El Bode

What is the IP for the 40 man server? Ever since the server move there has been nothing but problems when more than 50 people join the server. Yes, it was bad on the old one - and that was probably DayZ's issues but the majority knows that this is MUCH worse than it was on the old. And also, i don't understand why you would want to have a server with such a high player limit if you know that DayZ causes massive lag problems when that amount of players join. Wanna stay on the server coz it was cool n all with hardly ever hackers but it's just too unplayable now.

Barrington, expect us good members of the Cherno City Council to be present at this "Admin Hunt" evening. Got one or two policies we would like to discuss

Does that mean characters will be reset again?

The Cherno City Council Manifesto We, the members of the Cherno City Council promise to give you an honest service, not like those of the corrupted Cherno Police Department. Do you want a Police force with ties to admin powers? NO! We fight for the little man... YOU! As the Cherno City Council we will peruse and implement the following plans to give YOU a better Chernogorsk! Sick of all those potholes on the roads in the city? Don’t worry! We’ve made sure we’ll spend the traffic tax on buying bullets to kill the CPD! We will employ a strict restriction on immigrants of the city. Who wants a city where fresh spawns come in, raid your shops, your hospitals, your bars only to then leave up north for greener pastures? It’s an insult to the zombie residents of our city who all live peacefully until you show up. We have a strict anti litter policy. Recently there’s been an increase in empty tin cans found in piles around various buildings in Chernogorsk. Any person in Cherno found littering will be killed. After all, it’s much easy to hide a body than it is empty tin cans! The CPD have made countless promises that lead to nothing! If you’re tired of these fibs, vote for TerryTibbs!

Must say i am experiencing much less playability on this server. Is this something that will be improved panda?

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VOTE TERRY TIBBS FOR PRESIDENT OF THE CHERNO CITY COUNCIL TODAY!Your city needs you! Not the corrupt CPD!

Where's the side chat? Pretty rubbish without it

Panda/admins. Me and a few friends will be having a small LAN at the weekend. Is there any restrictions on the server for number of connections on 1 ip?

Ok, so MrBarrington wanted a written explanation why we think "NewGuy" was cheating. I was just outside Cherno with 4 friends. There was no one around us, suddenly a guy with an AS50 shot at me and my friend "Joe" killing us. My friend "Gleg" then shot the guy that killed us and it came up "NewGuy has been killed". He looted the bodies and told me over mumble how he had "everything", including NVG, Rangefinders and GPS. Seconds later, before i get a chance to respawn, the mass teleport happened. Anyway, during the mass spawn killing in Cherno after the teleport i believe a guy called 'Osullivan' or something said "NewGuy" was cheating and that he had found the AS50, NVG, Rangefinders on his body - basically everything he had on him when he killed me and "Joe".

Hacker? :(```

Waypoints are disabled, yes

That's me getting raided in the church :thumbsup:

I'll confirm getting increasingly massive amounts of lag when the server was near 60+. Around 10fps in Cherno when normally i would get more. Had an encounter with the police today and perhaps a renegade group! First story - Bumped in to a fresh spawned Bandit in elektro, me and my friend ensured he was friendly and took refuge in a church. The bandit said he was friends with the police, i questionned that as he was a bandit. My friend mistakenly said over VOIP instead of Mumble that we should shoot the bandit. I said no, because i don't like to kill in cold blood. The bandit legged it away shouting don't shoot. Within a minute 6 police officers showed up, siren ablazing over direct comm and made me drop my weapons and searched me. They let me and my friend go. Not long after, me and my mate were chasing down a guy who had fired pistol shots our way. As we were having a stand off, i reported the case to the police. A minute later, a van rocks up - a different vehicle to the police and they quickly get out and start firing at me and my friend. They killed us both whilst they let the other guy live. There was at least 3 of them, heavily armed. Watch out people!

Me and 5 others play together but refrain from using a tag.

Love it, great idea! Sprinklers, i don't see how it would be too complicated. And the rewards could be huge be it finding allies/luring people in to a trap for loot so i could totally see people doing it.

