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As the title says I would like server restart notifications. This game has been in alpha for 3 years and there's been no update to this. It's a relatively easy issue to resolve but it would stop so much frustration. Last night spent time getting geared with a basic kit, found a deer, killed it and skinned it. In the process of skinning it the server resets so the food is lost. Jumped to a new server to get food and the same thing happens. I know the golden rule of DayZ is to not get attached to any gear but thats near impossible when the server resets with no warning causing you to loose gear/food.

I have found close to bugger all. Running from inland town to inland town and still nothing. From the usual spots to small off the beaten track towns I can't find anything. It's incredibly frustrating to go through a town, checking every house, only to find a few backpacks, some glow sticks and duct tape. I've started server hopping but to no joy. Even coming back at a restart I still can't find anything and its beginning to annoy me. I understand that this is alpha but are they not testing these things on the experimental servers before general release or is it just dump it and hope for the best?

But only at night after 1 or 2am and if shouldn't be a pleasant experience.

For a while after getting into DayZ I only played nighttime servers, I'd gotten fed up with hackers shore line campers and PK's. Nighttime seemed to offer the most challenge and less irritations along with the sense of immediacy and danger that the night has. For a while I was playing on a spanish server (es9 or something) until one night I spawned into Berezhino at the apartments above the shop when an invisible script kiddie with M4SD found me within minutes of spawning. Without moving or firing he quickly killed me. In disgust I warned that there was an invisible script kiddie on the server and quit. I had plans to meet a friend so I moved to a German server that seemed pretty active, I think in the region of 25-30 players. DayZ commander told me it was nighttime and that was an unusually high number of players, but I wanted a challenge so I logged into the server and spawned at Otmel just east of Elektro. But instead of nighttime I found it almost be midday with the sun high in the sky. At that stage my friend jumped onto teamspeak letting me know he'd join me in half an hour or so. I told him what server I was on and that it was daylight, we both assumed an admin had changed the time. At the time I naively thought no script kiddie could alter the time. I hate Elektro and Cherno. I will only stay in them long enough to gather basic supplies such as food/drink compass and a map, maybe even a makarov. Sneaking along the shoreline I came up through the centre of the town towards the hospital, nabbing some morphine, blood and bandages. Making my way to the pub facing the shop I heard the rumble of a large vehicle. Now I've been killed by a bus driver so I ran and hid in the pub. Stopping only to loot a 1911 on the way up the stairs. Within moments I heard the beep of the horn and the growl of angry zed's then the bus parked outside the school building. I panicked surely they would find me now I'm dead. I saw the bus disgorge about 10-12 players, all fully armed and some with ghillie suits. I'm fecked. It's only a matter of time till they come into the pub and see me hiding upstairs. I won't combat log, the first rule of DayZ is to not get attached to gear. I start hearing the snap of rounds and a couple hit the window infront of me but I can also hear them talking on direct chat, I can't figure out the language but it's probably some German's, maybe the owners of the server out for a party run. They sound pretty calm and the gunfire is controlled, no mad bursts and either a single shot or double tap. These guys know what they're doing. At this stage no one has entered the pub but I don't feel confident they'll take kindly to someone watching them so I move to the room at the back with the bed. I've scored a shotgun and some more mags and prepare to sell myself when the gunfire escalates to full auto. I hear the scream of a guy getting killed and "soandso was killed" appears on the screen. Suddenly a lot of people start typing on chat or trying to talk, more names start appearing and the gunfire escalates to a full firefight. People are shooting wildly. I look into the shop and see two guys shooting what can only be described as a military zombie with an axe. Even in the bright midday sun I can see it's eyes. I'm transfixed, too scared to move and too curious to want to do otherwise. One of the guys reloads and his buddy bolts. The axe swings down killing the first guy but the runner makes a fatal mistake and runs into a horde that was attracted to the gunfire. I can just about make out his screams but I think I make out some laughing over the screams but it's too faint to be sure. Two more guys appear out of the school attempting to save their friends and the axeman soon teaches them their mistake. I haven't been this scared since the first AvP game came out in '99. A third guy jumps into the bus but I hear it crash around the corner and it doesn't start up. I can only hope he has made it out but another name appears on the kill list. I see the last two guys trapped on the roof of the school, one with an AS50 and the other with a saw. They've got a horde of zed's which are ignorant of the axeman charging into the building, more than I thought possible. The two guys are giving it all they are worth to survive. I silently commend them on staying the course, most people would have dc'ed by now. But these guys have balls of steel, no zed or axeman will stop them. They seem to be doing it right, one firing only when the other has stopped. I can't hear them talking but I see the ghillie climb up the ladders to the top floor and then the saw gunner follows. It was a mistake the axe man was there waiting, I saw him burst through the door the saw gunner runs for the steps and misses, he hits the ground with a crack and a scream. Zed's charge his broken body and I can only imagine the screams as his body is torn to pieces. The ghillie shoots two rounds into the axeman, only one of these at that range would have put me on my back for sure. But the Axeman is undeterred. Blood flowing from him he moves to the ghillie and delivers a blow from his axe that instantly kills him. Theres only a half dozen people on the server now, most have quit in disgust or panic. Accusations fly on chat. The axeman disappears. For a few minutes I sit silently, realising I need to eat and drink I make a plan to dash to the shop when it goes dark. I mean pitch black, the server has reset its clock to the actual time. This puts me in a panic, I have no flares no chemlights. I don't want to swap out my pistol for the torch. My screen is black, I see nothing then I hear laughing. Not the laughter of someone who's happy, but a dark demented laughing of the damned. A voice asks if I've had fun. Did I enjoy the show. It sounds like a voice that the devil would toss aside as too dark. You are dead. I sit there for a few minutes, my heart is racing, the adrenaline and shock have kicked in. My friends jumps back onto teamspeak and tells me he found a tonne of dead guys with some great loot at elektro and that its nighttime. Checking the playerlist I see him and myself are the only players on the server so I log back in telling him the tale of what just happened. We spend the next hour panicking incase the axeman comes back gathering enough loot and gear to keep us well armed and happy for the next couple of days. But I will never enter elektro at night, unarmed and alone again. I don't want the axeman coming after me again. BTW if anyone is up for a run to Green Mountain let me know, I want to see if anything freaky happens up there with the new patch.

