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  2. Posted

    your server hopping into a base as a reason for private hives is pointless as all they really need to do is prevent a player from logging into a server within 50 meters of a player placed structure or hell even 10 meters would be enough the server would just nudge the player trying to hop 10 meters away from the camp fence preventing them or anyone else for server hopping into a camp and thats a far easier solution to implement and test.

    have no idea why something like this was not done in the first place.

    So you want to spawn outside of your base or perhaps even several hundred meters away if there are enough structures around? I can see this becoming a problem in itself. This might work better if you changed it from "player placed structure" to be just "player". To be honest it is a lot of code just to minorly inconvenience a server hopper. I prefer to stop them completely.

  3. Posted · Edited by James_Manring

    OR, and this would be very helpful, provide the current database to the community. What I mean is, allow the third party developers to download the current hive (minus user data of course), so that they know what to build on. In the end, all that I am looking for here is for the developers to be more helpful to private servers: It's not like they OWE us private server owners anything, but if they appreciate how much load the private hives have taken off the central server, the private hives would just as much appreciate access to the public hive so as to ensure the longevity of private hives.

    Amen, brother! If Rocket appreciates it so much, he could show it by supplying access to development material to Ayan4m1 at https://github.com/ayan4m1

    I am quite convinced that he will receive plenty of coded thanks in return :D

  4. Posted · Edited by James_Manring

    "Database backups (restore on hacker incident)"

    A good feature for a private hive. However, this feature only appeals to me on the Server specific items. Vehicles, Tents Etc. Also, I see this as a major way of possible admin abuse.

    *Admin Logs into Camp*

    *Where is the Chopper?*

    *Admin rolls back server, deleting X amount of ALL player progress on that server*

    Granted there is abuse now on the public hive with restarts and I wont deny that, but at least I don't lose any progress for my character.

    "Events for your community"

    Other than locking your server for giveaways or whatever event you may plan, how does this differ from a public hive?

    "Customization (User's on my server cannot leave the map boundaries. They insta-die if they try. No off-map hoarding)"

    Too much customization can be a bad thing as well.

    I'm not trying to flame, private hives just aren't my cup of tea.

    You are trying to flame. If you see an admin abuse don't use their server. If you don't want to abuse, be an admin like me and don't abuse it! I don't cheat. I have never rolled back for anything but hackers.

    Your arguments rely very heavily upon your own cynicism!

    Customization is a bad thing? I don't think you have a clue what he is talking about. Most of the customization done by private servers is bug fixes that public DayZ has not bothered to even attempt to fix in the last 3 months! I think perhaps you need to start your own server, set it up, and deal with a public before you come here and run your fingers!

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  5. Posted · Edited by James_Manring

    I think you all need to learn to read and the difference between a complaint and a suggestion.

    The complaint is that this is in the wrong section of the forum for a video like this.

    The suggestion is to shoot zombies in the head so they don't get within 2 meters of you and are not able to continue to glitch through doors. I could not care too much less if you die, but if you are going to make videos showing off, perhaps you should actually try to show off!

    P.S. I would really like to see your videos, I just think they would be far better with more displays of skill. Constructive criticism was the intention. It seemed to me like you were trying to demonstrate how things are done.

  6. Posted · Edited by James_Manring

    Hello Everyone! My name is James. I have been hosting a private server for a couple of months now. Please take a minute to look at what I am offering and to stop by.

    Hackers and script kiddies are not welcome here. If you do decide to play here, do it fairly. I would much rather have a good time playing with or fighting you than to spend all of my time being an admin and banning you.

    SERVER NAMES:

    DayZ Chernarus - US 72 #1 [Veteran|3DP:ON|CH:OFF|DM:OFF|Tags:OFF|SideChannel:ON][uTC-8]

    DayZ Celle - US 72 #2 [Veteran|3DP:ON|CH:OFF|DM:OFF|Tags:OFF|SideChannel:ON][uTC-8]

    DayZ Panthera - US 72 #3 [Veteran|3DP:ON|CH:OFF|DM:OFF|Tags:OFF|SideChannel:ON][uTC-8]

    DayZ Namalsk - US 72 #4 [Veteran|3DP:ON|CH:OFF|DM:OFF|Tags:OFF|SideChannel:ON][uTC-8]

    DayZ Fallujah - US 72 #5 [Veteran|3DP:ON|CH:OFF|DM:OFF|Tags:OFF|SideChannel:ON][uTC-8]

    DayZ Taviana - US 72 #6 [Veteran|3DP:ON|CH:OFF|DM:OFF|Tags:OFF|SideChannel:ON][uTC-8]

    Domain:

    JDMgames.com

    Ports:

