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Yes, the links have affiliate tags in them. Yes, I do stand to make a couple bucks if he picks them. Why, because I 100% believe in them. I have nothing but good things to say about ViLayer. Every interaction I've had with them has been top notch and they provide wonderful support. I think what they're doing for the community is far beyond what any other host is doing. They're constantly working to improve DayZ, they allow server admins to have FAR more freedom than any other host. On top of that, they're actively working on new tools and features that are available nowhere else. I know there are people that don't like them, but I speak from my personal experience and the experience of 6 people I know that have servers with them. Those experiences have been nothing but great. To add to that, I'm migrating my eCommerce site(my primary source of income for my family) and 4 other websites to their servers. Kipale, if you do decide to buy a ViLayer server, at least take the info I provided into consideration. Like I said, they are hands down the best dayZ host and I'm sure you won't regret going with them. As my "Declaration of Interests", I will make a few dollars if you buy through my link, but only because I 100% support and believe in their company. If you have issues, I welcome you to verbally abuse me in my Teamspeak.

I don't mind paying them because the information on the site is far more than what's available on all the public hack sites I watch. I'd imagine a lot of the info on their site is already available on AdminZ but I'm stilling waiting to be given permissions. The way I look at it, the more I know about what they're doing "behind closed doors" the better I can handle and identify threats. I'm not here trying to sell this information as 100% accurate or am I saying I'm anywhere near an expert on how Battleye works. However, I do think this information is important for the community to know. Personally, I didn't know this was possible and it seems like a massive exploit that should be addressed. I have no idea how/if it would show in the logs if a player is taken over and used to spawn items. But if it does show in the logs as the innocent player spawning items, it could result in a server ban and the person being added to the CBL.

I was thinking about the same question 2 weeks. I decided to pull the trigger and bought 2. The main thing I'll tell you is plan on dedicating a good amount of time into learning about dealing with hackers. You'll spend a lot of time on this issue. Also, depending on how you want to admin, you may spend a lot of time taking care of the server. Some people seem to take a set it and forget it approach. Personally, I'm always asking people how loading times are, restarting the server, kicking idiots, streaming the logs, dealing with hackers on sight. This takes a good amount of time each day. The first thing I do in the morning is check logs, find the hackers, ban them, and then submit them to the community ban list. Throughout the day I always have the logs streaming while I work. For me, it's a labor of love. I really enjoy this game. But I've found I enjoy running servers more. I like the challenge of maintaining a clean server, educating myself about new threats and making sure everyone has a good experience. Plus I've met a ton of cool people in the process. If you do decide to get a server, go with www.vilayer.com and get the DayZ Package server so you're on their hive, no the public one. You will have far more control when it comes to dealing with hackers. Plus you can change your server between 4 maps at any time without losing your stuff on any map. As an example, say you build a big base on Chernarus, switch to Lingor for a week and then go back to Chernarus, your base will still be there.

I hate to drag this up but I want to add something. After running a couple servers for 2 weeks and dealing with a lot of hackers I started digging around more. ----------------------- Before saying this, I already know I'm going to get the hackusation BS that everyone likes to throw around on here. But bottom line is, I've had the same GUID since I started playing over 2 months ago and that is never going to change. So if you want to try call hacks on me, go right ahead, it's falling on deaf ears. ----------------------- So this morning I went to one of the more popular private hack sites. I paid the $10 so I could read their private forum. The way I look at it, I pay $80 a month for servers so I consider $10 for access to this info pretty valuable. THE FIRST THREAD I see was this: [script] take control over other players! The gist of this thread is, it allows them to completely take over any player on the server. Once they take the person over, they have full control. This includes spawning items to that player, ect. Now, I don't know if this can result in a ban for the player that is taken over but this seems like something that's really important to watch. Not something to be brushed off as impossible. I really hope the Battleye people watch forums like this one.

If you find the time or interest in doing that, I'm sure there's tons of people that would greatly appreciate it.

I would like to thank everyone that has tried our Lingor server. I have been completely blow away by the popularity. It spent all day yesterday with 25+ and a few hours last night maxed out with 40 people. Not bad for 24 hours on Lingor. The community has been wonderful. Had a few people jump into Teamspeak to report potential hackers. I welcome everyone to come stop by and play for a few minutes.

Is there any way you can modify this for people with managed servers? I'd like to be able to download my RPT file and run this on my desktop to scan it. IMO it would be far more popular if that was the case. As far as I can tell, there's a complete lack of good tools to scan RPT files. Judging by the features of yours, I can't see why it wouldn't be popular.

Is this tool dead? I love to know if the FTP features will be coming.

No issues here. I do know there's a pretty good amount of people in their TS right now. They might be having issues with their Australia servers. I can guarantee you sending them more than 1 ticket isn't going to get you help any faster.

First, I just want to say thank you for the great tool. I keep two instances up all day for each of my servers. It's extremely helpful. I know you said the intended use is not for scheduling global messages and to use BEC for the. However, I think the majority of the community uses managed servers so that's not an option. The ability to schedule global messages would be incredibly beneficial to the community. Personally, I have have a text file with all my messages in it. Throughout the day I copy messages from there and put the m into DaRT's global chat. That's better than nothing but far from ideal. I know very little about what it takes to make a tool like this. Seeing how we can already send global messages would lead me to believe pulling messages from a text file and sending every X minutes wouldn't be that far of a stretch. But then again, I know very little about this stuff. If it's not something you want to put time into, I totally understand. I just wanted to state how incredibly beneficial for the community I think it would be.

