LaughingJack (DayZ)

Well...if server hoppers are now in the big cities, the chances that they get killed more often are bigger, so in fact, no problem for me. But you already mentioned the most important thing: It has been mentioned that Z an loot respawn are tow of the top priorities for the devs: And Dean stated: ...and if you take under consideration, that Zombie and Loot spawn is handled the same way (as mentioned by rocket as well), we may hopefully see soon the end of the serverhopping-age as we know it...

I forgot the most important thing... It's an Alpha. And by stating this, I don't want to make excuses for missing content or bugs, it is something a lot of people seem to not understand: You did not buy a finished game, that you can "play". "Alpha" means you bought a raw skeleton of a game, because you want to provide input, find and report bugs and make suggestions, so that the beta and the finished product are better. By buying an alpha you quasi say: "I find the idea so brilliant, that I already pay for the game, just because I want to help the developers by testing it and make suggestions how I think it can be made better. I know maybe I can't play it for some weeks or months, but that's ok, I just want to help." And that's why, a long time ago, Alphas were only available for internal reviews and a very small group and only the beta became available for a bigger audience - because people fail to understand that. Even if they have to click "I understand" EVERY TIME THEY START THE ALPHA. That DayZ actually makes fun and gives you some solid hours of playing is...well...a bonus in an alpha.

Ok. You know the game is still in Alpha. You should know, cars and base building have been confirmed. You should know, that there are other issues to deal with first (Loot & Zombie respwaning. Server performance. Physics. Server-client optimization etc.etc.etc.) You should know, that the Devs are not holding back things because they are ready to be implemented and the devs try to be funny and tease the players. You should know that everybody can play whatever he/she wants or he/she is interested in. If you don't like the state of the alpha of DayZ now, come back later and see if you like it. Or stay away - it's ok if you don't like it. And you still make that post? I don't get it. btw.: *know *it's (an) *start *lose *cents (I'm also not a native speaker of the english language, so i normally don't do that. But that many mistakes....) And Cars was an awful movie from (and for) Pixar. Edit: More questions? Look at my signature. Read it. Think about it.

Pf. Implementation of cannibalism is rumored. I will eat all your feet...maybe scalloped with cheese, served with beans and rice, some pepper and a whiff of nutmeg...

I wish I could give the OP thousands of beans. MILLIONS of it. And 2 things: 1) minimum search length are 5 characters (I think) because everything else would bring up too many results and if that didn't work... Edit: Goddamn i can't type.

Yeah...don't go to Berez or electro O.o Even if I don't have anything besides my starting equipment I take the first road away from the coast...(except I spawn near Solnichniy - then I head for the factory first ;))

While I do like the idea and find it interesting, this one: is an invitation for exploits in every way...

bwahaha that expression is like calling a janitor "chief facility management officer" XD And yeah I would use every exploit that I can find to gear up as fast as possible because my character will never be wiped again and all that gear will stay mine and I will not fall from a ladder, get shot when I log out because my char is forced to sit down now for 30 seconds and somebody may come in and...oh wait...

No. I mean I don't trust you. This is DayZ. And even worse, this is the DayZ forum. Hell, you aint gonna trust no one here. And regarding "worth releasing on the retail market"...yeah. Because THAT's where the money will come from. Retail market. Steam and othe ronline buy options are so outdated man. And all these early alpha access games in the retail market. swamped. SWAMPED. With that being ranted, since introduction of the login+logout timer I haven't been ghosted anymore nor heard from it happen. Combat logging is also a very very minor issue after the 30 secs timer. And Loot hopping...yeah....wait...I just quote myself: ...because with dynamic respawning of Zeds and Loot (which IS a "far greater problem"), hopping will also reduce to a "normal" level I think... Or did you mean any other "far greater problems" that you didn't care to explain? If so: Enlighten me please :)

"Ah, I don't mind to use the search function or read the DevTracker or even read some of the threadtitles, because maybe 15 other people have opened threads on the same topic maybe some already with help, bt I don't care, I just open another thread on the same topic" - Balkanac http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/172367-fps-drops-after-30-seconds-then-game-freezes/ http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/172310-new-patch-memory-leak-possible-fixworkaround/ http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/172221-how-to-fix-fps-drop-issue-caused-today-272014/ http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/172765-this-game-with-the-current-patch-crashes-a-lot/ http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/172650-so-what-is-the-excuse-for-the-poor-performance-now/ http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/172676-detailed-report-bigs-fps-drops-extreme-lag-game-crash-after-034115106-update/ http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/172241-fps-drops-last-patch-more-information-spam-to-devs/ On the FIRST site of the search results.

