ShallowTech

We are trying to enforce this policy on our server, it just makes it a lot easier to track players and communicate with people when you know what there names are.

Is this a DayZ SA server and if so, how are you able to do 4.5 day and 1.5 night?

Try our server, not sure of your location but it is a low ping server. 23.19.47.18:2302 Do the towns have lights in the evening? It would be cool if there were powerstations that could be turned on in each town or up the road that powers multiple towns, it would give some objective to night time servers :-)

Oh and if anyone is trying to use the remote (direct search) option in DayZ SA and need the IP/Port. 23.19.47.18:2302

I just wanted to add a little clarification to our naming policy. Ranph was referring to a couple of hackers that were on our server attempting to promote each other to admins. Luckily, this attempt to infiltrate our security, the Battleye client stopped this attack but since then we have been looking for ways to monitor people, return players, etc. The reason we have created a naming policy is that many hacks/hackers and malicious type content will use random names or random name generators. Typically these names are comprised of alphanumeric, all caps, special characters (leet spelling), etc. Many malicious individuals will use this type of spelling to standout. Therefore, this “policy” is really a preference in regards to our server and not a kickable or banable offense. We welcome new players but ask that players change their names to a more standard format and respect the server policies and rules. If we ask and you simply decline, that is okay too but please do not use profanity, become angry or hostile towards our admins. After all, this is our server in which we are trying to provide a genuine and fair gaming experience for all players in DayZ SA. Our admins do not restart the servers for personal game and we will only kick or ban when we have valid reason for doing so. If you have any feedback please send it to [email protected] or [email protected] . P.S. I wanted to thank Zyzzxx for helping support our server! Additionally, it was great playing last night and fun to run into some friendly players! -ShallowTech

So the only way to run day night would be a 4 hr restart that goes from late afternoon to night or early morning to day, then reboots and starts over.

From what I understand is that all host must run a automated 4 hour restart regardless of any custom restart schedule implemented by the owner. Is this not correct? It was actually ViLayer support that confirmed this configuration with me.

I am not sure, battle eye reported <username> is trying to promote <username> as admin... not sure, maybe a script or something that has been developed but I am not sure. Additionally, i have not proof because it was one of our admins that caught it. However, I do not see any reason for him to lie. You have to remember that this is a piece of software with vulnerabilities like any other software. There are companies that developer and sell applications specifically for using these vulnerabilities to hack the software. I do not know specifics on how they work because I have never used one but I have seen them on YouTube.

Our admins do not do this on our server, as a matter of fact, if they are caught doing it they will no longer have admin access. :-) Plus the server reboots every two hours anyway, if you can not gear up enough to fight then something is wrong! I am the server owner, when I die I just start over like everyone else!

This is needed in many cases. We had a couple of players in our server attempting to promote eachother to admins. The Battle Eye Client caught them but it would have been great to get their user ID's to ban them. We did kick them from the server. It is too bad that people have to cheat at all, it really shows a lack of moral judgement. Obviously it is just a game but still, cheating is cheating.

Thanks for the support! Hope to see you all in game. We are a very small group and if anyone is interested in joining please contact us by email or through our Steam group page. Oh and if we tell you to put up your hands, do it because it can save your life! We are friendly but we will not take risk. Link to our steam group page. Sons of Liberty PHX

Our server name has changed so that time of day is not reflected in the name. We will have notification in game that reflect time and sun location ;-) DAYZ SA | Sons of Liberty PHX | 2hr Restart | Vilayer.com Server is coming back online now and our scheduled notification appear to be working correctly. Thank you!

We are still struggling with some issues with notifications for some reason. The server will be rebooting at 6PM like normal and during that time we will be making some configuration changes. The server will be down a little longer than normal.

Thank you for the positive feedback. We do our best to keep it clean. Obviously a healthy amount of in game hostility is good ;-) but if you are verbally abusing our admins you will be kicked from our server. Additionally, we do our best to monitor the server as much as possible as well as collect evidence of any abuse, exploiting or hacking. If anyone feels that our admins have been unfair in a decision, please contact me by sending an email to [email protected].

What is your ping while in game? Does it ever spike?

Check your ping in game, if it gets high it could be the ping cap set on the server... It is also possible that you are connecting to servers that reboot often or have a high ping in relation to your location. Try connecting to servers with a ping that is under 50. All servers reboot every four hours by default and some go every 2 or 1. Hope this helps.

It appears that we are back online. Thank you,

We apologize; currently we are having some technical issues with our server. Please bear with use as we work through these problems. The server will be up ASAP. Thank you, SoL.ShallowTech

