloween!
Because Halloween ran so close to November's First Saturday of the Month event, we decided to make a Halloween-themed event.
The game mode will be Humans vs. Zombies, with (probably) a custom map.
Humans vs. Zombies is a classic CTF game mode with a major twist: The green team are zombies and are unable to use weapons. However, they have increased health, and the ability to jump several blocks up in the air by right clicking with the spade. Blue team is composed of human players who can use all the traditional weapons, however, you'll need several more shots than normal to kill a zombie!
The game time is very Euro-friendly this time, so everyone in the EU and those east, sign up! Reply to this thread (or click Reserve Your Seat above) and join us on November 2nd!
Like every FSOM event, team comradery is important, so most communication will take place over Mumble. For details on installing mumble, click the spoiler below (it's really easy). We'll definitely be splitting the mumble chat into teams this time, so be a team player and join us on mumble!
Even if you don't have a mic, or don't wish to speak, please install mumble anyway. This way you can at least hear our communications. The installation will be even easier.
Download the client software on the right side of the screen. Installation is pretty simple, as there's a wizard when you first start the application to help you set up your mic and audio.
I highly recommend using a button to activate it, rather than having your mic turn on automatically when it picks up noise. This is especially true for laptop users or those using a webcam w/ mic. You'll have this option towards the end of the wizard (my push-to-talk is set to mouse button 5, your scroll button (click, not scroll) is also free in aos for you 3 button mouse owners).
If you choose to do push-to-talk, keep your threshold rather low (so that it's easier to pick up sounds), this means your blue part of the meter should be small. If instead you are using auto-detect, be sure to keep your threshold toward the high end, or else the rest of us will pick up your game and background noise, which can get quite irritating, especially with 16 people.
Once you've setup your microphone, click the picture of the world icon. Then click "Add New" and enter the following:
Label: Aloha Address: Mumble.aloha.pk Port: 64738 (unchanged) Username: Your username. Please stick to your most common username, as after you register, you'll never get to change it.
Once you're connected, double click on Aloha to put you in that channel. On the event day there will be channels for Blue and Green team.
For details on this event, please contact this event's coordinator: Thufman. For reserving your spot or choosing a team, simply post in this thread or contact myself.
Please try to be on mumble 15 minutes prior to the event. Thanks!
In the spirit of the last Mumble/Babel event, we're starting a new monthly event to be held every first Saturday. This one will be 10pm GMT (to make it slightly easier on Eastern Europe this time)
The hope of this particular event is to increase interest in one of our game modes, so that it can hopefully keep a good population and remain near the top of BnS's server list even after the event is over. The admins decided this event will be Push. This will be the same Aloha Push server live now.
For those of you who haven't played, in Push, your team starts on an island with the enemy's intel. It's your teams objective to build across to the island which has both team's tents. However, you'll be in shooting distance (and parallel to) the enemy team which is trying to do the exact same thing. You'll try and build to the next island while shooting down the bridges the enemy team is making. First to capture 10 points wins.
There are several maps to choose from, and I'm allowing everyone 2 Votes. This way you can vote for your backup as well. The maps are listed in the spoiler below (yes, I screwed up and clipped the top of some):
Spoiler for Map Selection:
Bikini Atoll
Egypt
Hamburg
Helgoland
Icebreak
Isle Hop
Lost Islands
Orbit Push
Swamp Lands
The Straight
Also, like the last event, team comradery is important, so most communication will take place over Mumble.
Download the client software on the right side of the screen. Installation is pretty simple, as there's a wizard when you first start the application to help you set up your mic and audio.
I highly recommend using a button to activate it, rather than having your mic turn on automatically when it picks up noise. This is especially true for laptop users or those using a webcam w/ mic. You'll have this option towards the end of the wizard (my push-to-talk is set to mouse button 5, your scroll button (click, not scroll) is also free in aos for you 3 button mouse owners).
If you choose to do push-to-talk, keep your threshold rather low (so that it's easier to pick up sounds), this means your blue part of the meter should be small. If instead you are using auto-detect, be sure to keep your threshold toward the high end, or else the rest of us will pick up your game and background noise, which can get quite irritating, especially with 16 people.
