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I've tried Vilayer and DayZ.st and found the latter to be much better. It has a great control panel, a live map which can be used to spawn vehicles, database access so you can spawn in vehicles and buildings,you can enable rMod by clicking a single button. Theres loads more features plus theres more added on a regular basis. All in all a great provider.

Here's my final review on the service I received from this "company" taken from another thread but I thought I'd post it here for SEO purposes it pretty much covers everything. SS before you have a go at me for bashing your company on a forum like you have done to everyone else to bad mouth you. I will remind you that this is a public forum for people to post their opinions if you disagree with them then try constructing an argument with evidence as to why they are wrong. Or you could just terminate that persons contract.... My first period of downtime occurred Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 around 11 AM (I also had two days of downtime whilst they were setting the server up), the server was dead completely with no TCAdmin response. Here's the reply from SS 2 days later So he never even bothers to tell me why the host was completely down for two days. His comment about DayZTools refers to the fact I had also let them know my server had never managed to successfully spawn vehicles using the script we were being charged $5 a month for. His response was not true the tool was still not "fixed" and still did not spawn vehicles without erroring on the chernarus db, and so the tickets continued. Eventually one week later to the original support ticket I was told this The tool was indeed now finally managing to spawn vehicles however we still suffered the exact problems DayZGeneration has posted about. Vehicles would spawn fully repaired when defined not to and would automatically repair when in use. Much of this is due to SS' inability to deploy bliss and dayz updates in a timely manner. Then of course there's the update they tried to deploy 2 days ago now, they finally did this over a week after all the other server hosts "so they could do it without any bugs". Read through the thread to see if they managed that, I wouldn't be surprised if they broke every single private hive server in the process. I have records of all my support tickets if anyone actually thinks I was saying anything that was offensive or untrue to them. My forum posts are available for all to see in their thread. I never implied I deserved to be treated any differently to anyone else, I did however let them know we were all being treated like crap. So they cancelled my service for complaining, well thats not technically true they did nothing to my account it still all works (I had terminated payment but service was contracted to continue till the 4th). What I think they have actually done is decided not to fix my server because they don't like me telling the truth about them in a public forum. All my login details still work fine I just can't do anything with the server in TCAdmin because it wont fully load, just like it was after applying the patch. Their one man team of admins has so many hundreds of servers which he has now broken he doesn't have the time to fix mine after I've been telling others of the quality of his service and because I have already terminated my contract. I didn't see one post in their thread from a private owner who actually managed to deploy the 1.7.4.4 update without breaking his server. Should the server remain in this state until the 4th of December that will make the total number of days they managed to provide a server I could even connect to 20 out of the 30 I paid for. The server was out of date and virtually unplayable due to all the bugs from out of date bliss and dayz code and non functioning admin tools for all of those days. This companies "tools" consist of a simple webpage which just runs a few database queries (most of which other providers offer for free). Their "map" tool is just an out of date copy of BlissAdmin which again doesn't fully function. I urge anyone who gets given one of their inevitable $5 off your next month vouchers to save your time and stress and move to another host. You can see the track record for these guys in their thread, I'll let you decide if you think I was treated fairly.

Posted in another thread but this one seems to be much more established. Fuel/Vehicles: Vehicles are more common Parts are very rare Scrap and junk can be used to patch up vehicles, but this deteriorates and may make the vehicle worse Fuel can be siphoned from cars Fuel can be poured from jerry cans into fuel tanks Fuel tanks have a limited amount of fuel Fuel tanks regain fuel at 1L/hr (or 1 jerry can every 20hrs) Fuel tanks can be destroyed/repaired and can leak if damaged Fuel tanks can be built with bases Add new part: electronics. Used for aircraft and "nice" vehicles but are very rare Storage: Crates Safes Buried caches Bear-bags Different size tents Weapons: All weapons more rare Handguns much much more common than rifles Civilian guns: Rifles/shotguns in homes/deerstands Handguns in homes Ammo in stores, homes, and stands [*]US/EU weapons only from heli crashes [*]"nice" eastern weapons from MilitarySpecial spawns, MilitarySpecial includes ATCs as well as barracks [*]standard eastern weapons from other military spawns Sound: Pick a sound mod, use it. JSRS is nice. The sound in Arma2 is sadly sub-par.

