Max Railgrave

BAH. There are so many more ways to play than just Bandit or Survivor. This isnt Red and Blue, Black and White. Let's see what crazy new archetypes we can come up with! Mad Doctor Knocks you unconscious, blood bags you, then knocks you unconscious again. DOES NOT LET YOU DIE. Bonus points if Respawn and Abort from Combat have been disabled in a future patch, they can toy with your corpse indefinitely! Gentleman Adventurer Act like you're a great hero and be like "STAY BACK VILLAIN" to every single person you meet. Talk like you're some kind of well known superhero. Peaceful Medic: Same as above minus the sadism. Idealistic player who follows people around trying to heal them. Dies a lot, lives for the moments discovering the occasional person who doesn't kill them. Hermit - Stays in one place the entire game, never leaves, points a shotgun in the face of anyone who comes near. UHF - Sit somewhere spamming music off a second account while the first account loots everything while everyone else investigates the sound. UHF account then blows self up when enemies get near. Zombie Shepherd - Runs through every city and keeps a constant swarm of zombies on them at any given time. Contribution from Manaw: Bonus points if you use Zombie Face paint and only use melee weapons. Solid Snake - Arm yourself with a pistol, a hatchet, a rocket launcher (no backpack), full survival gear, night vision goggles. Live in cities. Stalk people all day. Speak to them in Solid Snake's voice. Slit throats. Tell newbies of a secret base with a Giant Mecha in it. Pyrotech - Collect an entire inventory's worth of flares, get an entire group of players to toss flares EVERYWHERE in a city until the entire city is bright flare-lit red at dusk. Have a player broadcasting during the event. Bonus points if you set off satchel charges and have other explosives.Trojan Warrior - Grabs everything in a city, piles it in one pile somewhere, shoots anyone who comes near it. Umbrella Corporate Commando Sits on a tower in Cherno, throwing smoke grenades to make zombies aggro on targeted individuals. Chronic Backstabbing Disorder Maintains multiple ARMA2OA accounts so that they can double-agent themselves and betray two factions simultaneously. Bonus points if you rejoin the same factions under different names using vocal morphers, and then backstab them AGAIN. Psychotic Axe Murderer Follows you around with an axe at close range without you knowing, lunges out of the shadows screaming AHHHHH and kills you. Not interested in your loot, just padding his kill score. With an axe. In your face. Psychotic Axe Murdering Teabagger Same as above, except while you're unconscious, they sit on you. Jigsaw Captures a victim and then forces them to kill someone to earn their freedom. Bomber Starts his life entirely by running to the nearest military camp, gathering as many grenades as possible, and then running up to someone, pretending to be friendly, and then dropping the grenade instead of a flare. Vigilante Only kills other people who they have seen killing people United Nations Group of players who seek out othre players' conflicts and systematically disable the fighting capabilities of both sides, whether by chucking smoke nades in to bring zombies to break up the fight, or by breaking everyone's legs. YOUR TURN

Topic name says it all. I'll be in the middle of typing, and when manipulating bold or other formatting, the cursor will jump to the last bolded item if I strike Backspace. In fact as I typed this, I developed the recipe to cause the problem. As you type a sentence, press CTRL-B to bold a piece of text. Press CTRL-B again when you finish typing it. Now, as you bold that text, type some more stuff afterward. But after you type text after the bold, push BACKSPACE and you will see that your cursor will skip back to the bold. This sentence uses b early in the sentence, but about HERE I push Backspace three times and... ...it cut off the old in bold above. Try it and see. All you have to do is type something in bold using CTRL-B twice, then type some more, then push Backspace. Browser tested: Google Chrome 21.0.1180.75 m

Bad idea. Then the hackers will probably just find a way to spoof names and then we'll all be pointing fingers at each other

--- EDIT - READ THIS FIRST --- Rocket explained (see patch note threads or search his name) that the reason he wants no respawn button is to cut down on rapid respawns (which overloads the servers) for better spawn positions. However, I feel that only having it available when legs are broken is a little harsh. I suggest instead having a 1 minute cooldown timer triggered on Respawn-suicide, meaning it takes 60 seconds longer to have your new character appear at the coast after pressing the Respawn button. This keeps the button around but discourages spamming of the button (as Rocket wanted). ---Original post--- Better than disabling the Respawn button. This method prevents spamming respawn for better spawn location, but still allows players to suicide if they have their legs broken in the middle of nowhere. Perhaps if you spam the button too much, it adds another minute onto the death ban each time, to a maximum of a 3 minute ban. Or maybe it's just a flat 3 minutes. Or maybe five. Forces player to get the hell out of their chair and go take a food break. Healthy! Normal deaths (not due to Respawn button) still allow instant recovery.

