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To anyone who is kicked by BattlEye for 'MP Event Handler #36', this is a bug with dieing (?) that I have yet to find a solution to. It shouldn't do anything more than kick once, but if it does, let us know. If anyone knows a reasonable solution that would be very helpful. Also, as we have lost most of the players who were around a while back we will likely be doing a complete vehicle wipe sometime around the end of April. There are 100+ vehicles on the map and many are still around/hidden from older players. We are undecided on this and will likely try to get thoughts on this as April gets closer. The Admin Box is currently down; however we are still running Gotcha AntiHax on another box 24/7. If you need to contact us please use a mailing system such as our E-Mail. As always, any questions, concerns, comments, etc, let us know! Regards, Xcel

We now have a dedicated Admin Box running 24/7 to assist players and keep an eye on the server at all times. If anyone needs assitance at anytime we will do our best to respond and help asap! We keep a tab on the following at all times; Gotcha Anti-Hack (Visual and Audio Warnings) Bearcats Website Chat (Visual and Audio Warnings) Automatic refresh every 2 hours to ensure constantly online. Bearcats Website Mail System (Visual and Audio Warnings) Automatic refresh every 2 hours Bearcats E-Mail (Visual Warnings) Automatic refresh every 30 minutes Mumble (Visual and Audio Warnings) Steam (Visual and Audio Warnings) The Box;

At 12:00 (Noon) EST today, 3/4/13, we will be installing DayZ v1.7.6.1 and Arma OA Beta 102285. As always, any questions, concerns, comments, etc, let us know! Regards, Xcel

We apologize to anyone affected by the attempted hacker/script-kiddie tonight. He was quickly dealt with by Gotcha! but we are unsure if he did any damage before being caught. I also apolgize to the person I accidentally kicked that was doing nothing wrong. Gotcha! was being slightly glitchy and I said to kick the script-kiddie and it kicked the wrong person! This incident aside we have had no issues with the server and thank everyone who has stopped by and hope you had fun! Regards, Xcel

ARMA2 OA Build 101747 is not installed. Gotcha! Anti-Hack seems to be working well for us and we will be sticking with it. There have been no false-positives and we have been able to keep a constant eye on any suspicious player activity. It also allows us to set up working auto-messages regarding reboots as BEC is crashing for us. The ad that repeats itself every 30minutes is said to go away with a future version, we apologize if it annoys anyone joins us. Regards, Xcel

We have switched from DayZ AntiHax to Gotcha! Anti-hack to see if it works any better for us. Since AntiHax was giving us more and more false positive bans/kicks, we are hoping this will fix that issue. Regards, Xcel

Server now running; ARMA2 OA Build 101480 DayZ 1.7.5.1 Reality v1.0 Server 'scripts.txt' has also been updated to eliminate the false Script #44 issue hat was occurring after the update. As always, any questions, concerns, comments, etc, let us know! Regards, Xcel

DayZ Anti-Hax has been reinstalled from scratch; with any luck this fixes all issues we have had with it. Anyone still getting kicked/banned due to it, please let us know. We have also cleaned up various logs to try and ensure it doesn't ban from old logs. Auto-Reboots have been re-enabled after they broke a while back and we missed it. BEC has been slightly altered after finding an error that could have been causing issues. We are still working with SurvivalServers to get BEC working assuming that was not the issue. We have warning messages set up for auto-reboots; these are purely Test messages for now! We are unsure if they are properly aligned with the timezone of the actual reboots, nor do we know if BEC is even working yet. SurvivalServers is showing an issue with BEC starting that they are working to fix. Vehicles, sandbags, wires, crash sites, etc, have all been cleaned up and re-spawned. We will attempt to keep on-top of this better as it has not been up-kept over the last 2 weeks. Vehicle Max Count lowered to 150. As always, any questions, concerns, comments, etc, let us know! Regards, Xcel