Here's some more info on my troubles with these idiots My first period of downtime occurred Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 around 11 AM (I also had two days of downtime whilst they were setting the server up), the server was dead completely with no TCAdmin response. Here's the reply from SS 2 days later So he never even bothers to tell me why the host was completely down for two days. His comment about DayZTools refers to the fact I had also let them know my server had never managed to successfully spawn vehicles using the script we were being charged $5 a month for. His response was not true the tool was still not "fixed" and still did not spawn vehicles without erroring on the chernarus db, and so the tickets continued. Eventually one week later to the original support ticket I was told this The tool was indeed now finally managing to spawn vehicles however we still suffered the exact problems DayZGeneration has posted about. Vehicles would spawn fully repaired when defined not to and would automatically repair when in use. Much of this is due to SS' inability to deploy bliss and dayz updates in a timely manner. Then of course there's the update they tried to deploy 2 days ago now, they finally did this over a week after all the other server hosts "so they could do it without any bugs". Read through the SS thread to see if they managed that, I wouldn't be surprised if they broke every single server in the process. I have records of all my support tickets if anyone actually thinks I was saying anything that was offensive or untrue to them. My forum posts are available for all to see in their thread. I never implied I deserved to be treated any differently to anyone else, I did however let them know we were all being treated like crap. So they cancelled my service for complaining, well thats not technically true they did nothing to my account it still all works (I had terminated payment but service was contracted to continue till the 4th). What I think they have actually done is decided not to fix my server because they don't like me telling the truth about them in a public forum. All my login details still work fine I just can't do anything with the server in TCAdmin because it wont fully load, just like it was after applying the patch. Their one man team of admins has so many hundreds of servers which he has now broken he doesn't have the time to fix mine after I've been telling others of the quality of his service and because I have already terminated my contract. I didn't see one post in their thread from a private owner who actually managed to deploy the 1.7.4.4 update without breaking his server. Should the server remain in this state until the 4th of December that will make the total number of days they managed to provide a server I could even connect to 20 out of the 30 I paid for. The server was out of date and virtually unplayable due to all the bugs from out of date bliss and dayz code and non functioning admin tools for all of those days. This companies "tools" consist of a simple webpage which just runs a few database queries (most of which other providers offer for free). Their "map" tool is just an out of date copy of BlissAdmin which again doesn't fully function. I urge anyone who gets given one of their inevitable $5 off your next month vouchers to save your time and stress and move to another host. You can see the track record for these guys in their thread, I'll let you decide if you think I was treated fairly.

thats just the number of rows phpmyadmin is showing by default The number of vehicles SS only let you change in the shitty tool they charge $5 a month for (which never works properly) also the instance_vehicle table is the one listing all the vehicles you have in game, just in case you were in vehicle or world_vehicle

Myself and two of my friends have been playing on this server for some time, it's pretty sweet and the admins are fair people who want others to experience DayZ in a hacker-free environment. Vehicles are everywhere! but car tires are more scarce as well as camping tents. Lovin' it, join us! -Nikolaii

okay thank you, and do you know how to edit the amount of default rows so the server will fill those with vehicles? right now its max 30 and i want to change that to like 100

[direction,[x,y,height]] go to the vehicles table and add that to the inventory column go to the instance table and edit the inventory column and/or backpack column

For me its the less weapons everywhere the better.I agree that finding the weapons in more realistic locations is warranted also but still just feel that finding any weapon should be a great feeling.This wanting or needing things is what survival is all about and we need weapons so it shouldn't be easy to find them.1/2 hour for a pistol is ok by me but you need to get inland and really move from town to town searching like crazy. SlightlyMad,from what I read there will be a couple of new types of melee weapons. NoCheats,there is something great about finding weapons in varying conditions BUT does that mean that weapons will be everywhere as they are now.I just do not wanna see Dayz turn into Borderlands. ;) Publik,some great suggestions there.I like that US weapons are Heli crash only.More Soviet weapons the better IMO even though I love the M4A3 CCO.Your fuel ideas are also great and this is something that would add to SA IMO.More vehicles with the needing part being fuel makes sense to me.Also,I am a realism buff and can tell you that I would love to see stamina added in(no fainting but rather walking when exhausted)with a slower run speed to more simulate jogging.I think that Dayz should be a gear as level game but that vehicles should be on the top of that list.Right now I never bother with them since I can run like a Kenyan and the thought of needing a vehicle never crosses my mind.But if it was a pain in the ass to get anywhere in Chenarus while on foot I think this would force players to need vehicles more.Again I feel realism will bring out more immersion from forcing the players to need more items.Cokes and Pepsi's could give slight stamina boost but you still wanna find a vehicle.Bikes should be everywhere with cars and motor bikes made more common.Fix the speed of the varying vehicles in Arma2 firstly though.Hitting 100 is ridiculous on a bike.I think 20mph max on roads and 10 mph on dirt is good with X2 those speeds if on decline.Slow down that dam tractor LOL its like a race car and should be dead slow. Edit<<<<forgot to add that I really feel that vehicles should disappear from server when you leave.This is because I hate losing a vehicle I work hard toget up and running becuase I leave it unattended on a map.Doesn't make sense that you would not be there to protect it and if cars were to become very important then players would rage quit.

