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Go hiding, eat beans (occasionally failing because I was using something else accidentally). Wait until helicopters magically appear in the world. Take the first one seen. Crash in 10 sec. But then again, that's what everybody eventually does. This is how mankind ends.

Kambiwobo! My new favourite word!

*Runs in forrest, cries about not finding canned beans*

Cocaine... meh. This is Chernarus. Amphetamine would be a luxury. Consider something like those Russian home-cooked, semi-suicidal opiate mixes.

"...and mausers and lugers, these are just few of my favourite things." Well, not imposible, I suppose, that there could be a luger lying a round in Chernarus, taken home long a go a as a trophy. But I don't know why to add items which would be so super-super rare, that finding one would be next to impossible.

... katanas + killcam, a new age DayZ. Also, "one up" if you kill eight wihout stopping.

Sure its been discussed... I'll comment in any case. But players could very well turn into zeds even if the zeds are infected living humans. That just should not occur after death. The player could get infected from virus for example after getting hit many times by zeds (or after eating zed flesh, after spending too much time near zeds, after being injected with zed blood etc) and suffer the gradual "turning" into a zed. "immunity", it is always yelled... but the concept does not need to be so absolute - maybe, after all, survivors are just highly resistant. I suppose the bottom line, last I heard anyway, was that that players-turned-zeds would somehow put too much strain on servers. I guess that would mean that best one could hope for is that effectively "turning into zed" would in the end be just another way of dying, with "you've been turned into a zed" message instead of "you're dead".

Personally, I'd love the idea of spawning as random type of chernarussian, with appropriate clothing and some gear. Say, with a medikit, morphine and a doctor's coat, for example. Or in farmer's clothing with a shovel and a sack. Policeman with a flashlight, a pistol and two or three bullets. And so on. That would make plenty of sense. Were did the guy come from? What he did before? This does not restrict in any way "your own story" aspect. Its a new beginning after all. What you were before the apocalypse is gone. Currently everyone just spawns as some kind of light geared generic survivalist. How is that better? But as for perks, I would have to say no, and I don't think that will be happening. But randomized starting gear drawn from the characters previous life would be super cool.

Just go to those 30+ to survive and explore. That is the way it should be. And if you fail to "survive", its just because you are doing something wrong. I mean, the survival aspect of this game is not something only to be done on empty servers. Going to empty server to "survive": that's just lame...

An OK suggestion... Altough, I don't fully see the possible benefits here. One could still gear up on near empty servers, and then switch to high population server. Also, I suppose there are benefits to seeing who's on the server once you are in. What do you think about that...? Should the player list you remain available as it is or what? But the in-game , on-server listing partially defeats the purpose of your suggestion, because on low pop servers you can easily see how many other players there are. By the way, its "pseudo-".

No gonna read all of this... but just for the record, I don't at all think Rocket meant anything like what OP is ranting about when threw out that fundamentally flawed comment. Pretty sure the comment didn't concern the lack of hearty amusement for casual kittens in the game. Playing DayZ is as good an investement as investing time with games goes. (Not necessarily saying much.) But playing an alpha when not realizing its an alpha probably is not.

Well, to put it this way, it is still a remarkable improvement over OP. So maybe we should talk about that for a while

But now this will live on indefinitely, and finally one day before not too long, Rocket will see it. Then sure he shall see the error of killcamless ways.

Rebuilding the society one kill cam at a time? OK, good news is that you've discovered the basic requirement for civilzation. Too bad, we don't have kill cam in the real world! What a mess it will become when the zed-apocalypse finally begins! It will be just like in all those awful games without kill cams... No, wait...

Ah, we do need more of the same sort? Lovely.

Yeah, a kill cam will help with that? :) ... Ok, sure then its OK.

This must the worst reason ever to have one. Mind-twisting metagame-thinking.

I suggest 0 katanas. That is none. Not a one, nor any other positive whole number. Real katanas, anyway. But I think they sell various novelty knives as souvenirs in some Russian marketplaces... So maybe a really cheap and lame fake-katanas could be around.

You haven't followed the development discussion much, have you?

I've repaired bikes alot. There are many, many different standards, not to mention other simple incompatibilities. Still, with a little luck its not impossible to get a working one from mixed sources, if you know what you are doing and are willing to use some brute force solutions... it won't be perfect, sure, but working. More to the point, DayZ should not be a bike repair simulator. Maybe we could just assume that the Chernarussian Standardization Agency was most efficient in implementing their universal CSA-threaded bottom brackets and what not. (Actually that would make sense, given that in a place like Chernarus - Soviet times and all - most bikes probably came from one factory ...) A realistic maintainance just isn't a realistic thing to expect - simulating the whole thing just would be too complicated. Also, bikes dont usually require that much constant care, part usually last for very long times etc. And think how many fully functional bikes there are around in real world in any case. Hence no undue complexties are needed.

You don't ride much bikes do you? There absolutely is no point in penalizing bikes. The main issues are present in any case: no cargo space (not much any way), no protection, slower speed, no passangers etc. You can be sure that once they bevome implemented they will require up-keep & repairing. That's given. Sorry to say this, but your suggestion sucks.

Look, it is evident that you can't read books while looking through a scope. If you want to read a book while keeping a watch, just read it normally. That's how it goes.

One thing about being a sniper is ... that you can't really read books while doing that. So, no. Just go somewhere safe and read the book instead of wasting your time camping.

An evil fiend!? My god, it must be of them pit fiends! Send it right back!

Signed... even though I don't many grudges agains nudity. (Maybe that should be a separate issue.) And as for "scat", I wouldn't much mind otherwise, but as I expect that it would lead to "bullying" and trolling its better left out. (But if you are, for example, violently sick, the effect could be implemented as a message "I have soiled my self", resulting in dirty, unhygienic clothing etc.)