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Yeah. Basically I was in game annonymously (no admin tags) and sent out an RCON global saying we are shutting the server down in 10 minutes to ban for the mass number of scripts run on the server. About an hour later after the server restart "CLAN TAG - ADMIN NAME" has been kicked - global ban. Not at all suspicious timing.....I announce bans incoming and the guy running Clan tags that was on at the time then finds himself global banned an hour later....*sigh* Personally I suspect they are able to spoof GUID's and see others GUID's on a given server so please be careful out there about revealing your Admin ID's in case you get trolled too.

Yeah we got the message last night saying BattleEye are aware of the issue and are working hard etc etc etc. Then my clan mate gets a global ban even as the guy I can SEE in the scripts.log teleporting over the place and spawning items still runs free.... Good work guys *golf clap* We will appeal but at this point are considering packing up and waiting for the stand alone. It was bad enough our admins kept getting kicked while script kiddies ran rampant and we hadn't the tools to deal with it. Now our admins are getting global bans and we are still powerless while the script kiddies run rampant. I would face palm but my care meter is flashing red and I don't want to risk it >_<

How do you get chat logs off the servers btw? Been looking for ages and can't find it. I have BERCon and console access but don't see chat in the logs unless it's near my person in game...

Hey man, Thanks for getting in touch, I'll review the logs asap to confirm why we banned you and unban you if there is any doubt. Had a mass ban last night of about 40ish people due to a HUGE number of scripts being run including teleporting and item spawning as well as some I was unsure about but banned for anyway. I assure you the camp looting is a conincidence and if we banned everyone that found and looted our camps our server would be empty ;) (Wasn't very nice saving the tents empty by the way, took us a long time to collect that gear =p) As far as I can see we had you banned for running scripts\dedicatedServerInterface.sqf which was an attempt to access the admin panel and is a common attempt to use a script even though it's since been patched and will get you auto kicked. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt this time as even though it's ...suspicious....in theory it shouldn't have done any harm. I don't have access to server from here but when I get back tonight I wil prefix your GUID with # in the ban list so you can get on. Please don't try accesing admin panel unless you are an admin and be aware we will flag your GUID for close scrutiny

As far as I could tell from google this was a common element in an Item spawning script and most of the players that had this also had "Spawn Item DMZ_Backpack and Flashlight_red" which seemed bloody strange. Had about 12 of them in one day within an hour or so of each other and banned them all, almost all have appealed innocence so I need more study myself...will let you know more when I do.

As far as I can tell people teleporting round and spawning items, more than that I have not the tools to know :( Again sorry if you are innocent but better safe than sorry....

After logging in today to more reports of teleporting and all camps/vehicles gone I've shut the server down for mass bans AGAIN. So many scripts. IF you are one of the 48 people I've banned for running scripts today alone and feel this was not just, do let me know and I'll let you explain yourself and why you either: Spawned items Teleported Ran a known "item spawn" script Thankyou, don't come again.

Hey man, Yeah that was me, had a load of scripters today teleporting and spawning vehicles so I banned a mass number of users. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/65137-mass-bans-from-de-188/ I show you running dedicatedServerInterface.sqf which seems to be linked to item spawning scripts etc but will unban you while we investigate further if you feel this was not the case and I apologies if so. I will warn you however that I'm not convinced as out of all the players on the server only a few got this flagged up. Skins are just a line in a config file and nothing to do with scripts at all and wouldn't flag up, we use them :)

I suspect the script number depends om the local scripts.txt file and isn't a global standard (though each server update has a default scripts.txt) Sounds lile this server runs a custom script file so you need to ask the local admins what this is. I am pretty sure removing files isn't detected as a script as that's a seperate check again configurable server side. You do get kick for invalid/corrupt/missing files but not for scripts in this case. Also be aware with over a million players some will legitimatly loose or corrupt these files and not be cheaters...

Happened to me too, basically people are idiots and unless they are a friend they don't get trust, trust is earnt, not given. Despite that harsh stance you wills till make friends slowly and you'll die a lot less for it.

There needs to be a "Punch you in the face and take your beans options" as well as "have my beans" Also this is one reason we have Crosshairs, and Nametags off on our server. if we didn't need 3rd person for Videos we'd turn that off too =/

Possibly a combination of lag/desync or buggy landscape, I've had stairs/trees suck up bullets which clearly shouldn't have hit them. Also standing up with a M240 or M2409 means anything after the first round is going to spray like a mofo they are just not accurate guns outside of the prone position in anything more than 2-3 shot bursts

Man you know what, I could fake this video faster than he can "edit" the real thing! Give me 100 beans and I'll go fake it right now and I'll do it well, my wife's been showing me how to do it for years!!

If you are doing a command line reset then yes the map will start over as a new mission, you need to actually stop and restart Dayz server side and vehicles/tents etc will re-populate from last hive save. If you are a hosted service, login to your host providers control panel and stop/start your server. If you are hosting it yourself, restart it, the Command line "Restart" will always reset to a fresh map until a proper reset. There are times when you may want to temporarily run a clean map and a CLI restart is handy but I find those very limited. We also found that any vehicles you get this way tend to despawn after a few moments of a proper stop/start and a hive sync so you can't get more vehicles this way :) (For the record we discovered this when Host Altitude lost Control panel due to a 3rd party Data Centre issue and we had to do a CLI reset to fix some MAJOR lag/performance issues then ran for 24 hours before we could do a proper stop start during which time we got a off road pickup, which subsequently vanished)

The problem is any organised group or long time player will realisticly need tents to store spare items etc but this will also start duping items so regardless of intent it will by nature be exponential so yes, it's nuts. It should be fixed in stand alone and we'll probably have a database resetthen as well anyway so don't stress over it =p

