The Riddler (DayZ)

If anybody is willing to help donate to our server fees, we are still looking to get a total of $40.00 U.S. Any donations ($5, $10, etc) will be recognized in our server messages. We will thank any and all folks who help us keep the server running. If we don't get the funds before November 17th unfortunately we'll be shutting down until the game further develops. It doesn't mean we'll stop playing, but most likely will be on the rTr server ;)

We are still looking for folks to donate to help keep our server running. If you're willing and interested, please PM me or send an email to [email protected] We need to raise $40.00 to cover our November server dues. If we don't get the funds there is a chance we might take the server down until the game is further developed.

Glad to hear! I'll check out the server this afternoon!

I appreciate you trying to help but I've already done everything you've mentioned and no, it is not fixed for our server; the built in messages do not work for us. I've opened a new ticket and gotten no response as far as a fix, other than, "a fix is coming" and what was mentioned above, "restart manually". We've also re-wrote the script specifically due to the link you gave above and this is how we're able to restart every two hours now unless it freezes. As far as fixing things in a small window, it hasn't happened this time around as far as server stability. I do realize first and foremost this is still in Alpha but my biggest gripe is the transparency they give to server providers like fragnet on what is changing from update to update. Sure things will always break when you update, but this time around the changes were across multiple channels (BEC, Server providers, Day Z update to 0.49) and very little was provided to the end customer on what we can do to keep our server running optimally. Throughout all the troubles this month, we've still managed to keep our server's rank within the top 25. Today on gametracker we're ranked 18th so obviously people are playing, but as a server owner its been way too much "hands on" to keep the server running. Since this thread is on Rcon, I sure wish they'd provide it to public servers simply for the ease of administrating the server.......

That is not what I was asking you. I was asking if you were able to use the BEC scheduler to display messages and restart the server properly. From your response I see you're using the built in tool that Fragnet provides to restart. For us that tool does not work and we've put in a ticket for it. Since you're restarting every hour then I assume this is why you're seeing far less crashes/hang ups then the rest of us folks who are hosted by Fragnet. We're at 2 hour restarts as I mentioned above using the BEC tool and if we reach 40 players inside hour 1 of a 2 hour restart, its almost a guaranteed we'll have a server lockup before the server can automatically restart. Below is my ticket with Fragnet regarding the crashes we've seen as a result of 0.49 - as of today we have seen no improvements or updates to help restart our server as they continue to suggest we restart manually. Read the following ticket from bottom / up.

Are you able to get your messages to display correct through BEC currently in 0.49? We've made adjustments based on the note that Fragnet sent to all DayZ server owners, and as well re-wrote the script to have restarts every 2 hours with messages. Sometimes the messages display and sometimes they don't. No errors in the BEC logs on scheduled tasks not starting etc, and when we restart BEC it doesn't seem to make a difference. However the server does restart ever 2 hours without trouble (unless the server freezes due to being full) but again the messages sometimes display its about to restart and sometimes they don't. If you have any tips to share on how you got your scheduler working good, please let me know as our server is with Fragnet.net as well. Cheers.

We fixed our scheduler and now are restarting every 2 hours. Unless we hit 40 players and maintain 40 for over 30 mins. The server should remain stable. If it does freeze we manually restart it. We try and monitor the server as much as possible and restart when we see 40+ players have been on over 2 hours. If you are playing and notice the server is unresponsive (ex. Unable to do anything with your inventory or you see waiting for host when loading and it doesn't load) PLEASE CONTACT US!!! You can email: [email protected] Hop on our TS: dal-voice1.fragnet.net:9991

Happy to say we're restarting every 2 hours and seeing less issues. We did lock up twice yesterday when we were at 40 players but over night we saw less than 40 and the server was running this morning with 6 players active. I used some of the stuff from above so much appreciated.

Thanks man. We appreciate it. We're trying to raise $40.00 and that should help us to keep the server going. Had a few folks drop out of helping pay for our server so its been a bit tough keeping it going. We're gonna do our best to keep it up but if not we'll definitely hop on your server!!! Thanks for the support!

Yep, welcome to the club...... Having issues with our BEC still as well. We can't seem to get it to restart on its own but I think this still has to do with issues in 0.49. I've used several different scripts written by others and still seeing restart issues.....

We successfully reported two hackers to the Dev's for teleport hacking. We were able to ban 1 of 2 of the players as we were able to obtain their player name. Below is the video of myself and Apollo getting killed by way of these hacks. Watch closely as you'll see both of the hackers just suddenly appear. The first one appears at the top of the steps of the market while the second one appears in the grass just outside the market after Apollo gets killed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2skfTQEVAo Please report this type of stuff to us either in this thread or to our email address: [email protected] We take the cheating very seriously and have means of reporting said hackers/cheaters. Thanks for playing!!! We are working hard to keep the server online through November......

