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Bandit's are players when all is said and done, the other two are just scumbags. Now there is another type I met in the past few days which I would call a scripter (not a skiddie) this guy TP'd at the side of me asking if I was a friendly because of my hero skin, as I didn't fancy dying to someone who just teleported to me I told him that I was, so he then asked if I needed any gear to which I said "nah, as you can see I'm pretty much geared" I asked him if he knew where all the vehicles were at because someone had TP'd them away somewhere, this guy spent the next 20 minutes trying to separate the mangled mess of vehicles created by another hacker and brought me the only 3 viable vehicles on the map, the bus, a tractor and a cycle and he then protected me from another hacker who tried to kill me whilst I drove these vehicles to the coast for other players to find. OK this guy treads the fine line between right and wrong and I do not condone his actions because he was cheating the game but it was nice for once to have someone not working against me with god-mode, TP and other such powers and also not trying to shove all the weapons in the world down my throat and to be honest I'm that frustrated with hackers TP'ing the vehicles around on my "home" server I was glad to have him bring them back, even if they do get TP'd again today it was nice to have one of them. tl;dr Met a friendly hacker, said no to his weapons but asked for the vehicles back on the map and got them, good guy, wrong method's but they worked. ;) Anyone think I did wrong???

Just added in more vehicles to the server! Still looking for more new members to bolster our ranks! Server wipe only happened a week and a half ago! Still heli's to be found and fixed!

People hoarding vehicles is why I love this game. We find their camp(s) and take the good vehicles (4WD, military UAZ or any of the trucks), remove all the ammunition from their tents, save them. Blow up all the other vehicles and save them too. Then drive the vehicles back to our nearest camp that's on another server and log out. Welcome to Chernarus, fuckers.

Well, if anything, griefers and exploiters are the same, they use game mechanics for unfair advantages through meta-gaming or bugs, they are part of the problem, however through bug fixes they can be fought the real problem about the "hackers" is, that most of them can not be reasoned with, they only want to make people unhappy and feel great because of their unfair attained power, they are little internet psychopaths in my terms, since they also use tools and programs for it wit the exact aim of making other people feel bad the normal day exploiter and griefer has its use in DayZ: It may seem unfair some griefer found your camp by TS spieing and took everything he could carry, destroying the rest, but thats part of the game, vehicles respawn and the collecting continues exploiting carries on like a sickness that makes you stronger: everyone hearing about an exploit normally uses exploits to keep up with other players, but once the exploits are dealt with, they have to learn how to play all over again without them, making it harder for them in the end, making it harder and later easier for legit players to beat them the hacker however is bored by the game fast, since he can have everything with a single command, so the only thing left is to hurt other players however, since your hacker-type personality seems to not be able to live with a defeat, maybe they cant handle them in real life either, they turn into sadistic demi-gods, only stopped through a private hive or a global ban, and eventually stop playing or re-buying the game, since its so boring

You said you already found and kicked the hacker, yet you proceed to kick another innocent player and shut down the server to protect your assets. It's very much possible to retrieve the hacker's GUID from the logs and add it to the ban list without bringing the server down. Also, with the modern versions of the BE bypasses they hardly show up in the logs anyway. A simple server restart to reset possibly teleported vehicles to their last saved locations would have been sufficient. I'm sorry you feel utterly victimized by having a hacker on your server, that surely never happened to me or any other server admin around. You do however seem to bend the rules to your will so you can protect, repair and retrieve your chopper. I like how you mentioned "accusing me of admin abuse" even though I never brought that up in the first place, but that must just be your nagging conscious. Report the guy to the CBL and be done with it.