We had a major road rage incident on DE 188 last night. 11PM and I'm exfiltrating 2 of my squad from Cherno in the VS23 Civi en route to pick up 3 more. I'm driving dark heading West when we see a Hatchback with lights on heading right at us. I don't plan to go off road on this truck with all the Debris about and having gotten upto speed already so I honk my horn but they don't even swerve and seem to want to play Chicken. I hit them just off center at 70KMPH and sent him Careening off into the central reservation. Truck damage minimal. I see their car is still moving but not very fast, almost certainly heavy front wheel damage. I spin the van around as our sniper jumps out leaving my buddy with his Silenced M4 in the back as 4 people get out of the hatchback and open up on the truck so I floor it at the driver side. Muzzle flashes from 4 assuault rifles are blinding through the NVG and I'm convinced the rain of bullets on the cab will hit me before I can ram them again but they seem to be panicing and shooting centre mass on the cab and never even hit the glass. In hindsight I wish I had turned on the lights to blind them further. Blood pumping I honk the horn and scream at them over comms so I hit them like a truck out of hell. I ram the drivers side crushing the rear passenger to death and sending the driver flying into the distance but only rack up one kill, a bandit kill! I make a mistake here and carry on past the car pulling up just East of them exposing my remaining squad mate to the 2 far side passangers and another full auto fulisade knocks him unconcious and he falls out the truck bleeding heavily. I swing it round so the truck is between us and Jump out the cab thinking the truck will protect me but the driver who had been shunted up the road is still alive with broken legs and sprays me as I climb out, I never even get my gun shouldered. At this point it goes quiet, 1 serious injured bandit 10 meters up the road and two still alive. They must not have counted our numbers and seen the sniper disembark as they start trying to loot bodies. Our sniper takes out the bandit trying to loot my friend killing him and destroying the car behind him as well in the same shot! That .50 Cal packs a wallop... The other bandit breaks for the beach. My friend comes too at this point and gets 2 shots off at the fleeing bandit before passing out again, the bandit turns and finishes him off before the sniper gets him too. The driver up the road bleeds out and dies leaving our one man standing. He loots some very well tooled up bandits including a Desert Cammo M4 SCO SD. I get a lucky spawn just out of Cherno and head back to the truck but in the adrenaline come down I forget I've changed my PTT button and he doesn't hear my identify myself as I approach the truck and guns me down >_< I get lucky AGAIN and spawn in Cherno and run to him with a zombie train behind me which he takes a shot at and misses...hitting me in the head........Yeah I'm going to have words with him about that.... Of course I forget to save the damn gun/truck before the midnight server reboot and the gun evapourates into the ether :( So car blown up, the only gun worth looting lost....we lost nothing but gained nothing either except a rush and a tale to share.

It was a rush for sure. The thought of 4 guys in a crappy hatchback who don't even have NVG or High end weapons getting the better of us and making off with our mobile base as we think of it made the Adrenaline flow.

I had a similar idea and applaud your efforts. I think the greatest problem right now is lack of tools. Getting proof of cheating is like finding rocking horse poo at the moment. Those scripting without a bypass will majoritly get picked up by BE and banned anyway though yes we will get a few here and there which is always worth it. In all honesty though a few simple features will give a huge increase to detection if we could just see what was happening on our servers. Basically give us information!! While we wait for a more secure stand alone or a major patch to secure the engine give us the tools to manually police our servers. Power in numbers :)

Hehe grats :)

Thanks yeah I have access to the server just wasn't aware chat was logged. Which file is this in or do you need to edit the config files to trace chat etc? (I regularly trawl console/script logs prior to banning peeps like combat loggers etc but haven't come across records of chat logs yet)

....Where do you see chat logs???

Dropping kit in water is a server side variable that can be turned off. Securing that island isn't difficult if they have a chopper...just barbed wire or tank trap the shore and you won't be able to remove it even if you have a tool box as you'll be swimming. Server hopping or the chopper would be the only way, but Alt F4'ing IS upto the local admins to ban as rocket himself has said it's an exploit. We've banned several for just that.

Odd I found the illness cured itself over time but I did spend time by a fire to get my body heat back up. I do have antibiotics now too just in case and never found them that hard to get but yes not common. Did you try thr millitary medical tents as well as hospital, they seem to be almost common there

I find this is often down to secondary fire mode being stuck on, try double right click or hold right mouse see if that resolves

Date 05/08/2012 Time: 8PM GMT Player Marvin Baur (91.12.62.240:2504) GUID: 612ae4816154e28a8a4244fb9a5186cd (unverified) Verified GUID (612ae4816154e28a8a4244fb9a5186cd) of player #5 Marvin Baur This user was killed by one of our snipers in Cherno and his body checked, AK, Tent, Tools etc. A few minutes later we kill the same guy in Elecktro Pub with the exact same setup and note that he managed to tool up pretty quick. We then drive over the the Office in Electro and our driver is shot dead, we bail out and see our attacker in the top floor of the Office. Our sniper gets a hit but he combat logs. At this point I'm already opening the console logs for a ban. We go to retrieve our friends body (we carried on driving while the sniper and spotter bailed out). As we get to the body our sniper who was watching the spot he logged out in shouts that he's just logged back in. Before he finishes that sentance he turns and sprays me (Driver) and my friend in the back dead in the space of a second but the sniper finishes him off this time...SAME guy, Exact same load out, AK, Tent, Tools etc. No NVG and 50 meters away with an AK at night (9PM server time) but doesn't miss a shot 1 second after spawning...and with a full identical load, on the top floor of Elecktro office meer seconds after dying.... He goes to the lobby and respawns back in again and again we start taking fire again but our remaining two memebers get our truck out safely. On this alone we are banning from DE 188 and suggest others do the same. Will be scanning scripts.log to try and find proof for global ban.