lastdog

Did you check the server time before picking one?

I belive i lost myself in that one, youre right its fiction. its still a good book, and for thoes who like to read, there it is. but the main point was its wrong to say that a specific group would be KOS'ers. thats kinda messed up really lol.

it could just be a poor oversight, or any other idea. but if it's part of testing, good on them. ya know?

i remember somewhere reading, i think it was dean, saying that he was going to try and do bold things that might not work, so that they could draw the line on what not to cross. perhaps the lack of additional servers so that there is ample enough loot for all, is part of this idea? force everyone into a smaller working space. you wouldnt be able to play on a near empty server. you would have to take risks to go where other players might be in order to find loot.. maybe?

The only other input you have added to this matter. Aside from the sarcasm, you state that the OP, being abused, is becoming an abuser. lets look at that... "We are sick and tired of server hoppers,hackers,idiots." who isnt sick of server hoppers and hackers? tell me you wouldnt rather a DayZ that was free of those things. weather or not it can be done, im sure you would rather not play with hackers. lets not worrie about server hoppers so much, because we can get into an entire discussion of weather or not its game breaking. furthermore, on the "Idiots" section of this, i dont know the OP's intent or definition, but to me, i would take it to mean server hoppers, hackers, glitchers and whatnot. so whatever. im sure the OP could care less about some one who just bought the game playing on his server. "We want private servers and hives, so we can play competitive in teams, so we don't have to deal with idiots." Breaking this down, we see the OP doesnt want to play with "idiots" which has been established as meaning hackers and such for this discussion. He would like the ability to have private servers. hives too, but weather or not you can get both, i highly doubt, perhaps if you owned two servers you could have them connected, sure why not. he also wants to be able to play in competitive teams. would that make the game more like other games? yes. does his wish mean that it will happen? no. can he wish for it anyway? hell yeah he can. i think it would be a cool SIDE feature. perhaps a mod later down the road. i remember back when FPS's spawned everyone with the same basic weapon and you had to go find the better ones. imagin that kind of game, but starting with NO weapon, and having to find everything before going up against the other team. it could be cool. but lets focus on Day Z first. still, i think its a cool idea Greg. Private servers? well, i could see how it could be something a player might want. i mean, if you pay for the server, why cant you use the server in the way you want? the game isnt at that stage right now, but is this really a criminal desire? no. looking at some of the responses, many people are against the private server idea because they dont want a player to be able to gear up in a server where they wouldnt have to deal with other players, before hopping on and killing everyone they see. it wasnt mentioned in the original post, but the OP does later on state that he wouldnt want to be able to do that, and that gear you equip from the private server should be serperate from the gear you have on other servers(its own hive) BAM, problem solved. now i realize that some of these things may have other factors in play, factors that i know nothing about because ive never made a game. but they are no reason to smash him for them. FINALLY, as was mentioned in the first post. The OP was WRONG about how he practicly demanded this. Theres no real excuse for this. he is wrong for calling people retarded and any other retaliation he did to the other posters. lets look from his perspective though, he was defending himself. this will ofcourse result in further bashing by others, and then he will defend some more. its a never ending cycle. which is why i decided to make my first post, and call a truce, to which he quoted and said "^this" which i can only assume to mean that he agreed to it, and was in a way appologizing(its not easy to suddenly agree that you had a part to play and say sorry, so i applaud him for that). to have posters continue to attack his earlyer posts, while offensive as they where, is not the right thing to do here people. Forgive and forget, move on. id like to think that we are all still people here and we can come to gether and communicate. maybe in this way, his group will stop hunting bambies and we can all get along a little better ingame and out.

a 12 year old when she was five? lol. no, i write like i care.

@Greg, you did a very good thing in response to my prior post. dont let these people get to you and pull you back down. @ everyone else who has posted since my last post, and has continued with the arguing.... STOP. GO BACK, and read my post. youve either missed it, or ignored it. i made an attempt to keep the peace. i read all the posts and made educated determinations on the subject. by ignoring it, or not reading it, you are spitting in the peace treaty face. its kind of silly that it comes to this, but sometimes we lose track of whats going on and the internet becomes a really stupid free for all type deal. quick recap was basicly this: the overall "What" he wants is a valid desire. HOW he went about asking for it was overall wrong, and he admited to that. stop beating him up over crap, cause your being the bad guys.

