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So me and 2 of my friends were playing on a Lingor server, and we were up in Maruko all day. We were mostly killing zombies and looking for a jerry can to fill up our pickup. While looking in the fire station for some loot I heard rotor blades. I looked out to see a helicopter slowly landing by the airstrip. The chopper was bieng flown by the admin alone. I quickly got to higher ground and unloaded 5 AS50 bullets into the chopper from 611m away. The admin (<CGU> Spoonfed) got back in the heli and powered it up. It would not take off so he got out and ran. I quickly told my friend, who was at the airport building, to go look for him. Almost 30 seconds later, my friend (in-game name "LEO") killed the admin with an M16 ACOG. After about a minute I was banned with the reason "Ghost me again Muther Fucker". This is completely un-fair, and the admin was just butthurt from loosing his chopper and all of his gear. There was no MOTD saying "No-Ghosting" and I was never given a warning. Although I was in a skype call, there was absolutely no way he could have known that. Therefore making this completely unfair. I am asking that I be un-banned, and if not, I would strongly reccommend choosing a different Lingor server. In-Game name: [CBBG] Nick

Hallo DayZ Community, Wir, der GoC-Clan, möchten hiermit unseren Server bei euch vorstellen. Vor drei Tagen haben wir einen neuen Server eröffnet, nachdem uns unser alter Server zu langsam war. Diesesmal haben wir einen Server mit einer 1 Gigabyte-Leitung gewählt und möchten diesen mit 100 Spieler-Slots voll auslasten, wobei ihr nun gefragt seid, liebe Community. Wir bieten euch einen privaten Hive Server (Ghosting verhindern), den wir mit einem Passwort versehen haben (Random Hackern vorbeugen). Zudem haben wir eine eigene Homepage, auf der ihr euch registrieren könnt, um sofort Zugriff auf das Server-Passwort zu erhalten. Wir bitten jeden Spieler, der sich bei uns registriert, darum, auf der Homepage, Ingame und auf unserem Teamspeak-Server den gleichen Namen zu nutzen. Jeder unregistrierte Spieler auf unserem Gameserver kann somit umgehend gekickt werden. Dies ermöglicht es uns wiederum, Hacking aktiv vorzubeugen. Der bereits erwähnte Teamspeak-Server is öffentlich zugänglich. Dort könnt ihr mit euren Freunden zusammen spielen und bei Fragen und Problemen steht euch der GoC-Clan mit Rat und Tat zur Seite. Außerdem könnt ihr unseren Server auch links auf der DayZ-Community Seite bei den Partner Servern finden. Hier noch einmal die Kerndaten: - Homepage: www.team-goc.de - Teamspeak IP: 5.9.83.212:9987 Wir würden uns freuen, euch bald auf unserem Server begrüßen zu dürfen! Mit freundlichem Gruß Der GoC-Clan

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I would here by like to introduce you our new server and my team and I would love to see survivors populating it in the near future. Facts: -Located in Amsterdam -40 Slots -High Performance Host -No Unwarned Restarts (all restarts are warned at least 5 minutes prior) -Multiple Admins (who put alot of work in scanning for hackers and do as best as we can) -Admin Contact in this Forum (contact this Account "ApocalypseNow" via PM) -No Admin Abuse (no restarts in case we get attacked or our base gets burned to ashes) -Ping Limit of 80ms to prevent laggers Server Settings: -Veteran -3DP On -CH On -UTC -4 -10 Extra Vehicles Only Two Rules: -Do not Hack / Script -Do not Use or pick up Hacked weapons / vehicles Private Hive Advantages of Private Hive: - Tents and Vehicles save correct - No De-Synch Issues (due to state of the art hardware running the hive) - Ghosting is impossible - VERY fast login Connection Info: 94.242.227.6:2352 DayZChernarus - (1.7.2.5/96061) (Veteran | 3D:ON | CH:ON) - Apocalypse Now [uTC-4 PingLimit=80ms] So all of you are welcome to join the hunt in cherno! And dont forget, NOTHING SMELLS BETTER THEN FRESH NAPALM IN THE MORNING

Exactly. I've said this before, I think DayZ needs to take the Minecraft approach: one license, one account, one alias, that's it. Virtually all your problems of ghosting and loot farming would be eliminated.

