tandwan

This is a strong arguement, i'm glad you contributed. And granted there are people in the United States with AK's and other various weapons from other countries, but it's not the norm. I was more referring to putting things such as Russian bloc weapons in military spawns and make them more common then you would anything else. I'm not sure how you would accomplish having things such as M4's and such spawning in but things but i'm sure it could be accomplished. The biggest thing that gets to me is finding US - OD Green BDU tops and bottoms floating around complete with American flags on the side. I like DayZ standalones' feel of immersion currently and just would feel a little disappointed if we threw in everything else out there. DayZ was a prime example for me with American and British even German DMR's floating around and even large caliber AM rifles. With that said, granted civilians will have some non-bloc weapons, so make them a lot more uncommon then the russian made counterparts. What really threw me off was someone mentioning Mk17's..... really? Come on...

I was one of those people in DayZ Mod who said that the weapons there made absolutely no sense. Granted with Arma 2 I could see more US weapons being there for the mission itself but not in the current build of DayZ. My thoughts are ALL weapons should be russian grade weapons because we're in russia, why is the most found assault rifle the M4? Granted, the AKM is on the way but the M4 should be removed entirely. Add more russian weapons if you want immersion, take out the green uniforms with US patches on the side and add more Soviet / Russian weapons.

So I just got Standalone, I know ... I know... a bit late to the party, but to me there just wasn't anything added to it other then better graphics. I finally broke down and bought it SIMPLY to support Rocket and the alpha because I did love the mod. Combine this with the fact that my computer is awful and really, really can't run standalone and you can understand why I joined a low pop server for a few hours. After a few hours of running around and learning the controls I came to the conclusion it feels just like DayZ mod beta / Alpha. It's interesting, lots of places to explore and completely full of bugs which reminds me a lot of DayZ. Anyways enough of that, did some running around and ended up with a lot of equipment and actually had to kill someone because they.... wait... hold on. I killed someone.... i'm a hero, why did this happen? It started off down on at Balotta with me running around gathering items and then leaving to go north because all the spawns were empty. I had decided to get to Zelenogorsk and maybe looked around. As I was traveling out of town I came across a guy running down the road. I quickly hopped back around the wall but knew he had seen me. I didn't want to shoot him, I didn't need gear and I didn't want to aggro zombies but you did something I was hoping you would not. You stopped and you pulled your rifle out and started turning towards me. WHY? WHY DID YOU DO THAT? I was looking at you with my weapon down, I had no intentions of shooting you but you had to stop and look at me. I don't like killing people because there's no reason to do it. I kill because I am forced to, but if you stop and take a hostile action to me.... well... sorry. So to the guy in Balota, west side of the compound running down the road... i'm sorry. You drew on me for no reason, I would have let you run by. Your name was MethN(something) and i'm absolutely broken hearted I had to shoot you. I left your equipment, you can go back and get it.

Agreed, but when he raised his weapon he sure as hell wasn't going to talk with it pointed at my face. It was already on his back and mine was lowered, the only reason he could have to pull it off his back was to engage me. Had he left the gun there, he wouldn't have been shot but he decided to draw down on me, I am not giving him the first shot, hero or not. Hero doesn't mean I let him get the first shot, it just means I won't attack you if you don't attack me and if you ask me for help I will. And as for going around, that was kinda outside my choices. I had and have only one water bottle which was empty, I needed to get some water from Balota before moving north or I wasn't going very far so... yes I could have went an extremely round-about way to get there but I figured I would just wait quietly.

So right now, every server is offline for me and nothing is showing up. Is this a normal thing? I click all the tabs, remove all filters... nothing shows up. Oh well, maybe tomorrow.

Give it a week to get fixxed? Give it a week to get bored? Give it a week to find it fun? I've been rubberbanding all day, losing items that don't spawn when I swap them out (that bug cost me all my food once). I've heard hacking is pretty retarded and that duping is a serious issue right now? I know it's alpha but do you know something I don't?

