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This is a basic compilation from known hacker websites, I can’t post evidence or what I have found as that is not allowed on these forums. If you are a server admin, please read as this will help you minimize hacker attacks. The motivation My server has been running for close to two months. Hackers were a myth on this server and I always wondered why some hackers rape a server over and over yet leave mine pristine. It suffered the first hacker attack last week, my team (4-5 people) had a substantial base. A Ural, Vs35, UAZ, 10-15 Tents, 2 Utes, 2 Bikes, 1 ATV and a Heuy stashed at a different location. This base was teleported to drakon island and also the sniper point in Cherno. I wasn’t online, but I became curious, why go after that base??? There’s nothing to gain as a script kiddie. The chopper was untouched at its separate location, why was that left alone??? No-one seems to ask script kiddies why they bother doing stuff like that. Blowing up a base is fun in itself, but there is more to it. I decided to do what I could and find out. The Process Over the last two weeks I have been scouring the popular hacking websites, I’ve created an account on 3 different sites that have advertised bypassing or scripting for Dayz. I have started threads asking people what makes them want to nuke a server. My data collection, I totaled well over 400 posts and messages responding to these threads. I then removed posts by new accounts (under 10 posts total) and ones that were off-topic or excessively abusive. There’s no point in predicting crazy, you’ll just have to trust me on that. I was left with 286 responses. This is no small number and the answer was very clear. The result Important Of the 286 posts, 270 said that they will only nuke a server that belongs to an abusive admin. What is admin abuse in the eyes of a hacker? *Admins who reset a server after they die or the base is attacked *Admins who show up on the reported thread multiple times are targeted *Admins who password their server *Admins who ban and kick players for little justificationThis is %94 of the reason why hackers nuke a server Around 200 (just over) said that they will flatten bases that belong to ‘admins’ or ‘clans’. Most script kiddies seem to think than any ‘large’ base will belong to an abusive admin or a clan that is exploitive. Scripters assume that most clans have at least one covert scripter and are justified in destroy their ill-gotten gains. When an admin attempts to use their admin powers to reclaim the base, most scripters will chain nuke the server as a 'message' Just under half of the posts stated that they will nuke a server when they are killed by a hacker that is invulnerable, using a teleport script or has god mode on. Most script kiddies simply assume that anyone who can kill them is a hacker, this is a common assumption that I feel has more false positives than anything else. The ban-waves are hitting harder than you think. There is a ton of stolen IDs that is generating a very cheap CD-Key market, but battle-eye is starting to win. The number of complaints about banning is going up and up on these sites. Most people pay for ARMA II and then purchase a subscription to the battle-eye bypass and some are not reusing hacks after buying a new copy. This is an assumption on my part Important Ways to minimize hacker attacks on your server below; If you have accumulated multiple vehicles, spread them out! The high value vehicles (URAL, Vs35, Heuy, UAZ) should never be in the same place. Hackers will simply assume that you have been abusive to gather such an array of vehicles and will trash your ID Give a message before a restart, don’t just hit the button, and give warnings at 15, 10 & 5 minutes at least. I personally log off after 10, so people can’t kill me before a reset and think that I am resetting to get my stuff back. Do not react to a hacker attack!!! If you start banning, kicking, resetting and generally throwing a tantrum like a 12 year old you will only make it worse. All you will accomplish is guaranteeing that they will be back to ‘send a message’. If you go overboard, they will report you on the forums and you will get draw more wrath on your server and in the worst case scenario, get blacklisted. They want your delicious tears, don’t be a sucker and play into their hands. Play it cool, gather evidence, get them globally banned and have the last laugh Avoid an inflammatory message of the day. Posting useless, empty threats will only entice a scripter to rape your server and laugh at you about how powerless you are. Posting stuff like “all hackers will be banned” and “no faggot hacking” is pointless, you aren’t fooling anyone. A brief disclaimer. This isn’t ‘research’, ‘proof’, ‘evidence’ or ‘fact’. 300 is a small sample, I admit but the correlation is very strong.My thesis wasn’t on “hacker motivations” and I’m not a psychologist, nor have I intended to represent myself as one. The data is there, you should turn it into information however you see fit. The message: Many admins are trying to protect their servers. I admire that you are attempting to create a fair environment for everyone. What you must understand is that we currently don’t have to the tools to take on script kiddies and/or hackers. Currently there are many false and overturned bans from admins. We are inflaming the community and goading hackers/scripters to attack servers. The best way to sort this problem out is to report to battle eye. A global ban hurts these kids, it's the best way to grab this problem by the balls

i dont think it's going to force people to use them less at all, i dont mean to just have like 1 fuel station in the whole map, maybe a few spread out nicely but just not a gas tank in every single random town. I dont think i should need to hunt down clans just to get vehicles. Yes obviously clans are always going to have an advantage if they are smart and work together but i dont think that advantage should result in them having every vehicle within the server and then them restarting the server every time i do manage to find one myself. Yes i could easily join a clan or find other people to play with if i wanted to but i dont think i should be required to do this to be able to use the vehicles

Outside of the chopper, I believe vehicles respawn after server restart once destroyed.

