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Hello there Let's not go down the conspiracy route. Yes, every company needs income to stay afloat but there's no "scheme" to rip the pennies out of ones wallet. Quite often there have been decisions made I too didnt understand, but after talking about the reasoning behind an action with the devs or being pointed to salient info on the topic one may have missed one understands the viewpoint quite clearly. Servers are not my area of expertise so I can only give generalised information or the little snippets of knowledge I have picked up along the way. Its great and indeed welcomed that folk flag up their concerns/ideas etc etc as long as they are made in a sensible way. Lastly, as to BI run servers, who knows what will happen? Buts AFAIK there were none for OFP/Arma/DAYZ mod so I tend to think that will still be the way on the games release. I could well be wrong. Also DAYZ servers AFAIK are very resource intensive ATM hence the high cost, one would expect the costs to lower as the game becomes more "optimised". I would imagine the prices of rthe servers is set by the GSPs rather than BI, so perhaps talk to them about it. It may well be a smart move for one company to undercut the standard costs. And if a price war starts you may see a large decline in costs. Again, thats conjecture. But BI are not an evil megacorp out to steal your souls. Rgds LoK

Hello there Any info on what? You need to be clearer. A lot has been happening. Rgds LoK

Hello there VAC and BE are already implemented. Stopping "hacking" is an on going work in progress. An analogy is this. Imagine a game as a boat and "hacking" scum as the Sea. Normally when a game is launched its like a fully built ship, there may be a few doors that dont quite fit and a few leaky pipes but its pretty much seaworthy. BE and VAC are like the anti Pirate a measures and the engineers stooping any leaking. This open Alpha phase is more like the skeleton super structure that has been dumped in the sea which floats but is so full of holes and the sea is getting in all over. But the devs have the plans and are plugging the gaps as they go along. Theyre also ripping parts out which will allow more seawater in while they replace the bits. BE and VAC are doing their job, but they cant cover all the bases to a great extent until the ship is complete. This is very simplified but rest assured VAC and BE are both working well Rdgs LoK

We need to be able to operate weapons like this.. Rgds LoK

Hello there we dont/cannot issue or deal with BE bans. Please goto www.battleye.com/support.html Rdgs LoK

Hello there I had it happen often at one stage with Ro2 when I was a closed tester for "Rising Storm" as well as other games. It usually happened after a Steam update. It's not just a DAYZ issue. It possibly might be an Hdd error / sign of fail, but dont quote me on that. Rgds LoK

Hello there Cool and groovy, I just wanted to be clear as I know I can come across as being somewhat pompous etc in text I too want "stuff fixed" but at least we know stuff is being done and at a great rate unlike some other "z" games I could mention. Rdgs LoK

Hello there There is a lot of confusion as many might think DAYZ is moving to Crytek for example. But when you play the final game it will be to all intents and purposes much more of a brand new engine than say a2-a3 is. They're going to stuff (lever) so many things in I doubt it will be truly comparable to a vast degree. If I could tell you half of what I know you'd be happy/excited and I know very little but alas NDA's stop me, In fact I can hear a Blackhawk now, ive said too much. Rgds LoK

Hello there They could close their doors and go closed alpha and only release Milestone builds i suppose, but then feedback might be less and youd have to be prepared to wait a looooooong time to see Patches. Remember you have different teams working on different aspects of the game who will achieve goals at different stages thats why you get "hats" frequently etc as they are a simple pipeline of work and have little impact on the greater game. Im simplifying greatly but the hunker down and "fix" things just doesnt work that way. The "base" IS what they are working on now. But there's no need to shut down the Map designers corner of the office. It just doesnt make sense. I see exactly where you are coming from so, im not belittling you in any way but the way they are doing it now is fine. Not for everyone admittedly but it works. Rgds LoK

Hello there @Lone Survivor ahh ok. Its a bugger but.....Alpher I suppose. @Gugolas My steam games after a patch often go missing. Its very irregular but It does happen to many folk. They are still "there" but the link connecting Steam to the game sometimes gets lost. It seems to happen more if you have other "steam game" directories. AFAIK its nothing sinister. Rgds LoK

