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I'm not from Texas, I'm from Tejas...

ninya style baby, it's like a ninja, but with a y

I've never cared for the OrcZ server. I saw way too many hackers when I played there. I moved to multiplaygameservers and I have seen much less hacks. This is all anecdotal, and can't be proven. It's just what I've seen.

Great thread. It allows people to see how others feel about games, and violence in general. I suspect it will be locked, but I don't think it should. If you don't have these types of conversations, then you can't really formulate what attitudes the players have. Just look at the movies, you can kill thousands and get a PG rating, but flash a boob and you risk NC17. It's a world of hypocrisy, and most people eventually conform their ideas to match that of society as a whole. This is the reason I don't think we will see this type of mechanic added to the game. The developers are here to make money, not friends. Making money means they have to keep the game available in the max amount of markets. If they do anything to piss off the Chinese, or the Albanians, they lose potential profits. That is what drives the game development, and most of the world for that matter.

Attached to gear, but not your life...shameful!!!

I have a bug where when I see other players, I keep getting shot with their weapons. I play on stable mostly, so maybe this doesn't exist in experimental.

Yeah boy. We can start camping spawn points of animals. I hear they are going to have some 'rare elite' animals as well, and those will be super-hard to find. They drop special lootz though, so it will be totally worth it... :thumbsup:

Since we are going to be trusting you, what long term investments would you recommend? What do you think of VWNDX? Is it a reliable hedge against inflation, or is it inherently too conservative?

Luckily experimental offers other things to do such as build a fire and hunt a deer. Then after that 10 minutes is up, you can run around, get gear, run around, gear more gear, then after that, the only thing that is worth doing is interacting. In the end, it is ALL about interaction with other players. For some, that interaction is found with a mic, and others it's with a bullet. But make no mistake, if you take away the interaction with other players, you won't need more than a single 40 man server for the entire world. The new engine, the new guns, the new this and that....all that matters is they find a way to keep and improve player interaction. Packing servers with 100 peeps will help.

just curious, did the situation take longer than the effort to get it all typed out?

actually, the 'missed connections' forums would a more appropriate location for the post.

Boo. No beanz for you.

Imagine adding lots of fire/camp/survival elements to the game. Why do you think I won't shoot you anyway?

I double checked the rules for the game, and I didn't come across the term 'unreasonable killing'. Did this term come from another PVP game you have played?

Here is a big reason I push. The wife/kids are yakking about something, and I gotta roll. I don't want to take the time to backtrack 10 minutes to find a safe logout. I will kill or be killed. Either way, I am logging off in 2 minutes or less. My problem, lag. If I ever upgrade the rig(maybe xmas time), I should be more effective.

It was supposed to be a combination funeral home/bingo parlor. :P

k. everything is awesome... down on the farm...

Gonna ask you a question or two. Does the current Alpha version of DayZ SA have any bugs in the system? (the answer is 'yes'). How do you know the signs aren't bugged? (the answer is 'you do not know for sure'). I have a feeling the guy who put the signs on the buildings is the same guy who let the bunny rabbit make zombie sounds. It's probably the night janitor, having a hell of a time pranking the forum crowd.

It's weird. Just a month or so ago, they declared that lighting and issues such as that couldn't be fixed on the current engine. Now, they are going to be able fix this by just tweaking the engine??? This is all very confusing, but I don't really have to understand all the details. I would like to understand why they would come out a month ago and make such a statement, then totally reverse course this month. What changed in that time period that they didn't know about a month back?

Yeah, you only got about 10 minutes to get back, or something like that. It would be nice if they made your body invisible so you don't encounter this.

We say that here, and we see others say it. But here is the truth. We have no way of knowing 'who' is hacking. You might be able to figure out their screen name, but more often you can't. They can change their appearance every day, and their name. Some people will be banned for sure, but we really have no idea if the hacker 'you' see will ever be banned, as you can't identify him.

true, but they can and will start running toward you. They might stop halfway to you though

yep. With the change in M4 distribution, I expect a reset as well.

Frost, surely you see that your idea isn't a very good one, but I understand you want to stick by it, especially since you made a thread dedicated to it. To me, it doesn't matter if I have a mic or not, I like to kill people. In fact, that is all that we have to do in this game. People talk about endgame and clans and social utopia, but DAYZ, as it exists now, is a PVP game. Sure, you can log onto experimental and build a fire in the woods, but back here in the rest of the world, we are testing a game in it's alpha state. This means testing everything. I'm covering the part dealing with shooting other players. You can keep testing the can openers and flashlights. Between us, we are going to get 'er done.

I think you guys are confused. It's not that we don't want that playstyle, it's that we don't want to be FORCED to play that way. If you want to hunt squirrels and grow onions in the woods, more power to you. Just don't make it where the only way to have enough food is via hunting/farming(I'm pretty sure they won't). I have no problems with hermits playing the game. We have those kind of people in real life, so I expect to see them in-game too. The map is big, and even if they manage to get over 40 players on each server(I'm starting to have doubts), the map is plenty big enough to support totally separate playstyles. Encampments, prisons, cities, farms and all that can exist. I suspect we will see groups raiding each other, which will keep some spice alive.