    #1 2326

    #2 2330

    #3 2334

    #4 2338

    #5 2342

    #6 2346

    General Information:

    - BlissHIVE server software with a unique private hive (non-shared database)

    - Running 24/7

    - Hardcore Veteran Difficulty (HugMode:OFF)

    - 3rd:On - CH:Off - WP:Off - Nametags:Off - Deathmsg:Off

    - Chats: Direct / Vehicle / Side + Teamspeak3 Side:JDMgames.com

    - There are many vehicles

    - Restarts are given a 5 minute warning

    - Servers follow GMT -8/Pacific timezone

    - Servers located in Seattle, Washington area

    General Rules:

    - Do not Hack or Cheat in any way (Alt+F4 is considered cheating)

    - Kill-on-Sight is allowed all over the map, but please don't just kill new spawns for no reason

    - Teamspeak3 is provided for quality Side Channel: JDMgames.com

    - People without weapons are not a threat and should be left alive

    - I will answer private user support through Skype. Contact information is given on MOTD.

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  7. Posted · Edited by James_Manring

    Yeah, you pretty much do need it installed. The Vilayer guys don't want to play nice. It is a SMALL program. Just get it, have it download the files for you, and call it good. You can still launch with a batch file or however else you want to do it. If you are a server host it is a good idea to have it so that you can make sure your server name registers the options properly for players that do use it!

    I just want someone to take the 1 minute to download. It has the button to click. =\

  8. Posted · Edited by James_Manring

    Why moved here? This is more off-topic than private server material.

    @GFischer

    Seriously? How many times did you "reload" your magazine only to find a slightly emptied one was put in it? You don't "top off" in this game. Apparently you also don't take your time for head shots even when you have them canned and delivered!

  9. Posted · Edited by James_Manring

    Forgot importing goods was abolished shortly before the apocalypse. My bad...

    What about the Mx weapons? The Enfield? How did they end up in Chernaraus? Hurr durr of the day.

    Do you have any clue as to the history of the Lee Enfield? Mx weapons? You mean Mk. as in Mk.(Mark)48? That one could likely be here if US forces had intervened right before the outbreak, but should be removed just the like AS50 should be removed unless there is an actual US military camp on the map. You need to go read before you type here and make a fool of yourself by trying to be a dick to others. The only hurr durr of the day came from you. The only problems I have with the Lee Enfield are the ammo that it is chambered for here. It should be chambered for and using Soviet ammunition, although to be honest there are likely a lot of the imported variety too and that would be confusing. Your Desert Eagle on the other hand would be the rarest weapon in the game and ammo for it would be completely absent, especially being that not even intervening NATO forces would carry it. At least the Lee Enfield has a long history of being used for over a century in conflicts around the world.

    To be honest I think you just enjoy being a contrarian and hate that someone called you out on being illogical. If you want a Desert Eagle, fine, mod it in, but don't make the rest of us suffer through your Arcade experience. Did you even pay attention to my statement about finding NO ammunition for your gun? The other weapons, which for some reason you cannot understand, would logically have ammunition for them around, especially a rifle that has been around for over a century and is commonly still used as a hunting rifle. Don't get me wrong, I love the Desert Eagle, but it has no place in a Post-Soviet State. There would be no ammunition for it and you would be extremely lucky to find one on the whole map with a single clip in it. There have not even been that many of the gun produced. The likelyhood of a gun showing up on the map should be somewhat proportional to the amount produced and how many of them were in the Soviet Union. Chernarus being a Post-Soviet State was actually part of the USSR, and thus would have actual Soviet hardware, not just Warsaw Pact knockoffs.

    Not that im advocating the addition of the DE(i think itsa terrible gun) it can be chambered for .357

    I did have the PPSH as an idea for the SMG, but i tried having models that were in arma, so these could be added right now, at this very moment.

    .357 would still be hard to find in a Post-Soviet State. Not quite as bad, but still not common enough to rely on it. Also, how often do you find the DE chambered for that round instead of the .50AE? It would be nice to have a magnum round if it was logical.

    Weapons that could be added right now are a great suggestion. Aren't there any mods where the guns could be borrowed from? I'm pretty sure I have seen one or two with these pieces in them. It looks like we'll have DayZ as our own personal playground soon to combine with other mods as Rocket is pretty much abandoning this in lieu of the stand alone. I read that pretty much this mod was going to be given away to the community soon. Some talented folks could put together some of the scripts from a few other modders and make a DayZ+ that had sensible weapons, proper flashlights, and a bit larger of a map.

  10. Posted

    I don't like it. What I go in a house, leave and a zombie spots the bot and kills me. How about having it so that leave while, bleeding, infected, and broken legs, you're character dies.

