doctorbadsign

Excuse #3 Excuse #2 Excuse #1 OP at least try being consistent in your excuses.

There is absolutely no reason to server hop for action... Just join a high pop server and go to one of a few specific locations... Also its funny how you only started using this excuse after the poster above you did. Before you just said you do it because you can, you don't want to, but you do it because you can, a piss poor excuse if I ever heard one (at least the one you just borrowed is slightly more coherent). No word about looking for action until now... Consistency ftw

Would have been way better if you did it in 1PP. Just sayin'

Or perhaps you don't like the idea because you server hop for guns? Sorry but I just want to make it clear for those that missed it. Solopopo is a self-admitted server hopper

I think if you change server once; get a timer Change server twice; get a longer timer Change server three times in a row in the same session; character wipe

That does make sense. I don't want to be able to server hop, its an exploit and ruins the game therefore I don't do it despite that fact that I could. You said you don't want to be able to do it, but you can so you do. That doesn't make any sense. I don't like raisins, I don't want to eat them, but I can, so I do. Logic ftw.

Huh? I can server hop too. I don't want to be able to so I don't.

Wait a second, did you not just post in a thread titled 'Do people still server hop?' saying: "I still do it. sorry" I presume you mean, you still server hop? Why then should we pay any credence to what you are saying here?

For what reason?

I've done 76 hours, more than some games I own, but apparently not as much as you guys :P

The most fun I've had is playing with my friend. Mainly cause its kinda like having a nice chat and a stroll in the woods together. On my own I tend to gear up, run around for a bit, contemplate doing some mindless killing, resist the urge and log out.

No. I have to tell you my name IRL, why should it be different in DayZ

Well the problem is that people can't be bothered to run around the map to get all their gear, it takes less time to get to a good spot then server hop. I don't think respawning loot is gonna help because why wait for it to respawn when you can server hop and get more, quicker? Vechicles may help, but making it so that people who wish to server hop have to wait longer than it would take them to run to the next town might be the best option, combined with the above. No wait, actually the solution is private hives.

That might well be coming rather soon :)

Ok so to further my last comment, it seems FPS have actually dramatically improved for me, but I had to turn shadow quality down in order to see the improvement. Last I checked that option did nothing so I set it to very high, but now it seems to affect FPS. I now get 40 - 60 FPS whereas before I was getting 30 - 50.

Strange... I tried the experimental branch and my performance seemed worse than usual? Going to reboot to see if it was Steam being weird.

A 5 min wait is still not as long as it takes to go around from town to town gearing up. Ergo there are still benefits to server hopping even with the timer. What we need is a system that deals out an extensive punishment to people who change servers more than once in a given period. If you hop once wait 5 mins, hop again and wait 20 mins I say. That way you're still being reasonably fair to those who change server for legit reasons, but stopping the people who change continually.

In a sense I agree, but I think its a mixture of the map and the gameplay. I've played the shit out of the mod and the standalone so Chernarus isn't exciting for me. It doesn't help that there is not much to do other than hike around the map at the moment. I miss the feeling of being totally lost that I had when I first played and I really cannot wait for the community to introduce new maps so I can rekindle that feeling. I totally understand why the devs decided not to create a new map however, and I don't expect it of them.

Turn DayZ off and ask her out for dinner ;)

I agree entirely. Regular is for when I think, shall I just run all the way to the NWAF alone and see if I can last

I'm guessing at some point more features other than just 1PP will make the experience of playing on said servers more 'hardcore'

Whilst it might not be true that bandits wear gas masks. I like the fact that the concept has arisen. It means by the powers of self-organization we have generated a method for identifying bandits. A method which is as uncertain and vague as it should be.

I tried convincing my girlfriend to get DayZ, but no dice. Any tips? (She doesn't like it cause there is lots of running and no story apparently)

Nah I think 5 mins is fine given the current state of the game. Given that for example I have no idea when the server resets, I have on occasion joined a server just as it reset and wanted to head on to another one cause I didn't have that long to play. I am fine with being given a 5 min timer in this scenario, but if I was forced to wait an hour I would say fuck it and probably never play again. Also I have been randomly kicked from servers upon joining, and given a five min timer as a result. As I say if that scenario resulted in me waiting for an hour or starting out at the coast, I'd say "fuck this game".

What knives need is when you are behind a player, you get a scroll menu option 'slit throat'