rotekz

Choice is key to a good experience. The more servers the better.

No way. There has to be choice. The main thing needed is for all servers to indicate their time zone in their title.

+1 Night servers will remain nearly empty until something changes.

Adjusting the gamma up gives a good simulation of human night vision. Losing the ability to adjust gamma will just make even more people abandon night servers.

I used the latest beta build last night and found a night server where the gamma control would not work for me. I hope its a glitch rather than a sign of things to come. Gamma up at night was very close to natural human night vision for me. Losing that will be a massive blow.

Bootcamp Windows 7 Good graphics card. i5 or i7 processor You may be lucky....

Actually the opposite of 'Carebear' is 'Cunt'. Yep, Cunts vs Carebears.

Yes spawning with friends would be so much better. Not everybody has endless free time to waste on trying to meet up.

Nonsense idea. It would be universally hated.

Everyone is going lonewolf to survive. Disconnecting at the slightest whiff of trouble. No trust exists any more. The fruit of having no downside to player killing.

YES it is worth a try.

YES Fantastic idea. Desperately needed.

LOL - what total guff!

How about you get a group of 2-3 and THEN approach random solo players? He's probably a lot more likely to take the olive branch if the alternative is a 3v1. Sounds great' date=' but if you don't have any IRL friends playing, making "friends" in this game is very difficult.[/quote'] Exactly. This is my situation. No IRL friends as yet playing DayZ. There is no way to approach randoms without massive risk. There are plenty of full-time Bandits that live for suckering people with fake offers of friendship. Just check this guy out for a great example....

Intra-Venous (blood transfusion).

I think the complaint is more that the risk involved in approaching random players to try to buddy up is so high as to not make it worth doing. There are no downsides to killing players so rather than risk losing all hard won gear players default to shooting on sight. I'm sure everyone would like to be able to enjoy the benefits of co-operative play.

Here's my 2 cents. The day/night cycle is fine as is but the ratio of day to night could follow the seasonal changes of the area that the map is modeled on. I'm no expert but it's Eastern Europe/former USSR somewhere isn't it? The big issue that is causing players to jump servers is that the game does not accurately model natural night vision. Even on dark nights the average person can see enough to walk around. The game should reflect this so that fiddling with gamma is not necessary. In the same way bright lights like headlights and flashlights messing up your night vision should be modeled as well. Until the game does natural night vision properly I (like nearly everybody else) will just keep jumping to a daylight server.