Duping - Please elaborate

[raftermanDK 0]

Im enjoying this game very much and have recently teamed up with 4 other guys to make a camp and get a hold of a vehicle.

Searching for other camps, me and my group came across 2 tents, stuffed with rare silenced m4's and other goodies. I am aware of how duping works (watched how to on youtube) and considering how some people are saying you can get banned for carrying hacked in weapons, im wondering what the rules are for using items that other people might have been duping. And in the end, can the dupers themselves get banned? I have searched the report section and general section for answers but i couldnt find anything on this topic.

Cheers.

[luxis (DayZ) 0]

as far I know, duping is not illegal, however, it is a bug and it should get fixed within the next patch. The only thing I can tell you is, you won't get banned for carrying a hacked weapon.

< Reason > simple, if you kill a guy that hacked it i.e "AS50 TWS" it isn't your fault it is in the server.

[random51 172]

You don't get banned for using hacked in weapons.

You get banned---supposedly---for hacking the weapons in yourself.

Rocket has already stated this quite clearly. Just do a search to find exactly what he said.

You most likely won't get banned for using in-game dupes. If they banned for that they'd have to ban just about everybody who plays DayZ because it is hard to avoid duping during normal gameplay. There are enough bugs that it just happens.

[Jackftw 310]

as far I know, duping is not illegal, however, it is a bug and it should get fixed within the next patch. The only thing I can tell you is, you won't get banned for carrying a hacked weapon.

< Reason > simple, if you kill a guy that hacked it i.e "AS50 TWS" it isn't your fault it is in the server.

Rocket already said its impossible to fix duping since its a bug within the arma engine.

[raftermanDK 0]

It makes sense as far as the hacked items will not result in a ban. I hope the issue of duping will get fixed soon, and I know im not the only one. The game is giving me great satisfaction as it is now, I can't wait for it to go into beta stage.

[random51 172]

As long as tents/vehicles require a manual save process duping is going to be part of dayz.

Rocket has already said that he can't fix all of the duping in the mod because the problem isn't in the mod, it is in Arma II and/or the underlying engine.

Edited August 5, 2012 by random51

[raftermanDK 0]

You don't get banned for using hacked in weapons.

You get banned---supposedly---for hacking the weapons in yourself.

Rocket has already stated this quite clearly. Just do a search to find exactly what he said.

You most likely won't get banned for using in-game dupes. If they banned for that they'd have to ban just about everybody who plays DayZ because it is hard to avoid duping during normal gameplay. There are enough bugs that it just happens.

I do believe there is a lot of duped items in the game. I must have accidentially duped a lot of things before i became aware of how easy it is to pull off. I just hope i have a strong enough constitution to NOT dupe that special pair of NVG's (once i find them :P). The thing is for me, I find it hard not to get tempted to dupe a good weapon or backpack for my samll group, when you constantly run into people duping themselves. I am aware of how lame this attitude is, but I too am just human.