Dagwood

The 10 year part was a joke about the release date that has changed more than a few times. I think a one month cycle would work. This would also give players incentive to survive the entire cycle. Maybe recognition for logging a minimum of X hours and surviving the entire month?

So are you suggesting that I am inherently better than you at this game? And it's not that I just take it slower than you? Maybe you shouldn't be running through the woods in high traffic areas in the first place. And yes, if you go into elektro there is a good chance you could die. Solution? Don't go into elektro if you want anything other than pvp...

Stop letting them shoot you. This constant KOS complaining is getting old.

That's why you lower your weapons and you never stand still in front of them. Or even be in front of them for that matter. I've been betrayed once. I helped a fresh spawn who I happened to KOS 10 minutes earlier. He put his lee in the back of my head and took his gear back. Fair enough. Every other time I have approached a player we have either gone separate ways (lack of trust or lack of necessity for the others help) or benefited from cooperation (whether that be from entertainment or actual utility). Many players no longer trust anyone because of their own failings. After blindly putting their lives into another's hands and being punished for it one too many times they decide to take the easy route that requires far less tact or diplomacy. It's fear and a lack of ability that drives this KOS mentality, not any inherent desire to avoid human interaction

You guys are like Ice-T law and order style. Such incredible deductive reasoning. They should probably include some forensic kits in SA so you all can head to Tulga and do some more research

As someone stated earlier, it is the "sight" part of KOS that gets many players killed. "Oh look, a coyote pack, m14 toting survivor running across an open field. I wouldn't mind replacing this enfield and Alice pack." Boom dead. Now if that m14 toting survivor was playing more tactically and SAW his less-geared counterpart first, he has control of the situation: "Well, that guy doesn't look like he has much gear to offer me. But I'm at half blood with no mathes and have 2 bloodbags in my pack. I'll jump him, force him to drop his weapon, and then I can control the situation from there." There are more players out there that are willing to cooperate than you think. You just need to limit their options and force their hand. Respect is earned, not given.

Concerning the, group vs lone survivor balance issue/debate: I think it is worth mentioning that with the improved AI in the standalone, groups of players will be forced to expend more ammunition for security than a lone survivor. A large group is more likely to be using a vehicle, and even while on foot in a town they will be higher profile and sneaking will be a less viable option. Plus with the improved server architecture (and increased player count per server) hiding gear from prying eyes will likely be much more difficult; unless they decide to add those stupid, instanced caves that are inaccessible to other players (which as far as I know have not been confirmed). Several of you have mentioned implementation difficulties. Could you be more specific?

What kind of implementation difficulties do you foresee? Do you mean technical limitations or balance issues? And this definitely has potential to tip the balance even more in favor of larger, more organized groups. And from an authenticity standpoint, it's the logical conclusion. But as far as gameplay is concerned, I agree that bandit clans would likely hoard ammo and weapons and make life living hell (as they tenderly do for us already). But I think your average lone or pair of survivors would be MORE likely to attempt to trade or rob another payer for ammo than risk a potentially expensive firefight. At the moment you rarely pick up ammo for, say, the m16 when you are geared with an m14. But if that 5.56 mag or box is incredibly scarce, you might carry it in the hopes that you could trade up for some 7.62 mags. Of course this would only work if the average player was pressed to get even a second mag. If you are carrying 60 rounds of ammunition and you know you can put your target down with about 10, 90% of players will avoid the confrontation with a potentially psychotic 13 year old and just put him down.

Evidently admins have tools that allow them to see the location of every player on the server. Because of his fairly random location, it would seem as though some form of clairvoyance took place. Just play on a populated public server, yo.