Admin message trolling you....like "You feel somebody watching you" or my favourite "My crotch is itchy"...don't let them fool you^^ Edit: bah. ninja'd -.-

Well.....running from berezino to the ship wreck and then change server and run back again (est. time: 1 hour with full sprint and searching, more if you encounter other people and prefer a save logout spot) is not what I would call "server hopping" well, maybe "soft hopping" or "sopping"... "Normal" server hopping was: - loot military buildings + tents at NWAF - change server - rinse, repeat. "Extreme" server hopping was: - Loot one military building at NWAF - change server while in that building - repeat Regarding these things (that don't happen that often anymore thanks to logout/login timer), sopping isn't that horrible for me and I can live with that at the moment... But...wait....wait....wait...here it comes: It's an Alpha (I don't say that often, so forgive me for pointing that out ;)) and loot spawn is subject to change. And since respawning Zeds are already on their way to be implemented and Loot spawning is handled in the same way as Zed spawning...maybe...just maybe,it will change within the next month(s), finally away from "Respawn at server restart" to "No respawn at server restart but dynamically spwaning/respawning items".

Everyday somebody comes here and posts in general discussion a retarded, over discussed and even already by the devs adressed topic. It happens so freaking often, I made a meme just for people like you:

Man, you gotta LOVE General Discussion. 5 Threads with "the map is too big", 10 threads with "Gif us vehikles or refund" and still people also whining about the opposite. And that's the same with every topic. And that's why devs should never ever bother reading these threads here. In fact, nobody should read it, it may not be good for your sanity. So we conclude: Map is bigger but you run faster. This leaves us with only one point: The amount of Penis related jokes I had to prevent myself from making, when I read "It's not smaller it's bigger." or "Although it does still feel smaller even though it's not" or something like this is just too damn high.

Well to start off, I've played the Mod for quite some time, most time with a friend of mine. In the mod we were...sneaky. We avoided other players, and fought only, when we were in danger. But in the SA...Well, while I'm still the more friendly guy - I only shoot when I see myself in danger and (in my freinds opinion) I'm to naive to survive long in DayZ because I try to help other players too often and always - he was...well, let's call it the secure type: If he sees an armed guy, that is in voice range, he tells him to put his hands up and stop moving, if the guy runs, he would have let him run, if the guy was out of voice range, my buddy would hide and wait. That was before we got slaughtered by 5 or 6 guys (we did not even see them - they camped the main street in stary sobor, we managed to get into an house alive after they started shooting, but were taken out, when they stormed it. No bad feelings, was an awesome shootout ;)) But since that time, he changed his playstile...If he sees a guy and tells him to put his hands up, and the guy doesn't do that immediately (and that means within one second) or he moves - my buddy shoots. If the guy is out of voice range...he shoots. And since he prefers the Mosin with long range scope, it's pretty common that he shoots at others - because he sees them long before they have a chance to see him. But the worst situation occured yesterday: We looted Novy Sobor on our way to NWAF. As I look into the church, I see a guy sitting in a corner, surrounded by 3 Zeds, punching at them without any effect. He had clearly nothing but the starting gear...how he made it there (without getting anything...) was a mystery. But I felt pity for the poor guy, so I ran up to him, and killed the Zeds with my axe, he waved at me and started to bandaging himself - he was bleeding like hell. In that moment my friend looks into the church - bam, and the poor guy is gone. As i looted him I saw that he really had nothing on him - tshirt, jeans, shoes, flashlight and 4 rags. I asked my friend, why the heck he did that, and he answered: "First, he was dead anyway. He was bleeding out of like 10 wounds. And more important: Now he is just another one, that is no threat to me anymore." Pause. "To us." I swear, I know this guy for more than 15 years in real life, but that side of him, even only in a videogame, gave me chills. I really expected him to shoot me as soon as I made something suspicious, and I'm not proud of that, but I was really thinking about killing his char, when he would not expect it... Talking about that with him later that evening resulted in laughter and strange plans how to handle other players in the future, but still...the way DayZ brings out behaviour in people, you'd never think about, amazes me.