People are "being a dick to" you because of your ghosting and retarded behaviour in the game and in this thread, quite simple really. If having a 2nd character is "doing what it takes to survive" then we all might as well start scripting in whatever guns we want and taking what little realism is left, away from the game. You fucking died, so it's not YOUR weapon anymore, you have no "right" to it, so logging in with a 2nd character who just happens to be at the same place is totally unjustified.

Playing on US 1767 NY, with a friend. We decide to go look for bandits to snipe north of electro. It was about 3:00pm eastern. While overlooking Electro, my friend found an ATV, and drove it back up the hill towards me. Once he gets into the forest he gets shot and dies (quite close to me). I see the ATV and then I turn around and see a bandit. Shoot at him (probably missed), and he runs behind a tree and ALT+F4s since he had nowhere to go (what a loser). Once I realize that he is gone I decide to go take my friends stuff and store it in the ATV (we were fully endgame decked out). I dump the guns in the ATV and the second I do that I see the same bandit coming down the hill from the opposite direction and he lights me up. He was way too far away to have run, and I would have heard him (logout tree was right beside me, in view), so he was definitely ghosting. I pass out bleeding, wake up, and bandage with 39 blood left. I can see the ATV. I wait it out for about 5 minuites, and my friend runs back to grab his stuff from the ATV. Gets lit up by the same bandit again. The bandit runs up to the ATV and I put 12 CCO SD bullets into him. "Deadvane has been killed" +1 bandit kills. I wait about 1 minute, and walk up to his body. Nothing is there, he ALT+F4d. (I guess after the last 2 incidents, this isn't a big surprise) PEW . I am dead. I'm not really sure if anyone could do anything about it, but at least avoid the player or kill him if you see him. At least I got to share this interesting story. The only thing that makes me kind of mad was that I had been alive for 15 days, and had over 1100 zombie kills, 7000 karma and I wanted to at least die by an honest, skilled player, not some exploiting retard. Oh and to top it all off there was a server reset right after all of this, and the ATV + all bodies were gone. Hope you guys enjoyed the story at least. tl;dr. Killed an alt+f4 and ghosting bandit named Deadvane, his body was gone and the instant I realized I was killed. I skimmed over the forum rules, but if this is considered "not cheating" or "spam" , please feel free to delete it, and I sincerely apologize.

needs more people bashing his ghosting and combat logging rather than his inability to pick a decent trade position in my opinion.

Tipical answer from an average script kid/cheater/exploiter. I hope in a future where when a player is banned from a game for scripting/exploiting the mommy credit card is banned too from buying any other game available. AS50 TWS was in the game, it's not part of the game any more . Alf+f4 to avoid death (like duping and server hopping/ghosting) is just an exploit of game mechanics.

I don't approve of ghosting with two accounts. Also, it was a stupid move to go to the top of the fire house in the middle of Elektro, even though it's pretty douhce to shoot what could seem like unarmed players. However, it's even more douche to get into another account to ghost kill players just to get revenge.

There are plenty of ways to prevent multi-character ghosting, and I think multiple character would be really good. It would benefit 90% of players, while (If safeguards are made) hurting nobody.

Yep, I agree with everyone else. I think DayZ needs to take the Minecraft approach where we all get one and only one alias. This would prevent ghosting and loot farming.

This. I really like the side chat and almost every if not all private hives seem to have it.I also see a lot of 'no kill on sight' like rules that force people into a playstyle, which in my opinion totaly defeats the purpose of playing this game. What I like about the private hive system is that you actually play in a persistent world because your character only exists on that single server, there is no server hopping/ghosting going on, neither can you just keep your loot hidden on a low populated server. That's what would make me play on a private hive but with all these rules they lay on you, they restrict the freedom this game is supposed to give you as a player.

They seem to have kind of dealt with combat logging to a degree. If you log out while in shock you get a really slow knock-out timer when you log back in. That stops people ghosting to get behind you. I agree that getting shot at is different to being in combat but it's still cheating to DC. If you think it's a hacker though, that's a different story, just get the hell out of there!

