ghostdad

So, myself and my friend were just banned from Atlanta 24. Why? Because we found Aim2wingaming's base for a second time. Two days ago, using their PUBLIC forum posts, we figured out where their base was and raided it. Here's the link: http://www.aim2wingaming.com/forums/f77/dayz-convoy-2481/ http://www.aim2wingaming.com/forums/f77/rawr-rawr-rawr-video-2482/ Between those pictures and the video they took, and approx 18 hours of searching, we found their base, stole everything, and wrecked it in glorious fashion. http://www.aim2wingaming.com/forums/f77/we-will-rebuild-2493/ And again, these gentleman decided to post pics of their new spot. http://www.aim2wingaming.com/forums/f77/camp-goldenleaf-2496/ We found this camp by sheer chance while we were heading north to the NW Airfield. Before we could steal all the vehicles, one of their players (Mayor's Bodyguard 1) logged in, shot me (which is fine) and my friend DeathRambo shot and killed him. Then 3 more logged in and shot him (also fine by me). We run back to where we found their base from the coastline hoping to be able to grab at least one of their vehicles, I found one van, but before i could get in, the server goes down with 0 warning. I quickly try and rejoin only to find out that I've been banned, as has my friend DeathRambo. This happened on June 24 at approx 1:00am EST. Earlier, which can probably be proved with the server logs, they had been restarting the server and setting it to night so they could raid the NW airfield with NVG's to make up for what they had lost. Please, for the love of god, blacklist this server. We will get others to retrieve our items. This kind of shit cannot be allowed to continue to happen.

I'm still banned... Does anyone who read this thread still think i was hacking? Bump

Same bullshit happened to us on Atlanta 24 http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=20494 67 posts and 5000 views later, nothing happened :(

This happens quite often for us, i've logged out staring at a vehicle, restarted the server to fix desync, only to come straight back in to see no cars. Restart always fixes it.

Posted this to the Dev-heaven DayZ page, but I figured it could get more feedback and momentum if copied here. I did see a few other suggestions that are essentially the same, but not as developed and detailed, so I thought it would be worth posting. Separating cartridge types (45 ACP, 7.62x39, ect) from their respective clips, besides adding more realism to the game, could add interesting changes to survival gameplay. The number of clips a player can find for their specific gun limits their ability to fire for long periods of time. We can imagine survivor X finding an AK74 with two magazines. Each magazine could have a random number of rounds in it, anywhere from full to empty. Survivor X also finds a box of 7.62x39 ammunition containing 100 rounds. Survivor X could then manually fill up their magazines, to the 30 round capacity. So at this point, our hero could have anywhere from 100-160 rounds of ammunition on their person, but can only effectively use 60 of those rounds in combat. The action of reloading (probably though a right-click context menu in the inventory) takes time, limiting the players ability to reload their magazines in combat with zombies or players. Possible outcomes (Positive): 1. Players are forced to be more conservative with their shooting. (assuming magazines are less common than bullets, my recommendation) 2. Ammunition crossovers (Ex. PDW's accepting g17 clips) make much more sense. 3. Difficulties associated with rare weapon ammunition are preserved. FN FAL clips can be quite rare, while the ammunition for the weapon (7.62x51 NATO) can be more common since the DMR, m14 and others all use it. 4. More incentive for group play. Common ammunition types facilitate groups pooling and stockpiling them. 5. Adds mechanic for special types of ammunition. Examples: 9mm P+, .50 High Explosive, Tracer Ammunition, Hollow-Point (Less effective vs armored and more effective vs unarmored. Noob Killers), Sub-Sonic (For silenced weapons) and many other real life examples. 6. Allows balancing of special ammunition types to be more precise. For certain types, like the .50 HE, finding a full clip of ten rounds could be too powerful. This would allow single rounds to be found. 7. A new tool for the survivors to hunt down. The ever elusive magazine loader. 8. Subsonic ammunition allows silenced ammunition to be rare without the SD Mag silliness. 9. Many things I may have missed. Possible outcomes (Negative): 1. Total Chaos. Balancing this new mechanic could prove extremely difficult. Particularly with the multi-weapon ammo types. PDW ammo would probably be very common, since half of the sidearms in the game would also share it. This would probably be offset by the rarity of the magazines, but the STANAG is also problematic, because in real life, the M16, L85A2 and M4 use the same magazine type. While it is the case already that these weapons use the same ammo type (30 round STANAG clips), this new mechanic could add an undesirable 'weight' to these weapons, making them more valuable since most weapons would have unique magazine types. 2. Mo' Complexity, Mo' Problems. Getting this mechanic to work properly could turn out to be nightmare. Without access to all the DayZ code, its impossible for me to estimate the difficulty of implementing this (or whether it is even possible in the Arma 2 engine). My gut says it would be hard. 3. No doubt, many things I haven't thought of. (But I'm sure are running through your brain, if you are reading this, Hi Rocket!:) Things you will need: 1. A mechanic to add ammunition to magazines. (Right click magazine, context menu opens, select fill magazine) 2. New models for magazines and ammunition. Some can be reused, 1911 and revolver ammo come to mind. (Also, excellent chance to turn the winchester back to the rifle it was always meant to be... Just sayin) 3. A mechanic for reloading weapons that do not use magazines. Mainly shotguns would be affected, but the revolver and CZ550 could also use this. Rounds would need to be loaded into the gun one at a time. Could be sidestepped by using the first mechanic to produce loose shells (the 'magazine') from boxed ammunition. We can imagine the survivor needing to take the shells out of the box before they are readily useable. 4. A mechanic to reveal the number of rounds in a magazine. Cool stuff you could add: 1. The ever elusive magazine loader. A tool that substantially reduces the time it takes to reload magazines. 2. A mechanic to add a single round to any gun without needing a clip. In real life, any gun can be chambered with a single round without the need of a clip being inserted. Probably very difficult to code for what could be a very minor feature. However, every survivor who ever found a gun without magazines would probably appreciate their single shot AK74, or makarov :P. 3. A mechanic to unload magazines and recover the ammunition inside them. This could become very important if the decision is made to make the ammunition more rare than the magazines. I would be happy to work on the necessary new models, all I would need is certain raw models to compare size and LOD for consistency. PM me on the forums (ghostdad) if you need/want my help. TLDR: Make bullets separate from magazines.

