FAAmecanic

And this is why some KoS will never be solved. Little 13 yr old Jimmy's mommy allows him to play games in the basement. When Little Jimmy isnt busy exploring the joys of Internet porn and touching himself, he is running around shooting new spawns for fun because he is of the Playstation/Xbox Battlefield 4 mentaility where that is all there is to do. Anyway....back to the original topic. I like all the ideas (play much Origins and Epoch... OP? seems like a lot of ideas from those mods are what made them great, and made it into your first post). Some I would think would be too hard/costly/time consuming for the dev team to implement, others may just be a rescripting. One thing that kept me comming back to play the Origins mod for MONTHs was trying to gather enough gear to raid the Island of Sector B. For those that never played Origins..this was an island that the rich retreated to after the outbreak. It had a huge wall around it, with AI guards inside and outside the wall. Inside the wall was a town, industrial area, and airfield that had all the uber gear for you to grab. But you had to kill the elite guards that the rich people hired first. So this island gave you the reason to loot, gather a team, and raid. I made LOTS of friends of other clans on a private server just so we could team up and go to Sect B. I say once Dean and Co. get all the announced features implemented it will cut down on KoS as there is many other distractions. Right now the only thing we have to do is either A) KoS or B ) hunt the KoS snipers in Cherno/Electro (my fav past time).

Seems like the only admin tools there are right now are in the script kiddies hands. I got teleported yesterday from the tents in the NW AF to somewhere waaaay the hell North East at the top of the map.... lol With that said...Im sure Rocket will be working on SAFE Server Admin tools after they get a lot of the script kiddie holes fixed (and STEAM bans thier steam accounts...cant wait for that day. Im popping popcorn and sitting in the forums on the first day of this..lol). But I would bet we are a year or more away from good SA admin tools.

Been playing since Day 1.... and announcing friendly, or even better just a stern "Hey dude...I have you in my sights but dont want to shoot you...be cool" from cover where you can observe the player, works 9/10 times. I have only been KoS once since SA released...and that was when a dude and I almost crashed into eachother rounding a building. He immediately opened up (and stupid me had my ax out) and killed me. I think I spooked him as bad as he spooked me...he just happened to have his gun out so had the drop on me.

I agree with your logic here.... but then that begs to question why the hell would we want 12 hrs a day on a sever where only a mad man would go out pf his shelter. sounds like the making of a great sleeping/staying in shelter post apocalyptic zombie simulator. Not very exciting...but realistic.

You do realize rocket took out the gamma cheat 2 days after release right? Jacking gamma and brightness doesnt do dick anymore.

I have been on many servers at night and either my setttings are screwes up...or my monitor doesnt display night correctly. I cant see shit at night but outlines of tree tops if I look up at night on a clear night.gamma is at 50 and brightness at 50. Hdr is at low...

No....I did not log back on the same server. But that should not matter as it was a offical server, and those servers are on the same hive.

Rocket just told us WHY this happens. There really is nothing you can do to prevent it other than finding some servers thru trial and error and favoriting those servers that dont wipe your stuff at logout/logon. I just lost two characters (last night and this afternoon) by joining what looked like "offical" servers..... yes this is alpha... but until the hunger/thrist is fixed, or loot spawns, so I can survive long enough to get off the coast, Im done "testing".

I can say server hopping does NOT loose you gear.... my friends have done PLENTY of hopping to find daytime servers and never lost gear. I can also say that joining non-whitlisted servers does NOT cause you to loose gear (at least on the HIVE servers..private ones you will spawn with nothing as they are not connected to HIVE). I just lost all my gear for the second time in two days after I left a server (after playing for 4 hrs) then joining another whitelisted server.

And I was not server hopping. I logged out after playing for 3 or 4 hours to take a break, logged back in and wham...at the beach.

Not just in Zel.... happend to me 2X in 2 days now just outside of Vybor. And I was not server hopping. I logged out after playing for 3 or 4 hours to take a break, logged back in and wham...at the beach.

I know this is alpha....I get that. But 2X in 2 days I just get decently kitted up and the next time I log on I loose all my gear. Is this a known bug? Or is it something Im doing wrong?

Or just spawn in and out a few times.... your bound to loose all your gear like I just did....sign alpha

Blah blah blah...realism. Realistic is the dark ass nights. I guess most of you forget that the power grids will fail in just a few days after an apocalypse with no one to man the machines or deliver oil/coal to the generators. And there are no hydroplants that I have seen in chenaraus. With that said... realism is also having a flashlight that lasts more than 1 hour, and doesn't cast a pinprick beam when moving close to a door or wall. Fix the flashlight beam and the first argument of it being too dark goes away. The argument of being a target...well that is realism. Provided NVGS never make it in game (and I hope they don't) you have the same likleyhood of spotting that bandit as he does you.

Did you try Charcol tablets? That fixes poisoning....not sure about food posioning....