Elle

well you have my unequivocal 'No Thankyou!"

well I've had a change of heart, since you will continue to push this, I'm gonna skip the paranoia and just jump right to KoS, in fact I think I'll start tonight and I will make sure they all know who to thank for their abruptly ended lives. now don't get me wrong, I'll also make sure to tell em who pulled the trigger, we can just call it a psychotic rampage of disagreement, yeah I like that. congrats you've just made your first KoSer. you haven't been playing this very long have you?

interesting, your options are obviously based on your play style and apparent limited exposure overall as there are no options related to my personal play style. in the end I am with mako on this one, I wouldn't tell you even if you represented my options. good luck with you poll.

OK so when private hives become a possibility - do what the hell you want - until then don't put this crap in the game.

well after 508 hours I damn well better know - trust me it aint that easy unless you've got your volume cranked to the max, struggling is already in game and I kid you not if they implement anything close to "sneak up and take hostage" I will gun down every sumbitch I see. your idea will very much increase suspicion and by extension KoS, which for some reason everyone thinks is horrible already. so you go ahead and push your idea all you want but don't go cryin when you get caught tryin and I kill your dumb ass.

ummm yeah... if your good, you don't need to sneak up on someone to take them hostage. see how that works?? seriously do you know ridiculously easy it is to sneak up on someone???

I very likely will.... particularly all those people that say there are only two things to do after you gear up. whatever happened to explore the map? find some weird statue in the woods? find pristine everything? go see the debug plains? understand the mystery of green mountain? recon and loot every building in zelenogorsk? omfg I almost forgot... survive long enough to get hungry and thirsty again? damn there are endless things to do that have nothing to do with CoD.

I know right??

oh heres an idea... how about when you sneak up behind someone you have to hit em with a melee weapon or shoot em with a gun, you know, kinda like ya have to do now, and face the consequences if you fail. stop making suggestions that encourage me to want to kill you as soon as I see you.

simple, I play it like the survival sim it is as opposed to CoD which it isn't.

this comes right from the Steam description of the game... "DayZ is a gritty, authentic, open-world survival horror hybrid-MMO game, in which players follow a single goal: to survive in the harsh post-apocalyptic landscape as long as they can."

welcome to the apocalypse.

its your method of killing zombies that is the problem - use your axe and use a little stealth - I never have problems looting towns (well not from the zombies anyway). of course the respawn mechanic is still under development but watching your video all I can see is someone in a town full of zombies make a ton of noise which attracts more zombies, seems reasonable to me.

well I am glad that you found your location but too bad about the bloody ending - police stations are a little bit safer and drop backpacks and a wide range of weapons and ammo. when you make it back to that part of the map, the whole town of vybor also has very good loot (food, weapons, ammo, clothes and med supplies) good luck :)

gee I found 3 .22 mags one day, two were in police stations the third was in a barracks on a base somewhere... probably the one south of vybor. so there is a police station in berezino, logic would dictate if police stations spawn .22 mags the one in berezino spawns .22 mags. that lil .22 pistol is a lotta fun to shoot just not all that effective.

what?!?! people give you stuff for helping them?? the nerve.... but you're right, the reward for helping others comes from the others you have helped - I don't usually stick around long enough for any kind of items from the person I've helped but I did get a "you guys are my heros" when a friend and I passed some food and water to some newspawn on experimental last night. kinda makes ya feel all warm and fuzzy, mighta been the whisky tho. oh and on topic... to the OP this is a bad idea dude, sorry.

good stories either way ;) nice debate too, thanks. if rubber bullets do make it to the game I will just have to adjust my play style much the way I have had to adjust to the new zombie behavior - it's all good :)

well it wasn't quite the action I had devilishly hoped to see but a great vid none the less! good job and grats on the success of your op :) always nice to see good tactics at work too.

