OfficerRaymond

Get your little fairy ass outta here you Prius owning Summa' Bitch! lol @OP, I agree. We need a variety of vehicles in standalone. ATVs included. My personal favorite post apocalyptic vehicle would be a John Deere Gator Utility vehicle with light steel plating and razor wire.

It's not about the use, it's about the immersion it brings to the table.

I'm buying it because at this point, I pretty much have an obligation to... lmao.

Pretty much this^ for me too. Occasionally I'll dick around with buddies, but I just totally can't find myself having much fun at all, and tbh don't care for the spirit of the mod anymore... I think it's mainly just the direction the community is headed in regards to the heavy focus on PvP, and the total lack of the 'old' feeling you (I) used to get with DayZ. Even when we had douchebag skiddies, as50s/m107s, and ridiculous bugs... there was always that sense of hope that you'd have that you'd run into some cool guys... which I did plenty of times. But that feeling has long since passed, and has been replaced by not even wanting to play due to the game being SO heavily PvP oriented. The long (or short) wait til' standalone shall for me, hold many hours of Battlefield 3 and 4 honing my trigger finger.

Beans beans the magical fruit, the more you eat the more you toot... the more you toot the better you feel. So eat your beans for every meal.

Everything should have the ability of being thrown tbh. Get in a firefight? Run out of bullets? Throw your makarov.

No. They have no business in a post apocalyptic wasteland.

Live in the backwoods, go outside on a no moon night, and say that again.

I agree with this. There should be some sort of accelerated time cycle.

Its a survival simulator, night time is meant to be part of the game. Its supposed to scare you, you aren't supposed to like it... That's part of the game. People shying away from it because they don't like it, gets on my nerves, lol. You don't, HAVE TO play at night, but you conforming to my playstyle its just a much me conforming to yours.

Am I forcing him to do anything? Jesus the stupidity of people these days. If you get that bad of a ping living on the east coast on a west coast server, you shouldn't be playing dayz, because your internet sucks that bad. In case you hasn't noticed, I have "fit in here" for the past 9 months. Don't give me the shit people try to give new forumites, it ain't gonna fly bubs. Get yourself an avatar FFS. No wonder I have no clue who you are.

Then play in a different time zone? There you go.

I cannot wait till standalone. Hopefully it'll have amazing nights that are locked to time zones.

Sadly at this point it's only a mod, and there aren't going to be fixes for a lot of things. DayZs bane has been hackers since it released, that'll never change in the mod tbh. We'll have to wait til' the SA to see any real results as per getting rid of hackers in Chernarus

Its a terribly buggy script. Lol

You don't need 'full knowledge', it's a learn as you go basis. I was in your boat when I started, I just put forth the effort to LEARN what I was doing. That line of code you posted is the fire from the wreckage of a blown up car/chopper, basically when someone destroys a vehicle. That is all part of learning what is what. I totally disagree with you. Yes, they are similar to hacks in-game, but they are useful features in an admins arsenal. When you can spectate or even teleport invisible to a possible hacker, it keeps everyone in the server calm, and you can say that you're actually doing something instead of sitting on your ass hoping that your 'anti-hack' is working correctly. They are only 'hack-tools' if you abuse them and make them be that way. If you can't trust yourself to use them correctly in the first place, then you shouldn't be admining a server, let alone owning one. It's called old-fashioned administrating. As I have said before. There is no REAL anti-hack that allows you to sit back and do nothing with your server. Sometimes the anti-hacks just don't catch what a good team of admins could catch. If you immediately go through the logs, or have people tell you when it happened, then it can be dealt with in much less than an hour. No, you can't tell who is nuking by spectating, spectating is for catching TP'ers and weapon spawners. But you can catch them by reading log files. I guarantee you the best anti-hack in the world wouldn't solve this issue, as they can always find a bypass to it. As I have said a million times before, you need to look into the logs, catch suspicious lines, and research them. It's becoming pretty apparent that you don't want to listen, even though I'm answering your question with the past knowledge and experience of a top ten server. What you choose to do with your server is your business. I can't force you to do anything with it that you don't feel like doing, and I won't try to either. But I will tell you that your server will remain a hacker infested shit-hole (no offense) until you start involving yourself more in-depth with the responsibilities of an owner/admin. If you don't have time, then teach one of your admins to do it.

If it's a private server, then nothing can be done except to ruin their publicity. If you're correct in all this, then that should take care of itself.

Amen. Not only do they devote their time and effort into it, but they have to deal with constant assaults by selfish assholes. Of course some of us are upset (to a certain extent) that it isn't out yet, I'm part of that group myself. But there is a line drawn between maturity and selfish childish actions. The mature gamers get over it and the cynical bastards whine on. I think I was a little annoyed at the promised release date being missed for about, oh... a day, maybe two. Then I got over it, continued my quest in the mod, and realized that with this postponing of the SA, that more content would be perfected/fixed come actual release. Some people are to selfish/impatient to grasp that concept.

