Admin abuse or paranoia?

[roccoc@gmail.com 11]

Is it worth the time / effort to report servers that get locked immediately after a restart for about 5 minutes? Ive noticed it happens sometimes and I dont even know if this is admin abuse or something the servers do automatically or what.

The reason I think it may be abuse is because after the 5 minutes were up I joined the server with some friends anyway and we looted the town but I got sniped in a grocery store from across the street. I lost my DMR but managed to respawn back at town and run back to the grocery store and retrieve my DMR thanks to my friends suppressive fire. However I still managed to get sniped again because I was in the same spot for too long looting unnecessary shit from my corpse. This time though they locked the server again until (I presume) they looted my DMR and exited the server.

Edited July 23, 2012 by goodfellarocco

[okano666@hotmail.co.uk 81]

locked the server for a DMR ?

DMR's crap anyway

[Virfortis 111]

Servers can be restarted and locked for about 5 minutes after restart ONLY to check to see if tents and the like are still working. (that is to my known ability, I may be wrong)

During the restart, your corpse was wiped, so no it would have done them no good to restart for your rifle alone. You probably were engaging just at the server restart timer hit.

Edited July 23, 2012 by Virfortis

[Levias 28]

DMR is the only sniper where NVG's can be used.

[noobfun 87]

paranoid, servers often lock for a couple of minutes on restart to check everythings fine, if its locking for 15-20 minutes its a bit dicey

and as said your body would despawn on restart so ..

[Daddy'o (DayZ) 146]

Many servers run an automatic system that locks the server when too many people are trying to connect at once. It's to spread the traffic on a wider time span so the server doesn't lag out.