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I bet you win the lottery too, I routinely get shirts and vests ruined along with everything in them. Picked up a really nice pristine riders jacket at the shipwreck and had it ruined down in Factory. Didn't even have it an hour. It does seem that once a shirt or vest is ruined you can them store stuff in there an it does not take any damage. Must be a bug though. I have learned to love the yellow protective cases.

The idea is that YOU have washed ashore in a strange land.

If you have a rifle and log in you will get the reloading sound every time you come on. If you hear that and you have already been on for a bit---RUN AWAY.

It's on the banner.

I have never been able to loot my own body. Even came back and found it was still bleeding, as if the heart were beating, but it said I was dead.

Think of it as a boondoggle, some city councilman's cousin in the construction biz makes a fortune. Oh it could happen. Even add a civilian airport terminal to Balota on the east end. Great destination for a metro from down town Cherno. Add an elevated passenger line to Electro and underground spurs to Dubky, Novolselky and Chapevsk and you got a metro line quick as you please.

I have NO issue with Suicidal zeds, none at all, in fact I kind of like that idea, very WWZish. Pathfinding is a bitch and so is respawn rate, got chased out of NEAF by zeds for a good five min on a hardcore server today, I kept axing them and they would respawn almost as fast as I was killing the damn things. I voted for the random noise thing, instead of a zed sound signaling a sync how about having all the payphones on the map start ringing for a short period. That would add an Omega Man feel and likely scare the hell out of or at least baffle everyone, until they got used to it.

Changed server to "hardcore", there doesn't seem to be enough of these and it is where I prefer to play anyway, so..

This is I would usually do. I prefer to live and let live, especially if it is only up to me. If he had seen me, well.... You know.

This explains much, especially since I hardly use 3rd person in a regular server....

I did the same thing at Factory, fell right though a window, felt like I was butterfly till I hit the pavement.

Safest place is the woods north of the rr tracks on the north side of the map, no zeds up there yet. Just go straight north of the NWAF, cross the rr tracks, find a nice wooded area, kick back and relax in a zed free zone.

Found one in the ship wreck, I prefer the assault vest just cause it have 8 slots instead of six

As a new spawn w/o a weapon I prefer to run them around docks in such a way as to make them fall off the dock into the water. They tend to run in straight lines so it's pretty easy to do and kind of fun to watch them, very "World War Z" of them, if you get my meaning..

Sounds like you got one shotted by a zed. It happens and it sucks, I was on a low hill west of Electro scoping things out, thinking (go to Cherno/don't go to Cherno). When, POOF, I see the leaping zed shadow from behind me, hear the screech and then the screen goes black and says "You are dead". I had JUST looked the direction the damn zed had come from and hadn't seen a damn thing. My toon was energized, hydrated and healthy. I did see the shadow though, otherwise I'd have been real confused.

I know the feeling, broke my leg going UPSTAIRS so, dumped the gear up in the NE then suicided since I had no splints or morphine and could not find any (my sticks got ruined when my lefts broke). I did not make it back before server restart since I spawned WEST of Electro (wtf does that ever happen??). So starting from scratch, kinda fun, would have been nice to make it back to my stuff. Most times I die from falling off some damn thing, rarely from a player..

Sometimes it's nice to start over, especially if no one else got your stuff ;-)

Sometimes just brandishing an axe is all you need to do.

You did right, besides moron was zed bait already. Shooting at Zeds, amateur move anyway.

I think that another answer for KoS is that we cannot use our normal method of determining threat. Humans and dogs (the only other animal that does this and the only other animal that will look where a human points) look at the human face for visual cues which we use to determine flight or fight, we lack this ability in a virtual world.

What is boils down to is that it is not real. Humans are actually very social animals who would tend to band togather in a situation like this. Of course there would be bandity, as the man said to Daryl "why hurt yourself when you can hurt others?" but that is to be expected to a more limited way, not the extent we see here. However that would more apply to a community. Here we all wash ashore as individuals rather than members of a community or common cultural background. That may explain the whole KOS thing. I do more of the live and let live thing unless I am surprised, then it is shoot first, especially if I turn and see you in the fighting position. That, my friends, is what a degree in Anthropology will do for you.

Right on!!! Was gonna experiment with that. Would be nice to have a stash someplace.

Oh yeah, and those cool buildings you spoke of usually have Cherno maps in either the public room or the shed on the side.

Second note, I saw the health vid on YouTube too. However, I was on sever where I nearly starved to death so now I always keep one can of peaches in my pack for emergencies. Peaches are good for hydration and food. I always stop to eat once things have settled down after bleeding too. Next, if you lead zombies right on the coast you can get them to fall off docks and piers. But don't hang around as they may zoom to find you occasionally. Small cargo cases have six slots too and take four in the pack. Ammo cans also take four slots but have 8 slots, but you can only store loose ammo in them, no magazines. Advantage of the cases is that you can view contents in inventory, which you can't currently do with clothes unless you drop them out of inventory.

If you go a little further north-north west of the cool house (I am guessing it's the one north of NEAF) you'll find a town that has two more of those. It's on the map but has no name. The town is also deserted, no Zed's, no nothing. It has several of the good looting houses for food, a grocery store, several of the larger buildings and a fire station.