Shutting Down DE4 : 16th Aug.....

[MarKeR (DayZ) 57]

After some thought, I have decided to close down DE4...

I have had the server since 1.5, at one point the server was number 2 in the world on gametrackers list of servers! This is when the problems really started, the amount of hackers coming onto the server went crazy, so crazy on fact that it dropped to number 99...

After some work by myself and a few other admins, we eventually got back inot the top twenty, again DE4 was targeted by the hackers, we are back down at number 150 now!!

I have always tried to keep my server clean of hacked weapons, dupers, scripters, used to spend at least an hour a night trawling logs, google searching to make sure the bans were justified..

Eventually it all got too much, the lack of support for admins is the main reason for closing it down.. The abusive emails from people I have banned was a fucking joke to be honest!

I want to say thanks to my host, kocheffel of dao.nu, he has been the best server host I have had in 15 years of renting servers!!

I sincerely hope that DayZ goes on to something better than this, but I have my doubts, as the server owners are treated with the utmost contempt by the majority of players out there!!

Cheers

[Lith 80]

I feel you. My public server was in the 20s too and seemed like the hacking was just getting worse and worse. I'm running Santuary now and it's much better and easier to track dupers/hackers since I can look in the database.