I'd be interested, what time Zone are you guys in/play

Yeah well, I play on public servers more often than not and it may just be my choice in servers but almost every time I will encounter a hacker of some sort. This could an issue. There would be little we could do if a hacker would to slay us at any point before or during the race. Private servers tend to be less hacker riddled or at least have more admin presence. Having an admin on and in know would also be crucial. Going on a random public server with an unwitting admin could lead to everyone to finally getting a car only for the server to restart and everything to be lost. I'm not sure if having vehicle spawned by an admin is the way to go. It'll be kind of cool for everyone having to go find and fix up there own vehicle. But that could take a long time. And to keep them and the players safe at the start point whilst the others get ready would require a lot of security. If the start point is kamenka I think it would be worthwhile getting together a trusted squad of people to patrol the town and prevent from any bandit attacks prior to the race. I'm so up for this idea though and it'll happily be a security member to help make this happen

Got another one that happened the other day... My story started a few days prior, i had spawned at Kamenka and headed over to Bolota airfield. On my way i grabbed some basic loot whilst in the control tower i got myself an ak-47 and a couple of mags. Satisfied, i went into a nearby bush to log off for the night. When i come back, the sound of flies are resounding all around the control tower. I equip my AK and nervously walk up the stairs, passing 4 or 5 dead bodies on my way up. I get to the top, aiming through my sights and i see a survivor, armed only with a hatchet looting some sodas on the floor. “Friendly?” i ask. He doesn’t respond but he seems harmless - he barely even acknowledges me. So i head down the stairs and out of the control tower and in to the hangers to see what else i can find. Shortly after the guy follows me, and he’s trying to shake off a few zombies. I find a shotgun in the corner and let him know, and he comes over and picks it up. I ask him what’s his plan, but again he fails to respond. Perhaps he’s just a noob, i thought. So we head in to the other hanger, i loot some more food and the guy just follows me along, this time with his shotgun in hand. I’m sure to keep an eye on him at all times to make sure he’s not lining me up in his sights, but he follows me around obediently. We get to the barn at the end of the airfield and i ask if he could give me a blood transfusion. I was quite low due to an incident in Kamenka and getting boxed into the red bricked house, but nothing critical. I drop him a blood bag but he just stares at it. Whilst im trying to explain to him what to do, a bandit flies in to the barn with a pistol drawn. “Friendly?” i immeditedly ask whilst aiming my AK. My survivor acquaintance is kind of aiming his shotgun around haphazardly and the bandit keeps a firm eye on him. “Yes, i’m friendly, are you?” the bandit responds. I say on account of us both that we are and i ask the bandit for a blood transfusion and he gives me one. He apologises to me for his bandit skin, says he doesn’t why he’s got it. He’s very interested in the survivor with me and tries to communicate with him asking if he was in Bolota 15 minutes ago. Whilst he’s trying to force answers out of the mute, i set my sights on the bandit and my heart starts beating profusely. This man has killed a lot of people. I’ve not killed a player in cold blood but i was ready to unload my clip in to the bandit right there. “So how many people have you killed?” “Erm... a few...” he replies suspiciously. “Because my hearts beating really fast when i aim on you”. I called his bluff. He fessed up to killing more than a handful but insists he only does what he has to in order to stay alive. I half believe him but I feel as though i could trust the guy and we head off towards Cherno to find a better gun for the bandit with the mute survivor in tow. Half way across the fields the mute would remain motionless whenever we turned around to ensure he was still following. After a while the bandit tired of it. “Enough! What is your friend doing?” “Oh i dunno, i don’t know him. I just bumped into him in Bolota carrying a hatchet. I think he’s a noob” “He had... he had a hatchet!?” “Yes, why?” “When did you meet him?” “About 20 minutes ago, why?” “That man killed me and 4 others with a hatchet in the control tower!” My heart stopped. All those bodies i passed when climbing up the control tower... was because of him. Who is this guy? How did he manage to kill five people with nothing but an axe?? Me and the bandit are demanding he talks now to explain himself, but he just stares vacantly in between us holding his shotgun. “What are we gonna do?” i ask the bandit. The bandit aims his pistol at the guy’s head, “we kill him”. My conscience says to never kill and seemingly innocent player, especially one as apparently harmless as this guy. Maybe the bandit’s been mistaken and this guy really is just a poor noob trying to learn the ropes. The last thing i would want to do is introduce the ‘Kill or be Killed’ mentality to a new comer... But perhaps the bandit’s right.My pacifist nature wants to leave the man be but something was very strange about this guy... “Do what you have to do....” The bandit gives the survivor one last chance to speak, instead the guy just looks at the bandit, only to see a clip of G17 fly his way. I felt a huge sense of regret right there as the bandit exclaimed ‘R.I.P.’ to the victim. It went against my principals of the game, i always give players the benefit of the doubt, and often to my ignorance... but this guy just brought tension and paranoia to us both. I was still weary of the bandit, but i felt i could trust him. The silent survivor... well i was not so sure.

