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Ok so as some of you may know, vehicles now take about 7 days to respawn on a server after being destroyed. At the time I thought this was strange but acceptable, but now, it seems with the explosion of hackers (at least on my server) people are running scripts to either teleport themselves to vehicles/camps or just nuking the entire server. All vehicles can be destroyed in one fell swoop (which is the case on my server from griefers), so now my server has no more vehicles, everyone (EVERYONE, even those who aren't in my group) has their tents/camps destroyed, basically an entire server demolished by hackers. What's the point in even continuing to host if there is no incentive for players to play there? Just a big empty map with loot. I'm getting pretty frustrated by this whole experience. Please review the respawn time for vehicles or have an option for admins to manually trigger a respawn of destroyed vehicles so their servers are playable once more.

The "Get a life idiots" comment was geared towards people like you, who take the game WAY to seriously. Rocket and the dev team have gone on record saying that using these weapons is not against the rules of the game. And that's on OFFICIAL servers. See, these weapons are just as easily picked up by a first time player, who doesn't know what's legitimate and what's not. Of course they're going to take these items and use them in game. The point I'm making here is that there is NO way to control the influx of scripted weapons in servers. If, like on some servers, you ban everyone who uses a non-dayz weapon, you'll be banning legitimate players who had no clue what they were doing is wrong. I've held this point of view for some time now. The only way to prevent this is to FIX the "game we all know and love" by blacklisting these weapons. It's easy, I'm not just assuming it's easy, I know where in the code these things could be disabled. 10 minute fix. So how about you also gear your anger towards Rocket and his team for failing to prevent these things from happening instead of targeting players who are, as you said, playing the 'game we all know and love'. But since so many people here are on his dick like a birthmark on a penis, such an action would be blasphemy. I don't even know why I responded to someone who insists on telling everyone what car they drive in real life in his signature on a video game forum. Seems quite irrelevant and childish. So therefore I'll say once again, get a life, idiots. Sorry I'm seevahp, kid.

Everyone here is fucking retarded. First of all, this is on a private hive. Which means anyone using any weapons won't have these weapons on any other server. Yeah we discourage the use of scripted in guns, but every now and then if we find one it's more than okay to use them. It's a different gun that no one has used before so why the fuck not. Don't be mad at the people using them, be mad at the people scripting them in. Shit, we're trying to set it up now so all these guns can be legitimately found in the server anyway. Get a life idiots. TL;DR: My server, and I condone this activity. It's not official vanilla dayz. Don't want to play here? We have hundreds of unique players each day. We are active admins and catch the real threat, the god moded, teleporting, infinite ammo, carpet bombing script kiddies.

So everytime my server restarts, our fully repaired helicopter respawns on Skalisty island without any repairs done. We've saved it multiple times but to no avail. This sucks!

LOL! And these tents had hacked in items like M40A3 and G36C Camo SD. AND there were 6 other users online with you who were all spawning local vehicles like the SUV and Land Rover, all of which were banned. Don't know what else to say.

I sent you a PM. I hope to get this resolved as soon as possible, and I thank you for your continued loyalty towards our server. Maybe we can meet up sometime and hook you up with some of that rare stuff you're having a hard time getting.

Helicopters are only spawning on Skalisty island now. After a helicopter is destroyed, it takes 7 days for the chopper to respawn. At the 7 day mark, the server must be restarted for the respawn to occur. If you have done all this with no luck, then you must have a seperate problem. Also, fixing helicopters in 1.7.2.5 is pointless, as everytime the server restarts it will respawn on Skalisty with no repairs done. It sucks.

Thanks for your support. I really am a fair admin. Yes the majority of my clan are bandits, but we are fair, and we give stuff away all the time like high value gear and vehicles and will help those who really need it. I hate to see these posts as I am compassionate for the players affected, but like I said many times before, I have to protect my investment with the tools that I have at my disposal (which aren't much). I love it when our server is populated, I love to see the same names every day on our server of people we've never encountered or never talked to. We want people to have fun on the server, it just sucks when these hackers come in and ruin it for everyone.

