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Hello fellow bandits. As of 30ish minutes ago Make76, Facey and Blitzer[NL]* of UK 7 server no longer are in possession of their Huey. It was dark, me and a friend of mine were looting in Cherno for a backpack for him. We decided to check the Fire Station to see if one might've spawned there, but unfortunately, or so we thought, it didn't. Minute later we decided to check the supermarket and something unexpected happened... A huey violated Chernogorsk' airspace and was circling above the fire station(200-300m away at any given time). Looking at it and thinking how to prevent this outrage, my friend reminded me that I had an AS50 in my backpack we looted from a group of players just the day before, on the same server, UK 7(props for not ghosting and playing it fair: Crunkit, m4rc12 and Graeme). The ammunition I had was for AS50, not the M107, which meant that a single shot to the engine block would take it out. My friend kept me updated on the range to target while I've waited in the Fire Station tower for the tresspasser to slow down and when he did, to turn away or prep for landing, I took my shot, one shot, right to the engine block. And the rotor sounds started to fade, the pilot and one of the gunners ejected from the chopper while the remaining crew member(I'd assume Make76, since he was the first to die) remained in the descending aircraft, firing his machinegun. The two ejected crew members did not live long, as they were killed seconds later either by falling to death or helicopter explosion(lost line of sight at that point). Citizens of Chernogorsk rejoice! While myself and my friend draw breath, no aircraft will be permitted above our beloved city! P.S. My friend did get a coyote backpack from one of the bodies before putting them to ground, to honor the fallen.

So I stumbled onto a player tent base right next to Podoba Dam (yes very original) and after receiving fracture and being insta-killed from and unknown source that was not detectable by the server admin in logs, my sole mission has been to destroy this base, repeatedly. It is not that large of a base hardly a tent city, six tents in all, some empty and others full of top tier duped gear. The base is encircled in dozens of sandbags surrounded by hedgehogs surrounded by wire fencing. It is not made to be entered on this server. In the center of the ring is an empty patch just perfect for ghosting into from another server to gear up and go player killing I would imagine. I have driven over the wire and removed the other obstacles. I have trashed all the gear from the tents and saved them many multiples of times. I have driven over the tents with their contents still inside. It seems no matter what I attempt the tents are back everyday after the server restarts. This is my burden to bear, however I would like to suggest that serious thought be given to revamping a system that allows for this to happen. I am personally a fan of the idea of binding everything to server: characters, gear, tents, vehicles, and every other game asset you can think of. This might not only help to curb the current issues of death dodging, ghosting, and loot hopping, but also help to develop a greater sense of community and competition on servers in my opinion. In any case I would like to see removable and destructible items in game that are presently server bound that are intended to be removable and destructible continue to be removed and destroyed after a server restarts.

Spider, he might have a server based on some of his other threads. In this thread he did not let his true admin abuses slip until later posts. This guy admits in this thread and others (checked his profile to see if he let the server name slip so I could report for blacklisting) that he is a textbook cheater. He openly admits to every form of admin abuse (locking servers, shutting down server when not on, server restarts to keep his precious carebear loot), he admits to being a dirty duper, and openly admits to server hoping and ghosting other players. Essentially he represents everything wrong with this game and his epic douchebaggery will go down in Dayz history as the moron who sucks so much at this game that he needs to cheat.

You are an idiot if you think server hoping and ghosting are "playstyles." Both of those represent cheating, what Rocket was talking about was spying, banditry, groups, survivors, meta gaming, and other legitimate game styles that are not founded on exploiting a mechanic. While I think snipers camping new spawns is incredibly cheap (when I spawn nearby due to spawn bug I always take a look at sniper spots and will shoot anyone I see sniping), it is also very cheap to server hop to get sniper kills. Sure the person you kill lacks honor, but now so do you so I am unsure who is worse.

