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Things don't work like that in the real world, kid. If no one changes their mind, then no one wins. Personally I don't even know what you are trying to argue, because even though I have a fair amount of patience, your last post was far too long to take seriously.

If they want to try and RP, let them do it. Sandbox means people have fun however they like.

Merle and Darryl were the only good actors on that show.

Zombie hordes, although good to have, would be out of the processing league for too many people, I think. Weather would be a good one to improve on, which would make maintaining temp and the associated mechanics much more interesting (lighting a fire to stay warm in the snow versus staying out of sight). These would be good to tie into base construction.

I've missed some work. Looks like the good people of Washington state will just have to represent themselves in Congress.

Plenty of companies do, particularly tech companies. To name a single one-- Adobe. 113925 was released on New Year's Eve, and 113860 was released on the 20th. As shown in the announcements that PhlOgistOn linked to: Adding updates isn't as simple as showing up for work and publishing whatever you accomplished that day. You need to finish a package first. Because this is an alpha, features are added piece by piece to then monitor and determine the effect each has on overall game play and other systems. The goal isn't to just add everything in as fast as possible, they need to make sure it works first. You bought an alpha to hasten that process; that has been made very explicit many times. As a coder, it always astonishes me when people with no experience in application building procedures think that there is some easily quantifiable way to measure productivity, then blame the developers when one process or another took longer than the timetable they arbitrarily decided on, even if they were told beforehand their expectations were unrealistic. Don't be that person. If Rocket was a lazy worker you wouldn't be playing an alpha of a game he and others worked very hard on. It's incredibly rude to openly lambast someone you don't know for their work ethic, particularly when there is little reason for it.

And everyone else thinks you're wrong. There, settled.

Majogl, even if a second character can join after a server reset, as soon as tents or other forms of loot storage are implemented that delay won't matter. What would be the point of having two characters in that sense anyway? The only plausible way to do this would be Rocket's way, which would be to have two characters-- one for the main hive, and one for the hardcore hive. Which means you wouldn't be able to choose which character you use for each server. The benefit of doing it like this would be to prevent people from gearing a character on a standard server, then switching to a hardcore server with an advantage.

I'm much less interested in how much Rocket makes, and much more interested in how sales profits have affected the budget. Apart from how much has gone to the dev team directly, BI has almost certainly recouped their initial investment in this project and is probably likely to throw down a bit more to take it over that "major title" threshold.

Errr, nevermind. Just happened to me, too. And I've started rubberbanding, which has never happened to me before :/

My character is still around. Sucks to be you guys.

Absolutely not. Hell no. Everyone in this thread needs to gtfo and let it die. Gun mechanics shouldn't change just because you read a book. If you want to be a better shot, then learn how to use the weapon. You shouldn't spawn and spontaneously have some advantage or disadvantage. If you want more value to a character, you should be a valuable player. Otherwise it's just sentimental value, and if that's all you want then Rocket should give us the option of naming our guns Rosy or Hotshot #5 and avoid this at all costs. In real life if you want to be a farmer, you don't have any magical stats that you improve to be a better farmer. You just have to know what you're doing. Some people may be more mentally inclined to something like being a medic than others, but that comes down to the player, not the game mechanics. They'll be more aware of their surroundings and carry the right stuff. If there is any decrease in things like bandage time at all, it should be very very minimal, affected much more drastically by temperature and health, and not be improved by reading books.

Agreed. I'm looking forward to the day when cities are something you want to stay holy fuck away from unless you're going for rare loot. Add variance in zed speeds and better hit physics, and things would be vastly improved. Someone earlier said that the more complex and unpredictable their behavior, the better, and that's definitely the way to go. That would be a much better approach instead of just making it easier for them to overpower you with stats or numbers. These are infected, not shambling corpses. They should put the fear of God in anyone unlucky enough to catch their attention. Combat should be a last resort unless you are well prepared to deal with them. As it is, as long as you have a fire axe you can grab as many as you want and run around in circles while side-swiping them. It's no threat at all.

Can't post a screenshot for some reason, sorry. I was going along just fine, when the server reset. On logging back in, the screen was all white, with vague light spots moving around. I could move (or hear myself moving) but could see nothing in either 1P or 3P. Now every server I go to is either white if it's daytime or black if it's night, and I can't seem to respawn. Any workarounds to this?

Beautiful. Thanks guys, should have tried that sooner.