sinnaman

100 players total on our two servers at the moment - this is a good day. A very happy bandit today Sinnaman

Somehow this sounds like server abuse, could report to GSP if you have video proof.

Good tip, also if one is in possession of a GeForce GPU (newer models at least) you can just enable ShadowPlay, set the recording time to the last 5-8 minutes and just press Alt-F10 if something happens.

We tried using that earlier last fall (it was basically forced on us by Fragnet), and it did NOT work to our satisfaction. The server will be restarting every 2 hours, but it will push 3 minutes over every 2 hours it's running, basically throwing it off its schedule. However at the most active of times this is hardly an issue I reckon the server ends up crashing before a scheduled restart anyway with all the folks you've got playing. If you don't care about the server restarting at set times though, the solution works perfectly. :P

We've been messing with the settings on the 2nd server and decided to change it to 3PP:ON. We also changed the start times so the server will now be set to 6:45 AM game time when it starts. Come watch the sunrise with us, it's beautiful! Cheers, Sinnaman

Thank you, the hardcore server hasn't exactly been filled yet, but I'm sure that's simply because most HC players already have a steady "home". Hope you get a chance to play at some point, you are most welcome here. :)

I've long suspected that the rain is somehow connected to ToD, but there are no settings you can change or view to change or confirm this. There currently is no way to randomize the ToD at startup, you can however set it to be whatever time of day at the server timezone.

Are you with Vilayer?

Oh they're using the old BEC system..? That's a little.. odd...

Should not be a problem. Just switch and you should have the same character as long as you're using the same shard ID.

So far so good... Here there are no <--! or proper <code> entries on lines 2, 3, and 4. That's what's causing your mess. You should rather have the following; <!-- 2 Time Formats Can Be Used:--> <--! 00:00:00 - HH:MM:SS - Example, 02:30:00 would be 2:30am. Messages using this format are sent based on the node's time. It is recommend to set your ACP profile time to the same timezone as the node.--> <--!000000 - HHMMSS - Example, 003000 Is 30 Minutes From When Server Started-->Honestly, you shouldn't need to have any of what I've quoted in your script. They are just useless pieces of information for you now. Also make sure you're using the #shutdown command, not #restart. #restart just restarts the mission, not the server, and should be disabled IMHO.

IF you have a private shard you can use RCON tools like DaRT, but if it's a public server you'll have to deal with the GSPs own tools of server administration.

You'll maybe have to stick with global chat, unfortunately.

Classy, man. Just do the #login, select channel with ,; and .: and make sure you select the global channel. Then your server patrons can hear you jabber on whenever you like.

Hey Domi, just popped by to say thank you for your great efforts in making this application, it is dutifully used by myself and co-admins. Will be making a donation shortly. ;) Cheers, Sinnaman

Thanks to the great core players and key donations, we've now expanded the private shard to include one more Last of the Living DayZ server! The good thing is that (for now, at least) you can use the same character on both servers. Enjoy, Sinnaman

You're damn right, but there is actually one up already at http://dayz.gamepedia.com/DayZ_Standalone_Wiki which may need some help. I'm sure the work needed to keep this database updated is quite extensive. :) On a different note, feel free to use this scheduler script that I wrote for our server, found here. Instead of having cycles repeating itself every four hours (which may displace itself gradually) you're better off setting restart times to fixed times (server local time) to keep the restarts predictable. This script is intended for a 4-hour restart cycle from 13:00 server local time (meaning it will restart at EXACTLY 17:00, 21:00, etc). The script also warns players about upcoming restarts 10 and 3 minutes prior. Jobs 18 and 19 are server announcements which repeat themselves every other half hour. We use these as server ads; "Happy holidays, check out our teamspeak" and the like. You are of course free to add or remove jobs as you like, just make sure that the order of job ids is correct. I hope this was of some help to you as well.

This may be an issue with the server not connecting to the central hive properly. Even though your server is a private shard it still has to connect to BI to save/load character files and the like. Look into the post mentioned by The Riddler, or contact your server host. There are no respawns on restart on persistent servers. The items respawn when you pick up something, but in a different place on the map. Seriously, turn persistence off until the game developers can confirm that the loot economy is fixed (probably won't happen before february/march), unless you are crazy about being able to use tents/persistent storage. I tend to find the safest way is to connect when the server time says XX:01, as this indicates that the server is indeed up and running and has not frozen on restart. I've had our private shard wipe half the characters on the server when it froze at XX:00 after restart, any players who joined (until I restarted the server again, manually) lost their character. Definitely a hard blow to our player numbers there. :/

On persistent servers the loot is supposed to respawn automatically as other loot is picked up/leaves server. If the loot is not picked up, it will remain in place indefinitely (or until a storage file wipe, come server maintenance time). However, as the loot economy is bugged (until early 2015), you will soon enough find that some locations have an abundance (A LOT) of loot while other locations seem completely barren. This is why many server owners choose to leave persistence disabled since you're forced to restart the server at least every 4 hours anyway (this is also due to BI restrictions, not your GSP).

Just proves that multiplay is a shit host. These variables should be available to you by default.

Thanks to all the great folks that have made this their home we are now considering opening a second server (need more money though :P). We've opened up the TeamSpeak 3 server, so feel free to stop by and have a chat with us.

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Either way - character loaded up just fine before they took the servers down.

Hmm private hives seemed to be working fine (except for an extremely low server fps and up to 5 sec delays for actions), loaded up my character just fine. Too bad they took all the servers down, even the private hives.

It's been great but also heartbreaking to see the server fill up so quickly, and for all those left out we decided to add 10 more slots! Happy camping, Sinnaman