DrainBamaged

I hate to tell you this, but nothing will happen here just on your 'say-so' alone. You need to provide screen captures, videos, chat logs, emails, forum postings ... whatever ... as evidence to prove your side. Just coming here and blah blah blah without any proof is a waste of space and time.

I don't see any difference. They still spawn all items on my servers.

Having a hacked weapon is not, in and of itself, a bannable offense. Rocket has stated this on these forums. You must be able to prove the person being banned actually spawned it themselves. Just FYI.

I supported the OP and Killer777s on what happened by posting my piece about it here. But, after reading this thread ... really? 9 F'n pages over all stemming from one evening? What the ever loving F***? For goodness sakes folks. Dez was hot headed and probably a tad emotional (running servers is a labor of love, I run two solo, so I should know) at the beginning of the event. But Jesus Christ on a pogo stick this thread just needs to DIE. If he's not blacklisted by now he's not going to be. Dez, I hope you learned an important lesson and hope it makes you a better server admin from all of this. Good luck man, ~Drainbamaged (aka Gravel, server admin for US 1550 and US 2522)

I supported the OP and Killer777s on what happened by posting my piece about it here. But, after reading this thread ... really? 9 F'n pages over all stemming from one evening? What the ever loving F***? For goodness sakes folks. Dez was hot headed and probably a tad emotional (running servers is a labor of love, I run two solo, so I should know) at the beginning of the event. But Jesus Christ on a pogo stick this thread just needs to DIE. If he's not blacklisted by now he's not going to be. Dez, I hope you learned an important lesson and hope it makes you a better server admin from all of this. Good luck man, ~Drainbamaged (aka Gravel, server admin for US 1550 and US 2522)

To have multiple characters, each with unique IDs, you have to have multiple Steam accounts and have purchased Combined Operations for each of your Steam accounts.

To have multiple characters, each with unique IDs, you have to have multiple Steam accounts and have purchased Combined Operations for each of your Steam accounts.

Yes. US 1550 and US 2522 are down. No. I didn't turn them off. Yes. I know they have a 10,000 ping. Yes. People are getting hung up waiting ... myself included. Yes. I checked the server. Yes. I restarted them when the server showed them as being. Yes. The restart shows as being good. Yes. I know it's not. Yes. I know it's annoying ... my gear is on those servers too. Yes. I'm asking for tech support help from HFB, because this seems to be a server hardware issue, not a virtual/remote desktop issue that I can control. Yes. I'm asking for you to be patient. Thanks. ~DB aka Gravel

Hive down. Yup. Sorry for the post. Just found out.

Hive down. Yup. Sorry for the post. Just found out.

