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This post is part speculation, part troll. Im guessing there are going to be a number of disagreements. But... eh. I love DayZ - played religiously for awhile now. Died from hackers and enjoyed the whole experience as much as the next guy / girl. There are a couple of trends that I notice with the forums which just... annoy me. The idea that: Its not against the rules, so I can use / do it. Good examples being using hacked in weapons which they find... AS50's with thermal scopes as an example. Yes, its not against the rules. But your as bad as the hackers - and I mean this for weapons which you know are hacked in, not the ones that you cant tell (eg M4 silenced). Theres a post and video in the new players section which shows a player with the AS50 TS, Not going to name names but the owner posts a post saying... I didn't spawn it, I found it. Then dupped it for my friends. Its not against the rules and I can't be banned so its ok! *face palm* I'm not even going to go into why this is ruining dayz for everyone. It should be obvious. The idea that admins are out to get you. We run our own server after getting into a situation where we believed an admin abused power (by turning the veteran server to recruit so could find his lost truck). I look at it this way though... If every server that a player complained for admin abuse was blacklisted. There would be no more official hive servers. No more hive servers means you are restricted to private hives which can be turned off / banned for whatever reason. Generally admins are not out to get you, and if you do suspect foul play.... lets not start a jihad to get that server blacklisted. Just move on to another server. Or, better yet... get some friends together and hire your own server and become a role model admin yourself. That would solve more issues than creating post after post to get a server banned. (note, we haven't had any forum posts demanding blacklisting yet. Knock on wood!) Well thats my rant. Yup. Done. All gone. End of the day everyone seems to have forgotten this is an Alpha. Who cares about hackers and admin abuse - yes it sucks. But everything will be better with the stand alone which should fix pretty much all these issues. (esp hackers) Think.. all your tents, hele's, trucks, cars, hacked in weapons, dupped weapons, zomibie kills, player kills, GPS, night-vision, radios will all disappear when the game does come out, or even when the stand alone goes Beta - which makes all these items worthless. so why sweat the small things?

Bugga. It was all for the beans.

Totally get what you mean. I was more talking about the dayz forum communities. Apart from hackers I haven't really had many issues with players in game. Still can't beat the mod for the gut wrenching feeling you get when you encounter a hostile player.

I am Sorry. I will hit my head against the wall 10 times to make up for my failure and think twice before ranting again. But I do wish you would be more constructive in your feedback. :D

Hard to believe aye... and to think we paid for this game.... *waits for it*

Heres a good example of another post from another thread which is yet another prime example of what is wrong with this community. As the ]edited out[ Gaming Server Technician I would like to let you all know that ]edited out[ does not and will not condone hacking on any of our servers. All of our gear has been legitimately obtained from raiding bases on not only our servers but many others. Yes, we are in possession of "hacked" weapons, but none of the ]edited out[ Members nor any of the people that we play with have hacked. We are strongly against any and all forms of hacking and we strongly support the DayZ community ban list and BattlEye. Possessing the weapons is not cheating and is not against any rules.

its not going to stop the cheaters - no delusions there! Its just going to make it harder. Fewer cheaters = good in my books.

This is one of many problems with the DayZ community. Its a weapon which has been hacked in. Its not meant to be in the game. But I didnt do it so its ok. Destroy the gun. It will make the world a better place and the game a funner experience for all. Its like saying... Duplicating my character is not against the rules. So im going to create spare night vision, gps, guns, ammo, food, tents for all my friends and clan members (im not saying you do this) but its not against the rules and not giving anyone an unfair advantage. So why not?

We have this issue on our server. Clan members started fainting whenever we joined our server for 4-6 mins even when not in shock and with full blood. Couldn't find what caused it. No issues when joining other servers. Fix's include. Restart the server. If you can't do this. Then find a place to hide your stuff. Kill yourself on the problem server. Then respawn. Pick up your stuff and it shouldn't do it anymore. If I was to put a bet on why this is happening... I think it is something becoming corrupted with the whole shock mechanic. I dont know why it only happens on one server though. I also suspect that it may be something related to the wide spread duplicating which seems to go on (it actually makes our server lag and struggle for some strange reason- constant yellow chain act) note - you wont believe the amount of duplicated bodys we find ever day on our server - ruining Dayz I recn.

Find Mountain Dew. Duplicate player with mountain dew. Create forum post looking for weapons and range finders ect. Win? I hope not.

Heres a good video for you in regards to the DMR. Skip to 8.52.

Name one server that has been blacklisted. And no need to copy and paste the rules - I know them.

Its because there are now 3 (or 4?) maps. So the population which was only on one map has split onto the new maps.

Get DayzCommander. Non-official hive servers will have a cloud with a X in it. (hover your mouse over it and it will tell you if its connected to the hive or not.)

Try to find a "new" server. I know this is hard. We started a new server for the clan. Put vehicle spawns to maximum (30 I believe) Its refreshing finding vehicles and repairing them rather than combing the West and North forest for them. Still havn't found that darn Hele. I'll PM you the sever - dont really want to post the name on the forum.