Main post edited. Also, um, I think I suicided by accidental respawn maybe...2 or 3 times in my entire time playing...ever. And even then, probably because I wasn't on much sleep at the time.

I said that I want a respawn button. No. This thread was created two days before those patch notes were released. Even so, I think there's some cases which warrant suiciding beyond "leg is broken." That's a silly reason to disable something. Secondly the reason Rocket disabled Respawn was to cut down on number of new characters generated per minute as it was too many spawns and overloading the servers, which was a problem when people were suiciding rapidly and repeatedly to get a better spawn position. However, removing Respawn, I feel, was too much. I am suggesting putting it back in but if used, you have to wait maybe a minute or two before your character can be re-created. A cooldown timer, rather than a removal of a feature. This discourages repeated spamming of Respawn without punishing people who use it legitimately to give up when all hope is lost.

Rocket works for Bohemia last I checked. The DayZ and ARMA2 teams may not be totally in full communication with each other. That is a much more believable explanation than "Bohemia is out to mess with DayZ without Rocket's knowledge," which is just silly.

I, a resident of Chernarus, pledge: To remember that my gear can be lost to a multitude of factors at any given moment. To never disconnect from a fight -- whether player or zombie. To never disconnect to remove danger, death, or zombie aggravation. [ONLY EXCEPTION] That I am only allowed to disconnect if a Hacker is posing extraordinary threat. To never disconnect specifically to replenish ammunition To never disconnect / server hop in order to "ghost" or get the drop on a player. To never disconnect / server hop in order to obtain items. To never exploit any glitch deliberately. To report all bugs, glitches and exploits through the appropriate forum channels. To never commit any act of hacking, cheating, or other actions condemned by the developers. To treat the developers of the game as human beings, who code this out of their own time. To abide by Rocket's rules. To face the consequences of my ingame actions, and the misfortunes of Chernarus, with dignity. Signed, Max Railgrave Reply with "Signed" if you agree, and if you have what it takes to try and live up to this. These are ideals, though. We are human, and we can make mistakes. I've greyed out the less severe parts. If you only agree with part of it, please copy and post which sections you dissent with.

Fraggle, I think what he actually meant was "I don't abuse disconnecting, because I have more fun dying and playing legitimately than power-leveling my character to become a demigod upon men." But I'm not sure. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, though. ------ This thread was a fun little experiment and was enlightening. I'm going to let it fall off the front page now, as it has served its purpose.

If you prepare in any way for the coming of a bug in order to maximize its beneficial effects upon you, you are technically abusing the bug. However, I consider ammunition to actually be the lightest offense of the pledge. In fact I may remove it, because it pales in comparison to how bad disconnecting from potential death is. If I were a server admin and I had to choose between banning someone who disconnected to replenish ammo, or banning someone who disconnected to avoid a fight, I'd ban the latter person every time.

Please elaborate what these loopholes are.

My real issue with the Hatchet is that I have to drop my primary weapon in order to switch to it. It seems silly to me that I can't just sling my gun over my back while I pull my axe out of my pack. How is the axe stored in my pack then as a 'toolbelt item'? It's a double standard. You can carry the axe and the primary (big) gun simultaneously as long as the axe is a 'tool', but the moment the axe is pulled out of Hammerspace, suddenly it's impossible to use it without DROPPING the big gun. That makes absolutely no sense. My suggested solution - removing the axe from tool belt makes the axe into a single slot weapon, like Grenades. But you can only carry one unique axe at a time.