So I have added a lot of things onto my Epoch server, nothing not normally in Arma II : OA but basically giving a person more options in weapons and such. How i've done this, is i've put SARGE AI on my server and completely redone their loot tables so that they have normal weaponry but there are other weapons not normally lootable that are gained by killing them. Things such as L85 AWS, Laserdesignater, and you get the idea of where I am going. Now my biggest question is this. I have several APC's (M113, and LAV HQ) on my server but there's no AT anywhere except for a few things such as KSVK. I want to add RPG's and such to my AI but what i'm wondering is, since RPG's are a secondary weapon will the AI use that AND a primary weapon or will they just nor have them spawn at all. How do I make it so my Sarge AI uses both a weapon and an RPG?

So I added the M32 and the AA12 to my server. In order to give the AI different ammo to use in situations, I changed their config to add ammunition at a 20% chance to be in their gear. Last time I tried this, I completely broke Sarge AI (and the server) this time it only broke Sarge AI. Not sure what caused it, was it adding inventory to the AI or giving them something like extra ammunition? Will have to test this to see what is happening here. Test 1: Sat at the ATC in NE airfield for some time, no chopper spawns, nothing. Not sure what happened so going to remove ammunition in their config. Test 2: Removed all ammunition in the inventory, spawning them with the M32 still and the AA12. Let's see how this works out. | Seems that this worked, adding ammo to their inventory was causing the game and SARGE AI not to work well together. On a side note, looks like one of the issues I had with HFB has been solved on DayZ.ST. I don't have to edit my battleye at all to allow for Sarge to spawn certain choppers in. Starting to really appreciate DayZ.ST.

So I may end up making this a blog of sort for new people to opening their own server. I've been tinkering with this, trying out server hosts and such and in truth I think the one that allows you to do the most and is best for a new admin is the DayZ.st host. Admin panel is amazing to use, works great and is very easy to use for testing on your server. Having an easily work on control panel that HFB never gave me is also great, I am loving it. Some things i've noticed in my adventure through hair pulling are a few things. Choose your weapons carefully, test, and retest. I've tried adding weapons and ammunition on things like SARGE AI and it really, really doesn't like some weapons at all. Also choose your models well when choose AI skins. Unless you are using RMod (Which I am not, because I want to keep it simple) some of the models just get stuck in the ground and stand there. So be a little careful about what you choose for your AI, and always pay attention to things as you play. If you notice your AI are not spawning in numbers you tell them to ( I set mine to 5, I was noticing a lot of 4) it's probably because one of the skins didn't load, or got stuck in the ground, or whatever.... More to come as I see it. A big thumbs up for DayZ.ST though, great server hosts.

I think my main question is will they carry it as a backpack slot item and switch to it to deal with vehicles and AT?

Ok so I am curious about a few things and I figured this would be the place to ask it. I've been wanting to run an Epoch server because quite frankly I got totally sick of all the crap I found on others. Abusive admins, 24/7 day, shitty spawn load-outs and admin bases that were clearly admin abused in so I said screw it and made my own server. Recently I got to looking at something on Epoch and noticed there were absolutely no real female combat skins. This really placed female characters at a disadvantage when it come to combat and there was quite literally one skin that was even remotely military-ish... so I wanted to change that. I want to add a completely new skin to my server and I have heard a lot of things. I have heard that they would have to download a custom server file for my server to join and I also heard that it couldn't be done at all. I want to add this skin to my server : http://www.armaholic...ge.php?id=12248 How do I do it? What steps do I need to take to make this happen?

First post was in the wrong forum. This is the private hive forum,

Ok so I am curious about a few things and I figured this would be the place to ask it. I've been wanting to run an Epoch server because quite frankly I got totally sick of all the crap I found on others. Abusive admins, 24/7 day, shitty spawn load-outs and admin bases that were clearly admin abused in so I said screw it and made my own server. Recently I got to looking at something on Epoch and noticed there were absolutely no real female combat skins. This really placed female characters at a disadvantage when it come to combat and there was quite literally one skin that was even remotely military-ish... so I wanted to change that. I want to add a completely new skin to my server and I have heard a lot of things. I have heard that they would have to download a custom server file for my server to join and I also heard that it couldn't be done at all. I want to add this skin to my server : http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=12248 How do I do it? What steps do I need to take to make this happen?

