A plea to Rocket: Fix What's Broken or Let Us Help

[deathTouch (DayZ) 17]

Bumping for the greater good.

Hacking is becoming rampant. People say its alpha and want my alpha tester input? Ok here it is: The game has been compromised by hackers to an extent such that I can no longer alpha test the experience that is supposed to be Dayz. I can't keep gear longer than a few hours before I encounter a hacker at this point.

Give server admins the ability to ban players, period. Will some abuse this power? Absolutely, and those servers can be identified by the sheer volume of complaints from the general public. Players will learn to avoid those servers, Dayz staff can blasklist them, and people will flock to the servers with admins who take swift action against hackers to ensure a fair playing environment.

It is in the Dayz community, and consequently Rocket's best interest to allow self-policing of servers at this point. We as players can then go back to testing and enjoying the game in its current state.

These last few weeks have made it clear that neither the dev team nor BE can anticipate and protect the general playing public from hackers in this game. Accept this fact (at least for the time being), and allow for the next best option: creating a percentage of servers that can insulate players interested in playing and testing in a near hack-free environment through appropriate server-level policing.

Edited July 20, 2012 by deathTouch

[-E-Claymore 22]

Bumping for the greater good...

It is in the Dayz community, and consequently Rocket's best interest to allow self-policing of servers at this point. We as players can then go back to testing and enjoying the game in its current state.

Thanks for the bump and endorsement deathTouch.

I've been doing a LOT more reading on the forums and the general theme I've seen is that server admins can ban players, but they'd better have proof in the form of video, screenshots, server logs, etc..

While I can't monitor the server all of the time, I'm making it a habit to have Fraps recording, as well as streaming the BE scripts log, while I'm playing. Once I'm done for the day, I can delete the video files if I didn't see or hear about anything odd, but if something comes up, I'm covered. Pretty sure the other admins on the server will be doing the same thing, so I can only hope we'll create an environment that's far less desirable for the hackers to play in.