Bodexius

Why don't you just make it that you can only change server once every hour?

Yes... herbs... for poisons and stuff. That's what I use 'herbs' for...

Agreed. I would add 'Kilometers Driven' and 'Kilometers Flown' as well. 'Animals Gutted' 'Fires Made' Are good too because that promotes survival. Maybe even 'Meals Cooked'. You can add 'Places Visited' too, i.e. each main town (or army camp etc) you travel too gives you a point. That promotes exploring etc. The most important thing is to promote survival rather than PVP. I wouldn't add a 'humanity' because what does that even mean? I understand the concept from the mod, but it always seemed silly seeing as you don't get a bonus for working in a group etc.

I don't know if bloodbags tell you what type they are because I've been playing solo so far, but there is no reason they should. We have pens... can we write on bloodbags to tell people (our friends etc) what they are? More interestingly, I would like to write the WRONG bloodtype on them so if I have some blood and someone kills me they go "Oooooooo! O- Shiny! :D :D :D " *DEAD*

That would be boring as hell... I take a pill and for the next... half hour (how long exactly?) my screen is just black with the unconscious state on it... That sounds exciting... It would also be terrible for anyone you do it to as well. Sitting there staring at black isn't fun. As was mentioned, make them poison pills or something that make someone sick and MAYBE kills them (though just really sick is probably enough) that way you aren't looking at blank screen for ages (anything longer than 5 minutes is far too long) and it gives you something to do to sort out your situation.

I haven't tried that yet (not had the opportunity to) but you might not have one handy. Even if this kills one annoying bandit I think it's been worth the implementation :P Or if you are sharing with friends etc (and not trying to trick) then it is still useful.

But then why have pens and notes in the first place? The book names are also all in English. At some point immersion should be sacrificed so that game experience can be improved.

Haha! Thanks.

Don't spawn loaded weapons, there are enough guns and if I had a clip for my M4 then the game would be far too easy. The fact that I only have 1 clip for my pistol (and much spare ammo) means I can't simply shoot loads of times because reloading is a pain... What is wrong with the day/night cycle? You're just on the wrong server... I play both day and night so don't mind but yesterday at 2am british time (evening american time) I was on a server that had complete daylight. The better way to fix it would be to fix the flashlight glitch with the light going through the wall and getting head torches to work. The log off timer is important, and the mod had the inability to log off if you attacked or someone attacked near you and both these things should be implemented. Disabling the gamma slider will help a little but if you want to cheat you will find a way...

It was hard to get sick from temperature but they did make it work in the mod. Eating lots of medicine would probably make you sick... I cleaned my wounds with alcohol and got sick, took 1 lot of vitamins and was fine again, I'm assuming it would just go away with time anyway. Bandages surely wouldn't clean your wounds? They just prevent bleeding, next time I'm wounded I'll try using bandages again, but how do you clean a wound with a bandage?

I wouldn't have the player kills in there because the game should encourage surviving not killing. Things like: length of survival, 'cans of beans eaten' (for lulz), animals gutted, towns/sites visited etc... there are loads of really cool stats you can have in the game that make surviving more valuable and mindless killing less attractive. Steam have their own collectable card system out of game.

I thought the idea of DayZ was that you washed up on shore after a zombie apocalypse just occurred... Obviously that isn't 100% what happens but that is what it is meant to be like or we may as well just spawn anywhere in the world...

Right... but at the moment they are broken, that should take priority.

If you read/listen to early interviews Rocket wanted to introduce things such as 'experience' with people being good medics etc as well as mechanics when fixing cars. You can't just fix up a helicopter, you need to 'train' on fixing other stuff first. That will be quite late in the development though I should think...

Getting sick, needing to rest, drink, eat, repair your items as well as the zombies are all types of PVE. Hell! It's not a PVP game it's a survival game with friendly fire... so one could argue that even other players are a form of PVE rather than PVP. This game has so much PVE already! There won't be werewolves... but there might be different types of Zeds, ones that move slightly faster etc (they may have introduced that late in the mod I haven't played for the last few months).

Chill dude... it was a question and a suggestion... I don't think they should add many more zombies until they sort out the glitching through walls and doors... Maybe a few more but really I would rather they worked properly before we get more of them.

Where are you looking? If you're by the coast then you're doing the game wrong... There is loot to be found, you just have to look in the not-so-travelled places. Forgive me if I'm wrong but I don't recall loot magically coming back that much in the mod... Sure it loaded in but respawned? Hmm... I'm not sure. That was the very reason I went on servers that had restarts every 4-6 hours or so... You could FORCE it to respawn by leaving loads of random crap everywhere and walking away and back again (when it loaded the area) but that was it so far as I experienced it...

I've played the mod for a good few hundred hours, so I like to think that I know a thing or two lol. First off, great job so far! Things I've experienced about the game so far: The drink 'problem' isn't really a problem, people need to learn to scavenge not near the coast and don't sprint everywhere. The inventory system is awesome, but the lag (when I don't even have a chain) is annoying... maybe that's a server issue though. The annoying zombie sounds and tin cans and drinks suck but that's not much of an issue. If you're looking around and staying vigilant (not being a noob) nothing creeps up on you. Are zombies really sensitive to detecting you? Because I seem to be found very easily even when I am being pretty stealthy... I play the game survival style but on high population servers I need to gamma cheat at night. Why? Because using the flashlight at night makes you the most visible person on the planet because it shines through all the walls... Even up to about a kilometre away you can still see people. Speaking of lights, the head torch should be fixed asap because not being able to carry a gun while using a light source is annoying... When are tents coming? I have maxed inventory space... even with first aid kit and ammo box... I need somewhere to store my shizzle. Minor thing: when you fill canteens etc at a well as you press 'F' the first thing on the list is 'Drink' rather than 'Fill Canteen', any chance of having those the other way around? I've accidentally drunk before. Is there some way of notifying that you have 'Open Wounds'? Maybe have a gash or something on your hand/neck? Had I seen that I would have been reminded to clean them with alcohol before getting sick lol (which I managed to remove). Zombies glitching through walls... THAT is the worst thing about the game at the moment. Keep up the good work and don't let the idiots bring you down. Haters gonna hate!

That is by far the best way to pick stuff up... It has to be in you line of sight though (1st person) and next to you. You do know you have to press space bar with items to aim them right? If you do that then it points forward... rather than to the side... I don't like gamma cheating because I get really into the game and the atmosphere etc... but until they actually fix going around at night properly there isn't much choice, though on low pop servers at 2am in some far off town I generally do things properly. Gamma cheating ruins my experience a bit... but dying needlessly ruins it more! Haha!