Sokonomi

I already found a server that is banning PVP killers, so there is hope. I still wouldn't mind leaving the option of killing someone open though. If someone can best me with an axe in my face, good on him, its the sudden random drop-dead moments that ruin this game for me. And yeah, I got into the game with the intention of being nice to any and all, but im beginning to feel like murdering straight away is the only way to stay alive..

That kind of tense situation is what I want. Trying to negotiate peace or something. But what ive experienced is "im going to drink something now... oh, black screen." That happened to me 7 times now, and its getting real hard to hit that respawn button. They might as well put a random death timer on my character, since the abrupt endings are so meaningless. If I lose in a mexican standoff, or bandits feed me bleach while handcuffed atleast thats something to laugh about, but randomly keeling over without interaction is just no fun at all (id play different games if I wanted that).

1. Kinda hard when your killer is on the other end of Elektra, just potshotting at random strangers. 2. KoS people dont talk, they just shoot at anything that moves, thats the whole problem, really. 3 & 4 is a given. Not often get the chance though.

Even more incentive to be a dick and randomly shoot people. The KoS noobies are gonna be happy with this one. Thanks Bohemia... <_<

Please indulge me, how do you read people who are scope killing you from the other side of town for my flashlight? I too would like to have a friendly encounter some day, but so far I haven't even seen the 7 faces that shot me for leaving the beach. The gameplay of DayZ currently boils down to running for the hills and hoping you get to a gun quicker than the guy next to you. So my impression is that something is wrong with the game that calls itself a zombie survival game. I hope that with future development, a bullet becomes too valuable to waste on a fellow player..

In movies the asshole always loses, that's where DayZ differs. In the 4 days ive been playing ive been randomly killed 7 times and only met 1 friendly player, proper real by the book catch-release bandits I have encountered exactly zero times. So there still is a lot of balancing to do before playing the good guy becomes viable. Or at least until the next generic big brand FPS releases and all the kiddies fuck off. :rolleyes:

Yes, but what happens if there are 10 KoS douchebags for every proper bandit or hero out there. Having to wade through a sea of turds just to find a rare hero-bandit encounter is starting to feel rather unrewarding. The only ones enjoying themselves are the douchebags, who are effectively breaking the game to suit their "style". People with a KoS mentality in DayZ are as out of place as people pretending to play minecraft on a battlefield server. If you want to just aimlessly shoot random strangers in the ass, find yourself a generic FPS game and lay off DayZ, since survival roleplaying clearly isn't your bag.

Perhaps I should rephrase that; The main point is to survive zombies. For KoS people its not their main objective, so they are missing the point. And to clear things up, I think KoS'ing equals griefing. Its murder without a cause. I hope that as development goes on, zombie population in cities goes up atleast tenfold. People dont have time to fuck with each other when there's zombies on every corner.

And we all know movies are totally real life... Just saying, the way people act in movies doesnt mean that's how the average person would go about it in RL. And at least in these movies the "baddies" have a motive or provocation. What do the KOS people in DayZ have? They are just running around being dicks. For example, bambi's pose no threat, and they have no loot. Why kill them. Not to mention the KOS'ers usually already HAVE a ton of gear (they usually don't even check their kills for loot!). So they are not out to gain anything or protect themselves, they just want to shoot people for shits. If thats your MO, DayZ is not the game for you. If you wanna be a bandit, act like a proper bandit. Take hostages, cuff em, make em eat rotten fruit, strip them down, give em a dallas mask, axe them in the ass and send them walking. THATS how you play the bad guy in DayZ,

People like you aren't worthy of the title "bandit". You are just a KOS'ing fuckstick that strayed from his usual COD/BF/MOH/TF repertoire to come and grief people in a survival game. Just go back to your Xbox already, and leave the sophisticated simulation games to the grownups.

While I agree that bandits make a crucial part of the game, you must make one distinction though; Bandits - Guys who will stick you up, handcuff you, feed you rotten fruit, take most of your gear, and stroll off to the horizon laughing. FPS cowboys - People who just KOS like they are playing call of duty, not bothering with communicating or checking dead bodies. I would love to encounter some bandits someday, but im too busy randomly dying..

I just got randomly killed while cooking, in a no-PVP server even.. I mean whats the point of going on a server set up for people who dont want to PVP, if all you're gonna do is just to furk people up. Arent there enough servers to do that in already? What this game is teaching me is that most people are just complete toss pots without even a single ounce of empathy or capability of doing teamwork. Im gonna lay low until there are some legit non PVP servers so I dont have to deal with trigger dicks and COD kiddies.

The point is to survive zombies though, not eachother. If you want to survive eachother you can play any old war game.

For survival use id guess Wildlife traps (+bait), sling bags (+burlap sack), maybe a fishing line/trap/net (+sticks), or a kind of alarm (+empty tins)? As for offensive purposes, perhaps a Bola (+...kiwis?) a flail (+stick +roll of tape), boobytraps (+shotgun shells)?

So munching on fellow humans is in, but shooting a teenage zombie is somehow terrible. Bloody morality police man...