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?

Yeah, it´s a little known fact that in the event of a (IRL) catastrophe the outskirts of all major cities and military installments are lined with civilian snipers killing people randomly...

Depending on your gamestyle, In this case if you are more interested in survival then deathmatch, private hive servers might be a good option to try out. You limit yourself to just one server but on the other hand they seem to attract a more, ahm, "mature" playerbase, defeats serverhopping for gear and kills and the admins can do their job properly.

You shouldn´t automatically believe anything he says. That´s just common sense, especially on the net. I believe he just meant it as a comment on that they don´t want to specifically single out a specific behavior (that´s within normal gameplay) and punish it. A lot of people seem to believe this is the same thing as that no changes will be made that will effect certain gameplay in a bad or good way. The fact that some changes made after that statement, for example the removal of starting guns, had a big impact on murdering seems to be a blind spot for some people.

It´s a nonsense claim from Rocket, don't you understand that? ;) Him saying that he doesn´t want to punish any game style are just air that some people fixated at and then claiming it means that no changes effecting certain things will happen. More or less 100% of the coming changes to DayZ will "punish" one style or another. All we can do is to suck it up and see if the changes are acceptable for us or not. Beliving that no more changes will be made that effects, for example, the murdering in the game are just plain naive.

I am sure the "no rules" part are news to the developers and that they will be tossing and turning all night over the thought that you will fight them "tooth and nail to the bitter end" if they decide to change something in a way you don´t like. =)

"Us"? You´re not one of us, you burnt that bridge already.

I am curious, how do you manage to get well geared in "maybe an hour" without tents and what do you mean with well geared?

This and a somewhat smaller frame on the character are why I am using the girl char in DayZ.

A private hive instead of the normal one seems to be the solution to the murdering "problem". No serverhopping for gear and kills = Less "pointless" murders while people still kill eachother just like they should be doing. I belive this will be how DayZ develops, more private servers and hives where people can customize the experince of the game to their liking without the micromanagement from the DayZ devs.

Maybe. I on the other hand wishes for it to keep on evolving with more and more good additions within whats possible with the engine. (And a shitload of additions that´s probably never will be possible)