Hello there Your character should not have been reset. Nothing is kept locally AFAIK except your kkeybinds/gfx settings etc. Rgds LoK

addition: Also, dont think that cheaters rebuying the game swells BI's coffers. The have to pay guys to tackle the hackers/cheaters, this must outstrip the perceived benefits of making cash from resales. L

Hello there Remember the studio knows what stuff that was "stolen" and therefore will/should be able to realise different ways of achieving similar results. I cant envisage the guys just throwing their hands in the air and saying "oh well they got it, nothing we can do here" The fact they announced they had the code has most likely done them more harm than good IMHO. The stolen code saga will most likely result in delays and a waste of funding and manpower which will only affect us the end users. Rgds LoK

hello there Steam sometimes looses games. I just tell it to reinstall to the location where it still resides and the reinstallation process take a minute or two. Rgds LoK

Hello there As we move along the most common "hax" will be fixed but there will always be some. hacking tends to diminish in popularity ease of acheiveability. As we move along the development and as games like h1n1 grab the casual players youll find the hacking issue will drop off quite a lot IMHO. Rgds LoK

hello there worry not. As the game progresses I think you'll see hypothermia etc implemented. Give it time. Some parts are in game so all the indicators are there that it'll happen. Rgds LoK

Hello there Admins cannot ban you from the game proper or issue Global Bans. they can only ban you from their server or put you on a community ban list. Neither of these requires repurchasing the game. Rgds LoK

Well, it was wrong. thats fairly far from the truth to me. If you said something along the lines that it seemed as if little was happening, in this regard then I may have understood your point of view, but would then have informed you that many servers have been shut down/warned due to abuse with the assistance of the Dayz team. This I have seen. Just saying the Dayz Team doesnt give "2 fucks" is just wrong. Nowt truthful there. Rgds LoK

Hello there Ill see if I can get you some more info on this. But what I can tell you (as I stated before) this is a known issue and as with all issues, what might seem an "easy fix" often is not. @ zod You stated that the dayz team did not give "2 fucks" about the issue. This is completely false, no matter what you might think. I've seen some work towards solving this issue. Hardly something that would have happened if there "were no fucks given". I dont care if you are critical of a decision or direction but to make false assumptions is wrong and somewhat offensive. Rgds LoK

Hello there Really? I think you will find you are very wrong there. Dont make assumptions when you dont have the facts. This is an issue and it is a known one. Remember the dev team can't tackle everything all the time. But it is something that's actively being addressed. Also, dont expect and instant reply from server providers. They may be in different timezones and/or you might have caught them at an unmanned or super busy time. I;m not excusing them, its just that things can "happen". Its best not to spam them especially as updating a ticket sometimes gets you allocated to the bottom of the "to do" list. If I get a response in 24 hours then i'm happy. Anything in less time is a Brucey Bonus IMHO. If you see repeat offenders then use the usual report methods. 1 email is all that is needed per issue. If you see repeat offenders you can pass on their details to us and we can then push it further up the ladder. Just bear in mind, sometimes things take time. Or an action has been taken on a server but you may not be privy to that action. We cant do anything about server hosts lack of contact/replies/updates etc. Rgds LoK

Hello there You are wrong. Why do you think it's not worthy or a response? His idea, although wrong for this game IMHO, is a better post than your reply IMHO. Regardless, I'm not going to argue with you in public about a mod decision. Lets move on and, please, no more one word replies. Rgds LoK

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Hello there Can we stop with the one word answers please? "NO" does not add to the discussion and can be seen as being rude. If you disagree then let the op know your reasoning. "no" is just lazy. Rgds LoK

Lets keep it ontopic shall we? :) Rgds LoK

Hello there One can emulate "torture" in game but Torture proper will never be implemented as a mechanic per se Rgds LoK