The Riddler (DayZ)

I wish you would read closer before replying; seriously i'm not trying to be a dick either, but you need to read closer as I've already covered the points you've made several times in detail, but I will digress one last time. The option in fragnet has always been there and we've always been a public server. Never switched from Public to Private and with this server, we won't ever do that, we'll simply rent a second server if we want a private shard. There is a way to tell who is hacking; these days in .52 its more obvious than ever. The player will teleport around so quickly that they can be spotted from very far away especially when on open flat ground. This is even more visually apparent when you're driving a VS3 and a player will not only keep up with the truck, but out pace it and start doing circles around the moving vehicle but their character will look like they're just standing still. I have plenty of video evidence to support all of this. Killing hackers is not easy, but its absolutely possible to kill them. I have proof positive video evidence of it and had the hack confirmed by the admins on here as well as the BI developers; We killed the said hacker(s) and got the name(s) before they could log out or respawn leaving the dead character as "unknown entity". Furthermore, we've started noticing hackers like to use the name "unknown entity" to try and conceal their player identity if they do indeed getting killed. Below is a strategy that we have used numerous times to kill said hacker(s). The number one thing you don't want to do is just "run away" or worse attempt to log out. That is what 90% of the hackers expect you to do and so they'll teleport ahead of you, take aim and you become "unconscious" or "you are dead" almost instantly. If you attempt to log out it makes things even easier for them as your players stops moving making you easy prey. Over the past few months, myself and a few other admins got so sick of our server getting overrun by cheaters that we have developed tactics to combat the hackers and they have proven to be successful. Please note I've died more times trying to kill a hacker than I have killed hackers, but getting just one of their names is worth 100 character lives to me. Below is a list of tactics we follow: Immediately begin recording (all of us admins have Fraps ready to go at the push of a button AT ALLTIMES)Don't run awayDon't stop movingStart to run randomly around the area, and if possible, get out into the open (like a field etc) so the hacker is easily spotted as they teleport around. zig zag, giggle, do whatever it takes but don't stop.Stay away from walls especially if they are using a melee weapon. This is the number one way I've watched hackers AXE somebody in the back of the head as they'll clip through the wall with the axe raised.Try to melee the hacker; we've found this to better than attempting to shoot them unless you have a scout in the distance who can zero in a shot while the other players are in a melee battle. If you are alone and have a shotgun, they seem to be the best gun for taking them down as they don't change direction well. Shoot/Melee into the lane they are teleporting into. You'll start to see the pattern in which they move around and you'll start to get accustom with their moving patterns so you can anticipate shooting them. Hackers can't teleport into a building upstairs. If they are using a non-assult rifle we'll move into the upstairs of a small building.Don't get frustrated if you die; the hackers will almost always hang around a high populated area like the coastal cities so you can get after them again once you respawn. If they have an assault rifle; there is no denying this, you're screwed 99.9% of the time. <<< I am being as honest as I can with this. Another way to have absolute proof of a hacker is when you A.) break their legs, or B.) knock them unconscious. They have the ability to still move across the floor as if their legs are not broke/passed out and they will always at that point try to get away. The problem they'll have is, they have to bandage or find a way to fix their legs, both of which requires them to crouch and perform an action in place. That is the time we have killed them the most if not outright from a blow to the head. It is at that point where we will screenshot their name, bring up the player list while recording, and make a verbal point in the recorded video of the said player, then kick and add their name to the ban list. The video evidence is then turned in for proof positive ID on the said hacker. If we receive word back they do not believe this person was hacking, the player name is removed from the banlist. To date we've never had to remove a single name. If the admins on here feel the information I've provided is against our forums rules, I respect that and understand why this post will be removed. Happy Hunting Folks,

You are right on point man. It does get ahead by 3 mins and the server does crash sometimes before the 2 hour point. I just witnessed it crash about 35 mins. into this last restart. It always seems to happen as somebody is joining from what i've observed. The script does what we need which is restart the dang server at about 2 hours. It seems to hang less vs. our normal 4 hour restarts. Just hope .53 fixes some of this stuff.

We understand how important it is to have significant proof before banning anybody and thus why the only players to date we've banned are proof positive hackers. Each player we've caught we have created a folder on our FTP for and in those folders are screenshots of the playerlist, and video(s) of the player in the act of cheating including video of their name on screen after checking their pulse. We do all that so we can always backup our case of a "just cause" ban.

Thanks, I already had an account created. The admins here helped me sort out the issue by resetting my account.

Then why do I have the option of a ban list.txt in my CP of Fragnet as a public server? Names are added as we catch hackers and at this time its the only reason we add a player to the list . The rules according to this document: http://dayz.com/files/pdf/Server_Hosting_Rules_Public.pdf states that: Hacking is a just cause for kick/ban especially when you have Video evidence and the players name. Fragnet has confirmed this with me and the complaint filed by a person who we banned was indeed hacking. Boneboys even confirmed this hacker for us after sharing the name and video with him and the GUID was added to the BEC global banlist.

