blfonsworth

They know you have no weapon and/or are unwilling to use it. They saw a server advertised as a PVE server and thought "I can go here and get easy kills because people think it's safe because it has a sign hanging out front that says they don't shoot people in this server"

6/10, decent troll, could have done better.

I have only detained 1 person (successfully) and I let him go, myself and a friend ran into him in the Balota camp inside a tent. We cuffed him, robbed him, cut him lose and let him go.. It was for the better, he had a bunch of stuff for the M4 and had no M4, myself and my friend had 2 new M4's and not much stuff for them.. We left him a lot of his food and other supplies. We were only interested in weapons and ammo at the time. BTW, handcuff keys are glitched. After you handcuff someone and then unlock the cuffs, the cuffs return to your inventory while the keys are forever destroyed by the server. This could be a good reason why people are restraining and then leaving people or killing them. Also, handcuff keys are much more rare than handcuffs.. so You probably have a bunch of guys running around with 5 or 6 sets of cuff and no keys for them.

If you have the compass in your hands there are several ways to read it: In 1st person view, while standing still press SPACE In the inventory window (TAB) you will be able to read it in the "Hands" inventory section In the inventory window, right-click the compass -> "inspect" If you use it on a night server and are not using the Gama/Brightness trick, you will need to use the inventory window to view it properly.

I gave you my Beans for being a fellow Gallente..

BLFonsworth on Steam, Add me if you want.

I have a 620.. it makes a nice paperweight. It came in the computer I have now. I used it for a while, hated it and decided to pull it out and put a 560 in it that I had in my old PC.. The 620 is not meant for gaming or really anything other than basic visuals and word processing.

People who are fussing about needed base building, more loot and other items have NOT been reading the news section or keeping up with development. A lot of it is explained in the announcements section of this forum. If you go there and, I don't know.. READ? You would find pretty much all the answers to your questions. It explains kind of where they are in development and even gives an insight into what they are trying to do with loot and zombie spawns right now.

I have a question about hadncuffs an keys. If you would like to read a semi-cool experience to go along with the question then read on (some people here like to read other people's dayz exploits), if you just want to see the question, skip to the bottom. Yesterday myself and a few friends were all running around the west/southwest part of the map (all logged into diff places) and we decided to meet up at Balota to find fresh ammo and maybe get into a fight. I had been carrying handcuffs and a set of keys around for the last couple days wanting to catch someone. I had seen it done in vids and thought it would be cool. I finally got my chance. We finally all met in the NW corner of Balota near the military building and the 2 big hangars. There were 3 of us and one had to log off by the time we all met up (can;t wait for vehicles) The place had already been looted and there was a guy running around. We heard him put down a zombie with the handgun and we gingerly stepped out to find him (both of us well equipped from previous trips to military buildings). The server reset on us. We immediately logged back in to fresh loot spawns, realized we were teh only people that were back on the server and began to raid Balota as quickly as possible (btw I got some really good stuff, new sight, stock and weapon light for my m4). While we were raiding the camp on the southern side of the airstrip I saw a flash of a red backpack and we gave chase. I found him hiding in a tent and told him to come out, which he did. He tried to run and I yelled I would shoot if he didn't stop, he stopped. He was unarmed so I decided this was my chance to practice my arresting skills. It was a good heist too, he had a pristine red dot sight and a lot of 5.56 ammo, including a 20 and 30 round clip. Obv we took all his 5.56 and M4 stuff since we both had an m4 and he didn't. This is where things got a bit 'buggy'. After a few tense minutes of us searching him and talking to him (he had no mic to talk back) to let him know we were all cool and he would be done in a sec, I took out my handcuff keys in my hand, approached him and unlocked the handcuffs. The cuffs went into my backpack automatically but the keys completely disappeared. Are keys one-time use? Was this a bug that needs reporting? Or did my guy simply drop them and I couldn't find them? I would rather be able to search people and let them go than have to kill them and try to loot their body before they respawn.

I have never seen a set of keys that were one-time use in my life, unless you broke them when you used them. lol Is there a way to break the cuffs? Or to remove them without the key?

My friend picked up the suppressor thinking it would, you know, suppress the gun shots. It wasn't until after I found a pristine knife bayonet that he found out it didn't work and I found out the knife bayonet can actually be stored and used as a knife as well.. +1 me, -1 him hahahaha

I'm part of a small group that doesn't have a server for the SA yet so we are looking for a nice server to chill on. I'll see if I can't get some guys on your server for some friendly pvp..

