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Other. I couldn't care less actually. The aversion towards cannibalism is solely based on culture anyway and when there's no more food, most people would probably resort to cannibalism to survive. However, seeing as it's not a good practice from a pathological view point, there ought to be consequences. As someone mentioned, kuru and/or CJD. I'd prefer that other things got priority over this though.

Hunt them down and spawn kill them until they stop playing all together? Just kidding though. However as you said it is up to the community. A good start would be if there's people involved in actually helping people out. I know that there currently are people who do just that. The thing is, you will always hear more about how people get KOS than how they got helped by some random stranger, because people focus on the negative things, they stick easier for some people - leaving out all the good stories that are out there. What you need to do is to gather like minded individuals into one place. Of course, other people will kill or engage in fights and try to kill you - would be pretty boring if they didn't. To quote a song, "without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all." Not entirely true, but true to a certain point anyway. The solution to the "problem" is the community really - just got to recruit people to your cause. Either in game or on forums. Stick to one or two servers only and be relentless in your cause.

Don't tell you've missed the greatest tv-show on earth?

Ah, the man in black. On another note though, everytime I see your posts... I want to listen to this.

Do you mean "the deadliest game" or do you mean the novel (which isn't even a novel but a short story, it's only about 8000 words) which I think you mean "the most dangerous game" (by Richard Connell)? Cause the first one is about some terrorist thing.

Server hopping for gear? No (other than, as I've stated somewhere before: trying to find out if the deer stands actually spawned loot). Server hopping because I'm having connection issues with the current server - yeah, definitely. Can't play the game when you get extreme desyncs every 30 seconds or so.

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I reckon most army camps are cleaned out an hour after the server has reset. Just don't get too attached to your character or your gear, you're going to lose it eventually anyway. If not by the hands of other players, by the 'hands' of character resets and bugs I guess. Try and learn the map and which houses that spawn what type of loot (not much to learn, you'll pick it up after a couple of visits to the same type of house). I guess practicing shooting might also be a good idea really. But yeah, it isn't encouraging to walk for an hour, just to get shot down the first thing that happens once you've collected your gear. But hey, shit happens. Just have to learn something from it.

It's plenty effective. It makes the game look like shit, yeah... but claiming it isn't effective is just pure bs.

Well, would probably have something to do with their brains not functioning as ours do? Impossible to answer without knowing what the devs had in mind for the zed physiology.

Perhaps it was built by Chernobog (the black God). Or it's probably because there's already a city by that same name in Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernogorsk Which seems to be or at least was a coal mining town, so that could be why it's named that... at least the real town.

The clock idea is the worst idea really. That means I would have to plan my playing time to the point that I need to know when to log off (because I would have to take into account that someone might fire a shot near by which isn't even meant for me), which is absolutely ridiculous. Right now I log off when I don't feel like playing anymore which is not something I would know 15 minutes in advance. What if shots are fired in your vincinity by players who do not even know you're there, shooting at zombies and then they're on their way again? No worst idea ever, and seriously something that would make me not want to play the game anymore. A log off timer is all that's needed, although I wouldn't agree with 30 seconds, preferrably half that. And if you think about it, 15 seconds is a lot of time when you can't do anything but being still and chances are since it's supposed to be prevention from combat loggers, who generally just log off because someone is aiming a weapon at them or firing at them - 15 seconds is a lot of time, plus if the person who shot at you is chasing you and has you in their sights - to be able to retaliate you will need to press the cancel button and ready your weapon, which is even more time wasted and by then you're most likely already dead. With that said, I've combat logged once against a zombie - because I didn't have time to outrun him. My encounters with other people have ended rather quickly in one way or another.

It depends on what you claim to be server hopping. I've done so on a couple of occassions, most of the time it has been because I've been lagging on the server or it has just been weird in one way or another and when I haven't felt like playing during night time. I don't always enjoy the night time, sometimes I think it's fun - but it all comes down to my mood. One time I've been server hopping for loot, or rather... I was server hopping to see if the damn deer stands actually spawn loot or not. Still haven't been able to determine if they do or not, but not a single deer stand I've visited has had loot of any kind. So do they? Spawn loot I mean. Other than for above said reasons, no.

I would say that it is because if you have a PvE server where PK is completely disabled, there's nothing stopping people from joining at PvE server, scavenge around for a couple of hours, log off for a period of time and then just a regular server. I think that if there had been servers where your character is actually bound to the server, PvE servers would probably have been functional and added. I wouldn't mind a PvE server if characters were bound to servers... heck I wouldn't mind a PvE server right now either, cause it wouldn't affect me that much right now anyway since I would still play on the default servers.

No, I don't think it is nor will it be an accurate representation. For one, when you die you die there's no respawns in real life, which means people would generally be a lot more afraid of the consequences of their actions. Most people don't know shit about injuries, definitely not how to treat stab wounds, bullet wounds... using a bandage? Yeah right, not very likely when you've just had your gut punctured by a blade or a bullet. And taking myself as an example, I couldn't fix a car if my life depended on it - I can change a tire and that's about it, I've never had any interest in mechanics or motor vehicles of any kind. So obviously that's a person I'd want with me, just hoping that someone would find someone with knowledge in chemistry beneficial... most people haven't skinned an animal either, or gutted it or know what the hell to do with it once it's dead and skinned (this is after all a time where you wouldn't want to waste anything, the hide from the animal could become very useful). I know everyone likes to believe that they're in special forces, the best surgeons in the world, can hit an apple three hundred kilometres away with an arrow (well you get the picture) - however, most people aren't and even if you're good at one thing you probably suck at something else that could be vital for survival. That being said, of course there will be groups of people who wouldn't be friendly at all, just take a look around in this world of ours and it's not that hard to see that of course these groups of people will exist, because they exist even now. The only thing that's stopping them now is the fact that there is a society and within that society we have laws, rules and regulations. But someone just laying in a window or on top of a building waiting for someone to shoot? No, it doesn't sound very likely. Just as KOS is probably not very likely either, not without a dialogue first.

Has actually never happened to me, knock on wood. Now I've jinxed it and I can never ever login again. Fuck.

I love how we're drinking in milliliters though, no wonder people are thirsty all the time (plastic bottles and canteens show their contents in milliliters and well, 10ml in a full canteen - must be made for a smurf).

Seeing how the last person I gave food to stabbed me with a fucking bayonette afterwards (although he died, not I, so joke is on him) - I'm staying well away from people in general and seeing as this is a computer game where people kill people for lulz, I'm not buying any truce deals.

Definitely want to see a G3 and FN FNC. Think it would work quite well in the setting.

Yeah, cause that would be fun if you're actually having a loss of connection (for whatever reason). Awful suggestion. I'm sure you'd be pretty pissed if you died because something out of your own control caused you to lose your internet connection for a couple of seconds.

Not even necessarily a good nap. Unless you actually go to bed sometime after taking sleeping pills you won't fall asleep. You will probably pass out by the time you're up at about 10 pills (depending on strength and what kind of course), about twice that amount and alcohol and you have a chance of dying.

I only just started with the SA, never played the mod and I'm having a lot of fun. From the perspective of learning the ropes I obviously can't comment on the mod, but it seems to be fairly straight forward thus far and seeing as everything isn't implemented you can focus on the things that are and learn that and as they progress into adding more stuff you have the basic parts taken care of and can proceed to learn new stuff (whatever that might be).

http://dayzdb.com/map That is quite useful, personally I only used it until I got somewhat familiar with the spawn locations due to the different landmarks.

I didn't know Columbine was in Russia