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Aye I think the problem is the preception a lot of us newbies have coming to the game from "word of mouth" is that this is basically Left for dead on steroids which isn't entirely true. Love the game though :) Just having to adjust to the reality vs my expectations =p Instead of being a goody goody I'm turning into something of a bastard, and loving it =p

I think the idea is that the only reason most unarmed people are friendly is because they are unarmed. As soon as they find a weapon they will turn on you.

Thanks for your paitience, it appears to be a bandwidth issue once we hit 30+ users causing lag spikes (upto 500ms from the UK). We'll work with our host to resolve this.

After two hangs yesterday and reports of serious DeSync we will be rebooting and locking the server for a brief period tonight (circa 7PM GMT) to load test the server to work out if this is a hardware or bandwidth issue. We aren't seeing more than 20% load on the CPU/Memory but our Bandwidth monitor is not working (always shows 0/bytes per second). The Lock shouldn't be more than 10-15 minutes while we check the server run's fine without Desync under minimal load then we'll unlock it and monitor as we load up players. We ask you to bare with us through this short period so we can get the server back to running smoothly for you all.

The "Time Zone" shown in the server name is set in the config but doesn't neccesarily actually show the real server time. The time of dame in game is linked to the System time on said server. Our server is still showing as GMT -8 even though it's GMT +2, it will be corrected on the next reboot but for now it's wrong :(

UPDATE - After a server crash/restart We seem to have reverted to GMT +1, we will get this fixed back to GMT -8 asap.

OK server is official running and tested, We look forward to seeing you all there. we'll schedule daily reboots about 3AM GMT each day. I was planning on the Admins being friendly examples but after two examples this morning of our "nice guy" approach being abused, IE Shot in the back after helping out so called friendlies get into Supermarkets / Hospitals we've decided actually the Admins will be happy to help if you see abuse/hacking but as far as in game goes we will stay to ourselves and engage you if you are in our way though we won't go out of our way to hunt players. Likewise if we get a drop on you and you manage to "surrender" we'll tell you to get on your way but don't expect us to join you or tollerate people tagging along with us :) Survival of the fittest :P

As long as the server is stopped it should take but I'm only just got home so I'll test now. Worst case you can stick it in the Config file, I saw a post on that a little while back, will see if I can find it again.

Here's their reply Dear Eden Eustice (GCorp), Have you updated your server to 1.7.2 (or 1.7.2.1) through our control panel and get stuck on loading? We have now found a fix for this with help from the DayZ Dev Team, make sure your server is stopped: 1. Update your SERVER to the latest DayZ (1.7.2.1) patch and the latest Beta patch (Beta 94876). 2. Update your CLIENT to the latest DayZ (1.7.2.1) patch and the latest Beta patch (Beta 94876). 3. Change the DayZ Version, Beta Version and tick the "Requires Beta" box in the Configuration Editor for server.cfg. (Found in Configuration Files) 4. Start up your server and all should be working now. Contact us if you have any problems. Live chat is online. Kind Regards, Host Altitude Limited T: +44 (0)208 1337 627 E: support@hostaltitude.com W: www.hostaltitude.com

Cheers Fella, Much appreciated ^_^

oh! That's a bugger I was sure I've seen reserved slot servers and was hoping to reserve some for my Admins so we can always get on to Admin the thing... Yeah I've done a fair bit of reading on here and lucky that I did as I can garuntee you I would not just have got my Server BL'isted but also myself perma banned as well! Great respect for the time and effort Rocket et al are putting into this mod so we'll do our best to stick by his rules and do our bit for the community. If we can't reserve or kick we may have to MOTD that we will reboot the server around XX:XX every evening for maintenance which is fair enough and good practice, but this also gives us space to get our Admin on I suppose =p Within the rules and ensures we can keep our server running and policed.

DOH same here apparently. I'm playing with the settings now, I'm trying "update" and "requires Beta" Will let you know

For now we have set it as below. Once we get online ourselves (all at work currently) we'll start play testing and tweaing the settings. Please expect a few resets/reboots over the next 24 hours or so but we'll always Broadcast a good few minutes in advance prior to any reset. Time: GMT -8 Difficulty: Regular Armor=1; FriendlyTag=0; EnemyTag=1; HUD=1; HUDPerm=1; HUDWp=1; HUDWpPerm=1; WeaponCursor=0; AutoAim=0; AutoGuideAT=0; 3rdPersonView=1; ClockIndicator=1; Map=0; Tracers=1; AutoSpot=1; UltraAI=0; DeathMessages=1; NetStats=1; VonID=1;