valtiel

No problems with vehicles saving things on my server,

I haven't read through the whole thread, but as a server admin i've noticed a LOT of tents have gone missing with this update. I've had my server for around 5 months and i've always jotted down coordinates of other users' tents on my server just for reference. Most of them, including many of my own are gone now, ones that were still there on 1.7.2.6. I *think* this may have to do with the whole "tents saving to the DB correctly" part seeing as how some of them were definitely packed up/destroyed at one point but there are definitely some that were not that are MIA now. Most of them were crafty tents that were stuck half inside of rocks and trees and such, maybe that has something to do with it.

A bunch of disorganized kids unable to communicate for 5 seconds that end up blowing up their own guy while someone complains about someone "messing with their game"? Yeah no thanks, how about you leave the griefing to a group that doesn't rely on teleporting to fix their mistakes.

As an admin I believe its pretty pathetic that 12ninjas is being jumped on here. Sqweebs, you clearly do not know (as you even admitted in your post) what you were looking at in the logs. Satchel charges are fairly common these days, your research into their loot percentages is meaningless given how frequently items are duped. Multiple charges can be detonated at one time as well. The "helicoptercrash" is related to any vehicle explosion, I saw these same logs on my server when my main base was destroyed last month. Bottom line is that it seems these guys did absolutely nothing wrong and you knee jerked to save your base because you WANTED what you saw in the logs to be related to hackers thus violating rules that you are supposed to be following as a server admin. You are VERY clearly in the wrong here, your points about their "malicious intent" are completely irrelevant in respect to the rules.

People will likely still scream "abuse" but I agree with you. You guys have no idea how stressful it is to basically be relegated to babysitting your own server from assholes who just want to grief people. A guy I play with was spawned killed for 30 minutes by a guy teleporting and continued to follow him through multiple servers (no idea how he did this). I made sure he was caught on tape and even then I only kicked him from the server. When dealing with this 24/7 you're basically constantly on the defensive so when it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck you often end up sending it packing lest the prick kill everyone on the server with a push of a button (this happened twice on my server in 5 minutes immediately after I updated to 1.7.2.6).

Satchel charges are legit DayZ loot, http://dayzdb.com/database/satchel-charge Pretty shady that TruYadoo gave you his beans especially since he openely admitted to using AS50 TWS' while claiming they are legal (its not a DayZ weapon).

I like the idea of it actually being a deterrent i.e. causing damage/bleeding to players and zombies. I think it should definitely be removed if it going to stay in its current state (zombies pass through it, reappears on restart, graphical issues) but if it were to actually have a use then i'd love to have it around.

Agreed. Tents have largely been working fine for me. The only issue I have is the occasional tent that does not save IF it has been placed and not gone through a restart. A tent that has been through at least one server restart (which should be happening twice a day if the admins are responsible :P) has been 100% stable. Trust me, I save shit A LOT and I would be the very first person to complain if tents were giving me pains.

Nothing much left there now. :P

I'm much more impressed with the first effort, you guys were very thorough (although no one found the M136's :P) The second effort was......uninspired. :D You left behind a lot of stuff and completely neglected flattening a whole area of tents. Thanks for leaving me a pedal bike though as that is what I was coming back for. See you in my crosshairs! ;)

The bug still exists where vehicles and tents will be MIA after random server restarts, it seems to happen about 1 out of 20 on my server. Everything will reappear with the next restart. Despite the fact that I have had nothing but success with tents on 1.7.2.6 I am still skeptical of saving things in fresh (just placed) tents. In 1.7.2.4 it seemed that *most* of the time items would NOT save in a tent that was just put down but would save just fine after a server restart. Not sure of this is the case in 1.7.2.6 but I would err on the side of caution and wait until a restart before placing items in a tent. This has not been an issue for me though in 1.7.2.6 so far.

Why exactly are you here then? You obviously hate this game and think that everyone that disagrees is a "hacker" or a "spawn sniper". The sense of superiority on guys like you is impressive; you know best and everyone else is a moron. Good luck holding down real world relationships with an attitude like that.

I wouldn't mind seeing it go. It really serves no purpose as it does not really deter anyone, does not stop zombies, and generally looks kinda crappy. The sandbags and tank traps are very useful though.

Agreed. I'll take easily stockable Jerry cans over my vehicles going on holiday somewhere. :P

True, I agree its helpful at night when its hard to see your blood running away. :P Personally I enjoy the suspense of entering an area, knowing there are going to be zombies and having to figure out where they are.