Hey Shredergenetix first off i'd like to say thanks for that awesome shootout in Elektro the other day, the most fun we've had in ages :) really enjoyed it so it's a shame you feel like you don't want to come back :( secondly, i can say for sure that one of those AS50's was on a body of someone i sniped, can't remember the name of the person sadly but one of our guys did pick it up as its not illegal to use it if found. I believe after i had left more people logged in with them and were also killed and as i love the AS50 i was given one as a present, however i dumped it before i even used it, didn't like the scope i like seeing my prey properly ;) personally i don't see why people feel the need to spawn these weapons in, all i can say is if it was done on our server Faz would have banned them straight away but there was nothing in the logs so he couldn't do anything sadly. back to my origional point it's a shame you feel like you won't come back cuz that shootout was awesome fun :D and respct to you and your guys for not alt f4'ing and ghosting, a true gunfight the way it's meant to happen :)

i play on a private hive 100% of the time. the reason behind this: people using too much hacks on regular servers. the private hive i play on is the exact same thing as a regular hive, vehicles weapons and all. the only reason we use a private hive is because if we had a regular server we'd have to jump through hoops to ban a cheater that we caught. now, if we catch you, you just get banned. if you get reported we look into the logs and go from there. no bogus regulations telling us how to run our server. noone in our community scripts anything, as far as we know (im not the admin but im close friends with him). i dont see why its so frowned upon, its more fun to me than the actual servers, there are bandits, there are friendly's, and we have a good little community. no hacks, no bogus clan running everything, just DayZ the way i believe it was meant to be played. also private hive's prevent: alt+f4 (at least the usefulness of it, you cant connect to a different server and run away), "ghosting" behind someone in a firefight moving gear around servers to "free-farm" we play private but were more legit than most regular-server users.

hahaha... Take control of The airstrip? Stary sobor and the likes? We had the airstrip locked down for 4+hours with our clan, nobody entered or left it without us knowing. And that was not an empty server, and we have gotten into multiple gunfights there. People just lack moral, and honor when it comes to gun fights that can turn out diffrently than when they entered. Simply because the ALT+F4 issue and ghosting around on diffrent server's is still there. Doesn't matter if they are 400 or 4000people, no server will be able to hold more than 100 of them at max, and if they manage to get in on a server and fill it up with 100 of they're own people.. What are they gonna do? Play around alone for a few hours until they get bored? I don't fear a coalition or any of the sorts. They can bring whatever they want, we will spot them before they see us in any case or scenario. So im looking forward to meeting them. It will bring some much needed action emphasis back, atleast for me. just my opinion, take it or leave it. -Zantiago

"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 mad bro? Or do I need to bring up the rules on hacking as well?

Great idea, really limits these ghosting faggots in finding our wherabouts .

ghosting is a cheap way to play the game, but it isn't bannable (yet). rocket has said that the only bannable offenses are using abusive language or racism.

Now Todd, you realize there are about 700 servers for this game that are online 24/7, right? Well now you know. You claim all you do is join in because of nighttime or other bogus but when you know the location of our camp, run to it in another server, then join ours so you are right in the middle, its called ghosting, or as I call it, cheating. I believe as proud, legitimate, and active community members of DayZ we have an obligation to rid this fantastic game of cheaters. If you disagree then please, refute my statement. I won't continue on about how messed up our server is, or how much we have been trying to fix it, since this has already been said. Instead, I will use a quote your parents may have told you sometime in your life. "There are plenty of other fish in the sea..." This means, since you clearly have issues with our server (more notably, that you were banned for cheating), you can just go to another. That's the beauty of this game. You can't be banned from every server out there (unless of course you use hacks). So, I politely ask that you stop complaining because you got caught red-handed, and just go about your day with a new server. It will be exciting for you; it will give you something productive to do. Good day. Sincerely, The Shadow of Humanity

I support OP 100%. This mod is in a state of perma-incompletion as it's intended state can never be reached - hence the locked down standalone on the way. So at this point all bets are off, maybe people should stop seeing these unfixable exploits as a bad thing and should start treating them as features. Embrace ghosting, pretend it's a built-in game mechanic allowing you to teleport via other dimensions, pretend it's Portal, whatever. This mod is afterall a sandbox. I thought they idea of a sandbox was that there were no rules and you play with the mechanics which are available? Well let them use the mechanics to have fun, they will anyway no matter how much you QQ.