I don't KOS now but I like my gear, it took a long time and much stealth to acquire, I would rather shoot first then run the risk of robbery. at least with lethal ammo I can start fresh and far from the scene of the crime so I can have time to cool off a bit while gearing up - there is a reason some of us hate CoD. I would at the very least get over my anger at the violation more quickly after a respawn and brief costal vacation, otherwise I might start hunting the perpetrator and loose focus on the point of the game, you know, survival.

yeah ok whatever dude. I don't get bored when I play and I am sorry that you need so much from others to keep you entertained.

I can tell you now that non-lethal ammo will encourage me to KOS. bandits that torture always approach their victims, how else can you torture them, usually after a non-fatal shooting or a typical hold-up, you know like yelling "stop, drop your gun!" or "on the ground now!" or "press F2 now!". if you want to know about handcuffs find someone to handcuff you or do a search on the forum. you might try searching out some youtube vids on the aforementioned subjects to see how these things play out.

the anger comes from you calling me an idiot. now that we have that out of the way. I have over 500 hours in the game and my stable regular char has been alive since the end of January my stable HC char alive since the middle of February. I have been killed by other players exactly twice that I can confirm and twice that may have been a glitch kill. I don't get KOSed because I don't get seen by anyone capable of pulling it off, people that see me, of the 2 or 3 times that I am aware of, run. if I choose to interact, I might speak to them to let them know I mean them no harm. I never tell anyone to "stop, drop your gun", I do ask if they need anything, some do some don't. I play solo, my way, away from people like you so I rarely encounter other players, that's the way I like it. the incident on the stairs was in zelenogorsk and he missed so I took my leave and was not pursued, not my problem that he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn - should I accuse you of lying about your "good" intentions? that just made you look like an ass by the way and certainly adds nothing to the conversation. I die a lot on experimental but that is my choice and even there I stop for no one - I can't count the number of times I've dropped my gear and jumped just to start over after spending a day or two gearing up. she is my disposable character. the one that falls down stairs or over the rail at riffy. I hit respawn as soon as my game is interrupted by death or unconsciousness - I don't give a fuck what you might have to say to my corpse and I am quite certain I will never have to find out ingame. you can keep your opinions ingame to yourself.

it doesn't matter what you say to me once you've killed me as I will have already hit the respawn button, the same goes for being unconscious - and I never bother to reclaim the gear. keep your beans, I don't want em and I don't need em. personally I find people that try to force shit other players as the idiots but to each their own. I find no "fun" in being detained from my business in the game for any reason and will gladly abandon a character to go about my business. I often see other players but they do not often see me - I've learned the best way to survive is to simply avoid others. I like to observe from a distance but in the unlikely event I encounter you up close and you present yourself as a threat such as yelling "stop, drop your gun" I am very likely to unload the M4 on you then reload and do it again and maybe again. as for the sawed off on the stairs scenario... been there, done that. I am still playing that same character so...

I never stop when some is yelling stop. if you wanna shoot me then shoot but I will NOT stop for you. if you shoot me, you better kill me because I will do everything in my power to either kill you, maim you, or destroy as much of your gear as I can. when you yell "stop" to me my first and last reaction is "fuck you" sooo good luck with that.

you can struggle against the cuffs in order to free yourself, the better quality cuffs the longer the struggle, I'm fairly certain you can use keys if you have them in inventory but you cannot use other items. I am pretty sure once you have submitted to being handcuffed, you remain either prone or crouched, I have only been cuffed once and I logged off with the cuffs (that was back in early Jan. and it was a classic rage quit) I will never be cuffed again. now when you log back on I am pretty sure you are still cuffed, that was not the case when it happened to me. no one ever mentioned sniper rifles with non-lethal ammo, the range on a shotgun is enough to keep bandits out of reach of their victims while they perpetrate their dastardly deeds. the only recourse for the would-be victim is to be able to turn the tables on the bandit, that requires the bandit to get close enough for the victim to fight back. that's not going to happen if the victim is stunned at a distance.