The only problem with having it a 'secret' on a populated server is that it's hard enough to just get a vehicle and repair it without being shot, let alone getting several of them to Kemenka and a helecopter to boot.

Will be giving it a try as im looking for a server that is run to the ground by hackers. My only gripe is that it has nameplates on and that makes it so much easier for sniping bandits :(

I posted this in a thread in Survivor HQ. It's a tad long but hopefully you get the type of tension i experienced. I was playing on a public hive server that had Side Channel on and i had recently spawned near Elektro. It was night and I'd managed to scavenge a few cans of food and drink and also a winchester from a barn. I was running through the industrial sector trying to shake off a hoard of Zombies before i would be spotted by a bandit. Suddenly someone says "Anyone in Elektro need a ride?" "YES" - I couldn't believe my luck. So i meet him by the church. He's in a Jeep and runs over the Z's chasing me. I hop in and he asks if theres anywhere i wanna go. I wasn't going anywhere in particular so i just went along with him for a ride to Stary Sober. He wanted to try and find his bus or something. We get to stary sober and instantly something wasn't right. The place was heaving with zombies. The driver threw a chemlight away from the main part of town to distract a hoard and we begin scavenging the town and split up briefly. I begin crawling around as to avoid too much attention. Suddenly in side channel "Dude crawling in Stary... Are you friendly?" "Yes, and there's another guy with me too, we're both friendly" i replied "Ok, well i'm hiding. I can't say where but i don't think we're alone here". At that instant the house across the road to me blows up! And it scared the sh*t outa me. "What the hell was that?" the hidden player asked. The driver who came with me said he wasn't sticking around and was going to leave in exactly 1 minute should anyone wish to leave with him in the Jeep. I run to get in the car and then a new player begins to speak. "Yes, we recommend you leave Stary Sober now... We're laying siege to the town and everyone in it". These guys, apparently, were lined up all round the outskirts of the town. The driver panics and starts to drive off. Painstakingly, a new friendly pipes up over chat; "Help, don't leave me please. Im stuck in the big barn theres loads of zombies and i'm outa ammo". I get out the truck, trying to be a hero of some sorts. My driver asks if i'm sure before driving off out in to the distance. I make a beeline for the barn and clear the way of zombies. The survivor runs out, quickly thanks me and goes off to presumably try and loot a weapon. I head for the military tents in the north of the town for better defence against the bandits heading in to town. There i am, crawling in and out of tents, only gathering minor supplies when i see a guy in a ghillie suit laying down in one of the tents. I panic, but he speaks over mic, "Hey man! What's going on out there, it's crazy" the ghillie man said. "I dunno man, but it's ok, i've been going about the town for a while now, it's ok as long as you don't draw attention to yourself" I replied. "Nah, forget that, i've got too much stuff to lose, i'm gonna stay in here". So i left the guy and he wished me luck, i make it to a few more tents across when suddenly the tent in between us EXPLODES. "Swing and a miss bandits" i taunt foolishly, and it's here it all goes to sh*t. The ghillie suit man is spooked, "F**k this, i'm getting out of here". He makes a sudden bolt for a building nearby and as i watch him run out into the open i witness him drop dead and a death notification on my screen. I run in the opposite direction towards the houses where the guy i freed earlier is trying to get my attention by waving his flashlight around. "Turn your flashlight off! They can see!" i shout. The guy apologises but runs out of a building in to the general direction of the chem light my driver had thrown minutes earlier... "El Bode where are you!?" "Turn around, get away from the l..." I don't even have a chance to finish my sentence because bang... he goes down too. The hidden surviour shouts that they have several snipers watching the town, he can see them but doesn't want to fire at them for fear of being shot himself. I duck into another building to tell him to stay hidden, and also to try and plan my escape. The driver, witnessing this all transpire over the chat has a change of heart and says he's coming back for me. I hold out as about 3 more houses around me explode to nothing but mere rubble. I hear the sound of the jeep's engine coming in to town... then a gun shot... my driver is dead. OH F*CK. I escape out of the building and run the opposite way of the jeep, weaving in and out of buildings but as quick as a flash, i get shot from the trees and i collapse to the floor, dying. I never found out if my hidden spotter made it out alive as my game crashed and i couldn't re connect to that server for some time. This is most probably the work of hackers, but my god did it made for a terrifyingly exciting moment.

