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Here's a snippet from an older thread of ours: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/153372-factionz-20-now-in-epoch-looking-for-something-new/#entry1550384 It's hard to 'tell you' what FactionZ is without having you come and experience it; and that's not a lie... but I'm going to try and do my best to at least peek your interest enough. How long has FactionZ been around? Well, roughly 1 year and 3 months now... with the same dedicated administration group and staff. We offer more than just DayZ Mod servers... we also have the #1 DayZ Game Server currently. It's possible that you've seen, and played, on our other game servers. We fly under the flag of 'servers.vigilantaddiction.com' First... let me introduce you to the new Territory Map - It's still a 'Work In Progress' because the Season only just recently kicked off about 5 days ago... so the Nations are still out claiming areas of the map. Your time is precious; so I'm going to give the short and skinny awesome version: - You head to servers.vigilantaddiction.com and post an access request; and pick a Nation; Green or Red... or go with the "Forever Aloners" (loners) which have no loyalties and contract themselves out. - After picking a Nation you have the option of either joining, or creating, a Faction within that Nation. - Nations and Factions have a 'Safe Zone' area that is completely off limits (Safe) and players that aren't apart of that Nation cannot come within line-of-sight. But, there's a twist... since we're in Epoch, you can get infected and turn into a Zombie! If you do, you're free to head to a Nation's Fortress/Outpost and tear people apart from within! - As a Nation you'll be fighting over control of Contestable Outposts that award you territories on the map previously linked. Those territories have resources assigned to them and provide your Nation (and Factions) with valuable items, like weapons... supplies.... gold and building materials. - Nations fight their battles back and forth until one Nation controls at least 80% of the entire set of Contestable Bases; which then throws us into a "Red Alert" game-mode that pushes us into the next Season and declares one of the Nations victorious! While all this is happening...we have a lot of daily surprises for you! Some are automated... like Supply Drops; but others are actual in-game manually run events by the "Loot Zombies" (Admins) Loot Zombies bring hilarious fun and good memories to everyone in FactionZ. If you get to speak with a FactionZ Veteran... just ask him for some "LZ Memories" and you'll be entertained! Besides just having the Territory Map... you're also fighting for "SP" Season Points. These are ways for people that like to scavenge and loot (over killing) to help out their Nation besides just building a base. Things like Mountain Dews, Red Bulls, and the 4 Mystery Items... are ways to get SP's for your Nation. Killing a Loot Zombie also gets you some as well! Events are generally held every single day at about 8pm Central time; with major events on the Weekend nights(Fri/Sat). So, if you're looking to be apart of something larger... servers.vigilantaddiction.com and sign up to start today! You must be willing/able to use our provided Mumble server (Security Reasons) and we use Epoch with rMod2.1

