So....What the heck??

[XOLiD 102]

Me and a couple buddies started playing DayZ again a couple days ago, found a nice public hive server (US 2705) to start playing on again and it was going really well. Found new loot, learned about crafting, about how you can finally switch between an axe and main weapon without putting one away, and many other things. Ended up managing to find a nice truck that only needed slight repairs by cherno and started driving that around, found out that the bug where if you drive up to a city or something and no loot spawns is still active... Looted Cherno for a while, accidentally axed my friend in the face and had to get all his gear back, then parked the truck in a discrete location and logged for the night.

 

Came back and the truck was still there today when we started playing again, going around collecting vehicle parts, food, etc., and noticed the admin of the server and two other guys were constantly dying/getting kicked by BattlEye, at the time we made nothing of it. Then when we were on a trip back from Berizino heading to Cherno, we just got around the Elektro mountain and noticed there were two plumes of smoke, like downed choppers, and we thought, "holy crap, never seen downed choppers this close to Elektro before!" So we proceed to check them out and as it turns out, they weren't downed choppers at all, they were crashed AIRPLANES... At that point we were putting the pieces together and realized the admin of the server was spawning in vehicles for him and his friends, on a PUBLIC HIVE server...

 

Never the less, we still proceeded to stay on that server as we loved our truck deeply and hadn't had a multi-passenger vehicle capable of carrying gear before. Then as we were heading through Elektro, up to the factory south of Berizino to look for car parts, we noticed another plume of smoke, this time on the eastern fire station, we figured the admin was still screwing around and continued through unfortunately... As we were almost all the way through Elektro we heard an explosion, and noticed 2 or 3 guys all in ghillie suits in some makeshift target practice area that isn't normally in Elektro. We panicked and I started to turn the truck around away from them. but by then it was too late and we started taking a ton of DMR shots, they shot one guy out of the back of our truck, I proceeded to get kicked from the server, and the third guy managed to abort before he got hit.

 

Now we all know that these guys died multiple times on the server, along with the admin spawning in gear for them as well as the airplanes, what I don't understand is, are admins normally this abusive now? Can they just spawn in a ton of gear for them/their friends and then server hop and go around killing people, and then switch back to their server and get gear again if they die? I hadn't realized the mod has gotten this bad in the time we weren't playing it.

 

So now I guess we're going to look for another server to play on, we're not sure if we want to stay playing on the public hive anymore though with this crap going on...

 

Also, I'd recommend avoiding the server "US 2705" unless you want to hunt guys like that.

Edited October 12, 2013 by XOLiD

[Skypill 399]

If you can, get some video proof of the admins spawning things in, then report the server.

[Diggydug (DayZ) 331]

The only public hive I play on is US 3480, and I'm pleased with the admins there. Give it a shot if you want to stick to public hives.

[klesh 2423]

The only public hive I play on is US 3480, and I'm pleased with the admins there. Give it a shot if you want to stick to public hives.

We tried it last night. There were shenanigans afoot. Not by the admins, but shenanigans nonetheless. We won't be returning.

[beavis_5000 111]

We tried it last night. There were shenanigans afoot. Not by the admins, but shenanigans nonetheless. We won't be returning.

 

 

 

 

 

What type of shenanigans? I was on there last night.

[TG ! Jimmy 216]

The only public hive I play on is US 3480, and I'm pleased with the admins there. Give it a shot if you want to stick to public hives.

Thank you for the recommendation--we do what we can to run a tight ship.  There's only so much we can do, admittedly.  Hope to see you and your crew around frequently!

 

Cheers,

Jimmy

[NagsterTheGangster 388]

Well fuck, avoiding that server then... Unless I could grab some of that spawned loot off them.... ;)

[Forgewolf 70]

If I was an admin of a server, this is what I would do. Spawn a single chopper in the middle of the map, mark it for everyone to see. Hoping that'll distract everyone as they fight over it, I go in and snag the loots around the map. Then escape in that chopper that I spawned in the middle of the map, because everyone was dying for it : )