Lith

Solution is to find the names of the hackers and ban them while playing. People leave more when cities are being blown up and people are warping around. I'm sure my players would rather be playing with legit people then hackers. The logs are next to useless because their scripts are bypassing them or forcing other players to execute them. So the half-assed solution is to see who is in the chopper/warping/god mode and get their name and ban them outright. Thanks for the tip on CrossHair.

Nametags have been enabled due to godmode teleporting hackers. I'm tired of this shit and will be banning every single one of you fucks when your name is reported. I will then post your IP/GUID for the community to see. We had to go to "regular" for nametags to be on but I changed all of the "regular" settings to "veteran" other then that.

Admins can't "remove" items from the server AFAIK. They can however restart after something happens in hopes that the hive didn't save yet. Either way what happened with the kicking wasn't right and should be addressed.

That's cute.

I believe it's a hive issue as Rocket stated. Mine has been quirky since 1.7.2.3 and I have plenty of power and bandwidth on my dedi.

They can't blacklist a private database server. When they blacklist you, it's from the main hive which he already wouldn't be using.

Limestonenetworks.com - Dallas. You'll get great connectivity for yourself and others. Tell'em Lith sent you.

Anytime.

We use limestone networks in Dallas - limestonenetworks.com. We have plenty of players join and praise their good connections from Canada and the UK at least. Not sure of any dedi providers in the UK, sorry.

Host TF2/CS:S/COD4 or something in the meantime ;).

Vek, I understand that the "big" games have their endless hacks but the problem with DayZ/Arma2 is lack of ability to detect or prove. It's pretty damn easy to figure out who is cheating in BF3 or COD given their nature of being able to either spectate 1st person or see someone who is 80 and 1. We can't do that in DayZ obviously because of the nature of it. However my beef is with the lack of information on trying to catch these guys. Whether it be some pointers on what scripts are most common for teleporting, choppers, airstrikes so we can decipher the logs and try to do right by our players. I think a sticky with the best information in a hidden forum like this would go a long way in terms of helping server admins detect these things. Right now we're all shooting in the dark and by doing that were at "risk" of being blacklisted. Tonic, thanks. Your response is what I was looking for and I'm sure many others are too. It just feels like everyone has been so quiet on this. I understand if you guys don't want to announce that there is work being done to thwart it but at least give a hint to some of us that are asking questions. Like I said in another thread, we want to help you guys but we need help too. I run a large community and when I get reports of hackers left and right especially from people who donate to help support my box, it's really tough to take. Thankfully most of my guys that help pay the bills understand but it scares off new people that may help support us and that's frustrating. Anyhow thanks for the responses guys. I feel a bit better knowing at least BIS is trying to work on it. In the meantime, it'd be nice if we could get some sort of detection sticky topic going somewhere on the forums to help admins.

12pm/12am cst. One happened around 11pm due to hackers. The scheduled restarts are in the motd text when you join the server. I didn't warn on the 11pm because I wanted to catch the hackers.

With the amount of popularity this mod has gained and with what it has done for Arma2, I'd imagine you guys would have some serious pull with BIS. Plus I've been playing games online since 2400 baud modems. I know there will always be cheaters but when it appears as if almost nothing is being done to thwart it and we are getting threatened to be blacklisted for taking matters into our own hands. It's a serious slap in the face.

Just had to reboot again, less than 24 hours. Another copter / airstrike...

Same boat as you. Every single day since Saturday I've had people fucking my server up and I'm so pissed off at the lack of response from DayZ staff on this. More and more people are reporting hackers on their servers and they don't say shit about it. However if someone posts about banning people for hacking, they get reminded they can be blacklisted for not "temp" banning and submitting a ticket. Bullshit. Fix the hacks before doing anymore updates before they kill this game.

Nice... Now that is the type of shit that puts a bad wrap on admins.

The owner made a post that it's Atlanta 73 now.

Hopefully those that are hosting private databases are kind enough to put it in the title.

Trend, Shappie, and Root have been unbanned for now. Rest are still banned until I hear otherwise.

I am sorry if you were accidentally banned. The logs 100% said your names against the scripts I ran against. I'll look into the possibility to prove it was emulated by a hacker. Please be patient as Arma and Dayz support for catching hackers has been little to none. Myself and many many admins have voiced our displeasure with this as the hacking gets worse every day.

If you guys blacklist hosts that are banning hackers because your mod/game cannot help us to prevent this, then you are going to see a lot of pissed off people. As a newer host I'm appalled at the lack of information in regards to hack detection. ESPECIALLY the lack of response from the devs on countless threads on these forums. You guys take days to even respond to support tickets in most cases. I'm not paying for a server for random people to ruin the game experience for everyone else playing. Quit treating Admins like the bad guys and back us up against the real problem, hackers. We love your mod and want to help but HELP US HELP YOU by working with us and not against us. I'm sick of the hackers and having to reboot my server randomly to rid of them and fix cities that are blown up. We need more trust given to us. I know any idiot can rent a server but a lot of us have been hosting a while. My community of nearly 700 active players and 5 years wasn't built by abusing my admin. Our dedicated box that has been covered by generous donations for 3 years, weren't earned by letting hackers steamroll our regulars.

Why do you even waste a reply in his thread if you're so disgusted by this? *sigh* This is server general in case you didn't notice. Questions are asked and answered here (most of the time).

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Are you sure you didn't join a private hive server?

@Jskibo Fortunately I'm not affected by the restrictions due to hosting a dedicated box but I feel for you and I couldn't agree more with your post. Nailed it spot on man.