LDSkinny

I just don't understand the cheater mentality. I remember being 16 and cheating the shit out of Phantasy Star Online. Amazing how we went from a couple good items to having copies of every item in the game in a matter of days. It was also amazing that we had no desire to play the game anymore because we had everything. In a similar sense, cheating in more competitive games like this leaves you with a pretty hollow victory. Maybe the kids that cheat are just different than most people? I just don't see how it could be satisfying. Either way, I'm glad to see them getting banned.

Oh good to know, I made an assumption there. I didn't realize that the disciplinary action was on the host's end.

I advise you read the thread. You agree to a contract stating that you will not ban players from your server if you wish for it to be connected to the hive. Banning a player for KoS is a form of admin abuse and it is cheating. Doing so will have your server branded as a cheating server and will make it no longer able to access the hive (This effectively kills the server) Admin abuse was a huge problem in the mod and I do not want to see it coming to the standalone.

You already have that without KoS, though. The main reason we can't have this discussion is because the KoS supporters assume that anything other than instant engagement of hostilities with any spotted player is being a "carebear." KoS as a philosophy is irrational. It puts you at massive risk for marginal gains. Avoidance is the least risk for no gains. If you are playing with the mindset to survive, the logical course of action is to avoid player interaction at all. This is boring to most, I would guess. KoS players are effectively putting themselves at massive risk not because it is rational, but because they are bored. This suggests that the problem is resolved in other ways, such as adding more content and things to do besides deathmatch. Additionally, the penalty for death is basically nonexistent, so once you gain enough experience to know how to gear up quickly, death is just a minor inconvenience. I get that KoS is a thing, and by no means do I wish for the devs to condone PvE servers, as ridiculous as that is. I just wish players would stop using the justification that KoS is rational. It is not rational. It is at the other end of the extreme from players who wish to chat peacefully with everyone they meet.

That's the funny thing that I see. KoS tend to use that logic to justify killing everyone they see, the idea that it is logical to ensure their survival. Honestly though, if you prioritize your survival you will typically not engage another player at all unless it is absolutely essential. If you are concealed, firing your weapon alerts everyone in the area that there is a hostile presence nearby and puts them on high alert looking for you. God help you if they saw your muzzle flash, because now a target you did not know existed knows your precise location. KoS is incredibly irrational. Taking out specific targets for specific reasons is. I shot a guy on sight because he walked into the house I was in and I was cornered. He had an axe and I had an M4 and I've been charged by them in that exact situation before. I took the shot. I see an unarmed guy fresh off the beach? Why would I shoot him. That just alerts every bandit in the area that I'm here and willing to shoot everyone. The best way to survive is to not be seen at all. That means having the restraint to say "I'm not going to shoot that guy because it is too risky." I was in Zelenegorsk the other day and saw a player running through the town. I took up a defensive position and kept an eye on him from a window. I hear a gunshot and see the player dead in the street, so I scan around and see this player in a window. At this point it is logical to assume if he sees me that he will snipe me, so I shot him through the window and fled from the town. I didn't know if he had friends, so I left. If he hadn't shot that guy, I would been unlikely to know he was there and possibly would have walked into an ambush. Shooting puts you at risk. That is why I don't KoS. I kill when they are an active threat.

Assumptions? I never said anything about you playing on a No KoS server. I addressed your statement, which I will quote again since you seem to have forgotten you said it. You are implying that not being allowed to ban someone for breaking the rules that the server admin has set is "utterly retarded." Banning someone from your server for anything other than hacking is cheating. This is not up for debate, this is what you agree to when you purchase a server. What your statement above is saying is actually saying "Not allowing server owners to have a massive advantage over everyone else is utterly retarded." You might not realize that is what you said, but it is. Kicking and banning players for not adhering to your rules is cheating, this is a fact. I don't condone cheaters and neither should you.

It's not "your" server in the sense of a typical game. You're effectively paying money to have a server that you know won't go down suddenly. This was a lot more relevant back in the mod, since if you built a base and stored vehicles, those were local to the server. I know I had some heartbreak when a server went down permanently where we had worked hard to establish a base filled with loot and three vehicles. That's what made us buy our own server (until hackers ruined everything and led to us quitting the mod. They would come on daily and teleport every vehicle to NWAF, including the boats). Basically, what you're forgetting is that you still own your server. It's yours, but in order for it to be allowed to connect to the hive, you have to abide by certain rules that are designed to keep the game fair. This is because you get people who would lock their server, farm up all the best loot in the game with no risk, then take all of that loot onto another server they didn't own just to kill everyone with their superior gear. By all means you are free to kick and ban whoever you want from your server, but because you are effectively cheating at that point by banning players who are playing the game in a way that it was intended to be played, you server is no longer a legitimate server. That's what you fail to understand. Kicking a player for not following your arbitrary rules is cheating. You're no better than the hackers at that point, and it is perfectly reasonable for a server run by a cheater to have his server banned from the hive, just like you would expect any other cheater to be banned.

So, you insult me? I've never touched the FOV because it's known to screw up aiming. Perhaps you're the one lacking intelligence when you make assumptions and then throw out insults based on those faulty assumptions.

Ok...? I'm not sure how this addresses my issue. I guess I'll have to find a compass in-game and take a screenshot since people aren't understanding my problem. Obviously. When I'm in first person with the compass in my hand and raised by hitting spacebar, I cannot see the compass without holding alt and looking down.

The funny thing to me is that people keep saying that you can put it in your hands and hit space to see it. That has never worked for me. I can put it in my hands, and obviously I won't be able to see it. I hit space and now I can barely see the edge of the compass, but none of the working parts of it. In order to actually see the direction I have to hit space and alt look down at it. That's what annoys me the most. I don't know if I'm just doing something wrong there, though.

"Friendly" means "You caught me in a disadvantageous position and I don't want you to kill me, so please give me time to pull out my weapon and shoot you in the back." The second sentence is a mouthful, so they came up with "Friendly" as a way to express that quickly and efficiently.

If you could take parts off them, you should be able to pick it up, no? Were you trying to drag it to your backpack? As far as I know, there aren't any backpacks big enough to hold an M4, so you have to drag it up to the top area where weapons go.

Most of the time it's just lag. I know what you mean though, I have lost things permanently this way, but I've noticed that most of the time I can recover the items again. Basically, when they disappear, sometimes they'll show up after a bit. I had a medkit vanish and show up on the floor where I originally dropped it over a full minute later. Also, sometimes if you're on the second floor of a building, it will appear on the first floor (happens a lot in the two story military buildings I find)

I find it funny that people think that the server providers won't shut down their server. The server you pay for has to connect to the hive in order for it to be playable. The service hosting your server has to maintain good standing with the community in order to ensure quick whitelisting of new servers. It is actually not worth the paltry fee you are providing the server host for them to risk losing their position. And even if they do? If you server is consistently found to be abusing the system, your server will lose its whitelist status. Your server host doesn't have any control over that at all. DayZ has to allow your server provider to allow you to purchase a server. If DayZ revokes that privilege, your server is effectively dead.

After reading the title I thought for sure this was going to a be a thread saying how the devs are horrible people for taking a Christmas vacation.