500+ vehicles lol

Come the 10th ill be leaving SS. Its a SCAM to be fair, They charge for tools. FOR ADMIN TOOLS lol. Tools that dont work, All the vehicles on my server are always fine, no damage, Even though i set it to lots of random damage. I have yet to repair a vehicle, Fuel works fine, sometimes half, sometimes empty, But the damage, and that's the main part of that tool, yet i get charged for it. I advise everyone in here to spread the news about this company, In your blogs, Facebook groups. Dayz fan forums. EVERYWHERE. These rogues shouldn't be allowed to do business. All they harp on about is the majority of our customers is happy. BULL. Look at the main DayZ forum, i don't think I've seen one happy customer, And if i do see a post from a "so-called" happy customer. They way SS do business, I wouldn't put it past them that its been set up. to make them look better. ANYONE who is thinking of renting a server of SS. please don't, Its a long process of been ripped off, the only out come will be you wishing you went with another company. Just like me and many others. The last straw for me was seeing SS cancel someones contract due to them ranting about the crappy service. "just because someone rants due to not been happy with there service, In no way or form should the company cancel the contract when that contract has been paid for" that my friends is scam, a con. A dupe. Bottom line, its a couple of kids who are renting dedicated servers from a datahouse, Got hold of a crappy admin tool and claim to be a company. Check this out, its funny, My server was down just short of two days, This is the reply i got "Everything is fine with your server, gameplay is not affected. The "unknown" issue is a bug with TC Admin. Every once in a while it fails to establish a connection and we have to restart the TC Admin monitor. It will usually go away by itself but I will check as soon as I'm back home today to see if it still says unknown. Sincerely, Survival Servers" Then "Hey David, our server host in Europe made a huge mistake and took our server down 2 weeks before our next bill was even due. They will be bringing it back online soon, we cannot even log into Remote desktop right now. So sorry for this inconvenience, we are very upset with our host for doing this. All of your data is saved, everything will return to normal soon. Sincerely, Survival Servers" It was still offline half a day after this reply. Brilliant ey.

You need to build Bliss with the other map. I.e. when building Bliss: perl build.pl --world namalsk --instance 1 ... You also need to set the world type correctly in the instance table before spawning vehicles, otherwise they will default to the Chernarus spawn points. You must set the mission file being used to the Namalsk one in your server/config.cfg When launching the server, remember to include Namalsk in the loaded mods. Make sure to have the key files for Namalsk installed as well.

I only have 3 suggestions for this server. 1: Make there be a no Voice in side rule, you drive away a majority of players with some of these twats yelling over side. 2: 6hr restart marks rather than 12hr increases performance and resets vehicles for more battles. 3: (If there aren't any) Add turreted vehicles and 2-3 Gunship class helicopters (Apache, Cobra, Viper, Hind, Ka-52) Other than that. Pretty good server you have there. -Lockmar

Nice offer you got there! Is it still valid? :P 1. L85AWS. Lost mine when hackers teleported and killed me. Mags not necessary. 2. Finland 3. A tent, mountain dew, m107 and a ghillie. If that isn't enough, I can throw a GPS to the trade. But if the free nvg+ghillie offer is still valid the ghillie trading is quite pointless? :P I could use the extra nvg's and maybe rangefinders as well. Please let me know what you are asking. 4. I'm currently near Berenzino and lost all vehicles to old servers I used to play in. 5. If it's safe enough, lol :D I can also walk but if you can get closer to north (preferably berenzino) it would be nice. Don't fear my low postcount, I have hero skin and I wont stab you in the back. Please PM me.

