Ken Bean

Looks like I lost 5 tents today. Two server I used to play on went down. Good thing is, it's not the first time this happened, so I was kind of prepared. I just imagine a twister ate them. :D Edit: Nope, are back. Huh. Anyway, having too many tents clearly is not an issue for me, atm.

I hope they are going to throw a lot of other cool skins in, so the ghillie might be less frequent worn. But besides of that, is it a huge problem that people wear ghillie suits?

I wonder if we ever see a game like this which is as huge as the real world, of cause perfectly and kickass detailed modelled after it, with random loot and random spawns. So if you would die in Austria, you respawn in India. Problem solved, you have no clue where you are, but it's still the same world. You run into the next truck stop to find a map for that country... Yep, it might be slightly unrealistic but fun to find a heli. May just be a little difficult to develop such a title. Didn't google just hire a game designer? :D

I prefer green or blue chemlights. Just throw them and pick them up, they light a close radius around you a pretty long time while they shouldn't be seen very far. Very usefull inside buildings to find the loot. So yeah, night is fun, but shhh, don't tell anyone. ;D

Flares and Chemlights all the way, is pretty cool in my feel. I don't like the Flashlight since you can't hold it straight while running. NVGs atm can only be found on heli crash sites and are extremely rare, but rather cool. I think most people just don't know how to use chemlights or feel not very safe with. That's being said, I wouldn't run accross a growded server with a flare anyway. Since flares shine extremely far, I like having night times with almost empty server. Once I run on a pretty dark night through the open on a server with maybe 3 player and somehow I crossed the way of another player without seeing anything. I just heard the foodsteps and breathing. We probably missed us 10 metres or so, which was a very nice thill. Wouldn't have shot him but he dsconnected anyway. As I could have had a NVG, I really comprehend the disco. If you are blind while the other may see everything is quite a disturbing feeling.

If you make the gear inacessible for the person who died only, there always will be a way to circumvent it with a second character, who will save the stuff for you. As for the tents, if there's a guy who does nothing than pitching tents ready for the use of others, but doesn't play himself, he would just provide save tents. The advantage would be still there (even if he would pitch just one single tent) and I bet, that's exactly what clans and hoarders will be doing. The only one who has disadvantages, is the average player, who doesn't use such mechanism. So because unfainess will be there anyway, I'd either suggest to not to make items inaccessible for certain player or if so, then do it for everyone. I'm done with the game the moment I realize that I'm just the idiotic sheep that makes all the work for others, only to see them building imperiums with my stuff, circumventing all the restrictions I have, while I'm thrown back to stone age each time, needing 6 months to find some nice gear. Edit The survival aspect of the game is made up by having equal chances. Every advantage pushes the survival aspect beyond absurdum. A point that has been proven by cheater several times. With the system in place, basically everyone has the chance to build up a storage for equipment. If you change it in a way so that a group would have way better chances building up a storage pool because of using middleman for pitching their tents, then you either force everyone to do so or you just introduced a mechanics which took away the equal chances, crating an quite powerful advantage. This will just tip the balance in favour of clans and scravengers. Edit Yes, afterlife-knowledge might be odd, but in regards of equal chances, everyone who plays the game has afterlife-knowledge. As long as the player behind the avatar (real life self) is not thrown into an entirely new environment each time he dies, you won't ever change the fact that he does remember things. Edit Instanced server is a good idea. But joining a game with friends, making friends ingame and staying in contact, having clans and so on would no longer be possible. I'm not saying I would be sad if clans would disappear, but it would change things, maybe in a good way. Would be best if you make it its own topic for debate, if it not already exists.

On the other hand aquisition is a major part of the survival aspect. Wouldn't you try to collect as much useful gear as possible in order to survive? I think everyone would do so. But would you kill another human just to get his shiny gun? Probably not. Lets take the example you gave: Which just means, that gear would be a thousand times more worth to you than my life. That's the problem the mod has, people are eager fo gear. If I die and all my tents and gear would vanish the same time, would it still be worth a kill? --> The more you reduce the loot on a server, the rarer it gets, the higher it's value. And in return, the lower the value of someones life gets. In my opinion, would reducing the gear just lead to more farming and more kills. Its like reducing food in a habitat, just makes things more competitive in the very first place. Then it wouldn't stop people from hoarding.

I see this whole Zombi theory is somwhat flawed. Maybe the virus should have self-awarenes in order accomplish his goals. ^^

And these bacteria/encyme then just somehow revive the clearly dead body and command it? Why? Do they have an agenda?

I like the idea as well, but there also is still the problem: How does the virus revive dead people which were immun before?

I use Handbrake for rendering. Takes a little to understand how it works, but if so, it works very good. Converts almost everything to mkv or mp4, which are the best video formats at the moment.