not bad I about do the same but a bit different, unlike those HERO hackers that spawn a box for people in high traffic areas (don't let me find you there because I get rid of the box and players). What I tend to do is usually just kill some bandits and direct communication to any close by survivor (if your in a bandit skin/camo/ghillie I'll just end up killing you as well). When I find vehicles near tents with high powered rifles and other military supplies I destroy them and find other tents with low value rifles that people store like enfields/winchester/makarov/cz 550 and load it with the goodies I looted from other tents and bandits. SO for those of you who found new items in your tents your welcome and don't worry about it if you see some blown up tents near you I tend to destroy the other tents =). You can find me always near elektro/cherno killing snipers and bandits killing survivors/new spawns. NOTE: I use different names and never the one I'm using that I post with

I have played legit and used hacks. I played legit for a few months, did virtually everything possible as a solo player in the game. Personally I feel the end-game lacks some depth and let's be honest there is an inordinate amount of time spent in this game looking at loading screens and running through trees. As this game has become more popular it's changed from a small but nice community of dedicated individuals to a screaming horde of jerks. This is an inevitable consequence of the game's popularity (small town -> large city analogy) now that it has over 1 million players. With those new players came several hacks and given how much this game engine trusts client side information we were told it would be impossible to fix. So my motivation was a combination of having exhausted most of the legit content in the game and sheer frustration at constantly (more than once per day) being script killed or tele killed by a hakcer and losing all my gear for no goddam reason. So I did some homework and found out how to safely drop myself some guns and locate vehicles to try and inject some more fun and fairness back into the game experience. (It was that or sit around playing DotA2 waiting for standalone). All I do is find vehicles, repair them and give them to or give rides to friendly players. Occasionally I will give them a M1911 if they are unarmed. I try not to ruin anyone's game experience, if they are happy rumaging through the Empty Cans of Kamenka doing some PVE then cool. Most of the people I meet have been killed several times by hackers and are thankful for the help (spawning in Kamenka sucks until a bloke with a Motorbike turns up and gives you some beans). The only players I've killed with hacks are other hackers who just like to tele/kill others because they are idiots. Oh and I'm not a script kid. I am a 26 year old full-time coder/graphic artist and I don't live with my mum :P So what does that make me? :huh: (inb4 die scum I hope you get AIDs etc etc)

except that there has been no choper ever on our server VILAYER did setup our server with 1.7.2.3 and after we saw this we order it to change it to the latest version, withou even realizing what vehicles spawned we need help pronto!

I just got my private hive setup but i'm blown away by some of these server controls. I have no idea how to really use phpmyadmin and i dont know how to change any of the server variables like spawns for vehicles etc... Can anyone help me out with this? What is the point in being able to look at my map with vehicle spawn locations and i'm able to move the vehicles around the map but they dont spawn? I went this route because i wanted more control so i can have more vehicles and people get more access so i can have a bigger community. any help would be greatly appreciated!

I just got on this server and some guy on the scoreboard had negative numbers of kills for vehicles and zombies. What?

ive only seen about 3 vehicles in my 4 months of playing

Once they lock down the edges of the map, vehicles will be impossible to hoard and gamers will get a serious reality check. But for now the map is 25 by 25 kilometers with 15 by 15 kilometers covered by actual 3D models.

Im going to start a dayz group, the only requirements are to PLEASE be online often, and have skype. skype: Robert Steel/DentingHawk. the age limit will be 12 and up (and be mature, any people who are goofs will not be in this group). as long as you know what the hell you are doing (not being a noob) you are able to join. this group will have 6 to 12 people (max). like i said before we use skype or teamspeak so post your skype name or teamspeak server (i would preffer skype). anyway.... we are a bandit group, kill ANY others you see that are not in this group, BUT if i see anyone killing a survivor that just spawned/ no weapon, you will be punished. Be sure to share items and supplies, we must work as a unit and a team. i will not be a leader, but we will make group Decisions. Answer peoples questions when asked, i dont need people who don't communicate well with others in this group. so be sure to put your skype name or teamspeak server name so i am able to contact you. ps. please be American, (or any other countries with the same time zone as america are fine) it would be difficult if your 7 hours ahead of me. ATTENTION: please try to be on during the night, i might not be on as much this next week, im getting a new pc and i need time to set it up (skype name) Members: 1. Robert Steel (DentingHawk) location: elecktro 2. nate i location: unknown 3.Mason. watts location: unknown 4.Michael siy location: Stary sobor 5.PeanutRyno location: elecktro 6.Eric Murray location: unknown 7.also_cmjacka location: unknown objectives: [X] Find decent weapons [X] find location for base [X] get a good food/water supply [ ] setup base [ ] raid north east airfield [ ] find vehicles/ repair [ ] raid Berezino [ ] raid north west airfield (optional) [ ] find and kill survivors [ ] raid Balota [ ] raid Cherno hospital [ ] raid zelenogorsk more will be added once we have done all of these. feel free to suggest a few objectives. Tools for this game? map: http://dayzdb.com/map#3.032.100 a Dayz launcher (highly suggested): http://www.dayzcommander.com/

