c0nscript (DayZ)

The Secret World?

I am obviously new to DayZ but not new to the genre of <insert random insults> aka Eve Online play-style. This is more of a blog than a post. I was playing in a server as a brand new character scavenging for supplies. I was actually very excited because for the first time I found an ax and was able to kill zombies. Spending almost an hour in a settlement luring zombies into buildings just to hack them down as a form of revenge for as often as they chased me was fun. Then I get to a settlement, not sure where, with two massive silo's and a warehouse. I load up on heat packs, food, drinks, and ammo for when I would find a gun and start to head out across a bridge. "Hey man how you doing! That hatchet is a rare commodity we like it!" I hear over VoIP and turn around to hear three people giggling frantically over the microphone with guns running behind me. I ignore them, heading to the woods knowing exactly what their plan was as they continue to talk in their fake foreign accents. I simply reply, "If you're going to speak to me, speak proper English" over the microphone and a few minutes later I end up with a bullet in the back of my head and the 'You Are Dead' screen creeping up. The point of the story was, why bother? You knew you were going to shoot me, I knew you were going to shoot me - Why troll me before doing so, just shoot and move on. Don't bother posting your reasons as to why people troll, it was a rhetorical question. While I understand that DayZ cannot easily be compared to Eve Online (if you don't know this game I will put it frank - A Sci-Fi MMORPG Sandbox game completely player driven) mainly because there is no... reputation to uphold. In a game such as DayZ you don't have to care what other people think of you, simply change your name. It is always interesting to watch how people will behave when they know that they are under the veil of anonymity. By anonymity I don't mean the demographics of your life, instead I mean the reputation you put forth as a persona you create. And I'll repeat, the question about trolling was rhetorical which means I do not intend on receiving an answer. I'll close by saying anyone who enjoys trolling just remember, you only succeed if you actually make the other person angry. A tip for trolling, you are far more likely to enrage your opponent when you simply do not speak. People are far more likely to become angry when they don't know what provoked the action that was taken against them. Quite simply, if I was genuinely new to this style of game play I probably would of gotten upset if I saw three random people come up to me and without saying a word shoot me in the face. The moment I can see the reason behind your actions is the moment you have failed your troll attempt. /endblog TL;DR - Just a lesson on gameplay and a lesson on trolling.

I see a lot of French, German, and other European servers promoting friendly organized play, but I am not European. I am American. I wouldn't mind playing on the Euro servers but I am OCD about ping being under 100 since when I am playing if I'm not on a decent ping server I see this yellow chain link next to my character which I assume means I am lagging above average. Any US friendly servers around? Or not friendly, I don't care, as long as you have some organized play and VoIP is always a plus.