2 Characters, 1 Server. What is going on?

[OMG (DayZ) 4]

Hello.

The General Issue:

So a friend of mine got Dayz recently to play with me but we've encountered a rather interesting/annoying bug of some sorts when attempting to play together on the same server. What basically happens is that when me or my friend connect to this server we seem to have a random chance of loading up 2 different characters that we've played as. It's almost like the server is actually 2 servers but both of them use the same connection or something, I don't know.

Some Background Info:

My friend and i decide to play together again as it's been a while (long story short: we met up, died together, got bit lost trying to meet up again and haven't been together since, both of us have had a couple deaths etc going solo). My friend lost one good character to the whole 'spawn on the beach with nothing' bug when you log in sometimes and just accepted that he wasn't going to get this 'good' guy back as he had tried multiple log ins and on different servers and it seems he was gone.

While he was doing that, I had my solo character running around and being cool, stole an FM FAL and all sorts of crazy stuff from a bunch of cars someone must have collected (hell i found that mega lewtz pileup after finding 2 Mountain Dew cans, so much for the curse!). Anyways, so on this guy I'm somewhat near Elektro and having a good time.

We decide to try and meet up again as he is basically on a fresh spawn so he tries to connect to the server i am on but can't connect so i connect to a server that is also working for him. I spawn on the beach with none of my gear etc and think ok just the bug, i relog few times and nothing. Yet if i log back onto the server that was 'working' for me, I'm still near Elektro will all my shizzle. As we both spawned quite close on the beach i thought screw it i don't really care i just start again with him.

We both now have characters that have been 'lost' to that bug or whatever it is.

From the fresh spawns we loot a bunch of stuff and have mad crazy time adventures in Elektro. This is where we encountered the bug. When we've had to log out to do other stuff etc, when we've logged back in we have both ended up loading our 'lost' characters'. We also find that if we log out and log back in, we seem to randomly load our 'new' characters.

More Details:

What also is worth mentioning is that on dayz commander, the server can list say 16/40 people online yet when I log in and get to the player list, the only players shown to be online are myself and a 'blank' name player (so no characters in the name). When my friend connects, he is also in this list. This is the 'server connection' that our new characters are on (lets say connection 1). After that screen, clicking ok goes to the black DAYZ loading screen before finally loading up the character in the world.

Yet sometimes we log in and we can see many people in the player list. What is odd is that when we click ok after that player screen, we get more of an ARMA 2 style loading screen (the one with the tanks in the dessert location). After this, it loads our 'lost' characters (lets say this is server connection 2)

What is yet even more strange is when we are on our new characters with a basically empty server (connection 1), we still get server messages of players going offline etc when no other players are around, these are players we presume are the ones that are on connection 2.

Lastly:

I hope some of that makes sense, it's rather confusing. It seems whenever we get the DAYZ loading screen after connecting, it loads our new characters on basically an empty server and when we get the tank loading screen it loads our 'lost' characters on a server that has people. There doesn't seem to be any way to choose which one loads so it's rather annoying if we want to play together using certain characters.

This is the server IP: 5.63.147.44:2302

This is one of the servers that always loads my 'lost' character (or I like to say, my real character): 85.114.152.125:10100

If you were wondering:

All our files and instillations are up to date. We both own legitimate copies of the game, and neither of the 2 servers I've listed there mention that they are 'unofficial' or not connected to the hive.

You could say find another server but then that has been quite a hassle to find one we can both connect to without things going wrong + my friends 'good' character is almost dead so he's not interested in trying to fix him up yet now doesn't want to lose the 'new' character he's got because we've geared up our new ones quite well now.

I can't find a single reference of this happening to someone else on the internet so haven't been able to find any help. Maybe someone on this forum has encountered this before or understands what is going on. I don't care hugely for having 2 characters but I would just like to be able to at least choose which one loads when I connect to that server to play with my friend.

Any ideas? :/

Edited February 14, 2013 by OMG

[DirtyCry 118]

This text is too long!

cant finish reading.... but it sounds like you are playing on two private hives.

[dulix11 731]

Name sounds like a shock site lol...

[OMG (DayZ) 4]

This text is too long!

cant finish reading.... but it sounds like you are playing on two private hives.

Yeah, a long description tends to happen when an issue is slightly more complex than 'bag ate my gun because it was full and i moved it there'.

Also, if you had finished reading you would know that it's not 2 private hives. Connecting to one server seems to randomly load between two different servers, with two different player lists and two different survivor characters yet still display server messages about players who are on the same server yet at the same time, are not. Almost like the 'true' server and a 'ghost' server.

Thanks for trying I guess. I suppose i could attempt to make OP easier to read.