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I'm in love with the Steyer. :wub: I'm throwing my virtual beans at mr. Torchia for this.

A splendid one! Except this topic is stickied in this very forum section. :facepalm: Locked.

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1. You probably know all too well you aren't 2. In time Now I have a question for you. Why don't you try to calm down before posting a pointless rant?

This is untrue. I am able to hit a 60cm diameter target (mostly within about 5-15cm around the centrer) at 120 yards with my recurve. That's really the absolute limit for accurate shooting with that particular bow though. A stronger recurve could possibly go up to 150 yards. 50yards is very easily doable and is pretty much the distance every "competitive" archer is training at in outdoors environment. 70 yards is still fairly comfortable shooting. Depending on the quality of the makeshift bow I could imagine it could be dangerous up to 50 yards as well. But it will mostly be shite so the current in game model does seem alright.

What he said. Cheers!

The point that you missed is that there is no starting gear. The flashlight is there for a tutorial purpose to teach players about simple crafting and let them see stuff at night. Nothing else. It is likely that it will disappear as well once night time is adjusted by the devs or there are different way of handling tutorials. Please read through the thread before asking a question that has been answered.

Yes, they are connected to it, but that's not the point of it. I don't think I can explain it any clearer than the quotes I used. Your poll is titled "What are you doing when Private Shards are available?" It is very much within the context of the poll to consider the public hive. The way you set it up it seemed like there is no other option than to play on the private shards as Fluxley rightly pointed out. Even if the poll was titled "What type of private shards do you intend to play on?", it would be reasonable to include the option "I won't play on any private shards".

I was going with a terminology that most players are familiar with. It's not really nonsense if it gets the point across to the majority of people. You are technically wrong though as the public hive is indeed a hive. Although DayZ Standalone is only in alpha, thousands of public servers already exist for players to use. DayZ servers are all connected to a central database called the 'Hive', which is responsible for remembering character data and allowing players to use their same survivor on different servers. A public hive are the common servers, connected to the central database, run and operated by BIS.A private shard operates on a separate shard of the central database (run by the devs), this allows communities to have their own private servers without it affecting the main hive and without giving server owners direct access to the database. The system is also flexible enough so that a group of servers could run on this shard of the hive too (or just one single server). This gives the best of both having a database and having a private community, without those private communities affecting the main database. Players would only be able to jump between servers on that private shard http://dayz.gamepedia.com/Servers Over the next few weeks we will be working with our game server provider partners to begin the final steps required for the central hive, and their respective back ends to support renting private shards of the DayZ central hive, which will enable dedicated communities to create their own private DayZ worlds. http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/206640-status-report-week-of-04-august-14/

Yes you can ;) We do like our polls to be unbiased after all! ^_^

Could have been robbed and left for dead, washed out of the sea after a boat sank, whatever. There are a lot of possible scenarios. That's off topic though.

Yes, I was actually thinking of saying that, but didn't feel informed enough to make such a statement. Somehow I thought GPS could sort of just keep going.. My man! :beans:

I don't really like this comment or reasoning. Literally every game out there gives an advantage of some sort to people who have the most time or have nothing to do. Either way, to not go completely off topic, there should not be any starting gear and I don't think there ever will be. The flashlight is not starting gear per se as explained in this thread already. Either way, no one is forcing anyone to keep it. I myself usually throw it away right after spawning in.

I've never, ever experienced such a night and I've camped in the middle of nowhere (~20km to nearest town in any direction) for extended periods of time a few times. I mean it can get close to being pitch black, but you can still see some stuff. Definitely enough to navigate through a town to scavenge stuff. I'm currently a fairly busy person and I would still prefer real time. I don't think DayZ was ever supposed to be fair.

Um.. yeah that's kind of what I was suggesting and I'm completely fine with it. You'd still be able to play during daytime say on weekends and such. It would also "simulate" the "reality" of such an event better (I feel kinda silly using those words) as in reality you would probably end up being more active at night or evenings and not really risk running around during the day. And like I said, it would somehow force people to actually play the game the way it should be played and not just skipping/exploiting 1/2 of it. And that's kinda what I was saying as well.. Ah! Beans to you then! :blush:

I think I've played more DayZ than you and a couple of people put together. The reason I didn't think of that is that if a real (heh) zombie apocalypse break out, I would be more than capable of surviving without a phone.. or a car for that matter. Still I don't see much benefit in having phones personally. The only valid reason (imo) would be the GPS, which I imagine will make it into the game as a separate item at some point. As for music - without the ability to update playlists I would probably go nuts myself listening to the same stuff over and over again. I don't think you need to really keep track of time or date in an apocalypse (you can guess what the time is roughly by looking at the position of sun). Taking pictures in a game is kind of pointless wihen you have the printscreen button. And notes you can write down.

I obviously know how people exploit on night servers. And the flashlight being a beacon for bullets is kind of the whole point of it at night, it's supposed to make you think whether or not it's safe to use it and it's supposed to keep you stressed thinking about that. I do hope that gamma exploiting gets fixed somehow and it would be nice to have servers set to real time as it used to be in the mod to limit people's ability to just play in daylight 24/7.

Alright. How do you charge your phone without electricity? Also keep in mind that the point where you start in the game is quite some time into the apocalypse so it's not like you charged it to full just the day before.

I quite liked the point someone on here made some time ago. You only have a flashlight on you so new players wouldn't be completely lost upon logging onto a night server. If it wasn't for that, you would start out with nothing. What's the point of a mobile phone? There is no carrier coverage without electricity.

Hmm.. I worded that wrong. My bad. I did just woke up when I wrote that post lol. What I meant that it it hasn't been a year since release.

What are you even on about? Pay close attention to the words in bold. That means more than one year from release. Not from whenever development started. I am quite chilled, but that doesn't have anything to do with this discussion does it? Please let's not degenerate this thread into discussion about who's mad.

Well, the thing is, my opinions aren't uneducated. They are very well educated actually. Although they are mostly opinions nonetheless at this point. As I already pointed out. We are not longer than a year into development It hasn't been a year since release and the quote does not mean that it should take just over a year. It means what it says. More than one year. That could very well be 4574100 years. Thanks for jumping in, Brian!

Sigh, can't we have one nice thread without pointless bickering, friends? Settle down, stay on topic, please.

This is not really the place to ask. I would ask BIS directly as this is essentially a branding issue.

And how does that quote indicate that it's supposed to be released this December? The game was released last December.. and it's supposed to take more than one year. Am I missing something? Even if it was in fact easy to do, why would they spend time working on something that they would have to rewrite from scratch later anyway? That would be a bit of a waste of time and time is a fairly expensive commodity in game development. The fact that someone imported a model into the game means very little (not to mention that they essentially had to hack into the game to do so, violating ToS/EULA in the process). And even if the devs did import vehicles from Arma2 or whatnot, then you'd be complaining that your car is not pretty enough/the damage model is rubbish/the physics aren't realistic, etc. The game is in development, features come into the game gradually. If you can't deal with the fact that the feature that you oh so desire is not in the game yet, the best bet would be to wait until they do implement the feature. Bitching about it doesn't do any good to anyone. They will not change their roadmap because of the vocal minority nor should they. I'll just restate that you have no idea what is being done and why or how difficult it is. Please stop presenting your uneducated opinions as facts.