skigoggles

that error doesn't mean anything, so you have something else wrong. Here's a guide - https://helpthedeadreturn.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/how-to-create-your-own-dayzmod-vanilla-server/ PM me if you are still having issues.

errors. Check the server and player RPT.

survival servers too. there are not many pre-made servers. Stay away from vilayer, if they still do it (IMO). Be careful with the hosts that say they can do vanilla, but really give you an epoch Db. I've helped a few admins try and figure out wtf was wrong and it was the difference in Db. Easier to install the Db yourself. If you are looking for a vanilla based server (not epoch), I have an guide todo the install on windows. go here: https://helpthedeadreturn.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/how-to-create-your-own-dayzmod-vanilla-server/

All of the SQL files just need to be run. Is there anything in the RPT file or console that shows the ID? In my case the ID was NULL or ERROR or a number that I knew was not a STEADMID(I think they start with 76....). It started after the recent arma2oa.exe patch release. The solution was to run arma2 and possibly steam on the client as ADMIN. There was a recent post on reddit which discussed this too.

I guess everyone has seen that arma2OA patched the other day : https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/186695-a2a2oa-patch-18122015/ My test server is no longer working, but my hosted one is ok - go figure. I updated Arma2 and Arma2OA and recopied all of those files to the server directory. I suspect something with STEAM. In the logs below, I don't ever recall it listing the "Game Port" and "Steam Query Port" before. Also, my server.cfg has them set to 8766 & 27016. So it seems like the config isn't being respected. Also, that ID in the RPT file is usually a GUID and that number is not one. I've had other people try and connect and they get similar bad numbers too. the net of it all is that I try ad connect and get "Session Lost" and disconnect. CONSOLE12:01:06 Dedicated host created.12:01:07 BattlEye Server: Initialized (v1.207)12:01:07 Host identity created.12:01:08 Game Port: 2302, Steam Query Port: 230312:02:23 BattlEye Server: Player #0 Ski Goggles (xxx.xxx.x.xx:2304) connected12:02:23 Player Ski Goggles connecting.12:02:23 Mission DayZMod read from directory.12:02:25 Player Ski Goggles connected (id=ERROR).12:02:25 Player Ski Goggles disconnected.12:02:25 BattlEye Server: Player #0 Ski Goggles disconnected12:02:25 All users disconnected, waiting for users. arma2oaserver.RPT12:01:08 Initializing Steam server - Game Port: 2302, Steam Query Port: 230312:01:10 Connected to Steam servers12:02:25 Server error: Player without identity Ski Goggles (id 814250231)

AND for those out there who want to hear more of my woes AND who are database people.... At one point I thought this was an issue with the character_data, player_data, player_login tables. so for each of the 3 I did a "create table <table_name>_bak as select * from <table_name>" to back them up then deleted everything from them. When that didn't work I restored them by deleting the <table_name> and renaming the _bak. Can anyone guess what I did wrong? The game runs, but there is some weirdness - you spawn with no inventory. You spawn randomly, no select. When you die, you spawn new. I looked in the database and saw that the character_id of the character_data table was 0 (zero) for both people playing. The lasst_udpated clumn was null. Ugh, it took me a few minutes to figure it out. The create table as select only pulls the data (of course), so I lost all of the auto-update, auto-increment columns and the constraints, etc. I rebuilt them from the original SQL and it was all good.

drum roll please..... After all of that BS, the solution was to find arma2oa.exe, goto the properties, compatability and check "run as administrator". All fixed.

i'm still messing around with this. I was using a .BAT file to connect to the local test server [arma2oa.exe...-mod -port ...blah blah ] - it WAS working fine until the update. Things I tried - removing/reinstalling battleye on client + server. verifying/resintalling on client/server. Removing all data from character_data, player_data, player_login tables. I also removed a bunch of customizations. Also tried launching dayzmod and/or arma2oa then going multiplayer/LAN then trying to get in. Always "session lost". I also turned off battleye. What I saw by various trial and error methods is that the STEAM_ID was not getting set for whatever reason. If I tried to connect, then got the error, then canceled I could get to the profile menu and they did not have an ID. My local server files were out of date. The newer server files take a single port parameter for queryport and then steamqueryport is +1. The one I had took it from the server.cfg. Still thinking it was my server, I tried a .BAT I had for my public server - "The Dead Walk". Same "session lost" error. I finally got connected to my server, but it's still not ideal. instead of calling arma2oa.exe in the .BAT , I switched it to steam://rungameid/33930 . Not ideal since it takes you to the menu and you have to pick multiplayer/LAN and then my server, but it worked! So its the eternal launching problem - arma2oa.exe for whatever reason is not connecting to STEAM and passing the STEAM_ID but the rest of the parms seem to pass. I'm getting close. Honestly, I'm more worried about having to updated the public server with vilayer...