Search for Vi 400 in DayZ Commander. We have a Linger and a Chernarus server on ViLayer's hive. Our Linger server has only been running for 2 days so a lot of the vehicles are still up for grabs. The majority of the time I'm sitting at my desk keeping an eye on server chat and the logs. That way I can deal with hackers almost instantly. I'm also contantly checking loading times and when they get more than 3 minutes I'll do a restart. Plus we have a public Teamspeak that people in the server jump in. You're more than welcome to come give it a try. I'm sure you will enjoy it. Official Thread: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/87582-vi-400-usa-official-thread-new-lingor-server-911/

It's fun if you're looking for a really quick fix. It's also good to get some first hand experience using different weapons and getting kills. From the perspective of running a server it's a nightmare. I ran it on one of my servers for 3 days and it was full the whole time. The performance degrades extremely fast so it needs to be restarted every 45 minutes or so. Hackers were always popping in. It pretty much needed to be babysat 24/7. IMO it also brings out the worst of the DayZ community. Sitting here watching side chat was kinda funny though.

OP updated with news and information about our new Lingor server. Lingor servers is on it's first run. 30 vehicles set to spawn and all are up for grabs. If you're looking for people to play with, jump in our Teamspeak.

Did you buy a DayZ package server? (The one with Chernarus + the other maps) Support tickets CAN take up to 24 hours to get answered. However, they usually don't. But I can tell you they just rolled out Takistan, a new update, and are bringing new servers online so they probably behind. I can tell you from personal experience I've had a ticket take close to 24 hours but I've had others that were answered in 2 minutes. It depends on how busy they are. The Teamspeak support is hit or miss and is not a guarantee. If they're available they'll be in there. Hang in there. They'll help you, I guarantee it.

I'd recommend going with ViLayer's private hive. It's the largest DayZ private hive and offers the same character persistence that you get on the public hive. The hacker population is far lower and Admins are not restricted by the normal DayZ red tape when it comes to banning them. Plus you have the ability to change your server between Chernarus, Lingor, Utes, and Takistan anytime you want. If that's something you're interested in, check my signature for their current coupon code.

To be honest, I never set any ground rules. I'm sorry you didn't have a great experience. Our biggest goal with our servers is to make sure people have a good time. Unfortunately that's really difficult to do with Utes. They're a bitch to manage. They require restarts every 45 min or so, hackers always try to hit it, and it brings out the WORST of the DayZ community. It turned into me babysitting the server all day instead of getting work done. I initially bought the server on Saturday to put it on Lingor. Before doing so I thought I'd try Utes. To my surprise it exploded in popularity and was almost always full. As of last night I made the decision to change it over to Lingor. It is a bummer to turn my back on the popularity but I can't devote the required time to maintain restarts and kick griefers. However, I'll be talking with a few of my clan members and if they can pitch in the time, I'll buy a 3rd server this weekend and put it on Utes. In the meantime, come give our Lingor server a try. It's the first time we've run Lingor on it so all the vehicles are up for grabs.

Cool thanks. I'll track down your GUID and see what they can do.

That really sucks man. I'm glad you liked it until that point. There's nothing I can do personally. However, tell me your in game name and I'll contact ViLayer and see if there's anything they can do. If you don't want to post your name in public, shoot me a PM. In the meantime, give our Chernarus server a try. It's a pretty new server so there's still a bunch of vehicles around.

I highly recommend going with ViLayer. Their support is great and they're constantly working to improve the features of the hive. I personally own 2 ViLayer servers and our clan has 1. www.vilayer.com They have hundreds of servers in their hive and they all share data just like the public one. You can join any ViLayer server, as long as it on the same map, and your character will be the same. You have FULL control of banning hackers. You don't need to deal with the red tape BS that the public hive forces on you. $37.50 for a 40 slot with coupon code 25%OFFGS

Update news in OP and added our first hacker to the 'Hacker Wall-O-Shame'

I'm willing to bet a pretty large sum all these bans are legit. I've seen tons of global ban kicks from my servers over the last 2 days. I'm looking at 2 of the most popular free hack sites right now. Both sites have 2 of the most popular free hacks. One site has over 3,000 downloads of one hack and over 2,000 downloads of the other. The other site has close to the same. That is from all version of the hack. Some of the version were detected instantly so people were banned instantly. However, the newest version seem to have had a delayed ban wave the took place over the last couple days. Those newest version have in the range of 4k downloads between the 2 sites. All someone had to do was run the hack ONCE and BE could have logged it and saved the ban for later. Battleye is not the best Anti-Cheat but they're constantly evolving. If your mate was banned, chances are he used a hack like these. Even if he used it 1 time for 2 minutes that's all it would have taken.

They probably have not updated to the newest ViLayer code release that came out yesterday. Some servers were experiencing saving issues which were address in yesterday's update.

You don't not to for Utes. It's part of Arma already. Just play like normal. I'm not sure about Takistan yet. It has not been released.

Do you plan on moving all the other private hive server threads in Server General?

I spoke with NIgel today and they're working as fast as possible to bring the new servers online. They're getting slammed with requests. I don't remember what he said the ETA was but I know they're working as fast as possible. If your guys want a ViLayer server to play on, search for Vi 400. You'll see our Chernarus server on ViLayer's hive. You're welcome to use it and you can also use our Teamspeak if you don't have one.