DE7 Admin abuse

[h0llyw00d 0]

I was playing DayZ today (12 june 2012 16:15 UTC+1) And climbed into a deer stand near Vyshnoye and all of a sudden there appeared a survivor in front of me and he started shooting at me, I then returned fire with my m4a1 and made a couple of headshots. after i made 3-4 headshots on the guy. I got killed by him, and in the left corner of the game was a message telling me not too shoot any admins when they are working.

greetings,

h0llyw00d

[mansen 1]

Pants on head retardation - but all you have is a nice story, no proof of any kind to back up your claim - as horrid as the admin abuse (possibly) was.

[illuminati (DayZ) 0]

Happened to me as well. So I can backup this story.

[Legacy (DayZ) 1091]

You can not truly 'back up this story' without proper proof.

Oh and admins can not teleport. However it won't stop the developers from looking into the logs, the time you gave it was a good thing that you did. It was probably a cheater instead of an admin.

[koenigscat 10]

Legacy, I believe that that 'teleport' you're talking about is just lag. Even on the best connected servers there seems to be a very common issue with player positions and/or movement. So it could be that the player positions just got 'updated'.

[tomfin 25]

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tl;dr:

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I suspect it's a waste of my time to try to help here, but I occasionally play on DE7 and grow tired of this kind of attitude - not only against DE7 but many other servers and admins too.

...all of a sudden there appeared a survivor in front of me and he started shooting at me

This is most probably due to desync and server lag' date=' which has been rampant these last 48 hours.

If you played in a group, you'd appreciate this and would be used to seeing your friends running wildly into the open, driving off cliffs, and suddenly appearing next to you without warning. Other survivors are not always where they appear on your screen, especially when the servers are operating under heavy load. This is often indicated by the yellow and red chain icons on your screen.

I then returned fire with my m4a1 and made a couple of headshots. after i made 3-4 headshots on the guy. I got killed by him

Desync, desync,

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You probably both died from this encounter; from your description it sounds like you both emptied a full clip into each other, but the server took some time to update each of your client machines with this information.

and in the left corner of the game was a message telling me not too shoot any admins when they are working.

The crux of the matter. You are saying you believe the admin has cheated and killed you because you saw this message appear after you died, and you came here to take action against them outside of the gameworld.

Correlation is not causation. That notice is the message-of-the-day and is shown every 15 minutes, whether you have just been killed or not. Here it is again:

I'm not a server admin anywhere but I can understand and appreciate that "don't kill admins when working" means when an admin is taking care of server-related maintenance (which benefits a player like yourself) you are kindly asked not to kill them while they are AFK in a corner or alt-tabbed back to desktop. Nobody can make you do the honourable thing anyway so it's really just a matter of courtesy. When you see them moving around please feel free to light them up - I'm quite sure they will happily return fire and you can settle your differences there and then.

These admins on DayZ servers all over the world are providing somewhere for you to play at their own expense, and the DayZ dev team work hard to develop this free mod and separate some signal from noise in this forum. You (and not only you but many others just like you) come in here to return the favour by wasting everyone's time with accusations of cheating and abuse - without so much as a screenshot or a player name to support you, no real complaint of any merit, and virtually no understanding of the state of this mod or the game engine mechanics that we're all trying to deal with as best we can.

I enjoy playing on DE7 among others because it DOES encourage co-operative play over simple PVP, and this encouragement goes for both friendly survivors and bandits who work together. I would love to see more organised bandit and survivor groups forming in all servers, as I believe this is within the true spirit of the mod as I understand it. You would also become more familiar with the state-of-the-art through discussion with your fellow players and better informed for the time when you make your next forum post.

Alternately, just keep crying. I've heard that every tear shed is the rough equivalent of 10 lines of development code committed.

I apologise for the rant, but if you enjoy DayZ in its current state and want to contribute to this mod becoming a fully-fledged experience then you're going to have to meet people halfway. Accept that things are going to go technically wrong from time to time and that it's completely out of your control.

Or as a soldier in another universe once said, "Take your lumps like a man, Private Twinkle-Toes".

That is all.

Edited August 1, 2012 by tomfin

[mansen 1]

The "No admin killing" rule is impossible to uphold - most servers don't have nametags and admins shouldn't be ingame at all anyway while "performing maintenance". If they have to log in and test anything they need to lock off the server, do their business, and the the players back in.

[tomfin 25]

The "No admin killing" rule is impossible to uphold - most servers don't have nametags and admins shouldn't be ingame at all anyway while "performing maintenance". If they have to log in and test anything they need to lock off the server' date=' do their business, and the the players back in.[/quote']

Nobody can make you do the honourable thing anyway so it's really just a matter of courtesy.

Agreed. But in a perfect world, eh? ;)

[Legacy (DayZ) 1091]

I imagine the "Don't kill the admin" is a request and not a rule.

[mansen 1]

It does clearly state "RULES" in the picture. Request or otherwise I think we can agree that it is misleading if anything, hehe.

[Throbin 14]

tldr

An admin will clearly state if he is working via the chat. If he does not, feel free to kill him.

Please do no accuse my staff or myself of hacking without messaging me first.

Thanks