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Lowest of humans are the bandits.. Along with hackers.. They are in the same boat, ruining others gameplay :)

Ban this piece of shit hackeradmin. And whats the problem with that?

As far as I know this is a LEGIT script thats ran when you go to video options and press advanced..

No offense intended, but either get a new headset, or get your ears checked. I could hear both the bullet and the hit when you were near that mountain.

You cant find it in the rules because its self-explainatory. Shutting down the server for a period of time prevents people playing, directly prevents bandits looting unguarded camps. Therefore creating an unfair advantage for those playing on that server,which is not allowed. Shutting down the server when you go to bed, and turning it back on when you log on is excactly the same as locking the server. You limit who can play there. "If anything it actually proves the admins care about their players and want to protect their player's camps and investments." Cant you see this is the problem? Its admin abuse! Can you see that survivors are only one part of the game? Bandits is the other? "I mean, how would you feel if you logged on one day and you're camp got destroyed because some hacker decided to go on a rampage at 7:00am and no one was there to stop him? I would be much more annoyed then I would be if I was simply not allowed to play at crazy times of the day in the morning. " That would be crappy, but hey.. its life.. I was the one that left that camp unguarded. Cannot blame ANYONE else. Unfortunately at this points hackers are "a part" of the game. While we server owners/admins do what we can to limit it, theres only so much we can do. Shutting down the server for a lengthy period of time is NEVER acceptable. Hackers is a fact of life. There will always be someone out there who wants to destroy for others, it being hackers, or bandits. Deal with it. Now server owner whos thread this is about: Stop the damn admin abuse!

Have you read the forum rules here?

Sure as hell looks like admin abuse to me..

As a server admin/owner/hoster I can tell you its every players "job" to report stuff like this. Its in the players own best interest.

I gave you my beans before I read your entire thread. What you are saying here is insanity. Noone should be allowed to have a free-haven to hoard items safely. Locking a server should NEVER EVER be allowed. On the other hand I would like to see rocket having two hives, or two gamemodes if you like. PVP and NON-PVP. The players that like adventure and danger will play PVP, and those that like RP will play non-PVP. (Difficulty would have to be alot higher on the latter). Zombies per today are rediculoussly easy.

And how do you suppose we do that? Take my server as an example (NO 56). I have no way of seeing whos who ingame. You cant see who kills who. Video doesnt count as shit when it comes to proving anything, and neither does screenshots. The dude in the screenshot could literally be ANYONE! What I can do on the other hand, is check my logs, and kick/ban the sucker. But wait, no I cant. I'm not allowed! What should I do? IP-filtration? Or do you expect me to start hacking myself, so that I can god myself in the name of adminhood so when the hacker teleports me, he cant kill me, and maybe I can figure out who it is? The current DayZ ruleset _DOES NOT_ allow admins to take action against hackers. It actually favours hackers. And I find this very odd, are the entire dev team hackers? Is that why they have hacker-friendly rules? (PS, not accusing, just .. rambling) The fact of the matter (on topic) is that shutting down your server for any period of time other than maintenance IS exploiting. You are controlling who can play. Say you have alot of friends that play. You turn the server on, and PM them that its on. When the last one leaves you shut it down because "there isnt an admin on". What you are actually doing is making sure noone can loot your shit. Any server that does this should be instablacklisted. ALso, someone mentioned a minimum uptime. While I believe that is a good idea, 99% may be too little depending on how you look at it. (Per month? week? year?) 1% of a week is 1.68 hours. THis is NOT alot. I have to admit that I dont see the problem with a user being banned from a server. Most likely you fucked up somehow, and deserve it. Go cry to your mommy, and play another server. I honestly do not see the problem. (Unless we are talking admin abuse, which can be a real problem)

First part= YAY! Second part = The fuck? Are you insane? The shocktimer is annoying enough.. Have you got any idea how long 5 minutes is when you want to play?

I'd like to rephrase what I said about kick anyone for any reason. I wrote that in bit of a hurry. I wrote it, but I did not mean for ANY reason. That borders to abuse. If someone is harassing someone for any reason, I should be able to kick them.. Without reporting it (aka making a thread about it)

Nope, according to certain individuals that is not proof, sorry. Forum only accepts video or screenshot, where neither is proof either. So delivering proof about hackers the way the DAyZ rules are today I regret to say is impossible.

No, I was with them in the beginning, then they killed me for no reason other than that I was present. Then they obv were fired at straight after, and they accuse me of hacking, teleporting, revenge killing, etc, while admitting to combat logging.