This might be a long one: Background: Yesterday a buddy (hero) and I were south west of stary-ish on our way to zub castle to the east. We'd just logged in so we were just sort of meandering through the woods. Suddenly I spot a helo crash and a bandit and ghillie killing infected around it with what sounded like a Winnie. So of course I pull out my m24, zero to 500 meters and take a shot: hits the ghillie in the torso and the two of them run east ish over a low rise and are out of sight. Set up: My target (harmonica) begins trash talking me in side chat and telling me how terrible I am for not being able to headshot a stationary target at 500 meters. While I do a bit of snobbish trolling in response, we head eastward (on a heading that would take us just south of zub castle). We find a Huey on our way that only needs engine parts. We decide to head north east to attempt to locate engine parts. As we begin the ascent toward the castle, we spot a few dead infected corpses. Once we reach the south western retaining wall near the gatehouse, I hear voices in direct chat. He is laughing about how my buddy and I (same clan tag) are a clan and were still unable to kill them. At this point Aaron and I are both shaking with sweaty hands; anticipating the sweet, sweet punishment we would administer upon these two (Silence and Harmonica). The stakeout: So after making a lot of threats in his direction over side chat, him telling us to meet him at the castle (which he informed me he was well over a mile south of) and me telling him he was an idiot to think I would actually go to a place he'd announced over sidechat, I told him I was gathering engine parts on the east coast for a heli I had found (I would say we had been lying in wait for 15-25 minutes. With the adrenaline it's hard to say now.) Immediately after I sent this blatant lie over sidechat, his buddy exclaims over direct, "they must have found that help south east of here. Lets go f**k it up so he can come back and find it all messed up." What I haven't mentioned yet is that I was equipped with an m4hologl an had 2 HE rounds on my person. "Let's go out one by one just in case somebody is outside." I see movement at the top of the doorway as 2 sets of legs move right to left on the landing opposite the door. I tap F twice and lob an m203 through the doorway and am rewarded with: Harmonica was killed. I reload and quickly hammer a :) into side chat. I fire off a second round: Silence was killed. The complaining and accusations of bad sportsmanship (because i tricked them?) that ensued nearly brought tears to my eyes. I'd told him that I was going to smash a frag through his teeth and done just that. Aftermath: between the two of them they had an m14, l85 holo, fal, and Winchester. The 3 antis in the survival acu were nice too. One of the more exciting encounters with bandits/hostiles I have had in a long time. If you made it this far, thanks for reading. Hopefully harmonica and silence will see my shameless gloating. One can hope.

This might be a long one: Background: Yesterday a buddy (hero) and I were south west of stary-ish on our way to zub castle to the east. We'd just logged in so we were just sort of meandering through the woods. Suddenly I spot a helo crash and a bandit and ghillie killing infected around it with what sounded like a Winnie. So of course I pull out my m24, zero to 500 meters and take a shot: hits the ghillie in the torso and the two of them run east ish over a low rise and are out of sight. Set up: My target (harmonica) begins trash talking me in side chat and telling me how terrible I am for not being able to headshot a stationary target at 500 meters. While I do a bit of snobbish trolling in response, we head eastward (on a heading that would take us just south of zub castle). We find a Huey on our way that only needs engine parts. We decide to head north east to attempt to locate engine parts. As we begin the ascent toward the castle, we spot a few dead infected corpses. Once we reach the south western retaining wall near the gatehouse, I hear voices in direct chat. He is laughing about how my buddy and I (same clan tag) are a clan and were still unable to kill them. At this point Aaron and I are both shaking with sweaty hands; anticipating the sweet, sweet punishment we would administer upon these two (Silence and Harmonica). The stakeout: So after making a lot of threats in his direction over side chat, him telling us to meet him at the castle (which he informed me he was well over a mile south of) and me telling him he was an idiot to think I would actually go to a place he'd announced over sidechat, I told him I was gathering engine parts on the east coast for a heli I had found (I would say we had been lying in wait for 15-25 minutes. With the adrenaline it's hard to say now.) Immediately after I sent this blatant lie over sidechat, his buddy exclaims over direct, "they must have found that help south east of here. Lets go f**k it up so he can come back and find it all messed up." What I haven't mentioned yet is that I was equipped with an m4hologl an had 2 HE rounds on my person. "Let's go out one by one just in case somebody is outside." I see movement at the top of the doorway as 2 sets of legs move right to left on the landing opposite the door. I tap F twice and lob an m203 through the doorway and am rewarded with: Harmonica was killed. I reload and quickly hammer a :) into side chat. I fire off a second round: Silence was killed. The complaining and accusations of bad sportsmanship (because i tricked them?) that ensued nearly brought tears to my eyes. I'd told him that I was going to smash a frag through his teeth and done just that. Aftermath: between the two of them they had an m14, l85 holo, fal, and Winchester. The 3 antis in the survival acu were nice too. One of the more exciting encounters with bandits/hostiles I have had in a long time. If you made it this far, thanks for reading. Hopefully harmonica and silence will see my shameless gloating. One can hope.

