Greg-UK4

WGT, It's a bit early in the mods life to be culling the population with mass bannings. They have been banned from this server for exploiting on it, perhaps they have learned their lesson. But seriously, decrying people and that they need to be banned from all servers is going a bit overboard. It should be an individual admins decision whether or not to restrict access. Just wait until rocket implements punishment for this behaviour.

Pretty solid evidence for a ban if you can provide GUID->playernames to a mod who inquires there won't be any issues. Supported. I would have done the same. Plus in an earlier post on this thread "No i dced when i saw him" It was in the middle of a firefight, he dc'd. Abuse of an exploit. When appealing a ban, don't admit to the reason for the ban. MaxFail.

UK4 is GMT-4

Where did you chaps get your script.txt?

Ex... thats bull and you know it lol. Just don't open the crate, it's exploited/hacked in, play nice.

I've mentioned this a few times and would like to make this an official suggestion. Server admins need a dedicated set of rules to follow, something like this: You may kick for: Racism Malicious behavior that is detrimental to the mod Abusing VON (Playing music) Proved hacking/cheating and/or bug exploitation You may ban for: Continued racially abusive behavior Malicious behavior that is detrimental to the mod continued VON abuse Proved hacking/cheating and/or bug exploitation You may not Kick/Ban for: Being killed by a player Being insulted by a player (within "racially acceptable" terms) Being ghosted or stream sniped Having your camp raided And for players: Any racist behavior may result in a ban. Abusing or exploiting bugs is disallowed and you may receive a ban. ... etc The rest slipped my mind as my post was interrupted and had to type it all again! oh well. Anyway, I would appreciate if a dev/community chap look into this and develop something nice :)

That unfortunately leaves a lot to interpretation(etc), and as the mod has developed so have the issues server hosters and players are facing. Also the positioning of the rules is not ideal, embedded within a post dealing with a specific issue. I'm requesting that they be made clearer, more concise and transversely apply to the player base as well. Server hosters are receiving so much hassle and grief from disgruntled players that it's getting unbelievable at the moment. Almost every post in cheat reporting/server general contains "maybe i killed the admin and he shut down server" or "i found camp of admin, now banned" - the fingers are being pointed at the people who provide for the mods community, and this is being caused by "rogue" admins misinterpreting the rules, or players misinterpreting what is expected of us. There is also little being done about passwording servers, or excessive ping limitations, but that is outside of the scope of this topic.

Keep the thread clean of the last threads diatribe. WGT, I do fully support you in this matter, and also would advise against replying "in kind" to the jerkofs and in so doing inciting a flamewar and degrading yourself. Ideal responses to these people would be: Unfortunately, this is my stance and one which I will keep until told otherwise. I've been warning and then kicking, and then banning for this. I've also been discussing with people within the IRC channels who support this. Without a cast in iron rule set from the developers and an expected "code of conduct" for players we are going to continuously find ourselves under fire from the entitled/disgruntled/over bearing minority that want to ruin a server through derogatory posts.

This can be achieved with a standardization of difficulty settings. Ie: Regular has nametags, crosshair, et al. Veteran has no nametags or crosshair, but 3dp Mercenary has nothing If a dayzdev guy can sort out the actual hosting rule set, naming conventions, and difficulty settings it would be awesome.

Mission time is set by hive when launching the server. Date inclusive.

Lol jubag, glad you guys finally got uk8 running again :) That post is what happens at stupid o'clock in the morning.

K3nny, you can't ban him for that ;) Don't rage over the whiners, it just paints you with the same brush chap. Roll with the punches.

Dayz uses your CDKEY in someway to tie to a character account. The CD keys were created by the steam installation process for his steam account. You sign in to steam, it sees the game is installed so does not bother to insert your cdkeys. Uninstall the game using steam, and reinstall. this should resolve your issue.

You are aware he's a contractor with BIS and not an official staff member? In this domain he is the creator of the mod DayZ, not a representative of BIS, in any way shape or form. If I make an ARMA2 mission and then in the announcement thread start cussing people, are you going to call BIS on me? no. This is Rockets place, he calls the shots. If you feel mistreated, abused or just don't like it here... take a long walk off a short plank, I doubt very much that you'll be missed.

Does not need python, it's written in C++ or C# (not sure). VCRedist 08 / 10 is all it needs. Servers these days do not use hiveauth/hive, we use an integrated hive.

Don't look at it as: I'm paying for a server so we have a place to play. Look at it as: I'm paying for a server to help the DayZ community, I do not expect anything back from this, I would just like to be a part of this amazing masterpiece of development and gameplay mechanics. I've been running UK4 for almost a couple of months now, and regularly myself or my friends are not able to log in, no problem I find another UK server to play on. The time and effort I've spent working on/improving/testing the server and it's environment is recompense enough for the actual hosting - and the thanks I get from the community as a whole for providing yet another place for them to play is a happy bonus for me. I gladly follow the rules set by rocket, and as he once said (paraphrased because I forget the exact wordings): Hosting a server is fine. Having access to HIVE is a privilege that can be revoked if you do not follow the rules. You're doing this to aid development and help the community grow. A very altruistic approach to server hosting yes, but it's in the spirit of the mod and in my eyes a way forward for gaming as a whole. Too many times have I joined other game servers to be restricted in my actions by some overbearing micro-managing overly aggressive admins who saw themselves as the outright almighty, their word was gospel. Well dayz takes it a level higher, Rockets word is Gospel. And as stated before: if you do not like the rules, reconsider hosting.