Here's the link https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/186695-a2a2oa-patch-18122015/page-10 which is the update on the original patch thread. Here's the link on steam : http://steamcommunity.com/games/arma2oa/announcements/detail/45398879829365939 Some datapoints: Changelog: - AS50 sound reverted to original - DMR zeroing removed due to community requests - Burst lengths decreased for aircraft cannons - Lee Enfield zeroing reverted to original state - NVG is now usable with western scopes again - Helicopter side gunners firing angles reverted to original - All An-2 variants are now retexturable through hidden selections - GMG and AGS-30 zeroings fixed, no longer include unusable values - "No Owner" RPT messages should no longer appear - All patches are merged into single addon I've heard that the heli guns are fixed and the DMR is back to normal. lol my test server is broken, I think due to this update, but who can tell. Glad the public one is still running ok.

Has anyone else really stepped through this code? A while ago I did and made a note that it always got an error and wasn't working. I know on the server I run there were items in the debug that were not getting deleted. I went back to it recently and started debugging/logging what it was doing. The splitting of the worldspace column is one of those crazy lines of code, IMO: SELECT REPLACE(SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2), LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1)) + 1), ',', '') INTO @West;SELECT REPLACE(SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 3), LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 3 -1)) + 1), ',', '') INTO @North; but when I researched it, it's basically the same as found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11835155/mysql-split-comma-separated-string-into-temp-tableWhen I run through each step on paper it seems to be correct. Finally, after debugging for a while I'm seeing that the @West value is generally not being set correctly so I created a log file and added this to pCleanupOOB() - just decomposed pieces of the code above. The bold/italic/underline text are the values from my log file: insert into aalog values (@rsObjectUID, 130279766221295@rsWorldspace, 60,13027.9,7662.17,-0.01SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2), 60,13027.9SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1), 60LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1)) + 1, 3SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2), 60,13027.9SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2), LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1)) + 1), ,13027.9@West, 13027@North, 7662.17@Height); -0.01 Like I said it looked good on paper, but when its decomposing the worlspace, the @West variable string thats extracted includes the leading comma, so the number doesn't always get converted properly. The solution seems to be : from this>> LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1)) + 1to this:>> LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1)) + 2 now, I was a software developer for years, so I like it when a good "+1" just fixes it, but I'd like to hear from someone else that's noticed this. Has anyone else seen this code cleanup OOB items? If you'd like to see for yourself, here's some the code. You'll see I added @Height to pickup the Z value since I wanted to look for helis left on buildings. Also, I have 2 inserts into the log file - the first with the original values and the second with the +1.CREATE TABLE `aalog` ( `id` BIGINT(20) NOT NULL, `ws` VARCHAR(50) NULL DEFAULT NULL, `str1` VARCHAR(50) NULL DEFAULT NULL, `str2` VARCHAR(50) NULL DEFAULT NULL, `int1` INT(11) NULL DEFAULT NULL, `str3` VARCHAR(50) NULL DEFAULT NULL, `str4` VARCHAR(50) NULL DEFAULT NULL, `x` FLOAT NULL DEFAULT NULL, `y` FLOAT NULL DEFAULT NULL, `z` FLOAT NULL DEFAULT NULL)COLLATE='latin1_swedish_ci'ENGINE=InnoDB; CREATE DEFINER=`dayz`@`%` PROCEDURE `pCleanupOOB`() LANGUAGE SQL NOT DETERMINISTIC CONTAINS SQL SQL SECURITY DEFINER COMMENT ''BEGIN DECLARE intLineCount INT DEFAULT 0; DECLARE intDummyCount INT DEFAULT 0; DECLARE intDoLine INT DEFAULT 0; DECLARE intWest INT DEFAULT 0; DECLARE intNorth INT DEFAULT 0; DECLARE dblWest FLOAT DEFAULT 0; DECLARE dblNorth FLOAT DEFAULT 0; DECLARE dblHeight FLOAT DEFAULT 0; SELECT COUNT(*) INTO intLineCount FROM Object_DATA; SELECT COUNT(*) INTO intDummyCount FROM Object_DATA WHERE Classname = 'dummy'; WHILE (intLineCount > intDummyCount) DO SET intDoLine = intLineCount - 1; SELECT ObjectUID, Worldspace INTO @rsObjectUID, @rsWorldspace FROM Object_DATA LIMIT intDoLine, 1; SELECT REPLACE(@rsWorldspace, '[', '') INTO @rsWorldspace; SELECT REPLACE(@rsWorldspace, ']', '') INTO @rsWorldspace; SELECT REPLACE(SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2), LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1)) + 1), ',', '') INTO @West; SELECT REPLACE(SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 3), LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 3 -1)) + 1), ',', '') INTO @North; SELECT REPLACE(SUBSTRING(@rsWorldspace, LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 3))+1 ) , ',', '') INTO @Height; SELECT REPLACE(SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2), LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1)) + 2), ',', '') INTO dblWest; SELECT REPLACE(SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 3), LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 3 -1)) + 2), ',', '') INTO dblNorth; SELECT REPLACE(SUBSTRING(@rsWorldspace, LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 3))+1 ) , ',', '') INTO dblHeight; SELECT INSTR(@West, '-') INTO intWest; SELECT INSTR(@North, '-') INTO intNorth; insert into aalog values (@rsObjectUID, @rsWorldspace, SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2), SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1), LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1)) + 1, SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2), SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2), LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1)) + 1), @West, @North, @Height); insert into aalog values (@rsObjectUID, @rsWorldspace, SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2), SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1), LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1)) + 2, SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2), SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2), LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@rsWorldspace, ',', 2 -1)) + 2), dblWest, dblNorth, dblHeight); IF (intNorth = 0) THEN SELECT CONVERT(@North, DECIMAL(16,8)) INTO intNorth; END IF; IF (intWest > 0 OR intNorth > 15360) THEN DELETE FROM Object_DATA WHERE ObjectUID = @rsObjectUID; END IF; SET intLineCount = intLineCount - 1; END WHILE;END