The following is a write up from one of our FactionZ players; Gnashes. FactionZ - A Player's Perspective Shaking, adrenaline, anticipation, and fear. That's what I felt my first night playing FactionZ; the first time in my life that a video game had actually made my hands shake and my heart race so much that I had to stop and talk several breaths to calm myself before continuing on my way. It's so different from your normal session of DayZ, and yet, I feel at home while playing it. FactionZ takes all of the fun of DayZ and adds several new twists and elements to it. Not only do you have a 100% guaranteed area to store vehicles, weapons, and supplies, but you also have multiple coordinated and well armed "factions" vying for control of areas of the map. And in a world where the resources are limited, and everyone wants what they don't have, those struggles for control often lead to intense, and deadly, firefights. FactionZ brings many new aspects into DayZ. It's 1/2 Survival/Horror, 1/2 Warfare. You might be looting an airfield with your faction, and suddenly be assaulted from the air, ground, and sea by a faction who had a scout in the area watching you. Or, you might be trying to leave Object A2 on Namalsk and fall victim to a patient sniper in the hills who's been waiting for that one opportune shot. FactionZ centers around PvP, but allows for a lot of PvE and loot gathering as well. FactionZ's Core Aspects - Safe Bases: Choose your location and place your base. It's the one place where the Admins allow for no rule bending, you don't enter another faction's safezone, nor do they enter yours. Stray too close and they have the right to fire upon you, while you can do nothing but run away. - Coordinated Tactics: Many factions are seasoned veterans of the game, and of FactionZ. Military tactics and guerrilla warfare are well known, and well utilized. Expect an attack from any angle, and be ready to adjust to changing situations mid-fight. You never know what can happen on the battlefield of a city, forest, or mountain range. - Looting: Looting and getting the gear back to base guarantees its safety. A good looter can make or break a faction. Even if you're not the best fighter, your team will still appreciate your contributions simply by gathering supplies and aiding the fight indirectly. - Vehicles: FactionZ allows for vehicles, but places some limitations. Most armed vehicles are disallowed, and the ones which are will be expensive and hard to obtain. Mobility is an advantage, and those who take the time to loot, or ambush their enemies and take their loot, will profit. However, a small faction can still hold their own with good comms, and accurate fire. - Loot Zombie: Our Admin spawns into the map with gear befitting a king. He'll give clues as to his location over Side chat, and Factions earn points for killing him. Not only that, but he also carries Mountain Dews, which are used for determining the winning faction each cycle. So killing Loot Zombie is only half the challenge, because you won't be the only faction with your eye down the sights of a weapon... - Events: The Admin(s) host weekly events ranging from bicycle races around Chernarus, to "CQC Rumble" in an Admin built arena. Every event is fun, allows for factions who are behind in points to catch up, and gives everyone a little time to unwind and just shoot everything that moves in a huge Attack Chopper infested FFA match occasionally. - Community: If you're looking for a good group of guys and gals to fall in with, VA's crowd are hard to beat. I've only been around for a few months, but they've welcomed me with open arms and have made me feel at home. Sure, we shoot each other to ribbons, steal each other's vehicles and loot, and have a plan to kill each and every person we meet in-game, but we're all friends and play together on other server. I've made more lasting friends in this community than in any other. Additionally, we're now moving over to Epoch for our server. So all of the fun things Epoch adds will be incorporated into FactionZ in the coming weeks. Look for more balanced traders, extra items, and maybe even a few surprises thrown into the mix! I've never had more fun playing on a DayZ server than I have with FactionZ and the VA community. The fights are exciting, the events are fun, and the community does a good job of keeping the game fun to play. I'd recommend anyone coming over and trying it for a week or two. If you'd like to see a little more on-the-fly strategy thrown into your DayZ, FactionZ is definitely the place for you. Come on over, I promise to kill you nicely. -Gnashes Important Information to Know - While playing FactionZ you are required to be on the 'FactionZ' Mumble server. - FactionZ requires you to sign up on a forum and request access. - There are server rules to follow that shape the game play, and design, of FactionZ. - FactionZ goes through 'Cycles' every month where the map is changed/reset and everyone starts fresh and declares a 'Faction Winner' of the Cycle. - Every day (roughly) are Loot Zombie events that are unique, fun, and hilarious. Along with weekend events for Faction Vs. Faction warfare. - Factions start at a max of 6 players to a Faction. Factions can grow overtime and increase their max slots by continuing to play more Cycles. - FactionZ 1.0 ran for roughly 1 year and then we went on break. We're back in Epoch now, as FactionZ 2.0, and hope you'll be apart of another memorable year. Websites to Check: http://servers.vigilantaddiction.com (Sign Up to Play here) http://www.youtube.com/LootZombie (Loot Zombie / Events Videos) http://www.youtube.com/VigilantVids (Loot Zombie / Events Videos) (Yes, I use various silly voices and make a fool out of myself)