Towards the end of the summer what remained of Freeside Trading Co. started working on our own version of DayZ. It used ACE and ACRE and a good 1/3 or 1/2 of the ACE guns (and radios, oh the radios). I was working on the rebalanced loot table, and what we had ended up like this: Changed heli-crash loot type (Helicrash) to American, which had US/EU weaponry, all your gucci M4s and so on. If you wanted a M-whatever, you had to go to a heli-crash. Barracks held nicer AKs (107s(?), AEKs, etc) and the baser ones (103, 105) but with nice or extra sights (like laser/flashlight). This alongside the crappy AKs and other military junk. Extended barracks loot type (MilitarySpecial) to control tower and other military buildings to bring focus off NW [*]Lower military gear in tents and so on [*]Civilian rifles and shotguns in hunting stands (new loot category, HuntingStand) and sometimes houses [*]Civilian handguns in houses and stores Ammo was rare in all cases. The division was also around 25% tracer, 50% standard, 25% split among anything special (AP, explosive). Sniper rifles had as much tracer as standard. We also had specialty weapons like the starlight (sp?) flaregun. Because of the number of different weapons and the scarcity of ammo, it was a tradeoff between hoarding all the ammo or just taking what you needed and involved a lot of changing weapons. On the topic of hoarding gear, we were using ACE so we had weight on top of the inventory slot restrictions. If you lugged around 3 guns (which was possible), you'd only be able to run so far before blacking out. Story could support this setup as well. Eastern bloc country is one of the sites of infection or the epicenter, and US/EU helicopters are flying over for extraction missions or intel or whatever. Those are the helicopters that crash and the main source of US/EU weapons. If you want anything else you can either hunt around the military outposts for an AK or stick with civvy weapons. The result? It felt like we were in Chernarus. If you wanted a military rifle you used an AK, because that was what you could find. In the rare case of a chopper crash, you might find an M16A2 or something, and very rarely you'd find a nicer gun. You also had to keep track of what kind of ammo you were using, because if you used tracer you'd give away your position, but in some cases that'd be all you had. For the most part, though, you used handguns since they were rather plentiful. Little 9mm's were all over the place (relative to rifles). Among my more ambitious plans was making fuel a nearly finite resource. Fuel tanks would only fill back up at around 1L/hr, so it could take an entire day to fill up a can of gas. I'd also planned to let people siphon gas from other vehicles, pour fuel from cans to tanks, and construct fuel tanks. Vehicles themselves were all over the place, but parts were much more scarce. If you wanted to drive you had to have the resources to not only repair the thing and keep it repaired, but you also had to have the manpower to secure a source of fuel or take someone else's fuel. I hope dearly for something similar in SA.

Clan Party Bus. Bitches Clan Party Bus is a group of survivors that met through these very forums and United, creating a team of (not so) elite survivors, taking over server by server, hording gear and vehicles, and having tonnes of fun on skype. OK so we are clan party bus, we were originally a bunch of guys with skype who started talking and fooling around until one server we found a bus. Shit got real. from now on it is our mission in dayZ to obtain a vehicle (bus preferred) and ride that out from electro to berezino to NW back to cherno, hording 10 AKMs and 10 Ak-74 Kobras and other gear. Our Current group has 6 members, and we all are geared well enough (NV goggles, DMRs, Rangefinders, Camo outfits) And we are looking to expand our ranks to maybe 10 or so people so we can flush out a server within a few hours of the vehicles and gear it has, horde a massive camp and then grab an AKM each and see who survives in Cherno for the longest. We are a legitimate clan though, and we do take our shit pretty seriously, for as much fun as we have, we also get things done. NOTE: we are not a tactical clan like you will see on youtube with all As50s and camping outside Stary, we are a survivor clan. To apply pretty much full this in: Name: Age(not very important): Skype: Country: Time Online: Time spent in DayZ: So Far over 2000 zombies, 8 Buses and 100+ goats have succumb to Clan Party Bus. Apply Now.