You are right - https://github.com/DayZMod/DayZ/issues/601 - pCleanupOOB() not parsing worldspace correctly #601 I'll find you on the discord when I get a chance. thanks.

Do you mean the classname? It's "MH6J_DZ"

No, still busted. BTW, vinyl, I'm helpthedead walk on reddit - I was going to ping you over there about this.... Anyway, I assume you meant "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 2" and not "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead", right?? AND you meant running the client or server? (I tried it on both). I did figure out that if I use "-port=8766" then the gameport does change and the steamqueryport is +1. Strange thing is that the 2 ports were defined in the server.cfg previously and those were the ones I opened in the router and it was all good until this week after the OA patch. This is how I was launching the server for the last 6 months: start arma2oaserver.exe -mod=Expansion;ca;@hive;@dayz -name=cfgdayz -config=cfgdayz\server.cfg -cfg=cfgdayz\basic.cfg -profiles=cfgdayz At one point I think I had originally used : start arma2oaserver.exe -mod=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\expansion;ca;@hive;@dayz -name=cfgdayz -config=cfgdayz\server.cfg -cfg=cfgdayz\basic.cfg -profiles=cfgdayz but then I played around with it to see what would work. This test server goes back to a pwnzer-based server that I created when I took over The Dead Walk. I could rebuild it from scratch I suppose, but I'm not sure where to begin to make it the "right/clean/better way"? I thought I saw a post by razor someplace. I'm open to suggestions since I see 1.8.7 coming after the holidays....

lol. I know - I was a software developer for a long time. fyi: so far we're seeing weapons scopes/zeroing issues, heli gun movement limitations and medbox0 cannot hold any items. sigh.

Recently had some players say that MedBoxes are disappearing when they get near to them. Has anyone heard about this? Could this be related to the Bohemai A2/A2:OA Patch 18.12.2015?? : https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/186695-a2a2oa-patch-18122015/ I've certainly noticed the issue with weapons and scoping/zeroing....

https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/186695-a2a2oa-patch-18122015/ Just saw this - Is there any relationship between those releases and anything/anyone else? Sounds like they've gone and broken a few things.

I saw someplace that achievements were being removed. I understand the reason because they don't carry over and they are sortof meaningless (apart from the shooting ones). I'd like to counter that achievements should be expanded + published to encourage survival (create 4 walls, fix a vehicle) or pvp (kill 4 bandits or survivors) or whatever. Just thinking about this while I try and balance gameplay on the server I run. What can I encourage them todo that makes them move around the map and do things other that loot and shoot? Right now we have missions(DZMS) and thats working, but something standard would be interesting. I'd need some help, but I'm willing to explore this for a future release.

The last guy to the party suddenly has the most time invested and knows the whole story. Thanks for insulting me since it shows the exact problem. Its all about attitude and how people were being treated when they attacked "your base" and "your helis" (which IS playing the game, isn't it?). It was the hoarding that went on to prevent attacks on "your base" and "your helis". The base that was well-known and in the middle of the map. It was affecting the entire server. Other players didn't want to be treated like that for playing the game. They also didn't want to come on the server and never see a heli or plane or truck or whatever, except locked in a base. There were discussions about removing that base from day 1. There were discussions about hoarding. The idea was to build up the server for many people, not just a few. The server is paid up until March-2016 and if people like it, maybe longer. If not, so be it.

I'm not really looking for a discussion. There is so much more information that is just boring to revisit. The base (http://opendayz.net/threads/j0k3r5-pack.14739/ - oldfields base) in question is not coming back. I gave a 2 day warning and removed it. I didn't kick or ban anyone that was using it. The server is paid up until March-2016 and if people like it, maybe longer. If not, so be it. I've got to prepare for 1.8.7 so it can make it that far.