Dont encourage dubbed items either. Yes, its not against the rules. But the problem with dubbing is that everyone now runs around with AS50 TWS, L85's. Ruining the experience of the game for everyone. If I was an admin. I would ban your ass then point my finger at this forum post where you have blatantly said you duplicated a weapon for your own personal gain. Your as bad as the hackers Halo2132.

Kinda ruining the whole fun of the game. And not really helping the new players. Sure they get awesome guns. Lets go PVP! Like Lambs to the slaughter. If anything you just gave a whole heap of high powered weapons (M14, M24) to the next bandit who comes across that shore whore. If you really want to help the new players. Meet up with them and show them how zig zagging up a hill or running into a building stops zombies.

Im pretty sure a good portion of the weapons in servers (especially official hive servers) are scripted in these days. Or at least duplicated. We run our own server and find a good couple of duplicated bodies scatted all over the map which unfortunately stay there till server restart. Pretty sure most of it is intentional although some may have been mistakes. All it takes is one L85, and one person to duplicate himself until all his friends have the same weapon, nightvision, GPS ect. I feel sorry for the new players on our servers who spawn on the beach and come up against that shit. Unfortunately. Cant do anything about it until game becomes stand alone. =(

Thoughts on admins ability to shut down a server ? Its not technically locking it. And i've quickly gone over the rules which mention a ban/whitelist server if shut down due to a death / car is stolen ect. But not of shutting it down when there is no players online (and thats any player, clan member or otherwise). Only reason I ask - we are planning to start up a server and have been discussing if this is... or isn't against the rules. If someone can link me to the page / pages which mention this that would be appreciated as for some reason the Dayz Forums seem to be rather laggy for me recently. Before you all rage about unfair advantage of shutting down a server to protect gear - I totally understand. The server isnt running yet but will be in a few days. I believe the reason (dont quote me on this) for considering shutdown if no-one is online is due to costs (we would be leaving the server on 8AM - 3AMish seven days a week regardless and shutting down if empty for the 5 or so hours in-between, or thats the plan). In other words, plenty of time while we are all at work to raid our carefully hidden tents. Note - im not the admin. Just one of the clan members looking for clarification on this rule.

I believe that our server is hosted at one of the clan members IT companies and its all part of being green and clean, saving power ect and all that bullshit. - Again im not the admin so that may not be 100% correct. We have been looking into private hives. We decided against it as we have been playing dayz for awhile and will move all our gear from other servers onto it. Also trying to get traffic to server, we thought that having a private hive may restrict that? Iuno.

Dude.... The NZ servers are NOT known for their reliability. Especially when they almost have the max players on. Also... The player was dead. Im not sure if a server crash / restart is going to change that - going to be spawning on the beach along with everyone else.

Admins will do that at risk of being blacklisted. What if someone spawns a AK or an M4. Common enough weapon? Someone picks it up off hackers dead body / hacker drops it for another spawned weapon. That player then joins a server and is banned. That server is f*cked if that person decides to complain / asks why he was banned. You can't ban a player unless you have the script or a screen shot proving that player is hacking / spawning weapons - NOT using them. Its more of a moral thing if the player decides to use the weapons he has found.

You think thats bad? Found a bus in a Vet server hidden deep in the trees at top right airfield. We (myself and the clan) take the bus and hide it far North. (but still within the map) Save the bus each day we use it and hide it in the same spot. - it never despawned. Cant remember the name of the server but It was a clan one and had VET in the server name. The admin / clan who owned the server must have got tired of looking for it as they changed the server to recruit difficulty (which put white dots of objects all over the map, e.g., if a tent was in the trees, you could see a white dot of its location even if you did not have direct line of sight. I think the white dots showed at a range of 900ish Meters from memory and you could see player names ect. Of course.... they (or someone else) finds the bus and surprise surprise... Server is changed back to Vet. Technically not cheating as well as admins can change the difficulty of the server at will I believe? They prob have all the cars hoarded and just change the server difficulty to find them whenever they go missing. Blah

PVP should stay. Its when I am PVP'd by a hacker and have no way to defend myself where I get frustrated these days. Especially when its so hard to tell some of the hackers - eg when they teleport behind you and just empty the clip into your back. But thats a different topic.

...Play as a zombie? Keep the AI zombies the same. But add in the zombie players. Same speed / stats as normal zombies (or maybe a little slower) - potentially try and find a way to make the zombies move slow until they are within a certain distance from a player and then they get a speed boost? Cant pick up gear / regen health over time?(?) Spawn the human zombies near hotspots such as Electra / Cherno / airport - this would help combat the PvP in that area as it give humans something to unite against - other human zombies while still keeping the zombie survival game intact - instead of hunting survivor players, it gives players the chance to hunt 'smart and unpredictable" zombies. I think it would be fun to play as a zombie / get the clan into it. 6/7 zombies crawling through the forest / long grass nowhere near the town hunting players. Have to use stealth to get close (otherwise zombie just gets sniped) and rush the poor sniper sitting up on the hill who's looking for new players! Act like a normal zombie until the time is right to attack? Ambush near supermarkets? The possibilities are endless! Maybe spawn the human zombie with a modified hatchet that cant be dropped or picked up - this would simulate close combat? But then again... I can imagine alot of people would hate the idea. Just an idea / curious to see other peoples point of view in regards to this.