1S1K-Airborne

Apparently according to DayZ players........ KILL EVERYONE YOU SEE NO MATTER WHAT THEY'RE DOING..................is the way to survive in the apocalypse. Guess we're all doomed. Unfortunately for most DayZ players, they don't have military training, and a lot of high powered weapons / ammo. Guess I win the apocalypse then?

This game is 90% kill on sight, 10% helping people. You might as well kill everyone you see. They're going to do it to you. Until there's an effective humanity system, treat every other player like a bandit.

Hero = bullet sponge Without an effective humanity system, being a hero is just asking to get shot.

First off, not talking about PVE servers. Where did you even get that from????? Secondly it seems that most of the players in the game want to be bandits, so you can stop worrying. An armband on your character will NOT stop you from shooting anyone you want to.

I really love how people don't read anything that's been said. Fire off a useless / already covered comment. Too many ADD kids in the forums....lol

So you get to say how I run my server that I pay for. Got it, glad you're not in charge of development.

If you saw his friends, you'd see the bandit status on them. If you blindly follow a hero around, yes you might get ambushed. But that would get very boring for whoever had to be the "front man". He'd never be able to shoot the heros he was tricking. I personally wouldn't follow another hero around, I have my own group of heros to run with. I'm fine with getting hunted. Same thing would go for bandits. I'd at least know to differentiate between the two. You act like we're scared of your dumb asses. We're not. We'd just like to NOT have to shoot some people who are friendly to others. So we don't have to waste ammo on friendly players, and we can use it all on the KOSers. Right now everyone moving is a bandit. Fresh spawn = bandit Clown mask = bandit Military clothes = bandit AFK hiding in a house = bandit The system might get a little exploited, but is better than 90% of the server KOSing on sight.

If you were farming humanity for hero status, you'd get +250 humanity for every bandit kill. For every hero you killed, you'd go -1000. If you killed 2 heros in a row, it would be -2000. So you might be able to do that for a very short time, but you'd rapidly lose your hero status. Lets say you found, and killed your bandit friends 100 times (which would take a long, long, long time). That would net you 25,000 positive humanity. Then you decided to go on a hero killing spree. The first hero kill would cost you -1000 humanity. The second and subsequent hero kills would cost you -2000 humanity (if it was 2 hero kills in a row). The most heros you could kill before returning to bandit status is 25. If you were killing heros back to back, you could only kill 13 before you were a bandit again. 100 bandit friend kills, to 13-25 hero kills...........not very much fun farming that, just to trick heros. Takes too much time. Not a perfect system, but 100% better than the Standalone "everyone is a bandit" mode is now.

Yep, I definitely agree. More people would interact, instead of just blindly shooting / axing everything that moves.

There's a million reasons to shoot someone. Right now there's no reason not to. Hence, the servers are full of KOS. Hell, I'd even be fine if you could DESTROY your armband, as long as it's NOT a lootable item. If you don't want an armband, rip it up. Heros and civs would probably keep theirs on. KOSers would rip theirs off. Problem solved. You don't HAVE to wear it.

Yep, pretty much sums up Standalone. Kill everyone you see, or get killed. No player interaction, unless you like being a bullet / axe sponge.

Nope, you could work at killing bandits and not killing heros and get back into hero status. Have to defend yourself by killing a hero (-1000)? Find 4 bandits (+250) to kill and you wipe out the humanity difference. The system auto corrects itself. If you farm hero status only to go KOS bandit, double negative points for killing 2 heros or 2 civs in a row. So you can't KOS your way to hero, or get hero and then go KOS crazy. Heros will stay heros, and bandits can freely KOS till their hearts content.

Pro tip..........don't bother trying to become a hero in this mod. Hero = bullet sponge Too many KOS COD kiddies in the mod, no humanity system, means lots of dead heros. Maybe if they make an effective humanity system you can do it in the future.

Loot only respawns at server restarts. If you know when the server is going to restart, go loot then. If you don't know, just move "away" from the coast. The towns further inland usually have more loot. The smaller the town, the less chance somebody specifically ran there to loot it.

You can still do that with hero / civ / bandit armbands. But if you're looking to be a hero, there's a high humanity penalty for killing another hero. Bandits can feel free to continue to KOS their way to happiness. But heros would avoid shooting other heros.

There is no balance. It's 90% bandit right now. Everyone shoots everyone, all the time. There's no ability for Heros to create safe areas for bambis to loot. 90% of the bambis are bandits, and will kill the heros trying to protect them. So you protect 1 bambi, then the next 9 decide when they find an axe, they're going to go axe you in the back of the head. You can balance the system with an "effective" humanity system. A lot of people are citing the mod, and that was not an effective humanity system. An effective humanity system only counts player kills for humanity points, and MUST have a visual indicator of some type to separate hero / civ / bandit.

Some refreshing honesty! I think the guys that say "I help everyone I can" are really lying because they don't want KOS to end or anything to diminish it.

Yep, that's exactly the problem. 90% plus of the population is bandits. There is no balance, it's 90% bandit, and 10% bullet sponge hero. And ZedsDeadBaby, thanks for posting additional times. Helping keep the topic alive and well! :)

Two possibilities: 1. Server hopper 2. KOS kiddie Unfortunately you'll never know.

Or it was his friend..... Dad...... Third grade lunch lady...... I'd honestly forgive and ask for an unban for someone who said "yes, I was an ahole, I hacked, I got caught, and I've seen the error of my ways, give me 1 more chance". It WOULD be nice if they'd track "bill to addresses" of banned hackers. If you get more than 3 bans (even 3 bans between different games).......lifetime ban from Steam :)

Couldn't agree more. Well said!

There are 24 / 7 daylight servers out there. Don't ask for the refund yet. Look around a bit. There are daylight servers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You'll always have "rare item chasers" in any game like this. We have one guy in our group that would trade like 20 super powerful sniper rifles, for 1 super rare but not that good one. Then he'd get shot and lose it. Then he'd moan that he didn't have any more sniper rifles.....lol Don't chase the "shiny shiny". Think about what's going to make you the most capable player.

I agree, more clothes would be great. It would give more diversity in how players look.