PityLovesYou

So about a week ago all of the tents my friends and I had down on a confirmed persistent server went away. It was later revealed to me via these forums that tents were getting rolled back for stability/updating bagception, etc. From what I understood, tents were going to be fine directly after that. Tents were fine for a day or so, now the tents on two different servers are gone. Both in different spots, etc. There's no way someone is maliciously going to the edge of the map on a server that has no people on it anytime it's checked just to pack up a tent and swipe up loot. on two different servers. So what's going on? Should we just not spend time looking for tents till further notice or what? I get that it's alpha but you know, let us know.

I believe this did it! I started the game, swapped settings to high then back to normal, logged in and I was able to see. Interestingly enough, I was gunned down as I came to IN the forest. Thank you!

Let me start off by saying this is N O T a please wait error, this is me logging into a server and everything loading properly EXCEPT what I can see. I am able to walk around, I hear my footsteps, however, nothing comes up on the screen other than the action bar and the sunlight. When I was last logged in, I was passing the forest by the tracks of Berezino and the server that I was on went down. I didn't bother playing after that, I logged out. When I logged on to the game, the last 4 servers, 5 if you include the screenshot attached, I have the same results. I've tried unplugging my ethernet cord and running to potentially break out of some building I could potentially be encased in. Same fate. If anyone could assist me, that would be great. And no, dickhead, it's not nighttime. I'm using my weapon flashlight and nothing is showing with it out. FAIR NOTE - THE SUN WAS HIDING AS THE LAST SERVER I WAS ON WAS RAINY, PLEASE UNDERSTAND, AGAIN, THAT THIS IS NOT A NIGHT TIME SERVER ISSUE.

I never once had this issue before this weeks maintenance though. Is it fair to assume they screwed something up?

So as of the maintenance this week, I've lost all of my gear 3 times and countless fresh spawn bodies when logging out and trying to go onto another server. Geared prior to the servers going down, I safely logged out in a very, very remote area with no one on the server but my friend who was off in Balota (I was in Kamy). No zombies in sight. Went through the trees up north and logged out. Logged in after servers came back up, had my gear, server was completely dead. Decided to just get back at it the next day. Logged out for the night in basically the same spot, still, no zombies around me and no one on the server this time, not even my friend. Logged in the next day as a fresh spawn. Geared up on that very server for 2-3 hours. Lots and lots of running and going from town to town. North east to Balota. 100% decked out, couldn't ask for a better outfit/setup. Logged out in the apartments of Cherno/Balota. 1 Person on the server, I had spent more time around Balota/Cherno then anywhere. No one in sight. Logged out in the first floor too, so, it's not like I'd log in and magically fall through the floor from 3243434 feet in the sky to my death. Logged in on the next server as a fresh spawn. Extremely mad, stopped playing for the day basically. Got on today, felt like a good day. Geared for 2 hours. Decided to hop servers because the server I was on had no one on it. logged in as a fresh spawn no error message, no zombies, no people on the server. No clipping through floors or walls, nothing. No hunger, no thirst. No deleting folders or files. Just flat out resets. W H Y? Also for what it's worth, I'm not the only one. Several of my friends have randomly been reset lately.

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So you want people to play dress up. I explained how your entire thing here is flawed a few pages ago. See here (http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/165426-we-need-some-way-to-identify-heros-and-bandits/?p=1701886) Not one person who you consider a 'bandit' or 'KOSer' will abide to this. I would gladly join your server, take your hero armband, find you and try to kill you as fast as possible. You CANNOT just simply implement this system, you want a dev team of people who still have grass clipping through floorboards and walls that you can fall through to put together all of this? It's not happening, and if it was going to happen, it will not happen for a very, very long time. Even when it does happen, two simple reactions. 1) System will be too harsh and no one will go to the server except for people like the kid that told me if I keep following him he's going to turn my computer off because he's a hacker (he then cried as I knocked him out with one punch) 2) System will be too shit and people will game it and run around with hero bands and be bandits. Also, let's not pretend here, a fucking arm band? Are you joking? I am not going to fucking spend my time looking at someone arm before I take them out. ----edit---- and yeah you don't have to wear it, what does wearing it in the first place do? Save you if you manage to find one person with a hero band? Who is going to go out of their way to strap something to their arm so they can let you know to shoot them? Are you fucking kidding me? ----edit---- ONTOP of all of that, if you say 'simple just dont wear it if you dont want to' then you basically just waited Dean Hall and everyone else on the dev teams time and money because you're suggesting a system that would probably either be very basic or complex, either way, taking up resources and further dragging the launch date behind because of your fucking arm bands. Hope all of this helps. Oh and by the way, bare min, if you want someone to make this a mod and use their own time and resources, by all means, find the person who will make it and let's see how it works out. I'd love to see the amount of people that flock to your server. Literally going to be nothing but new players who are going to be considered civs or heros and never attack anyone, just loot and scoot. There will be the occasional bandit that lurks in and kills a few people and leaves the server before anyone can do something about it. Is this mod going to tie into the idiot that wants a megaphone so he can scream from Kamy to Electro that there are bandits? What is that? 10-20 minute run to see if someone is still online? Kappa.

