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Looking forward to this, will keep my eye on this thread!

I agree with a grouping system of some form and have been saying that for a long time. But this is not the application for this type of system.

I have been getting kicked for #99

Are you referring to squad.xml stuff?

Rebooted my server a bit ago (didnt make any changes to files or make any updates, just a simple reboot) and now my group's camp and vehicles are all gone. Rebooted again thinking it was just a bad reboot and still everything gone but the server time went from 10PM (night) EST to 12:30PM (day) without any changes being made to the server files.

Never had it do it to be before until today. And its only doing it on 1 of my 2 servers (that run off the same files).

I am getting kicked for this when I go to the "server control" to login as admin.

Did a mandatory beta update just roll out? Cant connect to any servers all the sudden and just got an email about recommended build for all servers.

So, I have had a server for a bit and have run into a few minor issues along the way but the only issue I have been unable to figure out is how to send admin messages to the server. So for example: I want to shut my server down in 5 minutes for patch updates and general maintenance. But I don't want to just shut the server down with a bunch of people on it and risk them losing their gear/location/life because I decide to just shut the server down unwarned. How can I send a message to the server to warn players that the server will be shutting down in 5 minutes? I have setup rcon passwords, however If I login to admin there is no working way I have found to send messages. I can't get any remote rcon program to connect to the server, so that for now is not an option. Any ideas?

AR15 x2, Llama 1911 Parbellum 9mm, Rock Island Armory .45acp 1911, and several shotguns. I would hit the local gun store with force (several friends/family assisting all with military backgrounds), followed by the local Wallmart to secure as my new home. Directly across the street is a Home Depot which I would raid for lumber and other supplies to reinforce and barracade in the Wallmart. There are a lot of restaraunts and residentials all within a block of the wallmart / home depot / gun store as well as my house.

Hello all! I was just thinking about server administration and was curious about some things. My group watches the player list during any engagements to be sure to have the name of players who combat log or combat log and return in a new position to try to get the drop on you. My question is to the Dev's. As a server admin, do I have the right to ban players who I know are combat logging and server hopping after engaged to come back in a new spot to try to get a drop on you (player is engaged, disconnects, joins a new server and repositions, then logs back to your server)? So many times I get the names of players who do this but do nothing to stop them from returning to my server, as I am unsure if I am allowed to do this. Any information would be greatful. Thanks! - Meta, Survival Operations.

Anyone who pays for a 30 slot server just to play on it by themselves is an idiot. I think admins should be allowed to password their servers. Any admin who does and don't invite more players to their server (think of it like minecraft servers with whitelists) is shooting themselves in the foot. Nobody could possibly enjoy playing DayZ on their own in an empty server...

The connection issue is causing the "save player" packets to not be sent to the server/hive. Thus restarting him when he re-logs at his last save that made it through.

Yeah something like this in a web API where you just "upload" your log file and it spits out a parsed web page with details would be an amazing tool!

Im pretty sure DayZ does not have burning forests and grass where fires will spread. I have seen this a lot. It is due to a hacker dropping a nuke or some form of bomb on the server or all over the place on the server. Flames are everywhere you look and are bigger than the trees and buildings.

It is a matter of opinion and personal preference. I like to play with a large scale team in a tactical mil-sim enviornment. Highly unlikely. With proper tactics, overwatch, patrols, communication, and training (reaction to contact drills, etc) a single player will not be able to take out more than 2-3 guys before getting dropped. Also if you see 40+ organized survivors in an area, are you really going to be dumb enough to think you can shoot and take all 40 of them out without them finding you after your 2nd shot. Thanks! There is a lot of things involved with the group. Should be good times once we fully launch.

If you can find the fast boat, it is the fastest way to get around imo. Being able to speed from the south coast to the east coast could be a great way to pickup friendlies who died and respawned with little rick if you have the fast boat.

Not sure he was looking to start a group as much as join one. Thanks for submitting an app C4rt3r, we should be starting interviews and application processing within the week (next weekend at the latest).

Looking fopr some information about what can/should be done to keep up the quality of your server during downtime between reboots? (clear logs, etc?) What things do you guys all do as "Server Maintenance" to prevent your server from becoming laggy, outside of just simply rebooting?

The problem is we have it setup to not use the default log file name and location as we run several servers. So we made a log for each server its self. The bat file is trying to rotate the original default log file.

I agree that servers should be able to be password protected. Anyone locking their server and not inviting new players on a regular basis to come play are just shooting themselves in the foot. think of it how most MineCraft servers do it. They just build a whitelist of players who dont hack. I would invite bandits and survivors alike, so long as they were not hackers.

What is needed: I think if someone could build a log parser for this as well as a server_console.log to assist admins in checking logs, it would be amazing.

I dont seem to have a server.log in that folder location, just a scripts.log I have not rotated this file as of yet and it is so large that it will not open or causes any program i try to use to open it to crash. edit: Just checked the folders created by the log rotator .bat file and there are no files found in the folders. Must be something setup wrong in my .bat

Are you on ArmA X? Also I highly urge you to use 1 beta patch behind the latest at all times unless there is a beta with known issues and a new one comes out that fixes it (wait as long as you can before patching, check the forums and look for known issues within the first 24 hours of a release). From what I understand the LATEST beta has some issues. Also, how many servers have you tried? Some servers updated but did not install the latest hive files, causeing players to be stuck at wait for host or loading screen.

1.) Rarely. Only trolls and idiots use voip in game. You would be better off attaching a chemlight to yourself in the night. People only use this to listen for nearby players to kill. 2.) Respawns are random between the designated spawn points. If you want a better spawn kill yourself and try again. Unless there was a ninja update in the last patch making it so if you respawn kill yourself over and over it will keep spawning you in the same place for x amount of time. 3.) Cherno, Electro, Stary Sobor, NW Airfield (mainly firehouse, NE and SW barracks, and ATC), Berezino (however its safer than most towns).