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Then you are not Killing On Sight. You are, "Killing". I don't have an issue with that.

Right now? Not much. I spent a day exploring all the new area with a couple friends. It's amazing what they have added and what it looks like is going to be on the map. I am stunned by some of it. But I guess instead of poking into corners I could be sitting on the coast yawning while I shot helpless people and then going, "Damn it Rocket. I'm bored already because I am doing the same thing I did in the mod and expecting it to feel different." I've never gotten the whole, "Oh I hope I can make this guy cry." attitude. Why?

No one is saying we don't want PVP. Some of us wouldn't mind if the PVP was not "mindless". In the mod I literally watched a guy running from zombies, stop to shoot a newspawn in Cherno with his Enfield and then get knocked down by the zombies and die. There was no point to the kill and it let the ones chasing him catch up as well as agro'd every other zombie in town onto him so he died... too zombies... in the mod. At that point he should have just logged from embarrassment but I saw his name pop up twice fairly quick and then he was back in Cherno running around. Watched him chase a guy with an axe and just had to roll my eyes and move on with my day.

*sigh* No "good" reason. Killing a newspawn headed away from you or no where near you with no way of being a threat to you only because you spotted them is Killing On Sight. Determining that guy crouched in the bushes is just waiting for someone to try and enter that building and flanking him then taking him out, is not. Remember, not all spawn points are on the coast now, so you can run into newspawns up in Novy and other towns very easily. What I am saying is that some of us actually don't go, "Player." and decide to pull the trigger while in the same situations where you stated we do or will. We don't, so saying we do is incorrect.

Nice story. I love stories that don't always end with the author triumphing because often the difference between success and failure is tiny and out of our hands. It sounds like you did everything right and things still went wrong. 11-12 paragraphs? Really? Hardly a long story.

Actually... some of us don't. I don't KOS. I do kill others, but I don't KOS. BTW, KOS means Kill on Sight which means you literally kill players for no reason other than you noticed them. I will frequently spot others and let them go their way. I only take out obvious threats and am more than willing to help someone one even if I'll be super cautious about it the whole time. Also... did we really need yet another thread about it?

You can't... stop shooting everyone you see and make a friend who can help you stay alive.

"One Of" so let me get this straight. If I get disconnected in Balota I could end up teleported to the blue area around say... NEAF? I could end up 10k away from where I was? Why not just make people spawn at the coast every time at that point? Yeah, because your character never goes away for no reason in DayZ. :) What is that? Start your own server, now you can assure your 8-10 guys have slots AND your characters don't go away. Works for the Mod. Yeah, it does, which is actually kinda awesome because now instead of either being several klicks away from my friend who logged in today but not yesterday I can have a character on a server with just him and log out when he does yet still play on a different server. Also, to gear up on 5 servers means you went through 5 times the trouble of gearing up on a hive(maybe multiplier of 6 since you couldn't server hop to farm) so death will still hurt JUST as bad. Trust me I've been playing on both the public Hive and private servers for the last year or so. On the public Hive I basically got geared up and then logged out near an area where my friends are and don't play. I don't want to make my friends wait an hour for me to run to where they are and/or gear up again. With the private servers if I get really bored I hop onto a new server and play for a bit with a brand new character and don't affect my play time with friends in the tiniest way. Been doing it for a year. I thought it would be awful too. Even lost characters and work to server shutdowns, even an Epoch Server with a bunch of work into a base in very hostile environments. It isn't that big a deal.

There is some evidence that things such as Toxoplasmosis can cause behavioural changes in mice and people despite it not being fatal in people. People with Rabies end up with Hydrophobia and will react to water with agitation and violence if you attempt to push it on them. It's entirely possible that the infected are agitated by by the presence of non-infected due to the virus' influence and that the virus makes them smell/look/sound a certain way which clues each of them in on the fact that they are not "prey". While the premise in 28 Days Later is that the infected don't eat and so die off 4 weeks or so later, that doesn't have to be true of our Zed virus. They will eat the uninfected, for example, which could extend their life. Maybe they drink while "Off camera" from us.

