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I really hope they can recapture that feeling of helplessness we had originally. I remember my first two weeks of DayZ was spent dying, not surviving. After that avoiding zombies started to come naturally, but zombies were still a major threat because they never stopped chasing you. It was unrealistic when zombies would chase you or miles, but zombies just became a complete non-issue when they implemented the feature that allowed you to lose them. There wasn't a corresponding increase in zombie difficulty to make up for the ease with which zombies could be evaded. Before we could lose zombie aggro running full-speed through Cherno was unthinkable.

As long as the Makarov and Lee Enfield make it into the game, I'll be satisfied.

Sadly, I doubt it. The initial exploration and learning the game mechanics was possibly some of the best times I had in this game, but now that I know the ins and outs and I know how to 'game' the system, I don't think it can ever be recaptured. I actually missed that feeling of wonder so much that I tried out the WarZ (yes, you can rightfully scorn me), but sadly it was so much a carbon copy of DayZ that it simply did nothing for me. I expect I'll still enjoy the SA, but I'll never relive those 'golden' days I had last year.

I actually did manage to get revenge on the first person to betray me, though it's not really a very epic story. Having my own server with a set of regular players probably helped in this, though. It was somewhere around last year June, if I remember correctly, me and this guy were banditing the coast together when he makes the decision to go our separate ways by shooting me. About two weeks later I'm hanging around Krasnostav with a group of friends when he starts talking on the side channel. He claims to be at the NE airfield, so I asked one of my friends to tell him that he's alone in Krasnostav and he needs morphine. We were camping the hill south of Krasnostav, expecting to see him enter the town. At this point I only had a Lee Enfield so my hope for hitting him if he's in the town wasn't very high. Lucky for me, he has more or less the same idea for us and comes running across the open field towards the hill we're camping on. So I took a shot at him from about 300 or 400m away and miraculously he goes down in a spray of blood. I then ran up to his unconscious body and just as he was starting to get up I shoot him in the head with my Makarov at point blank range after which I type in side chat 'that's for betraying me, you bastard.' It isn't even a very epic story, but I have simply never felt that smug in a game before. It was incredible and it was one of those moments that made me fall in love with the game. There's still another guy I've sworn revenge on, though he didn't betray me, he merely got me (and half of our group) killed through sheer idiocy. We had just gotten to Stary and were sitting on the hill just before the shop when we saw some guy in a ghillie suit rummaging through the military tents. Despite the fact that we had not had a chance to properly assess the situation and looked around to see if the ghillie suit guy had friends nearby, this moron starts firing at him from clear across Stary with a DMR. Then we got swarmed by zeds and as we're trying to escape from them we get mowed down by two other snipers who were keeping lookout for their friend. Only the moron and one other guy out of a group of 6 survived. I haven't seen him on my server in ages, but one day I'll get my revenge. One day...

Please note: This guide only covers official servers. Many of the things listed below are possible on private servers, but this forum is not here for issues on private servers. If you have concerns regarding admin abuse on private servers, please take it to the private server sub-forum. First things first, understand what admins are capable of doing; - Lock the server - Restart the server - Password the server - Restart the mission in-game - Kick or ban players These are the things admins are able to do. They're not necessarily allowed to do them. To see the server hosting rules set out for admins, please refer to the following DayZ Server Hosting rules thread that can be found at the following address; http://dayzmod.com/f...-hosting-rules/. Admins do not have the tools to; - Spawn in weapons and vehicles - Remotely kill players - Crash your game - Roll back the servers to previous 'saves' - Spawn nukes on top of players - Teleport If anything in this list happens to you while playing on a server, it is likely hackers. Admins can still hack, but then it is not a case of admin abuse, but rather hacking, and BattlEye will likely catch them the next time they roll out a wave of bans. While admins do not have the tools to roll back a server to a previous 'save', the nature of the Hive is such that sometimes a vehicle/tent does not save its state on the server for prolonged periods of time. If a server is restarted, sometimes the vehicle/tent will return to the state in which it was last saved on the server. Some admins attempt to abuse this in order to get back equipment stolen from tents or get their vehicles back. This is against the rules and is considered admin abuse. Just remember, though. Every time a server is restarted, there is a fairly big chance that someone would have been busy shooting another player/stealing a vehicle/stealing equipment from tents. Having a server restart when you're doing something like this is highly suspicious, but is not always indicative of admin abuse. It could possibly just have been a coincidence. Keep an eye out for whether the server is locked or password after it was restarted. If you suspect an admin is abusing his admin privileges on a server, try and get proof of it either in the form of pictures or video. Unless an admin has a track record of being an abusive admin, unsubstantiated claims of admin abuse is not going to do much good in taking action against abusive admins. The DayZ team cannot use a player's word alone as evidence of admin abuse. Before you make a thread, though, first do a search on the forums to see if there aren't any other threads about the server. It's much better consolidating all the evidence of admin abuse in one thread. It also makes the DayZ team's job a little bit easier. That said, if you do not have proof and there is not a thread for the server already, make a thread anyway. There is a fairly good chance other players might have encountered the same treatment from the admin, and they might have proof of the incident. The more people chiming in on a report of admin abuse, the better the chance of the abusive admin being stopped. It's also a good way of helping players avoid bad servers.

