Zephyrius

Hello Community, I used to run a Lingor Server about a year ago and since then just played DayZ casually. I now have a new server host and would like to share our vision in hopes to maybe sway some of you to help join our server. After playing many servers, and many features, the one common problem usually ended up being zombie/loot issues, or just general performance issues. I realize performance is mainly on how many players/uptime etc. I also know that vehicles are usually a big point in a successful server, more or less of them is still preference for most. I am saddened to see so many people resorting to all out 500+ vehicle servers with custom loot etc. This is not the DayZ I fell in love with, and I want to bring back those feelings. My vision is simple, to make a server DayZ Vanilla, but with some added sprinkles. Making vehicles accessible but still remaining a challenge to fix them, making sure loot is actually working and is responsive, enabling a side chat for people to communicate for a more social experience (voice chat won't be tolerated over side however). I also would love peoples feedback on what they enjoy and don't enjoy and why? I want my server to be molded with peoples best interests considered. I want not only myself and my friends to enjoy the experience, but everyone. Please come and give our server a try and possibly some feedback. Keep in mind this is an always daytime server, and very new. It will take time to grow an awesome player base but I'm confident it will happen. Thanks everyone.

UPDATE! I have been working on adding some cool features to the server. Some of these include: Debug Monitor (Working)GPS Intro Video (Working)Auto Refuel (Not Working, hopefully soon)Custom Spawns (Added more boat spawns especially (PBX) and Helicopter Spawns) I am going to be working on more as I go. What's your favorite? Is it not on this list? Do you prefer AI on a server or just players? My vision is to not go overboard with features but just enough to enhance the experience. I still want the focus of the game to remain on surviving. AI is just an idea for now until the server picks up in popularity.

Rare loot/harder zombies might lower the KOS percentage a very tiny bit, but in the end I feel you need a big enough consequence in order to not kill someone. This game has always drawn me back to it because of how real and emotional the game can seem at times. Obviously not zombies running around but it does bring up a lot or morality and a "what would you do in real life?" kind of mood. That being said, it's quite simple, you need a consequence. If there was no police, would you be afraid to do half the crimes in real life? DayZ needs some sort of punishment for overuse of killing players. Whether that be something like blood gets on you making zombies even more attracted to you, or some sort of "enforcement squad" that can be alerted when survivors are murdered over lets say....the radio? Green Mountain can maybe be utilized as a HQ for the good guys. My only concern is changing the game too much. I admit I am a bandit, but I would actually be intrigued at having a "hero squad" looking for me (being a wanted bandit). Maybe if someone kills too many people they have a bounty on their head (supplies or weapons rewarded). Like I said you either need a consequence for killing, or an incentive to be a good guy. That's the only way. Making zombies harder is just gonna piss people off considering how annoying they already are.

Hello everyone, Just wanted to make a quick post about my new Lingor Island server. I have recently changed over to spice things up a notch. I was constantly running into hacker problems on my other server and will now be more able to combat against it. I will do my best to ensure that this server is hacker free and fun for everyone. I will not abuse admin power and will always be willing to change things for the better. At anytime feel free to send me a PM for suggestions on my server. I hope to see you there! 209.222.101.34:10802 US 1045 Lingor 0.34/Beta 97361 (-9 GMT) Server is hosted in Philadelphia (-5 GMT), set to -9 GMT so it is light out at prime hours (6-11pm) Vehicle Spawns: 75 Cleanup Daily I WILL ban hackers on site no questions asked. Certain things will be up for kick/warning to player, I will make judgement based on severity of hack/script. Please play fair. This server is all about fun. Currently I have vehicles set to spawn in with fuel and fully repaired. This is for testing purposes and may be subject to change based on feedback from friends and players. I can always make slight changes to vehicles (always fuel but not repaired or repaired but never fuel etc) and will be attempting to find the best settings for maximum fun. Please give me as much suggestions/feedback as possible as I would love to hear it. I know a lot of people like the "survival" aspect of DayZ as do I, this is why I am strictly testing the vehicle settings.

