trimethylxanthine

The doctor is in! For the next hour or two I will be available in the North West region for all your medical needs. Send me a PM or add me on steam. -trime

Sendt you a PM.

Medics: Dr. Trimethylxanthine & Nurse Fraggle Current Region: North West Status: Available Got a broken bone, need a bandage or a top-off with blood? Scream loud enough so we can hear you and find you, or just be sensible and find me on steam or send a PM.

Sure thing e47! I'll do a quick list for now and update it later when I have the details on medical equipment in front of me. Depending on what time will allow this weekend I will attempt a few runs to various hospitals looking for more supplies. Here is a quick list of the things I wish to stock up on in terms of survival gear: Hatchet Hunting Knife Binoculars Matches Canteens/Soft drinks Map Compass Food The next part is a BIG "if" really. Stockpiling weapons is something I personally have some problems deciding on. Seeing how the idea is to give any freshly spawned medic a chance to get back to their patients quickly a weapon would be nice to have, but my issue with this is related to the following: Are we gun runners? Will this practically result in us arming the coastline again, effectively turning back the time to the old Makarov/Revolver days? I feel everyone should be allowed a fair chance to survive, but I'm afraid this will attract the wrong crowd. What and how much? Personaly I wish to limit the weapon side of the project down to the bare essentials. Meaning that what we store in terms of weapons will be some form of handgun, nothing more! What we hope to create is a lifeline for medics and a tool to give others the means of survival, not warfare. As a side note to this is that those who are directly informed of where to find the sites will also be informed of what should be there for each piece of armament. I've mentioned this before and I'm leaning to the point where any one camp containing weapons will be down to the following: Revolver - 1/2 magazines M1911 - 1/2 magazines Makarov - 2/3 magazines M9 - 2/3 magazines Again, this is not an armory its an aid station or soup kitchen if you like to call it that. Now.. have I forgotten anything? Feel free to give me any input. Before the question is raised I'll speak my mind right away: Q: "Why don't you consider storing backpacks in the camps?" A: We don't know who is going to come across it by accident and again I wish to stress that the idea is to have a place where you can get back on your feet. Stockpiling backpacks would likely give the same effect as hoarding guns, we'll bring around the wrong crowd. Another point and more importantly really; the less you can carry out of a tent located near the coast, the less maintenance will be required and you are less likely to grab more than you need when your capacity is limited. One wall of text later and I'm done. As always; input, mockery, flattery and PMs calling me a jackass is more than welcome. -trime

We have had a few problems getting everything up and running, things ranging from us getting shot, camp raided, sasquach frequently visiting our tents for a late night snack and last but not least; dying in an exploding car. However, with a bit of a lucky streak lately and some lovely support from the people who have gotten in touch with Fraggle and me things seems to be back on track. Quick update on the project: Status: In Progress. Medical stockpile: Full Basic stockpile: WIP Tentcamps: currently limited to basecamp Transport: Check Tents: Large supply on hand All in all we are ready to send the first couple of guinea pigs into the field. Hopefully at least a few of these will survive and remain as semi-permanent locations. I don't want to move the camps around too much unless they become a favored target on the server(s) they are on. Hopefully the guinea pigs should give us a decent indication. Once the first camps are up and running we will update the thread and most likely inform some of the nearby medics of the location. Finaly, thanks to everyone who has offered to help so far! Hopefully I'll get a chance to meet up with all of you over the weekend and we can start setting things up. Thanks again! -trimethylxanthine

I play the game together with a few friends and as a consequence we use teamspeak with a plug-in that gives us an overlay in the game showing who is talking. A server I visited detected the overlay as a script and kicked me. On any other day this would have been just fine. (Said plug-in gives a warning that this might happen, so I can't be angry for it :) ) This day however I was driving a Pickup filled to the brim with weapons and my dead friend's possessions at 100 km/h on the highway. As I got kicked my car slammed into a wreaked car on the road. When I logged back in I found myself thrown out of the windscreen, passed out next to my burning pickup that decided that now was a great time to explode. Oddly enough, it didn't kill me, but gave me about 5 minutes of silent contemplation and painfully watching my time run out, both in terms of the "coma" timer and my blood slowly ticking down. All I could do was laugh really.

A bag of blood and a freshly killed Boar goes a long way. :) And after quite a few patients visited today, none of them have turned out to be bastards looking to take "Sharleen" from me. Now don't get mauled on the way home!

It was fun to read your story Ben :) Looking back I can't believe some of the things I did before I decided to sign up as a medic. Back in April when the side chat was still on in every server I found myself running from Pustoshka to Pusta without a map and no compass looking to help some poor guy stuck in a barn. My first patient and the first one I lost. Bastards got to him before me... I can still hear the gunshot from the barn.