No, which is why everyone does it. There have been some attempts with the latest DayZ versions to make this less viable though. Sometimes the Hive will reset your positional coordinates to Kamenka if it thinks you're hopping, but this is also a bit of a mixed bag because it will also do this to people who simply relogged on the same server cause they got an animation bug and couldn't move. So it might be an attempt at trying to stop server hopping and ghosting, or it could just be a bug, who knows. Overall still not against the rules, but seems like someones trying to make it less viable.

Really bad idea. If someone gets killed, he takes his other char, runs back, kills the murder then he takes all the stuff. Ghosting would be a really huge problem with this "feature".

Most of the time on a Dayz server, the administrator is part of the clan that actively plays on that server. Ghosting/metagaming is almost impossible to trace in Dayz, the only clue you'd have about it is that a bunch of guys seem to keep finding you, wherever you are in Chernarus. Allowing admins to spectate would be fine if all Dayz admins could be trusted, but unfortunately that isn't that case...

Here is some proof of their abuse. Picture of one of our members getting kicked... For racism? Is that allowed? http://i1143.photobu...Virtue/Nice.png Quote from server hosting rules: "12. You are permitted to kick or ban for hate speech, including racism and homophobia. This is another ZH server. Server US 1669. They're doing this crap on multiple servers. Video of us killing ZH members and their abusive responses. http://i1143.photobu...irtue/nice2.png Banned for no reason http://i1143.photobu...irtue/nice3.png Banned after murdering a player If you're going to ban people, we demand proof if you suspect us of anything Unjustified kicks in US 1088 http://i1143.photobu...irtue/Nice4.png http://i1143.photobu...irtue/Nice5.png ]"You are not permitted to ban for suspected cheats or exploits of a non-server-disruptive nature, including but not limited to ghosting, unverified cheating, duping and similar, UNLESS you have solid evidence, IE logs." YOU must show US proof! I'm not banned of either one of your servers (us 1088 and us 1669), but I'm getting pissed at the amount of people getting banned. Edit: Server name typo >.>

FYI 1669 is no longer, because it is constantly being DoS'd. Not pointing any fingers. Also, MTN dews aren't hacked. :). Also there are hacked weapon tents near electro and cherno, I myself have seen them with my own eyes. So please bitch somewhere else. Ghosting, is not possible since as server admin we CAN'T SEE WHERE YOU ARE!

Would you like to explain to me why the CSA clan keeps getting banned after wiping your ZH clan on 1088/1669? Me, Jeremy, and Behee Just killed about 5 ZH members and after the fight ends I loot the bodies and we find duped items on every one of y'all (Mt dews/Satchel/RGO nades etc) And an M40A3/PDW SD/AS50 TWS, and seeming how your clan has had these before I decided to not be cheap and pick a as50 TWS up so i instead get the M40 and behold, we run up a hill to wait for your clanmates to return and we get a spot to camp, and BOOM, You have been banned for having hacked weapons :/ I don't understand your clan? Anyways, ban appeal for having a good fight then getting banned because I pick up the spoils of war, your clan is fun to fight with, all of the things y'all do cheaply we still enjoy the PvP, regardless of your server wide kicks and random bans and ghosting. -CSA Decise

Personally, Id wait for the stand alone at this point. The game can be fun but to many things are not working properly (such as tents and vehicles and ghosting and alt-f4ing and hackers) to really justify buying Arma II just to play this mod. So if you plan to play Arma II and enjoy that game aswell, then yes buy it. If your just buying it for this mod, its not worth it right now. But that is just my humble opinion. Remember, your paying for Arma II: OA, do not trick yourself into thinking you are buying Day Z, and then get angry if you dislike the mod. Also What Systemik ^^^^^^ said

First of all, server hopping and ghosting. People can be in a firefight, disconnect and move behind you(Not directly) and spawn in to kill you. My buddy use to sit in the Barracks and server hop until he found good shit. Second, More cars. I like more cars. : P Third, Side channel. Yes people can spam over it, but there's a mute player option. We use the side channel to meet up or do a freedom bus. Lastly, Admins. On normal servers admins arn't on much and can't watch it. On Private hives owners and admins usually play most the day and can rollback the server if a hacker kills everyone so everything is fine. People have constantly bitched at me for using a private hive. They are there, and better in my opinion, or at least they're more fun. Hackers do come on the servers a lot, but with a good admin you can pretty much guarantee your fine.