Eliminate the Hive. Combat logging means you can't play on that server or with that geared up character until you dare log back into that server. How long will someone reasonable wait for you to return? Who knows, some of us are stubborn. No way to hop servers for loot. No way to ghost or to go to an unpopulated server to get into a good position then log into a populated server already set up in a protected position where you can snipe/ambush people. You have to physically move to that position through hostile conditions. You also end up getting to know the locals which changes the dynamics of the game from, "Who the fuck is that?" *BLAM* to "Oh, is that Wolfy? Hey Wolfy.... don't make me shoot you man."

I didn't say perfect, I said "more accurate". We don't throw a gravy boat on a table as the design for a new ship, they build a scale model and work from there. ;) I am making an assumption that your "teleport from Red Zone to Blue Zone means the closest blue zone around the Red Zone, yes? If so then most of those areas directly around most red zones are in tree lines and places with cover where I could easily camp someone who I knew was in the building I just combat logged from. Such as? Name 10. Because of what factors? I hate to tell you this but the Mod survived off private servers... and not the 1000+ vehicles, self-bloodbag, starter gear servers for a while and it worked just fine. In fact in many ways it worked better than a Hive. For one thing you if people combat logged they couldn't play on that server until they thought it was safe to come back. They couldn't farm loot by hopping. They also couldn't ghost. If you wanted to play with friends who can't play as much as you, you can have a server you all play on and one you play on alone or with one other friend. You were all in the same area and you didn't have to do the, "Hold on, I died and had to gear up again so I am in Stary right now I'll have to run over to where you logged out." bull every time that friend logged in for an evening's play.

Find a Saline Bag - Profit. Eat, Drink, Rest - Profit.

Visited Devil's Castle and as many of you might know you reach the door via Catwalks. Well, castles currently need to be entered by "stepping over" the front steps. They can be exited the same way... except upon exiting my character did the hop and went sailing out over the stairs and fell... fell... fell... as the stairs dropped away under them. I was certain I was dead but I didn't even break a leg. In the Mod I would have broken legs and been bleeding out unconscious. I love you SA.

Very nice sentiment, thank you, and "you too". Hopefully no one decides to gift me with any bullets from 300 meters away while I am playing during the holidays. :)

Then when demonstrating a concept maybe make it more accurate to what you envision and want. As it is your Blue Zones, especially if it moved me to the "closest" blue zone area outside the current red I am in would put in me prime camping spots with a very short sprint. The ultimate solution would be blindingly simple. 1 Character per server. Problem solved.

Mosin with a long range scope and most of those "blue zones" would in reality be about 500 meters from the area they were looting very likely allowing them to shoot the person through a window or as they exited.

I have a hammer and some sticks... now if I could find some nails.

NO! I hate the KOS mentality(not killing just the morons who blast away for no reason or start fist fights on the beach when no one has anything to gain from them) but I do not want the fear of others players removed from the game.

Less whiny players posting about crap that is already slated to be looked at and fixed.

Far left, green skinned powerhouse.

Actually, people were saying that exact thing.

What? You got bored and burnt out playing an alpha lacking a lot of the content "a lot" and have done all you think there is to do? Say it isn't so. hang up the game for a few months then come back and check out what has changed. Me... I am going to have fun scouting out all the new locations and buildings that are hidden around the map. I have passed places where I can see cities will be built that will rival Elektro in size or maybe even Cherno. I have seen the new cliffs and train stations. I have found the edges of the map on multiple sides and wanted to drop notes saying, "Here there be monsters", if they wouldn't simply be reset when the server restarted... :)

The theory was. The issue is that you can get around it either through the computer or if you come up with an incredibly complex system that can detect every possible computer option you can set like using 2 soundcards or using different channels, it can still be gotten around by simply plugging an earbud into my smart phone and running Skype on that or the very low tech, "Playing in the same room as you game partner." It is unenforceable and thus not viable as an option. It would take me 30 seconds to work around it no matter how much time spent coding it.

This is what I was stating. This is the only way this can work is if it is enforce by a closed community and even then it is a merit system. Otherwise there is no way to enforce it. No it can't. My headphones plug into the mic jack, not USB. There is no way for the computer to force my mic on since my mute button is an actual device outside the computer's influence. You can get this from a $20 pair of headphones, basically any analog headphones.