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Ive seen you guys kicking around World of Tanks. Always seemed like a cool bunch of dudes.

Zerogravity i do agree with you, like I said my situation was quite different (For starters noone was coming back to life and eating people) but the biggest thing you noticed was that suddenly EVERYONE had something in common. It was a great levelling device. didnt matter if you were rich or poor, or where your family was from, everyone effected was effected and everyone had that in common. As a result people were a lot more open and caring towards each other in general. Suddenly you found yourself getting to know your neighbours and helping them with things like fresh water or whatever they needed. Now if you look at it in context, a ZA would be more likely to make peeps form a strong bond, cause its an US VS them scenario. Everyone isnt just experiencing a common situation but has a common enemy. Sure, people would be more desperate, and as a result resort to greater measures of deprivation to protect them or their loved ones, but it would never get to the same sort of ratio as it does in game. The two simply wouldn't compare. Plus you would have pre-established community spirit as well, with existing communities carrying over into the disaster, as opposed to the whole starting off desperate and alone like in the game, forced to try and find friend and foe amongst who you stumble across. Im not saying there wouldnt be bandit type activity, just not to the same extent that it is present in game.

hahaha ohhhhhh with an offer like that... Well I need to stop spawning in the wilderness to try that bro. At the moment everytime I log in im in the middle of no where so at the moment no playing at all :/

I think you would find that the vast majority of peeps who say "In a real life PA situation THIS would happen...." would commit suicide after a week without the internet. :P I've lived in a disaster zone, albeit one that still had law and order, and as a whole the society banded together and got more supportive and helpful of each other. And while there was relatively widespread looting, there was no large scale serious crime for the benefit of oneself, despite people having little food, shelter or drinkable water. So while I do believe that bandit like behaviour would happen in a PA situation, it would not happen to the same extent as portrayed in fiction and the imagination of the vast hordes of bandit players in this game. Such antisocial psychotic types would very much be a minority. Hell you only have to actually talk to these guys on TS to know that they aren't actual cold blooded like the characters they play in game, much much the opposite. Think of it as an extension of the keyboard warriors you see on internet forums. I'm gonna get so flamed for that last bit. but really, don't subscribe to the "if this was real" mentality man, video games are escapism for most people, not true simulation (Despite that being Armas goal. Most day z kids aren't Arma kids) and for most people playing a bandit is their way of controlling a situation that seems uncontrollable and that they know they wouldn't be able to control so readily if it happened. Im rambling, but you get the point. EDIT: Argh im one of the people I mention in my first sentence! All in one post, arghhhhhh

Snowy matt, by doing that dont you lose all your gear as Respawn kills you and starts a new yes?

yeah we stay on veteren servers too. Cant stand the names popping and wanna avoid handscanning. And Chernos a lost cause man. thats why we stay north. trying to clear cherno of bandits is pointless. Also, no bandit skins tomorrow. Not gonna lie, kinda at odds about how to continue doing what we do. May tone it down a bit till we figure out some effective systems. I spoke to colin about what would happen if we ran into each other. He says hell stay out of it and just run around providing medical assistance to both sides :P Hes a GC

haha Karko sorry, you have been running with a mutual associate of ours a lot lately so have been avoiding you as we dont want to get him caught up in the crossfire. Plus you seem like pretty cool peeps for bandits :P In all honesty we arent often on the same server bro. i was on the same server as you guys but was alone so wasnt hunting at the time. No doubt we will see each other at some point.

Since the latest patch, I constantly log in to the wilderness debug area. I have tried restarting, validating etc and it always spawns me there with all my gear. Cant shoot or third person but can move and access my gear. Anyway to fix it? I really dont want to lose this character, too much good gear.

hey guys Was online just now and saw a Chicago server that looked different from the others. It was listing as playinf dayZ RELOADED Zombielife4 or something like that. Whats with that? It had no players and appeared to be closed.

Ill ask around, but we dont hang down at Chern. So unless you happened to catch one of the guys after a respawn then its not likely.

Were you in a bandit skin? And how do you know it was one of us? Server, time details etc. If you are a survivor and were wrongfully shot then Ill see what i can do to fix it. If you were a bandit who fell to our guns, well, welcome to the club :P EDIT by the way most of our guys have been away the last few days, so chances are slim. If you give me the circumstances behind it ill be able to figure out quickly if it was us or not.

Odd, couple days ago Mr Matt tried to join The NCM and wanted to regain his humanity, and now hes saying you should all share details on Bandit hunters. Either it was a failed attempt at espionage or someone untrustworthy is asking you all to trust him and all of yall. So much for honour amongst thieves eh

yeah he nailed it. the coast is a bit of a lost cause anyway, in my opinion. Up north you get bandits, but good bandits, guys who actually look for strong prey instead of fresh noobs. And why shoot a bandit on the coast who will respawn immediately and be back on the spot. Up north is much more fun. I welconme the bandits saying they will take us down. We will kill some of them, some will kill us. thats the fun of day Z. Ill never understand the rage some peeps get over this stuff.

Awesome. getting the desired response to my post. See you guys in the field ;)

haha wow. Haters gonna hate eh. Why the hate man? Someone piss in your cornflakes this morning? And the answer is no and no. But you dont seem like the type who really is wanting a truthful answer.