putrudius

@Zeez I run a very busy Panthera server. The 1.8 patch kicked us in the Jimmy. It stank. The recent tidal wave of suck isn't ST's fault. They push out the mods to match DayZCommander because the inevitable wall of fail as people upgrade mindlessly and QQ when they can't connect isn't worth the pain. Instead, they got the pain of Vilayer's terrible hack job patches. In this case, they were screwed if they held back and screwed if they went ahead. Our server was down and mostly useless for a few days. The first few e-mails I sent in came back answered quickly but soon the replies slowed down. Given the mountain of junk patches they're trying to dig out of at the moment, I sorta get why. I sent a request for a config change earlier today and had a reply back in an hour with change made. Sure, they could do better with a ticket system. I'd like BEC too. I wanted FTP at some point and now we have it and I use it constantly. They're fixing the maps and trying to patch up the patches, which shouldn't be their job. As for the service, the control panel is slick as hell. The uptime (for us; exempting initial latest patch issues) has been solid. Know why I'm staying with DayZ.ST? In the last two days, I've had other admins text me and have me roll the database back after mass TP hacks. Both times, I did it from my iPhone in minutes. Once in a meeting at work. The other in Safeways buying dinner. A few days before that, our other backup server was down from DDoS. I moved it to another server location and had the server back up, DB and all settings moved, in under 2 minutes. Good luck getting that anywhere else. For $30/month. Given all the swearing I've done in the last week dealing with these crappy patches, I can imagine why their guys are so pissy. This is a crap sandwhich for everyone, not just those at DayZ.ST or their customers. Its also everyone else running these patches... like the admin from another Panthera server in my TS server last night looking for help. I'm raging too, but not at my host.

This happened to our brand new 2017 server last night with only a few people on testing. We found the amphibious gyrocopter (CSJ_GyroPboat) is bugged. It was spamming the setDamage log to death and causing the server to crash. I fixed it by using the map tool in the control panel (DayZ.ST) to remove the two amphib gyrocopters on the map (they appear as boat icons). Restarted server and everything has been fine since. There are a couple of threads on the opendayz.net forums about a similar issue, but they were describing something after somebody had interacted with the gyro. In our case, no one had even found one yet. On a related note, the 2017 server in question is our second. Both are hosted at DayZ.ST. Great host with almost 100% uptime in the month we've been with them. The only thing missing from this service is more access to server config files. Even an extension of the current form-based upload/replacement would be kickass. The server and mission pbo management works great and we've had tons of fun experimenting with the back end.