We had the same issue on ours but it was due to DayZ Anti-Hax. For us anyway it was due to Anti-Hax re-applying bans for things still in the logs. Such as "Banned for xxxxx remoteexec" *remove ban in bans.txt* "Re-bans player upon log-in". We had to go in and delete the logs files from the File Manager and (this part may not be needed) reupload a blank file with the correct name/extension. It gave that log a blank slate to work off and Anti-Hax didn't ban for old "incidents" again. Anti-Hax, for us anyways, is so annoyingly sensitive to things it does get annoying as hell but we try to keep on top of it. :) We actually have an issue with BEC atm that SS is helping us resolve and, unless we're special, aren't having any issues with responce times or 'lack of help' that so many are mad about. Then again I have helped people from a tech support type role before so I've learned to be extremely patient. Did have 1 ticket that was a bit 'lack-luster' but my mood likely didn't help how I saw it. Having used small companies in a few games I've learned it may take time but for the most part they try their best to help, people just have to be patient and level-headed.

For an unknown reason DayZ Anti-Hax banned everyone in the remote-exec log for Helicopter crashes, including myself. However we have removed all bans of players banned for Heli crashes and players should be able to sign on again. We apologize for this major inconvenience and will be sending alerts to all players through all means we can to ensure them this was not of our own doing. About 6 people were affected by this and we apologize greatly for this as it banned even long-time players. If anyone has any questions regarding this, or anything about the server, let us know. Regards, Xcel

Update as per our website: http://bearcats18.en...map-change#last We are planning a Map Change for a change of pace! Now before anyone gets too worried we'll explain this a bit. We will save the Chernarus map database so that at any time we can go back to it and not lose any items/vehicles. We are not changing instantly. We will not keep the map indefinitely; unless people prefer it. All server settings will carry over; this includes vehicle count, difficulty, timezone, etc. Now, how this will work. On February 1st we will shut the server down and go about installing the Taviana map. This will take several hours to do so it will likely be done early in the morning EST. Once everything is installed we will let everyone know via normal communication methods and will be on for a few hours to ensure it works properly. We will keep the map for 1 month and then see how popularity with the map is. If we are seeing a lack of people enjoying it, we will switch back to Chernarus. While this is a rather large switch, there isn't much to it and we hope everyone has fun! As the time gets closer or details change we will let everyone know! If you have any questions/comments, let us know!

Have a Happy New Year everyone. - Bearcats

"Almost", but not all. I am the sole 'admin' of our server (in that only I have access to the controls), and can guarentee I don't 'abuse' any 'powers'. Course we have no 'Admin Map'. So yes it happens, but there are plenty of us that don't do it. Admins are ment to uphold the highest level of respect to its users, any admin using 'powers' like that clearly shouldn't be an admin. Having been an Admin for a few years in various games it really does surprise me how some Admins act. I'm no saint, but I think some forgot what an admin should be doing; we're not 'gods of the server'. Maybe it's just my attitude/play-style though.

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays to everyone from the Bearcats!

We have now enabled Death Messages and Random Wrecks. Death Messages now working. They are purely PvP messages. Death by anything but a player won't show up. Random Wrecks are wrecked Helis/Planes/Tanks hulls around the map with random low-mid range loot. Regards, Xcel

We apologize to anyone who was affected by scripters over the past few days. We have a few small incidents and they were all handled quickly and any damage was undone as best we can. All scripters have been banned and we will continue to do so to any scripter. We also apologize to a few users who were banned by Anti-Hax for false-positives, they have been corrected. The timezone was also fixed to properly reflect the switch to GMT-8 as it was not properly changing before. We hope this didn't confuse or anger anyone as it was getting dark far too early for the listed timezone. As always, if anyone has any questions, or comments, let us know! We hope to see you online soon! Regards, Xcel

We are now running: DayZ 1.7.4.4 ArmA Beta 99515 Bliss v4.2 Timezone has also been changed from GMT -6 TO GMT -8 as per our recent poll. In the coming days 'DayZ Anti-Hax' will be replaced with 'Gotcha!' as our host switches over. We ask patience of everyone who joins us as this switch occurs as we attempt to avoid any issues. Downtime will be as minimal as possible but as always we will keep everyone informed of any issues on our regular sites! If you have any questions, concerns, or wish to contact us, feel free to at; Online | Facebook | E-Mail | Steam | or any other listed contact method here or on our website. Regards, Xcel

