propain666

None taken since my point was that you get a shitload of more 0.19% chances/hour to find a DMR if you serverhop a deerstand compared to if you run around visiting all the different deerstands on one server.

No, you are regretful because you got caught. So if you didn´t do anything, what misstake is it that you did?

You are aware of that people moving to private servers and towards other rules then the ones set by the devs also are valid results in the alpha test even tho they are hard to measure? These days I personally prefer private servers due to a often "better" community, no serverhopping for gear and kills (which seems to lead to less CoD DM and more "normal" PvP), less D/C issues (If you D/C, the guy you fought are most likely waiting for you when you rejoin if you don´t wanna give up the rest of the evening to be sure) and active admins who can do their job. Sure the drawback are that you are stuck with just one server but choosing between having a awesome time on one server or a meh-experience on 100 servers are easy for me.

And what are the steps you are following making sure the new updates work before you let people in?

So good!

For the fun of sneaking through a town seeing what you can find while dodging zombies and hoping that you don´t get shot. (And if you get shot you can be fairly sure it´s by a real player and not some serverhopping loser)

Private hive servers are looking to be the future. There seems to be less bandits and murders when serverhopping for gear, kills and survival are not an option... :P

Serverhopping around the airports or Stary doesn´t count either.

So you disconnected and serverhopped on your way to 50-ish kills to stay alive. Impressive...

You might never seen one but chances are they´ve seen you and had you in their sights. =) Even tough I play as a friendly I still avoid other people since they are rarely as friendly as I am. My next project in DayZ will be to sneak up and rob the backpack of the CoD snipers in electro/cherno without them noticing me so I guess that will make me a bit less friendly.

Game purchase only Both community and studio servers with the possability for server owners to set up private servers/DBs with their own settings without connection to the official database.

Yes, it´s frowned upon. IMO it´s a bigger issue for DayZ then people disconnecting in combat since it screws up the game the same way as the hacked in weapons due to an abnormal amount of high value/low chance of spawn equipment.

I´ve missed that function in DayZ aswell. (I wonder how long it will take until the "This will punish bandits" argument are used in this thread...)

Add a (repeat) connect timer aswell to get rid of the serverhoppers and it should be all good. 10 min between serverswitching should be enough.

Playing on a private server don´t give you any benefits on the normal servers so I don´t really see the simularity to using exploits or bugs?