http://www.twitch.tv/koalibears Not *mine* per say but I mod it. As of late, Koalibears has become a DayZ streamer. Currently she is on vacation (great time to advertise the channel) but feel free to check some vods out. If you like what you see, throw her a follow.

They can't even stop grass from clipping through floorboards, you want them to put a sophisticated system for people who are going to get upset over dying in an open world game with clear PvP aspects?

This is stupid. There will never be a 100% efficient way to identify a 'hero' or 'bandit'. I can dress however I want and do whatever I want. I can dress or get the skins you're suggesting and be a hero visually and go around and be a bandit. What stops me? This is the apocalypse. It's not a dress up game, it's a roleplay game to an extent, and good on you for wanting to have some system implemented, but there is never going to be a way. What could they do? If you initiate combat with someone you get flagged in some way? Does that mean you have to wait to be shot at when someone has a .357 pointed at your face? Or someone in clearly full military gear (camo, combat helmet etc) runs up to you. Do you mash your capslocks and scream friendly? What if they don't have a mic? Or don't know how to type in chat (I don't hehe)? There's no time to do the retarded friendly dance thing to signal their alleged side. No one has that time. Further, even if that was the case, if you made it an unwritten law that everyone has to say if their friendly or not, it goes back to playing dress up. I can say friendly and wait for you to turn around and axe you a question you can't avoid. -----edit: jk not done----- What do you consider a civ? Someone who just spawned? What if that person starts punching you? Don't even say it doesn't happen. What if you're a hero and you go to shoot a zombie and a bambi runs out, presumably a civ, and gets clocked by an m4 bullet to the head? What if that bullet kills him? You turn into a bandit for trying to be a hero? It's flawed no matter what you want to imply/say/suggest.' And if you're wondering why I've gone on for so long, this thread made it to 18 pages. It shouldn't be a thread in the first place to be honest. ----edit again i'm mad again---- You're trying to suggest something to put an end to KOS threads, let's keep it the fuck real here boys, KOS threads are retarded. What are you going to do with a KOS thread? Okay guys - he's on this specific server wearing a combat helmet, camo top bottom and a chest holster with an axe on his back, a hunting backpack and a mosin. Spoiler alert - half the server is probably wearing that because no one wants to run around in default character gear with a mosin. You stick out if you're not blending in. KOS threads should just be deleted, if anyone posts or suggests that someone goes to a specific server to look for someone blindly, the thread should be deleted. There you go, better suggestion for you. You're welcome.

Turning clouds and gamma on is only going to do so much. What do you do when a Zombie lurks up on you? Put away your flashlight and start swinging? Literally right now, with a battery in it, I am not able to use this pistol flashlight. I have never been successfully able to use a headtorch but I have no intentions of playing a game with a retard-band strapped to my head. I'm not a coal miner. I get that this is in Alpha, and I have no clue of the intentions of the developers, but honestly they need to start pushing quick fixes for this shit. Like make the stars brighter, put lights inside houses, street lamps, something...You can't rely on a fucking flashlight forever. Last night, first time logging into the game post patch, I pulled out the flashlight and started running around. Two seconds later some dude was punching me. My gamma and clouds all the way up as best as they can be and I couldn't see dick. Put the flashlight away so I could at least try to punch back - dead by the time the flashlight was in my pants. If you want realistic mechanics, don't do things like allow us to carry 300 round ammo cases in 4 slot jeans or tactical shirts, that's a joke. That makes no sense. Let there be light. --edit-- also batteries for flashlights are like a fucking pixel so if/when your battery dies good luck finding a pixel in pitch black. Please do not follow up with 'well a pixels actual color hrurhur so you could see a pixel' I don't understand computers plz dad

Ah, cool. Yeah I suppose you're right about the moon. Typically I manage to never see it though, but when I do, it definitely is a thing now that I'm thinking about it :3

How are you able to see at night? I can't even play right now because any server I connect to that has my character with gear is pitch black.