Balota Buddies Servers

[gringer 1]

To anyone who plays on these servers, this may be of interest to you.

I have been playing DayZ since it was first released. I experienced the golden period when there

was no cheating and the game was actually about survival and not deathmatch.

Since then, as you all know, it has descended into a comedic farce of cheating, trolling and pure PvP.

I had grown very tired of the cheating and sought refuge on a whitelist only, private hive server called Balota Buddies. It was previously public, but as the cheating became epidemic it became a whitelist only group of servers.

Sick of being killed by cheaters, I applied and was whitelisted. I liked the Namalsk map and was playing on that a fair bit when this incident happened.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/105209-i-would-really-appreciate-some-suggestions-as-to-what-could-have-happened/

Needless to say this left a very bad taste in my mouth. As it turns out, I did not get banned and one of the players from the group I killed, joined my channel on teamspeak and apologised for accusing me of cheating as he had reviewed his fraps footage. At this point I should mention that one of the people in the group I killed was an admin.

I never heard anything from this admin after this incident.

Two of my friends decided to apply for whitelisting and were accepted. One of them, during the teamspeak "interview" was asked who he played with and he mentioned my name. The admin then told him I was on their watch list for "ghosting". I had no idea what this was until my friend told me that it is "listening in to other peoples teamspeak channels to know where they are and what they're doing, to kill them".

I have never done anything like that at all, ever. Surely there are teamspeak logs that admins can check to see channel switches.

This really ruffled my feathers. Twice from the same group of people I had my integrity called into question and accusations hurled, with no evidence.

I began to play less and less on their servers due to my disdain with their conduct. Finally, last night, my friends and I went to join the server in question as others were full and very laggy, only for me to find that I had been "permanently banned for combat logging".

Since the latest patch, you cannot combat log; but that doesn't matter because I _never_ do that.

My friends probably won't and I am never going back (I can't obviously) to those servers. Petty and immature administration.

tl;dr - killed admin and his group, was threatened with ban for cheating and then vindicated. Then accused of "ghosting" in teamspeak and finally banned for "combat logging" on Balota Buddies servers.

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[me@zabn.me 112]

Did you play under the name Michael this could of just been a simple mistake on my side?

Next time a Ban Appeal on our website will work a lot better

Posts merged. -Inception.

Edited December 8, 2012 by Inception.

[Inception. 9443]

Yes, a ban appeal generally goes a long way.

[gringer 1]

Yes, my player name is Michael.

I had considered a ban appeal, however considering what has happened it seemed a futile venture.

If you did mistakenly ban me, I would like to say that if you're going to accuse somebody of cheating and block them from your server(s), please make sure in future, to the best of your abilities, that you have the right person.

edit : typo

Edited December 10, 2012 by gringer

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

If your the michael I am thinking of to my knowledge there was up to five complaints of you combat logging and no the update does not take away alt+F4 however I have never delt with you so not sure as to what your case is but I'm willing to hear anyone out within reason. Dont recall hearing you cheat just combat logging either way come into TS and this can be worked out.

[grylsyjaeger 171]

Was probably Magic's group anyway. They farm the shit out of AII and combat log all the time to remove zombie agro to hunt players.

GG mate.

Edited December 10, 2012 by grylsyjaeger

[gringer 1]

Was probably Magic's group anyway. They farm the shit out of AII and combat log all the time to remove zombie agro to hunt players.

GG mate.

I am not sure what this means or if it is directed at me. If it is, and you are insinuating that I play / played in a group with someone called "magic", then it is not true. I have only played in a group twice on Namalsk and both times was with one other person and the same person both times.

I think the intent of my OP has been missed. I am not seeking to be unbanned so I can come back and use these servers. I have no desire to do that whatsoever after all of this. The intent is to point out that the process or policies the admins follow for blocking people has some decent flaws in it.

From what I gleaned in one of the replies, I am not the only player named Michael. This aside, when others decide to submit complaints / accusations of other players conduct, how are they able to know the player name of these people? If there is some way of knowing the name of a player you think is combat logging (or whatever other disallowed behavior) and the name Michael has been discerned as the culprit, then you have the wrong Michael. Perhaps your method of selecting which one to block should be reviewed as well as whatever else is done to verify any complaints leveled.

[AIRCAV 62]

The flip side of the coin is that:

1) You have an Admin (or two) of the BB server replying in the thread

2) ...who was (were) able to guess your username, based on the description of events.

3) and who've invited you to discuss it.

I'll admit, I'm openly biased, I play at BB, even though I get 300-400ms ping, playing from Pacific NW US.

Why?

It's a great community, it's well administered, with friendly people, and people there have good manners, even the assholes.

But there's zero tolerance for shenanigans, hackers, and fuckwhits.

If you've been inadvertently included in one of those groups, step up and speak your case, it'll be heard. If you've been correctly included in one of those groups, I'd say the admins did a damn fine job.

Hope you get it sorted it out,

AC

[gringer 1]

Odd that you're able to play there with such a high ping.

I hope you continue to have fun and don't encounter anything like I have.

[Marvel.Jane 113]

If you would like to play on a server with mature, friendly and non-abusive admins, visit ... for WL Applications.

We have a few players that have left BB in a huff and have been happily playing with their friends, on our server for a while. We also dont ban unless we have proof of hacking, all other issues are solved with communication and resolution. :)

EDIT: Sorry no longer support server

Edited January 9, 2013 by MarvelxGirl