As I said, haven't tested it out myself by now how the server-hop-timer works and how long it actually is. But again: If you can join a server, quit instantly (after 30 minutes the timer is reset afaik) and join another server and get no penalty please file a bug report or upvote it if one already exists... ...yeah...impossible to switch to experimental branch... aside from that: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/171660-pending-changelog-experimental-branch-034xxxxx/

Came here to see a tail. That's false advertising. Wait, that did not sound right.... Well, nice story, just one thing is not so fine: So you found someone that didn't tried to PoS you or run away and instead played along...but instead of letting him go, killing him without a reason? You just should just have KoSd him...because next time he'll think "oh yeah, why should I play along, they will kill me anyway just like these assholes last time"...

...Hit Escape... ...hit the respawn button... ...doesn't work? Log into another server... ...if problem still exists have a look here: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/171950-dead-without-the-choice-to-revive/ Edit: As I read on reddit, sometimes changing your ingame name (startscreen where "play, change server etc." can be seen, lower right corner, just click on it) may also help

As good ol' LJ always says: There is a magical place, far away from the clogged "General discussion", just for suggestions: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/forum/128-suggestions/ Aside from that, I'm with Zarniwoop on this one...

What you can do is switch hives until it is fixed...that should help. So if you play regular go to hardcore and vice versa :)

I admire the balls to post a WoW screenshot in the DayZ forum. I have restrained myself a thousand times in the discussion about the logout-timer from saying "yeah like WoW amirite"? With that being said, I just repeat what Dean said one more time: A logout timer that gives you the chance to interrupt it, would not help against combat loggers. And now to the real topic of the thread: Apart from that: Yeah its NOT good that you weren't in the same position where you logged out. File a bug report please, if it isn't already done, in that case vote it up. And the 30-second -logout timer does NOT prevent ghosting. The server hop timer does. (If you quit a server within 30 minute sof joining it, you have to wait up to 5 minutes before you can join another server.) That means it will take a minimum of 30 sec (logout) + 0 (ideal case, the ghoster was for more than 30 mins on the original server) + 30 sec (logout timer second server) + 5 min (login timer) 6 minutes. Not in this calculation is the time for searching the other sever, joining it, change the position, search original server. So we can say it will take a minimum of 7 minutes eff. to ghost somebody. And if you haven't moved for 7 minutes you are either camping somewhere to kill someone, afk or asleep. Edit: Disclaimer: I haven't gotten the server-hopping-timer by now, so I don't know if its really 5 minutes as it was said.

Rocket commented on this: DevTracker: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/171820-reddit-rocket2guns-on-cant-respawn-you-are-dead-on-joining-any-server/ reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1x2vzq/cant_respawn_you_are_dead_on_joining_any_server/ Good news is, rocket twittered: I'm pretty sure that will contain a hotfix for this problem too... http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/171858-reddit-rocket2guns-on-rocket-we-are-preparing-to-master-an-update-to-experimental-branch-today-to-test-fixes-for-some-serious-issues-more-inf/ https://twitter.com/rocket2guns/status/431398207851995136

Uh, let me guess: Solnichny, Kamy, Elektro, Prigrodki and Cherno. On a server that has been up for 7 hours and has a pop of 39/40. Not even chuck norris would find loot there. 1) go to a low pop server that hasn't been up for some hours if you really need gear. 2) don't stay at the coast 3) stop crying. You will attract the mean people, they will make fun out of you. 4) Gearing up is not the main goal Edit: Really boy, writing "Increase the spawn or loose players." is total and absolute bs. ..and you mean loot-spawn and not player-spawn? In that case: At the moment loots spawns only when the server restarts. (I guess you didn't know...)

What we are trying to tell you, young man from greece now living in canada, is that: 1) There are 512 "Spawn" thread 2) It's well known that the Spawn locations are not final 3) Go inland ffs and don't sit at the coast 4) Don't expect to find everything in the first house you search. Or the first 10. Or the first 20. 5) If you really complain about wandering around in DayZ, I'm afraid son, you play the wrong game. 6) Gearing up is NOT the goal. 7) This whole point list is pointless (because, in fact, there are numbers, not points). I just wanted to post the Swarley pic. But orlok gets angry when I don't try to say something useful in posts and only make fun out of people.

...the same one could also put a bullet through your head, so what's the point?