Penny Sue

It's a shame I can only give you one can o' beans for this post. Next he'll tell you to be sure to put a ' in your "couldnt" because it's a contraction and capitalize lee enfield since it's a proper noun. I lol'ed when you said he'd be the first to get "accidentally" shot in a real zombie apoc =)

Love this idea! It's far from useless or pointless plus gives players more tools and/or props to play with! Uses: Photo ID - You now know who this dead person is. Would love to be able to fill out height, weight, address, etc etc. People could collect them from dead bodies... bandits would use them as trophies, some may pick them up and throw away theirs as a means of tricking other players, others may pick them up for RP reasons. It's a tool... people will come up with all kinds of intended and unintended uses for it! You should be able to discard yours as well. Maybe I don't want people knowing who I am? Maybe I want to leave it as a clue? Maybe there's another reason I'm not thinking of? It's far from pointless or useless. Show ID - Instead of magical floating nameplates above people... have an action or mechanism to show an ID. Want to know who someone is? Ask to see their ID... maybe they show you their legit ID... maybe they show you a stolen one... maybe they say "fuck off" and shoot at you. Photos - T'would be awesome if we could somehow upload images that appear as photos in our wallets. Obviously some will use it stupid and bad reasons. Many of us will use it for good reasons. Again other players could take them from a dead persons wallet for many reasons. Would be cool if you could write a note on the back of it too. Maybe it gets left as a clue with a note on it? Maybe I write something on it that's totally pointless. Maybe you write something on it that's useful? Again it's a tool and people will come up with all kinds of uses for it... it's not pointless or useless. Style - There should be two kinds; typical man's wallet and typical women's wallet. Function - Could be a separate, small. limited container. So you can take and hold the entire wallet and add or remove things from it separate from other wallets. Or you could take stuff out of the wallet, put it into another wallet, and discard ones you don't want to keep. I agree with bad_mojo - It shouldn't have meta data like cause of death, days survived, hero/bandit/survivor status Although maybe there's a note in everyone's wallet that indicates days survived by hash marks?

I never really understand this rational of "Well I won't do it so it's pointless". This game does need something more than: find drink, find food, survive and PvP! So you and a bunch of other people wouldn't try to make a farm. That's fine but maybe me and some others would. Then you guys say "Oh hey I saw this farm outside Stary! Lets go try to raid it MUHAHAAHHAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"... Bah-bam! Now you guys got a new mission and something interesting to go do. We now have adversaries to defend our farm from. After all the farm would be pretty damn boring if nobody challenged us. Give us tools, options, and freedom... we'll build stuff and have a blast interacting with one another.... both positive and negative interactions. This is the fundamentals of building sandbox gaming. That's why I like ideas like this.

Keep it simple.... remove the HUD element for weapons and ammo. Want to know how many shots you have? Count them. Lost count in the heat of battle? Life is hard. Wait till you run out or reload when convenient just to be safe. Don't know how many bullets are held in different magazines? Life is hard. Figure it out or die trying. T'would be nice to have an action to combine magazines. Not done automagically but you have to actually crouch and spend a few seconds doing it. That way if you are the type to just spray and reload whenever you could combine your 3 used magazines into one.

Great stories of epic banditry and firefights!

You should feel guilty! Next time just tell them you gotta go and to please get out! Think they wont comply? Then "trick" them into getting out and drive off. There was no reason to execute the dude.

Yeah, luck. I run into them ... maybe once a week? Only on public hive and populations over 10. Not all of them are pricks. Some teleport you to their heli or vehicle and we go have fun. Ruins the immersion aspect but its fun in it's own way.

hah nice work man! Stole his spare rifle while he was bandaging you... well played sir, well played indeed. You'll know you're dead because your screen will totally change and say "YOU'RE DEAD!" Yes you can steal stuff from anyone's backpack. No they have no message or warning; they just have to notice something is missing. A good indicator is someone getting really close and typically behind you with out a good reason. Good reasons would be "Hey I'm going to give you a transfusion" or "I'm gonna give you a shot of morphine."

Usually when I'm hurt so bad that it's blurry and color is fading.... I just kill myself. Unless you have like some epic loot you just can't loose then it's much faster to die and respawn. Run around until you find some zeds and just let them kill you.

DayZ... the Z stands for.... ? The obvious choices are Zombie or Zed. What about Zero? You start on the shore at... day zero....

