vladsnakedragon

I am a bit curious at this. Why are there servers running DayZ, which are password protected? I've been seeing servers crop up as of late, that either have less than 30 (talking about 20 slot or even 10 slot servers), with password-protection on them. In a few cases I've had my friends play on a server, to find a vehicle, and try to repair it, only to come across the admins who had their eye on the same vehicle. Rather than fight it out, the admins kicked my friends, and locked the server. (this was about 2-3 weeks back) I see the servers actually follow the same structure of naming as official ones as well, which leaves me to believe they are violating the rules of server-hosting. Now, is there some sort of exception that these servers are on, that allows them to do such? As I see it, it gives an unfair advantage to anyone who will later join the server, or if the players would go to another server with gear farmed this way. Examples of locked servers at this post: US 300 with no-one on, 20 slots, locked. US 234 Seattle, with 3 people on, 50 slots, locked. AT #1, no-one on, locked. US 175, 10 slots, no-one on, locked. US 168, 40 slot, no-one on, locked US 142, 40 slot, no-one, locked US 220, 4 players on, 40 slot, locked. These are just some examples. I would just like this clarified, is there something in the rules that allows this? Because, boy, if it is true, our little group of friends would rent our own server right away, to play just by ourselves.

Yeah, a solution would be great, since the devs just go "Nope, we aren't rolling back our bugs to help you, tough luck"... which just pissed me off a tad. I've actually switched to playing on 1.6.0.1 because of this, which seems fine, and haven't had a single deposit in the ocean when switching clothes on it

Simple question... what is up with that? Yesterday we came across 2 bodies, both having insane amount of WEAPONS (read, 27 M4's, 77PDW's, a bunch of rockets ), today, was playing not 20 mins ago, a guy was rapid-firing rockets out of his launcher, took 4 shots to the head, stood up after each one, and took more shots to the body, before dieing, from an M24 (read, high powered sniper rifle), coming back not 10 minutes later to the airfield on the north... So what is actually being done to combat these? I saw the server came down earlier to ban more hackers, however, what's to stop them from ruining everyone's day? PS: I didn't die to one yet, we killed the one guy called Purple, however, if we did die to a hacker, and try and appeal it, it would mean another email from the devteam going "Nope, sorry, can't roll back the database", last one due to their own mod's glitch. Anyway :p Discuss!