Adron

fuck it, official position or not i'm still doing it because your hope and dream of them blacklisting me is a bigger pipe to be dreaming than them fixing it any time soon.

I think only one guy is in opposition to this..... maybe 2

Vilayer.com

US 303, my MOTD now also redirects all exploiters, hackers, and DCers to his server.

I'll let you know when that happens, more likely when it never happens. But in the mean time, I'll be sure to send every hacker, exploiter, DCer, and anyone else I deem worthy your way.

I've stated before and I'll state it again. The server logs show if someone gets hit and then subsequently disconnects. My rules are in the MOTD, if you don't like them, go play somewhere else. Maybe they can play on your all holy server if you have one.

Thats why admins should ban, it makes players think twice before they fuck around and exploit.

I've got 5 or so players that have decided to use barcodes as names : IlIIlIIIIl (i's and l's). They've been around for 2 days now. It is literally a pain in the ass to figure out who's who in the logs and check for dc'ing, hacking, scripting, etc. Should I just ban them? Or kick them with warnings? And I don't want to hear the carebear bullshit about 'its against the rules to ban someone because their name is inconvenient'. Therefore Ander can just skip posting on this thread. Just want to know what the community thinks. edit: If you legitimately think I should leave them be, then thats another story other than the half assed dayz rules part.

they are in plain text, but why are they making it a pain in my ass to differentiate them? Why even do it? They are not any clan I can find. Seems like they know its a pain in the ass and thats why they do it.

rofl, probably has HFB. poor guy

Been happening on my server for 3 days now.

ban him, its your server and who gives a shit what any threat of blacklist is. They won't do it until they start blacklisting protected and locked servers.

Nobody gives a fuck what Ander says. When is the last time they blacklisted a server? Weeks ago? Ban people for DCing in pvp and keep doing it. I've been doing it for weeks and will keep doing it. It doesn't ruin anyone's game but the guy exploiting. He keeps his character, and he just goes to another server whoop dee doo. At least he won't be pulling his crap on my server anymore.

you can watch the web console for people who disconnect with error messages. look above them and you may get lucky and see damage notes on them in things like pelvis, left foot, etc.

Find a better clan server to play on, honestly. There are a couple great ones out there with awesome pvp. NWO, FoE, TAW, Addictguild, Reddit, FBAZ, CGUnited, LGM, AQ, GSO are some of the ones I've enjoyed playing on.

+1 Biz! I think 90% of the community is behind us on admins actually being able to admin their server. DayZ is what it is because of devs building a great mod and good admins maintaining great servers. A few bad apples exist in the admin crows, yeah, but for the majority, we are doing the right thing and banning for the right reasons. Regardless of what a disillusioned staff member feels the rules are and how they are (not) enforced.

I've had two players die like this on my server today with this exact no characterID message after a DW_Debug. They load in, and claim they loaded in a different spot than they logged out, and then the server does this. At that ERROR message is exactly when this guy died, and said he was killed by friendly fire. I was standing not far from him, saw him standing there, move a couple steps and then bam, he was dead with no sound of a shot heard. Nobody was around on thermal in the L85 for 600+ meters. As far as I can tell, the server just killed him as soon as he loaded in and tried to move. Anyone see this happen before and have any suggestions?

I just watch the logs and ban them :)

Come on for more fun :). We had a blast yesterday on an op with 10 members going through Cherno. As we moved to elektra we stopped to wait on someone and all the sudden a blue scooby doo van comes barreling down the highway and rams our ural. It blew up and killed 4 or 5 people inside!!! Almost no damage to our truck. It was straight out of the jihadist cookbook! Rofl. I don't think I've ever had something crazier happen. Unfortunately I think they didn't intend that because they all logged off the server after they blew up. Something tells me that group of people are not letting their friend drive ever again.

Supertruck, I agree with that statement. Admins should be watchful and should ban for exploiting. It is the only thing keeping people from doing it. The biggest reason everyone doesn't hack is because we don't want to fork over 20 bucks every week when crapeye catches up. Crapeye doesn't ban for exploiting the disconnect. And it doesn't ban for duping. Both of which can be detected in the logs if you loom carefully. So it's up to the admin to to take up the slack if they want a clean server. The dayz staff don't even blacklist the passworded and locked servers(over 10 min- because sometimes a lock IS necessary). So the threat of blacklist is a mute point. By threatening to blacklist servers who enforce fair play you are allowing exploiters to ruin a great mod on a crappy platform. GG and I will continue making sure my server is clean and fair.

Meh, I will continue banning people from my server for DCing to prevent death. Its my server, and if I ban one person by accident for every 20 i get that need it, then so be it. You can tell when someone takes damage and see their immediate logout attempts in the console/log. Its obvious. I will perma ban anyone I find with illegal gear, or observed in god mode unkillable. I will also permaban anyone running illegal scripts I pickup in the logs. I will not wait for approval to do this. Anyone that gets banned from one server can go play on litterally 3,000 other servers. If they keep getting banned, that is their problem. Possibly the ARMA dev team needs to kick the battleye dev team in their fucking ass and develop a system that detects cheats better and can view server bans. If a player racks up 15+ server bans, maybe they need to be investigated. DayZ staff need to worry about their game, not the servers. Rocket has already said this as well at rezzed. They have a great game and a wonderful chance at making quite possibly the best zombie survival game that would be made for a very long time. Eventually community servers will likely go away as the game releases on a stable platform anyway. Who gives a crap how a server admin runs his server when there are 3000 public servers to choose from. If you get banned from all of them, then you should be. edit: I banned 2 people today for DCing to prevent death. Both of which I had the liberty of witnessing myself as a buddy shot one and I shot the other.

Ty, you have to create and account to see the rest. We are not recruiting for DayZ, but are recruiting for GW2

We have two admins on the server and neither one was on at the time this happened. An admin can see coordinates from the web console, but those coordinates do not translate to anything in game usable and that console scrolls so fast you can't make use of it without downloading the damn 500meg saved logfile. I heard about this story later when I logged on. One of our guys that died happened upon the vehicle along the coast and called for backup.

<shrug> I have a dedicated fibre connection to my house, and my own dell 610 ESXI server suite (3x) in the basement. I should be able to but I can't... I don't complain. Its 50 bucks. If you can fork over 2000 for a computer or 50,000 for a dell 610, whats 50 bucks for a DayZ server?

honestly, most server owners don't give a flying crap what the requirements are. a name is a name and if you can't figure out how to download dayz commander to see what servers offer then it is your fail.