The Riddler (DayZ)

Here is a screen shot from our fragnet control panel. As you can see we have the option to delete the loot storage file which I assume is like a reset? As well we can restore the loot storage file. Fragnet states they back this file up every 24 hours and can be restored once every 24 hours. fragnet options by As I mentioned above, we turned it off due to the inconsistency in spawning loot (i.e. sometimes gobs in one location vs other places with nothing)

Ah ok. Sorry I can't help with that part of it. My provider was very helpful in helping us sort out our scheduler issues. You might want to see if they can help you here since you're paying for the server. Best of luck and maybe somebody else can chime in here to help....

Yep, just like kichilron said, not too much too it right now. I'll add that you do have the ability to install BEC (BattleEye Extended Controls) which will allow you to create jobs to display messages or have more control over when the server restarts. I'll admit when I first rented my server I was so excited to have control and be able to change things to our liking only to find it was a bit limited. The picture below best describes that moment I logged into our Server Control panel for the first time ;)

Just adding that with Fragnet we have full control over enabling or disabling persistence. Hope other providers make it this easy:

Glad to help another survivor! I made a general post about this issue in the .50 discussion thread since there is discussion in there about player's losing their character. Not sure if its related but I mentioned what I said above in hopes it helps others. I'm gonna search the dev tracker today to see if its an open item or has been reported.....

Glad to help. :thumbsup: That was a frustrating day but I was glad I figured it out really quick.

When a server restarts, don't jump right back on especially if the server states the time is 08:00. Give it a few more seconds or minutes to update to the real time the server starts at and then join. I've been a victim on my own server of exactly what you describe above. Our server start time in game is 12:30 and i joined right after a restart when it read 08:00 and lost my character and spawned a new location. I believe the dev's are already aware of this issue so hopefully fixed soon, but for now when a server restarts, take a quick break and then come back and join the server and see how that works. Best of luck out there.

Well the server has now been up for a few hours since we turned off persistence and low and behold our traffic is way up again. We also received word from fragnet regarding persistence: Thanks for all of you who have given me feedback in this forum or on our TeamSpeak. Enjoy playing!

Click! Click! Click! :D Very nice, calm and collect. Well done sir.

head over to http://www.dayzdb.com/map <<< you can set way point on there so it gives you an idea of how far you have to travel. You simply click on a location of the map and then click another location and it will draw the distance for you. As far as GPS, your brain will be your GPS :) You'll just have to learn your surroundings which in all honesty comes quick if you play enough. There are aslo Android and iphone apss out there as well which can help you navigate through the map.

I think what you're missing, you actually made a point about. I've killed hundreds with both guns and I still can't "hands down" say one gun is better than the other due to the damage bugs and spread issues. Just like you, i've been shot in the head, point blank by a teammate for testing purposes by both guns, and each of them produced the same results as follows: AKM - 1st time. ) One shot to the head and dead 2nd time.) One shot to the head - unconscious and only my sunglasses were ruined. AK101 - 1st time.) One shot to the head and dead 2nd time.) One shot to the head - unconscious and only my helmet was ruined. As the game progresses each gun will have its advantages and disadvantages but right now I don't think its fair to put your hand down and say "X" gun is definitely better "Y" gun. Not until the gun physics get ironed out.

We decided to turn it off today instead of waiting. We had to have Fragnet reinstall Day Z for unknown reasons today and our traffic really died once we turned it on. Now that's its been off for the past hour I've seen more players in the daytime than I have over the last several days during daytime hours here in the U.S. Not saying persistence had a direct impact on player count, but I can't rule it out. Are more of you leaning this way as well? We want to turn it back on asap but will wait for further development and news from the dev's on the state of persistence. Really appreciate you all commenting. Please keep it coming. This can be good for new server owners or others who are thinking about turning on or off.

