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That combined with not being able to be on at the same time leads me to think that you are using the same CD-key somehow, either he 'borrowed' yours and he's not being truthful to you or your sharing one not being truthful with us, or some weird ass complication I can barely comprehend. But I digress and don't want to be pointing fingers. I know it just says 'you've been kicked' when you/your friend gets kicked, but is there any message on the server side? IE 'Dave has been Kicked BE Restriction #1234'? If it does try googling that number to see what it means. Try logging on to two different public servers (same hive) and see if one or the other still gets kicked, or if you spawn in the exact same spot.

To my knowledge there are no AI in Vanilla DayZ. Some of the mods do have AI and some private hives add in AI as well. Depending on the server you were on it could have been a hacker, or possibly a combat logger (the sniper that 'disappeared') who logged back in at the right time. I wouldn't think AI would despawn and respawn but I don't know the mechanics. The camp you passed by could have been a 'Survivor camp' which is randomly created by the server (think heli crash but tents). It could have also been someone really good or a squad of people.

Would need more information, if you guys are using the same CD-key (pretty sure that's a no no) that might be it. If you're playing from the same IP it might be something to do with that. Skype shouldn't affect it (at least I don't think so). Does it let him join if you're on first? If so just join before he does, if he gets kicked when he tries to join you (or you get kicked when he joins) ask him what the kick message says and copy it down.

Because side is mostly used for drama, that and say your in the middle of nowhere and all of a sudden you hear someone yell, "Friendly, Friendly, Dude friendly, dude Im in the firehouse I'm friendly Dude don't shoot FUCK MAN STOP SHOOTING" Player has died "YOU (long string of F words, one of which is prohibited on these forums)" Voip also causes a little bit of lag (or at least that's one of the excuses used, don't know for sure). And if you really want to know the reason, ask the admins of that server. Just don't sound uppity about it ('y u gais ban sidechat? dat so gay!'), or press the issue, likely to get a kick.

Ah, wasn't sure if it was Alpha or Beta. What did the download button say before? I can't remember now.

Was wondering that myself. I probably didn't notice it for a couple of days. Clicked on it just to be sure. Might just be a mistake or something, or gearing up for the release, after all I thought the Mod itself was in 'beta'.

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As said above its an M9 and already in the game.

Ya know, a thought occurred to me in the shower just now. We talk about people contaminating lakes and sources of water to prevent/hinder people who drink there, but it really goes beyond that. Lets just say for a moment that the 'contamination' mechanic will work like this. 1) Player with cholera takes a shit in a pond 2) Pond becomes contaminated for a week or so. 3) (after a day) Anyone who drinks from the pond without boiling or purifying it will have a 90% chance to get cholera (as opposed to say a 1% chance were it not contaminated). 4) (after a day) Anyone who swims/wades in the pond has a 70% chance to get cholera, 90% if they have and open wound (or were recently bandaged) 5) (after say 3 days) A percentage of zombies that spawn near the water source would be infected with cholera (with a 10% chance of infecting a player they attack) This would actually make a lot of sense as a model. One player can be responsible for an outbreak on a server. Guy contracts Cholera somehow, takes a shit in Topolka dam, zombies down in Electro become infected after a few days and infect anyone unlucky enough to be attacked by an infected zombie, cycle repeats.

True, someplace in the Czech Republic right? But even then the 'coast' is actually a river in real life. Probably the reason why its a coastline instead of a river in game is because it's just a bit too hard to do realistic rivers with the Engine they have.

Not saying it shouldn't be part of the game. To be honest if things were a bit like DayZ where you have large groups of bandits I probably would poison their water supply given the chance. There's a bunch of ideas that are 'bad ideas' that should be part of the game (don't have a link to the topic but pretty sure its titled Darwin's Dream or Bad Ideas). Like drinking Gas or cooking a box of bullets.

There's really no way to do this without a mechanic. Even if you block off an area with sandbags and barbwire, zombie can simply walk through barbwire, not to mention spawning inside the 'safe zone'. And there will always be people who just want to screw things up for others. For a non PVP zone you would need people to actually enforce it if you don't have the mechanic in place. Meaning you need people to kill PVPers who they themselves could be killed. All it would take would be one good sniper to screw things up royally.

Has been suggested before. Though still a good idea. Should be more than just 'fishing pole' method of fishing as well. There's trap lines, cage traps, net fishing, cast net fishing, ect. Canning is more than just taking an empty tin can and putting food in it. In real life you put the food in a clean, unsealed can, put the lid on it and heat both can and food, killing any surface bacteria and cooking the food in the process, and expanding the air inside enough so that once you cover and seal the can it creates a vacuum when it cools. Jarring would make more sense than canning as something players can do. Basically the same concept but canning requires a lot of equipment most people won't just have laying around, much less in their backpack during a zombie apocalypse. All you need is jars and lids, and a pot to boil them in, you can even reuse the jars unlike tincans (for the same purpose anyway). TL;DR Canning Requires a factory, Jarring you can do at home.

Don't know for sure, but I thought I read something about servers being grouped into hive clusters. IE US 1 through 10 will be one Hive cluster. 11-20 will be another. And the servers will be linked, IE say a very rare weapon where only one will spawn and wont respawn when it's picked up till it's destroyed/disappeared. This way someone cant just loot the 'mega gun' (for lack of a better word) and put it in a tent somewhere on SK10 or whatever. You'll only be able to server hop with your char between the cluster of servers. Maybe a way to keep this happening would be to link water contamination as well. Wouldn't stop trolls completely, but people who know would definately think twice, and anyway you're going to be purifying most water you get anyway.

