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Everyone in here is just jumping to conclusions and only digesting the facts THEY want to hear. I'm debating if there is a point to this post because every player WANTS to crusade as victims of admin abuse, people are too willing to jump to that conclusion. Look how many hollow admin abuse threads there are. All I can do is say we didn't act out of frustration. I've told you in this thread (the part you read and chose to ignore) we've lost everything many times and it doesn't bother us nearly bad enough to start banning people. We learned from the beginning not to get attached in this game. Again, I can just say it, can't prove that we didn't act out of frustration. This game does not offer any way to truly tell if someone is cheating so what are we to do when we suspect it? We truly believed someone was running around rapidly locating vehicles using the cheat I posted, we banned the two players and went immediately to the forum to message them and did (again, before he even posted). I just wanted anything close to a reasonable explanation so that I could lift the ban, within minutes. Instead everything has been handled immaturely, assumptions have been jumped to. People are attacking our Ventrilo (while I type this even). Like I said everyone WANTS to cry ADMIN ABUSE, so they'll chose the things they want to hear in order to say it. I've read things in this thread that don't even pertain to our situation, such using a post to locate their camp (back in time?), bases being raided with flashlights (was never night or flashlights involved when we found the base), people saying we can TELL THE SERVER what time of day to be (again, we don't have control over that). And there was a glitch several patches ago that sometimes vehicles wouldn't show up, and restarting the server would resolve it. Someone asked for a server restart in all-chat, we notified everyone, restarted and it resolved the glitch for them. The vehicles were not "lost" or "destroyed" but people chose to make those facts up; They just hear what they want to hear. I actually remember laughing about our other base being raided while we had the new vehicles saying "Well we can't be sad if these get stolen since we stole them ourselves." So again, we didn't do anything because we wanted to defend the vehicles we found an hour ago. I'll give them all the credit and say it's as simple as a misunderstanding at best, bans are not permanent, within a few minutes and one private message they would have been unbanned and should be proud about how clever they were. I would have apologized for the SLIGHT INCONVENIENCE (not exactly cutting toes off here) and given them all the credit in the world knowing it now! Instead our servers have been attacked and people refuse to cooperate. They keep confusing the situation. As this thread has turned to bickering, inaccurate accusations, when it could have just been a simple explanation and resolution, there really is no point to posting and explaining ourselves any more. Sorry for the mess, couldn't predict people would handle a situation so poorly.

Apparently your friends aren't afraid of confrontation. This is the raw recording of people failing at harassing us in ventrilo while we try to remain mature and just get to the point. Taken only minutes ago: http://www.aim2wingaming.com/downloads/All%20the%20evidence%20you%20need.wav

FYI, we just had someone join our ventrilo with the name "Feedmetothegods". He joined our ventrilo channel, I asked who it was, he asked what we were up to, I asked who he was. He said "Anyone in Cherno." I responded "So trolling is the best way to make your case for being banned?" He left vent. Again, if someone wanted to be mature about this it would be resolved quickly. And I just feel the need to log the events. Someone is in our Vent server right now trolling us...

We have had many camps raided, and lost everything before. We have always had an optimistic attitude about losing everything and enjoyed the challenge of finding everything once again. We had a camp for several days that no one raided, and suddenly the same night we get vehicles there, it's discovered and raided. THE ORIGINAL BASE WE HAD RAIDED was NOT THE ONE FEATURED IN THE SCREEN SHOTS. Not even within 20Km of the one featured in the screen shots. So those screen shots you posted couldn't have possibly led you to a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BASE. We still had no problem with this base being raided suddenly within a few hours of bringing vehicles to it. Easy come, easy go. Shocked at how someone found our base, for the hell of it, one of our members ran straight west from our old camp til he ran out of food and water and found someone's camp. LAUGHING we realized that someone must have just stumbled upon our camp, all thoughts of being followed or discovered through the forums went away. This new camp we found was filled with vehicles. We had a few members jump on and after some time found and relocated the vehicles to somewhere completely random and nearly off the map (understandably debatable). Within a few more hours the same people were raiding this camp, over 60km (grid squares please correct me if I'm wrong) in a random direction from their camp. We found this: http://www.***.me/forum/arma-arma2/76564-crappy-vehicle-locator-script-2.html Just a note: the players we killed did not have GPS. After reading the above link do you think they are somehow locating exact pinpoints that you can't see from trees within 2km and within a few hours with no reason to look in that radius other than a screenshot that is BEYOND VAGUE. Please explain to me how that screen shot led you without a GPS to that grid point down to the Km. I have sent GhostDad a personal private message inviting him to talk to us in voice before he made this post. We don't at all care to ban people for feeling they bested us. We are a mature gaming community and have had a high reputation for years. We have loved all the patches making the game more difficult, we've lost everything (the screenshots you linked, ghostdad, were from our old camp that disappeared well before you raided it due to the vehicle reset patch, and then the tent reset patch. I can't stress enough how those screenshots DO NOT SHOW REMOTELY THE BASE THEY CLAIMED TO HAVE FOUND BY SCREENSHOTS.). You can have as many people post in the DayZ forums as you'd like, and I wouldn't at all mind to speak to anyone from DayZ (though they have better things to do) staff or the proclaimed "victims" via ventrilo to reach a resolution. It has been our experience in YEARS of hosting servers that where there is smoke, there is fire. We can talk to anyone mature and look forward to them adding insight and clarity to a confused situation.

Don't be a mindless tool throwing out Call of Duty in a BUG REPORT thread. The DEVS have no responsibility of fixing this MOD as it's an ALPHA and not a game presented for your enjoyment yet. This is the experiment that leads to the product. YOU are counter-productive and therefor should not be part of a productive process. Please go away until official release. Oh are these bugs not ACCEPTABLE for you in this mod? Glad to hear that YOU are OK with the other bugs, we all can get some rest now. It's an alpha, you haven't even given him proper time to resolve it, not that he HAS to please you in the ALPHA STAGE. YES I'm being a dick and over using ALL CAPS words. I feel like these points have been made politely by other people and you guys still don't get it. LASTLY to people getting their gear replaced with a Makarov, and people getting more than their rifle and associated ammo erased: I'm not convinced this is the same issue as mine. I definitely understand you guys posting in my thread in case I left that part out but I would recommend you guys create a NEW bug report thread (if there hasn't been one already) because I feel my bug report is unique to anyone getting the Makarov issue. Thanks to people using some sense!

Had this same issue of perma-broke bike.

Date/Time: 06/18/2012 4:55PM EST and night before What happened: Loaded into server, primary weapon missing along with it's associated ammo in my main inventory. Happened to my silenced MP5 last night, I assumed I accidentally lost it in a tent, or that a friend borrowed it from a tent though I was almost positive I logged with it in my hands. Grabbed an M4A3 CCO and had to run for the night, logged with it in rifle slot (can't remember if pistol or rifle was out though). Logged in today and M4A3 is gone along with the few STANAG rounds. Ammo related to the weapon in my backpack is untouched. Where you were: North of NW Airfield. What you were doing: Loaded in. *Current installed version: 1.7.1.1 *Server(s) you were on: Atlanta 24 *Your system specs: i7 920 2.67GHZ / 6950HD / 12GB DDR3 / 120GB Vertex3 SSD *Timeline of events before/after error: Spawned this character in the 1.7 patch I believe. Just ran around for a few hours nothing special.