Getting mods for servers?

[dawashel]

Hi im kinda new to arma2. Ive played on a couple of servers and figured out how to add mods and addons but alot of servers I want to play on I cant find the mods for them. Ive used addon sync but it never downloads the mods from those servers, it really hasnt done much of anything. I noticed the addon sync servers and everything but i dont want to download a random 100 gbs of files just to get the mods and addons for a specific server. How can I go about just downloading what each server runs? Is there something Im missing?
Thanks in advance

[Von_Lipwig]

Many servers run their own modpacks, when you want to play on any server that does not run standard modpacks you will want to sync your addons with that specific server. A good way to go about this is ask in the community that plays on that server, they can point you in the right direction.

Some servers also run a few more standardised mods (for example, some may be running just the latest stable version of ACE, which can be downloaded from Armaholic).

Other servers don't run any mods at all, or at least no mods that require any client-side addons.

This all differs per server and community, so usually it's better to either stick with unmodded server or pick one or two servers/communities to play on/with so you will have less of a hard time syncing up with each!

[walker]

Hi dawashel

Sticky thread in this section of the forum.

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=79628

Kind Regards walker