Community Private Hive

[El_bacldoorineo 0]

I've had an idea, don't own a server myself so don't know the ins and outs of what i'm about to say but I will anyway. I think the community should merge all the private hive' and have one huge hive, but whitelisted... hackers are now rendered useless.

Please list the flaws...

[bluuee 10]

Impossibru

[MinDBlanK 16]

A community whitelist, players that are trusted and added to the list by admins would be nice. Regardless of hive it would give all the server admins names to add so that when a private hive goes up there is a potential for anyone who is trusted in the community to join. It wouldn't guarantee a player base but gives all those legit players a chance if they like. Adding something to the server name like

CWL would allow us all to know is we are all able to join.

That would be nice and good for us all i think!

Edited October 6, 2012 by MinDBlanK

[humbleuk 76]

That means only 1 or 2 people would have access to the database though, if every server wanted to merge it would simply become like the offical hive, cheating, ghosting, lameness - everything we work for ruined.

[MinDBlanK 16]

I have guid's I'd put forward no problem and without fear of hacking now or in the future. I don't see a bad reason for having a community whitelist, that we the un-hacking create? One or two people to cimbine it, sure but not have sole access to, think of the wikipedia idea. Sure anyone can add to it, but it can be policed. Would just need someone to organise the list with new and removed names. Criteria like posting here more than once, having someone else vouch for you etc.

The hive - with stored data - is completely different from a community policed/enforced whitelist, surely?

[humbleuk 76]

It is different sure, but people want to customise there own databases - hence why they have private servers.

You'd need someone to host the community whitelist and they wouldn't want multiple people logging into it to add/remove people and of course hackers will always get in, they can easily get whitelisted and ruin your server before you get a chance to sort them out.

I just doubt it will work.

[MinDBlanK 16]

You misunderstand what I think,not a server hosting the only whitelist as you say that isn't ideal no. I think a thread in these forums with admins who have whitelisted players and whom they trust, would just create a large list of guid's no names nothing that could easily be copy pasted to the whitelist txt file. Of cousre, hackers will always get through security, but dayz has a good active server admin unity.

Then others coming here could simply grab the list of players they don't have (all the servers they don't run) and add them to theirs. Server owners who have added their trusted list could then use other trusted lists and just add them to theirs. Adding CWL or something similar to the server names, allows people to know (if they actually use this forum) if they are eligible to play. Could save a lot of administering because everyone would have everyones lists, some might see this as getting other players for their server but if people want to leave they will anyway.

It would give players a much easier way of gaining access to servers because they know they are on the trusted list and just need to search for the servers they know they will be listed on.

Just a thought and probably a bit late considering how close stand alone is but; I don't think it's a bad idea all the same. I probably agree with you about doubting if it could work.

[humbleuk 76]

ah i see what you mean now..

Well i suppose it could work, but distributing it would be the problem i think.

[MinDBlanK 16]

Yea, it would be required to be a fairly popular idea, seems it isn't, judging by the lack of peoples opinions :)