Yeah that's pretty much what I said, and it's exactly why I wanted it. I figured if male characters can have a full out camo fatigue with helmet, why not female skins? Doesn't make sense, and it's purely lazy that devs/mods/whatever haven't covered this issue previously.

I get this on every mod there is and across a wide variety of servers. I have heard this was because of multiple things, everything from changing the name of my character after I had already logged into a server to me being a hacker. I'm not a hacker, I didn't blow up a vehicle to die, I got ate by zombies on a Epoch server. I can't log into that server or ANY OTHER server regardless of what I do. How do I fix this? Is there a sure fire way to stop this from happening that I haven't found yet? Everything else I have read has not helped at all.

Verify works until I log out.... it's wierd.

So is there anything else I can do other then completely uninstall and reinstall? Would verifying files work?

Tried all my profiles. Cecil Fullard / Alisa Callahan / Tandwan / Herobound And I am confused... call? I went back and checked the intergrity on all my Arma 2 files. OA, PMC and such... all are fine, they were missing some files but it got fixxed. Edit #2 : Reinstalled DayZ, Origins.... Arma 2 beta.....

Delete this thread.

So I recently decided I was going to do a video to demonstrate how entirely stupid the loot rates are on some servers. Now granted, i'm sure there is something that can be tweaked or what have you but the massive amount of servers that this becomes a problem on makes it the norm. The video is complete but the audio is awful because my voice is very quiet (crap mic) so I won't post the video unless specifically asked to. The video part you did not see was me running through the south barracks, then up through ALL the hangers, through firehouse, ATC, then to north barracks after running through the industrials. I found 1 M4A3 in the south barracks and 1 1014 on the ground outside. That's it, period, nothing else spawned. No cans, no trash, no random clips or magazines. I did find some industrial loot AFTER I went back, but I didn't check southern industrials so i'm inclined to believe that it was there to begin with. I then ran out the northwest part of the airfield and checked the deer stand which actually had toilet paper in it. I logged out, logged back in, entire process of log-out was about five minutes. I then ran to the north barracks and began filming. Now someone once told me the way to get loot to spawn was to run through, leave, then come back again a few minutes later. I considered this and actually DID just that by running through and out, logging out in the woods by the deerstand and then running back. Guess what I found? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Nothing in the hangers, ATC, firehouse, nothing at all. The amount of crap there was actually depressing because these are supposed to be HIGH END LOOT SPAWNS and there was nada in them. What gives? I would have thought this was a serverside thing that the loot is trashed due to barracks hoppers, but this is happening on a LOT of servers and not just the one I normally play on. Day / Night, any time of day, loot just does not spawn. Let's ignore the fact by the way that three choppers crashed in the field north of Vybor and South of the checkpoint just inside the gates. In that big open field? Yeah three choppers within 100 meters of each other. All medical. They had been picked clean of course and I would be surprised if they weren't but come on... the barracks? I would love to hear a reasoning behind this because it's just stupid that the northwest airfield is useless. If you want the video I can show you video proof absolutely no problem. How about instead of adding new things to the mod, we fix the things that need to be fixxed and that players have been begging for since the damn game begin?

I think a better question is why do you have a picture of a man fondling a childs breasts for your avatar?

Yes, i'm going to take a brony seriously... moving right along. If that were the case, there would be cans and other garbage laying around. Anywhere. There's not even loot coming up in Vybor. If I wanted to play DayZ Aftermath, i'd play DayZ Aftermath. I want to play vanilla, and thus, I would hope a mod that has been around for quite some time would have simple things like this solved instead of making it worse. But then again, we've had DayZ vanilla up for ever and we still don't have female skins, so shit i'm not really sure what I should expect.

Admins who constantly monitor their server map (admin map) to see where players are? That's really almost as bad as ghosting. You're using outside tools to get into a favored position so you can engage a player. Admins who use the admin map to steal from camps and also to find hidden camps is very abusive. You don't consider that admin abuse?

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that's abusing your power bud. You're using powers a normal player would not have to move around the server, and while you still consider it innocent, it's not what it was meant for.

I've seen a lot of servers with admin abuse. Majority of the time it's admins using the admin panel to gather every vehicle in the game or to hunt players down. It gets dumb and very annoying. I rarely play anything but live servers now and even then due to hackers, I do that sparingly.