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Red [X] in the corner of the hands box returns the current item to inventory or the ground. Swapping items of the same sort doesn't seem to work ATM.

Not quite. They drop their gear for you, Most CLers don't do that. This must be something new.

Yes please. And some in AU. @Mercules: I don't think you can. Only stable. else I'd have already switched.

Not true. Ceasar was a salad. Still is, I think.

Yes, Mr Dean, Sir. Push away. It'll be more than f'king okay!

It's a very very small man shaped island, made of 'no man'.

Who's winning?

Good luck. Been waiting for a slot to open up for four hours already. Might have to flag this and wait for it on stable.

Hello, msy, welcome to the forums.1PP vs. 3PP has been extensively 'discussed' in the forums in many places already. No consenses has (or will) be reached. Both have their place. We have the ability, now, to lock our servers to 1PP and create a level playing field for all of the 1PP players. If this is your prefered play style, then I'd suggest you try to find these servers. Filter for '3PP:OFF' in the server browser. The animations are still needed in 1PP, and I'd doubt that there are that many efficiencies around them based on the players chosen perspective.

Welcome to the Post-Apocolyptic world... 'And the living shall envy the dead!' PS: The current dev branch shows much more clearly the DayZ survival game as it was sold to us! Brilliant!

If you've been following the devs posts at all, you'd know that they are doing something like this. I've quoted below from Rockets post: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/156129-confirmed-upcoming-features-for-dayz/ So hopefully this will mean that we get the advantages of an HC without having to have another physical process running. Of course I'd still like to be able to run an HC on another box as well. It can't hurt. @kiwi_laurel: You don't have to 'polish' a turd. You gold plate it, and then polish it. EA has been doing this for years...

There are somewhere in the region of 5000+ other servers to go to to play DayZ anyway you feel inclined, so if you are specifically going to their server to stick your finger in the air just because you can, then yes. It's your choice. No one is forcing you to go to that particular server.

Cryengine max heightmap for map is 4096 x 4096, just over 4 km x 4 km at a 1 metre scale. Technically the limitation is 256 km2 (8km * 32 units) but you're quite likely to find the engine unstable if you try it. You're looking at over half a gig of storage just for an empty level. The engine can do it, it's just not practical. Start adding assets and computational requirements and you're going to need some serious expenditure on hardware. Going by the specs in the 'Can I run DayZ' thread, that means most people here would not be able to run it. And for {CORE}BlackLabel: Unreal 3 has a max map size of around 7 square miles.

@ZedsDeadBaby As I said, 'I would like to think that the DayZ community has evolved enough to allow for that, but after way to much experience with the Mod and a growing acquaintance wth the SA, I'm packing a raincoat.' Your post is proof that some within this community believe their rights to play any way they want take precedence over any others. And at the moment you can have that attitude and have it backed by the full power of the current server rules. It's pointless to try and host a 'friendly' or PvE server on the public hive ATM because of this. On the private hives, who cares. The only objection you could possibly have is that they are not letting you piss on their parade. As to the hive: Dean tried to fix the problem of loot farming in the Mod's public hive and failed several times. We managed to find a solution by moving our community servers out of the public hive and isolating them. I doubt he will be any more successful in the SA, but as I'm not able to read his mind or privvy to his vision or motivations, as you are, then I stand to be corrected. By him, not you. So, I'll summarise for you. When you see a 'friendly' server you can choose to go there with the sole intention of slapping them upside the head because they would dare to subvert your interpretation of Dean's 'vision' for DayZ, or not. And as you point out there is nothing anyone can do about it. It's a public hive after all, and you can be an Arsehat if you want.

Usually CPU related. Your CPU is 4-core 3.2~3.8 GHz so isn't completely useless. Don't know kombuster, but if it works, use it.

