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[Nega]

Today, I just joined the group, because I'm planning on playing again after a long haitus. What's changed over the past couple of months?

[Bilbo991]

I just got Arma II combined ops from the steam sale, and I was wondering if the server is still active?

[Mono124]

It should be except for when it crashed (damn you people with invalid characters in your names)

[Bilbo991]

Y'all aren't the kind of people that shoot noobs on sight are you? The last server I was on was horrid in that aspect.

[Mono124]

A ton of people play on it, so I can't account for everyone, but as long as you generally say you are friendly, you probably won't die. Probably.

[Bilbo991]

Well, that's the best I can ask for!!

[Scoops Novel]

So, are we plaaning on havng a server for the standalone, and if so, any word on how many people we could jury-rig it to support?

[Mono124]

Right now my server for the mod is down, mostly due to the fact that getting rid of hackers in nigh impossible (and they are crashing it every 10 minutes with invalid object IDs). I *could* host a standalone server, maybe. It all depends on if I can make a private hive, and if I can't make a private hive, what kind of rules are being placed on official hive servers. The server hardware could hold 80ish people, but my internet can be a butt sometimes, so depending on how much is being sent over my network, it could realistically hold 30 (tons being sent) to about 50 (very little being sent). If my dad wasn't hosting websites and mailservers, I could probably run at 80 people, but he is, so sadly I have to limit my traffic to the server. It also depends on if he ever flipping gives me access to put the server on it's own external IP and not in the network, because before I took it offline, the dayz mod server could only hold 25ish before my horribly optimized network would slow packets down to nothing and everyone would have a ping of 1000+ (including me... playing on lan).

EDIT: Actually just for grins I put it back up, until it crashes.

[Absolute Niro]

Does anyone know if the standalone will be coming out anytime soon? I've wanted to try DayZ for a while now but I hear lots of stories about hackers script kiddies and stuff. Just to confirm I visited MPGH and apparently there are still "instantly murder everyone" scrips that work, freely available on the forums.

[Mono124]

It's all pure speculation. If enough people want me to, or if you would like to just play alone (and maybe with me and a bud in like 4 hours or so) I could set the server up with a passcode, keeping everyone out except people I explicitly let in.

[ScriptWolf]

its in closed beta now i think stress testing the servers, if i remember he said a bit after that has finished.


also glad you did not call them hackers they would not know hacking if it smacked them in the face.

[Mono124]

Where are you getting your news from? I'm not saying that it isn't right (if you think I am, sorry), I just want to know so I can lurk it. 

I call them hackers because it's easier than calling them script kiddies. Anyway, when I generally play my server I go on and start calling people script kiddies and cussing people out in russian, then banning all the people that spawn behind me and try to godmode pwn me.

[ScriptWolf]

standalone blog = http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/

to lazy to find it its there somewhere

[Absolute Niro]

Hmm. I guess a private server would be pretty cool, although it would probably be pretty boring with just a few people.  If we could get a decent amount of trusted players it might be fun.

Cool to hear the standalone might be coming out within the next eternity, though.

[Mono124]

At one point I had roughly 10-15 people on at any time, all of which knew the passcode and were reglars. Then some dick decided to leak the passcode and it got on a hacking forum, and without a way to let the roughly 80 people that knew the passcode know what the new one was, I just shut the server down. If someone wants to find enough people and a way to keep everyone connected, I'll passcode it, otherwise it's public right now.