Lorax

No, plenty of times apples rot on the tree if they aren't cared for. Just look at anyone's apple trees in their yards. I pick apples all the time in my neighborhood and I see it all the time

Aside from the imbalance of the loot and the ability to exploit I had one of the better gaming experience in DayZ these past couple of days. My first life didn't go too well because I gave a guy I met my shirt because he was bleeding and had a broken limb. I thought hell I'll find some stuff in the next couple of minutes, I'll be fine...Nope dead 10 min later from bleeding out due to zombies. My next life has been going good for a half day and I finally killed a deer and cooked it, got an AKM and Makarov and some ammo, and I'm healthy. My decisions actually mattered now, finding alcohol tincture mattered for cleaning all the dirty rags I made from ruined clothing I came across. I'm surviving and I love it. Just need to remove loot piles and rebalance loot respawning so you don't have immersion breaking experiences.

Ya, found one within 10 min of playing around on reg instead of hardcore...it was the first one I ever found too. So I went out and started testing it out. Shot a guy running at NEAF from about 200m out, but I think there is a good bit of bullet drop compared to the mosin which doesn't make sense to me. Need to find some zombies or animals in a field to test it out some more. Either way it is pretty cool, and once I get some practice in I think it will be a great side arm for someone with an automatic for their main weapon. You have your automatic for close to mid range and then the longhorn for mid-long range.

Actually they might be testing memory leak issues like they did several months ago. Servers were up for 3 days straight then I believe

Does anyone know what the server restart schedule is? I swear it is on a 24 hr restart, not 4 hr. Granted this weekend I wasn't able to play at once for a long time, but this past day it seems like it hasn't restarted at all. Am I just crazy?

This isn't a new idea, he is just bringing it up again. This has been known for about a year now.

Please do and let me know when the next trial is done

you can't tell people you are doing a social experiment while doing a social experiment by the way

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As for the "splitting the community" fear I think it is unfounded. Once private servers are implemented it will split, and that's not a bad thing since it will group like minded people together. What is bad is not limiting the number of servers that can be rented because that dilutes the player community, but that is a different thread. I like OP ideas, but I think the bullet damage will be OK once it is released. With that said it shouldn't take 3 to 4 5.56 rounds to the chest to take someone down, so hopefully that will all be balanced out during Beta. One thing I've thought about is giving server owners the ability to tweak all of those settings to make it a programming nightmare.

If anything is done it should only be done once the game is fully released. Right now we need as many people playing all the time to test the game. So once the game is released I think the amount of wait time should equal the amount of time you've been alive to a maximum of 1 hr. This would reduce the frustration for new spawns getting killed immediately. It also would make new spawns respect their lives more, because if you've been alive for 10 min without too much gear it would still suck getting killed. Too many people, including myself sometimes, don't respect their life if they don't have good gear. Private servers should have the ability to increase this time as they see fit, but not reduce it. Yes you can get people griefing each other more because I doubt those children would think about how their actions could lead to their own death and cool down. I'm torn between which option is the best. I would love the idea on a whitelisted server that really makes sure their players are mature and not just trolling people. (Bandits or people who aggresively defend their territory are not trolls BTW) In the end if it gets bad with people trolling then it can be changed, but I think we should try implementing this later on.

I understand your logic that if the other two haven't been implemented that it must have been the burnt meat, but I can't think of any RL situation where burning meat would make you sick. Do you think they may have "burnt" and "under cooked" set to the same parameters by accident? If so should it be reported?

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the scenario is Chenarus is basically quarantined from the rest of the world. Therefore the NATO helos flying over head would make sense as they are doing recon missions to monitor the outbreak.

Got him logging out, LOL

With most Alpha builds they will get worse as more content is added. The point in Alpha is to add content, then in Beta to smooth it out. Now my experience has not been the same as the OP. The performance has become much better, and only rarely do I get a game breaking bug/glitch. I have only had one invisible zombie in 250+ hrs and never glitched off a ladder. I think this may be a case of having too high of expectations after taking a break for 3 months.

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Good poll. Bags of rice for Dayzzzz son. Really not that hard to be a veg in dayz. My Skyrim characters were all veg as well with all the hardcore mods installed on it. Maybe when animals are implemented I'll play as a deranged beast boy who defends the animals from anyone trying to hunt them.

He mentioned in the video that loggers bet that whomever they shot at isn't going to rush and catch them logging since they might not be logging. The 30 sec thing doesn't fix the problem. It should be several minutes at the very least, and maybe some type of audible indicator that can only be heard in a 10 meter radius so the logger can be found out and executed.

I like the video. I've found that I can play on the UK exp hardcore servers with decent enough ping until they get some American servers up. If you are on the west coast though that might not work out too well. If you ever feel like playing with other like minded individuals hit me up, also keep posting your vids.

Hey all, So I've only been able to find DE experimental servers up right now. Since I'm from the US of A the ping is a little high (about 150) when playing the Deutschland. So has anybody been able to find any other experimental servers (hardcore only), and if you have can you post the IP? Thanks, Lorax

I've been getting more lag than normal, mainly interacting with items and some movement/rubber banding issues. It could be the build itself as well. I'm also just curious as to why there aren't any other experimental servers up other than the DE servers.

There is a lot in here, but since the topic of "sweet guns" keep popping up I'll say this. THey are trying to give it a more immersive experience in that you'll find more guns associated with civilians, and military grade weaponary will be harder to come by. Hopefully they'll make ammo harder to come by too.

If I remember correctly a long time ago the Devs said they were going to make the forests more dense, but that hasn't happened yet. I guessing they already would have done it since they changed so much of the topography between the mod and SA prior to Dec 16th. So I don't see it happening. Really I would like it so you could drive throught the forest, or at least as easily as you can now.

Though that helps it still allows for people to know what the terrain is on the other side of the object which is blocking their view, and this still gives them an advantage. I'm all for keeping the two separate. They can have their 3rd person servers and I can have my 1st person servers. Really it should be implemented on all 3rd person servers to make the game better for those who need to play 3rd because of motion sickness issues. I feel bad for those people who are forced into that view with all those exploiters out there.

Ya, the whole hitler meme thing and general joking that he is used for is just tastless. I'm not sure if time will ever heal it or make it ok to joke about.