Punisher-Sir

It appears the server wiped everyone, we lost ours as well. It happened at the 8 o'clock reset :( Punisher

Just throwing this out there but try resaving the scheduler file, it worked for me. Also take a look at the logs, it will show you which ones are working and which ones aren't. I had a few times that weren't displaying the message and others were with no explanation, Vilayer verified my scripts were all correct. Punisher

That was actually Milk who's DayZ crashed by the chopper above Zeleno the other night. Were you the 3 guys our group killed about 15 minutes after that? Right before we met Blunce's Dayz crashed and a Zed killed him. I went into the church and dropped my gear to pick his up and put it somewhere I thought was safe. Did your guy with the waterproof backpack spawn in while I was disrobing? I believe we spotted your group last night close to the Vybor military base, consider this an "invitation" to drop by and say "hi" later this evening...we want to get the M4 back, LOL One more quick question, how do you guys feel about us turning off persistence Tuesday night and turning it back on Wednesday night like we did? Punisher

What about "FOG don't LOG"? By the way your first post in here is AWESOME!!! Nicely done :thumbsup: :beans:

Here is the video: http://32147635.weebly.talkiforum.com/20141211/an-unholy-experience-4434829/?viewmark=1 It's true we were in the church, we were asking the divine one questions like "why would someone take shots at us then combat log when we return fire" or "why does DayZ crash when there is a Zed on us allowing it to take our life" or yet still "why would the game allow someone to spawn in the same room as me?" You "literally" caught me with my pants down, funny thing is reflecting back on it combat logging like someone did just minutes before never crossed our minds...I guess sportsmanship means more to us than some pixels. Punisher

The absolute sure way to know you're not joining to early is to wait until you see 06:01 as the start time. As previously mentioned it goes 08:00, 09:20, 06:00 but to be safe like I said wait until 06:01. I have it on good word from the Admins of our server that tonight (Tuesday) we're going to mix things up a bit. Since Tuesday/Wednesday is the day that server maintenance is done and you have to pick up all your stashed gear. What that means is sometime around 20:00 hours PST we're going to turn persistence off for 24 hours. It will then again be turned back sometime around 20:00 hours PST Wednesday evening. This should give everyone a chance to get their loot on and grab enough items to get them through the week. Well that is unless they run into a FOG member then they'll need to regear anyway ;) Punisher

Our Cooter is Canadian and I'm pretty sure he's fighting Daisy or is it DayZ for her shorts :o Punisher

I read that as well, it was a complete mind blower when I saw the smoke... Punisher

We've seen 2 on The FOG awaits server, the new chopper IS visible with smoke. I've personally seen 1 with my own eyes so they are out there and we have persistence enabled. Punisher

Cooter???

Maybe they chose the Alaskan because there are rumors they're going to add bears? IRL you would want a rifle chambered in 338 win mag and preferably 375 H&H if you had to defend yourself against one of them. I myself would LOVE to see a 375 H&H in the game, it's been around for close to a century, it's the only caliber that can be used to hunt anything in the world. When it comes to "need" a person really only needs 3 weapons, a .22, 12 gauge and a 375 H&H. You can hunt anything on this green earth with that combination. I want to talk about the assault weapons as well for a minute. Why does anyone care if there are 30 people running around Berezino with assault weapons killing each other? The map is big and if you don't like the playstyle just don't go there! The beauty of DayZ is that it can be played anyway you want it to be played. I personally love the M4 and I don't think it should be rare but it is so I deal with it. I just don't see how a weapon skin or people in a town known for PvP can wreck the game for so many people like they claim. Just get over yourself and quit trying to dictate how the game is played and complaining that an "American" weapon is ruining the game for you, LOL Punisher

Or at the VERY least has to respawn ;) I can officially dispell the myth that helicopter spawns don't work with persistence on. I found one of the new ones last night complete with smoke, I believe someone looted it before me as I only found a chemlight, weapon cleaning kit and a red beret (speaking of running away) LOL Punisher

I can confirm that I found one of the new helicopter crash sites on the "The FOG Awaits". It's their clan server, first person, private shard with persistence on. This was a full bodied new one complete with smoke, I believe someone looted it before I got there so someone else should be able to confirm this as well. Punisher

I think there are a variety of reasons. I play on our clan server and if it's low pop it's probably a bit intimidating as a fresh spawn to log in and see 6 clan members. We often see people log in and then log out immediately, the only reason I can think is they're scared of running into a group. Truth be told our group roams around the airfield and we usually stick together so if you're not aggressive most likely you'll be on your way. No loot, persistence and server hopping I'm sure play into it as well but our Admins have disabled persistence. They've also changed our restarts to every 2 hours, because it's a private shard they can do this. They did this so that it's not so hard to get gear and survive as a fresh spawn because loot is EVERYWHERE. A few of the BIG pluses are the Admins can control the player base and with clan members being on if something happens they can get in touch with someone to fix it promptly. These include things like hackers, glitchers or any other server problems that might pop up. You get to know the community and where people like to hangout. Once you know the map and the area's where certain groups are it give you the freedom to play anyway you want, with whoever you want. When you know the community things like camping spawn points can be taken care of. Last night our clan made a sweep of the coastal towns, we found a guy trying to snipe people from on top of the fire station in Cherno and he became a fresh spawn himself as a result, LOL I myself wasn't to fond of the idea of private shards when I first heard about them but now that I've got some experience with them I can't believe how much better my playing experience has been. Punisher

I find this hilarious, you got killed and now your bitter but you aren't man enough to get revenge on your own so you have to "hire" people to do your killing for you. No wonder they shot you in the first place, LMAO Punisher