Dude you're so hardcore, I love how you have to wait to shoot stationary targets from point blank range and can't use the WASD keys along with your mouse to aim. I wish I was as hardcore as you.

It's always the way. The other night my friend was looking for a coyote backpack and once he logged off I found not one but three in Stary Sobor. Yesterday I spent ages looking for an engine part, after I finally found one I went looking for tires and only found engine/fuel parts.

I'm running a private Dayz Vilayer server at the moment and we've been having a lot of issues with battleye randomly kicking people. Given that its a passworded server and I personally know each of the gamers, is it possible to turn off battleye and turn it on when its unlocked. Another issue is with heli crashes, when they spawn there is no gear appearing in 2 out of 3 of the crashes. We usually approach with a car, then drop out about 3-400 meters out then walk in. Is there any reason why this happens and is there a resolution for it? When the server is reset, vehicles that aren't saved should respawn at a different location. Tonight the helicopter respawned at Rog inside the castle, so a quick reset and it respawned then exploded in Rog, so a third reset caused it to again respawn at Rog inside the castle. We're gonna give it a shot and repair it but I'm doubtful that it'll survive.

Three things, 1: Camping Elektro? On Sniper hill? Quite likely someone had planted satchel charges or thew/shot some other explosive at you. Or crawled up behind you, planted the charge and ran away. 2: If you knew it was a hacked weapon why use it? It gives you an unfair advantage and is not a weapon the devs put into the game. You use a hacked weapon and complain when you die thinking only a hacker could see/hear you sitting on that hill shooting a loud ass weapon. 3: That song sucks, I'd have killed you for playing that hacked weapon or not. Use a hacked weapon you deserve death.

I'll tell the tale in a few days Sarge once I get time. Honestly, no real answer to that Just a Goat. I think it was more to my mindset that Stary Sobor is a bad place to be when you are hurt and need food/ammo.

Thanks for the kind words guys, I had a blast doing it so I thought I should share. This game is made more by the tales and stories that happen through these chance encounters. I couldn't be certain about them. They've been using my server since it was set up but I just couldn't resist it. I did leave my suppressed M4 and fal in a half fixed jeep for them. I felt that bad. In other games I have no issues shooting people/pvp but in this I actually felt guilty. That was my fourth kill ingame, two were legit where I was fired upon first and the third a friendly though I don't want to tell that tale as he is unaware of the friendly fire.