My review of the server : Played here for about 8 hours, saw a few people and when it got dark the server died. No big deal, this is a norm for servers like this as people just don't want to play in the dark. I went up to the Northwest Airfield and began running around looking for what I could find. Gathered some decent gear but I was always plagued with a constant red chain and sometimes yellow chain. Sometimes this was because people were loading into the server, other times it just happened for no reason. There were times when I lost signal to the server but this happened maybe once, other times the server just stuttered. Community seemed pretty decent but the server isn't running on a 'server' computer and you can tell. It feels like it is running off a home PC that barely meets specs and the delay between kills and such shows it. I ran a constant 70 - 73 MS on the server and given the delay I experienced with that and the fact the server just seemed to run slowly, I moved on. All in all, small community of good people and a lot of vehicles for you to find if you want.

I'm with you, Vehicles are the death of me!

in the last few days ive stumbled upon several vehicles/helos full of loot.. all ended poorly for said loot/vehicles and sometimes me.. BOOM !!!!... including driving one vehicle off the map and getting thrown 1000ft into the air.. went back to try to see what happened and got chucked in the air again, haahaha... (Takistan). those poor guys who left that mint condition Osprey mustnt have been to happy to find it gone. (its impacted into the side of a mtn btw).. after this weekends epic vehicle-a-pooloza, i can safely say im better off on foot. when i get a vehicle i seem to turn into a fool and drive around doing stupid things that end up getting me killed. hahaahha

I was banned from US 525 Dallas hosted by 654987 for no reason. One minute I was playing with some of my friends and then the server did its usual reset and when I tried to log back in it gave me this Battle Eye: Admin Ban (DayZ Anti- Hax Remote Execution)). A friend of mine on the server was asking about what that was and one of the guys said on the server that sometimes if you crash certain vehicles it will cause that to happen. The only thing I can think of was that earlier my group and I killed about 5 guys who had a helicopter and then after I botched a landing and crashed it. I really have no idea what happened so if I perhaps could get unbanned that would be nice. From what I have read on google it seems that this banning script seems to incite a lot of false positives and my name/GUID does not appear to be on the community ban list.

How often do you see other players making use of vehicles?

basically this is how dayz is at the moment..... public servers even uk01 hackfest. within 1 hr hackers are on every server duping doing whatever. ask anyone who actually runs a server the amount of scripts that are illegal being tried or executed on there server. if they honest theyll tell you its a night mare also alot of people are using web pluggins to see what everyone has got what loot is where what vehicles and so on. so basically deemed the game pointless. so... alot moved to private servers but alot of admins abuse this aswell so you have to way up do you except the hackers or play with admins on private servers who spawn the good stuff in locations they want and reset server when they lose it ? basically hopefully this is dealt with in standalone but tbh i dont see how it can be. the core of the game will still be the same despite the bablle from others in next few posts. the game is a arma mod tweaking or whatever it will still be a arma mod call it 2.5 engine or blue dogshit it will be a arma mod at end of dayz . game was built on the wrong engine in th first place and i think rocket knows this and is trying to mould something which will make the game work with out the pitfall of what arma is a scripters heaven.

