jaymacca

I think the initial premise of the game story so far is plenty enough to go on, it's genius in fact, the very reason you yourself are having these story ideas is proof of that, and that you take the time to share it with everyone is great. Like it says on the front page "This is your story" and if there's a story that you like that you associate the game with, then that's fine, everyone will have a different version. The story from my perspective is told through how the infection will eventually evolve in different ways, how it will affect my game and other peoples game play and judging by how Rocket wants to greatly expand on the medical system side of things and make it more complex opens more doors for interpretation on how things will eventuate.

The answer to your question is in at least two of your photos (when you log in there's a short message on the bottom right that lets you know where you are), you're basically on the coast with Cherno and Electro on either side.

Choosing a black man gives the exact same advantage imo (not being racist for those that might think it), looks nice though. It seems like it should be OK, if not I'm sure you would have encountered a script restriction of some sort by now if it was forbidden.

OK, after commenting on this I went and joined my usual server to have a session, guess what - monky monitor (strange after commenting in this thread, let's just call it coincidence) - so far: Items gained not saving, incorrect stats - nothing, I repeat NOTHING is good or trust worthy about this, it's a malicious script through and through, if you see this pop up on your screen log the fuck off immediately as the server in question and those associated with it are have been injected and won't stop running it until restarted. Somehow I feel baited by into this thread only to have monky monitor magically appear moments after posting when I decided to have a DayZ session.

You need to run it at least once by itself, as I understand it you also need British Armed Forces expansion also.

Yeah not sure how they would get around this unless they put a "cooldown" on gaining humanity when fixing someone up, it's been around for ages, in fact, all you need is a pack of zombies and a hospital, it's stupid I know.

Yeah I've had nothing but bad experiences tied to this "tool" of sorts, it's dodgy to say the least.... basically when you loose countless characters that a lot of time and effort went into to something like this, then you start to wonder just how good it really is, I'm not an admin so my wits end is on another scale... your best anti-hack measure is to run a whitelisted server, script babies tend to not bother with those as all they want to do is play bad baby and it's to much effort to get whitelisted (as they fully expect to eventually loose their Arma II key) Do a google search, there seems to be nothing but dodgy shit tied to it, I wouldn't bother if I were you.

Monky Monitor is NOT an anticheat tool. It is in fact an malicious scripting exploit. Basically if anyone tried to log out after someone has run it, can sometimes just die instantly with some random message thrown up on screen, even pushing escape will sometimes insta-kill.

If both of those are on the public server then yes (there is only one public hive/server), but if the servers are private (read, private servers mean each one is separate) then no.

Private hives (servers) are separate from the Public one, you can't transfer gear or equipment between the two.

Running through buildings, running into the middle of pine trees and medium sized bushes (they'll run right up to you and the walk off), if you get lucky with a working helicopter you can shelter under it right next to it, it looks like they stop at the circumference of the rotor blades, clipping them around buildings by running around the outside of one as close as possible, this also works around fences, they have reduced vision at night, crawling prone helps, but is slow and sometimes, especially during the day, they will spot you if you get close and it can be buggy, so at your own risk. Once you get used to them, they're fairly easy to manage, but they're still more dangerous than a script kiddie trying to aim.

You'll find out the date when they announce one (they haven't done that yet, I don't even think Rocket knows yet either to be quite honest!), It's great people are excited (I am too) but nobody knows anything yet.

Stay away from zombies, move slower if you have to go near them, cooked meat already heals for more than I expected as it is (800 is awesome), always carry a couple of back up cans of food, spare meat. never ever pass up water bottles (I usually keep 2 at least) I think the best part of dayz is playing alone, the challenge to utilize your knowledge of the game alone is rewarding - I think the medical system is fine, go catch an infection in game and then hope to god you can find antibiotics, then you can come back and tell us the blood system is broken - I personally think rocket got the system just right, in fact, I think if he wanted to make it even more realistic, he'd take out blood bags altogether or at least make it so you'd have to be in a medical facility to use one. I don't usually side with others wanting things to be incredibly difficult (dayz really isn't) but the medical system needs to be less forgiving than it already is.

Someone is cheating on the server you've been playing on, that's usually a good time to log off and find another before the douche bag kills everyone for the lulz (because they're special in the brain like that)

Aw that get's me too, I keep meaning to rebind that damn key, I also rebind my 1st/3rd person camrea button to my back button on my mouse, means I don't have to let go of my mouse to slap the enter key. While I'm here, is it just me or is the hive down again?

Probably Lingor, not sure - google it? Edit: Just FYI, don't post duplicates of the same question, tends to piss the mods off, you asked the exact same thing 20 minutes ago, if nobody answers it don't re-post to get a reaction.

