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Very well done, thought it showed the cycle of loot REALLY well. Beans for you sir!

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Server is going good, more and more regulars are making this server their home, bringing the average population during the daytime to 15-25 people.

Many good times were had, very friendly player base.

I am an admin on a server, and recently there have been almost no kicks for script restrictions aside from #216 (which is a bypass kick) but i just saw someone get kicked for #220, and im not sure what all it means. Ive looked all over the place but i havent been able to find a thread or google search that explains this restriction, if anyone could help me out with this it would be appreciated, as i want to know what to look for as far as kicks for hacks. Thanks in advance. Just saw another for Script restriction #67, can anyone enlighten me with the meaning of that one? (if its from a hack or not)

Would it be possible to get a timeframe of how long it takes to get set up? the OP said 2-3 hours, then was amended to 4-8, but im sitting here at 22 hours now, and my community is getting itchy.

the exThreads=1 is an additional boot parameter for Arma 2 that you can set in 6 Launcher or Dayz Commander, go into the settings tab, and under additional parameters, throw that line into the text box, and you're all set. Its just a modifier to tell the game when it is starting up, to run slightly different than normal. On an unrelated note, i got a higher quality thermal paste, and my CPU temp is all the way down to 29*C at idle, and 65*C at max load via Prime95, while gaming it sits around 40*C.

double check to make sure your drivers are up to date, then download speedfan and prime95 to check your cpu and gpu temps at max load. Also, try disabling shadows, that gave me a massive FPS boost with my ATI radeon 4600, and try to see if there is a major fps difference with everything set to high, and then everything set to low. Also i would recomend downloading a gpu moniter to make sure that something else in your system isnt acting as a bottleneck, you would see your GPU sitting around 30-50% if there is one present.

in order to help you out, post all of your computer specs, just saying you get low fps doesnt really help XD

im still shaking my head about this, ever since i applied the new thermal paste, my FPS has jumped at least 20 frames, and the game is soooo much more fun. Another thing i found out about my specific graphics card, is that this model has problems with shadows. Previously i couldnt see a difference between shadows being on high and shadows being off, due to my CPUs problems, after disabling that, i gained another 10fps, and now the game is smooth as glass. All the settings are maxed out now, (besides shadows) and the games looks and feels amazing, sniping is very fun now, and i no longer have a handicap sdet by my low FPS.

verified, my FPS is now bouncing around in the 40s while not inside a main city, and drop to around 20 in the middle of cherno using prime95 and speedfan, my CPU heat went from 110*C under max load, to 68-70*C under max load

good news and bad guys. Good news! I found out my problem! Bad news! I highly doubt this is what others are having problems with! I was looking into overclocking my CPU to try to get it to take up additional slack, and in that process i installed two programs to moniter and stress test my computer. Those being SpeedFan, and other other being Prime95. To get a base reading, i booted up Speedfan, i noticed that my CPU was oddly pretty hot at idle, being at 58*C. I noted that down, the launched prime95 to start stressing my computer to its limits. I almost instantly shut it down, can you guess why? I saw my CPU spike almost instantly up to 110*C. At this point i was freaked, i was thinking to myself that this could not possibly be a good thing seeing as previously my peaks at max load had been in the high 50s, while idling at around 42*C, that was about a year ago when i built the box. I then figured that something was messing up my CPUs heat sink, so i took it apart, sure enough, i saw my problem right there, glaring me in the face. The thermal paste that came with the stock heatsink was full of air pockets and looked like something that had been sitting on the surface of the sun for too long. Since then, ive ordered some new Arctic Thermal paste off newegg, and im not touching my machine until i get that all neat and tidied up. I only hope that this hasnt already messed up my CPU to the point of no return. And go figure that i was about to order a GTX 570 to fix my problems (still doing that once i have the funds) when all i had to do was buy a $10 bottle of thermal paste to fix everything. Just goes to show that the answer is right in front of you, all you have to do is broaden your search. Thanks for all the support guys, i hope i didnt have you scratching your heads as hard as i was.

Agreed, dealing with the server hoppers was especially bad, kinda sucks when you spent all this effort securing the entrances, to then just have a small group able to hop in and ruin everything because they got in behind us. Im very hopeful that either in the DayZ standalone or the other WarZ game will have a system to make this idea more feasible. Ive got to admit it was very fun to have the responsibility of trying to keep the civilians inside the camp safe from zeds and players alike. Having people to take care of made town raids have a lot more purpose to them, DayZ has gotten a tad boring after getting tons of gear by raiding other camps, and the small core group currently has enough supplies to last a lifetime. Once you introduce an additional 8 people to the existing supplies, it dwindles fairly quickly, and makes small town raids an active and important part of keeping everything running.

Yukki, unless you have proof, dont accuse people of hacking. Also, on a server with notags where its nearly impossible to find out which person it is thats hacking, when there IS a suspected hacker, its best to shut down the server to get rid of them. So calling it admin abuse doesnt seem appropriate when all it was was an attempt to protect the community from a hacker that we cant easily deal with, we dont want people to lose their gear to bullshittery.

I honestly wish we could find someone to constantly watch for greifing hackers on our server, but who is going to spend money on a battle-eye bypass to run hacks, to then just sit around for hours watching for hacks? Think of Gandalf in LotR, he would take the ring with the intention to do good, but through him, the ring would wield a weapon too powerful to imagine, Inevitably, the watcher would get bored, then start using the hacks for recreational use, which nobody wants.