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You didnt pay for the mod and you didnt pay for the server so i say find another server, it seems to me like you are harassing these people not trying to rat out rule breakers........

Hi sorry been busy setting up my own server you add that line by right clicking ARMA2 OA in your steam list going to properties and selecting launch option then put that line in there. You can add that line to the exe itself by right clicking and properties but i did it the steam way myself.

It is VERY weird that we cant password our servers, especially with all the hackers, but as it is in an alpha I have hopes that these kinds of server restrictions wont make it into the gold release.

Having no end of trouble trying to find GUID and get ppl banned due to the blatantly retarded nature of the BE system (no pause break for log streaming, no log parsing, Rcon just doesnt work and says that it did) and so I find this guy in my server abusing voip like most useless trolls that dont have the basic level of intelligence to do scripts and login as admin and just MASH bans on him like nobodies business and nothing happens he just sits there in my server and keeps connecting after I kick him. Seriously ridiculous the minute level of power and control we have been given as server owners really, I finally find his player ID in the blitz run of the web console (we dont need to see it sending shit to the hive its clutter) and do a rcon ban command from my acp layer and..... nothing 45 min of work and all i can do is kick him with full control of my server. People will stop bothering to host this game and it will loose its momentum if we cant deal with these people in a more reasonable and working manner. RANT over sorry but it needs to be said.

I ended up having to kick him after i loaded the bans then he didnt seem to be able to come back in, I have a rcon gui where i can input commands in my server layer and after finding his ID added him via the rcon and loaded bans but it didnt actually kick him, let him stay in the server, but after i kicked him again from in game controls he didnt seems to come back

ACP layer is fixed for me

Had an exploiter on my server today around 2:30pm PDT and he was using global chat but the messages were posted in the middle of the screen not the side like the usually are. We had a convo and he wasnt hostile just one of those lulz trolls really, he professed he wasnt hacking just enabling a feature that should be there, I told him to talk to rocket about that. I own the server and am unsettled that someone can use admin functions, I am download my 800mb log file to review for issues but I am not sure what name he was using yet or GUID. I assume that if he can modify the files to enable global chat for himself he can also do the nasty hacks like heli spawning and whatnot. I hate hacks and was happy to see admins dont get "god modes" in this game but the level of effort to find and ban hackers myself is getting ridiculous I am download almost gig large logs and combing threw them for illegal actions that i am not sure I even know how to spot. Some documentation on what the illegal action look like in logs would be nice to get us new server ops started. I will edit this page when i find out who he is then ill post his info for other ops to ban.... no screenshot cause for some reason the bypass of the steam overlay makes my PC think it isnt running a game and it just takes a pic of my desktop. I do have logs though.

I thought thats where the chat logs were as well, but its just login info no record of any chat logs. I am using vilayer as a host but that file should be a dayz thing not a host thing.

my server log file is so big notepad ++ didnt want to open it >< after some wrangling got it to load and there is no form of chat scan, no chat logs that i can see or any indication of someone using the global channel, if it was a script (which i dont think it was but a modified file) it wasnt detected by BE. A stop/break option for my hosts web console wouldnt be amiss either but not too sure if thats dayz or my host.... either way detecting the cheaters can obviously take hours and by then they have 5 new GUID.

Vilayer has been spot on for me, they even gave me game specific operation advice (which hosts usually dont do in my exp) and they have been working with the dayz dev team, who dont have an auto distribution pipeline setup yet with hosts for updates, I went into their TS and got a prompt answer about 1.7.3 (they are collecting the files and testing/making it a forced update now). So yeah my vote is vilayer has rocked for me.

geesh for such a ruthless game there are so many complainers, This is a hosted alpha game the servers WILL restart w/o warning get used to it.

and problem solved ty vilayer!

So far for me Vilayer is a great host, most of my issues have been due to my own mistakes not theirs. I do notice alot of orange and red chains (less since update to 1.7.2.1) but 9.5/10 I dont see any representation of that in my gameplay or ms in server......so i dont know if its real lag or what. Have only rubber banded and had like a 15min roll back once in a week and that was on original 7.2 patch. I only have one unresolved issue and that is my max ping setting...... it just straight up doesnt work. I have a few friends from the UK average 180 ping in my server so i set max ping to 250 (account for mild spikes) and they get kicked within 30secs for having pings of 181ms. So I read up (due dilligence and all) and found some rcon commands to set max ping and ran that, set it to 500 just incase it was some wierd spike issue still kicked after same amount of time for samme range of ping. Its not like people cant connect to my server and no one has complained of lag to me, but I would like to be able to ACTUALLY set my max ping to a reasonable 200 for my intl friends to play (30-40 over default max is acceptable right?) I do have a support ticket in but I figured that system may be hella overloaded and this page seemed to get some love, so because I made thsis max ping issue I make sure people know your still a good host in my books. sorry for bad grammar and what not i just dont care, im a speaker not a speller.

I am quite happy with my service, they are doing a great job hosting an alpha mod and even this early seem to have the new mod files within 24h of release even the 1.7.2.1 hotfix showed up right after the first one.

Zombie aggro is WAY off I have bunches of 9 spawing ontop of eachother and aggroing from easily 500m away. I had to roll my server back to 1.7.1.5 as well the host didnt reccomend i update and i can see why by watching my usage graphs skyrocket when I installed 1.7.2.1

The install can be tricky, i get that error when i try and launch by right clicking in steam and selecting combined ops. I got around it by using the shortcut that is in your main arma OA folder named "Launch Arma2 OA Beta Patch" then i can get in and search for servers via steam. If your launching threw six launcher then i have never seen it happen, also a new update for this alpha test we are doing came out and some issue can and will arise on those days. Find the install guide stickied in these forums and follow it another very handy thin that saved me from errors is adding this line to your launch options for arma OA (right click and select properties then general tab/ launch options) -beta=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion -nosplash -mod=@dayz -world=empty

a handy install guide on the forums.

I see vilayer servers with 1.7.2 running but not response to my ticket yet or update available in my server

I sent a ticket to vilayer about it because they didnt send me my client layer id for the dayz site to login and do it manually if wanted to but they havent responded yet, I will edit post when they do.