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Gews has a sensible and carefully thought out attitude to 'eye zoom', IMO https://forums.dayz.com/topic/165710-the-campaign-for-iron-sight-zoom/ https://forums.dayz.com/topic/225515-vision-nerfed-yet-again/ - plus his input above in this thread ** Also czarnyborsuk's thread comments, worth reading - " What matters is the tactical planned decisions that it favours and all the good it brings to the gameplay. While it may not be easy to keep this feature in doing so is vital to the dayz experience and it's one of the features that are clearly in line with the direction where the game has been heading all the time." https://forums.dayz.com/topic/237418-additional-feedback-regarding-zoom-feature/

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I notice the address of UK 5-101 is NOT listed on Gametracker as 109.70.149.42:2500 - that address is taken by UK 5-91 - this is why 105 showed up as new on my check list. But lets wait and see what happens? UK 5-91 & 5-101 are both online in FACT. GameTracker History for the last 30 days -this month- says only 3 people played on 5-50 for 3 days total - before and after that there were zero players for the whole month. (according to GameTracker) but hey... after all, this is not my problem.. let someone else work it out.. GamingDelux still have 9 official servers up today (not 10 or 11) - I think some are maybe not the same ones (despite the same serial numbers) or they have been relocated, but that's my dime run out. xxp

What is your low end media pc? Are you sure you can't beef it up with a good graphics card and a half-decent SSD? If you CAN do that, you'll probably also have to pay for a better Power Supply to run the Motherboard and the GPU together. so what's the media PC spec ? * I play DayZ on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400 (3.25 GHz) 8 GB installed memory a standard 1G hard drive (or two) Had this stuff for years (since dual core started to get good - when was that?) To that I added : - an SSD, (not big, just big enough) - a Radeon RX 480 G1 'GAMING' with 8GB graphics memory - (around 280 USD / Euros) - this does MOST of the WORK.. is 100% value. - and a 750 Watt PSU .. er.. and also a plug in usb3 card in case I need it. I leave the case sides off, I'm lazy, also cheap insurance for heating probs. I swear I was going to add a case fan but didn't. heh - runs good ! Put your OS and the game on the SSD, = It is FASTER Keep the standard HD for everything else, your films and your files The Graphics Card is a must, IMO. Don't skimp on that. Check out the reviews Radeon RX 480 G1 8GB - Game looks great and runs. On this forum people with much better rigs than mine seem to complain more? hmm ? any better suggestions, kids (me ol' mates)? xx pilgrim

Well this is what I get today (compared to yesterday). but I could EASILY be wrong I'm not infallible (a joke, earthlings) - maybe there are temporary changes happening ATM ? OR I got it wrong? My SP hates me (his daughter likes me). This is what it looks like from here at PilgrimBunker 3 NEW? = UK 5-101 - 109.70.149.42:2500 GONE ? = number? - 81.19.216.171:2400 (this DayZ was there yesterday?) NOT ONLINE = UK 5-55 - 81.19.208.116:2600 NOWHERE(?) = UK 5-50 - 81.19.208.116:2300 So although there are still 9 Official GamingDelux servers onliine 'tonite', they do not have necessarily the same serial numbers or addresses as yesterday ? < But most DO > - 81.19.216.171:2400 was there yesterday, but I didn't note the serial number. It was UK 5 - xx .. (obviously, but it's not there tonight) UK 5-55 and UK 5-50 appear to be not online this evening (indeed UK 5-50 seems to be not listed anywhere, anymore) UK 5-101 seems to be a new Official DayZ instance just started up today? .. anyone heard of it before or played it? I may be wrong, natch : I'm sure this is all temporary, and anyway probably an instantly deadly Cholera-like misunderstanding on my part. I'm poor at addition and remembering numbers too. What do you call this planet, again? xxP

It is the Tao that tempers light xx pilgrim

If Kant states "There is only one Space" Shall Emuthreat state "There is only one Game" ?

UK 5-50 is is by GamingDelux. It is not on line. Every Official Hive logon spec that the serial number begins with a "5" < .. eg " UK 5-50 " > is a GamingDelux server instance. They have 9 DayZ "Official Hive" games online at the moment, all in the UK: 109.70.149.42:2310 109.70.149.42:2400 81.19.208.14:2310 81.19.208.14;2320 81.19.216.160:2310 81.19.216.160:2400 81.19.216.171:2300 81.19.216.171:2310 81.19.216.171.2400 Looks like 4 physical servers to me, with the Port directing the player to the instance he wants on that server. Do YOU SEE any gaps where you DayZ game should be? what is it's IP ?? If we have the IP we can find out "where" it is .. if it is .. xxp Ask GamingDelux, they are a small family company with - IF I remember correctly (I may NOT, it was long ago that I looked up their public accounts) - Total workforce of 3 shareholders and 1 employee. (= 4 ) Their servers are hired from Bandwidth Technologies Ltd, UK, physically located in Randwick in Gloucestershire (up Claypits Lane, in fact if you live down that way. What's your ping like?). Interestingly, they also have a hired Bandwidth Tech server in the exact middle of the Thames in front of Westminster, according to Google. Los muchachos GamingDelux tener una pequeño "blog page" - style question/"answer" - Find it on their site with technical questions/complaints concerning downtime etc.. er .. a bit. xxp

This is your LAST Warning !! Lay the Banana on the Ground and STAND BACK !! Stand AWAY from the BANANA !!

There is an illogical fantasy going on (like an epidemic) : Everyone talks about the "Finished Game" - the RELEASE - like it will be the Second Coming, where << the Game will mean ALL things to ALL players >> - the survivalists will find the supermarkets empty and the PvPers will find stacks of cans of beans. The rain will freeze you if you want it to, but if you don't like rain you can walk around in storms wearing your shorts and it will have no effect.. there will be piles of ammo in every square of every town stacked next to the crates of military weapons, unless you are a lone survivalist hunter then you will only find 5 rounds for your Blaze in a week of searching and 2 of them will be badly damaged. If you catch Cholera from the river you can just wander down the Hospital and take some antibiotics out of the Antibiotic Cupboard, there are always plenty, but PvPers will never catch Cholera naturally, because it's very boring. If it takes 20 minutes to do something repetitive you can do it in five, if it takes 2 minutes and you think it is too easy you can do it in 25. The zombies will be less dangerous and also more dangerous too. There will be many players to interact with and also total solitude. No one will have to do boring things unless they want to be excited by being repetitive, KOSers will have infinite targets, new spawns will never be shot, or axed, or tricked or torn to pieces by wolves. Everyone will decide what is fair and fun and THAT IS what they will get, each one of them..right after the BETA.. no more and no less.. What YOU want in DayZ is what the RELEASE is going to give YOU.. (and it doesn't matter WHO you are, you'll get it exactly) - so WHY do I think DayZ will go on being .. er .. DayZ .. even AFTER the Beta, and even at that moment of Final Release? .. WHEN is it going to start being What EVERY player wants, even when they totally disagree with each other.? So many folk seem to be waiting for THAT.. I expect the finished game to be pretty much DayZ, pretty much as it has been, and will be.. WHAT THE =F= is this "major change" that folk are Dreaming about and talking about and waiting for ?? - Do you people really expect a Second Coming, a Complete Miracle from the Sky.. A RAPTURE ?? Will you ALL be happy on that day? ('scuse me, see, I'm not a Christian, I'm a Buddhist.. ok?) xx pilgrim

No prob, friend - out of interest i have watched this game go on and off on the gametracker site - Alive - Dead - Alive - Dead.. you can leave the page open and watch it update itself every few mins ( imagine the things I do for kicks! ) . When the game is Alive (on the server list) you get a low ping listed - around the 20s (from my location that's often a clue when a game's running but cant be logged) - but you then can't join and get the "Lost Contact" message.. But then an hour later it's not listed on the server list at all, while gametracker tells you its 'Alive' again. If you look at the HISTORICAL DATA on the gametracker page (address given in the first post) - and look at the 30 day player HISTORICAL stats... no one has played for 10 days.. and previously there were only 4 days played at all, with a max 3 players for those 4 days, in the whole month. So average players this month is still zero. There could be one or two reasons for this phenomena. I just have a personal interest (it's a hobby) in people who mess by accident or deliberately with online games - and also an interest in GSPs.. I generally don't like GSPs much. except Fragnet - but that's just me. No problem, no offense. xxp

Isn't Modding what fragments and destroys the player base? - that's what put an end to the original DayZ Mod, isn't it? it broke up into fragments, players vanished into temporary "specialized minority" & "faster fun" cliques, for a while, had a short spree in one of the dozens of "simple-kick" experiences on offer (new each month, for a time), and then the whole thing collapsed. It wasn't there any more, even if you could still log in to a surviving server. I think Minecraft is the only game that EVER survived modding (and it survived in a big way). Are there any others? I'm happy to be wrong about this - no prob. xxp

For your Win 32 setup I suggest the PAE patch to get access to all your installed memory (like Win7 64) - this was a soft invented by a guy (called Pae) that has caught on - I used it when it first came out and had no problems for all the time I was still on win7 32 as my main OS. There is NO technical reason whatever that Win7 32 "will not" access all your memory, it's an ancient Microsoft artifact that limits access to 4 GB. I used the patch, - it also sets up a multiboot for you, (so you can check for differences between the two memory usages) - the original patch works perfectly and I recommend it. There are some careful steps to follow, setting it up, but the bottom line is, it works. I don't have the original link to Pae's site here (its on my 7-32 setup, sorry, I have 4 OS on this machine) .. but here is a good (recent) write up and explanation. Check around, see what you think before you try it. IMseriousO It is good work (seems to have become Pae's claim to fame) I repeat, I'm recommending this because it worked 100% for me, it is an honest and intelligent software patch. But this is your own decision to make. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/unlock-64gb-ram-32-bit-windows-pae-patch/ * also - by the way - make sure when you are playing you have ALL your auto updates off.. like eg Windows auto update downloads, and you aren't checking for new emails every 5 minutes, and etcetcetc.. Put all that stuff on manual only. Totally everything from Adobe to Microsoft to Skype wants to get on your bandwidth behind your back. - It's a pain. xxp Also you can find Win7 64 pretty cheap now. I use it, I don't like Win 10 much.

@ MadMcardle... NO - it ain't [ Sat 26 Aug 14:22 GMT ]

try this https://www.geforce.com/drivers Use "Auto detect" the GPU (bottom option on the page) .. then load all the drivers * er - dumb question, you did plug in the 6-pin power extra power connector for the card ? The card takes about 120W and you need a 400W PSU ?? but this is (by the by and I guess) NOT the problem? Nah ... ps - the card itself has to be connected by cable to your VDU (you should have got at least one cable boxed with the card).. you must use one of the external slots on the card itself - not the PCs built-in VDU output slot. But you know that. Go to the Geforce page above, detect the card Get all the drivers and Direct X up to date. Tell us what happens xx

https://dayz.gamepedia.com/Servers One advantage of the Community Servers is that "most" of them are on the common Community Hive, so you can change between servers with the same character etc. Like in the ..(er) .."bad" old days.. and probably a lot of other stuff happens like in the bad old days.. This is also true of the Bohemia Official Hive, but without the bad old days. And the second advantage of the Community Servers is not necessarily playing in the dark. Many players have their game time in the evening. This means on the Official Hive servers run (hired) by Bohemia themselves, all the 24hour clock games will be dark or going dark by 8pm. Some folk perhaps like "always" playing in the dark, some like it less, some don't have a choice about their playtime. It is striking that the Community Servers (and the punters) are mainly keen on daylight. - and - aside - they also like the Community Hive much more than the Private Shards (freedom of movement is popular, as always). Some players see the bad old days as player and play-style freedom in itself. The players pay for what they want to play. I know that that Bohemia cannot "guarantee" that no hive data will ever be lost due to a server incident (they can't claim you will never loose your tent on their watch) or that none of their third-party servers will ever go down for any reason. But they make a sincere and well organized high-level commitment to avoiding this, and to recovering player data lost or corrupted by errors, glitches, or events outside their control. Some Community Hive and (I guess) Private Shard server owners are perhaps not so hot on this aspect of play, or don't give a damn. Or have other aims in life. So Bohemia now hire a bunch of their own DayZ servers run with Cast Iron Regularity on their separate Official Hive. This also enables them to conduct their tests and D-Z economy tweaks in a 'rigorously' controlled environment. And IMO to closely watch what players are actually doing. This is something they need to know. Development & outcome is profitable or it is not. And the Community Hive is the same mass of fun, chaos and massacre, variable-reliability /fair/unfair/ with Crazed, or Sane, Sheriff & Gangster Mods as it always was - everyone running their servers according to their agenda, their bible, or what they smoked last. - AND daylight if you want it. * * * xxp

I see that You did NOT check the server mentioned, which is listed as "OFFICIAL" - and shows up on the OFFICIAL list today [25 Aug 00:10 GMT] but does NOT function ATM. A little more interest and you could have figured out WHY. It takes a few too many minutes of your time, I guess .. - and so you do NOT know what happens when you try.. right ?? - There is a REASON for such events (more than one, indeed). But DOGMA has ever been at odds with REASON. * Yes I am a tremendously talented individual (to answer your second question) - a sort of modern day Renaissance Man. In fact strikingly intelligent, witty and handsome, well versed in the arts and the sciences. * Good to hear from you again Emuthreat, - You're not offended I hope? - I was seriously thinking of contacting you while on the top floor of a barn beating off seven wolves (is that 2 packs?) with a rusty spade I found there. After what seemed like 20 minutes and plenty of blood loss & bandaging during the fight I killed 4 of them and the rest gave up. This was an interesting re-intro to the game. I think in these circumstances we should be permitted to cut the throats of the fresh kills and drink their hot blood. Seems only fair. OR - (renaissance - [add a rapier to the game, and some classically formal hat doffing instead of just giving the finger] ) - if we stretch burlap over a stick frame can we build an easel and paint DayZ sunsets using wolf bristles to craft the brushes? Beats spraypaint IMO. And people do seem rather to complain about reading 'books' to pass the time. Also we TOTALLY obviously need caltraps for cars.. I hate vehicles (not sorry). There are too many towns and villages on the maps now, and the undergrowth per tree is considerably thinned out. Otherwise no complaints.. Just far too much building. xxp see you in the forest somewhere sometime,

You still say =strange= things Emuthreat.. reminds me of old times ! Did you read what gametracker said about this server? Did you do any research? The address is at the top of the thread. Start there and root around a little. meanwhile Name: DayZ // UK // LOOT // ENG Address: 173.199.73.186 Port: 2302 Status: Alive [21:00 GMT - 24 Aug] Name: DayZ // UK // LOOT // ENG Address: 173.199.73.186 Port: 2302 Status: Dead [22:00 GMT - 24 Aug] Name: DayZ // UK // LOOT // ENG Address: 173.199.73.186 Port: 2302 Status: Alive [22:30 GMT - 24 Aug] .. let's see what happens next, OK ? For your interest, go to : https://www.gametracker.com/server_info/173.199.73.186:2302/ And check the Historical Data for this DayZ instance for THE LAST 30 DAYS - OK ? (it is mid-page right) * You say, oddly - " stable versions of the vanilla game, unaffected by the whims of the person paying the bill or not" - NOW suppose the person, paying the bill just STOPPED paying it? - We already know The GSP has PAID to HIRE a not inconsiderable number of expensive IPs (physical servers) to run its DayZ instances on. Do you think it keeps that one game open forever when the dude's debit order fails, or he tells his bank not to pay it, or he terminates his contract?? - NO WAY DUDE - the GSP is now paying for a spare empty slot (NOT profitable!) - the next punter in decent ping range (the server farm in this case is in the UK, or "close".. maybe Amsterdam) - AND the next punter who wants to pay for a DayZ instance will be given THAT slot. The game is reset = zeroed = and he gets the new passwords and the interface access, as soon as the GSP has auto-processed (taken) his money. You aren't so NAIVE as to think the GSP changes the IP number and port number EVERY TIME they hire out that same DAYZ instance to a new payer ?? WHY would they do that? That .. COSTS .. <good grief!> Let"s do a Plato/Aristotle (for amusement) - OK? Hypothesis = Suppose EVERYONE stopped paying for the DayZ they hire now - How LONG do you think the "Official Hive Servers" would go on providing you with free tent space, paid for by the GSP out of their kind philanthropic hearts ?? Years, months, days, seconds ? If the "Server" changes owner - ( this is common parlance. In fact what is rented by the 'player-who-pays' is one of the several game instances run on each dedicated server hired by the GSP from a data center [a server farm] ) - if the "server" player(payer) terminates his hire agreement with the GSP for any reason (you can imagine a few?) = that game instance goes back automatically into the pool of availabe-for-hire DayZ instances. The GSP "may" let it run on unattended until a new punter asks to sign up, but probably won't (except if incompetent) because the old paying player has the access info, and that just wont DO will it? (he's not paying anymore) - and it's inefficient = we hate that = & it's so much easier to do the reset & setup in one operation straight away FULLY automatically. The game state is wiped back to "start from zero" ready for when a new punter turns up and gets his new interface info, which is already waiting for him = restart when someone pays. The IP address & port do NOT change. - So dear old EMU-person, I see you haven't changed in all these YEARS (maybe you too still have the same mental IP?) - I've been around and seen some stuff done some stuff, but now i"m back on the Earth Planet for a while - I thought of looking you up but as we say in French: "speak of the wolf and he comes out of the woods" - and ain't that the truth? IMO you should work in automated mass market online games-distribution sales tech or read up about it. Have fun finding out ! ps .. who is Jak Sh1t exactly? Does he play? Beanz to everyone xxp

heh - That << Average players in the last month = 1 >> - is always a bad sign IMO, specially as "the one" seems to have been @averryy mainly ? This is an effect of the block of IPs the Service Providers are renting - When a game-manager gives up his server instance, the IP & Port becomes available and is auto-assigned to the next person who signs up in a decent ping 'distance'. The game is automatically reset to zero, natch. So you can log back in and find your tents and etc have gone, it's a "different" game, it might now be suddenly a buddy hangout server, or it could be a private server, or you might meet some nice people (or not nice, if that's what you like) but your stuff is gone, definitely. Luck of the draw. If it wasn't a snap decision, or the owner just wandered off and didn't pay, he can always think ahead and announce a warning that "his" server will be shutting down in a couple of weeks.

Gametracker com : Current Players: 0 / 0 Average (past month): 1 Server Address: 173.199.73.186 Port: 2302 Status: Dead Server Manager: None - Claim Now!

If you put all the bugs you can find in a tin cup you can squash them into paste with a spoon or the back of your knife then sprinkle a little curry powder on them for a tasty meal. The SAS do this. They always carry a little curry powder as part of their kit.

Thing about birdsong is that as you move through any real environment you hear different mixes of various birdsong every hundred yards - human beings normally tune birdsong out as not relevant, so you have to deliberately listen - but this constant change of "mix" from one location to another does penetrate, you are aware of it even of you are not conscious of it. So hearing the SAME mix of song anywhere in different areas miles apart or even 200 yards apart is really VERY odd and abnormal, and tells your subconscious that something is deeply "not right". This is why players get psyched about birdsong - because in fact JUST ONE randomized birdsong track is following you wherever you go. <lol> In real life this is Deeply Not Normal. So you rationalize an explanation of what is "odd". - But you are already used to seeing EXACTLY the same tree every few hundred paces, right? (if you notice). That wrecked car is the SAME one you saw in the last town, same paint, and bullet holes. The gun has the same scratches in the stock as the last one. This might "seem" like action but you are playing in a strange recurring dream - listen to the birds. .. they are always the same birds.

Well, in fact I was thinking of the Saxons, the Vikings, the Normans, and of William the Conqueror's "Harrowing of the North" around the year 1080. Hollywood didn't enter my mind at all, sorry, just what we know of History and my limited understanding of it. For a few HUNDRED years folk around here (where I live) utterly FORGOT that they once had underfloor heating, lawyers, fine-arts, a thousand miles of state run communication systems, written records, an international language, currency regulation, architects, professional sculptors, organized police and military coordination across an entire continent, stock and shares, legislation, paying schools, a Senate .. they forgot "civilization". This is is fact that bears on a "total breakdown of order" and what you can expect from it. Look at the records. - the idea of Hollywood movies didn't cross my mind. Entertainment is how you see it, dude, choose your own. - I have worked in psychiatric hospitals, drug rehabilitation, and in games design - I'm interested in the "real" structures of human interaction (but don't let that phase you). The guy who started this debate proposed an intellectual argument, so I put up one I thought might interest him. I didn't expect many folk to read it. It was only to do the guy a favor. I certainly didn't intend to put my finger so far up your ass, for sure. For anyone interested in 1080 CE (not Hollywood) the Wikipedia page "Harrying of the North" takes 5 minutes of your life.. OK? Still, <for lols> when I meet you in the game, remind me to KoS in the most "shit-flavored" manner possible (the change in play style will do me good). Wear a uniform, I HATE players in uniform. - thanx. You'll be pleased to know I won't be saying anything more on this forum. p.s. - platform games like Donkey Kong are much "fairer" than DayZ and impose much more clearly-defined and rigorous play parameters. Not even Donkey Cong can control "attitude & mindset" but it tries. Perhaps that structure overlaid on DayZ would get rid of the players you don't like? - Or just Hive Off. Why stay in a world where the other players aren't the same as you? xx p