We're looking for some more Factions (Groups/Clans) to join and start up their bases! On your own? We've got a default 'Loner' group you can join if you like to Trade/Hire yourself out! Loot Zombie runs are daily; join in on the hilarious times and crazy stupid voices; chase him down and grab his loot and Cycle Points for your Faction! Each Cycle has a 'Best Base' award to give your Faction a boost in points for the Cycle in your attempt to win and be crowned the Cycle Faction Winner! Which... gets your Faction name, and your name, plastered on the Loading Screen for all future Cycles! We've been running FactionZ successfully for a year now and just Rebooted into Epoch so we could give the player base more control over their bases. Don't fall for any of these other servers that claim their running FactionZ or something like it. There's only one FactionZ and one Loot Zombie! What can you expect to have to do to join in on this? Visit: servers.vigilantaddiction.com and post in the Requesting Access threadPost your Faction, or pledge to a Faction, in the 'Faction Recruitment' forumDownload DayZ_Epoch and the current cycle mapRead up on the Server Rule Set while the map is downloading so you don't get temp banned, or chased down with a chainsaw.Join the required Mumble Server (Yes, you have to join it... it's for security/anti-hack reasons)KILL ALL THE FACTIONS! Events are every weekend; Friday and Saturday, to keep you busy all weekend long! We hope to see you and your clan there! We need some new blood to come in and take down the current leading Faction!

Haha! Not exactly but it's perhaps a little more 'Arma-ish' in regard to more Player Vs. Player tactical combat... and the Zeds just become a secondary 'feature' of the game, or, things to avoid. The Zeds still make going out for looting supplies and loot cycling interesting. We run FactionZ via EPOCH and then make slight modifications; like what's available on the traders and prices. Then we just give players more specific goals to attain every week/month with the Cycles. So, for people that kinda get bored with base DayZ/EPOCH because they 'do it all eventually'.... FactionZ give you that mission to complete, or goal to attain, "We won!" feeling at the end of the Cycles and during events. It also gives you a chance to play with people you can trust, by default, if you join a FactionZ. You're now working together toward a common goal, as a group. I know for the year that we've been doing it; a lot of people have formed some good friendships and memories, and to us... that's what Gaming really is all about.

Link to the original report: http://factionz.vigilantaddiction.com/forum/index.php?/topic/6037-2pac-public-server-us229/#entry38077 You'll watch the cheater enter the damaged helicopter, and shortly after it instantly repairs to full. His GUID is in the video for other admins to add to your bans list.

We sent it in but they responded that they can't Global Ban someone based on 'Third-Party' evidence; and to just ban him locally on our servers (which we have). No wonder why cheaters/hackers live it up in DayZ. Well, we tried! :rolleyes:

Reporting in that this is still happening to all our Public Servers. (I've done 6 manual restarts myself alone just in the past 5 hours)

Oh look; get into the office today and all the public servers are offline due to this error. If there's no one supporting Public Hive servers any longer; at least do us the favor and just tell us. I'll gladly just switch over to my own cluster of Private Hives. How about some official communication on this regard? Sometime this year.... because I'm not counting on SA to be able to do what I can at all.

I've been directed to post here; and I know it's being 'looked into' but I'm still going to post with a little urgency. (lol) This is a MAJOR issue for us and our Community of regulars that play on our Public Servers. (and for everyone else, haha) They are crashing ALL THE TIME and it forces us to be checking-in on our boxes almost every 30 minutes and it, obviously, give all of us a bad rep because the general DayZ Player doesn't realize that it's not -our- fault as Hosters; so they think it's an example of how our servers perform. I end up having to direct/point them here. We're now entering the 2nd week of this issue and it's just amazing how little, to nothing, has been done. Well, something may have been done, but to us... nothing at all has been done because we're still constantly getting these errors daily, across all servers. I hope SA hasn't put -that- much of a back-burner on things. Is the Hive Communication coming over a different/new port now or something? I'm just curious if our firewalls could be blocking new traffic. Obviously it's been working fine for months; up until now... so what's changed? Just curious to toss that out there. (As I typed this up; we had 3 servers go down due to this error) I mean WTF guys? I know I'm getting a little frustrated here, but let's get some movement on this please? 0:29:54 HiveExt(0): [information] HiveExt ce45a1f7524c0:30:15 HiveExt(0): [Error] Timeout All. Day. Long. Then eventually it'll actually work; after maybe a dozen damn restarts of the server.

This is still an issue for us. It's pretty much hit or miss; but the problem here is during the initial start up of our servers. So, during our restart times.... there's pretty much a 75% chance that the "Public Hive" will refuse our connection and then causes the serve to 'hold' on the "Unknown Hive Error" screen; since it won't crash the server or anything all of our programs think it's still running and won't auto-recover it. Which means we have to manually check/connect these servers over and over. Obviously this is a Public Hive Issue and something needs to be addressed here. It's been going on for 4 days now, at the least. (When our issue with it started) My community members would really appreciate it if this could get looked into by someone officially. Thanks!

