skesoul

So theres a fog rolling in over the hills,,, sucks right ? What if we could use it to harvest fresh water that didnt need boiled. It would be a small Net square with two pegs that go into the ground. Water is collected on the net and gathered in your water bottle. It would be nice to see a whole bunch of survival type methods put into dayz like this one. http://blogs.ei.colu...-from-thin-air/ The net shown on this link is for gathering large ammounts of water it would be scalled down in game for personal use.

After I posted this idea I went straight into the game and it started to rain, and yet another idea came to me. Why not just harvest the rain water aswell. I mean any source of fresh water we can get our hands on would be great. If you take into consideration all the players who Hate going into the city, be it FPS lose or just in general hate citys and would rather play more of a hunter/gather role then mechanics like this would be a huge bonus. And yea im a city hater my self I prefer to stay away from the citys anything that adds surviing of the land would make this game so much beter considering we can already hunt and cook animals. Trying to scout your way to an open water source can some times be a bit frustrating if you dont have any map nor know your way around. So adding various ways to harvest/collect alternative water sources could make our gameplay just that tiny wee bit beter. Yea the whole idea is that you risk your Fog collecter and come back later to retrieve it, unless you happen to be in a really foggy area at the time, but ofcourse there would need to be a certain ammount of time to collect enough water. So you would be risking your fog collector and your life while waiting around for the water to be gathered. Edit : that being said... about the rain I would not expect my water bottle to be fill after one shower of rain because that would be impossible. It would just be a small volume of water collected during each shower of rain.

Hello im just a random guy from Scotland, ive played Arma with my mates for many years long before dayz hit the scene. Would be nice to get my hands on this alpha to get in some quality gaming, right into the wee hours of the night. Steam user name - skesoul A - All R - Reload M - Man A - Ahead 3 - 300m Peace Fae Scotland. ps: William Your heart is Free have the courage to follow it.

Yea to all those humanity freaks out there claiming to be Holier Than Thou, and yet a large majority of them combat log. They should be left idle on the server for at least 1 min before there disconnected just like most other games where people would combat log. I did tick the option for a lose in humanity, but after some thought about the idea it may not be so good in the long run with people losing connection to the server and losing humanity because they have a crappy isp or some similar issues that caused them to disco. People should only be able to log out when there safe other wise they stay idle on the server something should be done about it.

it would be a farming type mechanic risk your water bottle and net collect it later when its filled. Unless you see the fog coming ofcourse. Something along those lines its not an idea set in stone, its the small things that make a great game many small survival type skills in a game boasting about survival has to be good =o

Its a shame non are modeled from Irn Bru, the best soft drink in the world !

I think most of the over reaction comes from the majority of the players who dont think its realistic, and thats a shame. It mainly all comes down to opinion what people need to realize is that these names take nothing away from core elements of the mod/game. Its a sad day when the sheep turn on the shepard. ps: any food with the name Legacy in it would have been shit hot =p

I can confirm this a lot on the server I use are being kicked for things like eating

Hello dayz community, I would just like to say I have tried every performance guide for dayz on the web and not many of them helped me. Infact the only thing that gave me a boost in game where the following settings. I reduced my native screen resolution to 1024x768 (desktop). I reduced my in game resolution and 3d res to 1024x768 for both. Then I went to My Documents / Arma 2 and found the file called (yourname)ARMA2OAprofile opened it with notepad and right at the bottom I edited the line sceneComplexity=300000; and changed it to sceneComplexity=100000; then save and close. I have Nvidia Card Which I have set to run on High Performance, and changed the Pre Rendered Frames to a value of 1. I also use two progs to gain a tiny bit more memory, game booster and Advance System Care which I set to Turbo boost ON. So after all of the guides and reading the only thing that has granted me a little bit of FPS back is changing my screen resolution on the desktop and in game to 1024x768. My screen default is 1280x1024. Memory in game Default, all settings low except Object Detail which is on High. Any other setting that can be Turned off is OFF. I have gained around 15 fps and no longer run/walk at such a slow speeds compared to my team mates (they are not heroes). There is also an option in the dayz commander settings to run tha game on Direct3D 9 some people have reported this helps also. You can even Create a Virtual HD with the free prog DataRam RamDisk and add Dayz folder to stop the bottleneck (supposedly). I have a single Core CPU with 2 threads, My gfx card is 9800GTX, 4gbRAM OS vista.