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I was more or less trying to tell her to back off, or maybe pick a different direction to run. Which, of course, she did. I guess I should have fired TWO shots, since only firing one apparently means "run straight at me", whereas two means "stay the frell away, damn you!". And as for ending up dead, that WILL happen, and PROBABLY sooner than later, no matter what I do. No matter. Just gives me an excuse to try some of the fresh spawn troll ideas ive had on some hi pop servers...

I wasn't hunting at that moment. And when I do hunt, I only go for the big game. But dammit, if a rabbit runs straight AT ME, I gotta do something!

anyone else notice the tags the op made for his thread? annoying trolls (fair, theres plenty of those about) bad asses (who? you? them?) idiots in dayz (does this include you?) kids without mutation (wha?) unbrained humans (WHA?) bandis all over the place (what is a bandi? a bambi that aspires to be a bandit?) dayz (well, no shit! thank god for that, or I would have surely assumed this thread was about world political science)

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_rU308YJ3usM/TNu3Z0wreJI/AAAAAAAAC8M/EXsHU9jH6nU/DoubleFacepalm.jpg

Why do thread you post, hrrrmmmm?? Force the grammar, you should not. Let it flow THROUGH you. Ready for this test, you were not. Known, I should have. FAILED you, as your master, I have..... *sagely lowers head and turns, hobbling away...

Grudge isn't what I would call "SCI FI" horror, but yes, I agree. The first one was pretty spooky. But as with all truly scary movies, its only scary the first time around. Which is why, I think, every other ALIEN title has flopped to date: Yeah, we get it. Face hugger, guy goes unconscious, slimy phallic creature thrusts through guy's chest, grows big impossibly fast. Mouth inside mouth. Acidic blood. Yup. we get it.... As for The Thing, my favorite scene that still makes me cringe is the part where the doctor is trying to revive that guy on the gurney with the defibs. After a few tries, the defibs (and his hands with them) punch THROUGH the guy's chest into an empty, HOWLING cavity. Which then grows huge, serrated teeth and clamps shut around his wrists, severing his hands. And then, of course, while the body on the gurney is being torched, its head detaches, sprouts insect like legs from the neck, and crawls away, upside down.

Ive been thinking. Ive got the money, I could do it, for a month at least. Rent a 40 man server, label it as "Testing/Experimentation server. No KoS without permission!" or something like that. I have, atm, plenty of time to admin it, keep out the trolls and what not. It could be used as a DEDICATED place to test things: What loot spawns and where, and with what frequency. What buildings can be clipped through. Weapon lethality against various armors (moto helmet, ballistic, vests, etc.). Test weapon accuracy and ranging with different scopes. What walls/windows/materials can be shot through. And anything else we don't already know. The only player killing allowed would be for experimentation and with consent. If it came with a teamspeak, we could coordinate through that, and use the forums to suggest/request/organize new tests. And all of the testing could be done with the knowledge that you wouldn't have to worry about someone killing you while you are doing it. What do you folks think? Would this server not be allowed, due to the "no kos" thing, or could we get away with it due to the PURPOSE of the non kos rule?

If so, then I would still need to get people together. not worth it to rent an entire server just for myself. So, yes, there is reason to discuss it.

Another good point...

didn't actually try what the OP suggested, so here goes: I see: A dog is running across a featureless expanse of white tundra. It is a Siberian husky, and it is being chased by a helicopter. The passenger of the heli is leaning out, attempting to shoot the dog with a high power rifle. He takes several shots, and they all miss. Flash forward: Now I see a bizarre scene, in which two men are tied up on a couch. One of the men starts violently convulsing, suddenly his upper torso horrendously mutates into an elongated mouth with dozens of large, serrated teeth. The mouth bends over and clamps down on the other man's screaming head. Flash Forward: Now I see two men outside of a ruined, burning complex, seemingly in the middle of the arctic. They are sharing a bottle of some kind of alcohol. They seem resigned, yet satisfied.

Gotta get that many people on board first. have yet to receive any PMs from interested parties. Cant say I blame anyone that ISNT interested. But we will see...

I suspect that we would see mass desynch and player disconnects as some town suddenly had all its zombies die or otherwise despawn, then again as some player ran up to a previously unvisited site and they all appeared again. I already find that I often get a massive 10k desynch that seems to coincide with another player joining the server. Hell, I often notice a massive drop in FPS just from entering large towns or cities on hi pop servers. EDIT: But hey, at least your thinking, right?