Keep in mind if you log out while in shock you will quite likely log back in and find yourself passed out. Just a friendly warning :)

Sorry about having to wait for so long. Oliver got in touch with me for a bit of medical assistance. I sendt Nurse Fraggle ahead who broke his legs and died AT the meeting point. We where listening in on your trade hoping he didn't get shot while you where making the deal. Good to know everything turned out alright! :)

To all of you who wish to help out: Right, in order to make it all come to fruition eventually Fraggle and me will need to put some trust into other people and expand. But for now we'll try to keep the cards close to our chest and bring the project up on its feet on our own. I like to claim that I'm a trusting person and unless you give me a bad wibe I welcome just about anyone to join us as things start to kick off. :) Personally I can "only" work out of EU based servers due to ping. I say "only" because I will most likely end up getting kicked from servers in other parts of the world fairly quickly, but that won't stop me from setting up a camp in a chosen location and disappear again. So anyone who wish to use the sites we find that turn out to be reliable on their server is more than welcome! Now, at the moment we are working back and forth on a server (to be disclosed soon-ish) setting up guinea pig camps to see how well they manage to survive. The biggest issue we have outside the very obvious ones (greed, raiding, bigfoot stealing the tent, etc.) is getting tents. I don't want to beg and I hate asking since it will take time and effort out of other people's spare time but: If anyone is willing and feel they can spare it, an extra tent would help us a long way and I would be forever grateful!

This project is as you and a few others have pointed out going to be a pain in the neck to maintain. Depending on how well the camps do we will see what needs to be moved, and what needs to be forgotten altogether. As you said, nothing is worse than letting a patient down. I've had to let two down so far... I still feel bad about it. One because I didn't get there in time and the other I had to abandon due to real life obligations, I still feel bad about both. My hope is primarily to get the fresh medics off the coast and back into action quickly (my primary concern) secondly comes camps of basic equipment in regions where people who respawn to get back to electro/cherno won't be traveling much, giving the regular survivor a fighting chance. Thanks for pointing out the binoculars! I can't believe I forgot about those. For those of you wanting to become medics: Look up Dr. Wasteland M.D's thread of handy tips and fat list of patients http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/3910-need-medical-assistance-we-can-help/ Feel free to look me up if you want a friend as you're saving lives (granted you're on the european servers. If I go to the US based servers it will only be to set up camp and log back out.) Want to help us out? Got input, see something I've forgotten, want to call me a jackass, got plans of becoming a supplier? Send me a PM or look me up on steam. Same name and disturbing picture. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970386950 Want to help out more people with supplies? Look up Survivor-Kyle and the Freeloaders. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/user/17279-survivor-kyle/ So far: thanks to everyone who have sendt me PM's, offered to help and given me suggestions. Lots of fun to see so many people interested! :) For those wondering how this is going: We hit a massive snag last night. Decided to move basecamp seeing how all the tents where empty (we guessed the server ate it all), untill someone stopped by to pick up the rest. Should you read this: thanks for making moving camp easier and thank you for the nice trade-in we got for the ATV. And before I forget, thanks for packing the camp for us! Saved us loads of time! ;) Now... time to fill the tank and start getting the campsites up!

Thanks to everyone who've given me feedback so far. Here is a basic list of what I believe should be in the depots we establish. For now I'm thinking the medical equipment will be the most frequently needed supplies. Priority goods - Blood bags - Bandages - Morphine Optional, but nice to have - Antibiotics (if we can find some) - Epinephrine I'm calling these optional because they are either hard to come by, like the antibiotics but also not often needed except for emergencies (Epinephrine) As for the survival gear I'm thinking about keeping it to the basic stuff needed to survive. - Food - Water - Map - Compass (whenever we find the bloody things...) - Matches - Hunting knife - Handguns & a few clips for each I wish to limit the amount of weapons stashed in order to avoid the campsites becoming high value targets for would-be bandits and an easy way to start griefing. Again, any input, suggestions and even a dedicated moment of pointing and manic laughter is welcome.

Server and the various locations will be kept between me, Fraggle and those will be working with us. How long will this take? As of now we have a decent stockpile worth of guns, survival equipment, medical suplies and a few vehicles to help us cross large distances quickly. I'm hoping to be able to have the second camp ready fairly soon, ie. tonight/tomorrow morning (We are on european servers). As of now we are working out of our base camp, that sadly had to be rebuilt since our other server was taken down last night and had some major issues with synchronizing actions and loot with the main server resulting in a large loss, but giving us a fresh start. Seeing how we are a two man team at the moment it might take some time, depending on how soon some of our other companions join us again. As for working together, the main issue is that most of the people on the list of medics are based in the US and not very many (it seems) are working out of the European servers. The backbone to this is to give headroom for up and comming medics and those well established making the starting phase as painless as possible and less downtime for those who are short on supplies. Anyone who can benefit from the arrangement and access the server is welcomed by me.

Might not be a fair assumption, but in any event once you put up a camp you have to make a few calculated risks. - Is it well enough hidden? - Can I risk loosing whats in the tents? - Will I be away for long periods of time leaving it open to others? - Should someone come across it, will they take everything and smash the tents or take some and leave what they can't carry or don't need? Personally I see it worth the risk and the effort (even if it ends up being temporary) if it ends up helping others. Chances are I will get shot and looted quite a few times as we're attempting to start this project.