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why read that? i just want people to know that if you see that name and the GUID matches. you have a hacker in your server. not that it matters since they are a dime a dozen. server: us349 time: 9-11 pm eastern why suspect?: 8 guys along with myself in north east airfield, had been there for multiple hours. finally decided it was time to move on. 4 guys get in the UAZ as i along with 3 others are doing a final item check in the hangers. the area was clear of enemies at this point. We had an extensive overwatch set up. once the car started up with four of my men inside, it exploded. 3 died, 1 man was ejected and lived. at this point i had run out of the hanger to see who was attacking i saw the car coming down froma spiral and 1 guy falling next to it (the ejected friendly). no one else around. I then heard (in a pretty scary voice) "i seeeee yooou" followed by a very loud helicopter sound clip. there was no helicopter. at this point the man who survived the explosion saw a man apear and disapear. it occured a second time seconds later and i witnessed it. i saw his name *the shield." and then just like that he was gone again. but the sounds continued to play. i assumed he was somehow invsible and had most likey been watching us for some time. i proceeded to drop to lobby, find him in arma 2 rcon and ban his GUID. normally i would think it possible that he just spawned in on us but after seeing him teleporting, hearing the sounds (clearly an intimidation move) and knowing our area was secure enough to know some one couldnt have planted a sachel on the vehicle. my only course of action was to ban for cheats. maybe i was being a little excessive when i said nuking, it seemed more like a sachel charge. i can asure you though, there is no way this player snuck up to the car and placed a charge without being seen. lately the hackers have been running rampent in my server and its very discouraging not being able to catch them. this morning we installed a security patch and it has seemed to help with vehicle/weapon spawning but obviously this player was able to still hit us. there have been similar incidents through out the day with vehicles blowing up for no reason, with players inside. if any one has pointers on how to better admin the server please make them known, im just trying to do my best without wrongfully banning someone, i am the only one with admin access because i dont want abuse from server side administrators occuring. i dont have logs of this incident, i will start leaving logs open so i can copy and paste after such incidents. if "the shield" would like to post here and explain why his gameplay was so suspicious that would maybe make me quesiton my actions but im not new to the war of server admin vs game exploiter.

Crazy amount of vehicles ! I had the opposite last night... found 6 heli wrecks with a ton of guns ..and only 1 bicycle. The Elektro bus was still at its original spawn point but i was too tired too worry about fixing it.

skype andersonspianoman we have vehicles and ect.

Ammo: agreed Matches: agreed Batteries: agreed ( would stop excessive thermal skannin in the woods) - Maybe so that the nvgs use less battery power that the thermal, thermal is power hungry in rl and overpowered in dayz.. - So hungry that you would use it only in extreme situations and when its absolutely nessessary... Knives: Agreed Sleeping bags: Sleeping bag or disconnect timer.. I would prefer disconnect timer tough. And no disconnecting in houses... - With sleeping bag disconnect timer would be less, like 15 seconds(animation) and without it like 30seconds? While these if you get shot or zed agro the timer is canceled. Would stop combat disconnecting and reward those who are willing to carry that sleepybag. Medics: agreed Cars/vehicles: Agreed, now it took like 3 or so hours to get all for a chopper... with 2 quys together. And its fun when you can have like 3 main roto assemblies(6losts each) in you backbag and only 2 guns(10 slots each) :lol: And jetfueled heli will run with gasoline? And the fuel tanks should runout, certain amount of jerry can fills from one tank and like once in a month they would be "wiped" and would be refilled. Would make fuel scavenging more hard and you would really look for it... Bigger map: Agreed on part.. I have "heard" that its going to be bigger, something about "cherranus+" and more enterable buildings. I would be still happy map size that is atm but maybe just add some hiding mechanics like tarb or brances to cover the vehicle. Tough I would like to see whole new map, cherranus has been zigzaged across few times now.. and make textures better, now tents and vehicles glow in the woods and are so easy to spot.. Admins: Total agreemend here... I would prefer developer provided server that community cant fuck them up with settings and admin abuse.

dont play on 2 month old server find vehicles, rare items, other vauable things tis magical luckthough i have screens from the second character i made. 4 vehicles + 1 crash site found so far, but the server went down and hasnt come back up yet :( edit2: not to mention this is the 4th time ive done this, and each time i have had multiple vehicles + found multiple crash sites.

we had another productive night, fixing vehicles and looting along the coast. thanks to all the people, new and old, who pitched in! if you're looking for a fun time, come check out ]TPG[ and US106 (NJ3)!

New server? I always see those servers titled, "Testing Server *Do Not Join*" and I think to myself... Clan hoarding vehicles + setting up base much? You wouldn't find all those vehicles in almost every server that has been around for awhile.

The way to keep the kids with duped as50s from sniping noobs for awhile would be to eliminate duping(which cannot be done) and a full wipe of all gear/tents/vehicles so it would take people a few days/weeks to get enough to do it again. I remember the good old days when the only snipers you worried about were the guys who had a cz since it was highly unlikely to find anyone with an m107(it also took your backpack). The QQ led to the lowered spawn rate of czs.

