Official code of conduct with hacked items?

[SpottedBill 1]

Two friends and I had our inventories wiped and switched on the "BE 3" server last night by hackers. I'd assume the hackers changed everyone's inventory on the server. All three of us suddenly had AS50 TWS (not even in the game?) and full gear with NV goggles and range finders and so on.

Our current characters have survived hacker stuff before as well, and we're at 30+ days right now. Last hacker incident before this was a mass teleport to Skalisty Island that caused us to lose our equipment in the end. It's a shame that the influx of players has brought so much of this abuse, but we soldier on from death to death.

Is there an official code of conduct with these items? Clearly the illegal AS50 TWS rifles have to be duped somewhere, but can we keep legal items as replacements to the things we lost?

Of course, if no official word is available, advice is always welcome.

[Hendrix27 54]

If a Admin sees you with that gun, he will probably ban you. Other than that, I suppose you could keep the items if you wanted.

[Disgraced 1123]

I would advise keeping the stuff that's in the database. Rangefinders, nvg... As50 and so forth.

If its obviously not in the database, particularly if it doesn't have correct icons and text... Either tell your server admin (if possible) or drop it on a zombie body and then hide it.

[Scrumilation 16]

Advice = don't get his gun, but it's kinda hard to think on non-getting it while you know that there may be people on the server with it and it can be unfair against you, but it can also be unfair for you agains other people so it's basicly your decision, it's not a good idea to get hacked weapons tho

[speca 193]

If the weapons are hacked uns that are not in the game? I would ditch it straight away, you will get called a hacker and even reported on the fourms I someone kills you and finds that shit on you, as for hacked, in game items, well ou can never really tell can you?

So for your case, ditch the AS50 in a zombie body and click the hide body option, this will stop any other player from having it...

[VitaminK 6]

Rule on my server is to just hide the body, wether you spawned it in or someone else matters not.

[Taso (DayZ) 13]

Rocket's official position is that you cannot be banned from Arma II. You can, however, get banned on an individual server if an admin kills you, finds your gun, and manages to remember your name well enough to ban you.

Keeping hacked items is not a bannable offense. Just a morally grey area.

[echosyp 56]

Like everyone else said drop the weapon that was spawned by a "Cheater". As no hacking skills was required they are considered cheaters instead.

Keep everything else and have fun with it. As stated over and over. U can't get in trouble for that stuff.

[SpottedBill 1]

Thanks for all the responses and advice, guys. We'll be ditching the rifles that aren't in the mod and everything else that feels like cheating to us and go on our way. Also good to hear we're not in danger of being banned because of being victims of a cheater.