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There is an Eye and an Ear icon on the right of your screen. These are your stealth meters. More lines to the left = easier to detect. Zombies cannot see at Night, you won't have any lines to the left of the Eye in any stance. So be quiet! Zombies have trouble hearing when it rains...but can see you if it's daylight. Going prone and crawling is a good way to sneak past zombies.

Nope. Of course headshots always one shot regardless of weapon.

The reference you link to is a form of cheating called Ghosting on many FPS games where after you die you can spectate a player and using third party voice chat tell other players where the player you are spectating is at. The referenced link has no bearing on DayZ in any way shape or form. Your implying using third party voice applications (which are often bundled with server hosting) is against the rules...is ridiculous. As I said, in this community, Ghosting is a reference to players server hopping for their advantage. Search the forums and enlighten yourself.

Good job!

Check out this map -> http://dayzdb.com/map If you scroll in along the coast and other areas, you will see small black mountain like icons. These are spawn points. You can spawn at any of these randomly. Yes, there are many spawn points. Apparently the RNG (random number generator) sucks though because I think a majority of the community will argue over 50% of the time they respawn at Kamenka. Your location is SUPPOSED to be saved in the Hive (the public database containing all your user info) so that when you log out you log back at the same spot. But lately it's been buggy. I hazard a guess it's due to the two versions of DayZ that are out there now interfering with the Hive somehow forcing a respawn. Server sizes range from 40 upwards to 70. I've even seen 90 but that server had major lag issues. As far as finding other players, there are some tips and tricks associated with this. It genuinely depends on your interests. New players tend to flock to Cherno and Elektro, the two big cities along the southern coastline. These cities are aptly named Deathmatch zones. You go there to fight other players. But because it's a hotspot for player combat, the hills around the cities are often filled with snipers sniping people inside the city. Also, this is where most hackers go with their godmode invulnerability and different skins to freak people out. The other locations on the map where players tend to flick towards are those with Military loot spawns. Namely the NorthWest Airfield. It is literally a deathtrap though as there is always a sniper or two on 'overwatch' ready to snipe anyone who comes nearby. Clans love to farm the spawn points for ammo stockpiles and new weapons. Stary Sober is the same. NorthEast Airfield isn't so often farmed as it doesn't have a high value spawn. Here's a semi-pro tip for you when traveling the map. Use binoculars or a scoped rifle to examine a town you come across from afar. If you see Zombies, a player is either there right now or very recently been through. Zombies only spawn when players approach and despawn shortly thereafter. Goodluck!

After a vehicle is destroyed, it may respawn at an appropriate spawn point between 24 and 168 hours. That's from 1 day up to 7 days.

If you are using the exact same Steam account everything should transfer over with no problem.

Nope.

shut down steam launch steam as administrator run Arma2 quit Arma2 at title screen menu run Arma2: Combined Operations (A DOS window will pop up creating/copying files and necessary links) quit Arma2: Combined Operations at title screen menu install mod (either manually or through the various launchers) play the game

I cannot wrap my head around your level of ignorance. Your link, not a post from a DayZ Staff Member -> http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/55657-start-here-a-beginners-guide-to-dayz-servers-and-administration/ My link, from a Dayz Staff Member -> http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/62195-server-hosting-rules/ I firmly believe DayZ Staff Member posted rules trumps your user posted rules. As far as you not using hacks, that is correct. I likened your actions to using hacks in an attempt to better explain what it is you do by ghosting. Either way, I won't argue with you anymore as you clearly refuse to accept what you're doing is both against the rules and an exploit. But ask yourself this; what would Jesus say?

Helicopter crashes can have up to six loot spawns in and around it. Also, the zombies have a small chance to drop loot like NVGs.

Hackers have begun to alter ammunition rather then spawning in weapons which is more easily detectable, I guess. This looks like a hacker altered his rounds to act like m136 rockets.

I assume you didn't read the first sentence of my post? It comes from -> http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/62195-server-hosting-rules/. Could you please tell me where in this linked post it states "meta gaming" is not a ban offense? Because you seem ignorant, let me help enlighten you. A godmode hack prevents a player from taking damage, yes? This is clearly illegal. An invisibility hack prevents players from seeing you, yes? This is clearly illegal. By hopping to another server (IE: Ghosting) you are, in effect, using both an invisibility hack and a godmode hack, because you have removed yourself from a dangerous situation whereby you cannot be harmed nor seen in order to move your position to better engage people. I'm afraid this is common sense. But I suspect you've convinced yourself it isn't an exploit. Because you don't like cheaters. Even though you, yourself, are a cheater.

Your client version and that of the server is not compatible. Play on a compatible server and you shouldn't have loading issues.

Just as an aside - You are not permitted to ban for suspected cheats or exploits of a non-server-disruptive nature, including but not limited to ghosting, unverified cheating, duping and similar, UNLESS you have solid evidence, IE logs Ghosting is a term this community uses to describe a player who logs to another server to move or bypass safely on this other server, then relog into the original server and do whatever it is you originally couldn't do without server hoping. It is an exploit of the game. Also, you clearly used it to be a disruptive. All of this you freely admit to. I would argue the Admin is in the right to ban you. By removing yourself from the server and ghosting into a better position, you very obviously exploited game mechanics to your advantage. This shouldn't be acceptable.

It's called a Godmode hack. Welcome to DayZ.

Standalone will be the exact same game dude. Perhaps, without as much hacking.

Yes, sometimes the load time can be a good 5 minutes or so. As far as loading into a empty space with other players, that sounds like the debug spot. Actually, my bet is the server was the victim of a hacker and you were ported while still loading into the game. Expect to experience hackers often. Be patient and try to remember this is Alpha and glitchy as all get out.

Yep, there's been a lot of weirdness with this last patch. People spawning dead, spawning on the coast with no equipment at all and general angry little things that suck. I patched my server, logged in on the coast with all my stuff...but every vehicle I had saved was gone. Which really blew because I had spent two hours traveling the entire map checking every spawn point and had found 6 vehicles that needed repairing. I really wanted to have a crash derby event but alas, glitchy mod is glitchy.

Clearly your neighbor is logging onto Steam using your account. Thereby using your CD Key and character.

Your face scares me, sir.

Dez, man, don't go out like this. Getting angry is a good thing but use it to drive your goals in game. Rebuild your little empire on your server and shoot the fuck out of bitches. This is what the game is all about. Get some revenge! Find where your vehicles end up and get them back! Either way, you made the right decision. Having your camp and plans ruined is far better then having your server blacklisted.

Sorry to butt in like this but I have to ask, did you not examine the Monitor logs yourself before posting the above? Because, holy shit are you kidding? Most of the restarts happen only a few minutes away from eachother. Is it really your contention that you do NOT restart the server over and over to dupe? Because, again, holy shit are you kidding? That monitor log shows blatant restarting of the server for dupe purposes. And you have the audacity to accuse others of cheating?

There are a lot of fun hacks. I'm genuinely sad I haven't seen one of the good ones yet. All I ever get is mass killed, which is dull. I want the dance party hack! Oooo maybe a modified dance party hack that also removes all our clothing. Now that would be lulz.

Fair warning. There are many server Admins who would ban you for carrying a illegal weapon from outside of the DayZ Mod. The hacker, while maybe a friendly/helpful guy, wasn't doing you any favors. He could easily have caused you both to be banned from a lot of different servers. You should honestly report the hacker in the appropriate forum. The quicker we remove their filth from our gene pool, the better.