DayZ Zombie Mod for Arma 2

Unavailable wrote: »

ALSO , you were asking us for donations when in fact your donations that you recieved already from players well exceed's the server cost and yet you still look for it off players, may i just add , BAD FORM.
i know you will come up with a (cough) "reason" for asking like , we keep it incase we gona open another server or a bigger server or some ****e.

How about this then; Villian ran the German server out of his own pocket while waiting for 2 weeks for the DayZ team to get the finger out.

Don't comment on stuff you don't know about, you only end up embarrasing yourself.

PM Villian for PayPal details.

Unavailable wrote: »

So, you run the server.

You restart it when you feel like,
Put locks on it when you feel like it for "testing" but nothing to test, and dont say there is
cause the dev's have test servers and any patch that comes out that you have to (cough) "test" is stupid, if there is another bug, what the hell can ye do? nothing.
So

Conclusion
A) lock the server with a password and horde horde horde (which i think 95% people that aint in the little boards girls group will agree with)

or

You have virtual sex sessions with each other when you lock the server (totally your own business )#


ALSO , you were asking us for donations when in fact your donations that you recieved already from players well exceed's the server cost and yet you still look for it off players, may i just add , BAD FORM.
i know you will come up with a (cough) "reason" for asking like , we keep it incase we gona open another server or a bigger server or some ****e.

ALSO, reserving slots for people is against the game rules and your server can be completly banned for this, best part is, You can ban me from Boards.ie, but not from the game

Well dont play on your server anyways anymore , cause of how AWEFULL its run by the mods so not like i mind anyways, Enjoying my ban already .
But at least i got to say what everyone was thinking.

Regards,
MR. BOOMBASTIC

lol

The Server has only been locked a hand full of times for testing and that testing has resulted in us rolling back a few times. The updates between 1.7.1 and 1.7.1.5 were awful so we didn't use them yet they passed Rockets limited testing. He has learnt from that and 1.7.2 is slower to be released because of it. We have NEVER locked the server to exploit it.

The costs of the server are just over €100 a month, this month we had the cost of two servers as we migrated to a physical server, the cost includes Server 2008 R2 License. I also had to pay for the KVM connection so I could configure the BIOS etc.

In total the costs so far are €335 the donations total €425, however paypal deducts fee's so while I add €10 to the spreadsheet thats not what I get into my account so the total received is under €400.

I have stated several times in the past that any money donated will be used to keep the server online for as long as possible i.e. it rolls over I haven't made a cent from it and I won't. I have however spent a lot of my own time on getting the servers working and tweaking them.

You on the other hand want to twist the truth and moan, some people just use servers others provide them. I went to the effort of providing one while you just play and moan.

Mance Rayder wrote:

As a network engineer let me be the first to say that if a server can't handle 40 hosts, then you need a new server. Judging by the income Villain has made, he is well on the way to being able to buy a nice new one.

From a network engineers point of view you may well be correct however the bandwidth usage is quite high over 1TB a month for 40 slots. From a server point of view however it is quite a bit more complex the server is resource hungry with most servers set to automatically restart every 3 hours due to the resources the server uses. The server I moved to has an i7 980x with an 120GB SSD hard drive and 24GB of RAM and is able to handle the 40 slots the previous one had to be restricted to 35 and wasn't half as quick.

I'm staying away from this thread for a while now because some people are just ignorant to the actual setup here and just want to have a good old moan and slag someone off from behind their keyboard. If others want to provide a server, feel free because to be honest I'm sick of all the moaning cry babies.

Andrew76 wrote: »

Is DayZ back to normal after that DDoS attack does anyone know or are there still problems with people spawning without gear etc? I haven't been able to log on in a while but afraid to in case I lose my average gear.

I logged on last night for the first time since Friday and it was fine for me still had all my gear and spawned where I logged out.
Saying that, ping seems to be terrible at the moment, I know its always fairly bad but it usually fluctuates now I'm just getting a steady 260 ping constant.
So I can't play until I get that fixed.

Mance Rayder wrote: »

By the way has anyone suggested a boards subforum for DayZ yet????

It's starting to get confusing. If we had a sub-forum we could sticky set up instructions and FAQ's. Have a Sticky for gaming anecdotes, another for servers and tech issues, etc etc.

Yeah was talking about this eariler but could not fin the suggestion forums. We have boards for stuff like guitar hero, we should have one for a game as popular as this.

After being murdered dozens of times I finally found someone sneaking around with an assault rifle, shot him a few times with my pistol and down he went. Was getting ready to scavenge his body but of course it disappears Sore loser disconnecting

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Did you get his name? That's bannable.

Mance Rayder wrote: »

I was wondering if that was bannable, It's such an exploit.

You wont see the name, Alt tab out and get the exact time.

post it here or in the tactical shooter forum and we will take care of it.

Villain wrote: »

If you want to report the server for been locked while testing to mammy work away, however next time you are looking for a server to join check out how many are locked or password protected first

Taken from; http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=9427

Can I host a server for my clan?

Yes, you can. We encourage clans to set up a server to act as their home.

What you cannot do, however, is to restrict the server to your clan only. The gameplay of DayZ involves conflict between survivors as well as zombies, and restricting a server to a single clan would take away this aspect of the gameplay. It would also allow the clan to farm gear without risking interference from other players, which would give them an unfair advantage.

Seems the ban hammer will be coming soon to the password protected servers...

the_syco wrote: »

Taken from; http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=9427

Seems the ban hammer will be coming soon to the password protected servers...

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=26110

That's only for servers that have a permanent password. Admins can password their servers for a length of time assuming they will unlock after. Also I suggest everyone reads what admins can and cannot do, will cut down on the bitching.

Enough about server talk. I won't get online again until the weekend, if I am lucky, so yous should be happy about that Can a mod not put sticky type material in the OP so new players don't have to ask FAQ like where to get mod etc.

What's up with it being dark all day, I was on about 2 and again at 4 for a second and it was still dark. It is meant to be -5 hours so shouldn't in have been light then?