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Worst idea ever. I don't want DayZ to tell me what to feel. I feel things for real during my play, I don't want it to pop up saying "You feel guilty" or "You are unhappy" or "You feel ennui". I don't want DayZ to even come close to trying to "simulate" emotions

I'd just troll people by saying things like "have you found a bicycle yet?" Or "You can harvest wood with the axes now"

I did play the mod. However I never found driving much of a pleasure and the extent of my exploration was to get to a specific way point on the map, rather than I'll just drive around. Although I admit that this may have been a symptom of how it felt to drive a car in the mod. In fact perhaps my criticisms are biased by how much I played the mod. I explored Chernarus already. There is no getting lost in it anymore, ergo its kinda boring when I know where to go to get what I want. I have forgotten what it felt like when Chernarus was new to me I am fully aware that this might factor into things.

Thanks for the response. I pretty much agree with you. My only question would be that how would you solve the issue of players staying in one part of the map? I'm not sure different building models would do it. In my opinion its a symptom of the fact that the distance is not worth it for loot that can be found in a very small area, which implies that the map does not really call players to explore it (if that makes sense). I like your idea of community based contributions, I'd love to see the development team get the community involved with competitions for designing new buildings and stuff.

In my opinion what we need is some kind of localized loot, and specialized buildings that only appear in certain areas. Maybe a camping store in Zelenogorsk where you'd be pretty much guaranteed a tent and a stove etc. Maybe a certain gun only spawns at the NWAF. It is stupid that the whole game revolves around the coast. I want to run around random towns inland and feel like I have a chance of bumping into people.

I hope someone mods out the zombies, decreases the loot and makes ammo rare as fuck

Its not human nature to kill others on sight. People kill on sight in DayZ for the following reasons: 1. There are no consequences (IRL there are) 2. There is no great value to your character in game. You fail, you lose some shit, so what? IRL you risk death, it makes you much less likely to be killing everyone you see. 3. People find it entertaining in a game. IRL only psychopaths find killing other humans entertaining. Saying DayZ reflects human nature, or is in any way a social experiment that can somehow provide answers applicable to real life is stupid and ridiculous.

I don't think its necessarily true, just seems to be one of those ideas that everyone has that gets banded around (like the rabbits making zombies noises thing). I've been killed and had friendly experiences in equal measure in hardcore and regular servers.

I haven't really been in a PvP scenario, but I've found zombies mildly irritating since the latest patch. I can imagine it would be kinda annoying for anyone in a PvP scenario. I think the problem is that they spawn with aggro at you when you kill them with a gun, so you instantly have an infinite stream of zombies coming straight at you without any regard for walls etc. What it really needs is for the zombies to respawn a finite number of times within a certain area without bee-lining straight for you but stumbling in the general direction of the shots until they get close. That way people taking shots would need to be wary but would have a chance to move off before having to deal with infinite zombies.

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I wish it were that simple. However I think you'd still get server hoppers. People would get all the loot they want from one server, and rather than waiting or walking to a new area, they would just hop and loot the same area again.

You actually make an invalid assumption there, I am what you could call a friendly player. If I see a fresh spawn I'm way more likely to give them a can of beans than a shot to the face (depending on how they act towards me of course). If I see any player I would favour a friendly chat and even teaming up over killing or robbing them. I merely accept banditry as a valid part of the game and therefore think forcing friendly cooperation would deny bandits their play style. EDIT: And my sig is just a joke based on the infamous line from Skyrim

I think blocking third party communication software would be impossible. If it were I can just use Skype on my phone. Having the mic always on is a plausible option, however some people would have privacy issues with it, also you could still text chat with your friends, or even unplug your mic and skype them on your phone. There is no fix, its something we all have to accept.

I don't see why everyone cares so much Other than to dish out their unwarranted "people with PC's are better" rhetoric. I have not a single care in the world whether or not DayZ comes to consoles

I dunno, maybe its an early symptom of infection? I'm not saying KoS would happen, I'm saying there is no way any of the proposed scenario would happen. Therefore one is allowed to imagine it as one wishes.

Nope. I just don't think the zombie apocalypse could ever bring down civilization. Ergo neither DayZ nor The Walking Dead are accurate in that regard. Both are fantasy, thus both can play out whatever fantasy.

I agree, Frankie should not be so hasty to call hacker. Especially not since he himself has been on the receiving end of "hackusations". Regardless of whether or not the guy in the video was hacking, he should have given the benefit of the doubt considering that this is presumably what he wants people to give him with regards to certain accusations. Personally I don't know whether Frankie is a hacker or not, neither do I know whether or not the guy in his video was hacking. However calling out someone for being a hacker is a pretty big deal, especially in an instance where people can get VAC banned etc. Frankie of all people should know this, and therefore he should have said in his video "this could be desync etc." Personally I do find it suspect that he often goes out of his way to cry hacker, or dismiss hackers in his videos. It is almost as though he were trying hard to come across as someone who hates hackers and would therefore never hack. Of course I might be wrong, but I've often thought this.

I think the game will turn out good. Its a bit boring at the moment, but I have loads of other games to play whilst I wait (Project Zomboid is a good replacement for the zombie survival experience if any of you are bored with DayZ). The only hope I have is that the dev team do not listen too much to the community. Not to bad mouth you guys, but we're so divided on most issues that we'd only ever get a watered down mess if they pander to us all.

People are still going to be impatient and server hop rather than wait for loot to respawn. In fact it could lead to a worse situation in which hoppers select a few low pop servers and cycle between them getting back to the first server again in time for the loot to respawn and so on. Private hives are the best solution.

Oh yeah that hot new hack that everyone wants that allows you to slide along the floor face down. It gives you so much of an advantage.... Just kidding, this is blatantly a glitch rather than a hack.

I never said limit it, there will be plenty of servers for people to run around like idiots. I'd just like to have the option of joining a server that is comprised of like-minded players. That's not the same as wanting to limit the game.

All we need to save the game is private hives with strict whitelisting procedures to filter out the morons. Not that morons should not be allowed to play how they want, but I'd like a private server for people who are of a similar mindset and play for similar reasons. No that does not mean a no PvP server, it just means a no dickheads who decide its funny to ruin your immersion by running around in underwear and stuff like that.

Hi, friendly.... YOU ARE DEAD

Dwarves and High Elves I hear

Trolling admin lol. Really they need to make admin messages blue or something