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Yes, you can go pull a rather large log file a few minutes after the player logs and when it updates. Then you can download and parse it to figure that out. Its hardly real time, requires a great deal of effort, hard to read and the coordinates mean nothing. It doesn't say "Hey Jack loaded 200M south of Pustoka with an AS50 and is running north". Its friggin useless if you're thinking its an Admin hack or power

Did you miss the part where I said I looked at the video and name provided and bounced it against my log to determine the cheat and therefore the ban? Nobody posted the UID to me, it was in my server logs associated with the hacking tool. WTF is wrong with you people, the admins are paying their money to give you a place to play and try to keep it free from hackers and cheats and all you do is friggin whine about some obscure possibility. Please go play somewhere else, stay off my server and leave it for those who want one free of hacking idiots.... Don't like the way I run it, play elsewhere or get your own and enjoy the crap. I support my users and appreciate their proactive headsup

It would appear that HFB is planning on pulling the plug on future DayZ hosting per their communication to PayPal concerning a dispute (or they are lying to PayPal). 7/18/2012 04:37 PDT - Seller: The TOS change has nothing to do with the change of access. Speak to shawn-dante head of everything that deals with servers over at the dayz dev team. This was a Dayz request that we are required to follow. You agreed to the dayz rules when you bought the server which this was a rule change that we HAVE to follow. I can give you the skype details of Shawn if you like so you can speak to him.Do you think that we would want to purposely limit access? The answer is no, we do not we are simply required to follow what ever rules they make. As far as the TOS change the original TOS was very short but had the line "we reserve the right to change this at any time without notice" which is something that almost every company out there has, heck im sure paypal even has it but they still notify everybody when they are changed.Like many companies i have in contact with (not naming names) we are planning to move away from dayz as the rules are getting stricter every day and we feel it is not fair for the buyer to have to deal with things like that, not having full access to your server is one. So those of you with HFB should start planning to move to a more reliable hosting provider or drop the server altogether.....

Avoid HFB then

I have no way to parse the logs or separate the days in the logs as HFB locked my ability to do anything but download the whole log file, now 500MB and growing in 3 days. I can't even delete and start over like another less restrictive hosting company I use as well. Ever try to open a 1GB or more text file? I also can't add things to watch for in my sript detect file that is used to log suspect activity as that file is download only (Really? WTF good is it to just D/L that file, f'in dumbass hosting companies). So any new development by the script kiddies can't be logged and dealt with......

The very nature of the game design as it currently sits and it's popularity require a massive amount of servers to keep it running. Since the servers can only handle tens of players, up to about 70 with current hardware, there's no way to have a few giant servers running what the community needs in order to sustain itself in its current and growing form. The Dev team is too small to manage hundreds or thousands of servers, screen the logs and ensure they are running properly and free of exploiters, they also lack the cash resources to provide such a large amount of space to play. Thus the Dev team decided its up those in the community with both the time and resources required to pony up and provide the player base a place to play. However they are also saying we don't trust those that provide that space, resources and volunteer time to do so the way we want it done. There is a possibility you might do it wrong, therefore please send us the logs, videos, screenshots or other proof when you want to ban someone and we will look at it and get back to you in some undefined amount of time. So if you as a Dev team don't have time to manage and pay for your own servers, how the hell are you going to have time to scroll through thousand of tickets and gigabytes of log files we send to you. And do so within an effective amount of time that discourages player exploit behavior? Put a little faith in those that give up their cash and time to help you out, after all, we put at risk a hell of a lot more money each month than some script kiddie that buys a script and copy of the game and doesn't give a damn about your mod, player base or future of the game. Look around Dev team, there's an exponential amount more players exploiting your game and who could give two shits about your success than mods abusing what limited power they have. Change your path or fold your tents and put your little experiment back in the box....

I'll gather you don't run a server and deal with these issues daily. Piss off, I checked the logs before banning and posting the asshats GUID. Feel free to keep off my servers....

What Ander is saying is, we trust you to pay the money to keep our little experiment running, however we have no faith in your ability to make a decision on anything related to that.....

More useless answers that only create a huge backlog of tickets that can never get processed in time and only meant as a show that you "tried to do something" much like the useless words about fixing the exploits. How about showing some faith in the ability of those who pay money to host your game and give your player base a place to play. Or perhaps close the whole thing down, go back to the 100 person alpha you conceived in the beginning and pay for your own damn servers.

Yep

+1 Piss poor service. They also locked out a bunch or admin capability. Avoid HFB, try another host

Geez Johnny if you broke it then fix it

Amazing as today I have no problem accessing any of those files on my Vilayer hosted server. Sorry HFB, you went about this the wrong way and f'd your customers. If Dayz is paying your bills or for your servers then fine, but last I looked we are your customers, so support us. Piss poor business model and pis poor customer service. Much like your other thread calling your customers Whiney bitches until you got called out and edited it....

For those of you on this server it's time to find a new home. HFB has placed restrictions on what files admins can access FTP services were removed No access is given to rename, delete, or prune the log files They removed any admin access to the script.txt used to help identify hacks Admins cannot access their ban files to add users. After these changes have been put in place I have opted to not renew with this host. Sorry for those having to move their gear, I wish we had known what a crappy hosting company we signed up with beforehand.

This could be a good thing!

He hit mine before. banned on mine. Have the GUID if anyone wants to add it

So last straw was the removal of access to the files. Your price is good, service is piss poor. Now to add to that you can't prune, delete or rename your log files You have no acces to your scripts.txt to help protect your sever from hackers. You say it's the Dev team and while I don't doubt those idiots have a hand in it, I don't see my other hosts pulling this on their customers. Cancelled auto-renewal and will be adding more servers with Vilayer once yours expire.

For anyone considering HFB servers, forget it.... You can't even rename or delete your log files now Can't get to scripts.txt to update your scripts file for BE I killed my auto renewal in PayPal before they try and take another month....

Lol......I'm going to guess, NO :)

Yep, just use the the BERcon, or if it's a slotted server, some ACP panels have Rcon controls. To Global Message use Say -1 Get off my server you hacking tool. ...or whatever you want to say

Only way to do that is via the ban.txt on each server, or having dayz add it to the ban.txt they give out to new server owners with the file set Still won't gets the tool off servers where admins to give a crap at updating their files.

Stop playing the game if you can't play without exploits, cheats and hacks......

Do what you can on your servers to stop the cheaters, exploiters, hackers, scripters or whatever you want to call them. All the threat of blacklisting for that is as hollow as their promises to fix the exploits. What's the worst possible case as a hacker being banned? They lose $25 and have to buy a new game What's the worst possible case for an admin for being banned? I save $100 a month, don't have to spend time going through logs or looking on the forums to see if there are issues? Seems like its a win for the admin / owners out there. I can go back to ARMA2...... .......or better yet, play on some other pour souls server.....

Well, if they ban my servers from the hive for doing the best I can to ban the idiot hackers and such it's a gain for me. $100 a month back in my pocket and 80 less slots out there.....

Now that you gave the dumbass punctuation, you better take away the extra E he's using in the title.