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You are correct' date=' this is the safest way to play. [/quote'] And, ironically, people with this flawed mentality are the ones making the server unsafe.

He wasn't opening it fr discussion. He was making a statement. A public service announcement, if you will.

Killing people in the debug area is also an exploit and people get banned for it, yet you don't hear anyone bitching and moaning about those bans.

No, it does work that way. It is a known exploit that ruins other people's experience with the game. As long as these assholes want to play on my server, they'd better not disconnect. I want my server to be nicer place for everybody. I'm not going to tolerate a few weak assholes disconnecting because they don't want to die fair and square.

Ah, I never knew that. Thanks man!

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=16030 NY13 was broken. It's probably still under maintenance. Jesus. Why do people always assume the worst the moment they see a locked server?

I think all server admins should learn a valuable lesson from this. I've just made a backup of my entire Arma2/OA game folders.

I always used Side to warn them, but that's kinda an issue now, seeing as Side is removed. How do server admins go about warning players now?

I ban for offensive names, but I warn first. If they don't change it, I ban them. I'm not tolerating people calling themselves 'Moth3rfuck3r' or 'McFaggy' or 'Fuckfags', all three of which have been seen on my server before. There is no reason to call yourself something like that if you don't have malicious intentions. It takes only one person to take offense at the name, and then I'm left to deal with the headache. I also can't ban people for malicious talk in the chat, but allow equally offensive and/or bigoted character names.

You know what the most ironic part of this is? The people in here are getting angry at us server admins for banning people who exploit game mechanics and ruin the experience for others. And then they want to tell us we're deviants?

I ban people who I see DCing to avoid PVP. It is a tricky situation when it happens to players on my server, but I'd hardly call it unfair. If someone is banned for DCing on my server, he cannot come back and that means he's not going to DC when shot at by any of the other players on my server. If a player can provide me with solid proof that someone DCed to avoid death, then I'll ban them. It's a bit hard to get proper proof if you're just a player, but not impossible. If asked about it, I can guarantee you most of my regulars would prefer I ban the exploiters I'm sure are exploiting rather than sit back and let them continue griefing my players simply because it is hard catching all the exploiters.

1 - Get toolbox 2 - Remove wire 3 - ???? 4 - Profit!!!!!

Until Rocket releases a statement that says 'You are not allowed to ban pussies for using known exploits', I will continue banning people from the server I pay for, so that the server can be a nicer place for all the people who actually appreciate us hosting servers for them.

DCing to avoid PVP death is disruptive behaviour. I don't get what's so hard to understand here.

Fixed it a bit. I don't see any reason for anyone to defend the DCing issue unless they do it themselves.

Have you seen what Russia looks like? Russians don't have much to do up there. :P

I've been banning PvP DCers from my server right from the start. If the devs have an issue with me banning people for doing things that Rocket himself has said is an exploit, they can take it up with me. DCing in a firefight is a dick move. You are wasting your own, as well as other people's time. If you do it, why the fuck are you playing the mod in the first place? People defending DCers are even worse. I honestly don't see Rocket blacklisting my server because I ban people who knowingly and intentionally disconnect to avoid being killed by another player. Also, the DayZ server host rules state that DCing to avoid death is disruptive behaviour.

Stop stealing my ideas. :<

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say with this thread? That you want to ban people without having to spend time collecting evidence to back the ban up? Because unfortunately, that's the way it's got to work right now. There's no way around it. Rocket can't allow people to ban left right and center without proof, because people are going to end up abusing it. And don't get me wrong, I fully understand the pain in how much playtime this robs of server admins. I've had to stop playing countless times to to sort out issues between players on my server, and to ban certain players. It sucks when you're in the middle of raiding the NW airfield and you have to stop to do admin duties, but unfortunately that's just one of the responsibilities we server admins have. It's something we'll just have to live with. Also, you don't have to make a thread here every time you ban someone. Just save the evidence somewhere and if someone appeals a ban here you have evidence to back it up with.

Lol, indeed. I'll try and frequent the IRC more often from now on as well.

I really hope so. :P Thanks for the advice! Edit: Wait, I see I'm finally approved for the google group. YAI!

Yeah, I honestly don't get why some people think we server hosts have the magical ability to roll back our servers to get our stuff back. We have no control over the Hive, which is where all our progress is saved. If the server restarted two minutes after his death, the chances of his death not being recorded on the Hive are slim indeed.

I've PMed Anders twice, emailed him, submitted an application to the group itself and tried to ask Anders on the IRC channel. No luck so far.

For the mod, yes. Some files are server-only, and those are not publicly available.