Once you've setup your microphone, click the picture of the world icon. Then click "Add New" and enter the following:
Label: Aloha Address: Mumble.aloha.pk Port: 64738 (unchanged) Username: Your username. Please stick to your most common username, as after you register, you'll never get to change it.
Once you're connected, double click on Aloha to put you in that channel. On the event day there will be channels for Blue and Green team.
Even if you don't have a mic, or don't wish to speak, please install mumble anyway. This way you can at least hear our communications. The installation will be even easier.
Finally, if you wish to be on a specific team, please reply to this thread and indicate it (if you're looking at this from the front page, click comments below). Team seats go first come first serve. If you don't care, we'll place you as needed (you don't need to choose a team to be guaranteed a seat in the event). Staff members, please try not to congregate all on one team.
Please try to be on mumble 15 minutes prior to the event. Thanks!
Maybe: AWhiteGuy SemiColonD Diaga Rick Roy227 Sparky GamingFTW Maximum Ankie #Pro Deadseason Windspirit 0jh0
Since the forum team is full, all other who wish to play will be listed under "maybe." If somebody from the forum team can't make it, the first person on the maybe list will substitute, then the second, third, etc. The list is made in the order of "first come, first serve" basis.
OpenSpades is an open source OpenGL-based alternative client of the original Voxlap Ace of Spades Classic 0.75 client. it's compatible with PySnip/pyspades, which means you can use it to play on all of our AoS 0.75 servers as well as all AoS 0.75 servers listed on BuildAndShoot.com. runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
here's a video of ei8htx playing on our AoS 0.75 babel server:
...and a video from the developer himself playing on our AoS 0.75 infiltration and babel servers:
We've decided that you guys, the community, should have an important say in what happens regarding the things that go on with our servers. So, we've chosen to release to you a survey regarding all of our servers, in the hopes that you guys will provide accurate feedback as well as suggest any interesting ideas that you might have. After the survey closes in a few weeks, we as a team will come together and discuss the ideas and feedback that you all have provided and try to come up with a way to incorporate them into our servers in order to make the game more fun for everyone. Feel free to take the survey multiple times if you have more to contribute. In advance, thank you all for participating, and thank you so much for playing on aloha.pk servers.
There is a very fun free game called Star Made. http://star-made.org/ It is very similar to Minecraft, except that you are in space, and you create spaceships. I do recommend that it be checked out, and I one day hope that we may have a server supporting it.
Didn't realize that I hadn't made a thread for this yet.
This is a WIP gamemode that is similar to (and will probably eventually replace) IRPG. How it works is you select your power by changing your block color (by using your arrow keys while you have the block selected) A few columns of colors have powers, and almost all powers start at level 1: That is, all powers are available to use immediately, but you can upgrade them by capturing intel.
Here's a picture showing all the powers (they're numbered based on when I added the powers, that's why the numbering is weird):
I update fairly often, so don't be surprised if new powers pop up or things get moved around.
Some things I'm planning on adding/fixing for next update:
Having the server remember your powers if you leave the game and rejoin. So if you crash or get busy you can come back and not lose progress, but only for the duration of the map (the server will 'forget' your powers on map change)
A helmet message for attackers, similar to how armor. In some situations the "helmet-drop" effect doesn't or can't work.
Nerf Level 1 and 2 Disarm
Explode Rocket Launcher rockets if they hit people
New power column with a Pro/Con theme:
A power that prevents people from teleporting near you
A power that disarms someone who disarms you
A power that drops a grenade on your corpse when you die
Move Misery to this column
Replace Misery with a "proximity grenade"
Triple powers reward for getting level 3 everything?
Notes: You can use /bp to lock your power selection so you can change block color without changing powers You can use /explain to describe your current power (having dual powers removes the description when selecting) If a power requires you to build, it will almost always use LEFT CLICK building. Stairmaster is the only one that uses drag building, I believe
Play @ aos://1379434439:48887 or look for aloha.pk blockpower on BuildAndShoot.com.
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