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I decided to try using rabbit snares a few different places on Skalisty Island just to confirm for sure that it wasn't possible to catch anything. Sadly, I was correct :( This means there are no animals of any kind on the island, not even magically-appearing trapped rabbits.

You have to love the fear-mongering conspiracy theories in the last few posts...

Just curious: how do you guys determine your trade locations? I'm assuming security is a primary concern, but does anything else go in to the selection process? If you don't feel comfortable answering, I understand :)

Why do people randomly add an "N" to Berezino? I see it all the time. I'd rather they misread the Russian as "Ben-ep-en-ho" then read "Berenzino" one more time.

It works, but it's effectiveness is proportional to its size (just like real life). I would like to see them increase its effectiveness a tiny bit, but it is closer to realistic the way it is now.

Since we can't discuss things on the DevTracker, I thought I would repost this here. Thoughts, anyone? :)

Oh my god that's hilarious :D

So far, it seems they are more aware. It's significantly harder to sneak up on an animal now, and if you do chances are you won't actually be all that close.

Was this an event at some point? You better believe my social gatherings will benefit from this addition :)

I better get some animal melee kills in now before 0.53 hits Stable :)

There is still time for 0.53 to blossom into something fuller, don't worry. Yeah, I imagine that would be pretty difficult with the new AI. Even if you could corner them, the animals at present have a tendency to clip through buildings and fences so they could probably escape pretty easily even with strategy at your side.

Hmmmm...

The original post confuses me a bit. He says he is "hydrated and healthy" but his screen is void of color. If there's no color, that means you're low on blood... and as far as I know, it's basically impossible to be low on blood and have full health ("Healthy" status indicator). The only instance I can think of this even being possible would be if someone had taken blood from you with a blood bag repeatedly.

You. Have. No. Idea. What. You're. Talking. About. Please just shut up and go play something else.

Thanks for your input :)

I don't know that they are working, unfortunately. I was hoping to be able to tell by trying it out for myself, but given the results I would say I experienced food poisoning and not a unique disease. Based off what has been said in dev blogs recently, I don't think diseases are actually in yet. Salmonellosis may have been included incorrectly on a changelog a few versions back; that will happen from time to time (the changelog being wrong). Indeed different/unique messages would be helpful. As of right now, I diagnose patients or myself based on the unique set of symptoms they are exhibiting. Quite in fact this is another area of the game that I've already put a lot of work into documenting for my own purposes :) I have an entire choose-your-symptoms style guide to medicine that allows you to quickly diagnose yourself or another person even if you have zero knowledge of the medical system in the game, and then tells you what to do in order to fix it (usually multiple different ways, too). I wrote the content a few weeks ago, and I would like to turn it into a simple single-page website that uses drop-down menus. I figure it would be helpful to keep it in your bookmarks/favorites tab on your browser for when you run into a problem while playing :p

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Went on another trip for chickens and goats in Msta:

I actually agree with everything you've said here. What I'm hoping is that in the future some of what you said will become true (about spreading out military loot, making it rarer, etc.). I also can't blame people for behaving the way they do now; it totally makes sense. All I'm saying is, give the game more time to progress into what it was intended to be and make the other aspects of the game alluring so people won't want to PvP all the time ;)

Remember it while it still looks that way :)

Cooking is on my list to improve, but given everything that may be changing in 0.53 I decided to hold off. Feel free to PM me with suggestions if you don't feel comfortable editing yourself :)

I'm not suggesting that PvP will be prevented; I wouldn't want it to be nor should anyone else if they want it to be an "authentic" experience. I'm saying they should (and seem to have planned) to reduce the amount of military grade weapons, equipment, and clothing to a more scarce level which will make it a less prominent part of the game. There will still be PvP, but it would be more civilian weapons I think. Yes, groups will naturally arise. No one is debating that. The topic at hand is a specific type of group, not all groups in general -- we're talking about people who ONLY engage in PvP (as in, that's 95% of their play time) and who focus entirely on military gear. I don't think that will be the majority in the future because I'm hoping military gear will be so rare that it basically has to be shared among the group (or only carried by the leaders or what have you). What you're basically suggesting is that DayZ is going to become Arma... when really it's more like Arma now and will become more of it's own thing. Oh, okay. Thanks for telling me. Clearly you have no idea who I am or how I play the game :rolleyes: Clearly you don't spend much time on the forums either, because I make no secret of it. I'm not debating that it would be difficult; I want it to be. We're straying off-topic here a bit with this talk of lone wolf stuff. The original discussion was about groups of players armed to the teeth with military equipment and my point was that I would like to see that kind of thing made less common through reduced spawns of military items. Don't make them go away, just make them worth their weight for once.

I pretty much do. Of course I engage in PvP, but everyone is forced to once in a while whether they like it or not -- and that's how it should be, it's fitting to the scenario. I signed up to play the development version of a survival game though, and that's how I play it. That was very difficult to do a year ago, but we've come a long way in a year and there's a lot more coming up soon. I have no beef with PvP'ers. I tolerate them for the time being because I know that eventually they'll be jumping ship when the game becomes too difficult for them to engage in their narrow definition of playing it. In fact, I may miss them when they're gone; something along the lines of, "Hey, remember back in Alpha when there used to be roaming groups of military players on the coast? Wasn't that an adrenaline rush?!"

Oh I don't "run" any section. It's a wiki, it's for anyone to edit :) Those of us who are heavy contributors tend to stick to areas of specialty though; mine happens to be the map/environment but the wildlife and vegetation sections are in need of improvement (due to both updates to the game and a lack of attention), so I've decided to focus on that area since I've already done so much with "locations." The Wasteland Survival Guide is exactly what I had in mind! Yes, I'm pretty sure you get guts from everything right now. I'm not sure if it's 100% of the time, but I've gotten them from everything I've hunted in 0.52 so far, even chickens. I don't have anything in mind to research just yet, but I'll let you know. For now, you should check out the wiki (dayz.gamepedia.com) and see if there's anything you could contribute :) We bow to you, sir :p