With ArmA 2 the clients are mini servers that can create weapons and vehicles, teleport around the map, mark locations of any object on a map, or compile code to be executed on other clients and/or the server. In DayZ Mod this is locked down, but modifying the client can unlock much/most of this functionality (at risk of getting caught by battleye). With the architecture described in the blog post, the client would inform the server what it wants to do, but the server makes the decisions. The client won't know everything going on on the map, like it is now, but a resourceful hacker could modify the client to present what the client knows, but normally wouldn't tell you (like making players show through objects); this would risk getting banned though.

What we are is a small gaming community that hosts our own private hive server that has low amounts of lag, recently respawned vehicles, and a friendly, non-insta-bandit playerbase. Mr. Films is the owner, talk to him if you have any questions (on the forums - BrightLiteFilms - me). CONNECTING INFO: IP: 204.145.69.168 PORT: 2322 FULL CONNECTING INFO: 204.145.69.168:2322 FULL SERVER NAME: US 284 Chernarus Private Hive (1.7.4.4) NT: OFF | MAP: OFF | CH: ON | 3RDP: ON | [REGULAR]

Damn, lot of questions there. Here it goes. We mainly play on our server. Though it changes maps time to time if a new one comes out. (it's on Chern as of this post) Anyone is welcome on our server as long as you don't use voice over side chat (typing is fine). The server rules are more or less common sense things. The only things that are for members only is a soldier skin so that other players can know who is an admin or who to report things to. We go out and find our gear after that like everyone else. There are new buildings added to the map by way of custom bases\outposts scattered about (most are not finished yet) and a TON of add vehicles (choppers as well) but they are for anyone to find and use. Style of play. Fuck as I know what to call it. It's like a bunch of buddies playing a good game together. Times it's taking over a town with 2 teams (T1 for CQC and T2 overwatch) other times it can be just doing random crap. I for one like to run a taxi service depending if there's a need of it. Server name is "Dayz Chernarus 24/7 daytime (1.7.4.4/99153) Private Hive lots of vehicles & Loot Come Get Some" Long ass name I know. Was to lazy and\or forgot to type it in the OP. I'll add that in after this. Average age is somewhere in the 30s I think. We've had people in their 50s join, just as long as you're at least 18. With age brings good stories and without brings "that voice". The bulk play around PST evenings up to about 1-2am PST if work or wife's don't get in the way. That seems like all of your questions. If there's anymore feel free to type them out. I may not be good with words, but I'll get you answers if Im able.

As long as it doesnt go as far as being able to auto loot villages for you or auto go to vehicles spawns and get in if the vehicle is there and stop it is ok. If it gets like wow botting it needs to be done away with

Nothing against private hives, just played on one for a week or so but some shady stuff went on so I want to switch back to a public server. Also, I don't need a server with a gazillion vehicles, care packages or perks because I like the challenge of the original concept. Now, what am I doing wrong in my search for servers, as it seems every single one of them is now a private hive?

Rocket, Are vehicles going to be in the Foundation Build initial release at all? Or are you going to leave them out until the related mechanics are polished? In respect to Arma 2 glare: It's like Steven Spielberg took control of my eyeballs and set them to fuzzy nostalgia. I keep trying to wipe the Vaseline off my monitor to no avail :)

I have a question regarding vehicles and helicopters in the standalone game. I know it might be a bit early on in the development cycle for this, but I'd love some more intel on this regardless! My question is, to what degree can we modify what and what amount of vehicles/helicopters appear on our server. For example, in the current DayZ build of 1.7.4.4., we are limited to three types of helicopters. As in the standalone all decisions will be made server-side, this means that vehicles no longer have to be banned client-side, which would also mean that we can add in any vehicle we'd like. That is, if they're included in DayZ itself. How many vehicles will be included in the standalone, and will server hosts get a wide array of vehicles to choose from?

this map looks nice, great skins and new vehicles..

Forget the choppers. People would be firing these things at players, into buildings they knew players were, at vehicles, and anything else that would cause maximum grief. I love how dudes think they can just look at some pictures or even read some instructions and know how to use these things. Yeah you'll figure out how to point it and fire it. That's a FAR cry from operating it with out harming yourself, those around you, hitting a moving target, or even hitting a stationary target. It's already so sad how any idiot can pick up these highly sophisticated long range, high caliber, weapons and shoot them like it's a BB gun with a scope on it. Now we should throw in rocket launchers? NO Enough with the elite military weapons laying all over and stupid easy to use!