There's virtually nothing that can be done about hacking the current mod. With so much of the game functioning on the client side it's wide open to players manipulating it to cheat. The stand alone has already been announced as being a client <> server relationship where most of the game functions on the server. Thus its VERY hard to manipulate the game in ways that effect the game environment or other players. For now I highly recommend finding a private hive and servers that take a strong stance on hackers and cheaters. The only time I run into hackers are on public hive servers. Which is pretty rare now because I found some great private servers!

30 seconds to a minute from the first time i heard the shots till I died.

I'll likely try it out. As to the "OH MY GOD I HOPE SOMEONE DOESN'T SHOOT ME IN THE FACE?!" There's no question... Yes, they are going to shoot you. That's what the OP is saying. There's no conundrum of "Hmm... are they friendly?" because 99% of the people KoS now.

Spot on Seddrik; thank you. We need more choices not more rules forced upon us.

I spent a few days researching keyboards and mice. Asked my wife for these for Christmas =^.^= Games now are getting to have so many hotkeys now that it's hard for me to reach them all and remember them all. Plus I really want a few extra buttons on the mouse. So it's time to upgrade the Packard Bell keyboard and Dell mouse! Yeah... that's right...I said Packard Bell... Ideazon SteelSeries MERC Stealth keyboard http://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Merc-Stealth-Gaming-Keyboard/dp/B00292OW1U $90 CM Storm Xornet - Gaming Mouse http://www.amazon.com/CM-Storm-Xornet-Switches-SGM-2001-BLON1/dp/B005TEPB74 $24 If you get the keyboard be sure to get the SteelSeries as it comes with the software which is honestly a big part of the whole package. Without it you just got a keyboard. With it you get much more flexibility with programing and setting up profiles. For some reason I couldn't see spending $80 to $90 on a mouse. All I really wanted was acceptable DPI and extra buttons. Found that for $24. Came recommended by several gamers as did the Logitech G400 which is $35 on Amazon. Go watch a review on the R.A.T 9 =) It's cool just to see that thing but....yeah... not spending a $130 on a mouse! http://reviews.cnet.com/mice/cyborg-r-a-t/4505-3148_7-34150179.html

There are a lot of shitty servers out there. Some even give a good ping but are just stupid slow and you time out, get kicked out for being "idle" even though you were waiting for duders crappy server to respond, sit at "Waiting for host" until time out, or sometimes you actually get in and the server side lag is unplayable. I started leaving notes for all the bad servers I join so I stop joining them! Next to the start icon is a little icon that looks like a sheet of paper or note. Click on that and leave a note! Mark servers that are really bad and then you can just ignore them in the future.

To clarify ... that's exactly how I exit and never had this problem. Only time I've been surprised by "Oh wtf why am I on the coast ?!" was joining a private hive. Took me a few days to figure out to look for things like "PVT", "Private", and "private hive" in the server name / description in DayZ Commander.

Z for Zelda!

All left handed people died in the zombie infection do to them being inferior humans! =) Yes... I'm kidding... My wife is left handed and I give her crap about it =^.^=

Yeah I'd rather know how long he's been dead and if he died to a gun shot wound, melee weapon, or zombie. That way I can guess if the killer is still close by or not and if I should be worried about another player with a gun, someone with an axe, or it was some nub who died to a zed.

Only thing I noticed that's kinda lame is that someone was shooting at me... still not in combat.... I got hit... STILL not in combat... went unconscious.... STILL not in combat... died... lost my FN FAL with NV... meh. Looks to me like you can still combat log? I didn't actually try it cuz I'm not a lamer but that little icon in the upper right corner always said I was not in combat the whole time this happened. The person shooting at me was a long ways away... maybe that was the problem?

Only thing I noticed that's kinda lame is that someone was shooting at me... still not in combat.... I got hit... STILL not in combat... went unconscious.... STILL not in combat... died... lost my FN FAL with NV... meh. Looks to me like you can still combat log? I didn't actually try it cuz I'm not a lamer but that little icon in the upper right corner always said I was not in combat the whole time this happened. The person shooting at me was a long ways away... maybe that was the problem?

Stupid forum keeps double posting...

Yeah I like it. Sure it's a little annoying after a while but it's a cool feature and makes things like painkillers useful. First time it happened to me I was actually freaked out IRL and my character was all freaked out too! Thought it was sooo cool. I was zooming in and scoping out an area. Didn't notice a bunch of zeds who came up on me. Turned around "OH SHIT!" I screamed IRL... wildly shot off a bunch of rounds... got hit by 3 zombies... sprinted off into the woods.... my character was all shaking and twitchy... it was epic.

massacred farms emote sad faces. we must have!