Well, just today I Kicked/Banned 6 people for teleporting. Two of them did the magnet thing and pulled most of the vehicles to them way up north. One actually had to audacity to teleport ME and then run screaming like a little girl when he realized what he had done. I also banned several people for hacked weapons. No it hasn't gotten any better.

Sorry to hear your story. We have been with ViLayer for a few months now, and all I can say is.. "WOW" you couldn't be more wrong. The Customer support is GREAT... they have a ticket system, as well as a Teamspeak server to deal with questions or problems. They have the best servers money can buy, the performance is amazing compared to the 3 other hosting companies we had tried before ViLayer. ViLayer has created quite a few maps for DayZ.. also many options for you as a server owner to utilize. Time changer,Amount of vehicles that spawn, Public or Private option for each map with separate databases for each. Without ViLayer, our clan...along with many others i assure you... would no longer play this game. They have made DayZ fun again... and added a good amount of admin friendly options as well.

Date/Time: 16.09.2012 at 2 pm - 11 pm What happened: All Vehicles are gone Where you were: unnecessary What you were doing: searching again for our vehicles, that we saved. *Current installed version: 1.7.2.6 *Server(s) you were on: DE 1749 *Your system specs: unnecessary *Timeline of events before/after error: maybe 6-7 hours Hi guys. Yesterday i found a motorbike and turend around with it in north. i found a uaz, ural, hatchback and praha at close places. i decided to destroy the the ural and got the uaz to our stash. i came back and got my bike back and also hided in the stash. at 11 am i woke up and looked for the vehicles. they was gone. i thought okay, maybe found but that is out of question because it was only found one time in whole game history but still possible. then i moved back into north for the other vehicles, the other vehicles were gone too. in the near were some tents, they were still there.. the ural wasnt at his spawnplace. i dont think, sb found these cars. only the admin maybe or a hacker with locationhack or something. we had the same problem on a another server some days ago, and there was also no way, that sb found our motorbikes and bycicles in that short time. ok i looked, if the server had a teamspeak. no theay hadnt but i saw, that the server rebooted at 2:34 am. so maybe about a half hour later after i went off. so my question is ( especially at serveradmins ). is that a known problem, that every vec dissapear now after reboot? they werent also on spawnplaces i looked for ural and later for the bike and uaz. this isnt a huge thing but i dont think, its possible to find them in 6-7 hours...

I don't know who this guy is (random friend of a teammate) but he claims to be hacking, teleporting players and vehicles around / using godmode. I haven't played DayZ in a while and I don't have it installed so I can't get their server info or anything. Can you use their client address ip in TS to ban them from DayZ?

Don´t play here if you happen to steal a vehicle or kill any one that belong to the server squad you will get banned! My story : Helped these guys build their camp and vehicles in the first few days, went to refuel the chooper with one of these noob he just stood there when I was refueling and left a zombie knock me down and leave me at 2.5k blood...no blood bag or food for me....get the chooper back to camp they say. I warned them I could crash on the way to camp due to passing out and I could barely see, the landing zone was in small area in the middle of trees, it would take me at least 2 minutes to make such landing I decide to land the chooper in a big open field taking in mind that the chooper might slide down hill so the team pilot came from the camp and said he would take care of it...still no blood bag for me I abort to dine. I come back later and I am acussed to be a muppet and shit because the noob and the "pro" pilot quickfire left the chooper lide down hill. I tell them I will get the items to repair it and they shoot me I happen to have a grenade and a l85 I kill the backstabbing motherfuckers and steal their UAZ! I am now banned. Funny thing is I wasted these bastards with 2.5k blood with a pass out during the process whos the noob now ? Ass: Super Vegeta

I've seen tons of vehicles. I can't repair any though. For some reason. (these are the repairable ones I'm talking about, and yes I have toolbox though you don't need it in 1.7.2.6 as of now)