No need for moar vehicle spawns. Hoarding isn't the problem. The problems are 1) hiding vehicles outside the map in the wasteland area, 2) vehicles having a one week respawn timer once they're destroyed.

Wait... so you want to decrease the amount of fuel available... thus making clans who "horde" vehicles use them even less... thus making the chance of you stealing them smaller? Hmmm.... Vehicles are ridiculously easy to get. We get them all the time, and then lose them all the time. Use a little thought logic and you'll be able to find the vehicles pretty easily. And when you see a vehicle moving, try to determine where they might be going, and if you have some friends on around the map, let them know you saw a vehicle and to be ready. Depending on the situation it's possible to swipe one from underneath a clans nose. We've done it once before. It's really easy to find the vehicles.. And why shouldn't a group working together not be able to put their combined manpower together to outwork people playing solo? I don't understand how anyone have problems finding people to play with in today's gaming world with Teamspeak, Ventrillo, Mumble, and guild's constantly recruiting.

Maybe, but I will try to find one. You can only use the vehicles on a specific server though. And no, I'm not a medic

Would you be willing to give out vehicles? I expect this to be a no, but its worth a try to ask. Also do you give blood transfusions?

Alright, so first off id like to say this game is very fun. Huge map, variation in players, servers/admins, a majority of everything is a percentage of random generation. Love it. Im not dissing the game i could continue to play it how it is when its released on standalone. But since I know there is some competition with another company to set yourself apart. Please keep the realism in all items, damage to yourself and other players and definitely have to keep that curiousity going. "hmm wonder what I can find on this side of the map today, wonder if I can find any new weapons or items ot use." So one thing I noticed is there is a fair amount of weapons on this game but you have to take them how they are. It would be awesome to have some customizable parts. Maybe if I found a 50 cal sniper rifle I could find thermal scope parts for it or even a supressor to attach. Of course there are its downsides, thermal scopes are a bit heavier. Suppressors wont cause as much damage and tends to increase bullet drop. But its silent. Or maybe even finding camo material to put on your AS50 would be pretty cool. just little extras to add to your M4 or AK even spawned at a fraction of a percent, it gives people EVEN MORE to look for and HOPE for when they are looting. It really is the LITTLE things that count in a game. I must say its real hard to make any friends on this game if you dont already know people. In saying that, the "study body" option doesnt seem to work great. when the body is being studied, would be cool if it finished the examination with who they were killed by or instead how they were killed. injuries sustained, gunshot/axe/knife wounds, or just eaten alive LOL. And a quick note as far as server teleporting goes. Cant stand when your sniping someone and they turn a corner disappear for 5 minutes only to show up behind you because they joined a new server to get behind you in the current one. I think the servers need to save player coordinates. That way each individual server that you joined would have seperate coordinates for your character. No way could you join two different servers to teleport yourself, it would also get rid of any of those who seem to have dupped or hacked weapons stashed in tents or vehicles that cant be destroyed just to transfer items over. Well, at least it would make it a much more tedious process. 1 other big problem i see is people leaving the servers and just joining right back with the same names. Its hard to track other players that way. Its way to easy of a process to just change your profile name. Should be something thats fairly permanent or requires some registration. That name or email should be linked to the players ingame GUID. That way when I message a server admin I can at least tell him who the right person is. Im sure i touched on things that have already been noted. I dont have the time to read through every post to see what everyone has posted. These are just what I thought would make the game that much more fun and that much less frustrating. And I havent given my proper thanks for this mod. Thank you Rocket. I basically ordered and built a new PC just because of this game. My ps3 is now a paperweight. Zombie Survival MMO, amazingly fun. -Marine

Only time I met a hacker was in ghillie Vehicles, very very rare. Usually off map. Sounds legit. Always wondered where all the vehicles were. Surely at least once you would find one at a spawn location.

I read somewhere that the Hive is going to be moved over to a villayer server instead of its current location. As that transfer is made, an update will be made to counter the problems of saving tents and vehicles atm:)

Gimme a break. To be honest, if there were no tents, these barracks would work just fine. Because of the duping currently happening, everyone's so used to just picking up an AS50 or L85 whenever they like. Without saving weapons into tents/vehicles and duping, then everyone would be running around with an AK with the tiniest portion of people with AS50s, DMRs, etc. Like it should be. Honestly I'm surprised you just haven't found a tent with a bunch of crap in it anyway - I've got all the items in the game from people I've killed or tents I've stumbled across...

1: server us 29 2: 8/19/12 12:00pm east coast time (-4 gmt) 3: cords 003 - 067 saw a few players in it but do dint get any names, I Personally saw 30 portable generators, 20 something soldiers cloths and other things that were spawned In but I don't know how to describe. Also several rotb grenades. Looked like 20+ tents and several vehicles and the middle of some trees. Cords fairly accurate as I had gps After i found the camp I was teleported to coast with the rest of the server and then teleported into the sky Friend confirmed it was still there today and has flattened tents but will of course pop back up at next restart. Unsure what you can do about it but felt it was best to report it

If you can trust your itens on him? :D haha, i doubt that. "1.7.5" "1.7.4" ? This are 1.7.2.5 and 1.7.2.4? s ? Not sure what to reply to that, but 74% of the servers run 1.7.2.5 (15% runs 1.7.2.4) Guess 1.7.2.4 is not having issues with vehicles not saving, but im not sure. I know that 1.7.2.5 has problems, but not all servers, there are servers who has a proper saving source.

