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We are experiencing item loss as well. People relogging to try to clear the action lag have lost everything in their packs. Also theres no one on the server with a higher latency than 170 ping. Desync is occasional but no worse than usual. it just seems associated with Hive related actions which have a save state/update state involved.

CP maintenance was completed last night. FTP and administrative interfaces have been down since around 9AM CST, still not back up.

As a server admin I am beginning to wonder if this is worth my time and money. Every couple of weeks I spend more of my time parsing logs and banning fucktards than I do playing the game. Its ridiculous that this engine even allows for client side script injection, I can understand that some functionality requires it but its pretty damn easy to differentiate between what is allowed and what isn't. The lack of control over this bullshit is beginning to make even trying to enjoy DayZ a fucking headache, much less paying for a server for it.

Host Altitude is currently in a systems upgrade and we cannot shut the server down or access our FTP for the server logs at the moment. We've been Thunderdome'd 4 times today so for the moment we're doing whatever we can do to keep the server down until Host Altitude gets their control systems reinstated. https://twitter.com/hostaltitude - Confirmation that their control systems are currently under upgrade.

US 401 is back online. Sorry for the trouble.

US 401 currently down, we will be bringing it back up momentarily. Sorry for any inconvenience. The script kiddies have been out in force today and its not easy to figure out who the guilty party is without parsing through a lot of data.

In all fairness today has been a particularly bad day for hacks. If you look at the Cheat Reporting forum its a huge list of server after server dealing with mass teleports and thunderdome events. As a server admin, all I can say is its not fun.

There is no GUID recording for who killed who.

Detection for this doesn't seem viable. I can see where everyone has been setPos to the same position at the same time in my log...but I can't see who made the script call. Anyone that knows more about this please feel free to enlighten me.

myg0t is a known hacking group,but those weren't the people running this hack, I can nearly guarantee it.

Seems to be making the rounds today. We banned an individual for this on US 401 today.

Depends if he has the same GUID or not. Dad isn't exactly uncommon but it could be the same guy if its all happening on the same day.

Actually finally worked it out, had to correlate the times between the serverconsole.log and scripts.log and figure out which player wasn't teleported at the time. Got the bastard Name was "Dad" GUID: 394f177226c4277339a8af94383d2ec9

Had that on US 401 at 1513 CST. Log looks exactly the same but its impossible to tell who actually initiated the setPos call.

Admin's can't kill you like this without running scripts that aren't legal anyways. Its not an Rcon option at all.

They both fall into the same areas of societal taboo they really aren't things you can say "this is much worse than this" eating people, and raping them...are both pretty much unacceptable, and while virtual murder has been a fairly acceptable industry in video games, you start adding in other things that cross the line of societal taboo, and it generates a lot of negative impressions. And no, negative press won't keep out the trolls and griefers, in fact, to be honest, they'd just get worse.

Yeahhhhh......I don't think we want that press. To be honest. Next thing on the agenda will be the ability to rape female players, which will definitely get a no-go from anyone with two braincells talking to two other brain cells. Effectively we're already dealing with cold blooded murder that is loosely justified by fighting for survival, once you add in cannibalism, the mod goes from a ton of positive press, to a ton of negative press. There are certain places the mod/game shouldn't go. Cannibalism, Rape, that kind of stuff, while probably common in the atmosphere its trying to represent, are just far too taboo and bring along too many negative connotations.

Yeah we're supposed to be GMT -6, we're GMT -8 after a few weeks and we're not entirely sure why. Seeing as the server location is GMT -5, not sure why we got drifted back to Pacific Standard Time when we specifically set the server up to Central Standard Time. But oh well, we're still waiting on our server to get reinstalled...apparently they replaced our hard drive...with a blank one...twice.

Einstein was the first great troll, of all trolls, so far ahead of his time, there wasn't even an internet, so he trolled people via doctoral thesis and AJS papers.

There is no way, as a player, to tell if a server has allowDropItems set to 1 or 0 as of this time.

I believe the direct Einstein quote is “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.”

Wow, this mind blowing philosophy has never occurred to any of us.

That might potentially be a cause but definitely not in the case our our helo recovery the other night. That was a legit spawn, legitimately repaired by our recovery operations team, and, then pretty much lost within an hour due to the Script Restriction #55 kicking me from the server while piloting. When I logged back in, I was at the location the chopper went down in, I was unharmed, but my two door gunners were bleeding out on the ground and unconscious. I got them patched up but the chopper was no where to be found. After a quick recon from people we had down south, the chopper had turned up back at the Skalisty spawn point, completely unrepaired, as if it had never been found at all.

Lost a chopper to a restart. Server logs show we sent save commands 30 times after getting it safely back to where we operate from. Restarted the server in the early AM....chopper was gone, attempted a couple of restarts to try to get it to reappear and it never did. Its alpha though and I'm not too worried about it but its quite an endeavor to get a chopper off Skalisty Island and it either requires multiple people to help, or you have to spend a TON of time carting over the repair supplies by yourself...either way its quite an time consuming endeavor and it sucks to have to continually do it over cause we restart our server every 12 hours.

Get BERcon Run BERcon, connect to your server using your RCon pass. Once connected, type players. You should get a list of current players, if you know the hackers name, find his name in the list, then his associated player number. Then type ban <playernumber> without the <>'s or the # sign. So if hes player #6, just type ban 6.