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My clan makes community campsites and all gear is shared. We also respect vehicle ownership. If someone runs 9001 meters to find the Black SUV, we all help him repair it and it is now 'his'. When we congregate at the campsite, we all drive our vehicles away and hide them elsewhere. This accomplishes two things, one the vehicles are not bunched up, thus making them easier to find by outsiders. Also it doesn't really allow for one person to hoard vehicles, when they log in, they are alone at their personal vehicle. If they find a second one, they either have to abandon their current one, or more likely they call a clan mate without a vehicle to grab the extra one. This allows the person with a vehicle already to choose which one they want and the new clanmate that comes gets the other one. There isn't any reason to steal vehicles from each other.

Well, in that case, both Icebreaker and MrSherenai would have to give approval. Issue #1 would apply to both of them.

They copied the DayZ code though didn't they? I guess it does boil down to IceBreakr's decision though. I will edit the post.

There are two separate issues here. Both of which have been resolved I believe so this thread should now be graveyarded. Issue #1: Vilayer's use of Icebreaker's map What this means: The original map creator has final say about all usage of his map, whether or not Vilayer is making money off of it. Period. If Icebreaker does not like Vilayer's business practices involving Icebreaker's map, it is Icebreaker's decision about how his map is used. Icebreaker expressed his dislike of Vilayer's use of his map and Vilayer has changed their ways to respect the map creator's wishes. Vilayer Server Hosting is a business with the goal of making money. You can argue all you want about the morals of profit, it is a philosophical discussion about capitalist culture that will not end in our lifetimes. The simple fact is if Vilayer had ignored Icebreaker's wishes, they could be subject to legal action if Icebreaker so chooses. If Icebreaker chooses not to sue, the law views that as acceptance of Vilayer's use of his product until such a time as Icebreaker chooses to enforce his legal prerogative. Issue #2: DayZ Commander delivery methods. What this means: When dotJosh added Vilayer's map to his program, he became involved in Vilayer's business practices. This is viewed as complicity by outsiders. Any emotion directed at Vilayer, will now also be applied wholesale to DayZ Commander. It might even be exacerbated because of the innate enabling behavior of DayZ Commander. Without DayZ Commander, Vilayer's business practice would not be possible. In other words (this is where my opinion will get mixed in). dotJosh, since I believe you are not a sociopath, I believe that when you first learned that Vilayer's map was unable to be hosted by other servers, something in your mind went "something doesn't seem right about that." That would be your conscience talking. Maybe when you felt that conscience talking, you thought "Vilayer is giving me free bandwidth, I guess I won't rock the boat." The only way to avoid situations like this in the future is to ensure that any map files you host are free to be hosted as servers by any server company that wishes to do so. If you adhere to this practice, your conscience will be clear. I thought up this metaphor around page 7 of this thread. dotJosh, you are the delivery truck driver, DayZ Commander is the Los Pollos Hermanos refrigerated truck, the download button is the bucket of chicken batter, Vilayer's map is the Crystal Meth in the chicken bucket and Gus Fring is Vilayer. Vilayer paid you to deliver their meth. dotJosh, as the delivery truck driver, you must choose whether or not you will deliver that meth. But once again, I believe all these issues have been resolved already, I just wish I had found this thread sooner. John McLaughlin parody inc. Issue #1, The DayZ Commander-in-Chief negotiating with Vilayistan. The world wants a free-trade agreement, what does Icebreaker want? Pat Buchanan go!

The reason zombies dont spawn at vehicles right now is because they didn't want someone driving at max speed in a pickup truck spawning the whole server and crashing it. This will not be an issue for standalone because of the zombie optimizations. So expect to see zombies spawning at vehicles.

I almost forgot. You wont be able to jog forever either. So any zombies you aggro will chase you until they catch you. If you aggro it, you have to kill it. So if you aggro all of Cherno, you better have a belt fed weapon.

6% per crash site... That means that it is reasonable that someone might check 12 chopper crashes and still not find an AS50. Calculate the average distance between chopper crashes while assuming that someone cant have a vehicle if they are server hopping to find more crashes. So average speed 15-20kph. That is ungodly hours of farming for 1 AS50. I call that rare, you can call it what you want. This also all assumes that a chopper will have 6 loot spots guaranteed, which I don't think is true.

If you've ever played on a private hive with tent duping fixed, you know that someone sniping fresh spawns with an AS50 or M107 almost never happens. I made the switch to private hives about a month ago and let me tell you, only once in 25 days have I seen anyone sniping fresh spawns. It was in Elektro, and they had a DMR, and it took like 15 shots to kill someone. He blew through his entire 140 bullet stockpile in 15 minutes and then it was over (I was hiding in the top floor of the gray concrete schoolhouse and I counted the shots). That was it, the guns and ESPECIALLY the ammo were still very hard to get. When someone does get struck by lightning and find an AS50 at a chopper crash (which is a 1% spawn chance with 5 or 6 item spots, so its about a 1 in 20 chance) the ammo is so valuable that using it on "Bambi McNooblet" is a complete waste.

Zombies will be the main threat again. Besides making them able to actually follow you through buildings, they are optimizing their models. What this means is, among other things, they are removing each individual finger-bone skeleton animation. So now they might be able to triple the amount of zombies present in a big city. Also, with the demise of tent-duping, people will have to work together to secure gear, thus establishing good behavior toward our fellow man in the future. With more zombies spawning and the fact that they will run through buildings, expect fewer and fewer instances of someone sniping from the apartments in Cherno.

To answer your earlier question, yes, hackers can see every person, vehicle and tent at all times.

I have a sweet deerstand route that I take on my way to northwest airfield.

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Orthus necro'ed a thread that hadn't had a post in over three weeks. Lock and graveyard plz.

Get 6 tires, shoot out all the tires and then replace them all at once.

M9SD is NOT the best pistol. The Uzi is the best secondary. The ONLY advantage to using the M9SD is when you don't want to alert other players to your zombie killing activities. For plain-old zombie killing, the Uzi is far and away the best.

Can a mod Lock and Graveyard this thread please?

I used to think I was safe in Berezino too. One day I had looted both supermarkets, the hospital (which had the motorcycle up) and the military tents. I was checking the final tent when I noticed it had a double-barrel shotgun in it. This discovery did not trigger the level of alert it should have and I wandered back outside and got gunned down by an AKM. I learned that lesson the hard way.

A treasure trove of ordinance! Blimey I thought this game was unforgiving. Why are all the windows broken?

I now play on a full private hive and do everything I can to disrupt the established clan based on it. I die a lot but I have a lot of fun trying to Lee Enfield them out of their black SUV. Try giving yourself a bigger challenge.

Stary Sobor is very difficult to snipe effectively. If they are camping the hill behind the military tents, most of the buildings will spawn their zombies and alert players. Most other good spots don't have good line of sight on the tents themselves. Perhaps the best place to snipe the tents is the rusted out building, but you are very vulnerable up there.

Fresh Spawns will be plagued by S.I.D.S.

I care about the discussion concerning Tent Duping, which is why I was in this thread. I don't give two shits about the pissing contest going on as evidenced by my one line response as compared to their diarrhea-of-the-mouth.

Zombie Genocide: Genocide Even Harder Kill 53,597 Zombies. Bonus points if you know which 2 games had the intervening achievements.

You could ask your server hoster for a complete database reset.