-^ this. It's not your place to rage in the ban appeals forum, if you don't want to read about people querying their global bans, Don't read the thread. The effort you spent writing that flamebait could have been spent constructively honing your ignorance of the global ban posts.

Who on earth said anything about me cheating on my own server? How did you infer that from my (poorly spelled and grammatically inferior) post? I must say, I wrote that poorly and had no excuses for the amount of errors, it looks as though I'm a twelve year old with adhd! Anyway, this issue is resolved. Thanks Sephisto for understanding my gorilla fist approach to hackers :D I'll be around tonight I believe, so if you want to vent that pent up aggression let me know :)

Hi, this was my mistake - one which im dreadfully sorry for, you see, i banned you by mistake instead of another player, and then I thought i'd removed it from the arma2rcon gui took i used to issue the ban. Backstory: There was a chap running around cherno with satchels and "full military gear" blowing up things the other night, as was reported by several of my regulars. when I asked about this in game chat, i was told that the item he was wearing was CAMO_DZ or something to that description. I did a quick search through the logs and found 2, or 3 entries for Camo, then searched through script.log to find if anything had been spawned. I can't remember the exact line that triggered me to ban you but it was script restriction 16 or something like that. After issuing the ban I then conversed with the chaps in the admins IRC channel who told me #16 was a known bug. better informed I went to the rcongui and rightclick removed the ban. I'm guessing this did not save. I can only apologise. Sephisto is absolutely innocent in the regard and I'm an over-reacting dumb ass. Seph, when you're next on, let me know through direct chat and I'll wilfully submit myself for execution. Diedrik, I would gladly provide the logs, if they were not rotated out on a regular basis, I have 2 days worth at the moment, Seph was banned Thursday/Friday if i remember. Is there anything I can do to help? I am absolutely curious to see what evidence he has to kick me. Hope he'll see this thread. Perhaps I killed him and he didn't take it too well, I don't remember. camo gear is legit, the gear I thought that I was banning for, was the full military clothing Helmet, full sleeve camo... the lot... I was given the wrong information, and acted on what i was later told was a bug (Script restriction #16 (issues with ALEX in scripts.txt) ) I was a bit miffed because earlier that day my entire server had been "asploded lol" by some script kiddy and I couldn't find anything in the logs about it, I honestly thought i'd finally caught one of the buggers in the act when I saw that script restriction pop up in my search results. As for killing me... join the queue it seems to be Greg open season on UK4 lately, I've had my camp demolished by a rogue atv, with me in the tent, been sniped too many times to count, had a heli crash into me and god knows what else in that last two weeks. I take each death as it comes, my mistakes for feeling safe in dayz, admins who kick / ban / restart the server when they are killed do not deserve to host if the cannot remain impartial. I've always had this outlook, look through my posts and you should see that. I'm really just a nice guy who just wants to do right by his server people.

Thanks Skyotix,

Playername Snip3r: Infraction: Setting vehicle markers, creating crates. 07.06.2012 11:23:59: Snip3R (xxxxxxxxx:2304) 55bbee481211af6ed84cca12d063bcfd - #32 marker setMarkerTypeLocal "mil_dot"; marker setMarkerPosLocal (pos); And 6.06.2012 16:56:57: Snip3R (xxxxxxxx:2304) 55bbee481211af6ed84cca12d063bcfd - #37 \cargo.sqs" _crate = _this select 0; _crate addWeaponCargo ["M14_EP1", 100]; Now banned from UK4 Playername Gh0stPal[RU]: Infraction: Creating crates. Code: 07.06.2012 11:27:56: *GRU*GhostPal (xxxxxxxxx:52404) 212b0bf4065f01126f9f2ff9c6e41ba2 - #37 \cargo.sqs" _crate = _this select 0; _crate addWeaponCargo ["M14_EP1", 100]; Now banned from UK4 Player name: Tooroof Infraction: Creating Crates 06.06.2012 16:57:37: Toorof (xxxxxx:2304) c8cd98f50d193b34071fae5095609c9d - #37 \crate.sqs" _crate = _this select 0; _crate addWeaponCargo ["M14_EP1", 100]; Banned from UK4

And another 07.06.2012 14:20:58: OTMOPO3OK (94.242.150.164:2304) 807c61db212ee1e485e9f9e2b0602312 - #33 eapon "ItemGPS"; _genAct = player addAction ["Teleport", "teleport.sqf",[],1,false,false];

Try on the US5 thread. Herpderp.

that was the attitude of i think UK11? the guys got blacklisted because he tried making it perma day. This resulted in corruption happening on HIVE which ruined the experience for everyone. I'm not poo-pooing your idea, I think it's a good find, just that it may or may not get you blacklisted if it causes issues with HIVE, this is something that needs to be considered before trying.

This might muck up the server, i wouldn't advise it/ There are edits that can be made with group policies on servers to allow a different timezone per user. Run one as ARMA2_1 and one as ARMA2_2 users, apply your offsets to each user and profit.