panaetius

It's a known problem. You time gets synced with the server upon login, after that there's no resync. So over time it diverges. I recommend rejoining every 2 hours of play (on the same server) or so to resync.

Date/Time: 23.05.2012 21:53 gmt+2 What happened: Fell down stairs in devils castle, lost 1000 blood, got shock and broken bones, temp at 100 (it was a sunny day out). Then my screen started flickering, i started loosing around 3 blood per second (after my buddy bandaged me) and i started coughing. My buddy doesn't have a cold, so I couldn't have caught it from him Where you were: Devils castle What you were doing: Falling down some stairs. *Current installed version: 1.5.8.2 with ARMA2 OA Beta 93040 *Server(s) you were on: Chicago 10

I think they all yielded deer stands. At least I don't remember one of them not matching a deer stand on my reference map.

Well, linking up the deerstands doesn't seem to yield anything useful ( http://i.imgur.com/XZCSN.jpg ). Though I'm sure my parents would love to hang it up on their fridge. Maybe the long term goal for the mod is it being a Myst clone...

Well, if I play with some buddies or run into some other survivors, the thing that generally happens is: Say you're friendly in direct communication or chat Ask if they want to travel together Discuss what the plan is/where to go Head on out In a real situation like this, it would only be natural to tell them your name. Now i said a button, it could just a well be an action menu option when others players are in your vicinity (similar to opening someone elses backpack), but I wouldn't go to every survivor in a group of say, 4 people, and tell them my name seperately. If it is an action menu entry, the radius has to be pretty smal so as not to be exploited. As a survivor, you're already announcing your position when you use direct chat, so I don't see any reason why this wouldn't be used at your first meeting (direct chat is used, when it's not broken). Once I tell them my name, they'd be able to recognize my name when looking at me in the future, when they're close enough to see my face. But that's probably too hard to implement, that's why I say you should be able to recognize the names of people who have introduced themselves to you in the past when they're within a certain range and hover your crosshair over them. I find this way more natural than just having the name of someone magically appear after looking at them for a while, and it would serve the same purpose. You'd only see them name when hovering your crosshair over someone who's introduced themselves to you on the past and who's in your vicinity. I don't see a problem with this if the "introduction radius" isn't too big.

Concerning seeing the name of others, how about you have a keyboard button that announces your name to people in your immediate vicinity (direct communication range maybe?). They will then see your name when hovering over you instantly (if they're not too far away?), until one of you dies.