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As the title says I can't find any Test servers. I've tried filtering for "12499" "Test" and "Experimental" with no hits. I've also tried to connect per direct IP, and yes I'm updated to experimental. If anyone knows why this is the way it is give me a hand please.

Great job! Thanks for this.

So, you might be saying to yourself, “I’ll just use my trusty GPS system to get around – that never fails me.” And you’d be DEAD wrong. To understand why, it’s important to understand how GPS works. “Satellites right?” Sure thing there Isaac Newton, but let’s look at it in a little more detail. GPS or Global Positioning System is a project run by the US Government, The Air Force Actually. The Air Force keeps a minimum of 24 satellites orbiting the Earth broadcasting a radio signal with their time and position. Currently there are a number of redundant systems should a problem occur. That’s the technology part. However, the weakest link in the security of any system is the human part. These satellites need constant adjustment. The ground operations are relative complex, and handled by 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2SOPS) . Their operations consist of a Master Control Station in Colorado, as well monitoring stations and antennas all over the world. This system allows the military to fire a cruise missile form a ship and have it fly through the correct window of the building. So, in ZA world, we have to assume an eventual breakdown in society, and perhaps the military becoming overwhelmed. What if the monitoring or Master Control Station were abandoned? How long would the GPS system serve us? Turns out, not very long. Without constant adjustments to the satellite’s clocks, they will be useless almost immediately. Now here’s some science stuff: Because of relativity (you know the Einstain stuff), time is actually different on Earth than it is in Space. So the clock shift in the satellites put the GPS coordinates off by 11 kilometers a day. 11 klicks is some extreme discrepency – enough to mean the difference between arriving at a well-stocked military base and becoming zombie poop. (Do zombies poop? We’ll examine that at another time). So Mr. Fancy Technologypants, where does that leave you. Well sonny, when I was a boy, they made these things called maps and compasses. Turns out they still make them, and they still work. Get yourself some topographical maps and a compass, take a course in orienteering. Source: http://www.zombiepre...gps-apocalypse/

Or even better a passport with a date stamp?

See, I don't really like that, it would just be thrown out, I think it should appear on the body when you die.

Can the mods just make a PVE Topic on the forum so all these dumb "hats +10" , "I was killed by someone" and " Can we have PVE Servers" threads can all go in there and stop cluttering up this Topic?

Most definitely, but it should also be an item that doesn't incumber the owning player. You know how it is, the first thing to fly out of the inventory is the flashlight and the battery, so it should be either in a slot that is unusable for anything else or you just can't see it for yourself. It could only be seen when you're looting a player.

I'm sure someone has had this idea before but I couldn't find a thread, so I'm making my own now. To make hunting down players just a little bit more rewarding, and maybe even tragic, I'm proposing that when you kill a character that you can pick up his ID Card, which the player filled out in the options menu with name, DOB, and all the other good stuff, but on top of that it tells you how long this character was alive. An ID card could take up 1 slot each unless you get a ring binder to poke through the cards and then you could keep them in your pack. Maybe its just me but I think it would be pretty rewarding to kill somebody and find a whole stack of ID cards in his pack. Just for the record I'm not asking for an immediate implementation, just wondering what you guys think! Edit: It seems Rocket posted something along these lines just yesterday https://twitter.com/Rocket2guns/statuses/430466287077031937 . Idea was from foolonahill89

What does it all mean!? Someone do science to it, we need answers!

Awesome! It would be like Team Fortress 3 MMO......just stop please.

Just bumping this, I like the idea, more people should read it!

So, you might be saying to yourself, “I’ll just use my trusty GPS system to get around – that never fails me.” And you’d be DEAD wrong. To understand why, it’s important to understand how GPS works. “Satellites right?” Sure thing there Isaac Newton, but let’s look at it in a little more detail. GPS or Global Positioning System is a project run by the US Government, The Air Force Actually. The Air Force keeps a minimum of 24 satellites orbiting the Earth broadcasting a radio signal with their time and position. Currently there are a number of redundant systems should a problem occur. That’s the technology part. However, the weakest link in the security of any system is the human part. These satellites need constant adjustment. The ground operations are relative complex, and handled by 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2SOPS) . Their operations consist of a Master Control Station in Colorado, as well monitoring stations and antennas all over the world. This system allows the military to fire a cruise missile form a ship and have it fly through the correct window of the building. So, in ZA world, we have to assume an eventual breakdown in society, and perhaps the military becoming overwhelmed. What if the monitoring or Master Control Station were abandoned? How long would the GPS system serve us? Turns out, not very long. Without constant adjustments to the satellite’s clocks, they will be useless almost immediately. Now here’s some science stuff: Because of relativity (you know the Einstain stuff), time is actually different on Earth than it is in Space. So the clock shift in the satellites put the GPS coordinates off by 11 kilometers a day. 11 klicks is some extreme discrepency – enough to mean the difference between arriving at a well-stocked military base and becoming zombie poop. (Do zombies poop? We’ll examine that at another time). So Mr. Fancy Technologypants, where does that leave you. Well sonny, when I was a boy, they made these things called maps and compasses. Turns out they still make them, and they still work. Get yourself some topographical maps and a compass, take a course in orienteering. Source: http://www.zombieprepnetwork.com/survival-navigation/rely-gps-apocalypse/

No problem, thanks for the bump, maybe someone will come along that knows the answer!

I've been playing on the Test Servers since the last patch, and when I disconnect and come back I'm standing in a completely different place then when I left. Normally this isn't a problem because I always try to log out pretty deep in the woods. Here is my problem though, I had to leave real fast and I was up at the western most Military Office (the one alone in the woods), so I ran about 3 min. into the woods and logged off. When I came back I was standing in the middle of the office building! How can this be? Is this a bug or a feature? Its sometimes hard to tell with Day Z.