Head further inland and checkout the military base's. That's where you'll find the guns you're looking for ( I assume you're looking for more than a rifle ;) ) In particular you could hit up the military base near Zelengorsk, as well check out the town of Zelengorsk. There is a prison on the south end as well as a barracks which usually will have AKM's inside it. Once you've checked out Zelengorsk, keep heading north to the North West Air Field (NWAF). There are tents there as well as barracks etc. You're bound to find what your'e looking for up there,but beware if you're on a populated server, your chances or running into another player up there is increased for sure. You're welcome to check my server out! See my signature. I have persistence off and 4 hour restarts.

Our server has been restored with a fresh copy of Day Z installed. PERSISTENCE IS NOW "off" UNTIL THE NEXT UPDATE (0.51)

Well folks, sorry to jump the gun here, but our server unfortunately wouldn't start today and our provider Fragnet is having to re-install the instance of Day Z for us. Therefore, we've decided to disable persistence instead of waiting until tomorrow. Please forgive us if you login and don't find your gear! We won't be turning persistence back on until another release (0.51 etc).

Can you post your files here for us to look at? I just spent some time re-writing my schedule for a public server and finally got everything working the way I want with regards to jobs in the schedule. Keep in mind as of 10/10/2014 - BEC updated the formatting of the scheduler. Below is the message we received from our provider (fragnet)

Persistence is starting to become a pain and we're considering turning it off starting WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11TH @ 07:00. We've had far too many complaints with gear not staying as it should and we got our first report of loot piles at the NWAF after the server restarted. We want to make it fair for all players and feel by turning it off it will help new spawns gather gear better. Our server will restart every 4 hours starting at 04:00, 08:00, 12:00, 16:00 and repeating every day. We are setting up messages that will display starting 30 minutes before restart, followed by 15, 5 and 1 min.

Thanks for the input so far. I'm starting to feel the same as far as traffic to our server. We're down from the last 2 weeks quite a bit and I can't help but think persistence is mainly to blame. Overall our server has been running far better than it did on 0.49 but we kept persistence off then. Anybody else care to share? I'm leaning towards turning it off on our server.

Thanks man. I reported that as well a few pages back in that thread. Found a random server to play on and found gobs and gobs of loot at the NWAF. I have to this day NOT seen this on my server. We've checked and checked and we're not seeing this issue which makes me wonder what is different about our server and/or what our provider is doing differently than those servers with this issue.

We are looking to have people help us test persistence to see if its DayZ (0.50) or if it has something to do with our proivder (Fragnet). What we are looking for is people to join our server and actively communicate with us in TS on when they put down their gear in tents or simply just stash their gear in their place of choosing. We are not asking people to share their loot or their locations. We are simply asking for you to report to us when you drop your gear and if you're able to recover it or if you've lost it. We have an option to restore the persistence file that is backed up every 24 hours by Fragnet. We are hoping with the help of the community who actively plays on our server to help people keep their gear longer or maybe for as long as they play with us. Please join us on TS @ dal-voice1.fragnet.net:9991

Well Persistence seems to be having issues. We have a few that have reported their tents are missing after logging back in. We have not made any changes to the server's setup, nor changed any config for BEC. Sorry if you've lost gear you thought would stay - we're at the mercy of getting more info from the community or dev's on how to fix this.

Persistence so far seems just fine. Few more days of playing and testing and we should have a good grasp on if we'll leave it on full time or not. We will give notice before we make any changes!!!

With 0.50 out today we are enabling persistence. We have already done one restart and items are remaining. We will leave persistence on unless we see issues arise over the next few days. If we do decided to turn persistence off, we will notify folks via this forum as well as an ingame message. Thanks for playing!!!! Join our TS!!!!

I am happy to announce we'll be around another month! Thanks to the community for supporting us and helping out. We really do enjoy running a server and enjoy watching so many survivors return to play once again. IF all goes well today with the update which I assume is why the servers have all been down now for 5+ hours, we'll turn on persistence and give it a shot. Please give feedback here if you'd like! I read through it all and will do what I can to address your issues/concerns. THANK YOU FOR PLAYING!!!!

Thanks for all the info Dev's! This is very exciting news, especially the new inventory layout!!!