Nah, this is even worse. I can't see why anyone else should enjoy my self found gear while I can't. But as said, I would accept tents being only a temporary item store, as long as one lifes, in general. Can you destroy a tent this way in a definetive way? Not that it is popping up again after a while. Then I consider myself a very unlucky finder. Maybe its the veteran server I play. ^^ Nope, I'm absolutely not complaining, I just wonder why everyone else seems to find tons of highend equipment within 5 minutes. I'm searching for a czech or coyote backpack >> 18 << days by now. And then they permanently say "reduce the gear"... Fair enough I would say. :D

The idea is not that bad, but it might not very popular though. I will at least reduce some tent towns. I could live with that, if there's an opportunity to really craft a basement which also stands the character's death. This could make the basement a more valuable goal. I'm also for limiting the number of structures a player may own/craft. So you could say, a tent is a temporary way of housing or storing items. But at least one reliable home should be given in my feel.

Where do you find range finders? Haven't found any since I play, maybe 3 months. There seems to be certain legends where to find them. Barracks only?

As each server seems to handle it different, we probably won't see a wiki article covering everything up. ^^ Thanks for the info though, three days should be fine. I always don't know if I still can put items into a tent or not after I died since I never know when and if it disappears. May I ask, are you playing on public or private hives?

I thought, tends get "de-personalized" if you die. You are not longer owning the tent, so you can't pack it any longer. The tent gets removed if you are not interacting with it a after you died. At least the DayZDB says so: http://dayzdb.com/database/camping-tent

Yeah, I'd like to have a extra melee slot as well. But the hotbar is confirmed I believe and this would a very handy way to switch weapons. As for the mod, I'd love to see a melee slot. I think the third slot is used by the backpack currently. The Arma 3 inventory system seems to have a spared backpack slot. I'm still curious how the final inventory system of the SA will look like. This would be more important than putting every scope and all the extra high military tactical shit on 5000000 weapons. I mean, we are talking about a scenario where probably not every houswife has laserpointer in the drawer besides of assault riffles. An extra melee slot would add to the realism.

In the SA there probably is some kind of hotbar, there you can assign certain items to, if not all. So switching from primary to melee could be done by pressing a hotkey.

Hay folks, the idea is to divide bandits and heros in two main branches which have more sub categories. Once optained a skin, you can chose it to be your starting outfit, while you set your gender. Please post your suggestions about skins that should be optainable additional to the bandit or hereo skins. Also say a word of how they should be earned. Here's mine: Name: Bandit Hunter Requirement: killing at least 20 Bandits without shooting a survivor in between Appearance: Getting a cool Camo with nice Hat Additional Bonus: random How it could look alike:

Already read the stikies regarding installing and updating here? http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/29431-look-at-this-thread-before-posting/ Depends on what version you are using.

Don't know. Maybe he wants to test them first? Maybe he uses Rocket-Codes which shouln't be sent via the internet?

To release it on public hives, the source files may need to be signed. On private hives, this should be another thing.

Oh, I once joined a Battlefield 2 server the very first time. A guy started shooting at me as I spawned, so I shot back. This entire action from joining to get banned took maybe up to 1 minute. He died and I got banned. This was 5 years ago or so. I checked that server 2 years later and still was banned. I bet this didn't change till today. Some server had a rule to not to make spankills. I don't know the exact reason why I got banned, it didn't say anything, but this one could be a possability. This still amuses me. :D

Limiting a player to 2 or 3 tents could be okay imo, but removing the tents entirely on death will be just another occasion to destroy maybe valuable items which has been sought for a long time. Wouldn't be amused if it hits me and I'm already at the point to say goodbye to every item as soon as I lay it out of hand. Even a backpack once somehow disappeared from my back. Do you want to know how long I took to realize that putting a full backpack into a tent will not save the items in there? ^^

Okay Gews, challenge accepted. Since I realised the threat your suggested charcter means to mankind once released to the wildlife, I created the ultimate counteragent. Be prepared to the most dangerous weapon this world has ever brought to light: >>>----The--Lady--Killer---> Since no one saved more man from committing suicide, this most advanced specimen of the hero branch is considered the highest hero grade possible. His natural features make him the most dangerous predator alive. Requirement: Killing more "Ladies" than anyone else within a timeframe of a week. Appearance: This skin is unique and therefore only can be worn once at a time, world wide, in the entire game. If someone gets better, the skin will have a new owner. -> The ultimate hero skin. Having sharp and deadly teeth, which makes him very dangerous in close combat, his head and body hair blends better than any Ghilli with every environment possible. The extreme predator sight makes him the most deadly sniper out there. Additional Bonus: - Can gut animals without knife. - Hard to spot in almost every environment. - Due to his magnificent optical device, he can tell if you are a Lady or not from a distances up to 3 miles. (In return his FOV is degreased by 10 % and close objects appear blury.) - Has <unknown> usage for tons of toilette paper. You only find out, if you earned the skin. But you are not allowed to tell anyone, or you won't be able to ever wear it again. This turned out to be the most efficient mechanism to prevent the secret from being revealed. Even threaten the trader with blindness in real life could never be as efficent as this. How it could look alike: ... definitive, dangerous, deadly.