    This is precisely why I do like it. I want the zombies to eat you when you log out because it will stop all of the cowards that log out to the lobby then back in to avoid being eaten by zombies. Of course that will only work if they make it so zombies no longer despawn when you disconnect.
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  11. Posted · Edited by James_Manring

    Desert eagle pls.

    Is this a christmas wishlist or what? How does that fit into a post-Soviet state? How are you ever going to find .50AE ammo for it?

    I want the Stechkin APS, because it already uses the same ammo as the Makarov but is automatic capable and would have the option of attaching a shoulder rest.

    http://en.wikipedia....ki/Stechkin_APS

    The TT-33 Tokarev Pistol, uses 7.62x25mm Tokarev rounds. 1.7 million produced. Versions made also by Warsaw Pact nations, China, North Korea, and so on. Still widely used.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TT_pistol

    The PPSh-41, because 6 million were produced! It also uses 7.62x25mm Tokarev rounds

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPSh-41

  13. Posted · Edited by James_Manring

    ahhh.... but plate and mail would be an excellent idea. I personally wouldn't mind finding some darker plate armor and some chain mail as well as a sword or spear. It doesn't have to have a fantasy feel. If you make it seem realistic you would find it actually fits with quieter take downs and survival without being bitten. There could be an inhabited castle that has some on display by a wealthy tennant or a museum added to a new map.

  14. Posted

    The inventor talks at TED

    He talks about SHTF scenarios. It is worth looking at. Consider what zombie infected water would do to you.

    Suggestion to DEVs: Without capable filtering, some water sources should automatically make someone sick and give dysentery.

    Suggestion to DEVs: Add dysentery as a sickness symptom above and beyond coughing. :D

  15. Posted · Edited by James_Manring

    The logic behind a huge military / survival water bottle equals a lazy can of soda, is just weird. Water itself should also give you more energy than coke :)

    What? Care to give any supporting statements or facts here? How many carbohydrates are in water? To be honest the whole post seemed kind of dickish, but I wanted to attempt to ask you a totally easy question and get a fair answer back from you this time.

    Anyways, check out this site guys:

    http://www.lifesaver...ry-can-features

    You should be punished for your play style by dying of thirst or praying for a water bottle or sodas at the hands of a cruel and unforgiving game engine. In a real SHTF scenario the sodas would not be so plentiful after a short amount of time. To add any kind of end game dimension to DayZ a lot of people have come here to make suggestions. My suggestion is to make a resource that is truly valuable in this scenario behave accordingly. Right now someone that doesn't know much about survival can play this game without making a plan or a line from points and deviating from that to get supplies. If you can survive by stumbling around and living off of vending machine food this feels like an arcade game and not a simulator where the player must value anything.

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  16. Posted · Edited by James_Manring

    Hence why a Water Jerry Can mountable with a slot on vehicles is a good idea. You can't find water so often in so many places. It doesn't require a lot of coding to use them, unlike the complex situation you are suggesting. You could leave water bottles the same and refill them 50 times from a Jerry Can. Refill the Jerry once every few days depending on your group size.

    Infantry trained people and survivalists understand that you do need to take much more water with you if possible especially in hot places for safety. They also understand using Jerry Cans for this purpose. This method would be much more common in an actual SHTF scenario.

    Future: This could be used by the DEVs as a trading currency in a way. Fuel, Water, and Meat should end up having some value to the greater good in some way or need to be items used in cooperative interest. Jerry Cans of Water could be used to fill a Radiator that is damaged on a car if you wanted to add a new item to vehicles for repair reasons. Water could be needed to clean wounds so they can be bandaged or repaired, such as certain broken bone or pain situations (would require an indicator that you require medical treatment from a nurse). There are a lot of uses for larger amounts of clean water.

    Also, check out this video of the lifesaver being used

    It requires pumping for a while and that makes noise. That leaves you vulnerable and takes time. You have a long filling animation I would suppose.

  18. Posted

    As said above, the other player needs his own username for the Operating System and for Steam if you are using a Steam version of the game and sharing the same computer. You will need to install the game for each user only so that the registry will have your CD-Keys entered separately.

    The Illegal Copies May Degrade message is generic and sent to everyone. A quick search would easily have told you that and saved you a lot of stress.

    If you have further problems with this, please go to the ARMA 2 forum. This is not the Forum for the game you purchased! It is the forum for a user mod. Something that is free and has nothing to do with solving your 2 user problem. You should be asking for technical support for ARMA 2 from Bohemia Interactive employees.

  21. Posted

    The server you played on where you spawned at the coast constantly was likely an unofficial server that was not connected to the hive. You will sometimes see servers that say things like [NO-CD KEY]. Those are most certainly not connected to the hive, as your character is connected to your CD KEY.

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