Simple69, I have been playing on your server for the past month or so now, I have come across a few hacked in vehicles as well as some weapons. I have a screenshot from when the thunderdome was last hacked into the server with the date and time, it may aid you in finding out who has been fucking with the server. It happened often for about a week or so in the past, but hasn't happened since. Althought today one of my clan mates told me over teamspeak that spawned in about 25 vehicles in the same spot near cherno, he may know who had done it as a few people where kicked at the time it happened for script restrictions. I'll get that screenshot to you and see if he calls the userhandle.

Because tents and vehicles was not saving on 2.5 so we reverted back to 2.4 until the next patch 1.7.3 is released

Although this guy's math is probably spot on, the main problem is the vast amount of duplication and recirculation of higher grade military equipment. Temporary solution: Find a quality private hive and make it your home. Just playing a couple of hours on numerous standard hive servers, you would encounter numerous duped items i.e. Rangefinder, M240. Most of which was simply looted off another players corpse who looted it from another player's corpse etc. etc. The gear is seldom left alone or destroyed so it just becomes rampant in circulation. Main reason I suggest a private hive first(aside from the obvious performance/control/security advantages), but it slices that circulation rate considerably, and players are given the opportunity to farm it for themselves on a relatively even playing field. For instance, I play on Rinaun's server circuit(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED). This guy has multiple unbiased admins as well as himself to monitor any abuse/combat logging/spawning/ghosting/scripting, you name it. Cycling out both barracks early this morning and some time this afternoon I came across Rangefinders, NVGs, an M240, Mk 48, among other valuable items, some of which I never even knew spawned in the barracks, such as NVGs. It just takes time and patience, because i certainly ransacked through A LOT of garbage to find those items. RNG is rng, that's what it is, but the rewards are grand for those with patience, strategy AND a good environment to execute both. We could use more people on this Hive, come join us. over 80+ active vehicles and rivalrys/alliances forming left and right facilitated by a hosted teamspeak server. Sorry for the quasi hijack, but this is about the best temporary solution I can find for your current dilemmas with spawn rates and their proportional value weight to you as a player.

Just found my first vehicle ever after about 50 hours or so of gameplay. Saved a few times before I left. Gone when I am back. I hate that we cant even get a standard, "We are aware of the issue and trying to fix it", statement. Just, nothing. Now everytime I login my tents have random inventories and vehicles just disappear. I think im just going to stop playing for while because there is no indication this is even being worked on and any progress I make is lost.

Ecologically clean electric cars are friendly transport for our cities. Driving hybrid cars and electric vehicles will save our money on gas.

Tonight, around 11:30 PM (EST) myself and a friend were playing on US 616. We spawned at the NE airfield and were hoping to have some sniping practice. We haven't killed but two other players before, we decided to try the bandit route for a bit since being a helpful survivor has not paid off very well. (We just lost 4 vehicles after spending weeks trying to get even one, and our camps were destroyed over and over again.) But I digress.... As we spawned in we noticed that there was nobody in the area for quite some distance. This was confirmed with the L85 Thermal scope. Several minutes later I heard "Hey swag Groner! Goodbye!" and I was shot dead. The server does appear to have name tags and my name on the server is [sWAG]Groner. My partner was shot dead almost instantaneously after I died. Now I figured that this guy just spawned in behind us and got the upper hand... No harm no foul. After I calmed down from the initial excitement I logged back in on the coast and decided to run around in Cherno. (Now that I had no gear, I had a bit of a death wish.) I ran into a construction building near the coast where I spawned and picked up a hatchet and a couple of sodas. Next thing I know, I hear a survivor coming up the stairs. I thought, "Oh well, I'll just try to axe him before he gets me." To my surprise the player says over direct chat, "Hey Groner! Sorry man, I'll give you your stuff back." I of course am dumbfounded and I am waiting to be shot. Even as he dumps some of the gear I had on the ground, including a ghillie suit and L85, I am expecting to be shot again at any moment and I seriously consider just trying to end this guy's life. Instead, I try to engage him in some conversation while I record 2 videos on Fraps. You can hear me making small talk and I was trying to elicit some more info but it ended too quickly. His name tag reads "Shawn". Shawn drops a few more items and says "Here's an M9 for your trouble." Immediately I am thinking that this guy is trying to pay me off or something. Anyway, several minutes later I see "Shawn was killed." Then I hear flies. I run down to investigate and find his body halfway in a wall and not loot-able. So, here's what I think happened... (Other suggestions/ideas welcomed.) 1. A player hacked in behind us and killed us. 2. I re-spawned on the beach and the group that hacked either felt bad or thought they were going to get caught and hacked back to my new location. 3. The "Shawn" character tried to buy my silence with my L85, a ghillie, and an M9 which I don't even like. (Everyone has their price, but he probably should have given me back ALL my gear if he expected me to keep quiet! :-) ) 4. "Shawn" hacks back out again and returns to his friends, leaving an empty body behind. Has anyone run into this? All these things on their own could be coincidental, but the fact that he found me that quickly in Cherno after I spawned baffles me.... Video Links: (Still uploading as of 00:26 EST) http://youtu.be/SabwL4SXysE

Completely agree. I dont even want to play anymore because I cant save shit in tents or vehicles. Im not having to big of an issue with the graphical glitches but being able to save is such a big deal in the game. You think these tools would fix the simple issues and then move on to the standalone. Get the game working properly then move on.