I would like to thank those who were patient with us while we looked into Anti-Hax false-positive bans. We have gotten it to unban players properly (now confirmed) now and will always be on the lookout for false-positives and legit bans. As always if you have any questions, concerns, or need to contact us, our details are in the second post! Regards, Xcel

I would like to thank those who stuck through the ping issues we had a few weeks ago. They seems to have settled after the storm and election passed and all is back to normal. We have also resolved (to the best of our knowledge) the issues with unbanning through Anti-Hax. For some unknown reason it would reapply the ban but we seem to have resolved it, hopefully. We are hoping the issue of auto-banning for false-positives gets fixes, but until then we will continue to help anyone who was banned and believes it unjust. All logs are checked in-depth to ensure your ban was unjust or not. Any player found guilty of illegal actions will be told of such and will not recieve an appeal. We are also running 1.7.3 and Bliss v4.0 as expected. Vehicles have been upped slightly and items such as wire-fencing and sandbags are removed every few days, the exact amount of days is listed in our changelogs. Out-of-bounds vehicles is still enabled to ensure no one camps off-map. Restarts are now at 12 & 6 AM/PM EST to ensure fresh/cycled loot and minimize lag as much as possible. Server Timezone is now GMT -6. Death Messages are OFF despite our Name Tag showing them on, we cannot turn this off at this time. Any other changes and updates can be found in our changelogs online! If you have any questions, concerns, or wish to contact us, feel free to at; Online | Facebook | E-Mail | Steam | or any other listed contact method here or on our website. Regards, Xcel

Due to power issues from Hurricane Sandy I was unable to respond to this issue. However, we do have a post regarding this on our forums; http://bearcats18.enjin.com/forumz/m/6288053/viewthread/4704151-ping-issues From our very, very small tests, it's not the server. One of our Sub-Admins lives just West of the host and through a trace route has no issues with ping. However, my own ping, which comes from south-west of the server gets very bad spikes going through DC. Given the time of year, it's not surprising. However, without more input from players we have 0 (read; zero) way of knowing the exact origin of the issue. If we can get several tests we can pinpoint the issue. Regards, Xcel

I apologize for not being able to keep up here, the forums are always iffy for me. However, we are constantly keeping an eye on our Website should people stop by! Anyone is welcome to stop in and say 'Hi', ask questions, and make themselves at home! We have had no issues with scripters since 10/7, and that was a single case that was quickly taken care of. Downtime has been minimal, but we do apologize for the last few days. Bliss v3.5 had issues on some servers and SurvivalServers staff worked throughout the weekend to get it fixed quickly! Big Thanks to them! I do not have an exact number offhand but it is somehwere in the range of 15-25 with 2 Helis. We may up that but it is undecided yet. Thank for stopping by! The server is still fairly new so still growing. The recent downtime was also a major hit that we're still recovering from. Mumble is open to all those who stop-by the Bearcats home, and we're always happy to see new faces! If anyone has any questions, concerns, or other, I will be happy to help as best I can via any contact method; Online, Mumble, PM, Steam, or here!

We apologize for the hacker tonight (10/7/12), user has been banned.

Server updated to Arma Beta 97451 today, 10/4/12 (Oct 4). To those who have joined us we hope you are enjoying your time! As always if you have any questions, comments, or other, please contact us here, Online, Steam, or on Mumble!

We apologize for the sudden down-time today that may have kicked a few people off for a couple minutes. We had to change/fix something suddenly and we hope it won't happen again. As always if you have any questions, comments, or other, please contact us here, Online, Steam, or on Mumble!

We would like to thank those who have stopped by! It's only been online for about a day and a half and had a small visitor count (~25-30), but everyone is welcome to come and go as they please. If you need any help or have any questions, of course let us know!