Banned for using Editor?

[walrus2517 27]

This may be a dumb question but the other day I was banned from a Taviana private server ("bartmans stomping grounds" IP: 208.115.205.2) for "Cheating/Hacking" and 48 hours later the ban remains. In 300+ hours of DayZ this is the first time it has happened and I'm trying to figure out why because I can't get in touch with the server admin (bartman) and I want to make sure it doesn't happen again (and no, I wasn't cheating/hacking).

I joined the server for the first time on Monday and played for about 3 hours. I found a car and a couple of tents but not much good loot other than a coyote backpack. My best weapon was an MP5SD. I setup the tent with half of it stuck in a rock for hiding, threw a bit of loot in there, put some more loot in the car, left the car in a good spot for someone else to find and use, then disconnected for the night about 50m from my tent. I reconnected Tuesday and was surprised to find everything still in my tent and the car was still in the same spot, though it had been looted a bit. I began looting the area and found an M16 203 and a few other common items, but about 15 minutes after joining, when putting some of my new loot in my tent, I was banned by the admin (who was online) for cheating/hacking.

The only two explanations I can come up with are:

1) the admin is just a dick and banned me for no real reason. He only had two or three other players on the server and had restarted it without warning a few times, so this seems the most reasonable explanation.

2) However, I've also been trying to learn the Arma 2 Editor recently, originally just to put a heli in so I could fly around and see the new Taviana island before playing, but I also started messing around with making some custom missions with ammo boxes, etc. so I could work on my marksmanship. Is it possible messing around in the Editor got me banned? I just realized today the Editor that comes up when you have DayZ loaded is a bit different from the one that comes up when I run vanilla Arma II: CO. Is this possible?

TIA for any help on the topic. I don't care about the loot or even getting back on the server. I just want to make sure I don't get banned anywhere else.

tl;dr - If you save user missions in the Editor with DayZ loaded can it show up as hacking/cheating when you join a server?

Edited December 7, 2012 by walrus2517

[Rott (DayZ) 218]

This may be a dumb question but the other day I was banned from a Taviana private server ("bartmans stomping grounds" IP: 208.115.205.2) for "Cheating/Hacking" and 48 hours later the ban remains. In 300+ hours of DayZ this is the first time it has happened and I'm trying to figure out why because I can't get in touch with the server admin (bartman) and I want to make sure it doesn't happen again (and no, I wasn't cheating/hacking).

I joined the server for the first time on Monday and played for about 3 hours. I found a car and a couple of tents but not much good loot other than a coyote backpack. My best weapon was an MP5SD. I setup the tent with half of it stuck in a rock for hiding, threw a bit of loot in there, put some more loot in the car, left the car in a good spot for someone else to find and use, then disconnected for the night about 50m from my tent. I reconnected Tuesday and was surprised to find everything still in my tent and the car was still in the same spot, though it had been looted a bit. I began looting the area and found an M16 203 and a few other common items, but about 15 minutes after joining, when putting some of my new loot in my tent, I was banned by the admin (who was online) for cheating/hacking.

The only two explanations I can come up with are:

1) the admin is just a dick and banned me for no real reason. He only had two or three other players on the server and had restarted it without warning a few times, so this seems the most reasonable explanation.

2) However, I've also been trying to learn the Arma 2 Editor recently, originally just to put a heli in so I could fly around and see the new Taviana island before playing, but I also started messing around with making some custom missions with ammo boxes, etc. so I could work on my marksmanship. Is it possible messing around in the Editor got me banned? I just realized today the Editor that comes up when you have DayZ loaded is a bit different from the one that comes up when I run vanilla Arma II: CO. Is this possible?

TIA for any help on the topic. I don't care about the loot or even getting back on the server. I just want to make sure I don't get banned anywhere else.

tl;dr - If you save user missions in the Editor with DayZ loaded can it show up as hacking/cheating when you join a server?

that be cheating ... duh ...

[The Bean Marine 29]

This may be a dumb question but the other day I was banned from a Taviana private server ("bartmans stomping grounds" IP: 208.115.205.2) for "Cheating/Hacking" and 48 hours later the ban remains. In 300+ hours of DayZ this is the first time it has happened and I'm trying to figure out why because I can't get in touch with the server admin (bartman) and I want to make sure it doesn't happen again (and no, I wasn't cheating/hacking).

I joined the server for the first time on Monday and played for about 3 hours. I found a car and a couple of tents but not much good loot other than a coyote backpack. My best weapon was an MP5SD. I setup the tent with half of it stuck in a rock for hiding, threw a bit of loot in there, put some more loot in the car, left the car in a good spot for someone else to find and use, then disconnected for the night about 50m from my tent. I reconnected Tuesday and was surprised to find everything still in my tent and the car was still in the same spot, though it had been looted a bit. I began looting the area and found an M16 203 and a few other common items, but about 15 minutes after joining, when putting some of my new loot in my tent, I was banned by the admin (who was online) for cheating/hacking.

The only two explanations I can come up with are:

1) the admin is just a dick and banned me for no real reason. He only had two or three other players on the server and had restarted it without warning a few times, so this seems the most reasonable explanation.

2) However, I've also been trying to learn the Arma 2 Editor recently, originally just to put a heli in so I could fly around and see the new Taviana island before playing, but I also started messing around with making some custom missions with ammo boxes, etc. so I could work on my marksmanship. Is it possible messing around in the Editor got me banned? I just realized today the Editor that comes up when you have DayZ loaded is a bit different from the one that comes up when I run vanilla Arma II: CO. Is this possible?

TIA for any help on the topic. I don't care about the loot or even getting back on the server. I just want to make sure I don't get banned anywhere else.

tl;dr - If you save user missions in the Editor with DayZ loaded can it show up as hacking/cheating when you join a server?

Well you can't use Editor on another guys server it is basically cheat the ban was fair...

[smallhil 26]

As far as I know your user missions have nothing to do with anything that's running on a server. I have tons of mediocre homemade missions on my HD and never had any problems. If you somehow managed to upload something from your user mission files to a server then it is prolly another story. But I can't imagine something like that could happen by accident.

[Sula 1205]

I agree with Drabik. I know nothing about computing or computer games and even I play on the editor with the little I've been taught by people here. Admittedly, I don't do anything with Arrowhead anymore as I have dayz running but I still use the editor on arma2 almost daily.

[OrLoK 16187]

Hello there

Editing *his* Tavinia will have zero effect on the server's Tavinia.

The only person/people that can assist you is/are the server SA/'s

Also, a private server's admin can essentially do what they want.

rgds

LoK

Edited December 7, 2012 by orlok

[walrus2517 27]

Many thanks for the replies. I didn't figure there was any way my personal mission files would conflict with the server, and I've seen dozens of people talk about using the editor to explore a new map before logging into a server, but it was all I could come up with. Prob just a mistake by the admin. Oh well, off to another server. :)

EDIT: In regards to the first two replies, sorry for the confusion, but I wasn't attempting to add vehicles and weapons to the server. That obviously would be cheating. I was just messing around with the map offline to learn the terrain and how to use the editor.

Edited December 7, 2012 by walrus2517