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Enjoy your loot while you can, it won't be there when you get back :P

+1 Also Col-Wick, not sure what you're talking about handgun magazines being rare. My friend and I are practically tripping over them all over the place (mostly high chance weapon spawns in major cities or the air field but they're certainly not as rare as you're making them out to be) when we run about. Though I don't fully agree with magazines being rare, as WH123 says. Doesn't make sense to have magazine fed weapons lying around with no magazines to feed them, especially when producing magazines is almost as cheap as producing the handful of ammunition that they feed (if not less, thanks for the labour China :D) Yeah leaving ammunition in a magazine is detrimental to its performance but more or less not how metal works. There -is- a failure to feed after the spring is worn out but it's only after a certain amount of the magazine. A spring is still a spring, which is typically metal. Metal only bends to a certain position when you bend it -further- than the position you want it and then it comes back (hence the spring property) just a touch. So... a fully depressed spring in a magazine after awhile would probably lose its ability to fully feed a weapon its full capacity to maybe a third or half of the magazine's original capacity. Just guessing, I would say if you wore out a 30 round mag over a week, you'd only be fed about 10-15 rounds, maybe more maybe less. I am however just guessing based on my experience with metal work and whatnot, what the actual number or effect of leaving ammunition in a magazine for too long (or what that window is for that matter) is beyond me because I've no military/recreational shooting experience.

All seriousness though, as far as I'm aware tents and their loot do not persist beyond restarts.

As much as I'd love to continue this -thrilling- debate, I expressed an opinion to the contrary and your first word's were a Lawyer's defamation argument. That being said, I leave you with the following my friend. No hard feelings <3

^ Also I misspoke, I won't stop playing the game entirely. Just for a little while.

Well alright. The politica quagmire that is the middle east, Mogadishu, several African nations and tribes currently massacring one another even though us priviledged white people like to pretend it isn't happening aaaaaaaaand North Korea. I would like to point out that I brought up three points that refute what you said, whereas you provided an example of a well known natural disaster that every celebrity and their dog was jumping on to get free publicity when in fact the rest of the thinking/feeling West had been offering aid work in all sorts of Nations that include ones where white people get shot for being white people all over the world. Also since you decided to be such a condescending ass and attack me as a person, rather than discuss the points I brought up I provide you the following because it is as meaningful as your "argument".

Loot rollbacks. I'm not particularly attached to my gear, I shed that part of me awhile ago after playing the game for the longest time but it is kinda sad to see all that hard earned progress go to waste. I'll probably stop playing in the new year because of the planned loot rollbacks, mostly because christmas gave me a Teddy Bear which I named Mr. Snuggles. He even has a note inside him that says "This is my teddy, Mr. Snuggles. He likes warm hugs and keeps monsters away at night, take good care of him for me."

Fair point, just evaluating the question based on my past experiences. *Shrug*

Well from a realistic perspective... 45ACP I think should be a civilian cartridge since it's not really widespread in NATO anymore, since NATO has standardized all of its ammunition. 9mm should be both Civilian and Military because it's the standard pistol cartridge within NATO but also pretty handy for home defense... 7.62x39mm is kind of a military cartridge because it's the standard ammunition for most assault rifles in the former USSR. That being said... I knew a guy from Serbia who served in the Serbian Army and according to him, the state doesn't want civilians owning weapons outside of like... basically shotguns (sporting grades like birdshot or buckshot) or hunting rifles. Assault weaponry, handguns and whatnot is very much regulated to military personnel only because the state doesn't want it's civilian population going in to revolt and mounting their own coup de tat. Serbia is probably pretty far from Chernarus but I'm sure most of those lines of thought translate over pretty easily. That being said, the SKS by it's own description isn't a widely used weapon for military, mostly a collector's weapon and used for ceremonial purposes. So finding the actual guns, not that hard. Finding ammunition for it? Understandably more difficult.

