US 488 Closure - 5th event triggering several disheartening hate-mail

[VLG Castiel 3]

TL;DR: Flak from the community passed the limits.

Closure

This post (and a follow-up on the community website) marks the closure of US 488. We MAY have it be picked up by someone else, but to be safe, I recommend taking all your things out of the server as soon as you can and enjoy your vehicles for the time it still has (server will run for another month) - Even if that is to happen, there'll likely be a week-long downtime in the process.

Reason

Paying and maintaining DayZ servers has officially given more pain than pleasure over time, I don't know how it is to fellow server admins out there (a considerably few now that there are thousands of servers), but over the course of these few months the small community supporting this has been endlessly trashed and received a tremendous amount of hate-mail. Admin access is locked to a grand total of two members. However, guaranteeing there's no admin abuse doesn't mean you're not going to be called on it. It's just something we have to accept and move on from and frankly, the time those things have taken from us is unbearable, even further affecting the rest of the members of the small community for the flexible users who can find them elsewhere through their nicknames and harass them there (it's that bad).

Latest Example

< removed > - After over 20 mails filled with profanity, the maker of the semi-popular video formally apologized for his mistake.

To avoid having a server with inactive admins (that tends to lead to a hacker-heaven despite BattlEye's best continued efforts), we're not just ignoring everything and let it be an abandoned home for those of us who play (especially new-found members that have sticked around). We're closing it and possibly moving the donation to a different game.

Thanks for the support so far and for playing in our servers these last months.

Edited August 29, 2012 by VLG Castiel

[soapmak3r 677]

I saw no indication that it was admin abuse. Everything in that video is based on assumption. I'd imagine if the admins were hacking and that was really their camp, they would have had much better gear there than they did.

[HowieStern 0]

I am a active player on this server with 4 other friends, playing under the tag SnB. I was on the server while this was happening, there was no admin abuse it was strickly hackers enjoying themsevles with 30+ players on a server.