I have been playing and running dayz servers since early in the mod. I still run 5 dayz standalone servers and since the 1.23 update, all of my servers have been suffering game breaking lag. I have tried a few things to mitigate the lag to no avail. My servers have practically unlimited resources to use since I own the hosting company, so there is no shortage that might be the reason. From doing some testing in-game, when I log onto one of my just restarted servers, I can teleport myself to a city and as soon as zombie spawns, loot spawns, etc occur, the server becomes heavily bogged down with just me on the server. My server side FPS reporting goes from 2000-5000 FPS all the way down to 2-5 FPS. As you stated, if you are using a vehicle of any sort, especially helicopters, this just seems to exacerbate the problem significantly since you will trigger spawns at a faster rate over a larger radius. As many posts as I've seen stating the same issues with 1.23, I have not seen anything official from Bohemia regarding this, but that is also status quo. Wish I had a solution for you, but you're certainly not the only one suffering from this problem.

If you run the Expansion mod, players can create a territory for themselves and then can spawn there. Having custom spawns for individual players will require writing code or running a mod that can do it.

Using the ban or bans.txt files will just instant ban the player. The BadNames.txt file will just kick the player until they change their profile name from the default "Survivor". Unfortunately, BadNames.txt is not working anymore. I'm also trying to get an answer as to why. I don't know if it's because Battleye no longer handles playernames like that anymore or if more recent DayZ SA code breaks BEC functionality.

Hey everyone, I have run a lot of dayz servers in my days from mod servers to standalone. I recently came back from taking a break on running servers and have noticed that Battleye Extended Controls does not seem to fully function with Standalone. Specifically I've noticed that BadNames.txt does not work any longer as well as BadWords.txt I'm trying to prevent player names like, "Survivor" or "Player", etc. Other features of it like the scheduler work with no issues. Is this a known compatibility problem with standalone? Is there another way to block selected player names from your server? TIA!

Hello everyone! I have been away for quite some time from the DayZ scene. Life has been keeping me pretty busy with family and running a business. I wanted to let everyone know about a new DayZ SA server I have set up. I am a veteran at DayZ servers, hosting, and writing mods. My clan, Boot Bandits was founded around playing DayZ mod. We have been around for more than 10 years now. I was one of the first DayZ mod public servers to be up and running. Myself and my clan mates have made a couple different mods for DayZ and Arma 3 as well as I helped Razor with testing the mod for a time. I'm not an amateur when it comes to setting up good servers that perform and responding to the community to improve their experience on my servers. Please join us on my server. I have used the old naming scheme and my old server number to pay homage to my first DayZ server; DayZ US NoVA 47 (Public) [REGULAR|3DP:ON|CH:ON][GMT-5] You can search for the name in the server browser or go directly to 209.0.142.112 port 2302. Thanks and I hope to see all you survivors there! -Sky (formerly Skydive)