LostS77 (DayZ)

Yeah mine isn't doing the spamming either. My RPT logs are reasonable. Only one I have going insane is the scripts.log but that is b/c I chose to log everything to get a baseline of what means what in the game so I can possible develop a parser in perl. Which I am doing on the createvehicle right now to help me identify when a hacked box is spawned. But my RPT log is about the same.

What do you mean by "wipe tents"... I upgraded and haven't had any real issues. Did find that if you destory a tent it will respawn on restart with everything in it.

OK I will try and see if I see anything in the logs for that day. Not going to promise anything, but I will look.

Should Barbed Wire (and/or Tank Traps and Sand bags) be removed? As they are right now? Yes If you could fix them so that if zeds tried to pass through Barbed Wire they get hurt and could die, and Tanks traps and sand bags would STOP them... then No leave them. As they are right now, they only stop players from being able to try and get to safety to try and defend themselves from the zeds. They are nice to try and make forts, but when people ghosting to other servers, not much use then :(

Yep... I know that about the hackerboxes... but this hacker made a MedBox0 but it had weapons in it and it was on the docks. Just trying to figure out if others have seen Medical Boxes spawn in places they shouldn't. I am looking at a way to parse my createvehicle.log file and plot out where Boxes are setup, and come up with a list of coords where I know yes that is where those boxes spawn, and then another list of why is there a box here. If it isn't in a place where say a medical heli crashed, my gut would tell me it was a hacker spawning it in and stuff.

I am the admin of 1963. If you can please provide a date/time and proof of that happening I will be glad to take action. But I need that proof and well the logs, don't show much :(

OK So I have a server and I know we are not allowed to Lock a server except to do maintenance which is fine with me. However what are the feelings to the BEC option that will auto lock a server if X number of people join within Y amount of time and only keep it locked for Z amount of time? IE I am setup this way: 5 Players, within 5 seconds, lock for 10 seconds. Would this be breaking the rules?

That is the post I missed... must be a new entry since I read it the first time. Thank you :)

Just as an FYI there is a fix for servers... https://dev-heaven.net/issues/41502 However when I asked my hosting company about doing this, they asked the Dev Team and they said: So yeah... that is all I got to say. Actually i can say, it is nice knowing if I die, I can run back up to my camps where I did get things to save and re-arm myself at anytime.

I would LOVE it if we could get more details on movement and maybe even player deaths. Right now hackers have more control over a server then admins do :(

Hey linkinxp... Do what I did, get the BEC tools and set it so ONLY ASCII character names can join my server. I hate not being able to read a name or anything. If anyone has an issue with being auto kicked for a Non-ASCII character name, guess what... they can change it to a ASCII character name. I also do not allow people who have the name Admin or Administrator.

Banning for hacked items... Unless the Developers are going to release a confirmed what is and what isn't in the game (yes some sites say one thing, some say another) and keep it up-to-date, it is practically impossible. Do I like hacked items in the game, no... but I am not going to ban for them. Now one thing the DayZ developers might want to consider doing, is adding a trigger to the DB's where if a write request comes in and in that request is an non-legit items, it removed that non-legit item from the save. So yes, people can use it while they are playing, but next time they log in it will be gone.

OK so your fixing the random crashing the app does? Also any thought into adding a peice so that we can setup the createvehicles.txt, remoteexec.txt and the scripts.txt to not only log to it's log file but also to the server_console and have some way in the system to parse that? Just an idea... Thank you for having a easy to use tool :)

Figured I would start a Thread with a list of "UnOfficial" Mirrors of the DayZ code. So these are the links I have found: NigeyUK - http://www.nigey.co.uk/Dayz (Updated - 20-Jun-2012 22:53 UTC) LostS77 - http://www.knoxgamers.org/dayz/ (Updated - 20-Jun-2012 23:00 UTC) MrLink - http://download.dayz-mod.de/ (Updated - 20-Jun-2012 23:28 UTC)

Well I have tried contacting the DayZ people and well they are busy. You are correct, might not be a great idea... but if they release a patch their systems are slammed so hard they stop responding. All I am doing is trying to help the DayZ staff offload some of the stress their servers get. I have an automated script that checks the Sweden site for any changes/updates and if it find anything changed or add or anything it downloads those changes to my system. So I can promise you for my site only that I have not touched or done anything to the files. I am pretty sure the others who have offered a mirror site so users can download files aren't doing anything to the files (or at least I hope they don't). Now if a DayZ staff member would like to contact me and make my site an "official" mirror, please shoot me a PM or an e-mail and I will get them access to my site so they can push updates out to me... As I said, I am just doing this to try and help relieve some of the stress on their system especially when an update is pushed out.

Thank you MrLink... added it to the top post.

Bump so others will know about the Mirrors

Well I have offered up a web site I run to be a mirror. I am already replicating the data from the Sweden site to mine... I would give it out for others to use... except I kind of would like to get an OK from the DayZ staff saying it is OK for me to do this. If they give me a thumbs up saying yes I will be glad to post the URL that is a mirror of the content on http://cdn.armafiles.info/ ... Now my site might be a little behind when/if files are updated or added but I can probably have the files on my site within 30 minutes of the file being posted on the Sweden site. So if a DayZ staff member reads this and if you all are OK with me providing a link to users to download from I will post it... if you like to add it to the links for the downloads please shoot me a PM.

Done it many times. Strangely when I get back to camp all the vehicles and tents are still there though. Your suggestion didn't seem to work for me. :P Except for one thing... Right now Hotfixes/patches are being released daily and the idea of having to start over every day right now would make me not want to play. Now maybe for every Major Patch yes... IE 1.8... but for minor IE the 1.7.1.5, 1.7.1.6 or heck 1.7.2... I would not like that at all. Right, so your ONE THING is that you don't like starting over. See you in beta then! :D Nope... I have died many times now and start over allot... but I know I don't have a TON of time to play. So I play at night for a few hours, get some decent gear and then well I have to go to bed due to well this thing called a job. So while I am asleep a patch is applied, I never got a chance to use anything I found, well now I have to start over again... not b/c I messed up and aggroed every infected in town or got into a fire fight that I couldn't handle... but b/c I had to go to bed and a patch was applied. That is why I would only suggest a wipe of every on major releases and not minor. Now maybe the system is in need of a major wipe when we went from 1.6 to 1.7, I don't know. I am just giving my 2 cents on the idea of wiping on every patch. I don't like it, I would prefer if any wipes are done it is on major releases.

Except for one thing... Right now Hotfixes/patches are being released daily and the idea of having to start over every day right now would make me not want to play. Now maybe for every Major Patch yes... IE 1.8... but for minor IE the 1.7.1.5, 1.7.1.6 or heck 1.7.2... I would not like that at all.

Rocket/DayZ Staff: Anyway to say wipe ONLY the tents that have 0 (zero) items in them vs. all of them? Just wondering...