Edit #1: Found a seemingly nice fellow. Don't need a partnar as of now. My skype name is jhendrixns. Feel free to PM me. Things I am not looking for: 1. Not immersing myself in PvP; however, if it's something as little as "lets go to elektro and kill some people" i'm fine with that. 2. Not putting myeslf into risky situations e.g. raiding/looting NW airfield at 2:00 P.M. -.- 3. Not looking for a bandit partnar. Sorry it's just I probably would not trust you ^.^ Things I am looking for: 1. Somebody that is willing to find or repair vehicles for use 2. Hoarding caches of weapons + ammo + misc 3. Somebody who I can trust (you could lie, but you're better than that)

In 1.7.5 vehicles will respawn at their spawn point every restart so there's no point. Unless of course you're on 1.7.4 :P

I dont know if this problem occur on every server but I guess so. Had this so many times on so much different servers. Better dont trust vehicles in this version. I hope they will fix it in 1.7.3 cause that a terrible bug

is this a proven repair? Will the vehicles save at the point you leave them?

Come to US 2498 we are open for business. Vehicles galore. You cant save em but we have em!!

I guess this has to do with the WarZ/DayZ thing. I don't see how WarZ has any defendants. They went so far as to copy DayZ's name. It's like calling a game "Warfield" and copying Battlefield's idea but add in a worse game engine and some shitty new mechanics..but, now on to your question. DayZ could change the enemy (AI marauders and such), scenario, map, terrain, character model, guns, vehicles, and so on. You're asking the wrong question, you should ask "what can DayZ do to NOT make you want to play it?"

sorry I really did not know how to phrase it properly. I don't want to be always PvP'ing. Killing some players on the side is fine, but most of the time I want to be looting things: vehicles,weapons,camo

the new hive / patch is not saving any vehicles and tents. also the graphical glitches are still rampant on my pc, im running an i7 with gtx 480.

Every restart will leave all the vehicles repaired respawn at their spawn point.. and no longer usable untill repaired again, Sooooo... I suggest you take your server, Downgrade it to 1.7.2.4, Repair every Vehicle there is to find, leave 'em at that point and when youre done?... Patch the server to the latest, This way, people can allways find a Vehicle after a restart, and people dont have to repair their car wreck 3 times a day,

Well thank you i can now stop thinking your just posting to be a d**k and i take back my harsh words. What i was saying about no lag is when you join a server and all the players experience the same server lag (server needing restart etc) and also loading times, some server you need to wait 3-4 mins to join on loading screen again mainly due to server "clutter" and i was merely pointing out this server aint one of those ones :) The server has been pretty busy the past few days, so busy that when our group was landing a chopper to drop off an assault team to push in on stary sobor where players were, our pilot got sniped from somewhere when we were 30m from the ground LOL. We dont do the whole D/C bitch thing and we really did give someone a very pretty display of death and fireworks. Wish we knew who it was to have a chat with him, was a nice shot and would have been nice to say well done. Today we lost our only 2 vehicles, due to a hacker (seen in logs after we noticed camp destroyed and vehicles gone) and after we blew up all the rest to provide other random players with vehicles... we were pissed to say the least. But one of our guys who was down at Electro almost got run over by our stolen V3S so we got a chopper up and chased the fkr down....buy he got away! :@ Then we thought we found them in the NWA and again dropped an assault team off with some thermal weapons and snipers since we seen 5 guys running into the forest in the Southern Barracks, but after seeiing they were surrounded by 5 guys on the ground and a chopper above with 2 gunners they D/C ohhh the rage! So yeah servers getting a bit more fun now, Again sorry for jumping down your throat but when you see people on the forums acting like a 12 y/o it seems like a troll trying to rack up some forum post points but gratz for putting things straight.

Between my group of 4, we have a stupid amount of gear that was not duped. Vehicles+crashed helis is the easiest way to gear up, period. Granted, my on-foot learning curve was ~ 1 week, vehicles/ tents ~1 week, and crashed choppers ~ 3 days. After about 2 1/2 weeks of play on a home server gearing up is easy, and once you memorize the map you can easily predict where choppers might be, vehicle spawns, and even campsites. After about a month of mod play you know how/where vehicles respawn when blown up, see the signs of a hacker, and to stash things in multiple sites across the map. I learned everything the *hard way*, server hopping the Elektro/Cherno Sniper hills is just as bad as doing it for the NWAF or intentionally duping items.

I believe you found a server with 1.7.2.5 with the vehicle reset bug.. There was a bug a while back that prevented new severs from spawning any vehicles.. A hotfix was applied, and now all the vehicles reset after a restart. My group had to revert our server back to 1.7.2.4 because of this.