Dear TrEuDaT, admin of US 1343

[DEOVONTAY MCSLANGA 149]

So a few nights ago me and a buddy are playin around on US 1343, gathering loot and making a new camp since our old server no longer exists. We spend most of the day doing that, and later that night my little brother gets on DayZ for the very first time. He logs in just fine, plays for about 30 minutes... and then gets perma-banned. Needless to say, we were kind of confused. Luckily the admin was online, so we chatted him up and he proclaimed that my brother was banned for scripting. After a few hours of negotiations he was unbanned, and we continued to play as usual.

Here's the fun part:

The entire time we were playing the admin would randomly call people out for scripting and ban them, claiming that Battleye had flagged them as hackers. He even called me out and immediately kicked me from the server when I crashed a tractor into a tree. "Battleye says you used a script to destroy a vehicle! Kicked!" This went on pretty much all night, with quite a few people getting banned from the server. Considering how apparently fucking trigger happy this admin was, I'm almost certain none of them were cheating. Now, I'm not saying he wasn't in fast getting reports that showed these people were scripting, but CLEARLY THOSE REPORTS ARE THROWING FALSE POSITIVES. Stop banning people with absolutely no proof.

Here's the punch-line:

Fast forward to last night. Myself, my friend, and my little brother are playing on US 1343 again. None of us really wanted to risk getting perma-banned by the "ERRYBODY'S A SCRIPTER" admin, but we also had a tractor, an ATV, and a sizable loot stash built up and didn't want to lose all that. For about 4 hours everything was cool. Then we saw a helicopter fly over head, shortly after which we all saw a blinding flash, followed by "WELCOME TO THE THUNDER DOME, FIGHT FOR YOUR LIVES" and were teleported to an arena with everyone on the server. No big surprise there, hackers be hackin'. We all instantly alt-f4ed out (don't judge, I think this circumstance justified it), and fearing more hacker divine retribution for all our murders and dayz-sins we logged for the night. I'm thinking, "well, good thing we talked to the admin about all those false positives and stuff! Getting hacked sucks, but at least we can still play on our favorite server!" But no. Fuck no. Perma-banned for some other kid being a dick.

TL;DR

1. Is anyone else experiencing false positives/being banned from servers for doing nothing? This really needs to be fixed, but until then admins need to be aware of this and not just ban everyone who plays on their server. 99% of us aren't hackers. It's bad enough that we're getting hacked on your server, you don't need to follow it up with a giant kick to the balls and ban us too for doing nothing wrong.

2. That thunder dome shit was kind of funny, but hackers are still pricks.

3. Dear TrEuDaT: Bro, I thought we were cool. Don't play me like that bro.

4. Dear forum mods: Don't feed me that "without screenshots this is just trolling" bullshit. When I'm getting teleported into the god damn thunder dome I'm not thinking "well shit I should probably screenshot this!". I'm mashing alt-f4 and hoping that at most I get to keep my backpack.

[urspider2018@gmail.com 109]

While I don't approve of the thunder dome it does seem like an interesting concept.

May the games be ever in your favor.

[DEOVONTAY MCSLANGA 149]

While I don't approve of the thunder dome it does seem like an interesting concept.

May the games be ever in your favor.

Yeah we laughed pretty hard about it. At least some hackers have a sense of humor.

Laughing abruptly stopped when I was unjustly banned away from my loot stash and vehicles though. I spent my only day off this week gathering that shit :(

[puppetworx 474]

Sounds like that server is a huge scripting target. You're probably better off without it.

[Lennsik 176]

Sounds like an pretty dickish Admin.

[mtreusdell@knology.net 12]

Give me you and your friends GUID and I'll reinstate you. If you took the time to post this and because you weren't a dooche about it, I'll get you fellas back in.

Your buddies were showing up with lots of crazy scripts and I'm being safe. Because the admin community has very limited tools as well as information to analyze scripts, I ban for the following...

1. Any attempt to access the panel

2. Scripts I know for certain are hacks

3. Scripts I have not been able to determine are hacks, but look very conspicuous

Homie don't play right now...

[Dingus (DayZ) 429]

4. Dear forum mods: Don't feed me that "without screenshots this is just trolling" bullshit. When I'm getting teleported into the god damn thunder dome I'm not thinking "well shit I should probably screenshot this!". I'm mashing alt-f4 and hoping that at most I get to keep my backpack.

Here's what I will feed you.

Here is where you request an appeal for a ban from server admins: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/forum/18-ban-appeals/

Here is where you submit reports on server admin abuse: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/forum/46-server-reporting/

Any allegations or accusations outside of that are not welcome.

Closing.