I'd like to point out to those arguing the whole "Social contract and cooperation in an apocalypse would not have us all as homocidal monsters" a few points I've picked up during my classic education... A) Human beings are inherently violent, we evolved to be so ( I'll poke religion in a second, right now it's science's turn ) because we needed to fend off hungry predators and territorial herbavores. Yeah those harmless leaf eating mammals that the drippy hippies fight so hard to save the rights of? You know, the ones with horns/claws/body mass far outstripping our own that we killed for food? Those things like to kill us right back. We human beings over the course of our evolution have been inherently violent because we killed other creatures out of necessity and in doing so, killed those of us who weren't violent as well because if we -could- kill them and take their stuff, we totally would. B ) Social contract - if modern sociology is to be believed - was formed by most basic religions that eventually got distilled in to one basic concept: Work together, live in harmony. ie: Don't murder your neighbor because it hurts the collective. I would theorize that having an omniscient, all powerful deity that would punish us in the life beyond for our transgressions (not a concept born in Judaism or Christianity, actually pretty widespread) made controlling and keeping the masses from killing one another fairly easy. Which brings a final point... C) Our society, our modern day contemporary society is the longest lasting largely atheistic society to survive on its own in history. Empires rise and fall but what has stood the test of time over and over again is keeping people together under one common belief structure and one common moral code. Whether it be "Do unto others" or "Don't covet they neighbor's Ox", having a similar belief structure has kept human beings together of a like mind functioning on a societal level. In fact, every conflict in history can be traced back to some level of disagreement in belief structure (which isn't a statement about the pros or cons of religion, just an observation of fact) and often lack of resources as well. When two groups of differing belief structures encounter a scarcity of resources, they -will- clash. Take those in to account when considering that in contemporary society everyone is largely allowed to have whatever belief structure they so choose, without one unifying concept to hold them all together; throw them in to a scenario where the confines of our omnipresent judicial system is no longer enforcing the social contract so belief structures with no unified core are conflicting alongside a scarcity of resources and our innate instinct when someone has something we want is to take it from them and might equals right... What I'm getting at is, people don't realize how thin and fragile the threads holding our society together actually are and DayZ is a wonderful example of how a mixture of (theoretically) finite resources with no constraints or boundaries to what one can do - with a dash of natural tension and distrust of strangers - could and probably would actually play out. So... suck it Cracked. :P

See I really disagree about jogging. Having eaten to that "tubby custard" feeling in the past, I rarely wanted to get up from my seat let alone -walk- anywhere. Keep in mind... Eating until you are "stuffed" isn't like eating until you feel full. ... Though on second thought, I guess the range of movement you should be allowed would depend on the colour of the condition. The first "stuffed" in yellow would just be a 'yeah I'm full, feels good' where the orange would be 'whoa I don't wanna run anywhere, better slow down' and anyone who is silly enough to eat until they are red before they puke should be 'no I'm only going to walk or be polishing my shoes with my stomach contents'. Seems a bit more reasonable to vary the punishment of reckless behaviour based on how reckless/silly it is rather than across the board "YOU SHALL FOREVER WALK SLOW NO MATTER WHAT".

I dunno, it makes for good conversation I suppose? Yeah I know about the bug tracker, I didn't see a solution posted when I did though >.>

So I'm sure this is already a thing in the bug report area but I feel like I need to express my frustration with it and also give other people an opportunity to rant about this bug and if it has screwed them over, share their story. Or alternatively, if anyone knows how to fix it (aside from dying because my friend and I are going to try that, I'm hoping to get a solution that doesn't involve running back from the coast to retrieve my stuff) your insight would be greatly appreciated Long story short, my friend and I spent the better part of an entire game session trying to fix this bug without any results. We tried... -Warming up (changing clothes, wearing thicker clothes, heatpacks, running for an extended period of time, sitting next to a fire for 10+ minutes) -Curing sickness (anti-biotic pills, injection vials which don't actually work, vitamin bottles) -Fixing a broken/fractured limb (Two morphine injectors and at least four splints) -Logging out and then back in -Switching servers -Several combinations of the above So far, we've yet to get anything to work. The problem itself isn't that big, my aim is still straight enough that I can shoot from iron sights at a certain range but it compounds enormously when I'm looking through a scope/pair of binoculars. So if you have a similar experience, anecdote or solution, please do reply! If not, reply just to keep this up near the top of the board. If you don't have a solution, someone else might! <3

I've never actually had this happen to me but it does concern me if there's potential. Just my thoughts on the matter to make backpacks more diverse beyond just something you carry your beans in.