This is what I'm seeing in the console now: 1:16:27 HiveExt(0): [information] HiveExt ce45a1f7524c 1:16:29 HiveExt(0): [Warning] Error getting config: 'Connection refused' 1:16:29 HiveExt(0): [information] Using cached config copy

This is still an issue for us as of this morning. As I assumed; no response at all via the 'Support System'... :rolleyes:

I haven't; I actually thought about it but since my ticket in March was/is still "Open" without a response... I figured that system was long forgotten, lol. I'll do one just to be official about it.

Issue remains. Did as suggested and still having Public Hive server issues. Sometimes they'll connect and work for a few minutes; but they seem to be randomly getting that error. Either right when someone joins; or soon after.

Yea, it started happening to all the servers on that box now; like a creeping doom. Bouncing some boxes and will do as suggested; it's only odd that this is the first major 'hive error' for these servers... in, oh I don't know, 5-6 months straight? Just kinda odd for them to need that kind of maintenance out of no where. *shrug*

I'm seeing this on 3 out of our 5 Public Servers. I've bounced them a few times but as soon as a player connects we get the Hive Timeout message when it starts to attempt to pull their information. Update: One out of the 3 just finally started working again. (Saw green information pulling in; instead of a timeout) Perhaps if I just keep restarting the other servers over and over until they get a solid connection when someone joins... I guess. Issues going on over there? (Public Hive)

Over at FactionZ - We run what we've coined as "Loot Zombie" and "Treasure Zombie". It's basically just us, the two admins, running around the game with 'loaded out' loot of high value items and a few other special goodies that give each 'Faction' on our server special points/score at the end of the month. We both don't actually play the game at all because of all the vast knowledge/access we have to specific information which would make it unfair. So, instead we found a way to 'play' and create some chaos in the meantime through other players with the Loot/Treasure Zombies. We don't shoot back at the players, however we do zig-zag around like crazy trying to duck and lose those that are hunting us. I wanted to share two videos of our Adventures, as Loot/Treasure Zombies, on our FactionZ server. We haven't made the final edits/uploads on this one, yet, but still wanted to share. This is during our first ever "Cycle Event" which is basically just an event at the end of the month where the Factions Bases are no longer 'Safe Zones' and both/all Factions and Bandits go to town trying to destroy the others base and leave them nothing left. At the end of the Cycle, we as admins, tally up points for anything they have remaining/left and declare a Faction Winner for that Cycle and they earn themselves some nifty badges on our forum and gloating rights of course. But, as they're doing this we have the Loot Zombies running around with special items that are worth a lot of points; so hunting them and getting their items is a valuable tactic to winning the Cycle. Here's about 40 minutes of the 4 hour event from the eyes of TokVaal as a Loot Zombie with myself, Strikes, as one as well. http://servers.vigil...e-loot-zombies/ Then we have another tale of someone hunting the hunter of the Loot Zombie! You'll notice myself saying something about my Zig-Zag skills as a Loot Zombie in the video below. What you'll watch is someone chasing me, the Loot Zombie, and then getting sniped (from pretty far out) as he's chasing me. (Sorry Computer1633!!) The shooter thought they were hitting the Loot Zombie, but to their surprise... they got someone on the opposing Faction.

Arkael - You aren't reading the punctuation correctly. "nor do we care, or have the time, to wonder around on our servers banning people like assholes." Meaning no; we don't care to sit around and just randomly ban people. However, we did look into the script/detection that got you banned and we found out that it was a improper/ban detection line. As I originally told you; after we could verify that the line was bad/false we could lift the ban, which we did, so enjoy. Also - bringing this to our attention resulted in us backing off quite a few false bans on our servers, and many other servers (not ours) that deployed the same detection scripts. So good on you for that. Remember though; it's the hackers/cheaters/scripters that ruin the game for gamers, not the administrators. (At least most of us don't)

We, as administrators, do not play on our servers; nor do we care, or have the time, to wonder around on our servers banning people like assholes. You were banned by an auto-detection script because you had 'Teleported' in your script. Be it a hacker that teleported you; or you yourself.. this is why the ban was issued. I can check with other admins in the community to see if this is an invalid detection and go from there. In the meantime; I've updated our scripts again (which happens daily) manually just to be sure they are up to date.

