Maps and being tracked?

[Jasonmorgan1986 5]

Hey so im really new to day Z, love the game bought arma 2 just to play it.

So me and some friends managed to patch up a car on a server, we got up to a factory got lots of spares for it and drove into the woods to stash it while we cooked meat and stuff.

So while we were here we noticed that someone had marked the map at the factory, ok so no big deal just time to move on,

So we moved over to berezino on the east coast, next thing you know theres a mark on this area,

So we figure maybe they are just taking the same road as us, so we moved on took a tiny little dirt road to the most northern airfield on the east coast, that road gets marked, then after decided to hold up at the air base and fight we notice a mark at the road entering the air base, after sitting for 15 mins scanning the area in the dark, we head off another dirt path that is a dead end literally nothing there and drive it into the woods a distance.

I get out the car and run miles into the woods, marks appear on the dirt road and start appearing where i had run. then on the exact location of my two friends and the location of the car

So yeh in the end there was only one guy left on the server, who had a ping of 10 which makes me think he was the server admin possibly, while the marks kept going on.

How i know it wasnt my friends? One was driving the car and not stopping, one frapsed (recorded the whole thing)

Any Ideas? Is this common on some servers? Just dosnt seem right to me.

[boneboys 7988]

Not worth making 3 Topics about it, I know the Forums are laggy at certain times but hey, you could check to see if your post was validated.

[Jasonmorgan1986 5]

lol did it before i went to bed, just checked now and seen there were 3, sorry about that, it came up with an error message so I clicked back and send

[Jasonmorgan1986 5]

So noone has any idea if this is a hack or not?

[guidez 180]

Yes, either the Admin was watching you, a hacker was watching you, or one of your friends was placing marks on the map. It could be any of those things really.

[Average Pegasus 646]

It only a dumb hacker

he use a navigator hack to find where you are... (my friends use it and get banned after 2 day )

and if you mark the map everybody see it (use Shift + right mouse to mark the area without everbody in the server see it)

[Jasonmorgan1986 5]

Ah fair enough, thanks guys, I know for deffo it wasnt a friend messing about as one has the whole session recorded, and one was constantly driving. Thanks for the info tho guys, checked back today and the same guy was marking all the viehcles and crash points on the map, pretty sure its his server he has the clan tag with all his mates, just takes the piss, had to change server n start again cant be dealing with working for that stuff only to log in and find our cars gone cause a hacker or admin can locate where we are

[Omaran 18]

The ability to mark locations on the map is a server side option, just find a server where this is disabled.

[Dayzo 182]

Find a good passworded/whitelisted private hive (they do exist).

You're just totally wasting your time and effort playing on public hive servers.

If you find a decent private hive, you at least stand a chance of a nice game.

[Sula 1205]

Well spotted, Jason. Guidez summed it up perfectly. :thumbsup: :beans:

Edited October 18, 2012 by Sula

[Jasonmorgan1986 5]

Yeh we had another run in with them tonight He had spawned our tractor to the air base, Know it was ours by the loot that was in it after i killed the sucker. and there was no way he could have beaten us there from our base as tractor was there when we left lol

[Jasonmorgan1986 5]

Id be tempted to play a private hive but i wouldnt know where to start or where to look Anti