I looked where www.dayzdb.com told me, and then I went more NW before i made this post to make sure.Only place i've ever found an ATV was Pik Kozlova. I don't get why people get offended when others server hop. Most likely most of the vehicles are taken. So why does it bother you when people look for them? Should we just go all over the map following the debug line and hope people put them there? Yes let's spend more time doing that..Sure is fun.

Did you downgrade the hive files as well? Or just the dayz files? I downgraded both the hive files and dayz files as they used to be on 1.7.2.4 and I have 0% problems of vehicles not getting saved etc. What I don't understand though is why the number of 1.7.2.5 servers are increasing every day when the patch is such a fail. 1.7.2.4 should be the increasing one and 1.7.2.5 decreasing. Doesn't people notice all the new problems or what?

We are experiencing problems with tents and vehicles saving items like most people using 1.7.2.5. It seems like after every server restart the items from the original save of a tent are there again and anything new is gone. So we have just been setting up new tents whenever we want to save new items that we find and we flatten any tents we don't need anymore.

It's practically un-fucking playable atm since they won't/can't fix the game breaking bugs like tents/vehicles/login death/login teleport etc.

for the last three days, every single attempt to make a camp with vehicles have failed for me. Every time a server goes down all vehicles are reset. This never happened before the god damn patch.

Been playing this game for a month or so with two people that i met on the game. They told me to go on this server and while i was connecting they told me they killed the server admin yesterday which i found funny. So connect and got kicked first.. i tried again and got ingame. I died because i only had 7k blood. I spawned in kamenka and started running towards Balota. I got to Komarovo with about 20 Zombies behind me.... and then BAM! i got banned. Normally i wouldn't care because there are loads of servers i can play on with the two people i met... but they had a car, two ATV's and some good gear. They had to save the vehicles and we switched servers. To be honest I still don't care but i would like to know why i got banned. Thanks.

One thing I would like to see in Day Z or more so for the stand alone game, was something I saw in Fallout factories were taken over and controlled by gangs now it wasn't very in depth in the game but basically if you completed a few quests for the gang they would let you use their factory to make ammo. I think that Day Z should use this idea to make more game content atm this game is more like a limited weapon and vehicle BF3 on a huge map. And like all FPS's they get old after a while. I think things that we need to progress in the game should require the use of facilities like factories, car repair shops, and lab's. And these facilities our something you can control like territory or 0.0 space in EVE and you would need a gang to control the facility. I think it would create a power struggle in the game that would make for more interesting fighting more of a gang on gang rather then over equipped guys killing flashlight coastal's. And give players a goal to work for as well as a reason to work together. Currently one doesn't need anyone else to get vehicles and high end gear I can do it all on my own and currently the only safe way to play is to shoot any player on site. So a lot of the time it feels more like I am playing a single player game with a really smart AI well sometimes its a smart A.I. Just a thought sorry if its long winded but I think it would be good for the game and we know it works as its been used in other games. Let me know what you think.

Why dont you guys all just stop replying to this thread? I mean you have said all you can about the new update. The graphical bugs are back and/or gone for people. The humanity system has bugs. Tents and vehicles don't save properly. If rocket refuses to post or acknowledge any of you guys reporting bugs, next time he releases a "test" patch just dont test it out or give you feedback to it.

Anyone know anyway possible to find a players coords in any of the log files? I had a hacker come online last night and totally destroy all vehicles and took everything out of every tent in game and logged out and took them to his home server and kept coming back to our server filling his INV up and going back to his server. Since I have been trying to get more players and been advertising a lot on the forums and made a public teamspeak about my server he sent me a message on the forums and told me to get in touch with him on steam. I checked steam and he had me added as a friend so I talked to him a bit and he said he just wanted to fuck us over and he stole everything off our server and took our helichopper and hid it. So I was wondering if there was anyway to track it down.

Hey, we were definitely playing with you Aleksandr - killed you a few times in Elektro - was quite fun! Shortly after everyone on the server was teleported into the air and died upon impact. Along with him teleporting users he was also making himself invisible and shooting a few people in remote locations. A brief snippet from the remoteexec.log 21.08.2012 18:34:49: Zen (98.195.228.250:2344) c1c0ff7be67fba89a1d6d4ec29fe6c98 - #0 "if (isnil ("bInvisibleOn")) then {objMYPlayer hideObject true;};" Sorry about your loss on the server, it happens. I totally agree - the clan that plays on this server doesn't hoard EVERY vehicle - just a few cars and an atv. It's no fun when there's no risk/reward by having every vehicle/weapon. The server US 1023 is NEVER locked for any type of "testing". It does however restart every 12 hours (used to be every 6) via an automated script. It's much more challenging to have other people driving around in vehicles/heli's.