Well it looks like within the last week or so we have moved up in rank, at least for servers on the West Coast. Today I checked gametracker.com and SoL has moved up significantly, thank you for everyone who enjoys playing on our server. We will be updating the server configuration tonight to include message with email for feedback from our players. Please attempt to be as mature as possible when sending feedback, if there are any problems with the server or you would like to report a possible cheater, be sure to include evidence (pictures, video, etc.) along with the player’s exact name in any email sent to our admins. If for some reason you are kicked from our server (which is rare) and feel that it was not justified, please contact our admins. SoL is working hard to customize this server as much as possible, it is difficult since our options are limited in the DayZ SA Alpha but we do have some good features, such as reboot warnings, 2 hour reboots, low ping (latency) threshold and active admins to help manage the server. ViLayer also provides a full SSD platform to help with performance. Please join us on DAYZ SA | Sons of Liberty PHX | 7AM | 2hr Restart | Vilayer.com 4. friendly high loot server - Hosted by GameServers.com 26/40 173.199.85.19:2302 DayZ_Auto 69. Solnichniy University | Regular | 4 Hour Resets | Los Angeles 0/40 108.61.114.233:2302 DayZ_Auto 86. [eXile] DayZ -- 24/7 Daytime (Regular) -- 124490 15/30 8.6.15.49:2302 DayZ_Auto 88. ----(After Hours)----Friendly Play-DAY 24/7|2hr Rest|Gameserver 40/40 8.6.9.54:2302 DayZ_Auto 186. ~Yippie Kiyay~ DayZ LA (Public | Veteran | 3PP:OFF | 24/7 dayli 8/40 108.61.114.11:2302 DayZ_Auto 261. DayZ 24/7 Day MuddersBandits (3PP:ON) - Hosted by GameServers.c 7/30 8.6.15.114:2302 DayZ_Auto 296. 30 Players DayZ Standalone- Hosted by GameServers.com 24/30 8.6.9.44:2302 DayZ_Auto 319. DAYZ SA| Sons of Liberty PHX | 7AM | 2hr Restart | Vilayer.com 14/30 23.19.47.18:27016 DayZ_Auto

Is anyone ever able to reply to these post :-). Well we set the server back to 2hr and that seems to have increased the number of players but we would like to see more. This is a fast west coast server and we have a good amount of legit players from what I can tell. Lets make this server jump to the top of the list, I mean in a 60 mile radius, there is not much to choose from for me anyway! Not trying to bash on any other servers but I want to see this one at the top of the list :-) See you on! Oh and FRANKIEonPC, if you want I can raise the ping cap and you can play with some yanks! 231. -AW- Apocalyptic Warriors 2/40 108.62.228.218:2502 DayZ_Auto 680. Noobclear Warfare [NcW] DayZ Standalone |www.noobclearwarfare.c 5/40 23.19.47.18:2502 DayZ_Auto 756. DAYZ SA| Sons of Liberty PHX | 7AM | 2hr Restart | Vilayer.com 11/30 23.19.47.18:27016 DayZ_Auto 888. Boonie Crew, hosted by Addleses 4/40 108.62.228.218:2402 DayZ_Auto 994. 94U$AF IS DAYZ 3/30 108.62.228.218:2302 DayZ_Auto Any feedback from our players is welcome. Thank you.

Okay, back to 2hr restarts and the name filter has been disabled. Current server name is DAYZ SA| Sons of Liberty PHX | 7AM | 2hr Restart | Vilayer.com

Phoenix Arizona - West coast Server! Information: To maintain a low ping on our server we set a ping cap, this reduces latency from players with high pings. Additionally, we use the BEC client to protect our server against hackers. BEC checks players against a global ban list and integrity checks the game client. As much as we would love to run into FRANKIEonPC, big fans here FRANKIE, his connection might not be accepted with our latency (ping cap). Warnings are schedule to happen 1hr, 30min, 15min, 10min and 5min before reboots. We will kick players if they are caught exploiting, cheating or ghosting. Furthermore, we will work to obtain evidence of the offense, PlayerID's and names to report to BEC to be added to the global ban. Our server has BEC name filtering, we hate to keep players out based on name criteria but most of those with names that do not comply with this list are probably not very mature players. Additionally, we normally have active admins. If an admin is caught abusing his power, such as reboots after kills or kicking players without justification, they will no longer be an admin on our server. We are working on building a player base of mature games, legitimate players to experience the world of DayZ the way it was meant to be played. BEC Summary of Main Features Support for Multiple In-game AdminsDefine Custom Names on CommandsSet Group Levels on AdminsSet Permission Level on CommandsOrganized Chat loggerOrganized BE Event loggerCheck Guid of players who connects against a central ban databaseReport Hacks to a central ban databaseNick Filter, Auto kick offensive nick's defined by youChat & channel restrictionChat & channel anti-spamMake players temp adminsAutokick lobby idlersCreate Schedules of various sorts. motd's. events etcCreate whitelist fileSlotLimit, can be used to reserve slotsPlugin Support (Ts3 Serverquery plugin included).

Okay, we are now linked to game tracker… not sure what benefit there is to being on gametracker.com at this time, besides building a player base for the server. Nevertheless, is has been setup and the server is now up. Again, we have changed to the standard reboots per the DayZ hosting rules and our provider ViLayer, 4 hour restarts with restart warnings. Additionally, we have setup a steam page for the Son’s of Liberty PHX group and looking for members. We are looking into hosting up to 40 players and a TS3 server at some point but we are still building a player base. Please contact us with any questions. Thank you, Ryan B.

So we were playing on our server last night when a friend of mine and I encountered some hostiles. Not a problem, we decided to battle it out with them. I circles around and caught one of them trying to flank. I put him down and then regrouped with my friend... well after a small friendly fire incident. Once we had patched up we went back outside to check for the other enemy and loot the dead body. When we arrived at the body his gear was everywhere but for some reason I could not view anything, nothing in proximity and nothing on the body, nothing. My friend however was able to see the gear, the guy had lock boxes and in the lock boxes were golden magazines. Obviously, this is a hack, unless I am just not aware of some rare gold spraypaint. I just wanted to see if anyone else has come across this? Additionally, another one of my friends came across a guy with an inventory of lock boxes and every item he has was pritine. Now I understand that there are some very good players out there but this seemed somewhat odd as well.

Yeah! Thank you ViLayer! We are back up this morning, not bad response especially since the weekly outage was also scheduled. ViLayer had our server back up and running pretty quick. Additionally, we are going to change our server to the standard four hour restart to see how this works with our player base.