You didn't add me, the owner to steam. Phonix247420 We were hit once again today, this time by a very large group of hackers. My admins issued a server-wide ban on everyone who was not accounted for on the server. Sucks to have to do this, but it's the only way to be sure to get rid of hackers. They knew there was going to be innocent people banned, but like Anmut quoted, we take no risks in protecting our investment. For the record, that wasn't an excuse, I can show you LOADS of server logs of people trying to attack our server. See, everytime someone like you makes a post on the forums like this, it paints a huge target on the server for the hackers, so I imagine that this post will be no different and we'll be bombarded once again by script kiddies. Either way, we have no problem unbanning you, as I said, we knew innocent players were going to be affected. Contact me on steam and we'll see to it that this is resolved. I'll say it again though, I will do everything, and anything in my power to protect an investment that I made. This has nothing to do with 'abusive admins' or whatever conspiracy theory garble players like to spurt out lately. I don't understand why players get so mad, when there are thousands of servers to play on, find another, or better yet, purchase your own, and see how long it takes before you're forced to do the same as we are. As far as the comment about us being pissed that you raided our camps, damn right we'd be pissed, but that's not worth banning over, in fact it's quite the contrary, we love it when people threaten or grief us, it's kind of like a chance to go to war. Steal our stuff? Kill our friends? Steal our vehicles? We will hunt you down, even on different servers, and make your life miserable. It's all part of the game. TL;DR You weren't singled out and banned, get over yourself. You were banned along with every other player in the server in order to stop the hacker attack that was underway while you were online. You think this is unfair? So do we. However the devs have given us no proper tools to prevent these hackers/cheaters, and since we're paying for our server, we must take it into our own hands to solve the issue.

I wish they would fix this already! Or at least some official acknowledgement from the devs. People say revert to 1.7.2.4 but most people say this hasn't resolved their issue. Frustrating to say the least.

Yup, same problem on our server. Getting pretty frustrating, we've repaired the helicopter now 5 times after restarting. We have to wait multiple days between restarts now to prepare to re-gather all the parts. Can't even stock up on heli parts because the tents won't save them. Anyone find a fix for this yet or is it hive related?

It's driving us nuts, along with the tents and vehicles not saving loot correctly. Hope this gets fixed soon!

There's other reasons players have mass amounts of rare items. And for you to think this is solely caused by 'dupers' makes me think you must be new to this whole DayZ thing. There are plunderer's - players who scour common camp locations and take/steal what they want. Some of these people go from server to server collecting stuff, and some are more 'ethical' than others, which is a totally acceptable practice. Grinders/loot manipulation - players will reroll loot piles in search of better loot. also quite harmless and most leave manipulated piles and clean up after themselves to let the next player get some loot. Hackers/spawners - scum. but sometimes you stumble upon hacked boxes and stuff and idc really about taking them or my server's players taking them. Just a shame this stuff can happen in the first place. But I totally agree that we admins should have full control over our servers and it's not really fair for us at the moment as to what we are and aren't allowed to do.

You should know that likely 90% of hackers are using tools to bypass Battleye detection. You don't even see it in the scripts.log anyway. If you see the "Battleye has added new script detection" messages on your server, just know that these new features only affect the hackers not using a bypasser/stealth tool.

In the same boat as the OP. I don't know what else to do. We're trying to support the community while having a server to call home, and hackers are just swarming the servers and destroying everyone's hard work. And since the server hosting guidelines are so strict they actually encourage hacking, I'm at the point now where I don't know if it will be worth it to renew my server come next month.

Yeah, it's sad, I'm all for people stealing my vehicles and taking them to their own camps and continuing to play on the server, but instead people are just out there to cause grief to servers by destroying all their server's assets, leaving nothing but a massive crater. The worst part is that the change to the respawn time of vehicles encourages griefers to do this in a server, as once it's done, it can't be undone for 7 days. In minutes, or even seconds, a hacker can send a single keystroke and render your $50 server useless for a whole week. Come on Rocket, give us something to repair our servers from these attacks!

Has anyone thought of starting a petition for reform of the hosting guidelines? I would support it fully!

Servers USED to respawn vehicles once restarted. This is not the case anymore. Now they take 7 days. It's a pain in the ass. Anyone know if HFBServers will just reinstall the whole server so we can start from scratch?

Sorry about that Tupac. The moment in which you were online our server was hit with an organized hacker attack (I assume from a hacker forum or reddit) There were dozens of people spawning and teleporting all over the place and in order to protect the server the only thing we could do is to issue a ban on all users active at the time of the attack. I have no problem lifting the ban for you or anyone else who was falsely banned here, just drop a line here on the forums! I'll send you a PM as well!

So when it asks at startup for paths and what not, I have no option of selecting FTP folders for my managed server, only local folders/files. I am with HFB servers and am hoping to use this tool.

