zyl0x

This is getting out of hand. I cannot for the life of me find a single vehicle that hasn't been grabbed by a clan and stashed away at the north and western edges of the map. I don't really care what the solution is, but something has to be done about this. We can't just rely on server resets to solve this issue. I propose that vehicles degrade over time, a very small amount for the first hour or two after a player exits the vehicle, and then exponentially over the next hour or two until the vehicle despawns, dropping all stored equipment. All we have now is a huge sh*tshow of clans camping vehicle spawns after server resets, and those of us who actually play the game, need some way to get the heck off of the coast without wasting hours of time walking through forest and starving to death.

Man vs Wild, are you on a server running .5 or .6?

Okay, I am totally with you on the ghosting problem, but why do you care about server hopping for loot? Personally, I think it's stupid since it breaks the immersion for me, but I don't see why you're so against it. How does that hurt anyone?

That's a good suggestion, but in reality is really a poor workaround. The problem is that there are people who play the game and aren't sitting around camping server resets for a chopper. I want to be able to find a broken car within a couple towns so that I can move inland. It's crazy that there are no vehicles on the entire coast and I'm the only person on a server for two hours. I thought that was the whole point of having crappy broken vehicles in town - it made the game more realistic: get food, drink, weapons, supplies... find a vehicle... get the eff out of the big cities. Isn't that the plan for most survivors?

Maybe some kind of vehicle expiration system would partially solve both issues. I really don't care if it's a hacker or not - if the vehicle is actually being used, I'm fine with it. It drives me insane when there are a stack of 3 cars up in the NW corner of the map, and they've been sitting there for 6+ hours even though there's only one person online who's on the coast.

Hoarding resources like weapons, tents, ammo, food, etc. is fine, because they respawn constantly. In fact, it makes sense to have stashes of food and such around the map, but with only like, 12 vehicles or some garbage, it becomes increasingly annoying to have these very few items taken off to the far reaches of the map and sit there unused, while people who actually play the game can't get to them.

I ran into a guy at the northern fire station in Elektro. I had just grabbed an AKM, and I heard him coming up the stairs. Could've ambushed him if I wanted - I definitely had the means and opportunity. I held him at gunpoint for a second and asked if he was friendly, then told him I had left an AK-74 upstairs with a few clips. I kept my sights on him while he picked up the gun, then I left and went my own way. There are still people like me playing this game. My theory is that they prefer to hide when they meet another player.