^this. No way I'd ever let my copies of Arma 2, Arma 2 OA, Arma 2 BAF, and Arma 2 PMC out of my sight.

I'm not even sure what a 'Kat' ban is...

That may be so, but you have to be able to trust yourself and your admins with that responsibility and power. If you can't then you shouldn't own a server in the first place. Our old server has canned several idiot admins that couldn't cut it, some people just can't handle it. As per the breaking legs thing. Nothing made me happier than when I caught a hacker than fucking with him. I remember when As50s were removed from our server, some moron spawned one in and sat on sniper hill. What he didn't know, was that I was in elektro and he shot me. I fucked with him for about ten minutes making noises in direct chat and throwing tin cans at him. He finally called hacks and I called him out on being one himself (him not knowing the entire time I was an admin). He made some lame excuse about how people always assume you're a hacker if you have a sniper, and I went on to tell him, and I quote: "Really? Well, next time you probably shouldn't shoot and admin in the face with a gun that is banned on his server." He immediately logged, and I banned him. Things like that I honestly don't feel guilty about doing. Sure, it probably was abusing my power... So what? If someone feels the need to judge me that harshly about pissing off a hacker and ruining his day, then so be it, judge away. False, your server provider should keep a log of files in-between server restarts that log coding. It'll be a players name, GUID, IP, and what action of code they executed (or something similar). You NEED to sit down frequently and read these codes. Get familiar with what is normal (what you see often), and what you think may or may not be suspicious. If something is suspicious, take it to google and research if this is a hack or not. Usually it isn't to hard to dig up some info if you are diligent enough. Or, if something appears several times and isn't normal... Example: pipe_bomb pipe_bomb pipe_bomb pipe_bomb pipe_bomb pipe_bomb pipe_bomb pipe_bomb pipe_bomb pipe_bomb pipe_bomb pipe_bomb ^That would tell me someone went ape-shit with satchel charges, and that I needed to ban that person for hacking in explosives. (Yes, that IS a real line of coding, just there is much more to it than just 'pipe_bomb'). It's all part of YOUR job as an admin of a DayZ server. You took this responsibility when you agreed to pay for one, it isn't a mandatory one, but it is the morally right one.

But, what I'm getting at is that not everyone has those skills. I probably couldn't do that kind of stuff either, but didn't have to. I just took what I knew to be hacks or was suspicious about from the server logs every 4 hours, and added that to the Battleye filters, restarted, and saw what happened. If it worked, awesome, if not... then I put forth the effort to fix it. Paid anti-hacks can make this much easier for non-tech people, because many give the options to add certain things to filters, without entering walls of text that is confusing and overwhelming to someone that can't understand them. Hell, veteran server owners can't even read some of those lines of text. One time I found a particular line in my setpos log for a player that stated "secretN*****string" (not gonna repeat the very racist word, but I think most can decipher it). Needless to say it was added to the filters, but still, who on earth knows what the fuck it exactly was and did.

So... Here I am... After a long LONG time with the DayZ community, and a gaming veteran... I have finally decided to create a gaming community. The Manly Dude Gaming CommunityTM. Requirements? Nothing, you don't have to have any special traits, or know anyone... you just have to be a friendly manly man that enjoys gaming. Feel free to join my Teamspeak and socialize, I'm usually there, and a quick message or poke should be enough to wake me. Just remember, be courteous and don't start trolling, flaming, spamming, or annoying people in any way. Anyone that does so will be given a warning and be labeled as such and any further warnings will warrant a kick/ban. General douchebaggery will be dealt with quickly. Obviously we'll be playing DayZ, but I'll also have channels set up for BF3, BF4, War Thunder, LoL, and other games at the request of others. It's going to be a small community at first, it's only a 20 slot teampspeak for now... but I'll upgrade it as I see fit if the community increases in size. My teamspeak has really been empty over the past few weeks, and it needs some use. Eventually I'll find a home server for the community to reside, but for now, it's open. If you join, look for someone playing the game you like, and join that channel and find out where they're playing. Public servers are currently the home of Manly Dude DayZ, but if anyone would like to volunteer a fairly popular server, I'll add it to the Channel list :D I hope to see some of you in there, and look forward to gaming with you all. It's about time that I start gaming with forum members, I have known most of you for months but never heard any voices behind the avatars. Follow me on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/ManlyDudeGaming Like me on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/ManDudeGame?ref=hl And here is a forum sig for anyone that wants it: See you all soon! Teamspeak: 209.105.240.98:10051

This isn't going very far.... lol.

^THIS.... You're in for a long, terrible road ahead if you can't even figure out your control panel. Frankly, and harshly, I would just say forget owning a server man... it really isn't for everyone. Much harder than most people think.