As a server admin on a private server, this will be considered server-disruptive behavior on ours. First offence will get a warning and if it happens again a temporary ban. On the global channels anyway. You can do what you want on Direct chat (aside from discrimination, insults, flamewars), unless you do it excessively.

The problem is that the mod is currently stagnant. There isn't nearly enough content in it to keep players occupied for long. If you don't shoot other players, what is left to do? Run around the map and collect gear? Because we've already done that millions of times.

Thank you for reviving an argument that was resolved more than 5 months before your post.

On a private server, yes. Considering you're not supposed to report admin abuse on private servers here I didn't bother writing a guide for them. DayZ devs can't do anything to guys abusing their powers on private servers, so it's pretty much pointless writing a guide for something you're not supposed to report here, isn't it?

Just do what most of us did; switch to a private hive. It works much better than a public hive server and you don't have to deal with the ridiculous restrictions the DayZ devs put on server hosts.

Quick question regarding this and private hives (sorry of this has been answered before), but does this kick before the item is saved to the hive, or after it has saved? Reason I ask is because of the fact that it is a private hive, hackers cannot go to another server to drop the item, meaning that if a hacker spawns in an item and it saves to the hive, he will be kicked every time he tries to join because he cannot get rid of the item he spawned for himself. So, is this how it works? Would be awesome if it does because then it basically becomes an auto-ban for the hacker the moment he spawns himself an illegal weapon.

Urgh, just need to vent. After our recent switch to a private hive our Chernarus server has seen a giant influx of traffic again, and with that, it seems a few lesser desirables. Ever since we did the switch we've been bombarded by complaints from players because they do stupid things that get themselves killed, then they want to have hissy fits about it. Had a player who almost had an aneurysm this morning because he keeps going into Cherno and Elektro when the server is busy and expects not to get killed simply because he's a new spawn. I mean, look, I understand that it sucks that going to Cherno and Elektro means dealing with camping snipers, but really? Cherno and Elektro has always been bandit hotspots. On any full server going there is pretty much asking for trouble. Why keep going there if you know it's going to get you killed, and then get angry about it? I'll never understand people like that.

Why should it go in either the graveyard or private hive discussion. It is neither spam, nor is it exclusively related to private hives. Or is this what the DayZ forums are now going to become? A place where every second person tries to see how many threads he can get into the graveyard?

Okay, just to start things off, this is what I posted on another forum, and it got quite a bit of agreement from the guys, so we're looking at ways to bring our servers back to what they were before the duping bugs became so common; So, we're looking at removing tents entirely from our server. The issue is, the storage/duping issue will continue through vehicles, which we don't want to remove entirely. Does anyone know if there is any way that we can change vehicles so you can't store anything in them?

So seeing as the server uses a lunar cycle to determine how dark it is at night, would there be any way to force it to stick to a time during the cycle when it is light? Our servers empty out most nights simply because the night in ArmA2 is way, way too dark at times and it would be nice if we can make a compromise between having it just dark enough that lighting tools are necessary, but not dark enough that it looks like your monitor is off when your flashlight is off.

Server rules don't need beefing up at all, because admins aren't allowed to ban you for no good reason. What needs to be beefed up is the enforcement of the rules.

That happens to one of my friends on normal DayZ servers. We still have no idea what's going on or how to fix it.

Well, it's not really like they're stopping anything doing it this way. It takes one person on the mailing list to upload the files somewhere and then people who shouldn't have access have access again.

Uhm, why don't they rather use the FTP they set up for server admins? Why email this stuff? Sometimes it feels to me like the DayZ devs do everything backwards.

Hmm, I've never even seen the TWS AS50. Would it be able to spot you through the fog? It's also possible that it might have been a hacker using a command to kill every player on the server one by one.

More than likely someone was standing very far away and sniped you.

Anyone running a Lingor server, which scripts.txt are you using? The one that comes bundled with Saintly seems to kick for a lot of weird stuff. Players are reporting getting kicked for trying to mount flashlights on their shoulders and trying to get on motorbikes, etc.

Ah, I've found a way around it. It wasn't reporting to the Gamespy server, so that's why it didn't show up in the list. Showing up now, it seems. Just hope the server can handle running both servers. Such a pity, my gaming PC is broke, so I have to listen to everyone going on about how awesome the new map is and I'm only likely to get my PC replaced at the end of the year. :(

Okay, my Saintly server is finally up, but now here comes the pickle; I'm running both a Lingor Island server and an official server. Thing is, Lingor isn't showing up in the server browser, and when people try to direct connect, half of them seem to get into the Lingor server and the other half into the Chernarus server. Anyone know a way around this?

Hurrrrgh. D: I've basically got everything set up, it's just Navicat that can't connect to my MySQL server for some reason.