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There's no need to moderate it since side chat in it's old form is non existent or did you not get that? But to say as an Admin we shouldn't moderate certain aspects of our servers to make sure everyone is playing on a level playing field or is not disrupting play in general, is ridiculous. The baiting, trolling and general stupidity that happens in side needed to be moderated. You're obviously a proponent of this behaviour, telling by your response.

Really I'm not sure what it takes to rectify the problem but just looking in the server list and shutting them down is real easy. That would get rid of a lot of the servers that are doing the wrong thing. I truly believe that some kind of app process would help immensely and I know I would have no qualms in jumping through hoops, knowing that at the end of the process that it helps filter out shit admins. Yeah, we can talk with our wallets but currently GSP's will make their money on these shit admins time and time again because of the reasons stated by Caboose but I fully agree that it's a major problem and needs to be sorted. Maybe all paid servers do need to be gotten rid of until they can better police it or until final release.

It is a sad state of affairs when I as an Admin can't seem to do a farking thing to properly run my server. I received an email the other day from my GSP stating "We currently cannot give any further access out for BEC due to the rules that the DayZ developers are currently enforcing." This was in response to me asking them what happened to external RCon access. I had one GSP actually ask me why external RCon was important and that they honestly didn't see the need for anyone to have it... Really!? And what rules are they actually enforcing? My point here is, that they seem to be giving less access/tools to admins who are doing the right thing and trying to admin properly, while letting these assclowns get away with whatever they get away with. I am feeling the pain and almost to the point where shutting down the server until this shit is sorted is more cost effective. At the moment I'm paying for a server I; for the most part; have no control over as I watch others doing the wrong thing get away with it. I honestly think they should have a application process to run a server because at this point badmins are on the increase.

Rant or not, getting facts at least half right may help you not look like a complete fool. At least I got a laugh out of how much of an asinine post it was. :beans:

The major difference is there is still a choice. We as Admins don't have to disable it because we hate moderating it, leaving it a option if people want it. I'm still not seeing what anyone's problem would be with this and I hate side chat.

Well it does solve the problem does it not? Admins could post a channel where people who find a walky talky could tune into and chat away, while others(who could care less) do not. You need to find a walky talky yeah but I still don't see the issue. Those who don't want side or will disable it on their servers don't have to bother while others who do want it have it, once they find a walky talky.

Heh, I don't see what the problem still is. People have a side chat if they want one that is enabled/disabled by the user, it's called a walky talky. The range according to Hicks is 30km's. So what's the issue? Looks like people are just bitching to bitch. :huh:

Fix to Exp. pushed back until Monday. I can say, I was on Exp yesterday morning for about an hour, I got only one instance of rubber banding and it was brief. I was intentionally trying to make it rubber band as well.

Fix for rubber banding going to Exp on Sat the 14th. Info is out there if people really want to know it. Patch .45 going to stable on Wednesday may be a possibility. I am hopeful but I'd rather it work than not and will wait until it's ready. http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/27wqog/any_updates_on_when_the_dsync_will_be_fixed_on/ci57bva

Walky Talkies are the new side chat as posted by Hicks over 2 weeks ago on Reddit. Hicks_206Producer 19 points 16 days ago "Walkies = side chat" http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/26mtqr/suggestion_radio_broadcasting_with_actual/ People who don't want to see/hear chat won't turn to that channel or have a radio. Problem solved. Enjoy your side chat people.

Absolutely!

The difficulty will come after they implement the more important things. Once we see working Zeds, disease and detrimental weather things will get interesting, I assure you. As I stated in another thread, people can't go by the now because the game is just nowhere near what it's going to be.

Admins can make server restarts shorter but they cannot make them any longer than 4hrs(not that we'd want to due to instability) because the server is restarted automatically and is beyond our control currently.

All servers are hard coded to restart every 4hrs and 1pm AEST would be at one of those times. I'm not sure what they did last night during maintenance but it's been a bit wonky since then. I know last night after maintenance the server had a hard time connecting to the main hive but it cleared up after about an hour. I haven't manually restarted it today at all but it could of crashed, you may try another HC server to see if your character is actually gone. Other than that I will keep an eye on it and put a ticket in if I have to. I'm logging in now to check... Edit: I logged in fine and my character is intact.

Case in point...

I don't think most of us "Fanboys" think it's a Hardcore(difficult) game currently, we're here for what we know it's going to be. What it's going to be is far from what it is now but most can't see or reject that idea because all they want to see is the now. People's short-sightedness is there own undoing along with being unbelievably impatient.

Heh, apparently BE works just fine.

We'll leave it and see how we go. When we get flares I may push it back further.

Heh, never really paid attention to IRL sunrise but I think maybe an hour. We'll see where we sit after this maintenance and I'll decide on whether to pushed the reset time back an hour. Would be ideal if I had the option to do half hour increments but that, sadly is not an option currently. With the new renderer, accelerated time and other WIP things, I think night will much more tolerable to people such as yourself. :) What I will not do is go totally 24/7 day, that to me is not Hardcore.

The admin may have to update their BE filters or edit them due to having scripts implemented.

Currently restarting the server every 2hrs or less is not always because of Admins wanting to loot farm(there are some I know) but some do it because of poor server stability. With the advent of 64bit servers I'm hoping for less restarts, maybe every 6 to 8hrs or longer. I would at least think a stable 4hr period without a chance of server crashes is feasible. What I really want is when the server restarts the time not to reset as well so we can get an actual day/night cycle, whether that be accelerated or not.

I've heard of items dropping out of packs when swimming as well as other instances, may have been desync.Although I've heard and personally encountered many friendlies on HC, I am and would be very cautious at approaching others because you just never do know.

We won't see .45 patch until rubber banding is sorted. They're rewriting the system that's causing the issue, when it's done it's done. So far there hasn't been any word on the rubber banding being fixed, so one would suspect .45 will not come this maintenance.

Barricading a building is supposedly going to fix this. If you're going to camp a building barricade it and this; as suggested by Rocket; will stop the ghosting inside buildings when it's implemented. You're not going to be allowed to login into an area/building that has been barricaded from my understanding.

But what if you could kill all the Zeds and barricade the town? Which seems like plausible idea. Even though barricading will be in I think we'll be seeing tents as well, for those who wish to setup out in the woods,