Maybe try it again, and this time listen to the ENTIRE video? INB4 imnotgonnalistentoa49minutevideowithmyeyesclosed....it was a joke.

this movie utterly terrified me when I was a kid. One of the few sci fi horror movies that was ACTUALLY scary. That and the original ALIEN movie. Now? not so much. But then? Oh yes. Yes indeed...

I wonder how long it would take before they got up and started walking around... If it was implemented, of course...

Are you trolling me dude? Im not talking about doing NOTHING. Im talking about bug and glitch hunting. Coordinating to get it done faster and avoid redundancy. If you don't want to do it, that's fine, I don't hold it against you. I just fail to understand how everyone can be so against an idea that is entirely beneficial to everyone, if you don't mind putting the time in. Hell, theres no reason we cant have a little fun while doing it. Im sure I and anyone else who got on board would find a way to have a few lulz. It amazes me. Make a thread about restricting KOSers and bandits to someone elses play style? Fine. Make a thread complaining about state of game? fine. Make a thread complaining about people who make threads about complaining about the state of the game? fine. Make a thread about an honest idea that would be beneficial to the community? The offer still stands, folks. If you would like to join me and help make this game a better place, PM me.

Ok zed. Fair point. your right. THAT kind of knowledge should be earned, not shared. I actually agree with you if I think about it that way. But that's no reason for me to shut my idea down. There are plenty of other things to test out. Like actively hunting for bugs and glitches. Then reporting on them to the devs and the rest of the player community.

Ok, so I cant FORCE people to not kill others without permission on a private server. Fine. Maybe we can mitigate trolls and others by doing two things: 1: Label the server in such a manner that indicates it is a dedicated community testing initiative, and ASK other players to be "nice". 2: Gather a decent number of players willing to cooperate and test together (safety in numbers), using the above server as the testing location. Include a teamspeak or something for communication and organization, and go ACTIVELY hunt for bugs and glitches. Anyone interested? PM me and we'll talk. If I can get enough people together, Ill do it.

I fail to see how this idea would do anything BUT benefit the community. So the devs do all their own testing. They know that the ladder on THAT building is bugged, but that all the other similar buildings are not. Do WE? Anything we find would benefit us AND the devs. I doubt they have the manpower to test everything there is to test. (just realized, my obsession with testing things is making me feel like GlaDDoS...)

I don't have an agenda to create some sort of carebear paradise. I FULLY support killing players on sight. Do it myself. Have had it done to me, and never once complained.

KoS, I don't mean to insult you, but literally EVERY post I have seen you make is in direct contradiction to any form of intelligent thinking, and I am NOT talking about your combination of poor English, grammar, and sentence structure. English is obviously not your first language, and I don't fault you for that. This idea isn't about PLAYING THE GAME, you asinine troll. I HAVE played the game. Plenty of hours already put in. Plenty of kills, and Plenty more deaths. It isn't about creating a carebear paradise. I DESPISE that idea. Would NEVER play on such a server. This is about creating an ORGANIZED, POLICED, player testing initiative, that only involves killing for the purpose of experimentation. Christ, I just don't understand why some people are so opposed to this idea...

PS: I appreciate everyone thus far being civil, and arguing/debating the idea in a mature manner. I don't ask that you AGREE, but I DO thank you all for being polite. EDIT: ^and then I see this...

I don't need the threat of another player killing me in order to find out if that wall in that building can be clipped through, or if loot is spawining correctly in this building (instead of in a wall, inside the floor, inside the ceiling, or in mid air, and unreachable). We all already know that if a player shoots another player, they will die. That has been tested ad nauseum.

I didn't mean to suggest that I would keep information to myself. In THAT circumstance, what I wanted to do was have another player be the target dummy. As I move back to different known distances (100m, 200m, 300m, so on), I take screen shots of the scoped view, to show how large the player appears in the scope (do the same for different scopes). Then share those images HERE, so everybody benefits from knowing the approximate size of a target at various known distances, thereby helping everyone better estimate ranges. And I would not limit myself to testing these things only. Finding glitched loot spawns (like castles, where all the loot spawns on the ceilings, instead of the floors), or testing every building in the game to find all of the walls that can be clipped through. We could all organize the effort (those willing to participate), avoid redundancy, and learn a lot (about game mechanics as well as game bugs/glitches), and do it all without the need to worry about people like "KoS" coming around to screw up our efforts.

And if we do that, organize and plan, trolls like "KoS" will come in to screw with us. Why is it so wrong to have JUST ONE server out of hundreds PURELY for testing and experimentation?