PlayerUID same for multiple users, but have different keys.

[dlenoxx 0]

I'm just wanting to see if the community has run across this issue (as it was suppose to be fixed with a previous patch of ArmA2) and if they have any ideas on correcting it.

I am running a DayZ server and have gotten reports that a few players can not login and are getting an error message that says that the 'CD Key is in use'. I dismissed it as just, "Oh they're just using a keygen or something and someone already has it." Well I kept getting these reports so I looked into it and had a few people send me the registry file that contains the key for ArmA2OA.

Sure enough, every player had a different key, and when I checked the MySQL character_data table I had a very high number of identical PlayerUIDs. It's either someone never stopped playing this game and sucked at it, or I/we have an issue.

I've found PlayerUID spoofers that would be an easy work around but may also expose the game to other types of hacks in-game. Each player (three of them so far that I know of) all have separate, completely different, keys but when they log in their PlayerUID is the same.

Any one else run into a similar issue?

[ankiltareum 4]

Hello,

I got just the same issue with my roomate. We both bought arma 2 on 2 different steam accounts buto we cant connect on the same serveur (the second one to connect gets a "you have been kicked from the game" message. Also, when one of us d/c while the other is playing, he'll get the other person's character when he reconnects.

This is getting pretty annoying, not be able to play together is nothing compared to the frustration of never keeping a character after a d/c.

I am no informatician, but this seem like an ip adress problem, of the fact that we are playing on the same connection. I tried to use a proxy on my computer, letting my roomate on our home ip adress but it hasn't worked.

I must add that we have this problem only since build 90208 of the beta.

If anyone has a solution it would be very nice to help us cuz we're a bit desperate.

Thank you by advance for your support and please excuse my english (if something appears not clear i'll be glad to detail it again).

Ankil

Edited July 21, 2012 by ankiltareum