Pretty much the same, it's tolerable - now this is where you confuse me, you state that you're no stranger to difficult learning curves, yet proceed to point out a lack of tutorial in DayZ? As for the melee animations, I agree, but you have to remember it's limited my the Arma II engine and as far as I know it's because those melee weapons that are in DayZ were created my the mod developer and had to use shortened bullet drop effects to simulate to the best of his ability a melee weapon, there simply was/is no other way, regular ArmA II doesn't have melee weapons. As for The WarZ you have to remember that HP Interactive are charging for this game, so to be perfectly honest you should be more critical, in fact, you're way to lenient, if you're going to list the problems with dayz, then you should realistically be doing the same with WarZ, like walking down slopes for instance hurting/killing you (something that used to be a hellish problem with dayZ), the short 5-10 second sprint burst (isn't the back story a military background for one of these character types?), horrible gun play - you are essentially being charged every step of the way for literally a sloppy re-skin of War Inc and no matter how or what you say, the company involved are a bunch of liars more than ready and willing to punish their own community for descent and run off with their money, blacklist and ban you and outright call you wrong and say that you "misread" what they wrote (this apple is still and orange kids)

Ignore the trolls William, I watched up until your friend started stuffing his face, no offence but if you want to gather a following with a lets play on any game, that sort of thing either needs to be edited out, or at least give him a heads up that people don't want to hear open mouth chewing and heavy breathing. Try to include some interesting footage, things like starting with pretty much all the kit isn't interesting and will only lead to people accusing you of scripting and, well, it's lazy and it sucks. Confrontation while gearing up is fun, that sort of stuff is interesting, engaging other squads on an even playing field is where you can show everyone how good you are/could be, basically do stuff you might think other people find interesting, watch other successful You Tubers videos to get an idea on how to do things that people will like (don't copy them, just brainstorm).

I've seen quite a few posts regarding this server for cheaters, I'd steer clear of it in the future. Next time try and get a time and date for when it happened and possibly a name with screen shots and/or a video of the culprit, it helps immensely in catching the scum. Edit: I see you might have caught his name, my bad.

Oh look a teleporting bandit with an AS50, not seen one of those before.... good job on banning the bastard!

This is DayZ, not Daisy.

I personally think fuel needs to be a rare commodity, have a limited amount that is refreshed each week and have more cars than there is fuel for all of them, imagine the amount of competition and fire fights this would create as people rushed to get there first, also, jerry cans need to spawn empty with a lower spawn rate to make them a more valuable, sought after item. This would go well with the idea to be able to siphon the gas tanks of usable vehicles, add another item like a hose and funnel that needs to be used in conjunction with a jerry can to achieve this. much like the same as needing matches and a hatchet to create a fire for cooking.

Script restriction #40? that will happen every time you crash a helicopter, you wouldn't (or shouldn't) be banned for that, if you can't get on again and it's saying script restriction #41 it just means the server your playing on is running an outdated script file (google it, there's a couple of fixes for it). Now if you scripted in a helicopter and didn't work to fix one up legitimately then I'm afraid you would have been justifiably banned as obviously that's considered cheating. If the admin of that server has gone ahead and banned you outright for whatever reason, it's probably best to try and contact him/her and ask why, that's if you're legit.

I will kill if I have to, it's survival, but I won't go out of my way to kill someone unless fired upon or if the person I meet rubs me the wrong way and won't go away after being warned. I'll help others out if I can and will avoid pvp most of the time unless forced into it - but I accept that it's just a game, as much as I love it, I still realize that pvp is going to happen weather I like it or not and that's just fine, the fact is that this game will bring out the worst and best in people, it will also bring out the sub-human in a select few that refuse to enjoy it and resort to scripting (it's not hacking, remember). You're right OP, it is OK to not like PVP, but doesn't mean that it will change any time soon. I hear there are servers out there that kick people for pvp.

While nobody likes and asshole player, nobody likes and asshole admin, personally I think there needs to be some clearly defined rules that just because you decided to make your own server doesn't mean you get special privileges above being able to administrate the server itself and make changes to spawn rates, game type (vet-regular) and time of day and banning people based on scripting alone or in a rare case, actual hacking, otherwise it's not just the small dick skiddies that will eventually shit over the mod, but the overzealous admins will as well as all this will do is drive people away (and yes, it matters if this happens) and I'm sure current and prospective admins don't want to drive their player base because they don't like being killed in DayZ (see how silly that sounds?). The underlying spirit of DayZ is survival first and foremost and if that means paying for stupid mistakes like landing a helicopter in a high traffic player area and getting shot for doing so, then so be it, that's what it's all about it's not just the infected you have to contend with, it's also other people weather they be nice or shady bastards. You're going to get PvP in DayZ and there's no way to avoid it if you're going to purposely put yourself in the way of it, and part of surviving in DayZ is learning how to avoid it in the first place, that's what I like about this game, while I don't go out of my way to kill other players, I most certainly will shoot your ass if you don't answer my hails, or start shooting first, do you think it's good sportsmanship to make rules based on your feelings at the time when you get killed in DayZ, like getting tricked?