sirrat (DayZ)

I've been on the server from the beginning (playing in a bandit-affiliated clan, although now there are only a couple of us who are still very active so I'm not sure that's a wise path) and can recommend it. The whitelisting process was a breeze and as far as I can tell, the admins are as fair as admins can be when they are active players on the server they administer. There are a couple of recent changes which actually IMO make it a better server: There is no longer a raidcall but there is a mumble server and the admins will create clan channels on request, the server is running on a VPS and performance is better than most (and my ping in the Southeast US is pretty good), nameplates have been turned OFF (I suspect the "ESP hack" allegations were thanks to the fact that it was on before and some players are pretty good at exploiting that mechanic), and they take to heart some of the player opinions from the associated server forum. The admins are investigating mods-on-the-mod to improve (hopefully) the experience and seem grounded enough not to go over the top and add anything ridiculous. For what it's worth, I try to avoid drama so I have no real comment on the dispute above. I didn't have a problem with Joshie and company but I don't especially miss them either. The more players, the more player interactions, and the fewer bored players camp-hunting, so IMHO the more the merrier and I'd much rather see lots of small clans rather than one or two large ones.

yes, unless a player w/ a toolkit can remote it--permanently, not just until next server reset--easily (without having to aim at an inaccessible spot in a wall).

just make use of the "eternal 'conecting'" bug and try to connect to a server running the wrong version of the mod. it'll get stuck on "connecting" but if you kill the app at that point and relog into your server it should spawn you alive back on the coast. i managed to survive this way after i logged in a moving ural (courtesy of a hacker that i wanted to escape).

doesn't matter for me. it's happened to me in a ghillie, it's happened to me in default survivor skin, i think it even happened to me in hero skin. it's happened if i log next to a tree, it's happened if i deliberately avoid trees. it's happened if i prone, it's happened if i crouch, it's happened if i stand. it's happened on at least two different servers.

Has there ever been any acknowledgement of this bug at all from anybody official? In a figurative ocean (and I'm talking Pacific--not Arctic--dimensions) of bugs, this to me is the most devastating--it makes it kind of pointless to do anything but skirmish on the coast because whenever you log in you're fairly likely to suddenly lose everything unavoidably, pointlessly, and through no fault of your own. It would be even more tragic if there weren't OTHER BUGS (ie tent/veh object duping) that make it fairly easy to re-gear, but those bugs also suck some of the fun out of the game. I know better than to get too attached to my gear and if this happened once or twice I'd even let it slide, but if I survive for 40 minutes and get basic gear, my fate is almost certainly going to be to lose everything to hackers or bugs and not to die legitimately to another player's superior skill/luck or to my own carelessness with zombies. At least modify the bug so it says "you died of cancer" or something when I suddenly die for no reason.

This has happened to me probably 4 or 5 times now, most of the time i lose *everything* and spawn (but with my stats) without even starter gear but a completely empty inventory), but once I spawned with my alice pack (which was empty on respawn but wasnt before obviously). This is by far the most annoying glitch for me because every time it's happened I've been pretty much fully geared. So not only do I lose my position (and in a squad this matters) but I have to regather all my gear again. This has never happened to anybody else in my squad (5-7 people). I launch with DayZ Commander exclusively fully patched.

I assure you that I didn't thunderdome the server and if you banned me for it then whoever did it got away scot free--I got teleported someplace right before the server reset--I have a screenshot of the place, but I've never seen it before and I didn't do anything to get there. One minute I was standing next to that guy Fourty-something who was flying the copter, and the next I was in some weird place, then in like a second I got the "session disconnected" message. I took a screenshot when I got disconnected: https://www.dropbox.com/s/djvotonecrhqb3v/2012-07-31_00008.jpg

I was having fun playing on this server earlier tonight--one of the guys from a local clan picked me and others up for a ride in their helicopter and took us for a spin. After a while he set down the copter and told us there was going to be a server reset. After a few minutes I got teleported and some weird text showed up on the screen, something like "welcome to the thunderdome, weapons are in boxes"--and then the server reset. I went to another server because I had no idea where I was--but when I got on the other server I was a fresh spawn (not sure if it's because it's not on the hive and I'd died before or if I was dead on CA1). Anyway, a while later I tried to get back in and I was banned for hacking or scripting even though I didn't do anything like that, wouldn't know how to do anything like that, and wouldn't do it if I did know how--I haven't even gotten a murder in any life yet and I've been playing a couple of weeks. Can I get unbanned? It seemed like a friendly group and I actually kind of enjoyed the side chat being enabled. Could you at least tell me why I got banned?