MystoganXIX

Why do you people feel guilty from killing? If you want to play on the safer side, then put a bullethole in anything that moves. Nothing to feel guilty about. Hell, whenever I play this game or any game with long range projectiles, I'm generally the one hiding off in a distance blowing people away before they are even aware of my existance. (Mosin snipes are great, even if it sometimes takes 2hours of camping to get one) This is my form of looting since I choose not to deal with the glitchy zombies when I dont have to.

Looks like a good list. I do disapprove of the higher recoil though. What we have at the moment seems to work well enough. I assume "heavy handguns" includes the current revolver. Most .357s dont have that much recoil though. If they add .44 mags and pistols of equal or higher power into the game, then of course recoil will have to scale with bullet size. (They also better be one hit kills. No f-ing way you're gonna take a bullet from something like that and walk away. Maybe missing a limb could be the least amount of dmg.)

I see no problem with having zombies only "die" via headshots. Doing this from a distance may take some practice and some bullets, but realistically anyone could wait for a zombie to run up to them and blow a hole in their face point blank. Also keep in mind, they would need to obey some of the laws of human anatomy. Ex: If you put a bullet through its spine, depending on how high you put the bullet the zombie will either be forced to crawl or be completely paralyzed. (Essentially dead)

Can I wear the hat to be invulnerable, quickly take it off and blow someone's head off with a shotgun, then put it back on?

This entire situation is just absolute stupidity at its finest. I don't see why servers that are connected to the public hive can't be screened beforehand and their connection to the hive simply disabled when suspected of abuse. You obviously cannot rely on the GSPs to actively shut down the servers found to be in violation when those servers are making them money. Now when a DayZ staff member says anything to a GSP service representative, they will act since possibly losing their privilage of hosting public DayZ servers would cost them even more money. If some random player reports any abusive behavior, it is not likely much action will be taken. The GSPs cannot really be blamed though, all they care about is their money. The problem is that this game is in Alpha. The rules are vague, the game has many issues and work to be done, this is one of the many problems that have not been solved yet.

We found out what the problem was on this end was as well. If anyone has Norton Antivirus, please note that it is a horrible piece of shit software and should be uninstalled immediately. Even when we disabled everything in norton settings(I was screensharing with him, disabled it all), DayZ & Rust servers were being blocked. When I finally convinced the guy to completely uninstall Norton, all of his problems disappeared.

My friend is having this exact same problem not only for DayZ, but Rust as well. No servers pop up for both games and he cannot manually connect to any servers via IP address. For the past few days, we've been scouring search engines, various forums, and even Rust community support. Tried pretty much every solution that didn't sound idiotic. (Some people believe lowering your graphics settings will fix your server connection issues.) He bought both of these games recently, maybe steam is having issues authenticating accounts? Has no problems playing other games such as Nether, TF2, ArmaII DayZ mod, etc.

You can somehow break your legs by getting shot in the face. I am not sure how, but DayZ logic causes this to happen occasionally.

The buildings are pretty much deathtraps at the moment. You go in them, can fall/glitch through walls and usually die from fall dmg, zombies pop in and out as they please, 3rd person douchebags abuse their detached view and clip their camera into the walls to see you, kids delete files that they should not be able to play without letting them see through walls, bullets seem to penetrate walls so allowing for spray and pray kills should someone see you, and probably much more. Get in, loot, get the hell out. Until the problems above get fixed, more time in a building = higher chance of death.

Yet, that doesnt justify weapon accuracy being absolute unrealistic crap. If you're a bad shot with a gun, it is usually because you can't aim the thing properly. In this game, the weapons are inaccurate even when you have a shot lined up. Make it harder to aim, but give guns better accuracy.

You cannot rely on people to get accurate hacker reports. VAC knows this thus they do not ban based on reports alone. Likely 95% of the reports would be kids or tryhards reporting anyone and everyone that kills them. Hell, they might even start reporting the zombies at some point. It is also extremely frustrating getting your head blown off by a sniper. I highly doubt that everyone playing this game could resist the urge to report the sniper as a hacker that is somehow instantly killing people.

Punching shouldn't be outright removed, but it should be changed a bit so you cant knock someone out in 2 seconds and take their weapons. But really, I couldn't care less. Remove the Mike Tyson powered punches and I will be more friendly towards fresh spawns. Keep it in and I'll continue bambi target practice when they get anywhere remotely close to my location.

It doesn't matter that much. I have played rust and at the moment, it is more polished and playable than DayZ. The thing is, it feels like an entirely different game. I spend most of my time in Rust like I do in minecraft... gathering materials, crafting items, buildings a huge ass base, defending my land, etc. DayZ just doesn't have that feel, nor should it. Both are great games.

You may be paying for the server and have ownership but you agreed to the rules when you decided to run a PUBLIC server. What is so hard to understand about that? http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/158966-dayz-standalone-server-hosting-rules-server-reporting/ Read them. It doesn't matter if you think it is fair or not, you agreed to it when you went public. As long as your server is public, players DO have a right to play on it without having to suffer abuse which will modify their public hive data. You may choose to stop paying for your server at any time. You're not going to convince all the other server admins to do the same thing though... Probably because a lot of them actually want to play the game publicly and not "Rule my server with an IRON FIST!". This game will have private servers, so I don't understand what you're so pissy about. It is currently in Alpha, you need to wait if you want your private server so you can kick/ban anyone that shoots you without worry of being blacklisted.

In a realistic sense, this suggestion should only work with high caliber ammunition. I can shoot a .357 all day and not have a problem. If I try and shoot my .44 magnum for prolonged periods of time without gloves... that is an entirely different story. I don't currently own any high caliber rifles and haven't shot any for extended periods. I do however own an M14 which can be shot all day long only injuring my wallet, not my shoulder. This would also make gloves somewhat important when using firearms. It makes a huge difference as far as pistol shooting is concerned when gloves are worn while shooting higher calibers.