You're doing it wrong! Look in the front seats of cars. I usually have a full map created from looking in 4~5 cars. You can find the map in the following bits: NW, NE, SW, SE, N, S, W, E, Full Map. That's 9 possible configs. You can craft the smaller pieces to create a Full Map: NW + NE -> N SW + SE -> S NW + SW -> W NE + SE -> E N + S -> Full Map E + W -> Full Map

TBH, we have enough military spawns in the game already. There will no doubt be a few extra incorporated in the northern expansion, but NEAF doesn't need to be expanded. Maybe revisiting that decision after we get servers with more than 40 players, but ATM it's all good.

Thanks for that. No really, no one has thought of that solution before, or posted it up on the forums. Thanks. Thanks alot.

Optimisation is the last thing that gets done in a development cycle. Server/Network optimisation will appear first, but client-side will not be done any time soon.

Another concession to the Arsehats.

Your final point is valid but your pointing the finger at these 'friendly' servers is a straw man, you have constructed based on your own bias'. You don't need to resort to friendly servers to accomplish easy gearing up. Just choose any 2~3 low pop servers, especially if they've recently reset, 1PP night servers are great for this, and jump away. 10~15 minutes you're as close to fully geared as to make no difference. As long as you are allowed to 'farm' gear on one server for use on another you are going to get this problem, 'Friendly' or otherwise has absolutely nothing to do with the core problem here. As I doubt Rocket is going to move away from the concept of the Public Hive for all Public servers, you can expect this to continue for the forseeable future. So, while you believe friendly servers are pointless ATM, and for the record I think that as well, it does show the intent of the admin and community of that server to create a more casual enviroment for playing DayZ when that opportunity is available. All power to them, there is no right or wrong way to play DayZ. It will necessitate that they are on their own shard of the hive, and gear will not be transferable back and forth as it is mandated presently. You and I won't have to worry about them interferring with the way we want to play DayZ. Everyone is happy, except maybe the KoS-kiddies. Everyone is so uptight on these forums and calling out features of DayZ simply because they don't fit with their particular play style. 1PP/3PP, 24/7 Night/Day, Gamma & Brightness, etc., etc. They are all more concerned about the way other people want to play the game rather than seeing the bigger picture. I would much prefer for DayZ to deliver on a open and robust framework that allows every possible play style that can be restricted down by a server admin to reflect the needs and wants of a particular community, rather than have arbitrary limitations imposed by the engine to satisfy the whims of a particularly vocal minority within the wider DayZ community. Yes it might fracture the player base a little, but there are currently 1.1 million of us players already in here. We aren't going to be all on the same servers anyway. We're already fractured on solely geographical bounderies and server locations (ping). The Hive makes us think we are all capable of playing together on the same field with an enforced equality, but the reality is that the hive itself is open to abuse, and the player base has shown itself more than willing to embrace that abuse and exploit it for all that it's worth. TL:DR 'Friendly' servers: pointless, but not the problem. The Hive is the problem, and one that isn't likely to go away. There's more than enough room for them to have their server ATM, even though they can't enforce anything. Leave them to it. So decide for yourself if you are petty enough to simply want to piss on the 'Friendly' parade, or just get on and play DayZ the way you want on the other servers. I would like to think that the DayZ community has evolved enough to allow for that, but after way to much experience with the Mod and a growing acquaintance wth the SA, I'm packing a raincoat. And I'll be lending my voice to any call that is asking for Private Servers/Private Hives sooner rather than later!

Don't kid yourself, son. Rocket is a New Zealander. I'm a New Zealander. The line starts behind me!

I was going to reply to this thread, but the thread is pointless and after reading the responses already posted by others and not actually having anything to add to the discussion, I decided not to.

So the hackers just target the skill tree and hack that. Cost doesn't change the hacking any. Free games are hacked just as much as top-shelf titles. Next!

Fair enough. Then I'd look at the fact you're running on a laptop with a mobile processor and a mobile graphics GPU. The 2 GHz CPU is going to be a major bottleneck with DayZ performance and the 525m GPU spends most of its time trading down performance for lower power consumption. If there is a low to mid-range desktop in your future, you'll be a lot happier in DayZ. A nice cheap 4 GHz CPU and a 5 or 6 series nVidia GPU will at least get you in the game with around the same FPS as most people here.