Tmar09

You want to see the difference in 1pp and 3pp, simply go to the school and make your way to the 3rd floor in first person without the aid of seeing what is waiting for you in the "weapon" room. In 3rd person you can readily see who is in the room from the 2nd floor while in 1st you cannot and if you are human, i guarantee your heart-rate increases in 1st person compared to 3rd.Third person simply takes SOME skill out of the game and evens the playing field to the lesser skilled side; dont condemn me for the truth. First person takes more courage to stick your head around the corner as well as forces you to be more tactful. The argument over which is better is purely which ever one gives you the player the most enjoyment.

go west and BE SURE to check all the "long" barns, lots of SKS spawn inside them. New Police stations are in a bunch of cities now be sure to check them out, but most of all GO WEST away from the coast.

Exactly what i meant on the private servers; they are permalocked with that toon on that server. My problem with server hopping is loot whores that take gear and leave, that extends to bandits and heroes gearing up for the PVP and going elsewhere as well. The 5 min timer is easily circumvented and even used by server hoppers to find unsearched rooms, there was even a post on how the hopper would use those 5 minutes to see if doors were closed on the server he hopped to, if open he moved to another server til he found one with door closed at his spawn point. Edited for link to server hopper timer post http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/178853-suggestion-from-a-server-hopper/

Servers going down permanently isn't a normal occurrence and while not perfect, not sure there is a perfect solution, I believe it would be a viable solution for 90+% of the problem. The locked and unlocked part is not much different than tagging someone for a timer now. Again not perfect, but I can see it solving the most prolific problems we have now with server hopping, which i think personally will never be 100% solved. Those people clamoring for Private hives, isn't that basically locking yourself into that hive/server more permanently than a cycle?

If you lose connection with the server, even now, you can log back into same server by clicking the PLAY button or going to the last server on your History tab. Or a server reboot on the current server could "unlock" you, you could write down the server name even and return to same server as well. I dont think it would be game breaking, I now have a short list of preferred servers so i dont think keeping track of where you are logged in is a game breaking issue.

So, to be fair, you might want to come up with a definition of server hopping for the purposes of your survey.

I believe thats the definition of ghosting in this game.

clouds in Chernarus always travel from the West to the East.

a separate hive for every server? so you would have a boatlaod of separate characters, one on each and every server you visit?

Loot respawn alone wont stop server hopping; loot respawn with a server lock will. When you log into a server you are locked to that server for a complete cycle of day/night and server hopping stops. People also server hop when playing hero/bandit role as well as just gearing up. Being locked to a server for a cycle alone would stop hopping but without loot respawn would still be a game of getting on a fresh server first, gearing out and waiting in the hot spots for others to come for gear. The implementation of police stations and med centers in multiple places (at least 14 more from what I have read in forums) will also help out. Mostly some patience on the part of the players to allow the dev team to address the issue IN THIS ALPHA game is needed. P.S. There are a BUNCH of threads about this you can find if you use the search feature.

go WEST and inland, you are more likely to find loot that way as most of the peeps look for a weapon and then start pvp on the coast

so the 30 seconds while you are logging in you are "unconscious" someone can kill you just like the zeds can, so how is that fair? Loot respawn and when you log into a server you are locked to that server for a complete cycle of day/night and server hopping stops. People also server hop when playing hero/bandit role as well as just gearing up. Being locked to a server for a cycle alone would stop hopping but without loot respawn would still be a game of getting on a fresh server first, gearing out and waiting in the hot spots for others to come for gear.

Absolutely agree, BUT another 6slot shirt or jacket would be nice.

Brian Hicks ‏@Hicks_206 1m Alright, stable should be coming back up

yeah that has been fixed, unless someone found another way.

Tincture makes worn/damaged/badly damaged bandages pristine again so i believe that will come into play for wounds somewhere down the line. Vitamins appeared to help when i got sick, puked still felt sick/dizzy/lightheaded took the vitamins and within 1 minute wasnt sick anymore (took them as last ditch effort to try to get rid of all the red text), dont know if it was the vitamins but if i have them i take a dose every game day. Painkillers used to make that horrible grunting sound go away when you were injured but they seem to have removed it from the game so i havent a clue on those now.

Actually the unnecessary posts are from people that feel entitled because they purchased, after being advised NOT TO mind you, a game still in Alpha and a WIP. Try accepting DayZ in its present form, TEST the game for bugs, exploits, play-ability etc then report them. THATS the purpose of Alpha and Beta testing. I remember the days of begging for alpha and beta testing so you could have a voice AND a sneak peak at the game. As to them being "unprofessional": people ARE NOT entitled to hourly, daily, weekly updates from the developers and frankly are acting very much like petulant children and not in an adult manner at all. Try using the forums in an adult manner and let the professionals do their job.....making DayZ and not holding hands and calming tears of the "you owe me" crowd.

Yeah so if you happen to see a guy that looks like he came from the WWII French Resistance, don't shoot he's friendly. :lol:

dammit man, why'd you tell lol

thats a skill check :P

MMMMMMMMMM BACON

The glitch has been fixed

Totally inaccurate; up until the last week when they took the experimental servers down for whatever they are doing to fix server side issues, there were 60 exp servers with most being well populated on both Hardcore and Regular.

Sooo many posts for this, you should really use the search function just put in Server Hopping

The 22 wont go thru the armor or even kill a person IN GAME without 5+ shots and I am ok with that but on zeds it should be a 1 shot kill as should any gunshot, i would dare say if a fire axe does the job 1 hit, a 22 should as well FOR THE PURPOSES OF GAMEPLAY otherwise the weapon is utterly and completely useless and has no place in the game.