Would really depend on how quickly the infection overtook the population. And it really depends on if people know where to look. You would expect to find food in a grocery store. Most people don't think about searching random warehouses or random shipping containers. Here in Hawaii its rumored that we have several hidden bunkers loaded to the gills with Spam in case of an emergency. (Just an FYI, the three things that sell out first before a big storm or hurricane here are rice, toilet paper, and spam) Well considering we'll find stuff in static vehicles now wouldn't be too much of an offshoot. Then again the 'loot pile' is a mechanic from the Arma engine. Most of us are from First world countries where everything is packaged in bulk for our convenience. In countries where a bottle of Coke might be half a day's pay you wouldn't expect to see the 36 packs of Pepsi or other large cases we high consumers purchase on the front shelves (and usually when we buy individual soda its from a vending machine or from a refrigerator case, something you might not see in a place that has no electricity). I've seen some maps/servers that have added 'car crashes' (sort of like a chopper crash) to their scripts, usually a static car either on or near a road with either boxes of medical supplies or non military loot scattered about. Maybe we'll get something like this sooner or later in Standalone. Just something to add to the luck factor. Might be lucky enough to come across an overturned Ural with a crate of AK101s and ammo in the back (maybe require a tool like a crowbar to open). Sure you wouldn't take all the AKs but grabbing one or two for you and your buddies would be enough.

Although to be honest, in a real survival situation the LAST thing I (or anyone intelligent enough to survive) would do would be to poison/contaminate a source of food or water. Then again the last thing I would expect would be two guys in a helicopter hunting me down and killing me, wasting 20 mins of fuel and around a 100 rounds of ammo on the off chance I might have some food or water on me when all I had was a crossbow and hunting knife. Sun Tsu might have said something along the lines of denying your enemy resources, but he also talked about using thous resources for yourself...and I'm pretty sure he didn't have to deal with Jiang Shi and COD kids.

I've suggested this before, rather than say a pallet or large crate, more along the lines of larger cases, IE 36 packs of soda. A bulk box of canned goods (lets just say 24). The way I would do it is larger items would require both hands, but you can either remove one/several items from the box, or you can just pick up the box and say load it into a vehicle, or long haul it back to your camp. Just boxes in general really, like just being able to pick up the boxes in hospitals with medical supplies in them, and load them into your car, same with ammo boxes.

Yeah, you were a bit specific. I'm pretty sure its going to be in the game sooner or later, or it was at least talked about. Taking a shit in the lake will contaminate it with whatever infections you have, ect. I'd like to see it added to the crafting mechanic. IE someone could crush up some sleeping pills or painkillers, sneak up on someone's tent and put it in their water canteens or on their preserved food, then come back when the person is knocked out/ODed, or keep it on their person as well as a sort of 'fuck you' to the person who robs/kills and loots. Maybe contamination will eve be to the point where you have to clean and sanitize water containers once they've been infected with something, not just dump out the contents and refill.

Id almost prefer the large lake/series of lakes idea. Would probably be easier to implement than changing the map enough to create a river. After all, there's a lot of unattended dams now. However, I highly doubt that we'd get a river or any new lakes this late in development of Chenarus (unless of course Chenarus+ goes further north or west, Guba after all looks like the outlet of a river) so we'd really have to wait for an all new map with purpose put rivers in them (perhaps that urban 'western' map Rocket wants to do eventually, with a large canal/river running through a major city to the coast and up to a feeder lake).

Not too bad considering what you have to work with. I wouldn't mind seeing some underground areas in standalone (small bunker complex under green mountain or something, old abandoned iron mine near one of the castles (an attempted survivor camp or something, some loot and zombies, or no loot or zombies and just a place you can set up a tent/stash) possibly a mine that was active until the outbreak, loaded with zombies and some industrial loot)

Well unless it was a dirty toilet it wouldn't really make you sick, and even then not right away. In fact one urban survival trick is to take water from the toilet tank (unless there's chlorine tablets or some other cleaner in the tank) to drink. Unless your toilet is specifically hooked up to a non-potable water source its the same you get out of the tap. And I'd be more than a little suspicious of someone handing me a canteen of water after I just met them and telling me to drink it. (like shoot them in the face suspicious, and I don't normally do that) Also, I would imagine that there's no more water in the toilets anymore anyway. And to my knowledge canteens will say purified/not purified on them as text. So it'd really only work on noobs.

Nope, haven't played in over a month. Kinda waiting for standalone and have other games to keep my occupied. (I've also been half afraid that when I really really want to play dayz I'm gonna try logging in and my key's been stolen or something)

Rivers/streams would be a welcome addition (to fish in as well as to use as a transport route), but as said above it's not something easy to do with Arma. Not when you can swim (or crawl) faster than the boat (I know from experience...slowest trip to Berezino ever...). Everything but the PBX seams to have a Mikita drill for a motor. Maybe its just because my uncles a boat builder and he does not fuck around when it comes to engines, but even little fishing boats/trawlers can haul ass when you throttle em out.

Dat boy aint right...Ill leave it at that.

Or you downloaded a 'cheat' or an FPS booster which was really just a key stealer. Or any of the hundreds of other reasons, just about none of which will get you any sympathy.