Nice shot!!!!!

Good group of guys!!! Wish I was in Europe fulltime so my ping wouldn't suffer so much but still a great group!!!

Got some help from Fragnet on a simple way to restart the server every 2 hours without having to create a job for each 2 hour restart. I have not tested this yet on my server but plan to today. I will reply back once I've had a chance to test. I'll setup messages warning of the restart 15, 10, 5 and 1 min before the restart. If this works, it will make our scheduler's much more simple going forward. <job id="3"> <runtime>020000</runtime> <start>020000</start> <day>1,2,3,4,5,6,7</day> <loop>6</loop> <cmd>#shutdown</cmd> <cmdtype>0</cmdtype> </job>

You should read better before you post. We're not talking about Private Shards here. Please post something of use instead of insulting other server owners who are discussing banning/kicking. We are a public server and have a ban.txt file inside the Control Panel of our server. We're using Fragnet as our GSP. If we indeed catch a hacker (killed and video recorded) we add that player's name to the ban list and kick them immediately from the server by pressing "P" , highlight their name, and click "kick". We then follow up with an admin on these forums to report the incident along with the video evidence. It doesn't solve the problem with hackers, but it does at least slow them down. As far as complaints against the server for kicking, we've had a few reported but with recorded evidence and screen shots of the player list at the time we kicked, our provider has dropped the complaint and replied back to us that we had sufficient evidence for the kick/ban. Also we received this from Fragnet the other day regarding BEC. This might help some fellow server owners using BEC:

We appreciate everyone who plays on our server. We stay full all day long thanks to players like you. Thanks for making our server your home! Elektro continues to be the place of death. Please enter Elektro on the basis that you will probably be shot at before you're able to even say hello. Admins treat Elektro at this time as KOS. If you join our TS, we will know NOT to KOS. We are currently working to overhaul our schedule again with the changes brought forth by BEC. We're hoping this will keep the server running throughout the night with 2 hour restarts as it tends to freeze in the middle of the night. Fragnet has been helpful in reporting our crashlogs to BI, but until a new build comes out we'll continue to have this issue. Below is a message we received from Fragnet regarding the changes to BEC:

I would love to report it but my login for the devtracker still doesn't work. Steak and Potatoes was looking into for me but I have not heard back from him in a while.........

Hey gang, Been busy with the holidays and what not but a friend of mine found this while playing. This is the first time myself or the player that shot this has seen this view. I've heard this view exists but have not seen it until .52. He got this screen while on "Please wait" and it appears you can control the bird's view while on "Please Wait". When you're on the menu of course you can't control the bird. Thought it was interesting and cool! Hope we who admin servers will have this ability to spectate!

Really sorry about that man. All that can be done is to report it to us and try your best to get the hacker's name. We are lucky sometimes and will get their name, plus video evidence which we then report here. Thanks for playing and always feel free to join our TS!

Thanks for joining us! We're usually on in the evenings U.S. time and mostly on all day during the weekends. You're welcome anytime! Thanks for playing!

We have changed our restart times to 2 hours. Persistence remains off.

This happens on my server. Its like the server gets behind or something. See my post above yours. It could be related but maybe not. Server won't run on its own all day without somebody there to manually restart. No fun :(

I am seeing a lot of crashes unfortunately on my server and it appears to be related to .52 so thought i'd post it here:

Thanks for this. I've had a few report VS3's at Green Mountain but didn't see it on the map or honestly care to go up there and look myself. :) Happy New Year Survivor's.

HAPPY NEW YEAR SURVIVOR'S!!!! THANKS FOR MAKING OUR SERVER YOUR HOME!!!

Thanks for playing!!!

Finally have our scheduler all fixed up once and for all!!!! Restart messages are now working!!! We are still seeing an occasional unexpected restart so please bare with us. The only good thing about those is new unexpected loot when the server comes back up!!! Re-loot the same area when it restarted!!! Thank you for playing with us!!! Met a lot of new people over the holidays on our TS.

I'm with Fragnet and we're seeing a hangup about once a day when at 40 players. Fragnet responded that this is a bug with .52. If you're on a private server that might be why you're not experiencing the issue as we don't have a whitelist. Here is the response from our ticket:

Elektro has become the new murder capital of all of Chernarus on our server. Please enter the city with KOS expectations. Nobody seems to be safe these days there and nobody seems to care to meet and greet. Players beware!

I'd like to get copies of my files to see how often this is happening on ours. I don't know if Fragnet will offer this or not though. We are indeed experiencing issues where we're having to restart the server manually. We have no other choice to get the server back up and running again. Here is what I received today from Fragnet in a ticket regarding our server hanging/crashing:

My server is having issues with it freezing up. We're having to restart manually when the server gets like this. Its nearly always when we're at capacity which is 40 players. I don't think its related to an attack. Our GSP provided this feed back in a ticket today: