foolee

I could not agree more. Ive worked to find a tent. The first time my small group (2 people) found one the person holding it died due to the falling though floors glitch while swimming!. My feet hurt, followed by my legs are broken, followed by your dead. No gun shots, no zeds in range, no other players on the server. This time around we found a Big Military Tent and were going to loose it due to cheaters? Get rid of private servers, start forcing people to play on servers like Halo and so many other FPS games. Take away the server menu, when your character is created he can server jump until he/she puts down a tent. Then he/she is locked to a server. It will eliminate server jumping at the same time.

Ya filter for persistence servers would be nice. That being said though if they fixed persistence servers and quit resetting them every Wednesday morning then there would be no need for a filter. The amount of servers the do not abide by the naming conventions is astounding. http://dayz.gamepedia.com/Servers That being said it would be nice to if there was a way to tell from the client end what is turned on and what is not.

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/161701-rework-of-server-selction-screen-and-player-balancing/ The best idea against server hopping in my opinion. This way you cannot select a server. Just a game mode, 3rd person on/off servers, CTF ect. Then the server connects you to the server with the best connection. Allowing you to connect to your buddies still would be the only way around it.

Well to start off I love the game. But if realism is what you are trying to achieve then a few things much change. To start off what I'm proposing will probably bring some naysayers . But if you don't cheat hack or server jump then you should not have a problem with my suggestions. First, according to the wikia the developer is considering porting this game to consoles pending the success of the PC version. If you look at FPS console games then most like the Halo series do not let you select a server. When you play online you are thrown into the mix on a server that provides you with the best connection. You can select what type of game you want to play but you cannot select the server. The second thing is you can play online with your friends in groups. What I'm proposing is removing the server selection screen completely. Allow people to spawn independently or in small groups. This will fix a few things. It will prevent server jumping completely. It will allow clan's, and promote group play. Nothing is more frustrating than playing for 3 hours to meet up with your buddies to get shot shortly after by player X. The final thing it will fix is server load balancing. If you look at the server menu all the night time servers are pretty much always empty, day time servers are packed. If the game dynamically assigned you to a server to play on you should not be able to pick day or night. Being forced to play on a night time server would help with server loads dramatically and also help promote realism. The final suggestion I have is remove the 3rd person view completely. Never in my life have a had a camera follow me around from like 10 feet in the air. This game should be 1st person only. In summery here is the list of things to change: -Remove the server menu and replace with a dynamic server/client connection system that forces daytime/nighttime play. -Allow spawning in small groups, lan/clan play. -Remove 3rd person view (not realistic at all)

I don't use it, I play on a server that claims 3P/off. But if realism is what they are trying to achieve start with the simple things. Things like how far you can walk/run are also things that need to be addressed. I was talking to my brother today, and I had a few other ideas but for Items. The game currently has large hiking backpacks. Most of these backpacks have slots for water batters like the ones Platypus sells.http://www.cascadedesigns.com/platypus/hydration-systems/category. More survival gear would be cool. Obviously these would be rare finds because not everyone under the sun owns one.