Thanks for all the support! While it may be impossible to implement in the current state of DayZ (a mod), we can all dream of the day when we are playing the stand-alone game, frantically trying to reload a magazine as the rounds are whizzing above our heads and the zombies are shambling into the house, attracted to the scent of our blood.

Can we has updated ETA? Kthxbai

Bump We will never forget

+1 For video evidence. +1 For giving no quarter to cowards. Keep it real US 104

Bump for Justice

We just got our server set up today, found this about server commands. http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Multiplayer_Server_Commands We were wondering if there were any other server commands we should be aware of, specifically we are looking for a way to send a message to everyone on the server, "Server restart in 5 Mins" and things like that. Also, any helpful tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your responses, using Rcon GUI, enjoying it. In case anyone comes here looking for information, this thread was also helpful. http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=8547&highlight=server+commands

Why is raiding a camp a "dick move"? To answer your question, I want the ban lifted partly as a matter of principle, and the other half is I want a fair chance to retrieve my items, since I doubt a blacklist will happen in a timely fashion. Mayor of Cherno is currently reading this thread, and I am currently still banned.

Please explain to me why I am still banned. Do you still think I was hacking? Was my explanation of how we found your camps insufficient? Why should I PM you and explain our methodology? If you hadn't banned us, you probably would've just kept posting your camp on your forums and we would have continued to raid it. The way I see it, you abused your admin powers to force us to reveal your security leak. You held every vehicle, weapon, tent and goddamn can of beans that we had spent days collecting HOSTAGE until we explained to you how you were outplayed. If some other group came to you and started throwing out hackusations with no proof, you would have probably said "sorry dude, tough luck, they probably outplayed you." But since it was your group, you banned with 0 cause. And to ice the abuse-cake, after you banned us, you raided our base. We had no way to defend ourselves, and as of now we cannot counterattack. Why would you raid our base when you banned us for, at best, dubious reasons? Because you knew that the base would be lightly defended, if at all. Not because you found out when we wouldn't be on, or saw us somewhere else on the map, but because you barred us from playing. That is a clear abuse of your power as admins of Atlanta 24, and should not be tolerated. Right now, I want my ban lifted. ASAP, I want your server blacklisted. The facts as I see them: 1. Mayor of Cherno shut down his server while we were in the process of stealing one of his clan's vehicles. 2. Mayor of Cherno banned us from his server, preventing us from logging back in and finishing our properly earned vehicle theft. 3. Mayor of Cherno PM's me wanting for an explanation of how we found his vehicles. Literally forcing us to reveal our tactics to him, making them useless in the future. 4. ghostdad returns his message with a link to this forum. 5. Mayor of Cherno gets butthurt and uses information from the post to locate and raid our base, while we were still banned, after we had provided a detailed and valid methodology for how we found his base. 6. Mayor of Cherno cannot understand how posting pictures and videos of a campsite can be used by other players to locate their positions. 7. A even more detailed, step by step explanation is offered to Mayor of Cherno. 8. Mayor of Cherno goes on and on about how immature we are for some reason, and to my reading of his post, admits that we did not hack in any way, shape or form. 9. As of right now, I am still banned from his server.

Listened to the whole thing, and can confirm that I do not know the person who went into your vent, nor do they know me. I have no interest in downloading ventrilo and talking to you. The internet and these forums are public. This person clearly read this post, and took it upon themselves to troll you. This explains why this person was unable to answer any of your questions, because they didn't know anything. I will reiterate aardvark's comments that we have no interest in communication with you outside of this forum. We do not.

Yes, keep me banned while you raid our base, GJ bro.