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All in good fun. Bored waiting at ORD for a flight home after a fun day of meetings....

I would have never imagined.....

Democrat by chance? ACLU member? ;)

I'll take my chances. Worse case is I save $100 a month. Wo is me I'll direct my hackers to your server as well.

Doesn't show up on mobile version What about the very important rules of no cheating or hacking mr troll? Not bothered enough about that?

And what server are you running mr troll? You are in quite a few threads here. Or are you just playing server cop?

Slippery slope. What's next?

Hey there! Time for another HFB update email! A couple of things to mention firstly is our awesome new website, including the forums. There are a few issues with this at the moment, but they will be worked on over the coming weeks. Next up, as some of you may know, we are running a competition giving away a copy of ArmA2:PMC and ArmA2:BAF, details of this can be found on our home page. Last of all, we regret to say that, at the request of the DayZ team we will be removing filemanager and FTP access to our servers. The file manager will remain, but users will only have access to the beserver.cfg in "/cfgdayz/BattlEye" in order to change their rcon/maxping details. Access to the text editor for configuration files is also being removed , and being replaced with a form-based configuration editor. Thank you HFBServers

Uh huh that will happen about as fast as they are working on fixing the holes. Keep dreaming troll

It's scripts.txt dependent. I have mine to kick people should they use the server tab of the map screen to prevent the twice a day idiot from trying ammo.sqf...... I use rcon outside of the game to administer and never login as admin when in game. Keeps the tools from yelling about some mysterious power I have to get all their sheep pregnant while they were playing....

With that logic then why ban servers for pass wording. It's just going to happen. I keep the idiots off the best that I can so yes I use my logs. And 500mb after three days is a butch to sort through. If you don't then I feel sorry for your player base.

Protest

Really? So you don't monitor your logs? Check for scripts? Don't bother FTPing out to prune the logs to a manageable size and archive them?

And you got thus fact from some study you did? Quit talking out your ass with bullshit facts you make up to stir up emotions troll

Ah, the ol' gee mom I was only holding this bag of oregano for my friend excuse? If you're global banned, read the top sticky. Nothing anyone can do here for you