Hello Everyone, This post is dedicated to those who want to weight in on the two heavyweights of Dayz. Basically I have been contemplating going back to Chernarus after playing Lingor for a while. Lingor has a charm of it's own...making use of the full map with every city having something useful. I don't know what it is...but something is calling me to go back and experience getting shot in the face by a sniper in the borders of Elektro once again. Seem crazy? Or is Chernarus really that good? Lets find out. In the blue corner, this map is 14x10, includes locations such as Cherno, Elektro, NW Airfield, Ballata Airfield and the infamous STARY! It is the originator, the one that started it all....CHERNARUS!! aaaand in the red corner, this map is 10x10, a map that has been defined as "stunning". Pleasing to the eye yet still as dangerous as they come. With locations such as Maruko, the International Airstrip, Calamar, the racetrack and many more...give it up for LINGOR! You know the rules, watch your rapid QQ's and low blows. Lets have a clean and fair fight!

I don't see why most mods see every other map not "suitable" with DayZ. I love Chernarus don't get me wrong, but you all seem so closed minded when the topic of a new map is brought up. I think new maps are exactly what needs to be experimented with. Chernarus when broken down is really about 4-5 key locations and the rest filler. Lingor I feel expanded on this and has a lot more viable locations worth visiting. I think the best possible map would definitely have to be made from the ground up. Taking a premade map is fine, but creating from scratch to perfectly fit the atmosphere and limitations of DayZ would be ideal. I think a map that had a lot of creepy abandoned buildings of grand scale would be awesome (shopping malls, full size prisons, police stations etc). This would make the "running for 15 minutes" actually meaningful, giving you a destination you really want to see and experience. The fear of another survivor being in a massive building would be just as scary as that zombie around the corner in the dark hallway. Lighting definitely needs to be a bigger aspect of the game, with proper lighting, the "feel" of DayZ would be brought out and executed much better. I am not stating I am 100% right, just giving my opinion. I hope in the future more mods can appreciate other peoples work and map creations. It is only making DayZ a more talked about game, and that isn't a bad thing in my books. Whether it be Chernarus or Lingor or whatever, the community of DayZ needs to work with each other not against one another for the game to succeed.

This Anon88 guy is just blowing smoke...like honestly trying to say we can't ban people for using hacked weapons and a log isn't enough is just plain ignorant. Like I have stated before, I refuse to let someone get away with cheating due to lack of proof only to wait until a player on my server or myself gets shot in the face with a hacked in weapon. What is even the point in script prevention if we have to die in the game just to prove your a script kiddie. I for one will not wait to die just to ban a kid who can't read between the lines and knows that an AS50 with "TWS" at the end means DON'T USE IT. I agree you should have some sort of warning or MOTD about it if that's your rules just so people are aware of it. That's the key to any rule, making sure the player is aware. You are not forced to play on a server that has made you aware of a rule you don't like....so just don't?

for the love of god drink it now...it will be your downfall!

This happens to me sometimes as well. It can be annoying too because i'll sometimes end up with "corrupted Battleye" and will get kicked. Upon re-entering server I will spawn in dead and have to start over :( This can then lead to everytime I spawn in alive I am unconscious. Most times though I update just fine.

Just for the record, if I have wrongly accused anyone and you wish to appeal the ban, you can send me a PM anytime on this website and I will be glad to go through it with you. I am truly sorry if you are innocent as it is not my intent to abuse my admin rights. I am simply trying to make the server experience grief free and fun for everyone. Although I work full time, my job is in IT and I am constantly monitoring the server from work. I also now have a "side chat" ingame which will greatly help me verify abuse on server. I will ask other players if needed before making a warning/judgement. My end goal is to implement a rollback system which will allow me to be a lot less skeptical, and allow me to have hard evidence on abuse rather than a log entry.