Well it looks like we'll be shutting this server down come Mid-November unless we can get some support from the community to help pay our server fees. Two of us right now are paying the fees and its honestly starting to become quite costly when we look at how much we're getting out of the server. If we had more admin tools it might not seem so much to bare but until the game gets further developed we are considering shutting down. If you're interested in helping by chance....send an email to [email protected] and we can share our paypal info.

Server CP came back up and we restarted. Game on!

We are unable to login and manually restart our server at the moment. Wer are getting no response once we attempt to login :( We will restart the server ASAP. We're hoping it will auto-restart since we're unable to access anything at this moment. Thanks for playing with us!!!

I had a feeling there was a new way for a player to crash the server...that's a real bummer. Another admin and myself yesterday witnessed a specific player return back to the server upon the random restarts we experienced yesterday over and over. We have persistence turned off at the moment and what we believe was being done was a restart to find a specific loot item. The server was roughly half full the first time we were on and got the "No message received". Server comes back up, myself and the other admin log back in and about 7 minutes later, another "No Message received" again. We log back in and Another restart within 5 mins. Logged back in and, 5 mins. later another restart! AGH!!!! >:( I assume the player found what they were looking for as the server then stayed up for about an hour 1/2 with that player staying on the server the entire time, but sadly it crashed when it hit 40 players so we manually restarted it.......again. In my mind's eye, I take this game for what it is.....its an Alpha and its not finished. Let the dev's work stuff out and as long as we continue to play and provide feedback it can only get better based on that.

Thanks man! We're battling server restarts every day with 0.49 but we're glad everybody is enjoying it. We had a good day yesterday with only a few lockups and crashes reported. We actively restarted the server every 2 - 3 hours yesterday and I think that helped keep the player count high!

We are back to 40 players and persistence is turned off. We have also turned off BattleEye Extended Controls for today to see if this helps aide with the server restarts as we continue to see hang ups surrounding restart. Yesterday I witnessed the server post messages of the server restarting in 5 Minutes followed by 1 minute, but the server did not restart. It seemed to still be running actually and not locked up, but we manually restarted the server to ensure everything was running smoothly. This morning unfortunately we found the server in a state of lockup as it showed players playing for over 12 hours :(. The server is back up again. Sure hope for a fix this week!! THANKS FOR JOINING US!!!! Please continue to play on our server! If you noticed the server is locked up, we have admins on everyday and you can contact an admin via email @ [email protected] CURRENT ACTIVE ADMINS: The Riddler Apollo Darth Dad

We have disabled persistence today as we've been having multiple restarts/crashes. It seems for the moment to have at least stopped it from restarting/crashing so frequently. We also have reduced the player amount from 40 to 30 temporarily to also help aide the restart/crash issue. If you have anything to report on our server you can post here or send to [email protected]

We have updated the server name to include "persistence enabled" so folks know in their server browser that we do it have turned on. We are restarting our server every 3 hours currently to curb the server crash/lag issues.

Just a note that our server does have "Persistence" enabled. We are also seeing the random restart/crash which seems to be due to the 0.49 update. Hotfix from this last Wednesday doesn't seem to have made any effect with regards to this matter.

Excited to see 0.49 released next week more so for the server performance improvements than the new guns, features, etc. Thanks for joining us on TeamSpeak3! Add us to your favorites!

Status: Server was hung up from Sunday night 21:44 tell 08:40 Monday morning. Action: We notified Fragnet of the issue, stopped the server & restarted. Server came right back up and running normal again. Cause: Speculative but we believe due to the high volume of traffic the server was seeing along with a lot of International Players connecting/disconnecting (NON U.S. Players) causing high ping, the server began to suffer performance wise and we believe froze up. On another note: Thanks to those of you who have helped us combat the hackers. We have an FTP setup to submit your video evidence once you report hacking to an admin. Remember to try your best to get the player's name as it helps us to submit the report to the developers. We know this is not easy to do so any help is greatly appreciated. Most common hacks we've eye-witnessed to date on the server: 1.) Unlimited clip for .22 Rifle, AKM, SKS, & M4's (ak101 possibly but have not witnessed this yet) 2.) Very large amounts of ammo found. Mostly found on dead bodies but have found large amounts of ammo on the ground; we're talking thousands of rounds of ammo (mosin, sks, m4 etc) 3.) Flying player(s) able to move anywhere on the map and into buildings. 4.) Teleporting players ability to move across the map at a rapid rate of speed. Thanks to all who play on our server! Please join us on TeamSpeak if you ever have a question or just want to play with a group.

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