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I don't want to be in a firefight. I want to avoid them at all costs. I always die in them. I would rather meet people and enjoy the social aspects of the game without spending 4 hours trying to survive only to be shot by someone I never even saw.

Most people do not carry two primaries

If you see someone at airbase, whether they logged in there or not, and you don't kill on sight, you are going to die.

I felt like a dick doing it, but all I could think of was "anyone with a weapon sees me running around and they will shoot me."

Lol, no it hasn't. Do a server search and change your filter to max 2 players. Now view the server list. 95% of those characters are server hoppers. If it's nighttime, 99% are server hoppers and the other 1% logged in by mistake.

Who told you that was the point of Dayz? One of the developers? The game manual? The official web site? No, that is YOUR point. It is different for different people. For some people, it may be to get the best gear they can as quickly as possible. That is fun to them. If server hopping accomplishes that, then they have fun and succeed at their purpose of the game. No, it defeats "your" conceived purpose of the game. You are attempting to speak on behalf of the developers without any actual basis in fact. Do you really not understand why some people choose to spend 1 hour getting full gear and the best weapon possible, rather than the 60+ hours it would take if they played the game "properly" on populated servers running all over the map looking for gear? That is of of course assuming they don't attack other players. Let me tell you something about server hopping. I completely understand how lame it is. But if you take out server hopping completely, I am going to kill every single person I see with a backpack and weapon and do everything I can to other players to get gear, rather than take 45 minutes to run to an airfield on the extremely off chance no one has been there before me.

I am trying to get in a sniping position that is roughly 700m away from my anticipated target. I can't find a LRS to save my life. I do have a bipod, MP buttstock, and MP handle with a pristine acog. Is it possible for me to hit someone at 700 with the M4? Or am I better off continuing to try to find a LRS? Also, I know the actual magnification of the acog is 1.56. What is the actual mag of the LRS?

What is bewatering?

I don't want to snipe with an M4. I want to snipe with a mosin, but I can't because I can't hit 700m without a LRS and LRS are nowhere to be found

I already have a mosin, but I can't hit 700 because I don't have an LRS and in 500 hours of play, have never seen one except off of a corpse.

Yeah sorry if I wasn't clear. I meant whether I should give up my mosin for the M4 since I cant find a LRS. With the acog, it will zero to 700, but I wasnt sure how difficult it was to hit something from that range with it.

I know this is a big, but can it feasibly be all the way across the map? Or can I gain any information from it, like know the person is in the same city as me?

Yeah, that bug. I've been all the way at the end of the pier in elektro, at least 100 from anyone, and hear the ammo splitting and food sounds, so I never trust them.

I have seen the sticky about not reporting servers, but I wanted to discuss what the point is? I have seen a server with "Join = kick" in the title that has been run as a private loot farm for the last two months. I was kicked over a dozen times after the admin said I had to leave because it was a private server. I reported them twice to vilayer and provided screenshots and a video showing evidence of the admin abuse and no action was taken. The hosts do not care because they make money from them. In another thread on this, the Dayz forum team advised to report the host. That has ZERO effect. I have reported at least 5 servers to all of the major hosts and they do not care. I even found a server today that had the BE client set to autokick anyone who had a ping over 70. Why do I spend so much time dodging other players and hours and hours scouring for loot when I could just purchase a private server and loot up to my heart's content, then leave and join another server and kill everyone like these guys do? These guys are clearly violating the rules, and no one is doing anything and it is incredibly frustrating. I reported this server a week ago, which had "join = kick" in their title. They changed their title, yet continue to kick anyone other than Phenix and Toxic, who are always on the server and use it as a loot farm. Try joining it when anyone is on and you will immediately see the same.

Change your filter to add the word "night" "kick" of "private" and join one of the servers that comes up. These servers are almost always low pop and you can find more loot on them because they attempt to bypass the rules or mislead people into staying off of them.

What is my incentive to retract the bipod after using it? Does it reduce accuracy if I fire from a standing/crouched position while it is deployed?

What do you mean by a compensator "or two?" You can put more than one compensator on your rifle? And if I have a compensator, you're saying my weapon will be more reliable without the bipod than with?

No, they don't. They pay a price to have a server that conforms to the rules they agreed to when they leased the server. At no time when purchasing a server is it conveyed to them that they can "do what they want with it. Their servers interact with the public servers which other people play on. Are you saying that because they pay money for their own servers, they should have an advantage over everyone else?

Yes, TOS says you have to have certain language in your server name, and that you cannot kick players except for specific conditions. The server I referenced above has actually just changed their name to "Maintenance Join = Kick" to prevent people from joining. There is no maintenance. They are looting up and getting a massive advantage over other people.

At what point do I adjust the zeroing up? For instance, if something is 230 meters away, do I stay at 200 or go up to 300? What about 250? Etc? Thanks.

Although I'm limiting myself to one location (power plant), I feel like I have pretty good cover.

LRS are impossible for me to find. I have only found one in 300 hours of play, off the corpse of a player. I don't have a problem with sharing sniper spots because there are 1.5 million people playing and I figure the majority of them will not read this thread. Also, I assumed it was a bad sniper spot, which is why I posted it here. My spot before that was right behind a bush to the left of that clump of trees, but it was a lone bush in the middle of the field and I now realize it had terrible cover and was viewable from all over. I got 42 kills from that bush though, but it is too risky to continue using.

How is that "exploiting graphics?" I have my graphics set to achieve the best performance instead of the best visual quality. If lowering my textures gives me a little more speed to respond to an attack, why wouldn't I do it? Do you turn your graphics up to max settings? Also, your comparison to my adjusting in game graphic settings to modifying configuration files, which is cheating, is ridiculous. By your logic, anyone who uses 3PP to be able to see players who can't see them are obtaining cheap kills too.

All textures and graphics are turned down to the lowest level to increase FPS and allow me to better see players. I don't care if the trees look pretty, I care if I can see the guy hiding behind them.

I only care about what is rewarding for me, and that is sniping someone from a position where there is no possible way for them to reach me in 30 seconds, and then logging out if I miss. I know a lot of people hate that, but it's part of the game, and it's what I get enjoyment out of. Just because you disagree that is not how the game should be played, doesn't make it wrong. There are no defined rules for how to play the game.