Lefroy Jenkins

I'd love to see the standalone start players off in their actual RL location, and I thought maybe google earth sort of thing could implement it. The experience of having to travel to meet up with friends and other survivors, and the advantages beginning in somewhat familiar territory would make everything seem that much more realistic. I imagine myself trekking down Hwy 400 into Toronto to search for loot and survivors, maybe making my way from there across the border into America, trying to head for warmer climes.

I often say "You have my beans" as a compliment to people. They give me a lot of funny looks.

When you look at buildings with rooftop access ladders and wonder how long you could hide up there. When you are walking at night and shout "friendly?" at people

If Day Z is MY story, then this is my theme music.

My first Dayz Mini.

I play with the "New Spawn" attitude regardless of the gear I have. Except I approach it from the other side, and kill nobody for any reason. You can't change game mechanics because you don't like someone's playstyle. Some people in a real apocalypse would KoS. Some would go the insane stalker/killer route. Though perhaps if you want to have an effect on in game behaviour regarding communication, third party chat programs could be disallowed, but balance this by giving players CB "walkies" for communication in game.

Beans for you, Sir. I play the same way. Death to the zeds, loot runner and med supplier to the rest. Occasionally a raving lunatic with an axe, but I don't swing at players.

The server I play on is free, but keeps five open slots at all times, to allow for players to purchase a reserved slot for $10 a month. Just make sure it's a damned good server. Put the money towards the server and hack protection.

I think sometimes the server settings clean up bodies a little too quickly. I've had player corpses disappear in front of me, zed corpses, I even killed a goat the other day and it disappeared before I could gut it. I don't know if it the settings, a bug, or a combination of the two. But it does happen.

I've actually been more interested in discussing the ideas than in contributing to the stand alone. I like to think about stuff, putting it very plainly. But I don't think there's much difference either way. If there are hundreds of separate threads about the same idea, it will show the same interest level to the devs as one massive thread would. Perhaps more so, because once a thread hits a certain length, you begin getting responses to months-old posts, and complaints that the response has been covered already. Also, most people won't take the time to read through the entire thread. TL;DR, right? BTW, don't get the idea that I'm trying to slight you in any way at all here. Just offering a different point of view is all. Hey! I just noticed your sig. I think it was from my first suggestion thread about maps for the standalone. :) Beans!

The server I play on leaves an NPC "dummy" for one minute in the event of combat logging. It's a bit hit or miss on whether or not it's actual "combat logging" or not, so the one minute timer provides some leeway in that case. It seems to work well for us, there haven't been any extreme cases. Plus, the server records will show anyone who repeatedly CLs, and they'll catch a ban for it. @Zeppa - Why not follow your own advice and just ignore these new threads, or bump the old ones, rather than trying to turn it into an argument about "pointless" threads? You'll feel better about it, and so will everyone else.

I think once it is in the hands of the community, the mod will stay strong. The mod has logged how many players now? They ALL have it already, and will want to keep playing it alongside the standalone. Of course, this is assuming that the majority of players are as rabid about good zombie survival games as I am.

Wait.. can we back up to "Bulletproof West" again? 'Cause I want an Adam West skin for my character now.

Why the worries? Rocket's not running on... Valve Time, is he??

Don't bother sneaking. As soon as you spawn, run your ass off to the nearest dock. Check the industrial buildings for a hatchet. right click on it in your gear, select remove from toolbelt. Now you can kill zeds. On a hive server, you will carry your character data across every server on that hive. So you don't necessarily need to play the same server every time. Use . to change the chat channel. rebind a key to voice talk over direct chat if you plan to use voice. I'm assuming raider to be equivalent to bandit, from context. Means surviving from loot taken from other players. Right click items in your gear to use them. See above. If you dc in town, you may respawn into the middle of a firefight. You're also pretty helpless for a few seconds when you spawn, so consider that as well.

I haven't committed a single murder, or any type of Pkill. I won't say the thought hasn't crossed my mind... slowly, softly, whispering sweetly about easy it would be, one or two swings.... but I'm not going there for a while yet.

Bandits like you are why I never carry more than an axe and a handgun for zeds. I wouldn't be a threat to you if I carried more, but you might not see it that way. :)

I don't do drugs. Just weed.

I don't know what servers you guys have been playing on. I'm averaging three to four friendlies for every KoS thus far. I've only encountered one deranged kidlet screaming obscenities whilst he murdered me. Have I just been lucky? Or is it partly the fact that I advertise med supplies on side channel and only carry a hatchet?

Well, I play on a private hive server that is implementing cannibalism, so there is now a valid reason to shoot fresh spawns. It would be the same reason we don't currently hunt bear with a knife. :) Seriously though, in a real-world apocalypse, food would become scarce, and many people would indeed turn to carving up their fellow man to provide themselves sustenance. Of course, I don't think you can butcher a corpse in the public hive.... yet, so those guys are just being douches.. :) To the guys I just collectively called douches - hey, I'm not saying you can't/shouldn't do it, it's up to you. But you can't really get upset about being called douches for it. That's the trade you make for it. Personally, I play to my name. I run everywhere, I carry only a hatchet - guns get me killed. However, I always stock up on med supplies and food/drink. Anybody I meet is welcome to these items, even those who try to kill me. I'll run and hide, but make the offer of a transfusion before I die.

It becomes a part of the service you are paying for as soon as the content is promoted as a feature of the service you are paying for. The original creator of the map may actually have a legal leg to stand on, as the statement regarding usage would apply in this case. Especially if the creator's name has been removed. Bottom line, this doesn't really affect me - I like Chernarus, and I've found a good private hive worth paying for a slot on. However, people who create value deserve to be compensated for it. At very least, the creators deserve credit for their work. Server providers deserve to be paid for their time and expenses, and players need to understand that all this loveliness doesn't just materialize out of thin air. None of this will get worked out by players QQing at each other, but by reasonable discussion between the affected parties. Play well, everyone! Edit: It appears that this has been resolved - Beans and more to Vilayer and the others involved for sorting it out without getting mired into the slagging that went on here. I withdraw any telepathically intercepted doubts I may have had about Vilayer's integrity - from what I've seen, it's good.

Hi, I really wish I'd found this topic a few days/forever ago. I've had the same problem for about a week now. I always spawn outside Kamenka and get the infinite timer. I was dead already when it started. Some guy came out of nowhere and gave me a great deal on some extra cranial orifices. :) No Biggie, I'll just respawn, and start again. I never have much more than an axe anyway - more fun that way. :) I'll post my ID when I get to my computer.

That's what I thought at first. But a 30+ minute KO timer? I mean, the Hourglass stayed white the whole time. I couldn't even access the game menu, I have to alt-tab out, close the game, and restart. Last time I played on a public hive, I was shot and killed in Stary. I wonder if I can get someone to come and kill me at Kamenka sometime. :)

I bought Arma II just for DayZ. That doesn't mean I won't try Arma sometime, although military type shooters aren't really my thing.(Yes, I understand how much more involved it is) If you've ever dreamed of an open world zombie survival game, generally while playing L4D, this is it. And then some. I've only been playing for about two months, and I'm still blown away by the depth of this game. This mod, in and of itself, is worth the purchase price of Arma II CO. All of the above is just mho, feel free to shred me up for it. <grin>

I'm getting something like this problem on public servers. I can't play them anymore. I log in just fine, but my character spawns in unconscious outside of Kamenka, with a broken leg. After a half hour the knockout timer hasn't moved. It's only public Chernarus servers that do this to me. Why?