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The thrill is survival. Risk of dying is your motivation, it's what makes the game. What is a boring activity? The zombies are pretty boring currently, SA announced there is only going to be 400~ on a server. That's boring. If the game doesn't motivate you to survive, then it's just another first person shooter. If the game's survival is solely based on PVP, then it's just another first person shooter. That's boring.

Cool! I want!

Adding any equipment is unnecessary, and ruins the flow of the game. Especially when the average player has no idea where it is added. I'm sick of these 1200+ Vehicle servers. A sloo of military weapons. Go play Arma, that's not survival.

Glad i found this topic, i share your thoughts OP The PVE/ Survival still needs to be much MORE difficult IMO. I find surviving way to easy, Food and drinks are plentiful, and your hunger/thirst meters last a long, long time. Tempeture/sickness rarely happen. - The Zombies are only a real threat in extremely large numbers (they are dumb as bricks and move like drunk puppets.), this patch helped bringing some in from further away while shooting, but meh. The game has turned into a shoot on sight any player that moves, find helicopters and fly around in them all day shooting more people because they can't do anything to us until we crash.... Might as well play vanilla Arma if you like that. It's really a walk in the park besides hackers and douches that shoot every living player. I honestly can't remember the last time I've died to environment or zed. IMO, make the environment pure hell, it will force people to work together to Survive. OP, you cannot have the ability to clear a city or area zombie free for long periods of time/forever, this would break a lot of looting. People already flip the loot inside buildings by taking it and moving it outside waiting for new equipment to spawn. Someone at a military base could do this all day until they get something they want? I don't think so.

What a waste of time, who the cares if your GUID and IP are posted publicly? This is a anti-cheat measure, and it alone can be used to detour cheating. I'll post my information right now if anyone wants.

I lol'ed. They call that the 'Thunderdome' Welcome to the cess pool DayZ currently is.

This is spot on, feel exactly the same. I await a response from a Red.... Or purple.

Agreed Wo3dy, Agreed. No incentive to me to host a server any longer, and i have no desire to play in this hacking cess pool of a game. It will die before it makes it to stand alone if the trend continues.

Hackers control the servers, and the game. not the admins. Nuff said. Mine will have the plugged pulled at the end up the month as well. Heres my thread on this matter, i have made suggestions. I suspect this game will fail before it becomes a standalone if these issues are not addressed soon. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/50290-scripters-hackers-have-more-control-than-me-an-admin/#entry481267

This thread comes to you from a long time player, and server admin. It has gotten way past out of control, it really really needs to be the #1 priority now. Not Helicopters, Not content. Not weapon balance. Ect. I understand DayZ is just a mod based around Arma II which uses BattlEye for it's anti-cheat. Regardless the hackers/scripters have more control of the game, my server, than i do. I have next to NO power to deal with them, and they know it. More and more are showing up. I can turn the server off and hope they get bored and bother some other server. Or start banning everyone i don't know on the server and get the server blacklisted. It's bullshit. There needs to be more physical control of this situation before it kills the game off completely. It's headed in that direction. Even if it's temporary until Battleye catches up, something, ANYTHING, needs to be implemented. Something like a killed by in a log would be glorious. Edit: Further in the thread, found this. http://forums.bistud...g-kill-messages

My thoughts exactly. As i said earlier, not going to get that far if it fizzles out here first. Just because it's announced doesn't mean it can't fail. No sweat off my back not throwing money out the window hosting a server when hackers run it. I'll go play Planetside instead. I wish it the best, but it's really a mess.

By all means share your favorite tools By all means share your favorite tools, the ones i have found have been pretty ineffective. Edit: Also my ban list has surpassed two pages when posted in word pad.

Can i play DayZ yet?

No, read THIS thread. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/50290-scripters-hackers-have-more-control-than-me-an-admin/

Worst idea ever.

This is the best news, since ive found DayZ. Thank you for sharing. Now we wait for better things. Here's too a better future for DayZ servers! :beans: :beer:

THIS!!!!!!!!!

That's good, and i agree. I'm not sure how much of a regular you are on a server or how much you play this game, but i can speak for the whole community when i say no one WANTS a 'Walled garden' That is BORING, it defeats the whole purpose, it is the reason why this is so popular in the first place. The original point of this thread, and what i keep repeating my self is, i want to be able to continue to TEST the game - So it succeeds. I DO NOT want a kill log or any other admin tool suggested in the standalone version a year or more down the road when it comes out. It is NEEDED for the Alpha. NEED. NEED. NEED. Not a want, like 99% of the other suggestion threads. The server owners still have to abide by the rules if any of this was implemented, no more "Admin Abuse" would occur than we currently have. This is a short term feature that NEEDS to be implemented so administration can counter things like mass killing, thunderdome, ect. UNTIL, AND ONLY UNTIL battleye does. If you have not experienced any hackers or cheaters in the magnitude everyone has been saying, then you are not playing the same game the rest of us are...

So what your saying it you would rather have hackers than a chance of abusive admins?

I just don't see that. if someone wants to play alone in peace without dying to outside players, you can Tunggle a server very easily. Avoid the HIVE all together... The rules can still apply. Just. Need. Too. Control. Hackers. Until. Battleye. Does.

The focus is wrong though, i want the game to be as immersible and realistic as possible, with no advantage just as much as anyone here. I'd love to not even have a admin panel. HOWEVER - Dealing with cheaters should be #1 Priority. Look at the '20 New Threads' being started on right side the main page, look at how many consist of hacking.... It's way out of control. IF ONLY TEMPORALLY - ADMINS NEED CONTROL - OR THE GAME WILL DIE. I don't know how many times i need to put it. I want this shit to succeed.

Hmmm... a few "Baddies" vs a few Hackers controlling server. Which one would i rather have? Tough choice.

It doesn't matter. His ID changes every time. Edit: Ip Banned.

I'm in the same boat. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/50290-scripters-hackers-have-more-control-than-me-an-admin/

/Now/ i have a hacker on my server that i can't ban. He comes back over, and over. It sure is going to be a tough decision server renew time.