You do make a fair point. The only problem is that im not allowed to ban without evidence, and clearly dayz players dont feel that logs are evidence. In fact, its the closest thing to evidence you can get. Screenshots doesnt show names, neither does video, so screnshot/video is certainly not proof of anything. You should really complaint to dayz. My problem is that every time I kick or ban someone I have to make a post here about it, which is nonsense. I should deliver proof if needed, not right away. that would ease an admins job alot, the small change of not having to post everything. Besides, posting logs on these forums are clearly agains the rules of the cheaterforum, since logs contain the scriptcode that was used. I could simply edit it out, but that would be to edit out the proof.

NO 56, same thing

Downgrade for me isnt an option for obvious reasons. They need to stop sleeping, and fix this. The feeling I have per today of the DayZ admins is: "Here are rules, here are missionfile, got any problems? Dont bother us with em."

This is not the right place or thread for this, but just to be clear. I do NOT want to ban someone just because I feel like it. Thats called admin abuse. And secondly I really dont see a reason to lock or password protect my server. What I do want to be able to do however, is kick or ban anyone playing disruptivly. (Read hackers). Earlier today I didnt ban two hackers because: 1) Your support-team dont reply to questions about your OWN rules. I was just told to post on forums, or ask somewhere else. Thats just not acceptable. If you lay down rules for us to follow that are unclear, you need to answer them upon request. (Or make the rules even clearer). Please do PM me about this, should I post logs on forums, or not? 2) Your rules are unclear on what to post in the cheat forum. (Hosting rules state post, forum rules state dont post (logs)) They also say video/screenshot, well.. Admins have neither, are supposed to just let people hack? And just to be even clearer, I do aknowledge the rules, and I do abide by them. But I still think they are way too specific, and stops us admins from actually keeping our server hacker free.

Now youre accusing me of hacking, and you better have some goddamn good proof before you do that. I was nowhere near that area after you killed me (obviously), and no, I wont lower my gun. Shouldnt have to. I dont know what happened up there, besides that you admitted to combat-logging.I would guess alot of tents are hidden up there (Mine are. included atleast some5-6 other ppl i know of) This game really needs a way of telling who killed who, would make the admin job alot easier too. You could have just told me that you didnt want a tagalong? No need to be a hostile just because of it.

Are you guys for real? You do know that logs is the ONLY tool we admins have to catch people..

Since you lay down rules we impossibly can follow, and give me the answer "we dont provide personal admin support" as an answer when I as an admin try to do the right thing, heres the end result: Have fun. Edit: Since I cant post logs (Tell people about scripting) theres not much I can do about the two cheaters that just left my server.

I just kicked a player off my server after everyone dying at once. Time: About 1930 GMT+1 What happened: I logged on my server, started playing and right after everyone died at once. And they kept on dying as soon a s they spawned. I went to look through logs, and I found this. This person was still on the server, and therefore I kicked him. Since you dont have any threads explaining how you want the threads to look I'l just the last bits in the log from this person. If you want the entire log please PM me.

Could anyone advise on what to do when you have cheaters on? DayZ forces us to make a post here if/when we kick/ban, but I dont feel OK posting logs here, thats giving info on how to spawn stuff. Shouldnt you really have a hidden forum only for hosters? Ristakon was just kicked from NO56, Reason ->

That is one of my points, fraps shouldnt have been needed to ban him, its your server. Although fraps is good for proof. Localbans should never ever need proof. If bans are shared, then yes. I really hope someone else makes a second hive, that would be the real experience for dayz admins.. Competition.

No, I am providing a server where players can play this mod. And to some degree it should be on my terms. (I am not saying abuse should ever be OK.) The need to queue to enter a good server is a good thing, but it does show theres too few "good servers". Considering the stasi-rules im baffled that there are as many servers as there is at the moment. I am not saying that an admin should be able to ban whoever he want for whatever reason. Or I kinda am, but yet no. There needs to be some control considering we are all connected to the same hive. But playing on a server.. That should really be a privilege, NOT a right.. As of today that is a right!, and that is utterly wrong. "it would have been possible to have admins ban every person entering their server " No, this is CLEARLY admin abuse. And needs to result in a disconnection from the hive. " so they can play in a group of four people on an empty server. " <-- This is not what I want. "If every server had a 10 person limit with a password then a large majority of players won't be able to play. " I totally agree, and this is not where I was headed. My thoughts are that in basis I want everyone to play on my server. (Yes DayZ admins, its not your server such as stated in the unban forum, its MY server.) The more the merrier. BUT, any kind of disruptive behaviour, hacking, cheating(if disruptive), smacktalk, flaming should be bannable. By the server owners, without informing anyone. The problem today is that we have to report every single kick. Thats ... way-borderline hilarious. We should only have to do so if someone complaints on their ban/kick. And even then, getting kicked is no biggie? Maybe you should look at why an admin kicked you?