Sniping is legit, server hopping and ghosting is an exploit used by douches

Although you can't be sure a sniper will be up there, isn't this considered ghosting, technically speaking? Either way, it's hardly a secret and it's hardly something you should encourage other players to take part in either.

aww are the admins buthurt. omg i logged in on your server i must be ghosting. there is nobody ever on your server to ghost.

You told Morbid you were 100% legit. We have log evidence of you ghosting. I don't understand where the confusion lies? Ghosting is a bannable offense on this game. You consistently claim that we restart our servers to save stuff, when I have pointed out several reasons why server resets happen. You said you would take a post down that you made erroneously claiming we were cheaters after we explained to you that we did a server update. You did not do that either. Imagine how frustrating it would be if you had a chopper, in 100% health, and no matter how many times you saved it, when the server reset, everything you just did to the chopper is gone and it's back at the respawn point. Now, imagine that frustration, coupled with the fact that people blame you for this issue. It'd suck, wouldn't it? Instead, you come and post here about how we're 'cheating', even after we sit and talk with you in game, and LET YOU blow up our camp. A number of us SAT BACK and let you blow up the camp, even after we explained this to you. The server reset, and the camp was back. And you once again blamed us for cheating. I am done with this. You've been rude to us, we've tried to give you multiple chances, we have logged you cheating, and that is that. Like I said, I hope you feel like your fraps footage exonerates you, and clears the ban. We're pretty confident that the logs justify the ban, but there are always two sides to every story. If you feel that someone else was cheating, I suggest you record it, and turn them in for it. Ghosting is not acceptable.

1. This 'Ghosting' is actually you logging out without gear at the shore, then you logging back in inside our base with satchel charges, destroying everything in less than 5 minutes. It has been logged, so say what you will. 2. You can make any claims about duped or hacked items. None of us do this. So, again, if you have proof, by all means, present it in a ban appeal. I have no problem with you coming up with a legit grievance. If this game remains legit, I think it'd be 10X as fun as with all of the garbage we have currently in the game. We know of lots of camps where there are duped items, and we have requested from HFB several times to have a flat reset of our server, to remove ALL tents, and ALL duped items. They have turned us down each time. At any rate: We have the proof we need and was asked from us to ban you. That's the current plan.

Ghosting is pretty weak, and how you got 10 satchel charges is beyond me. Either you've been cycling the barracks for months, duped or found duped satchels, or spawned them in. Bragging about it is debatably more weak, and why the hell were you using an L85 for CQC? However, you did at least place the satchels yourself. I'd be interested to know if the sniper shooting at you got you or if you ran or logged.

1. when you reset your server your server the cars i stole from you did not return to where they were. you then reset the server again and they went back to where they were. 2. this "ghosting" is me closing arma 2 the fix the gfx glitch caused all the barbed wire around your base. 3. you have duped items in your tents. no one has close to 30 satchel charges lying around as well as tons of RGO frag grenades 4. you have hacked items in your base. PP19 not SD. you also had a bunch of RGO frag grenades spawned on the ground

