terrordrone

We can just ban the secondary Steam accounts from the server. That really won't be a problem. Obviously the idea in the OP isn't the best solution ever, and it could absolutely use some tweaks. I didn't think of the controller thing, but this could be added to the idea in the OP. As said in my previous post, we don't have to ban all alt's, just put a limit on it. I'm done with discussing this for now, it was just an idea I wanted to tell the developers about.

This thread isn't about save file abusing or importing. I came up with the idea in the OP to stop people from using 20 different characters on the same server. As an example: I join the server for the first time, and make a character called terrordrone. After getting into a fight with a group of survivors, I create a new account and use a different name. I can now walk up to the group without them getting suspicious, and stab them in the back when they least expect it. This seems unfair against the group of survivors, as they had no idea I was the one that killed them. If they start warning other people about me, I can just claim it was an entirely different player. See the issue? Enabling the setting that exposes the Steam accounts isn't an option, as people would like some privacy on the server. The only thing we can do is trying to keep track of all the accounts and start throwing the banhammer if people take it too far. My suggestion in the OP should take care of the issue without needing constant attention from a moderator. As for Enigma, I get that using multiple characters is a normal PZ multiplayer thing. I'm just trying to tone it down before someone takes it too far and causes people to leave the community. If you ask me, groups exist because they are stronger than individuals. Why group up if you can just have a character for every profession? We don't have to completely remove alt-characters from the server, but I do feel like we should keep it under control. One of these days people will get pissed off by some griefer on an alt and leave the server. If the right people from a faction leave, the entire faction ends up disbanding and leaving. We don't want that. We either do something soon, or go grab some popcorn and watch the server die.

That won't stop people from making multiple characters on our server though, which is the main problem. Importing characters from singleplayer/other servers is a completely different issue. But thanks for the link, didn't know about that.

I'm a moderator of a Project Zomboid server. We used to be a whitelist server, but decided to drop the whitelist to get more players. This has lead to a large amount of people using Alt-Characters for griefing purposes. We are not exposing the Steam Accounts of the players, as they'd prefer not to have the Accounts public. This means people are griefing on Alt-Characters, without anyone knowing who's behind the character. While discussing this issue with a fellow moderator, we came up with the following idea: A server setting/configuration option, that would only allow 1 character per Steam account. Once you join the server with a Character, your Steam Account and the character are bound together. You will be denied access to the server when you try to join with any other character. This binding will only break when the character dies, or an Admin breaks it for you. You should be able to adjust this on a per-player basis. The moderators on the server prefer to have 2 characters, one being an Admin, and the other being a regular Character to play the game on without people calling us cheaters. I believe that this solution would help servers that don't want people abusing alt-characters, without ever interfering with servers that don't care about Alt-Characters. Since you can configure it on a per-player basis, your server can still allow 2 or more characters, but also allows you to set a limit on the maximum amount. The only way to get around this is to use a second Steam Account, but server Admins could just ban the second account from the server when they believe someone is using it as an alt. Kind regards, Terrordrone

It's most probably one of your mods that causes this. Either deactivate them all or look for Errors in the Console-Window. Hit "B" on your keyboard to open the crafting menu. Also, the new traps and explosives need their respective occupations, or a skill-book found in the world. Same goes for generators.

We have also tried: Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the client Running the game as Admin Disabling any Hamachi/Evolve/VPN related network adapters Restarting Steam The problem was also present before the mods where installed on the server. I'm just out of idea's. Tried pretty much everything I could think of. Edit: We have also restarted the server a few times. No luck. I'd also like to point out that disabling Hamachi doesn't fix the actual issue. Having Hamachi on just causes another issue, that gets fixed by turning Hamachi off. It's looking like the Client never even tries to connect to the server. The Client console and the Server console both show no signs of connections. I've looked into starting the game with the server IP in the launch-options, but this feature doesn't seem to be implemented at all. if this was implemented the game would launch and immediatly try to join the server. On a few rare and seemingly random occasions I can get into the server and play untill I disconnect. Trying to reconnect gives me the "Connection Failed" error again.

Will try to from now on.If you see this not being practiced in the future, feel free to nudge OP updated. nudge nudge. Build 32.8 isn't in the OP yet. And thanks for updating the OP, saves a lot of time for people like me, who don't check this thread everyday.

I would like to suggest editing the OP to include the changelogs of the versions released after the OP was created, so we don't have to look through 25+ pages of comments to find the smaller changelogs. You could do this either by adding the logs to the OP, or linking them in the OP. It wouldn't be that much work and would make life easier for all of us that don't check this thread everyday and still want to know whats new in the game.