HFBServers.com time issue

[Torndeco (DayZ) 46]

Ordered a server & was up fast enough considering i ordered on a weekend i believe.

Just got minor issues wondering if anyone ran into before

Anyway ever had issue with thier control panel ?

Its showing stats for someone elses server & info i.e cpu players ip

But the config tools / start / stop are for the right server.

Ticket opened & no answer yet :(

Server Time ?

Ordered a UTC-4 but from what i see ingame & from cfgdayz\server_console.log

When it should be 1pm,

ingame its 1am i.e right time on watch but dark (other people report the same) as hell right time on 12h watch and servers logs indicate its 0100

Got a answer that made no sense from support ticket

"The logs display the time of the dedicated box which changes every time a server on that box restarts. The time stamps on the logs are incorrect."

I cant make sense of the above they really reset server time when it restarts ??

Anyway coming accross this before, or know a decent datacentre can rent a dedicated box with decent pings for eu + us players.

Am getting 100-120 ping from a chicago -> eu and nice pings for us players... its the time off by 12 hours that is killin me + a deal breaker atm

Edited July 17, 2012 by Torndeco

[LiamFrazer 15]

I'm with HFB and I've noticed when searching through my logs that the server either has decided to skip a few hours or just decided not to log it. Restarting the server also makes it daylight, something that happens often during the restart I do when I wake up.

I would just wait for a response or jump on their teamspeak for support, ts.hfbservers.com .

[Torndeco (DayZ) 46]

Already tried to stop / start the server. and restarting it with no success...

and tried support tickets.

But thx i try teamspeak address tomorrow...

[Adron 42]

Vilayer.com

[Sanadorn 6]

My HFB hosted server does this as well... If I restart it it will sync with it's time-zone but time passes extremely slowly like 1 hour in game being 6 or 7 real world hours. I have no access to anything to even try to trouble shoot this because HFB locks literally everything down... wish I'd known ahead of time because my players are getting really frustrated and HFB staff is way overloaded since admins can't actually solve anything themselves by-design... odd as hell.

HFB had a pretty long thread on their internal forums about it but the forums are down today. We can't seem to alter any difficulty settings either like enabling or disabling the weapon crosshairs or waypoint markers. I'm pretty sure these things are related because some friends of mine that run a different server with HFB but for considerably longer did *not* have issues until the "lock it down" ultimatum came from DayZ Mod staff.

Couple of people abusing causing major over reactions and trouble for a heck of a lot of legit users... an old and well-worn story.

[Torndeco (DayZ) 46]

Tried vilayer but unfortunately its a balance act tryin to find a server with decent ping for eu players & us players...

HFB Chicago server = 100-110ms for eu players

Vilayer NY = hovers around 130 ingame but spikes up 190ms.... most likely a routing issue from my isp -> ny somewhere along the way.

Anyway if cant get time issue solved guess i have to give up & consider a dedicated box :\

Edited July 17, 2012 by Torndeco

[LiamFrazer 15]

HFB had a pretty long thread on their internal forums about it but the forums are down today. We can't seem to alter any difficulty settings either like enabling or disabling the weapon crosshairs or waypoint markers. I'm pretty sure these things are related because some friends of mine that run a different server with HFB but for considerably longer did *not* have issues until the "lock it down" ultimatum came from DayZ Mod staff.

They forgot to make each difficulty editable, I was told to stick the server on Recruit mode until they fix it, fixed the issue for now.

[joikd 25]

Recruit mode did not work for me. Everything is still enabled in-game even though it is disabled in the control panel.

Edited July 17, 2012 by joikd

[Sanadorn 6]

They forgot to make each difficulty editable, I was told to stick the server on Recruit mode until they fix it, fixed the issue for now.

Liam by setting it on recruit you were able to TURN OFF weapon cross hairs, waypoints and all the rest of the game-aids?

[LiamFrazer 15]

Allowed me to turn both waypoints and death messages on, I just thought it would work the opposite way around too

[Sanadorn 6]

Just tried it... unfortunately it does not work the opposite way.

The cfgdayz file settings are completely ignored or are being superseded... but due to the lock down I can't see any files to even begin troubleshooting. bleh.

Set everything in the "difficult form" to 0 and it's all still on. The most annoying game-aide by far is the mouse-over name highlighting and it's causing a bit of player rage over here :(

[Yanse 2]

I just died to nameplating on my veteran server...makes me want to cancel with HFB and just get my own box...shit like this shouldnt be happening...why didnt they atleast test the form before putting it out...sigh...owel was a good test to see what you get for $35/m, $75 for a dedicated is way more economic than this horrible admin control abuse.

[s0ulassassin 11]

I've about had it with HFB and the total lack of customer support from them.

For the past couple days now my server has been set to regular difficulty and nothing I do fixes it. I know I am not the only one with this issue.. When HFB's forums were up I started a thread about this very issue and only one person from HFB said anything about it and he didn't even address the issue..

Guess I am just gonna switch to Vilayer at the end of the month.

[tehjeffman 72]

I set up a restart for ever 6 hours 3am 9am 3pm 9pm cst (server is pst so 1am 7am 1pm 7pm server time) and put a log in note letting people know. Is the best way i have found to make the day flow right.