It was pretty much something we took from Golden Axe (Arcade) way back in the day. Boy, that dates me doesn't it? If you recall in that game... they had the little Goblin/Gnome guys that came into your campsite and you would whack them and potions would come out, haha. While the Loot/Treasure Zombies are in game, we use Side Chat to describe our location/surroundings. This turns it into a fun puzzle/mystery game of people trying to figure out where we are. The better someone knows the map the more advantage they would have; and it's great for FactionZ because the teams are all working together to figure out the location, get there, kill the Loot Zombie and get out.

Greetings all, You may know me from running a few public servers; US 228-231 and US2252-2255. Along with various Private Hive servers under the name of VigilantAddiction; or 'servers.VigilantAddiction.com' in the servers list. Well, through those servers over the course of these past few months, a community was established of mature and legit Gamers just looking to have fun. They started brainstorming and came up with a new game style they coined as "FactionZ". Now, generally I personally hate to 'toot my own horn' or advertise things I'm doing until I'm blue in the face; but since all I did was give them a server and set it up to their liking... it's not really *my* own thing to 'toot'. "FactionZ" is pretty much your standard DayZ setup but with, gasp, you guessed it... Factions. The (currently small) community created a map and some guidelines/rules that morphed the game into a little something more than what it was. It seems to allow for a little more 'roleplay' and 'tactical' communication and teamwork. It also seems to be building "Gamerships" (Gaming Relationships) with new people and making new friends (Yay!). I personally don't play (because I administrate it) so I can't comment directly in that regards but I can say that the guys (and gals) seem to be having a blast playing it and they want *more* people to join in. (Map Example: https://www.dropbox....r_map_large.jpg) The community is discussing various 'events' to run and play on the FactionZ servers; that pits Faction against Factions for various prizes in-game, like a bonus Helicopter, weapons, munitions and other agreed upon prizes. We do not like to 'spawn' in items; as we like to keep the game as 'real' as possible so generally the prizes from events are gathered up by the Factions and put together as their 'entry' fee in a winner-takes-all event. (like both arrive at the event in their Helicopters; however only one Faction will leave with both, losers walk!) We have a scoreboard in the works with various stats we hope to track. We have bigger plans for this; hoping to open up a 'FactionZ' server for each map out there and even creating/modifying a map or two with some new buildings to really push forward the appeal of a 'Safe Zone'. These servers are generally maintained by donations from the community and myself so they will *always* be online as long as there is a demand for them. Of course, we plan to have Standalone Server if/when possible as well to continue on when the time comes. In closing (TLDNR) the community at servers.VigilantAddiction.com hopes you'll stop by and check out a new game style; FactionZ. Servers are passworded and website registration is required.

Come join us for "Hunt the Treasure Zombie!" This is where, I the admin, spawn in with various load-outs of goodies on me. I can only shoot other zombies and I cannot shoot players. As I'm running around I give out clues to where I am over side chat. We do this on our FactionZ server so both Factions usually take out their Helicopters or end up getting in fire-fights over the loot I carry. Check us out @ servers.vigilantaddiction.com - Register on the forum and post for access! We'd love to have you!

Public Servers Down? Come try out FactionZ and our other Private Hives. Check servers.VigilantAddiction.com for our line up which will be constantly growing as so does the community!

We certainly appreciate all the new faces that stopped by and joined the community and 'FactionZ' server. We hope to open up more maps in the future if popularity increases toward this kind of DayZ 'Style'. We certainly will be carrying over to the 'Standalone' servers if it's possible, of course. (Hope so!) Come stop in and check things out; we've been up and running for almost half a year now and won't just up and vanish.

The server location is in Seattle (West Coast US) and the Timezone is set for +10GMT for all the servers. Pending popularity/requests I could look into purchasing a dedicated box in other locations as well; but by then would likely be for the Standalone version when it releases.