You never know if it's a glitch or if it's actually someone in the distance drinking a mountain dew.. Yesterday I logged onto a server in the treeline in the NW corner of the NWAF and I could hear two guys talking in french.. one was really loud and the other really quite and It sounded like they were all around me, not in a general direction like usual. Sounds in general are buggy. If you hear a zombie noise and the noise stops or cuts off before the whole sound clip plays, then it's probably just a bug. Same goes with the soda can sound.

"I'm upset the guns in the ALPHA are not balanced, I'm going to make a rant post in the General Chat section instead of putting in a support ticket in the feedback section"

You're implying the Doctor isn't a redneck, or maybe even a sporting clay shooter..

I would like to see a similar skill tree added here (if skills get added) like what EVE Online has. Any character can train any skill, which allows you to experience anything in the game without having to make multiple characters (although people still do anyway due to the nature of eve). The equalizer is train time. If you have all of your personality attribute points even and no implants then you will train at a set rate in real itme in the background, whether you're new or old. A low level skill may take 20 minutes or high level skill may take 20 days to train, but it will take the sme amount of time for everyone. Skills also don't have to be trained very high to be useful to you.. so a guy that is a week old can have just as much fun as a guy that is a year old.. and depending on circumstances, maybe even kill the older guy. The 2 games mirror each other quite a bit in overall game concept and my group of DayZ friends are ALL from my eve alliance. Both games are a sort of "survivalist" game where new players are dropped into a HUGE game world with only their wits at first with real time assets that you have to work for and that you lose when you die, and die you will.

Check out the map at dayzdb.com and go to the MORTH WEST and check out all the area that has already been cleared and roads layed out with no buildings.. The north looks like it will have a TON more stuff than it does now

1. It's early stage ALPHA.. hasn't even been out a full month yet 2. You should read the ANNOUNCEMENTS SECTION and specifically the thread about upcoming additions 3. Given the current state of the Alpha compared to the MOD (which I've never played, only followed as an outsider) I would say 1 year is a solid estimate since it was MORE than a year from the time the SA was announced to the time the ALPHA (remember this is an ALPHA) was released At least you only had to pay $30 for it

Is there a good out-of-game topigraphical map of Charnarus+? All the topo maps I can find are of the MOD not the SA. The only SA map I can find is at dayzdb.com. It is not a topo map and if you log in and start adding your on POI's to the map, they are deleted after you log out.

Thanks. I'll try and save it to my PC and blow it up.. it's sort of grainy and hard to read but its a start! You have my beans, sir.

I'm not a KoS player. Actually I jsut started playing DayZ friday when I picked up the SA on steam. But I quickly learned that anyone with a weapon os a threat. "Hey, I'm friendly"... not a chance jack.. you stay over there and I'll stay here.. I have met 1 person the whole time that was genuinely friendly.. he helped me out a bit and even let me follow him around for a little while the first day I played. I usually play with guys I know froma different game, we have our own TS server and everything. If you are not one of them, you're a threat and if you seem to be posing a threat, you'll be shot. Having a loaded weapon is "posing a threat" to me. The only people I have let go since I obtained a firearm was a fresh spawn who didn't even have a melee weapon.. after we killed his friend for swingin his axe at us..

Yesterday, once me and a friend found out the saline bags gave full blood, we dropped the blood kits we had in our first aid kits and have been picking up every saline bag we can carry without taking up too much space. I have 3 or 4 of them atm between my first aid kit and my protective case

(opps wrong button)

I've tried right-clicking / mouse-wheel on both the lamp and the matches.. I used a large gas can and then a medium..(the large was 'badly damaged' and the medium was either 'worn' or 'damaged' IDR which.. both cans say 100%). I have even tried drag/drop the matches on the lamp. The only other thinkg I can think is maybe I need to drop the lamp on the ground AFTER I have turned it on and then try and use the matches on it.. but I'm not sure how to go about using the matches when it won't let me hold them in my hands. I tried drag/drop from backpack menu to hands area in the TAB inventory. Maybe I need to set the matches to a hotkey and try it that way?

Coming from the Eve Online community, this arguing point is very familiar.. Killing people is part of the game. If you were not meant to kill people it would not be part of the game. Just like in EVE, people get mad when they are flying around space minding their own business and get ganked. It happens.. It adds a dynamic to the game.. Was he wrong for shooting them? Or were they wrong for standing in the open talking when they knew there are hunters in this game? It's called a S A N D B O X