dogact, I was one of the people there on the island when you were there. For the record, I had a blast. You did not kill me, you killed two people, and almost killed a third. If you were in the ghillie, I had you in my sights, then saw your buddy, decided not to fire(I wasn't sure I could take you both), and followed you both for a while until you disappeared(Now I know you DC'd). A couple things I would like to note: 1. The camps on that island were placed there with painstaking trips from that stupid slow boat. It's very annoying. They are all legit. 2. The server reset during it's normal scheduled reset. This happened at 4pm EST. Before the server reset, the two members you killed made their way back to the island. They made their way to their bodies, but then when the server reset, they were missing their items, which was another adventure. We got gear, patched up our 3rd buddy you almost killed, and headed to the chopper spawn. We repaired the chopper from the stuff we had in the tents, and took off. Our leak in our gas tank was rough, so we went to go gas up in Three vallies. We started taking fire, but our gas tank was low, so I told our pilot we had about 30 seconds to land the bird. He hung in the air too long, and about 40 feet from the ground, we ran out of gas, and crashed the chopper. I survived with 47 blood after I finished bandaging. So, for for the record, we did not cheat or anything along those lines. We had an amazing time on the island, it was full of intensity that I rarely get anymore in the game. We lost that chopper fair and square, and I logged off shortly thereafter, to deal with some stuff IRL. What took place after we left: HFB servers have sent out a letter indicating they were re-adding some features they had taken out some time ago due to server instability. About an hour after I left, the server connection was at yellow for more than 20 minutes, and no one could access tents, items, or vehicles. One of our admins reset the server and reverted the version to avoid this from happening again. Our server(And others? I don't know) has a bug right now where nothing saves. Vehicles return back to where they were after every reset, tents wont save items in them unless a brand new tent is placed down. Anything destroyed before a reset returns to its original spot after reset. So it's pretty frustrating right now. This certainly isn't something we've done by design; I think it's plaguing the entire community. If that makes you feel any better, cool. I had a great time stalking you yesterday. If it doesn't make you feel any better or you're suspect, I'm sorry. It's the truth of the matter, and there isn't much more I can say. As for ww THE TODD ww: You have been logged ghosting on our server. This is unacceptable behavior, and against the spirit of the game. You may accuse us of resetting our servers blah blah, but you don't see the messages from HFB or the problems the server has in general. Attack us, kill us, steal our shit; all of that is well and good. Cheat when you do it, and it's lame. As soon as a server admin comes on, you will likely be banned. We gave you a chance after we suspected you of cheating, and you decided to do so again.

I would have to agree that this would fall into the 'ghosting' category but at the same time Ive heard about US 1040 and their banning and suspected map hacking. These people are not normal players and therefore do not deserve fair rules. Good job

There, fixed for the qq. I do say this, if i do excesive ghosting on my server i WILL ban them....i mean logging out of a populated server then going to a low pop one, getting behind your enemy, then logging back in? ive already had a hack on my server spawning choppers.....he was....dealt with. The server may be up in down for the next for days and im sorry for inconvince, i have still got a few more bits of tuning to do. Crashed the server an hour ago we used a couple satchel charges we had stored up and took a few buildings out.....killed my server but I am glad to see everyone that has shown up, we peaked out at 35 players today good to see my server picking up. Fast load times for me and the rest of my clan. Post any problems or hacker reports in my server to me with times so i can send in the log files. thats all and have fun

Can't ban for combat logging Can't ban for logging to get rid of zombies. Enjoy your new server. Follow that ruleset, and I guarantee you're going to have a thread in the server report forums shortly. The most you can do is kick the person when they try to re-log back into the server. Or throw a short-tem ban *no more than 12 hours* on the offender, like I do.. but I only do that if it's severe. Ghosting repeatedly. Etc.

Status: Online Server Name: US 1937 Dallas The Clubhouse IP Address: 74.63.213.178:2322 Slots: 40 Vehicles: Yes Version: 1.62.95417 - Beta Required Day Z Version: 1.7.2.4 Location: Dallas, Texas USA Settings Difficulty: Regular 3rd Person View: On Auto Aim: Off Auto Spot: Off Players on Map: Off Crosshair: On Tracers: Off Death Messages: On In-Game Voice: On Name when speaking in voice: On (for administrative purposes) Max Ping: 300ms Rules No Ghosting/Death Dodging or other game exploits (ex. duplication of items) Admins will not kick to make room for members. Donations Monthly Server Cost: $50.00 So we're accepting donations to keep our server running! Seeing how we're a tight knit group, it gets harder for us to pay out of your own pockets each month. We appreciate any and all donations made, and will make mention of your contribution here on this forum thread. We prefer you use paypal to make donations, if you cannot use paypal then I'm sure we can figure out a different means to do, just send me a private message. If you'd like to donate, hit the "Donate Here" Button at the bottom of the post, thank you! Donators Soon to be noted. -- I did copy another servers thread and edit it to fit, it was a very nice layout, :)

I've been debating making this thread for awhile, but here it is. I want to have a relationship with an honorable bandit. I'm looking for someone who delights in the thrill of the hunt. Someone who has stories of their exploits and is recognizable. Someone who can say "yes, I kill people, but I do it without hacking, exploiting the game, or ghosting." Really, I'm looking for the kind of bandit that most survivors would like to talk to and hear from - someone who is a respected enemy. Send me a pm if you think you are that person.