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Just stay logged in, then alt tab and go watch a movie or something. When you get back you'll be dead of thirst of starvation. Problem solved. It's a shitty solution, but it'll do the job. Alternative: Since you are in a high traffic area, get on Direct Chat and start talking / screaming in a spooky voice. Bound to freak someone out....

Why does there always need to be a story (or a post for that matter)? - Pack up your shit. - Take it to where ever you are going. - Have a nice day, enough said. SImple. As. That.

Sure why not. I'll take 37 please.

I think you forgot something....

If you need any help installing it, DayZ Commander will do it for you with one button click...

http://www.southcoastbeanwars.com also has some interesting maps that you wont find elsewhere.

These "I Quit" threads always warm my heart.

EDIT: my bad, I didnt realize you were updating a server, thought you were updating your client.

http://WWW.DayZCommander.com It will handle updating of DayZ and Arma 2 Beta as well as rolling back to any older version. Also will install DayZ Lingor Island if you wish. Also has: Friends List Favorites Recent Servers Server Notes Filters for pretty much everything Awesome program, you will not regret using it.

Tsunami!

Elpis Host have been absolutely amazing to work with (though they only offer Dallas servers at this time). They often have a server up and running within an hour ff placing the order and 2 of my tickets were resolved within 3 minutes of submitting them. If anyone needs a US based server I can not recommend these guys highly enough, they have completely exceeded my expectations.

To be honest, anyone who would leave the game if duping ceased to be possible can be my guest. It would be a good riddance and could only help the community in the long run.

There are two "bandit" tents inland from my main camp that I pass by frequently in my travels. There are a bunch of (probably duped) Mountain Dews in one of them and I grab a few for the road every time I pass by there, and the tents respawn them every server restart. I've easily consumed a hundred of them and I can assure you there is no "curse". Green Mountain and Mountain Dews are simply a good campfire story. Nothing more, nothing less.

Ah yes, lets just keep adding more complications to the formula until we get it just right. I'm going to file this suggestion away now, good luck with your idea...

Looks to me like you have already answered your own question there....

Record time = vague and not specific at all. Time is very specific, how much time?

So: Sleeping (logging out) at night offers an advantage. Sleeping (logging out) during daytime delivers a penalty. Your mechanic would encourage people to leave their daytime server at the end of their play session and find a night time server (to log out in). Net 0.

I'd just like to suggest that this game is neither hardcore nor permadeath. Anyone who has played the game for a month can EASILY survive, and anyone who has a few tents can easily cheat death. This game may start out hardcore permadeath, but given time and experience it ends up anything but.

Shall we add some dragons while we are at it?

It's so many bad ideas I don't even know where to start. You are suggesting a mechanic which would be completely skewed to benefit people who log out of the game when it is night (in game). Players who only play the game at night (in game) would be penalized in that they are generally active at night, and logging out in daytime (in game) would offer very little toward satisfying your "conditions". A game mechanic which penalizes any particular playstyle is a bad mechanic, plain and simple. Also, I don't know what day is like where you are at, but sleeping during the day works just fine for people who live on my continent. Those "conditions" of tent/fire/night/sleeping bag to log out or suffer a penalty only adds unnecessary complication to the game and does not allow for many situations (for example, many people don't even HAVE a tent). Don't have a tent? Well too bad you are gonna log back in sick sometime in the next three days, dont have a sleeping bag? heh, you are fucked . Leave a fire burning in your camp for an hour after logout? What's the point of it? (and again, many players do not even HAVE a camp). Ironically, you have also just given the real campers in this game (those who only camp the rooftops) a bonus in that they move around very little, yet players who are very mobile around the map are given a "movement" penalty. That part would be somewhat "authentic", but again, you are placing a penalty on players with certain playstyles and yet rewarding other styles of play. Bad mechanic. Ultimately, your mechanic overly complicates something which is currently very simple (logging out of the game at the end of a play session). Can you even imagine trying to explain to a brand new player what they have to accomplish in order to log out of the game for the night without suffering a sickness or fatigue penalty? I'm sorry, I think those are some terrible ideas...

I have to say I REALLY do not like this idea. Count me in for a no vote...

My server (managed) has a simple interface where you simply click uninstall / install on whatever version you want to change. Only takes a few seconds to change beta, etc. The server name is also automatically updated to reflect version. Not sure how others work though.

You have to buy another copy.

Heh, a bit more than 100,000 people played the game today. I don't think it's unreasonable at all to assume that a few thousand of them had the same weapon as you and the same one of five backpacks etc.

People play multiplayer games that have guns because they have learned to enjoy shooting those guns at other people. The gaming industry has been banking billions of dollars, all the while training us to enjoy shooting each other for enjoyment, and we've been well trained indeed. What I don't understand is why so many people are confused about why someone shot at them...