I was playing on a public hive server that had Side Channel on and i had recently spawned near Elektro. It was night and I'd managed to scavenge a few cans of food and drink and also a winchester from a barn. I was running through the industrial sector trying to shake off a hoard of Zombies before i would be spotted by a bandit. Suddenly someone says "Anyone in Elektro need a ride?" "YES" - I couldn't believe my luck. So i meet him by the church. He's in a Jeep and runs over the Z's chasing me. I hop in and he asks if theres anywhere i wanna go. I wasn't going anywhere in particular so i just went along with him for a ride to Stary Sober. He wanted to try and find his bus or something. We get to stary sober and instantly something wasn't right. The place was heaving with zombies. The driver threw a chemlight away from the main part of town to distract a hoard and we begin scavenging the town and split up briefly. I begin crawling around as to avoid too much attention. Suddenly in side channel "Dude crawling in Stary... Are you friendly?" "Yes, and there's another guy with me too, we're both friendly" i replied "Ok, well i'm hiding. I can't say where but i don't think we're alone here". At that instant the house across the road to me blows up! And it scared the sh*t outa me. "What the hell was that?" the hidden player asked. The driver who came with me said he wasn't sticking around and was going to leave in exactly 1 minute should anyone wish to leave with him in the Jeep. I run to get in the car and then a new player begins to speak. "Yes, we recommend you leave Stary Sober now... We're laying siege to the town and everyone in it". These guys, apparently, were lined up all round the outskirts of the town. The driver panics and starts to drive off. Painstakingly, a new friendly pipes up over chat; "Help, don't leave me please. Im stuck in the big barn theres loads of zombies and i'm outa ammo". I get out the truck, trying to be a hero of some sorts. My driver asks if i'm sure before driving off out in to the distance. I make a beeline for the barn and clear the way of zombies. The survivor runs out, quickly thanks me and goes off to presumably try and loot a weapon. I head for the military tents in the north of the town for better defence against the bandits heading in to town. There i am, crawling in and out of tents, only gathering minor supplies when i see a guy in a ghillie suit laying down in one of the tents. I panic, but he speaks over mic, "Hey man! What's going on out there, it's crazy" the ghillie man said. "I dunno man, but it's ok, i've been going about the town for a while now, it's ok as long as you don't draw attention to yourself" I replied. "Nah, forget that, i've got too much stuff to lose, i'm gonna stay in here". So i left the guy and he wished me luck, i make it to a few more tents across when suddenly the tent in between us EXPLODES. "Swing and a miss bandits" i taunt foolishly, and it's here it all goes to sh*t. The ghillie suit man is spooked, "F**k this, i'm getting out of here". He makes a sudden bolt for a building nearby and as i watch him run out into the open i witness him drop dead and a death notification on my screen. I run in the opposite direction towards the houses where the guy i freed earlier is trying to get my attention by waving his flashlight around. "Turn your flashlight off! They can see!" i shout. The guy apologises but runs out of a building in to the general direction of the chem light my driver had thrown minutes earlier... "El Bode where are you!?" "Turn around, get away from the l..." I don't even have a chance to finish my sentence because bang... he goes down too. The hidden surviour shouts that they have several snipers watching the town, he can see them but doesn't want to fire at them for fear of being shot himself. I duck into another building to tell him to stay hidden, and also to try and plan my escape. The driver, witnessing this all transpire over the chat has a change of heart and says he's coming back for me. I hold out as about 3 more houses around me explode to nothing but mere rubble. I hear the sound of the jeep's engine coming in to town... then a gun shot... my driver is dead. OH F*CK. I escape out of the building and run the opposite way of the jeep, weaving in and out of buildings but as quick as a flash, i get shot from the trees and i collapse to the floor, dying. I never found out if my hidden spotter made it out alive as my game crashed and i couldn't re connect to that server for some time. This is most probably the work of hackers, but my god did it made for a terrifyingly exciting moment.

If zombies will be running indoors, will they at least stay outside if the doors are shut?

Yeah we need more friendly players in the game! Don't worry about it, just be a bit more cautious next time