deci (DayZ)

interesting that almost everyone complaining about getting a BE ban mentions to have found some magic crate with weapons/ammo (eventough, as everyone mentioned, BE checks on background tasks / memory meddling and won't react on ingame stuffings)... anway... what crossed my mind is... last week during the security breach happening, i remember reading that there was a contaminated EXE uploaded to the dayZ file server... if that thing was a proper trojan and enough people downloaded it... MAYBE that thing could have been used to spy on STEAM account / ARMA GUID data, compromise user accounts and abuse them for hacking, or the exe itself instaleld something that set off the BE system... conspiracy theories! or the people just hack.. meh.

On several occasions rocket made clear that meddling with server time (i.e. somehow freezing it, or resetting the server time always back to day) would mess with the whole spawning system. i agree that night-time is not really a good situation to start exploring dayZ (especially when you also have no experience with ARMA II and the chernarus geography in general), but i guess the only thing you can do about it at the moment is to voice your opinion on suggestion threads for dayZ ideas/updates (like brighter nights and the like. there shuold be a lot of those around in the suggestion board?). when i logged in to dayZ for the first time it was almost dark, i was confused and frightened, the eerie soundtrack and the soothing sounds of the waves made it even harder to orient oneself. the server had some friendly people on who helped me with first timer tipps on the SIDE chat channel, most suggested searching a day-time server, but in the end i spent almost 4 hours running through complete darkness, scared and confused.. and loved it :) anyway... as some others already mentioned, there are some servers who have a normal day/night cycle, just with the time shifted.. if you are american, try european servers if you can get a decent ping (i am from europe and i can get ok pings to US servers). good luck!

Can't wait to try the new version, the changelog sounds very promising so far, especially the updated zombie behavior.

i experienced this too (AFTER reading this thread). Date/Time: 24/05/2012 11:30 am (GMT+2) What happened: i was in a castle ruin.. stumbled and fell down the stairs, died. when i respawned, i was right next to my dead body, my inventory was intact, so was my dead bodies inventory. so i could take everything twice. i ran around a little while, found a map, binoculars, ammo, food... so i thought, lets try reconnecting to test if it really doesnt save. after reconnect i was at the location i died earlier (alive), which my old inventory and dead body gone. Where: castle ruins near mogilevska doing what: dying / roaming / looting / bleeding :) Currently installed version: 1.5.8.4