UK120 restarts w/o notice

[gobacktogo 29]

hey,

i am hoping to find the UK120 admin, because their server restarts w/o noticing. atleast this is what i have experienced. suddenly a popup comes up saying 'session lost'. after that for a short while dayz commander can not ping the server (it shows 100k ms ping). then about 1 min later the server comes up again with 0 players (so this def shows the problem is not on my end).

would be nice to get a ~10min notice before restarts. other servers do this too. last time it happend i spawned in debug plains, quickly locked out because i thought maybe this would help, changed servers and spawned in elektro, where i have not been for days.

thanks

[track1044 1]

Not all servers have the possibilty to announce this.

I'm renting a game server from vilayer.com and there is no way to automaticly announce server restarts. I just have it in the MOTD.

Edited August 4, 2012 by track1044

[Aitchy791 78]

actually you can using rcon,, I have a server with vilayer too and we try to announce this,, our restarts are at 6am,2pm and 10pm GMT

obviously its hard to announce the restarts at 6 am manually but we try

to the poster above download this (its the first link in the post)

http://forums.bistud...oming-to-ArmA-2!

run the program and enter your ip,port and rcon password, you can then use this to help with commands

http://community.bis...i/BattlEye#RCon

basically to say a global admin message the command would be :

say -1 Restart in 5 minutes

-1 makes the message global

if you use the command:

players

it will bring you a list of all the players on server and at the start of each line it will give you a number for each player, so say your mate is on the server and his player number is 1, you could send him a private message like so:

say 1 hello

the numbers also work for kicks and bans,,, links explain it all better than I can

To the OP some server have restarts simply because the game is in alpha,,, sometimes it can not be helped due to crashes or cpu issues or whatever

Find yourself a stable server that tells you when the restarts are in the message of the day in the lobby, then its up to you to watch your time and/or calculate when the auto restarts are. Servers are not obliged to warn you before a restart

As for server with hosting companies,,,, we can not promise the server will not restart at random times other than scheduled restarts, this could be down to the server hosting comapny updating our server or having technical issues, the same goes for every other server

Edited August 4, 2012 by Aitchy

[gobacktogo 29]

if its truie that there is no possibility for an automated notice, atleast servers should write the restart times into the MOTD

[track1044 1]

if its truie that there is no possibility for an automated notice, atleast servers should write the restart times into the MOTD

Same servers have the possibilty to do this, but AFAIK its dedicated servers that people own, where they can install something called BEC onto the server which can be set up to make announcements at certain times. e.g. before a server restart or other planned server activites.

[xXdom 5]

Sadly this is something that most admins just have to do their best with. I rent a managed server and I put the restart times in the MOTD, but even then I feel most players are too busy playing the game to remember the times the server restarts. If I am online, I will manually announce the restarts starting 1 hour prior and every 15 minutes thereafter. Once it's 10 minutes, I'll send a message once a minute. I really wish there was a way to automate this.

[intensity (DayZ) 312]

There is through BEC, but it's not that simple. You need to edit scrips and I have done so according to the guide but it just doesn't work. :(