So it seems you guys have decided to block all menus including our Anti-hack admin menu...
Can you please PM me how I can remove this block, otherwise I can't run the server.
We changed (really removed) the lobby and command menu systems, your admin tools used that as a menu I assume?
Seven made all the changes and has been away or out of contact for a while...
I'm going to have to work with some others to solve this issue if he doesn't attend to it before he goes. Although I think there are solutions that server hosts could take to "fix" their tools.
Keep in mind it also breaks the majority of hack menu's too.
I am going to discuss this with whoever I can and come to a decision in the next couple days...
I know it is risky but as usual I/we would prefer to do things differently. Here is the long story:
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A long long time ago, in an Arma game far far away, people played together nicely. Lobby's were needed to pick a side to join, and command menu's were needed to instruct AI assistants... Then a dark force quietly built itself up in a New Zealand basement (I think) where there were no sides, just player vs environment... Soon more heard of this magical multiplayer world of "survival", they say OTHER SURVIVORS! THANK GOD! HELP IS HERE!!!! Once teamed up people began to master this amazing and difficult environment, and it's many threats.... What sport is left when survival is no longer a challenge? Hunting, and killing of other players....
What happens when large groups of coordinated, well equipped players start slaughtering new players while they're still trying to get their feet wet? Frustrations mount...
In a game that is THIS openly scriptable, it was only a matter of time before people starting offering frustrated or sub-par players access to the same stuff a big cooperative group could get...
End of DayZ.
Our goal, or plan, is to fuck with those players, and the pieces of stinky shit that sell both hack tools, and admin tools alike....
In general we do not like admin tools any more than we do hacks, because they require complete and total trust of people, who are VERY likely to take advantage, OR to use those tools to profit.
Without admin tools server hosts can not sell starting loadouts, or babysit bitchy players that IMO shouldn't be made to feel welcome on ANY mod, much less the one that I spend almost all of my waking hours dedicated to.
We made the decision a LONG LONG time ago to take the high road, NEVER accept offers of advertising dollars, NEVER offer private server or hive access, or special loadouts, or to keep any of our assets as "exclusive". It would have been VERY easy for us to have focused on closed development and offered some of our skins or vehicles on private servers only etc.
I have very serious problems with ANY server host collecting any donations over and above the costs for running their servers. I feel that they should ALL be VERY VERY heavily donating to the guys who actually produce content, tools, and hosting sites (and I don't mean us or any other dayz modding group (read the credits)). But that is simply not the case.
Idiots pay to watch other idiots pay to play and stream games they don't even understand in most cases hosted by server admins who barely know what they're doing, and all of them do nothing but complain about and then demand MORE content from authors... unless they get a dirtbaggy with exclusive hosting deals don't make a dime EVER.
I for one simply don't give 2 shits about what hosts, players, or anyone else thinks about our mod. If you like it, that is wonderful and I'm very pleased, if you have a legitimate concern about a feature or problem (like this one) I am here to listen and discuss among the group what we all agree should be done. I will give any piece of honest criticism thoughtful consideration and a reply, but the majority of complaints or criticisms I notice on reddit or in streams/youtube videos are often just completely based in misunderstanding, so I have no time for that.
I love this game DayZ, I would put down solid money that I love it more than Dean Hall, or any other Modder out there. I am in LOVE with DayZ. I now love OUR version of it WAY WAY more than the official version of it, and that's what I've been wanting since Jan/Feb. I think we're getting closer and closer and will continue to work in the same direction we started out on in January/February... make a better mod regardless of how anyone but WE feel about it. Other than the headaches, bumps along the way, and stress... The mod as it sits RIGHT NOW, is IMO fucking amazing.
I trust my instincts... my social skills, programming abilities, and sense of timing are all pretty heavily in question at this point though lol.... but I'm good at coordinating things, and this project will forward on... and it will be even more fucking amazing. I made a decision a couple years ago to stop dropping things half done, and even if that means years of limbo, I DO NOT drop things... so regardless of what anyone may or may not think, I'm not going anywhere, and neither is the mod, the map, the building project, the Armaversity project, or ANYTHING else I have set out to complete.
If folks could see all the cogs and gears turning behind the scenes here I think people would be pretty shocked. We have a real factory environment going on and are improving our methods and expanding our skills every day/week. We have SOOOO much stuff waiting in the wings to be added, changed, on top of all the ideas we have that need done still. When we hit 1.7 of our mod it will be jaw dropping..
Come hell or high water, this mod will continue to get better and better, even if I'm the only one playing it on my local server lol.
