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Great suggestion, and its the logical conclusion of making arrows wooden. The only option I disagree with is the feather requirement for wooden bolts. On short range weapon (which the crossbow is), I highly doubt feathers serve any usefullnes apart from the optics. Apart from that, you've certainly got my beans.

You're obviously going to get lower fps while flying, because you're traveling alot faster than usually. That causes the game having to load alot more area than it does if you're by foot even using a car. You might be able to play around with your graphics settings in order to achieve higher performance, but I doubt it.

What country is the server located at?

Found a site called http://dayz.st/ which seems to be pretty decent.