So ... I'm actually the admin of US 1550, and today I get a nasty email to my admin email address. I redacted the full email and name. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Alex****at*****dotcom Title: Gravel we need to talk. Now. Body of email: Unexpected server restarts are completly unacceptable mate. We just lost a chopper and two vehicles loaded with items/weapons... Either you need to get a plugin that tells when restarts are happening or if that was a manual restart then I may report ya. Sorry if it was manual I can't help but report it, I hate abusive admins. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now when I read this I was at a total loss. I've been dealing with hacker/scripters off and on all day. I mean I'm pretty damned proactive. I continually post both my email address and TeamSpeak details in game and ask that people contact me for help when issues arrive. I manually go through logs and see who is hacking/scripting and do everything else an admin can do. And it's very rare that I ever restart a server without announcing that it's coming. So I started thinking about it and I did restart one of my servers without a warning today, purely by accident. But "abusive admin"??? WTF?? Are you kidding me? I even run around in my servers loaded with good gear and take pot shots at my players to encourage them to try and kill me. I'm never mad or abusive about being killed, and I never restart the server when fair-play happens. I mean, really? Comeon. Abusive? So I replied: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alex******at*****dotcom First. It's pixels so relax. Second. I have not violated a single server rule/restriction. Third. Report away mate. When I'm fixing hacker/scripter damage I can restart whenever I wish. There's no rule that says I must give a warning, although 99.9% of the time I do. And, I never abuse the restart to benefit myself or friends. The only unwarned about restart today was accidental, while I was in the server via Remote Desktop, I was trying to "grab the window to move it and instead it clicked it closed, forcing the game server to restart. Remote Desktop is a little slow on the take with the mouse and sometimes it's glitchy. At the time I was actually looking at the server and logs to benefit YOU, not me, because of hacker/scripters. Sorry man, but that's not abusive ... regardless of what you think. If you think I'm an abusive admin because you got one unannounced restart and lost some pixels ... then find a new server, and report me. As far as telling me what I need to do (Re; getting a plugin, etc.) you DO NOT pay for my servers. You DO NOT get to tell me what to do with my servers, that I pay for. You DO play for free on my high-speed dedicated server, that I pay for out of my pocket. Again, I follow the DayZMod rules. If you don't like it ... there's a disconnect button. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/forum/46-server-reporting/ you can report it there if you want. I'll post our emails. Otherwise quit complaining about losing some pixels in a computer game that's only in Alpha testing. Lastly, to be quite honest, I find it absurd that you emailed me to complain about this when I've never had a single prior email from you to report scripters/hackers. Not once, ever. Instead of complaining and being upset about one unscheduled restart you could have been proactive and reported problems. I reguarly put this email address and my TeamSpeak details into the game just for that. Haven't seen you use either yet ... except to complain about "your" helicopter and gear. ~Gravel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now I did look back in my emails and found one previous email from him, so I was wrong, and I did follow up with an email to him correcting that. But his previous email was one F'n line. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Hackers. Body of email: Yesterday at around 12am-3am. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No details of any kind. I run multiple servers and he can't even give me a server number. And I went through the logs from that time and really didn't see anything that actually warranted a ban on any of my servers. A couple people with hacked guns, but zero proof that those people actually hacked them. And I was hopping back and forth on my servers playing during that time frame and didn't notice anything unusual either. So .. whatever. Anyway, I guess I'm an abusive admin, so I'm reporting myself for an unscheduled and accidental, unannounced server restart that caused some guy to lose some pixels on the intertoobz. DrainBamaged aka Gravel (P.S. Sorry for the multiple posts of the same thing. This forum always double, triple, or quad posts when I click once.)

If you connect, disconnect, reconnect to quickly you'll respawn on the beach ... with your gear.

If you connect, disconnect, reconnect to quickly you'll respawn on the beach ... with your gear.

stupid forum always repeat posting.

stupid forum always repeat posting.

Rocket said no in a different forum post. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/46844-hackers/entry446536 That doesn't mean that Admins that don't know this won't kick and ban you, just that Rocket has said it's not a bannable offense.

Rocket said no in a different forum post. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/46844-hackers/entry446536 That doesn't mean that Admins that don't know this won't kick and ban you, just that Rocket has said it's not a bannable offense.

Sorry about the quad post, it does this every frickin' time I respond in a thread.

Sorry about the quad post, it does this every frickin' time I respond in a thread.

Why can't you pick up a hacked weapon? Rocket himself said on these forums that picking up and using one is not cause for a ban. As long as you didn't hack/spawn it yourself it's not against the rules. I admin/run two servers and have picked up several hacked weapons, a G36C-SD and multiple M4-Holo-SDs. I didn't spawn them, and I will use them until Rocket says it's against the rules. The only thing I have a problem with my players using is the hacked/spawned weapons (like the 10,000 damage Makarov) that do stupid damage, and I ask that they not use them. As long as players on my servers don't hack weapons in, and either find them or take them off a body they killed, I have no problems with them. Banning people for merely having hacked weapons when you can't prove that they personally hacked them in is worthless, useless, and could get your server blacklisted. As far as the rest of your statement ... I completely agree. People need to chill the heck out. It's only pixels for God's sake ... and an Alpha test at that.