Rocket stated the reason he's removing the Respawn button is to prevent server overload from people spamming it. Therefore, some form of nerfing to Respawn is happening, no matter what. The biggest complaint I've been seeing about this change is that players who break their legs in the middle of the wilderness will no longer be able to suicide to get back to shore. Adding a cooldown to Respawn solves the problem by discouraging players from repeatedly pressing it, while still allowing players who are stuck with their legs broken, to get out of their predicament. My solution, I believe, is preferable to having no Respawn button at all.

Yes. Honor in a game is keeping the game fair and playing it the way it was meant to be. Dishonor is to take actions of exploitative nature "because you can." Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. In the final version of Day Z, hopefully we will not need to take this pledge, as the game itself will negate the exploits (although being respectful to your fellow player is definitely a good thing). But for now, we, the players, can consciously choose to do the right thing and not abuse the Abort command, among other things. This thing was inspired by the Summoner's Code written for League of Legends.

That is an acceptable edge case. I am modifying the pledge.

OP: You were naive. I hope you learned from the experience. It happens. Such is life (and death) in Chernarus.

This teleporting problem...when Rocket implements anti-alt-F4 features, this is going to become even worse...

Since there's nothing we can do (this is happening, Rocket wants it for server performance), let's talk about how we'll cope! We'll have to be even more careful from now on. I predict that Hospitals are going to be even MORE hot now, because EVERYONE is going to want LOTS of Morphine. That and Grenades. People will want grenades to blow themselves up with. I like thinking about how game changes will change the mindsets of people.

That's basically a "murder-on-sight archetype," though... :) isn't the Punisher a vigilante technically (in the books)? New one: (Un?)Holy Paladin Priest / Crusaders of <???> You live in a church. Hold actual church sermons for half-hours at a time in direct communication, complete with an actual 'priest' (you), 'clergy,' and 'congregation' -- all armed, and all slightly insane. Ask people who approach the church if they are willing to convert and worship your God. Kill those who resist, convert the rest. Can also be played as anything that works on a "Join us or die" concept. (For reasons that should be obvious, do not use real religions)

This gave me an idea. The Knights who Say Ni - (Group required) - Ambush a player outside of an installation and relieve them of their weaponry, then order them to join your Teamspeak channel. While interspersing the word "NI!" at them when they complain, order them to get a stupidly common item ("WE WANT...A SODA CAN!!") and return with it in order to get their weapons back. Make sure it's an item they don't already have. Be waiting in the same location when they return (assure them of this via the joining of Teamspeak). Have someone stalk them to make sure they don't try anything sneaky. When they return, honor your word by returning their weapons...but not their ammo. Then disappear into the forest while gibbering "NI! NI! NI! NI!"

Take boat to Skalisky [sic?] Island Hole up on it, establish massive tent base Never go anywhere else Snipe people who come near it

There is balance in all things. Team Rocket (Animal Meat Thieves) In a pair of two (female and male), ambush players, sing the Team Rocket motto, rob them blind (ask them if they have Animal Meat first), break their legs, leave them in the field. You are required to do the motto every time. BONUS POINTS: - - Say "GO, KOFFING!," throw a smoke grenade at the victim, and run away.

We should use Mountain Dew as currency

Someone on YouTube was actually doing this. Another one: Dr. Gregory House Same as Medic, except you always walk at walking pace, and you only heal people if they pay you in Painkillers. Flip the hell out and scream at them "I NEED PAINKILLERS" if they don't have any. Act like you REALLY ARE angry. Make them scared of you. Make them think you're about to kill them. Get up in their face, growl, "YOU ARE USELESS TO ME," and walk away. Bonus points if the story makes it onto YouTube. Taking a break for a bit to get dinner. I'd love to see what the community comes up with. I hope this thread reminds everyone, this is an open world sandbox game. Don't limit yourself by thinking "Survivor" or "Bandit." You could be SO much more.

Graffiti Artist - Use Razor Wire to spell obscene things that when viewed spell out words. Bonus points: Someone goes WTF? and posts it on Reddit. Triple Points: It makes http://www.reddit.com/r/DayZ front page. Ultimate Points: Murder 5 people who look at it, take screenshot, post on reddit as "PENTAKILL"