Not to be rude, but with a map/compass/gps I can't see the blue dot. I can determine where I am using the gps and experience of the map.

I've played on a few regular servers where the map shows your position (the blue dot) so you can see where you are and where you are heading to. Now I know this isn't something that is set up for regular servers but some of the guys I play with are new and I was hoping to give them a helping hand. So what file/setting on my server do I edit to allow the map to show your position? Thanks,

So there I was in the dark night at the deer stand north west of Novy Sobor (the one looking out to the fields). I was cold and low on blood with only two other survivors on the server. In need of food and ammo I took the decision to go into Stary Sobor, a place I avoid and dread going into unless I have mates with me. As I reached the summit of the hill I began checking the place for zed activity, realising there was none I started my crawl to the military tents, I needed more ammo for my suppressed M4 and hopefully a coyote pack might be found. Then in the corner of my screen I saw a light, panic set it, I could feel my heart beating faster. Was it a torch? Then I heard the unmistakable noise of a car. In a server with me and two other players I couldn't begin to think of the random chance that brought a car, with people, near me. The noise felt a screech in my ear, harpies squawking that I was going to die for my foolishness. Curses and all I wanted was ammo and the dear sweet relief of some tinned sardines. I could hear the zed's getting riled up, so I started to crawl back into the darkness watching all around me fearing these survivors came from behind. Boom. More panic, was that shot at me then I saw a zed drop. No, they've stopped beside the camp, headlights throwing the darkness back. A silhouette appeared. It was a man in a ghillie suit. Now my heart was pumping, I could barely call my fingers to move. I was focused on one task. Death. In an instant I had decided they had something I wanted. A jeep. With such a fine automobile I could traverse Chernarus at my leisure. Pfft pfft pfft went my subsonic rounds, the first fellow didn't realise what had happened until it was too late. A murder, and it took a mag I was that full of adrenaline. I was ecstatic, as he'd ran towards me thinking the fire was from behind. Then the jeep rev's up and moves towards me, I fire at the driver, not aiming properly as I need to move. His headlights are bearing down on me. Knowing the end was now I switched to full auto. I clicked in my last mag with 10 rounds knowing that I had done all I could. But suddenly the driver swerved and hit the fence. Hope, sweet beautiful hope. I could taste the honey in my mouth as I ran as fast as I could to the tents. Already the driver was reversing behind me, I prayed he didn't get out and start shooting. I had only 10 rounds for my M4 and 2 glock mags, the engagement would see me dead by his hands or the zeds if he started shooting. Thankfully he was intent on turning me into freshly squashed roadkill. I made it to the tent and the zed's were intent on attacking the jeep. Lady luck smiled upon me and I found a glock mag and an SD mag, This jeep was going to be mine, Hades be damned! I could see the driver, angry that I had killed his only companion in this cold, cruel world. Frustrated he drove around the camp attracting as many zed's as possible. I knew his plan, he was going to kill my by attracting the zed's to me. As he drove past the door, I took aim at his car, hoping to hurt him more than the jeep. It was so precious I wanted it unhurt. Within a few short minutes I had ran dry of ammo for my precious M4. The adrenaline in my system was replaced with a cold determination. I would have my jeep. The engine died, zed's started screaming, I knew he was coming for me. I prepared to sell myself dearly, Then I heard his screams. Something I came to dread but in this instant was a sweet sweet sound. A part of me wanted to run to his aid. Afterall it wasn't his fault that I opened fire, he merely had a jeep. Damn you conscience! As I moved to the door I saw the zed's eating his flesh, sickened I raised my pistol. Over is dead. I crouched in shock, my actions had led to a second death tonight. Two armed survivors were dead, replaced with empty husks. The elation of the contact turned into shock, even disgust that I had taken the life of one and led to the death of the second. But I had my jeep.

CD keys are not created by Rocket, they are given out with new copies of the game. Rocket does not control who hosts servers, just look at the plethora of private hives (something Rocket doesn't want). I fear you may have several misconceptions about what he does, this is a mod for a game that is buggy and allows end users to create scripts. Unfortunately, this ability to add scripts has been abused by the skiddies. Yes there is an issue but from what I have read (search function for the win!) there is no immediate fix for the game, at least until the standalone is released. People tend are more likely to complain than they are to post up about their positive gameplay. One of the rare things is the positive comments about people's gaming, just look at the campfire section.

Is that allowed?