Why can't you pick up a hacked weapon? Rocket himself said on these forums that picking up and using one is not cause for a ban. As long as you didn't hack/spawn it yourself it's not against the rules. I admin/run two servers and have picked up several hacked weapons, a G36C-SD and multiple M4-Holo-SDs. I didn't spawn them, and I will use them until Rocket says it's against the rules. The only thing I have a problem with my players using is the hacked/spawned weapons (like the 10,000 damage Makarov) that do stupid damage, and I ask that they not use them. As long as players on my servers don't hack weapons in, and either find them or take them off a body they killed, I have no problems with them. Banning people for merely having hacked weapons when you can't prove that they personally hacked them in is worthless, useless, and could get your server blacklisted. As far as the rest of your statement ... I completely agree. People need to chill the heck out. It's only pixels for God's sake ... and an Alpha test at that.

I'm very happy to announce that US 1550 (208.115.125.26:2302) has been moved from a standard server to a new high end, high speed dedicated server. Also, I'd like to announce the opening of US 2522 (208.115.125.26:2312) and a dedicated TeamSpeak (208.115.125.26 no port/no pw) service for both of those DayZ servers running on the same high speed, dedicated server. US 1550 and US 2522 are set to be roughly 12 hours apart from each other. So when one is daylight the other is nighttime and vice-versa. This offers "my players" the option of which game style they wish to play at that time. I'd like to encourage everyone using these servers to use the dedicated TeamSpeak. There are plenty of sub channels (and I'll be happy to create more) so you won't have to be buddy-buddy with people you're trying to shoot in the face. And, at this time, I would like to add that shooting and looting admins (meaning me: Gravel, ClaireXXX, and Jasper) is fair game. I promise to never kick or ban a player for shooting or killing me ... as long as you're not scripting/hacking to do it. There will not be locked servers with pissed off admins banning people just because the admin was careless or stupid and got dead by a player. I will say I'd prefer it if you just let me kill you instead though ... or alternatively, you could just run away. Also, on the issue of scripting/hacking. I will never, ever kick/ban a player for having a hacked weapon, vehicle, or other item. As long as the player didn't script/hack that item themself then that player is free to use the item. I would prefer it though if those of you with golden AKs, or magazines that never empty, or Makarovs that do eleventybazillion damage please not use them on other players. Any new players with questions are more than welcome to pop into TeamSpeak and ask anyone in the "Lobby" for help. Please do not barge into other channels where players are engaged in actual game play. All TeamSpeak users are requested to use their in-game name as their TS nickname. Any questions regarding TeamSpeak, US 1550 and US 2522, scripter/hacking reports, and any other form of abuse can be directed to me at: [email protected] I'd especially like to thank Jonathon (DayZMod) and Ryan, Adam, and Michael from HFB for all their support and patience while I got this project off the ground and running smoothly. You've all been great. (A special shout to Rocket ... thanks for DayZ. I absolutely love it, but please, for the love of God, can I save gear in my tents ... pretty please with copious amounts of beer on top?) ~DB aka Gravel, ClaireXXX, Jasper

FYI US 1550 will be down sometime today, for an unknown length of time, while it is being migrated to a high end/high bandwidth dedicated server. In addition to a dedicated server for US 1550 there will be the addition of a dedicated TeamSpeak server for players to use. TS details will be listed in the MOTD when the server migration is complete. Also, the dedicated server that US 1550 is being switched to will have enough bandwidth to host extra servers. Hopefully, once the dedicated server is up and running, I'll be allowed by the DayZ staff to host a second server number. The ultimate goal is to give "my players"* the ability to choose between day or night, depending on which server they choose, as I plan to have the "in-game" time 12 hours apart. I've been assured that everyones gear, camps, loot, and vehicles that are currently tied to the server will be safe. Any questions regarding the server migration can be directed to me at [email protected] Thank you in advance for your patience in dealing with the server downtime. ~Gravel/DrainBamaged Note: * "my players" refers to any and all players that play on my server(s), and not any particular group or clan.

Holy quad posts

Holy quad posts