Moved it. Delete please

Anyone tried dayzrp? Saw a video short on reddit this morning and it looks interesting. But the restraints on what you're allowed to do (KOS). Anybody have any first hand experience with these servers?

Don't underestimate the zombies. They'll mess you up if you fire a weapon and try to loot while you have agro. You'll lose minimal blood but die from infection in the long run. Avoid the coast and force survivors you encounter up north to respect you. You'll be fine

Gunfire needs to be louder. For both players hearing it as well as the amount of attention it draws from infected. Simple as that

We have plenty of threads filled with people making KOS complaints. This one just happened to single out a particular breed of bandit. I think we'd all rather see a thread discussing how we can alleviate the issue. Something other than punishing players for choosing to tell their own story in a more violent, humanity-ending manner. As someone said earlier, there are some people who just want to watch the world burn. They are going to do whatever they can to ruin your day just because. And with half of the server choosing to congregate in the same 10 square block area with little to no means of stopping them, they're having a grand ole time of it.

Found one of these bad boys while looting the south barracks yesterday. I have 2HE rounds and one smoke. Any suggestions on what I should do with this new toy?

Better than any other assault rifle with NVGs? Is it a magnified scope?

Already got an m24. And of course now is when I'm finding l85s, fal, falnv, g36k, dmr, etc. All of that last night. Kinda wish I'd taken the NVFAL just for kicks. And the fact that it looks awesome.

And if you're going to boast that your "essay" is intellectual, don't call it "A intellectual..." In the title... And if I need to explain why not, you should be in summer school and not on here :)

Or stop going into elektro. If there is nothing to shoot at, they will go somewhere else. Take a zelengorsk or berezino route north and then go to the center of the map. It's disappointing when I'm on a full server and can loot the entire NWAF without encountering a single soul, or even seeing any infected movement across the runway. Yet in sidechat there is constant chatter-grief about hospital/school/firehouse/hill snipers in elektro. People go to and/or camp elektro because the rest of the map is less populated than it should be. They have a ghillie and a dmr and they want to use it. It just happens that the place with all of the unarmed and undergeared players is also the highest traffic area. It's supply and demand. They demand living, moving targets, and you supply them with just that in a small fishing town with plenty of prime vantage points. I don't condone camping elektro, but y'all deserve the beatings you get down there. "I keep getting killed by elektro campers. They're such immature gamers! (Which I tend to agree with) I guess I had better suicide until I get another elektro spawn and can try the fire stations again...." I liken this to complaining about hookers giving you crabs or the clap, and then frequenting the same hooker week after week. This dirty, worn out hooker (elektro) is obviously not your best bet. Go try a different corner.

In the stand alone achieving "end game" will be much more difficult as survival will be more complicated. And once we have attained ALL of the things we need to sustain ourselves (which in the mod only consists of a hatchet, matches, a knife and a canteen), maintaining yourself against all of the various diseases, shoe wear, weapon deterioration, etc. will keep you busy.

Sounds like magneto was hucking vehicles at you

Ya, we can hear the gunshots. But at close range these louder weapons should be nearly deafening. Someone firing a 7.62 should not be able to hear someone else slow walking up into their position right afterward. And if we can hear gunshots from 1k+ meters, why are the infected so disinterested with it?

Sneak into pvp-intensive areas. Figure out who's got the good gear and is killing other players. Kill them. Liberate their gear. And survive. That should keep you busy And go high population!