I know that camp, I also know who it belongs to. I believe those weapons were found in another hacker camp or ammo box and then moved there. It's not uncommon for us to go into a major city and discover these weird 'US Ammunition Crates' just full of gear, some of it doesn't even belong in DayZ. Legit players end up taking that stuff and storing it away or using it, and frankly, I have no problem with it, since it's hard to control, and if you refer to this thread http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/46844-hackers/ and read post #8 you'd see why we let this slide. You could have added me on Steam I would have been more than happy to give you a Ghillie suit! Oh and by any chance was your player name Daniel? Because I was in that area when only a 'Daniel' was logged in besides us, and I was about to pop him since he looked like he was flanking me, but when I decided to move up, he got scared and logged off. If so, please refrain from combat logging in the future, it's pretty cheap. My initial reaction is to usually help people out, shame.

Thank you for your support. I'd also like to say that on numerous occasions in the past, after having DEFINITIVE proof of hackers, we wouldn't ban or kick them, but submit the proof to dayz staff (in fact, we state that we do this in our MOTD). Over the next few days after submitting these reports, the same players would CONTINUE to come back to the server and continue to hack in items or nuke the entire player base. We finally decided "You know what? If the DayZ staff won't do anything about this problem then we should take matters into our own hands in order to protect our investment" I'm also empathetic to players who do not own/host a server, as they don't understand the massive problem we deal with on a daily basis. It's quick for you to fall back on the 'server hosting rules' but remember these rules were made long before DayZ became the massive hit that it has become. The scope has changed, and so should the rules. Not an hour ago I was on the coast picking up a friend when I spotted two people also on the coast. I watched them with my OWN EYES spawn a helicopter not 50m from me, they both hopped in, took off, then started firing from the gunner seats at us. I quickly switched to my AS50 NATO rounds and shot out their rotor. Since they were so close to us, they came crashing down on our heads, killing my friend and i, and themselves. I quickly got ready to kick these players, but of course before I could issue the kick, they just ran a script to kill everybody on the server in one fell swoop then just disconnected. Everybody else on the server was in my teamspeak (like 8 or 9 people) and you should have heard the sigh's of frustration, it was kinda maddening. What did I do? Of course I took the server down, and added their IP's to my bans.txt file and restarted the server. Bye bye hackers. Believe it or not something like this happens at LEAST twice a day on our server. It's becoming a real pain in the ass. And of course ever since this thread was posted, it has made our server a target for hackers on some "If they thought THOSE guys were hacking, I'll show them hacks" type nonsense. So instead of these threads helping the community, they end up painting a big old bullseye on people's servers.

Proof: Only one heli spawns per map at the moment. We have it. :P Oh and that ONE heli? It spawns on Skalisty, so it's not hard to 'find' it. You must be new.

Meh, in hindsight I just should have killed them all. For the record though, the other posts were edited because they were irrelevant to the current discussion. It was basically a flame war with Phayzon, a player from our server, he apologized for his statements over steam and retracted and edited his posts so I deleted my posts criticizing him. Don't make assumptions, please. I hate how the majority of people think admins abuse their power for evil or some other conspiracy theory crap. And how the whole community is so quick to cast judgement on the people who are making it possible for them to play this game by purchasing servers to support the mod and the community. I'm one of the fairest and nicest admins you'd ever meet. Last night me and my clan travelled the coast giving out free items, not just cooked meat and tin cans either, but high level guns, nv goggles, gps, etc. We actually fixed up and repaired 4 cars last night and just gave them away to people, loaded with gear, as incentive for them to call our server home. As for your statement "You must have good eyes to spot them". Ummm, I was in Elektro's northern hill, they were flying around Elektro..... I play with AS50 along with NATO and m107 rounds at all times. There were 8 people on my server, 5 of which in my teamspeak. I saw 2 people flying the heli. Two of the people on my server had the same clan tag [JG]. Put two and two together. I gave them the benefit of the doubt by kicking them, if I wanted to play the stupid assumption game I'd just 'assume' they hacked it in (which really, they probably did, then got butthurt when an admin kicked them, funny how nobody considered this) then ban them permanently, spend an hour combing through my server logs (as a player you wouldn't understand how convoluted the server logs are, and make it next to impossible to gather evidence against cheaters without a proper parser) then reported them to DayZ staff and had them permabanned. But like I said, I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Anyways, I'm done defending my decisions. I only posted here to provide clarification as I feel I don't have to justify my actions regardless.

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