franko1932

I think you are missing my point. Maybe I'm too accustomed to forums where people actually understand basic game design' date=' but I really cannot make this any simpler. [/quote'] Yes, you are the enlightened one; not the guy that created the MOD which took a game and by one MOD increased an entire games sales. Yes, you are the enlightened one; not those of the community that have been playing the MOD since its inception. I am not saying that there should never be any suggestions or that things cannot be improved; my problem is with your premise, that only you knows what is best for the success of this MOD, and that anyone that disagrees with you does not know what they are talking about. Too many times people make suggestions and get butt hurt when it does not go over well with the community; get over yourselves, that is how you grow as an individual, not by getting defensive because you did not have a popular suggestion.

Yeah, that is great and all, but it is unfortunately null once you realize you can just pop a guy with only a peashooter to defend himself with to avoid all that trouble. Ok, I understand now, you are upset because you CHOOSE to go the easy route and you want something to change so that you no longer have the CHOICE to shoot another player. You would rather put newbs in a position to shoot other players because they do not spawn with anything to venture into the game with. I am not trying to be a smartass but, your whole argument is predicated around you making that decision to take the easier route, which is absolutely your decision, as it is everyones decision that plays this game. I choose to be a lone survivor that would rather challenge myself going into a city than doing the easy thing and camping a shore line just because I do not have any beans left; again that is just my decision, but I do not think the game should change based off my personal decisions.

Agreed, this should be taken off. My fear is that people start catering to the knew crowd that has never played arma before and complain because they do not take the time to get to know the landscape. I hope this mod does not get dumbed down or lose the real life feel that draws most of us to this game.

I like what this mod does for the simple fact that it is a realistic setting. I do not mean that zeds are realistic, but it is set in real time and I am able to connect to my player. No offense to those that like these types of games, but I get so tired of seeing these MMO games where you are an elf or some magical person fighting dragons and other magical people. Why do so many game developers miss out on making real world type games like this? I believe that this mod is so popular because it is a breath of fresh air; and not necessarily because of the zombies, but because of everything that I just mentioned. I can get more involved with my player when I could see myself a situation.

Well said sir. Sitting on the coast is boring. I also agree. I choose not to be a bandit, but if I were it would definately not be on the coast. Congrats you camp people who just spawn...to get a Makarov? Good job buddy.

Camp out in Elektro and wait for a bandit to come camp the town and F him up.

It could add to the game to find plantable seeds, i.e. corn, beans, wheat, etc. You would have to find a shovel or other instruments, but then as people do with tents, you could search out a location in the woods and plant your own food source which could be harvested in a weeks server time or something.

My only concern with the delay is if you disconnect in a town where there are zeds, even if you are not engaged with zeds, one may come across your body and obviously you cannot defend yourself. Now the obvious thing would be not to disconnect in a town, but at times I know that I have to get off quickly (go to work, something comes up with the wife, etc). This may not be a huge concern, but just a thought.

Purely situational for me. If I am scoping out a town/area prior to entering and see dead bodies, it is shoot on site; obviously those individuals did not all die from zeds. I say that though and I have only killed one person, which was a bandit. I much rather prefer to team up with a group for a while, help them out with whatever they are trying to do, then move on down the road by myself and possibly meet up with another group.

I was playing today, killed a bandit that was attempting to kill me and I seen an icon that I had not seen before (i have only been playing for two days); it was almost like a broken pill, but had two tips on the end. I have seen the broken bone symbol and this was not it. Does anyone know what this was or if an icon guide exists?

I searched and a couple of similar items came up, but I may have not searched the correct phrase; here is an idea of that I had. In any Zombie outbreak you always hear about the location that all the survivors are going to, so: 1. What would people think about radomly placing a militarized zone, camp, etc, in a server with that location changing each time a server is restarted 2. The location is not necessarily zombie free, but there would be a sentralized group of people in that location that make that location safer in order to help build some sort of civilization. 3. This location would not be announced, nor marked on a map. You hear about this location through clues found throughout the map (i.e. just as you find food, water, guns, etc), or through word of mouth (i.e. "Hey did you hear about the camp at electra? It is supposed to be where everyone is going.") 4. You may get there and find other non-infected people that you can help hunt, scavage supplies, go on Zombie watch, etc to help the civilization survive; or you may get there to find the place overrun with zombie's and have to try another area after the servers re-set. You would still have the choice of going off on your own/in a group as you do now, or trying to make your way to that location by yourself or with your group. This is something that if you had a large enough group, you may be able to do on your own; I am not sure? Again, just a thought and I wanted to see what others thought as well.

Not trying to be an ass or take a MOD's place, but there is a topic listed two topics down from this where we are having the same issue: http://www.dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=493

This has just started happening to me; all of a sudden when I click to play mutliplayer none of the MP servers are populated, the list is just empty. I have taken out my "dayz" filter and no other servers pop up as well. I am not sure how this happens or how to fix it. Everything is updated, I just got done playing MP approximately 40 minutes ago. ---Edit--- It must have been my firewall; I reset it and it finally shows servers again.

I believe that this mod achieves it's goal based on the complaints about PVP. This mod, as I understand it, is not meant to be JUST a zombie mod. It is a survival mod with a zombie element, as well as, a human interaction element. Hypothetically if a situation such as this occurred in the world, the human vs. human interaction would be just as dangerous as any human vs. zombie interaction.

What kind of video card do you have? It might be a problem with hardware. I cannot remember I will have to check again when I get back on my home computer. I know that it is a Nvidia something? However, the game was playing fine for me 2 hours prior (1.5.1) to updating to 1.5.2.

This just started happening to me as well after downloading the updated version (1.5.2). I also tried two different servers with the same result.

Hello, I have been hearing great reviews on the MOD so I have downloaded the mod placed in my ARMA2 main directory/@dayz/AddOns. I then proceed to utilize a launcher only to get into the multiplayer servers and see that all the servers are red for me and that I get kicked. I have tried running the launcher with and without the @CBA, @CBA2, and @jayarmalib without any success. I am wondering what may becausing this? I have the most updated patch (version 1.6) and have even tried running the beta on the US servers, still no luck. I have emptied out both my Addon folder and Common folder without any luck with that either. Does anyone have an idea as to what may be causing me to not gain access to the servers?