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We were looking for a live map tool to administer our server remotely. There didn't seem to be anything specifically written for epoch, so I hacked one that was written for Bliss. Its not the best, but it shows live players and vehicles from a web browser.  
You will need access to a web server with PHP installed, and access to your MySQL instance to use this (I assume that some hosting environments don't provide this).
 
https://github.com/linuxx/DayZMapper
 
Let me know what you think.
 
*UPDATE September 15, 2013
-Fixed Survivor kills, and bandit kills
 
**UPDATE September 17, 2013
-Added backpack inventory to player hover-
-Fixed formatting on player hover
 
***UPDATE May 2, 2014
-Fixed the tool tip on hidden vehicles or players from poping up
-Made the tool tips easier to understand with better formatting
-Changed the install procedure, check the new config.php!!
 
****UPDATE May 18, 2015
-Added Napf
 
 

You could block them with the Windows firewall. If you have the IP's in a text file (one ip per line) use this script to read the file and add them to a Windows firewall rule;
@echo off FOR /F "tokens=*" %%a IN (IPList.txt) DO CALL :blockip %%a GOTO end :blockip SET ip=%1 ECHO blocking IP %ip% netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=IP_BLOCK action=block enable=yes dir=in localip=any remoteip="%ip%" :end The IPList.txt would look like this
99.99.99.99/24 8.8.8.8/32 10.99.0.0/16 5.5.5.5

I have a more updated version of this map that I have not posted to the git (and have been using). It fixes the bugs with "hover on vehicles" and whatnot. I will clean up the code and post it sometime in the next few days.

We were looking for a live map tool to administer our server remotely. There didn't seem to be anything specifically written for epoch, so I hacked one that was written for Bliss. Its not the best, but it shows live players and vehicles from a web browser.  
You will need access to a web server with PHP installed, and access to your MySQL instance to use this (I assume that some hosting environments don't provide this).
 
https://github.com/linuxx/DayZMapper
 
Let me know what you think.
 
*UPDATE September 15, 2013
-Fixed Survivor kills, and bandit kills
 
**UPDATE September 17, 2013
-Added backpack inventory to player hover-
-Fixed formatting on player hover
 
***UPDATE May 2, 2014
-Fixed the tool tip on hidden vehicles or players from poping up
-Made the tool tips easier to understand with better formatting
-Changed the install procedure, check the new config.php!!
 
****UPDATE May 18, 2015
-Added Napf
 
 

My microtransaction system doesn't provide the ownership of the model asset. It only provides a convenient method to achieve the item other than in-game methods.
 
This is the same as server hosting providers. Hosting providers are not selling you the operating system, just the convenient access to it.
 
 
There is one major difference between Epoch item shops and “pay-to-win”. You are not required to play alongside the players/servers that have item shops. For every one server that has an item shop, there are +20 that don’t.
 
Unlike when a microtransaction system is implemented in a AAA MMO/etc. the players don’t have the ability to play somewhere where microtransactions don’t exist.

My microtransaction system doesn't provide the ownership of the model asset. It only provides a convenient method to achieve the item other than in-game methods.
 
This is the same as server hosting providers. Hosting providers are not selling you the operating system, just the convenient access to it.
 
 
There is one major difference between Epoch item shops and “pay-to-win”. You are not required to play alongside the players/servers that have item shops. For every one server that has an item shop, there are +20 that don’t.
 
Unlike when a microtransaction system is implemented in a AAA MMO/etc. the players don’t have the ability to play somewhere where microtransactions don’t exist.

+1
 

The post from Vbawol is concerning. I don't really see the difference between loadouts and item shops when it comes from the "unfair gameplay" perspective. Depending on the server owner, the loadout could comtain elite weapons. What makes that kosher over an "a la carte" item shop?
 
It seems as if loadouts made the "ok" list because BMRF does them, and vbawol doesn't want to burn any bridges.
 
And why the need for asking BI? Was it a derperate plea to find something that would break a TOS/EULA? Was the intention to institue a "tattle" sysem so that server owners would lose their rights to run the software?
 
I have spent countless hours creating an 100% automated microtransaction system for our Epoch servers. We don't have purchasable loadouts.  We run 3 Epoch servers because of the donations we receive. I don't intend to shut the microtransaction system down.

"as long as the items are from ArmA 2, ArmA 2 OA, or DayZ and not from DayZ Epoch mod."
 
Dayz Epoch is created using Arma 2, Arma 2 OA, and DayZ. So that statement just collapsed on itself.

I think its completely up to the server owner. No one is holding a gun to someones head to donate and there are plenty of servers out there if someone doesn't like the donation system. Wouldn't someone giving loadouts for donations allow someone to exploit more than anything else? Store loadout, kill self, store loadout kill self. Sell all items to vendor for gold.

We were looking for a live map tool to administer our server remotely. There didn't seem to be anything specifically written for epoch, so I hacked one that was written for Bliss. Its not the best, but it shows live players and vehicles from a web browser.  
You will need access to a web server with PHP installed, and access to your MySQL instance to use this (I assume that some hosting environments don't provide this).
 
https://github.com/linuxx/DayZMapper
 
Let me know what you think.
 
*UPDATE September 15, 2013
-Fixed Survivor kills, and bandit kills
 
**UPDATE September 17, 2013
-Added backpack inventory to player hover-
-Fixed formatting on player hover
 
***UPDATE May 2, 2014
-Fixed the tool tip on hidden vehicles or players from poping up
-Made the tool tips easier to understand with better formatting
-Changed the install procedure, check the new config.php!!
 
****UPDATE May 18, 2015
-Added Napf
 
 

We were looking for a live map tool to administer our server remotely. There didn't seem to be anything specifically written for epoch, so I hacked one that was written for Bliss. Its not the best, but it shows live players and vehicles from a web browser.  
You will need access to a web server with PHP installed, and access to your MySQL instance to use this (I assume that some hosting environments don't provide this).
 
https://github.com/linuxx/DayZMapper
 
Let me know what you think.
 
*UPDATE September 15, 2013
-Fixed Survivor kills, and bandit kills
 
**UPDATE September 17, 2013
-Added backpack inventory to player hover-
-Fixed formatting on player hover
 
***UPDATE May 2, 2014
-Fixed the tool tip on hidden vehicles or players from poping up
-Made the tool tips easier to understand with better formatting
-Changed the install procedure, check the new config.php!!
 
****UPDATE May 18, 2015
-Added Napf