Dear Dayz Team,
as one of the "Tatort Chernarus" server-admins (actually rank 7 overall ranking) I'd like to give my opinion too. I personally play the DayZ SA almost from the beginning of early alpha. Right now, I have 2,7k of playing time. My mates and I we love the game and stuck to it through all the hard times hackers and bugs gave us.
I had rented three servers by myself and now my mates and I share a 60 slot hive. I have to admit that my first three servers (30 slots) were meant to be base and loot servers, although I never kicked or ever banned a player because I wanted to be secure! I never abused my admin-rights!! Although of course I know there are a lot of servers out there kicking players all the time and misusing their powers.
I rented a 30 slot server cause there is a less high probability to run into other players and of course there is a less high probability that other players find my base. I gave up the servers pretty fast because I made the experience that it is a lot more fun to always have the adrenalin rush you only have if you must fear running into other players. Concerning my bases, I soon understood that it makes no sense to have a base if there is nobody who could find it. I had so much stuff in my tents, I could have never used it and DayZ lost its sense for me. At this point, of course I am still glad if nobody finds my base but after all if anybody does… well, then fun starts right from the beginning!
The reason we decided to rent a public hive server is that we love to join other servers with our characters. I personally love the game so much because you really “identify” (connect) with your character. Thinking about the stuff you guys want to implement (growing beards, skilling and so on) this will even get more intense. It is not me who writes a story in DayZ it is my character who has a story. Another reason is to have clan-fights with for example other server-admins and of course to find some action or even other survivors if there is none on our server! Finally, it maximizes the game-world because it gives the map more dimensions. As simple as that.
Let’s get to the point. The pain in the ass noobs. HACKERS. We all know there will never be a cure. There is no game without them anymore nowadays. I spent money for the game to have fun! If one of these challenged beings uses hacks to give themselves a benefit or just to destroy other players game experience and not everything possible is done to fight it, it is a breach of contract between the publisher and the customer (player). I know you guys try a lot to fight these criminals (and that’s what they are!) but we all know this is a never-ending fight you will always be lagging behind. Just like it is common practice in other games you need to include the community to fight have a chance to fight it.
There is no work around! If there are rentable public servers there must be powerful admin-rights to fight hackers! Especially a game like DayZ were you loot for hours it is essentially important that the presence of hackers is at a minimum! I will for sure never loot for hours to get a heli flying if the only thing that will happen as soon as it is flying is that it will be shot down by nerd who gets his self-esteem by using a hack.
At this point the game supports the growing hack-industry the way this problem is handled. Even though this is an early alpha this should not be the case!
