The Riddler (DayZ)

Hoping we get to start chatting about 0.50 starting tomorrow!!!

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 ;)

When I've had persistence enabled, we have more crashes especially when the server gets full. Certain items seem to stay in the tents (even after restarts) but not all items. Because of the crashing, we have it disabled until further information about 0.50 comes out. My hopes is to turn it on this Wednesday if we get a release.

I feel the developers are working hard at the hacks and its thanks to us out there that help report the hackers. Our feedback is valuable to them, but I know its very frustrating to lose 2 days worth of gear to a hacker.I have gotten into the routine of always recording my game play when our server is full and i'm near a coastal city or other popular place on the map. Simply recording has helped us track down a couple of hackers and with luck on our side, we were able to get their names and report them to the appropriate contacts. It doesn't help get that precious gear back, but I've also learned not to get used to gear or possessing it; I know i'm going to die and when it happens I simply respawn and keep on keepin on trying to learn from my last experience.

Haven't seen anything about a player wipe in 0.50, not sure why they would need to? If I understand correctly, part of doing the player wipe in 0.49 was to eliminate those who duped somebody's gear now that they've fixed that issue and players can no longer dupe. Sorry if i'm miss-informed but this was my understanding why they did a player wipe.

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 welcometothejungledayz@gmail.com 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!

FWIW man, give my server a shot. We have persistence turned off until a new update to stable comes out (COME ON WEDNESDAY UPDATE!!!!) and unless a city is just completely picked over, you should find some good stuff in the big cities for usre. Also as I mentioned further up in this thread, I have really been happy with my trips to the NW region of the map. There are lots of military places to visit and I've been able to find all gear i'm looking for. Its a long trip if you're coming from the coast but give it a shot; you might find a new joy for this game.

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.

I've been noticing gun shots seem to be either delayed or you don't hear them at all sometimes. I've had buddies shoot right next to me and I don't pick up the sound. As far as environment sounds, I have not had any issues other than the usual glitch of somebody eating, drinking and the occasional zombie sound that makes you turn and look around a few times just to make sure it wasn't a real zombie. Here's to the end of the month and hopefully a release to STABLE!!!!!!!

Sent you a PM. The messages work sometimes and sometimes they don't but the server is indeed restarting every 2 hours. I hope to extend this to 4 hours in the future but for now this seems to really help keep the server running during the day while I'm at work.

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: Welcometothejungledayz@gmail.com 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.

Well no update to stable, I read end of the month so I assume next Wednesday? Fingers crossed. Although a little bummed no update to at least help address server issues I decided to fine tune our scheduler and am happy to say we're having less hang ups and I found our server running this morning with a couple of players. We're restarting every 2 hours at the moment and it's preventing so many freeze ups. I played yesterday and had 2 hang ups but both times we were at 40 players. We held steady at 40 for about 30 - 35 mins before it was unresponsive so we manually had to restart. I'm still having fun and have had no issues getting loot (we have persistence off right now). I agree you gotta start going further inland and you'll find towns/cities with lots of unlooted buildings. Also IMHO the northwest region of the map is full of good loot. You've got NWAF, the tents near myshkino, military base south of Zelenogorsk and barracks in that city as well. Lots of food, tools and of course weapons. Worth the hike and fun to explore.

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.....

Really hoping for 0.50 to be released to stable today so we can move on and discuss!!!!

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: welcometothejungledayz@gmail.com 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 welcometothejungledayz@gmail.com 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!!!

Fragnet released info on BEC for any other server owners hosted by them reading this. Here is the message below so you don't have to login and read it. Its regarding BEC's changes to handling of tags for the scheduler. Sorry if there is a topic on this in another thread, but thought it would be relevant since issues arose in .49. Your BEC is being updated, please note that the new version is using new tags for the scheduler: http://ibattle.org/install-and-configure/setting-up-the-scheduler/ So if you wish to schedule an event to start after an hour and to repeat 5 times every 30 minutes after the first trigger you should use the following: <start>010000</start> <runtime>003000</runtime> <loop>5</loop> Sincerely, Fragnet Networks AB BEC seems to be working better? Messages are displaying as scheduled but still issues with restarts :( Every morning I wake up and unfortunately find players showing play time of 9+ hours >:( So manual restart it is. Overall I must say besides the playtime issues with freezing/delay that i'm slowly getting used to, I am having a lot of fun. Having to stay warm to me has been fun and not necessarily a challenge. I honestly apply real life survival basics and follow that order of things when it comes to getting my loot as a new spawn. Sometimes it takes a while but that's DayZ to me and I survive on.

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.