I am sorry if this was the case...I have recently fixed the flashlight script restriction problem. I will unban you. I said "Nice guys finish last" in Global chat to the players on the server...not to you. This was a means to show people if I see scripts being used (which I did wait until the 2nd time it popped up) I will take action. How you saw me say that is a mystery in itself as you were not even in the game. Also you should make it clear your name was "NiceGuy" in game, I wasn't just randomly saying that. In the future, if you get kicked for a script restriction, you should send a message in the game chat and say what happened, not repeat the action and get kicked again. This was the only reason I banned you in the first place was because it was twice in a row and I wasn't aware it was for the flashlight bug. As for you Mr.Black, I will look into it. I will admit I am rather new to being an admin but I take the "safe then sorry" approach. Sorry if that seems harsh. If I am wrong I will immediately remove bans. There is no need to start throwing accusations on my age (25) or purpose of the server. If you must know, I do work fulltime, I do go to school part time, and I do my best to ensure a great experience for the players on my server. When I see a list of scripts being used in my logs (about 50 different entries for you) then yes I will admit I get a little wary. I realize now that certain things are in logs that are indeed legit, and only time will totally clarify these to me. In the meantime, you could nicely say I was wrongly banned, and I will be glad to look into it. If not, there are other servers. *EDIT* - I have looked through the logs and you are now unbanned "Mr. Black". Logs were bringing up false positives. Hope to see you back on!

I love the idea of a scary and harder DayZ. Maybe throw in some "strong" zombies that have more life and damage. Recognizable by size/clothing? Kinda like how plants vs zombies had football zombies :P I think the game would be terrifying knowing there's a few badass's around that don't mess around and can take a clip to the chops! Would also give incentive to team up to take them down.

It's looking like my signature may need updating...Lingor just doesn't seem to be in the same league! :huh:

You can always download the program "DayZ Commander". It's a great tool and has update buttons for Dayz version and also Lingor etc. It will automatically update/install the newest versions for you :) It also has server list so you don't even need steam or ingame list anymore. Highly recommended for easy access to updates and servers.

