Yeah, I agree that ropes could be used as "lasso" to drag your enemy / hang it on a tree / tie on a tree/pipe(haha) or attach it to some pipe to climb / drop yourself down. Not that I oppose grappling hook, it would be awesome as well. Here's one crazy idea: Attach lasso on player and attach it to your vehicle in future! Now drive! (Joking)

I would add that if there was strong wind going on, it could be cool if we were unable to hear sounds properly during that. Which means we wouldn't be able to hear foot steps, zeds (so well) and so forth. Of course, gun shots should still be heard. Not to mention what you wear on your head might affect your hearing a little. Good ideas though +1

Not bad ideas at all. I'd enjoy if Zeds were like that, also with some editing the sound might be nice.

Yeah, of course things will go more rough once, ex. server cap is bigger than 40. Competition over spots and cities will rise. Which is fun alright! I am expecting it. :) Nothing wrong with that? I mean its their call. I doubt it would make a "big" problem. ;P You can play however you want no matter what, pretty much.

Not completely fool proof. Join low pop server, check hot spots for 30 Minutes then go to next one, no problem. :P In case your computer crashes or internet shuts down, it should also take those into account as well. I just think the way of preventing with that is quite clumsy. Private databases is the way to go ;P

It is not slow. Check the changelogs. Rate of updates is fine. You'll need that money for many things as it is going for the whole company with 140 workers. Even their yearly salaries go beyond 3-5 million euros or more (approximately). The game has to pay their yearly salaries + other expenses until next big "release" and advertisements before that.

Most of complaintment threads have been based on assumptions and all sort of fallacies. Go for constructive feedback if you do and base your stuff on "real" facts. I'll bet my balls that no one will ignore or close your thread. People assume things they don't know for certain, that shouldn't be the base for any feedback. Although you can analyze things calmly and raise your concerns, but try not to claim it as "fact" how you speak about it, else you are being a bit delusional / basing things on fallacy.

In that scenario I'd say "Shit happens" and thank god this game isn't any mmorpg. :D You can easily buildup your character and stuff within a day or less. Actually just hours if we talk about gear, but dunno about the persistent stuff that might be inc.

Although currently everyone shares same database. I believe they might allow servers to have their own databases, which means that if you have character at one server, you can't use it anywhere else. So basically everything you do is bound to the particular server you are at. Kills hopping too, perfect, ain't it?

http://dayz.gamepedia.com/Changelog Updates are quite frequent and decent sized. Bigger systems take A LOT of time and testing. You can't simply fix them by increasing developer count or funding. Its limited how many can work on same case/feature/system simultaneously. Not everything from regular jobs at real life can be applied on programming in order to boost "efficiency". Hiring new devs takes a lot time to get them familiar with the engine too, which reduces the working time from actual devs. There is so much you need to know before you can criticize them properly without just being ignorant. Not to mention the fact we are on Alpha. We have accepted this when we first entered, didn't we? I am positve that DayZ is going to be fine game.

Naw, we can condense this all into one word: Ignorance.

Although, the guy who does spray cans doesn't do the actual coding that is involved with zeds/zombies. In otherwords, getting dat Art/Animator guy to do coding won't help at all. This thread smells like ignorance, just close it.

God, so much ignorant people. DayZ standalone progress isn't even slow, in fact it is progressing just fine. Why do some people buy Alpha? You would avoid all this if you didn't. I'd suggest to learn about game development before you rant about it. In 3 months to 0.43 version, and now even in somewhat playable form? Not bad. <-- Thats what you should be saying. If you read their tweets and what is going on experimental, you'd realize that they aren't just sitting and sucking their thumbs either. Even experimental isn't the whole truth what is being developed and what not. You cannot rant about something you don't know nothing about or else you are just ignorant. Although, many people live happily in ignorance. But, thats just another story.

Yeah, but what I am suggesting is optional. You don't have to join the server with "roleplay" mode and I am not fully denying KoS, but it should be discouraged by the game/mode. We cannot prevent it fully unless we build private communities. Anyhow, I am all into more difficult and versatile gaming. Finding food is "alright" to some degree once spawns are functional, but there is so much weapons, I am worried about that if we put too much weight on that stuff. At least its not going to discourage or make KoS less frequent. Though things may be different once servers max player cap is increased, as the demand will rise. Also we must admit that we don't have all the ways to feel/perceive if the person is trustworthy at first sight, characters doesn't have that advanced body language to give us enough time to make our decision for certain. Its safer to shoot. I can only trust guy with no weapons or if I don't have anything to lose.