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Not sure what effect that would have, I will do exactly that, and report the differences.

Serious question to all interested, what would your perfect dayz server utilise? Map? Loadout? Features? Personally I favour a more vanilla approach, with stock starting gear, only limited vehicles added and changes to lower the chances of 50 cal snipers. Low/Med value military cannot spawn snipers, chances of them spawning at high value military lowered. Plus a few other minor changes. With a road bridge, skalisty island makes for interesting events and location for additional buildings. To be fair Taviana/Namalsk are more my thing than Chernarus Any thoughts would be good, as for our server it's good to know what people want! Thanks

Download and install combined ops, run both to main menu. Download dayz commander - install dayz. Done.

Exactly. Well there's that and also the increased customization :)

I have not played an offical hive for ages, mainly due to getting teleported to mars and shooting myself in the head 3 times in one night.

Agreed, Unfortunately it's difficult. We had our server in "normal" mode with vanilla spawns and loadout. Just the additions of street lighting and other atmospheric enhancements and it never became populated. Add vehicles, NPC's and alike and people join. It doesnt help there are 4000 chernarus servers of which 80% are empty.

Yup hacker, and to make it worse he could not shoot for shit.

It's depressing that i've just wasted a little bit of my life reading this.

I have found them stupid all the time! Me and my buddy fly into Salvation City every day when its dark, loot the hell out of the place and then leave. We are metres from the AI and they dont even flinch. The AI on my server, you only have to so much as glance at them and come within 2-300 metres and you die.

Sounds great, let me know if you need any help with scripting or testing, would be great to be involved :)

I agree completely! Our server currently runs vanilla loadout with only minor changes & additions. I am very tempted to strip it down further for people such an yourselves and of course me and my group! With what I have so far, i'm half way there. If you would truly like to see a server developed for people with such ideas, contact me and if I get enough interest, I would love to work together with you all to create a server with just the right amount of everything.

Thanks for all your input so far. It seems there are more people with my train of thought than I imagined! I love the idea of a "hardcore" DayZ, say it how you will. Do you guys think there would be enough interest to form a player base from this.....concentrating on increasing the atmosphere, decreasing the ammount of ultra high end gear, and just making dayz that little bit more interesting?

Cheers for the input. Would you prefer the NPC's to just attacks zed? Or bandits + zeds?

As much as I agreed with this, it's still not something to rant about. Theres plenty of ways to make whichever gun or vehicle available to you, even to those on the most restrictive managed server nodes. Please don't bitch to the very people who are helping us enjoy dayz.

How stupid can you be? Paying for a server does not give you the right to cheat/abuse your powers as an admin. Period. If there in game they are playing and are therefore just as much of a target as anyone else

Have you added the startup paremeters to actually tell Arma2 you have 8 active cores? The correct parameter is "-CpuCount=8" Adding this for my system gave me around 30% more FPS. As default I believe the Arma2 system doesn't see all your cores as to begin with, mine was only loading up on 2 cores :) Hope this helps

MTVR & MH60S have been added to replace the aged Ural & Mi17!

So effectively no way to deal with people who SOS without trying to let them hit you first? Unless of course you can loose them.

Spent the last few days tweaking the AI, we proved a team of 2 could take them all out with a little bit of patience! More AI will be added when decisions have been made :) Currently working some more features too!

FEATURE UPDATE: #Skalisty Fortress - Enter it if you dare! Are the risks worth it? #Highly Skilled NPC Guards #ATV Proof Road Bridge #Active Street Lighting #Active House Lighting #Customized Loot Tables

Currently ironing out a few issues thanks to everyone reporting what they find!

Good to be back bud!

I always used to play hero, currently trying to convince my buddy that we should start playing hero again. I'm up for the challenge, make it as hard as you want to maintain the hero skin.

Did you install the dayz mod through commander, and update the relavent OA beta EXE?

What are your video settings? Thing's like shadows need to be set to disabled or normal/high, Low settings puts them onto the CPU. List your settings here, see what I can come up with