Ah, Beh.. rheeeeee... zzino... Yes, you can probably live there. Last time I was there, though, I found Mountain Dew, and only minutes after I heard a chopper. It immediately found me, even though I hid pretty well. It started shooting at me, but I defended myself well, so it went away, landed nearby, unloades some fellows who immediately started laying down cover fire (great job). Then a player (hacking, ghosting, cheater) spawned in front of me and shot me while I tried to escape. Also, Berezino is where I lost mah bike. My pretty, green, old bike. Even further, Berezino is where I thought I was safe, back into the tree-line, when somebody ran right up to me and cracked a M1911 right into my head and I instantly died. I've actually had better luck in Cherno. Conclusion: Don't go to Berezino. Edit. Further reasons: Sure, it's not easy getting an overview into the city, but on almost every side of it there are big open fields. While you could get lucky,l and the sniper isn't in your part of the city (it's very long), you can never really be safe. Another, last, reason to not go to Berezino: It's the place everybody assumes is empty, so everybody goes there... Meaning it's not really that safe after all.

So you got kicked because you had hacked weapons? I was not there for this, but I am talking to the admin who was and he says you guys had a pile of hacked gear. Also no one was ghosting. I did not see proof of any ghosting in your video besides you guys going on about ghosting. It is difficult to check logs while in game because we use Host Altitude and as far as we have figured out you have to be in the control panel in a browser to access the logs.

Denalb US1 Chicago (v1.7.2.5/build 96061) [Private Hive|Veteran|CH:ON|3DP:ON] Only Daytime - Hosted by Denalb With all of the craziness that 1.7.2.5 and scripting has brought, I want to give everyone a second option. I created a 50 player server using a private hive for anyone to play on. Remember, with a private hive, your character will not save to other servers. You will be forced to play on my server if you want to play the same character you create on my server. Some advantages to this are: No server hopping/ghosting. Local bans to cheaters/scripters without the need to justify on the DayZ forums. Always Daytime so nightvision goggles/gamma aren't required for US players who play at night. More vehicles! I've added plenty of vehicles to share including two helicopters for some nice air battles. Vehicles and Tents save! Thats right. Inventories, locations, you name it, it saves. Two choppers, 1 SUV, and about 50 other vehicles to find and use! I created new random spawns for most vehicles. If a vehicle is deemed out of bounds/is destroyed on a server restart, the vehicle will be reset back to its original spawn point. Less lag/desync as the hive is local to my server and not being flooded by thousands of servers. New spawn locations on the east coast to help newcomers explore the northeast part of the map. Moved the southwest spawns further east to help new spawns get to the major cities without running for 45 minutes. *Future Update*Out of bounds prevention. Players/Vehicles will die/explode when crossing over to out of bounds. This will also help those who may spawn out there. *Possible Update in the Future* Alt+F4 prevention. If I see enough requests for it, I am also willing to modifiy your starting equipment if it isn't outrageous. (I was thinking about giving players some food/water and a hatchet). I may also provide a teamspeak server if I get enough requests for it. So come try it out. It will be up 24/7. It will be fast loading with minimal lag. I will also be able to admin it a lot better due to some extra protection I have installed for script kiddies and hackers. Denalb US1 Chicago (v1.7.2.5/build 96061) [Private Hive|Veteran|CH:ON|3DP:ON] Only Daytime - Hosted by Denalb I've made a twitter account and a gtalk account so you can contact me if needed. I will also post updates to the server status/upgrades. Twitter: @DenalbHive GTalk: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Feel free to contacts me with questions/issues/comments.

"You're ghosting us, motherfu$ker. I don't care who you are back in the world. You give away our position one more time, I'm gonna bleed you...real quiet...and leave you here. Got that?"