So...I stumbled across an interesting little conversation in my chatlog. Here it is. 15:52:29 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: CAN YOU HEAR ME? 15:52:32 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: LOL WTF 15:52:34 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: NO 15:52:37 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: lol 15:52:44 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: wtf 15:52:47 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Rusty: we will help you 15:52:51 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: my mic is a peice of shit 15:52:51 BattlEye Server: RCon admin #1: (To Leal) Watch your language. Warnings left:2 ['shit'] 15:52:51 BattlEye Server: RCon admin #0: (To Leal) Watch your language. Warnings left:2 ['shit'] 15:52:54 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: lol alright =p 15:53:39 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: still cant hear me? 15:53:42 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: no 15:53:53 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: you guys are scripters arent you =p 15:53:59 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: i did and got banned a while back 15:54:08 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: friend just gave me a second cd key 15:54:20 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: Lmao 15:54:37 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: hello 15:54:42 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Rusty: yea? 15:54:46 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: you can hear me? 15:54:48 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Merak Alosa: hey 15:54:58 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: take bag 15:54:59 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Merak Alosa: thanks for that 15:55:28 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Rusty: overe here? 15:55:33 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: gun 15:55:50 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Merak Alosa: thanks so much! 15:55:56 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: nvgs 15:56:03 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: i <3 you guys 15:56:07 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Merak Alosa: so there are still nice people in this world 15:56:17 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: so whats the deal with scripting its okay to do it now without ban? 15:56:18 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: take these 15:56:23 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: bypass 15:56:28 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: ah ok 15:56:39 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: you got a gps? 15:57:04 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Merak Alosa: no 15:57:16 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: rangefinder pl0x? 15:57:40 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Merak Alosa: me? nope 15:58:01 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: here 15:58:26 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: can i get a m107? =p 15:59:05 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Merak Alosa: how did you get thouse skins? 15:59:30 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: here 15:59:34 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: just download a jpeg and put it in your profile folder under documents 15:59:37 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: here 15:59:46 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Rusty: found the 15:59:49 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Merak Alosa: oh thanks 15:59:55 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: wtf 16:00:00 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: i lost my backpack 16:00:06 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: forgot about the bug 16:00:43 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: wtf 16:00:52 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: i cant take the m107 without droping the bag? 16:01:16 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: ass 16:01:16 BattlEye Server: RCon admin #0: (To Brad) Watch your language. Warnings left:2 ['ass'] 16:01:16 BattlEye Server: RCon admin #1: (To Brad) Watch your language. Warnings left:2 ['ass'] 16:01:28 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: can you spawn another bag plz? 16:02:04 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Rusty: put the gunn in bag 16:02:31 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: omfg 16:02:34 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: still fucks up 16:03:23 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Brad: everyone iN! 16:03:33 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: hold on 1 sec 16:03:37 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: i cant take the bag and gun 16:04:00 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: waaaittt 16:04:58 Player Brad kicked off by BattlEye: RemoteExec Restriction #40 16:04:58 Player Brad disconnected. 16:05:48 Player Merak Alosa disconnected. 16:05:48 BattlEye Server: Player #11 Merak Alosa disconnected 16:06:36 BattlEye Server: Player #2 Brad (72.182.46.37:10804) connected 16:09:23 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: ayye 16:09:28 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: lol 16:09:43 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: can i get a blood pack? 16:09:47 BattlEye Server: (Direct) Leal: at 7k blood This is where I see the restriction and decide to throw down ban. 16:10:45 Player Brad kicked off by BattlEye: Admin Kick (Admin Kick) 16:10:45 Player Brad disconnected. Now, before I say anything more, yes I am using a private hive. This is the kind of stuff as to why I decided to do so. Feeling guilty or unsure about taking action against these kinds of players is frustrating beyond belief. I don't care if I don't "fraps" or "screenshot" hacking in action. Doing that usually means you die in the process and ya...basically your a human sacrifice just to prove it to whom? I don't need to prove that I'm capable of pointing out a hacker to someone i'll never see just to ban someone. Regardless, I'm sure i'll get flamed for saying that. The fact that Leal STATED CLEARLY he has hacked before and is now on a 2nd cd key should be more than enough proof. Brad spawning in all these items is CLEAR and to state otherwise is ignorant. I have provided this so the public community can take action if they choose to do so. Here is the information needed if you want to. 16:06:37 BattlEye Server: Player #2 Brad - GUID: 8a44238045822ee6ce58386c6c941038 15:40:17 BattlEye Server: Player #11 Merak Alosa - GUID: 34c050a84319db760d5ed9a7525d4fb0 15:36:40 BattlEye Server: Player #10 Leal - GUID: 9653608374843a2fc07301617c5e712b 8:46:45 BattlEye Server: Player #6 Rusty - GUID: 5ecfcef2f27f84ef17f9fd3663e10afc Rusty and Merak are subjective to personal choice. I say guilty by association so I think that warrants some sort of punishment. Willingly accepting items and or knowing that Brad was clearly spawning items and Leal clearly asking for items is good enough for me. You decide and let me know how you feel about this issue.

I hear ya. Unfortunately I feel standalone won't solve all problems. It's very sad though as I try to make server as fun for everybody as possible to discourage cheating. I even increased vehicle spawns and chance of them having repaired parts etc just so people would'nt be tempted to spawn in vehicles and whatnot. Plus with the map Lingor there is PLENTY of good weapons around. I dunno I feel once a hacker always a hacker. I even tried to reason with one the other night and he STILL hacked basically right after I warned him (this was after a script was used as well). It's really a bummer because I want my server to grow in popularity, and I feel everytime someone is doing well, it's just another hacker abusing the server to get ahead. Hurts not only fun but population and growth of game.

You need access to your log files...you don't necessarily need to host but you do need to be the admin of your server. My server is hosted by Survival Servers but I do have access to my files.