i gota go off topic and stop you on this one. singling out people who you know nothing about and judging people baised on sterotypes isnt right. also, should something Dayz like happen, your giving people bad advice. "rednecks" are not all bad. i only know a few as ive spent most of my life in decent sized citys, but thoes i have known are good people. the people who would be dicks in the US would most likly be gang members and other current criminals, however, the events could change the minds of men, and thoes guys could end up being perfectly nice people, while normal people could be the ones you want to watch out for. the second thing i would like to mention, is that you REALLY need to read "how to survive a zombie appocolyps". the opening chapters explain exactly what a zombie is, and what makes them. the virus that infects someone slowly works its way to the brain, and after multiplying to the point that it basicly kills you like a clot in your brain, it takes over your body. for reasons not quite fully known (at least to me, i think its some sort of slight chemical change) any of the normal decaying factors, such as bacteria and scavenger animals do not go after the infected flesh, resulting in a long "life" span for zombies. zombies dont actualy "need" to eat, they just WANT to eat. the book explains that several zombie corpes were examined. the food basicly just piles up in the gut, and no digestion happens at all. these zombies are differnt from walking dead zombies, but you mentioned the same thing. also one of the key differences would be that the virus wouldnt be in the living humans, waiting to react whenever the host dies. this fact alone is key in insuring that humanity can return to normal after the event is over. otherwise even after clearing the entire world of zombies, you would be at constant risk of someone dieing and turning. granted, you could have preperation for that, but still.

acekaze, isnt the SA and ArmaIII two compleetly differnt games? yeah, night is really dark in this game, but i think we forget how dark night can be with ZERO lights on. that said, shame for cheating. its possible that he was at a lower posistion and could see you over the tree line or something... who knows.

Punishment for playing a game youre too young for < Punishment for whatever you call cybersex with a minor also i think as long as parents are ok with it, you can play games that your not old enough for. do i agree with it? hell no. but i am just one man....

Fact: some kids sound older than they are. Fact: Cyber sex with anyone under age, regardless of how old they sound, or how mature they act, is not a good idea. tread lightly... i for one am against this, as others could easily have over heard. as they say in T.V. "GET A ROOM"

Im going to do something crazy here, but try to stay with me. i dont think KOS is part of the game. here is why. for the first time yesterday, i ran into someone while we were both armed who didnt kill me before i saw them. this happened one after another (2 times total) on the NWAF. me and a friend were looting together, and had slowly been making our way there for days, as opposed to just running up there. we had no intention of killing everything we see, but we were scared if someone elese would do the same. the first person practicly spawned on me, and for a bit i thought he was my friend. he had hit me a few times with his fist or something, and because of this i drew my Axe thinking there was a zombie near me. i tried to make contact, and paniced for my life, so i hit him about 5-6 times. then, before i killed him, i ran. i didnt KOS, but attacked out of fear that i didnt know who he was. shortly after, me and my friend ran into one of the hangers. he must have thought i was ahead of him, because he walked right up next to another player with an M4. i already had my weapon out, and was about to start typing to the player, when he reached for his M4. as he was looking right at me, we made the decision to protect ourselves, and attacked back. neither situation had a KOS mentality. both of them where "Kill on judgment" or KOJ. this game needs KOJ. you can kill because your about to be robbed, you want the medical supplies that someone just took. ext. the problem is, KOJ and KOS are divided by a very thin line.

Lets all take a deep breath and calm down here. for just a second. What the OP wants (at least some of what he wants) is actually quite reasonable. For the most part he wants the server he pays for to be private (he is paying for it). He wants it to be private not so he can get loot and join another server to kill people, but so that he can avoid hackers or other forms of cheaters. I think everyone on both sides of the argument can agree that they want to avoid those people too. other aspects of what he wants, fall into the realm of ideas which some people will want, and others will not. this being "Team deathmatch style games". If i had to guess i would think many people would say no to this idea, however i personaly think if you shrunk the map to the size of a town, and pitted 5 new spawns with no gear on 5 other new spawns with no gear, or any other number of players or even FFA.... i think this could be fun too. however, as its an alpha, i think we will be waiting awhile to see this. so having established what the OP wants being "mostly" a common desire, the way about which he has expressed this is wrong. he could have left out the entire banditry and hero killing. also his responses to many of the posters were rude, most likely in retailiation though. The OP's first post had many of us thinking "what a jerk" but thats mostly due to the means by which he expressed himself, his following comments are a result of how we attacked his idea. I think we could all take a moment, reasses the situation, and come together on this one. dude really just hates the hackers. (yes its an alpha, but that doesnt mean we cant hate hackers lol)

oh ok. i wasnt really sure what style i was writing it in. i just figured i would write it i guess. thanks for the tip.

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