Looks like our community is well over a thousand servers now and still growing. Awesome energy behind an Alpha project, what great support for something that was originally designed as a test of a hundred or so players. The game is addictive and fun and I really look forward to the final release version in whatever for it takes! It seems though, that with such unprecidented growth, comes a lot of growing pains that causes frustration with the Admins and Player base, and the Dev staff I imagine as well. I jumped on the game in May and really liked what I saw, so I found some others I gamed with in WWIIonline and other games and invited them to try it out with me. They liked it and stuck around. We began playing on any low ping server, but then found the advantages in picking a server as a home base. Somewhere to bed down our gear and get to know the folks who played it, much like I'm sure many of you do. It was shortly there after that we found the server being reset a lot, down a lot, time changed to dark when the admin when to bed and other games like that. Eventually it was down hard and we gave up what gear we had stored there in search of a new home. In wanting to support the growth of this mod, as well as have a home for our little group, we decided to pay for a server we could call home. A home as in a place to lay our gear that we knew would be up when we wanted to play and wouldn't be managed in a way that is detrimental to anyone on it. An equal playing field per say. That server quickly grew to two 40 slot servers in case either host had box issues, we wouldn't be down. It seemed like a great idea and would add to the community. Our little group of folks play fair and expect the same with our server and those who join. We don't combat DC, dupe, hide vehicles, hack, etc... When we find another camp, we take the gear that we need and leave the rest. We don't run it over, blow it up or anything else that would be frustrating to others playing. I've died countless times over the weekend and never thought once to restart the server or DC out of it. In fact I'm begining to enjoy the unknown part of making it back to camp alive with little gear from the coast. Its an interesting part of the whole game. There's no win or lose on this game and we don't need the uber weapons to have fun. Running these servers has now begun to be a real pain. A pain because of the hackers, script kiddies, GB's of logs to review and making sure things run smoothly. All of us in the group are over 40, have kids, careers and other things to attend to. We do our best to keep our server clean, respond to those posting questions, corrrect bans when they were not put in place properly and try and make the community a fun place to be. Each month I dig into my pocket to the tune of $50 for the Vilayer server, $35 for the HFB one and another $15 to have a Ventrilo server folks can contact us on (as well as a place for the players to use and meet. We got a note from HFB last night saying they were taking away FTP and File Manager access to our server at the request of the DayZ team.......WHY? How do you expect me to keep the logs pruned and managed? I know there are some servers out there that are being used to the advantage of the owners, and that pisses off the good admins as much as it does the player base and the Dev Team. There are also a lot of players running scripts, duoing stuff, DC'ing and server hopping, and that pisses off all of us as well. What can be done? I don't know at this point..... For the Player base: Most admins run a clean server for the benefit of the community. Its rather demoralizing to us to have the constant crap of all being lumped together under the title Admin abuse everytime something goes wrong in the game or in your life. Enough already. Enjoy the game, move away from the servers that treat you bad. Report those that are truly doing something wrong, but this mud slinging everytime you lose a vehicle or tent is old. You want us to run clean servers and keep the idiots and hackers out, well that takes some banning, some kicking and a lot of trolling through thousands of pages of logs. AMRA has a lot of holes, BE has a lot of holes, some things in the logs that look legit arent, other that may not look legit are. There's not many good tools we have to screen out the good from the bad. What is there often requires you to look at all three logs to compare and even then its a guess. You can't ask the dev team for help, they are too busy fixing and growing the game (rightly so) so there will be errors in bans that can be corrected. New server owners don't have a clue as to what to look for. They rely on word of mouth from other owners and that experience, good or bad, is what they have to go on. There is no set of tools or instructions given that say this "XXXXX" is a cheat and this"XXXX" is not. I don't expect the Dev team or server owners to publish that in the open either as it just helps the srcipters....so we have what we have and do our best with it. Support the admins out there giving you a place to play, a home for your gear free of trolls, scripters, idiots and those poor souls who were told growing up that you're entitled to everything in the world because you exist.......(democrats....sorry had to go there) Please, if we are doing such a horrible job in your eyes, step up and help out. Put your money on the table and try running one for just a month for the experience. Perhaps you won't come away jaded and really enjoy it.... Once again, we have no special powers. we can: Stop / Start / Restart Ban (our server only) Temp Ban (up to seven days while we look inot the issue) Kick Set Ping Cap Set Crosshairs on / off Set Map On / Off Set Third person On / Off Say Hi to you over global chat For the Admins: Lets do our part to keep the servers clean. If you only got a server to farm gear or keep it to you and your buddies, then drop the hive and go private. Don't be part of the problem and bring the rest of us down. For those of you running a good server within the rules as best as you can, I applaud you! Lets demand better tools to operate our servers with! Lets demand the Dev team make us part of the solution, not act like we are part of the problem. Let's work togther to weed out the morons, players and admins alike, and share our knowledge of what works and what doesn't. Help the new server owners with what we have learned so far and share the ways to find and ban the new exploits developed. We spend our hard earned dollars to support the mod and we expect a little help when we do so. For the Devs: Thanks for making a great mod. I get that you need to focus on improving the game and getting it ready for a hopeful Beta, then full release. I know you don't have time to answer every question the player base or Admins have. I hope to see this game really grow and be polished for its full release! Plase stop further restricting the admins who are here to help you in that effort. Stop taking away tools we have to monitor our servers and give us more that help keep it clean and free of idiots. Please don't act like I should be grateful that you let me spend my money to help you. We all want to help but we want to feel supported in our efforts. Without those of us willing to spend our money and time to help you and the players, there would be no servers. I seen none labled DAYZ Owned. I think its fantastic that you can get our community to step up and be involved, however I grow tired of being lumped in with the idea that "All admins are bad" so therefore we must further restrict what they can do. All players aren't hacking so we shouldn't lump them together as one as well. Give us some decent tools to screen our logs, not control access so we can't even FTP to them. I'm asking you to take some time to really work with those that are here to work with you. We share in your vision, so help us help you! I've vented enough, and kind of expect to be banned for what I have laid out here. I hope this mod does well and continues to grow. I enjoy playing it a lot and only wish I had more time to do so. As a bit of a protest in the Dev team instructing HFB hosting to remove some of our tools, I will be taking down my servers for 24 hours begining July 20th. I encourge others to do so as well. John

Hacked, or rather scripted in. Stay far away :)

HFB hosted servers had a mass change last week to fall in line with the US XXX naming convention. It was rather short notice and the owners didn't know ahead of time what their new number would be until HFB logged in the panel and changed it for us. Would have loved to give advance notice, however it wasn't possible in this case....

Sapper, I appreciate the thought and offer, however my time is so limited. I'm a Program Manager in Military Aviation as my 9 to 5. Just now I arrived in St. Louis for a meeting tomorrow and headed back Tuesday evening. I'm afraid I already give what limited time I have to the two boxes I admin now. Any more time spent in game, or 1am wake ups chasing hackers off the box and I'm afraid I'll Agro my wife even more :) She's deadly with a hatchet and a lawyer so that could be a bad thing..... Again though I do appreciate the thought and will stop by your server if you let me know when its up! John

Yes but they all show up in the server list

There is a ticket system in place, sticky topic this board. You apply for whitelisting and wait for approval.

+1 By handcuffing those that have the ability to impede those doing it, by proxy you encourage those that do DC, script and any other exploit

And they're dumb..... Ummm, I got a global ban and I don't know why? WTF, first post will give you some info....

Love it Oh, and item chest bug is called a hack, not a bug. You ran the script so you know what it is. Btw, the ban takes awhile to take effect so it's not what you did that moment, it's likely what you did a day or two earlier.... Go buy another copy and play nice next time..

Many are private hive which they can't control as well.