mrzone

Intro: Hello, this thread was raised by me to adress a problem... hackes... all games have them and they are considerd a pest of the gaming world nobody likes them and they are looked at as zitty teenagers with a cracked voice in laughter as they ruin a good game of zombie hunting fun, for the sake of their own amusement... this has to stop! NOW! I am here to propuse a series of suggestions to hopefully end this madness wich has ruined so many dayz servers, and med me personally quit playing the game! The Problem: Hackers are using a method of running client side scripts to spawn items and vehicles into the game and also using aimbots/ESP hacks to find supplies and players, killing them without them having a fair chance of defending themselves. This way that arma 2 is built makes hacking easy. Bypassing the protocol that sends a copy of all client side run scripts is easy! Im sorry to say that the only way to fix this problem with pure software is nearly or so hard that it is considered useless! This, however does not mean we should give up! Here i present: the solution The Solution: I am not a diehard fan of bohemia interactive, i started playing the games when arma 2 first came out, not making me a veteran, but i am experienced. I have a lot of friends in the biggest clan dedicated to Arma 2, the 7th cavalry. This clan was started in 2002 with the games they focused on was americas army (citation needed). They have about 400 active members and i believe about half of them are dedicated to arma 2. Wich means they have at leest 20 or so members who are veteran skilled bohemia interactive fans/players. And they have more experience in server hacking prevention in arma than most of us! We can only learn! They use hands on players to admin their servers! They also use something called "RCon tool" wich is a powerful admin tool used to find hackers using the "old faction way" of detective work. They have in some rear cases also used something called "Lost Keys" wich is originally a mission debug tool, but its features can be used in admining. (teleporting to hackers, god mode so hackers cant kill you while admining). I am taking into consideration that these tools should be restricted to ADMIN USE ONLY! and that the exploit of the tools should result in a Dayz ban and server blacklist! But on the other side a exploit of the tool is much better as it is about 2-3 admins per server, and the chance of them exploiting is smaller than a chance on a hacker ruining and emptying an entire server! Please devs! Considers this as me trying to help! NOT doing your job! Please, community share your taughts!

But if you read my thread, you find the solution...

Please read this tread: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/51022-permission-to-use-this-for-admin-ease/

Classifying that as a rage would be highly excessive wording... We could compere this to the BP oil spill, its a huge problem that no-one knew how to fix, but they tried... and after trail and error they succeeded! From my point of view it looks like you are just poking the problem with a stick, trying to use a normal household vacum to suck up all the millions of liter of oil, even tho the tools you use might work, it sill like is trying to catching vapor. Admins are in some cases assholes, but as Fenrig states, it is impossible (as in not ever going to change) that you will find bad Admins when ALL the servers are run by a community. Big blockbuster games like battlefield and Call of Duty can handle this as they have people making advanced anti cheat software with big consequences, we need to replace the computer with the brain of a human, as the security issues in Arma 2 is HUGE. I did not really have a problem with hackers on Arma2 before DayZ but a big "game" attracts smart people, what these smart people uses their skills to do, is completely up to them. That underlines my point of how servers need to get better admins, good admins are no good if they do not have the tools to support them! Millions of liters of oil is possible to fix if you do it tough trail and error, and if you at the same time use the right equipment!

You did not read the part where i said that they bypass the logging? And the only way to find the hackers is by finding them? id like you to find a hacker by looking at the logs of... normal behavior... Hope you read the ENTIRE post before you make dumb accusations like that. I guess US 734 must be a fun place as Admins must walk the entire way from the south to the north to see and record a hacker who is having a blast in a modified AC130... Or maybe you guys just ban/kick people because 12 year old jimmy who calls out hacker and aimbot every time he gets shot by a hunting rifle from the fire station in the airfield? Lets be realistic here: Arma 2 is full of security gaps, very wide ones! And if not bohemia is coming up with a security patch soon, well then it looks like the admins would have to do the dirty works themselves! DayZ is crawling with hackers... It look to me that you would rather play safe that doing an effort to stop them. After all... we could just do a test period! The mod is in alpha, testing time is now!

You cant deny that they have experience! Even tho you do not agree with the way they are running their servers?