HIHBGaming

This topic has been brought up so many times... Be good if people would use the search function and maybe post in the already 4 or 5 of the same threads. Anyway, as said before. The solution is to give us Admins proper GMT settings, NOT shorter day/night cycles, NOT 24/7 day. People who give the excuse of "I work all day" would be easily accommodated by having servers within their TZ that had GMT settings that were daylight when they wanted to play. Easy! Although, at this point in time it appears that server hosters are having issues setting the proper GMT to their boxes so some Admins HAVE to resort to 24/7 daylight(reluctantly) until there is a fix. A lot of us Admins abhor 24/7 daylight but really have no other options at this point besides doing it manually, which could be a pain in the ass. I'm hoping for a fix to the day/night cycle soon but for people to want easy mode 24/7 daylight permanently or shorter day/night cycles... HELL NO!

Hrmmmm... Alpha? And to compare Epoch to the SA is ludicrous. I'm so tired of seeing this easy mode shit. Street lights at night... Really?

How bout maybe fixing the sun from rising in the South and setting in the North. Is this to totally disorientate us cos, it's just plain not right. :rolleyes:

Can we get proper GMT settings rather than easy mode 24/7 daylight servers?

And fair enough but the splitting of the community is already happening with this easy mode crap of 24/7 servers. Path of least resistance is a problem that I thought the SA was going to fix. I would think it's easy enough to give us GMT settings rather than this other BS.

Solution to this whole mess is NOT 24/7 easy mode servers or shorter day/night cycle. Keep the day/night cycle and PLEASE give us proper GMT settings. This would in fact sort the people out that are saying "I work all day so I will only be able to play at night". I'm sure you would find a server within your TZ that has a GMT settings so that it would be Day when you want to play. 24/7 Day is NOT the solution and shorter day/night cycles is also NOT the solution. People are just looking for fucking easy mode. It's starting already... *sigh*

We really need proper TZ settings though. I want a proper day/night cycle but not being able to set the GMT is problematic. Not a fan of 24/7 Day servers, kinda defeats the purpose and imo beginning to get back to the Mod easy mode settings. Maybe I'm taking it a bit too far but, 24/7 day servers... Really?

Ha! Merely a flesh wound!

You can have Day, Night or Local server time(although local seems to not work properly) on Gameservers.com servers. There are forced 4 hours restarts so setting it to either Day or Night will result in always day or always night.

I went and rented a DayZ SA server from gameservers.com and so far it's been a bit of a drama. Anyway, they seem to be lagging on the new server update while the other server hosters are right on it. My question... Are the updates pushed out through BI or is it up to the server hosters to update? At the moment I cannot play on my own server due to it not being updated to the current server files. Well, I can play but due to the screwiness of the client not being the same version of the server it's really sucking not having an action UI to open doors etc. I have put in multiple tickets with no real response. Hence my question.

You need to find a server that is updated to the current version(113772) as well and all should be good.

Then go play BF4 or COD... Thing is, the mod was bastardized by private hives. Not all private hives are bad but a majority of them are. If there's going to be private hives they MUST be limited to keeping the core mechanics of DayZ. Maybe an aptitude test thrown into the mix as to not have every fuckwit with limited mental capacity running a server.

And the purpose of this thread was, what exactly?... To get your epeen stroked, or to troll the hell out of us?

They supposedly have a 5 day money back guarantee, which I may be using if they don't get their shit sorted out. I had to reinstall my server once already as well as manually restart it every so often but this could be just Alpha which is fine but not being on the ball(if it is actually their problem) of not updating all their servers is an issue that needs to be rectified. People will just start to avoid playing the SA on gameservers.com servers because of stuff like this, they're not helping themselves or this community I can say that much.

You sir obviously can't comprehend Alpha... As we play, things will be added and changed as the metrics of the actual playing of the Alpha is analysed. They will balance things and rectify the bugs and other issues as time passes. Do you actually think they can do this within a day and a half of Alpha release?

Some, not all Private Hives were a bad idea... In saying that, it should be a very long time if at all that we see private hives. If we do see them, it MUST be a very structured process to get one up and running not just allowed to anyone.

The Day/Night cycle won't change until people start getting their own public hives and only if the settings allow it. The justification of "I work during the day", I really don't see as an excuse. Doesn't 90% of the population? Solution, find a server that is in it's daylight hours with a relatively good ping when you want to play and stick with it. It will be that simple once they get the server TZ's sorted because at the moment the Day/Night cycle is a bit wonky. What I think is going on, is people just want the 24/7 Daylight servers(or a variation thereof) because they just don't want to deal with night time. Suck it up cos the game is only going to get harder.

If I'm not mistaken it uses BE in combination with Steam's VAC. Also most of the code is now server side which hinders the script kiddies from doing the shit that they do. Edit: I was wrong about the BE thing. Thanks Orlok ;)

I bought the standard edition from Steam as well, only found out after the fact that a supporter edition was available. The supporter edition wasn't on steam at the time I purchased my copy. Hoping we can upgrade or something simple we can do to get this edition if we want it.

I think he's just being very cautious in actually saying any kind of release or implying a release. I mean anything could happen, like the disappearing weapon bug that seemed to pop up unexpectedly. Other than that, I really think we'll see it very very soon as long as they don't try and add something major within the next few days.

What I got out of the Stream as far as release is concerned... Is that they need to test the fixes they just made to the build, which was just uploaded just a couple hours before the stream. If all that goes well, we will see release. How much testing is not clear but from what I saw/heard, the build was highly playable except for some of the crashes people were experiencing. The crashes seem to be not that much of a worry since they talked about debugging them on Sunday, fixing them and that was that. They also said they weren't going to add anything major that could possibly break the build, lets just hope this is the case. Once they get a build locked down they can branch it and work on implementing more features without breaking the "locked down" build. I do think the major bugs they were worried about last week have been fixed and release is still very much in sight, that in conjunction with 120+ SA servers at the ready. We all want it released and Rocket seems like a standup guy and doesn't want to release a piece of utter shite to us, even though it will be an Alpha and most of us expect bugs. Good on him for that mentality. Here's to seeing the SA next week some time! ;)

Seems to be a few more SA servers listed than there was the other day. All aboard! http://www.gametracker.com/search/hl2dm/?query=Dayz&searchipp=50#search

Not sure why people consider self bloodbagging god mode or easy mode for that matter. If you use the script right it can be another decision one has to make as far as... Do I risk getting an infection for only 4k blood? There are many variations you can put on the script from long to short timers, infection % and how much blood you get from the self transfusion. Do people use it to a point where it is far to much of a benefit? Sure they do, but not all of us admins think that it should not have any downsides to it at all. People generalize admins far too much. When people see self bloodbagging on a server you should test it first to see if it's any good or bad, not just claim god mode or whatever else. It will soon be in the mod anyway and there are downsides to it, it shouldn't be a total benefit like some think it should be.

The request for server hosts to contact Rocket is a sign. At least it is for me, it does seem they're preparing for imminent release. Whether or not it's this week(13/12/13), next or the week after, they are preparing. ;)

Fixed for clarity! :D