Scud, thanks for the recap. Too bad the true story is much longer and more way complicated than that. Let's see if I can hit the high points. We all played dayz on the Dead Walk for months. The problems was nobody else did and the admin/owner was absent. I took over the server because it was dying and nobody wanted it. I paid 1/3 of the hosting. I got 20-30 people a day playing on it by tweaking the vehicles, the spawns, the inventories. I added AI missions and extra cities. I was admin active helping players and fighting hackers. I wanted to keep playing at the same time and it was hard to divide myself - i knew where spawns were and I could see who was attacking a base. Yes I committed some dayz sins. I'm sure I could dig up some steam msgs from you or at least someone in that base asking who was attacking or where something was. eh, whatever. So when it all came out (via some other ex-players), I became full-time admin. Name on the splash page and all. I created an admin base to hang out and somehow still play as admin. Your new job seemed to be infiltrating that admin base. But I digress. "Your" base was a map addition that I added by mistake and you gated up before I noticed. I wanted to remove it from DAY1, but I didn't. I let it go. Over the next couple of months, as the server grew in popularity, your group in the base turned it into a hoarding/parking lot(16 vehicles at last count and a fuel tank I added by request). Not generally you, but a few expressed their entitlement to every single helicopter and every large truck on the server (although you did said "our heli" above). You had to hoard them so nobody could use them to get into "your base". Since this base was in the middle of the map, it was well-known and suffered many attacks. Each one seemed to bring more and more trash talking, berating other players and just general disrespect. I tried to get it to settle down, but it didn't. It spread to new base members. And you know why I let it go? Because one of the people doing it had also paid 1/3 of the bill. Oh, didn't he tell you that? Finally, that base represented the disrespectful, entitled, "OUR-heli/truck/etc" attitude. None of that was helping the server. I gave warning to 2 people and deleted it 2 days later. Didn't they tell you that? I didn't ban anyone and if you are so hurt, why did you login a few hours ago to try and give heli rides? 18:22:59 BattlEye Server: Player #2 scud553 (xx.xx.xxx.xx:2404) connected 18:22:59 Player scud553 connecting. 18:23:01 BattlEye Server: Player #2 scud553 - GUID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (unverified) 18:23:01 Player scud553 connected (id=xxxxxxxxxx). There's more I'm sure. It's just a game and if people would just play the game and respect each other, we wouldn't have to sling the mud. Oh well.

Does anyone have info to decode this field in the database? I found some code that was for epoch and it clearly doesn't match.

from server_functions.sqf server_medicalSync = {_player = _this select 0;_array = _this select 1; _player setVariable["USEC_isDead",(_array select 0)]; //0_player setVariable["NORRN_unconscious", (_array select 1)]; //1_player setVariable["USEC_infected",(_array select 2)]; //2_player setVariable["USEC_injured",(_array select 3)]; //3_player setVariable["USEC_inPain",(_array select 4)]; //4_player setVariable["USEC_isCardiac",(_array select 5)]; //5_player setVariable["USEC_lowBlood",(_array select 6)]; //6_player setVariable["USEC_BloodQty",(_array select 7)]; //7// _wounds; //8// [_legs,_arms]; //9_player setVariable["unconsciousTime",(_array select 10)]; //10_player setVariable["blood_type",(_array select 11)]; //11_player setVariable["rh_factor",(_array select 12)]; //12_player setVariable["messing",(_array select 13)]; //13_player setVariable["blood_testdone",(_array select 14)]; //14 };

I had to run as admin in win8.1 or it didn't do anything. How do servers get added?

New question - for the battleye filters in 1.8.6.1 do I just do a full replace? Looking at the addweaponcargo filter which is much smaller than before. I don't fully understand the syntax but it looks like a whitelist/include now as opposed to blakclist/exclude.

For Weapons I see in DZMSWeaonCrate.sqf - need to use "Mk48_DZ" (you have an extra _). So need the following // Light MachinegunsDZMSmgList = ["M240_DZ","M249_DZ","Mk48_DZ","MP5_DZ","MP5_SD_DZ"]; For Items you see to have a bunch of Epoch things like "ItemGenerator, MortarBucket", etc. DZMSConSupply = ["CinderBlocks","MortarBucket","ItemTankTrap","ItemPole","PartGeneric","PartPlywoodPack","PartPlankPack","ItemTentOld","ItemTentDomed","ItemTentDomed2","ItemSandbag","ItemWire","workbench_kit","ItemGenerator"]; My changes I made for vanilla 1.8.6.1. Is Epoch based on 1.8.6.1 and needs these new names? The reverse issue could be true that either you need all of the new names or none. Make sense? I know for sure that when I forgot to fix one weapon class name, that's the error I got.