This for me is the BEST thing about having a private shard! This is the longest I've gone on a full pop without being killed by a hacker. Before when I joined a high pop first person public server like ZAP or any of the others I wouldn't make it more than 30 minutes before a hacker would kill our group. Punisher

Hi BigBo55, I think I saw you on last night when I was on. We were having a few problems with persistence. One is as a freshie there wasn't much loot to be had, not to bad for an experienced player but for someone that might be new to the game it was a bit discouraging. Then we had the area's with a loot explosion where nobody went, all this loot loaded down the server and caused unexpected crashes and poor performance. Persistence was also only a weekly occurance because every Wednesday they wipe the server of loot so the only items that would remain were the ones on your character, so yes you could have a tent but the only way to keep it was to have it on your character on Wednesdays when they did the wipe. Then there was the fact there were no helicopter spawns. I've been told once they get the bugs ironed out we'll be going back to it. It was really a bit of a downer for the clan, we had an area with supplies, backpack and tents and then when we went back it was all gone. Punisher

Here is a quick update on our server: Our Admins decided to turn off persistence since it wasn't working properly and it was causing issues with the server. It's now setup for 2 hour restarts. Because of these restarts there is loot EVERYWHERE and if you're a PvP fan it won't take you long to gear up and get in the fight. It's been a full pop fairly frequently lately so there are enemies everywhere . I was told that if it keeps getting maxed out at 40 that it may be changed to a 50 slot!!! Now come visit and see what the FOG has to offer you :) Like the old days...head west for the best!!! Punisher

We don't always KOS, sometimes we capture people and torture them <_< and even occasionally if their REALLY cool we let them go. What Nettles is doing is awesome, I hope he keeps it up!

I can say in the couple of hours I played last night on our private shard I saw one person get a "global ban" and one get banned "Game hack #38". I would say that BE must be doing something as I've never seen a ban for a "Game hack" before and if it's stopping hackers I'm all for it. Punisher

Both of the scenario's you listed are just people being lazy. When we started camping those area's I was surprised by how many people spawned in and out doing this. The upside from my point of view is that nobody that spawned in the tower while we were set up there was able to spawn out because we killed them all. We had almost the same success rate at NWAF but I'll admit a few people were able to combat log on us. Punisher

I agree with this 100%!!! There are some of us that just prefer the M4 to the AK's, not because of performance but because it's what we have experience with in real life. PLEASE give us a greater chance to find and actually use them if we're willing to go to the effort of trying to locate them! Punisher

The server admins have the ability to ban players, they also have the ability to create a whitelist should they choose. I think the whitelist is the plan down the road but I'm not sure at this point. We/you might get hacked once but once the hacker is found he won't be able to come back and grief over and over like on a public server. Punisher

I'm going to give a quick tutorial of things I know about the FOG server: It's a PRIVATE SHARD, that means several things. It means that when you join you start out as a new spawn the first time you log on. It means that your character stays with the Private Shard and doesn't go anywhere else, once it's there it's always there. It means that our admins can control the player base which means they can keep people that aren't playing by the rules out so you don't have to worry about being hacked every night if you want to go somewhere popular on the map. It means that players can't ghost in on you. It also means that there isn't any server hopping. For me these are all GOOD things!!! It's obviously a FIRST PERSON server which everyone probably knows so it doesn't need any explanation. The admins currently have PERSISTANCE ENABLED. So far we haven't had any problem finding loot anywhere we've gone. That means if you want to set a tent up and stash items in it go for it and the same goes for a backpack. So far it's been working very well for us but I know they're keeping a close eye on it so if loot does become a problem they'll adjust. Lastly it's home of the FOG so travel at your own risk and play whatever style fits you. MOST of all have FUN!!! Punisher

Last night a group of us were playing in Berezino when we encountered some trouble. There were 3 of us in a building and one of us got shot and then a second...now I'm all alone. I hear a door open and I've got my MP5 aimed at the bodies and a player comes through the door! I shoot the full 30 round mag into him and he tries to run and gets stuck on some furniture. I stand there looking at him in amazement as blood is pouring out from him but he's still standing then about 3 seconds later he falls dead. Now I understand lag and desync but this was crazy! I know there is still one more bad guy out there so I switch to my shotgun with only one round, it doesn't take long before he rushes me with what I believe was a Mosin and I shoot him and he insta-dies...then 3 seconds later I'm unconcious and then die after about 30 seconds. There were no more players in the area so I'm guessing the lag worked opposite of the way it did when I killed his partner? To make things even stranger we had a pretty good idea who killed us because he posted in global he had just killed FOG members with a sporter. While watching the server message we saw this same guy get kicked from the server for having a ping of over 4000 and then again for over 2500! This guy owns the server and when we were watching his ping when he wasn't fighting us his ping was right around 40, is this something to be suspicious of or should I just chalk it up to the internet? The reason I'm questioning this guys integrity is that on the weekend we were there killing people and I mean alot of people when I suddenly got kicked by the admin (this same guy). When I came back I was a fresh spawn which I know happens. My friends were still there and killed a guy that looked like he had my stuff so they went to see if they could find my body and they did. It turns out they some how found me, kicked me and then while my character was spawning out they killed me and took my gear. Now in this guys defense he "claimed" serveral people said that I was hacking so he kicked me and he did bring back some of my gear but still! I actually recorded him telling me what he had done and I know it's a CLEAR case of admin abuse but if it was true I understand why. My only problem is how they found me. Would you say there is something fishy going on with this group or do you think it's all just coincidence? Punisher