Honestly, there is really no permanent way to stop hacking except to actively monitor your logs like I do. When I see "Script restrictions" pop up while i'm in game, I will immediately assess if it's a Battleye mistake (happens to non hackers) or if it is actually a real hacker. If I determine they are indeed trying something (script etc) I will ban or warn them and kick depending on what they tried to do. In this case, definite ban was needed I feel since he was also sharing his exploit with others. I take no pity on people that can't play fair.

I thought I would mention that the server is from Survival Servers. Big props to them they are a great server host! Also let me know what map you guys prefer more. Lingor or Chernarus? I love both for different reasons but just needed the new scenery.

Yes the max ping is set to 175. Again the vehicles are just to test. I figure 75 vehicles is plenty to go around but we will see.

Hello everyone. I will try to not ramble forever. Basically I just rented myself a server about 5 days ago and been having encounters with some hackers (shocker). Sometimes it's only things like hacked in weapons etc which I can see is almost impossible to stop since they could spawn them in on any server and then carry them over. Other times it's really bad. The other day me and a friend were gathering a lot of parts to rebuild chopper and all of a sudden when going back to our vehicles with the parts they were gone. Every vehicle including ones not repaired were also gone. Clearly they had all been deleted or teleported somewhere else. I know preventing this is almost impossible, but I am open to any and all suggestions on what kind of counter measures people are using to minimize these things from happening. Currently I use BEC and DayZAntiHax and update my scripts, banlist, and remoteexec and createvehicle.txt files as often as I can. I'm just looking for any suggestions or tips, something you may have done that really helped out your server with less hackers etc. ANYTHING. I want to help make DayZ a hack free game. Although it's not going to even come close until it's standalone (even then there will be exploits and hacks) I would like to play maybe for 6 hours without being messed with. Thanks in advance. Also how does the "publicvariable.txt" work? Do I put it in the same folder as the other .txt files? Feedback much appreciated.

Thanks for the advice. I will try to use the report feature more often :)

I think you guys are a little off topic. Arguing over private vs public was not the point of the thread i was simply asking what countermeasures do other people that have a public server do against hackers? I'm not asking how to stop it, i'm simply asking what do you do? Wait and kick? Ban? Add to banlist? report? Just give me different ideas and I may like one or realize I could be trying another method then my own. I don't mind the 30 bucks a month for my server...I don't wanna go private, I just want other peoples perspectives. Thanks again.

So there is no point in these text files at all? I'm sure having a list of prebanned guid's and scripts that kick people for using them is still better then absolutely nothing? I get exactly what you mean. Again I want to emphasize I already know it's impossible to stop. I know this. What i'm asking is what are things or procedures people do to catch a hacker before too much damage is done (killing all players etc) and what has anybody found a little bit more effective. I understand theres new scripts and bypasses everyday pretty much but I'm also sure some servers get hit harder than others and there has to be a reason for that. I do however agree with you 99%...it's lame we pay for a server that we have barely any control over. At least in early patch you could stop and start server and vehicles did reset. Oh well.

Weirdly enough my server was on the "stopped" status after being up earlier this morning. I went ahead and started it again and it seems to have started again i'll have to wait and see. Hopefully BEC gets fixed up soon. I hit 40/40 players yesterday and was getting a lot of performance issues (mainly loading in after death or joining in general) which took anywhere from 3-5 minutes to load in. After about an hour with 40 people I was getting a lot of hackers entering my server. Some had hacked weapons, and at the end of it all a hacker enabled voice chat over global and started taking everyones gear/killing people with scripts. I was forced to restart the server immediately and luckily I spawned back in with all my gear. I know hacking isn't something you can totally stop, but I am hoping for upcoming solutions to help manage these issues, starting with a functional BEC :) I really don't like that DayZ requires so much information in order for me to ban someone from a server i'm paying for. I can understand for global bans, but if I don't want someone to play on my server why shouldn't I be allowed to ban? I find it's a poor system for that.