LondonHyena

I'm Gay. It's a sausagefest. No complaints here, what happens in Chenarus stays in Chenarus.

I can see the point of the OP, and theres no excuse for blatent duplication of a recent thread, especially if its on the front page (I had a moan about this yesterday) but also there is no need to necro up a thread from a month ago if its fallen out of the public eye.

I like the M16. It's burstfire is wonderful for dealing with players, and its semi is great for picking off Zack from any distance really. Plus it's not that loud compared to some, and ammo is pretty plentiful.

I dont understand the mentality of people who complain so vocally like this. The point of a forum is to facilitate discussion, the word itself: fo·rum (fôrm, fr-) n. pl. fo·rums also fo·ra (fôr, fr) 1. a. The public square or marketplace of an ancient Roman city that was the assembly place for judicial activity and public business. b. A public meeting place for open discussion. c. A medium for open discussion or voicing of ideas, such as a newspaper, a radio or television program, or a website. 2. A public meeting or presentation involving a discussion usually among experts and often including audience participation. 3. A court of law; a tribunal. Can't have an open discussion if no one can say a damned thing as its already been said before in vaguely similar terms. I think some people would only be happy if we just had one megathread where no one can talk if it's already been said, like a big game of internet Jinx.

This should be in the Suggestions forum :)

I've been thinking about this idea a fair bit, for a number of different reasons. What if we were to have a 'safe town' somewhere towards the middle of the map? The mod is extremely popular now, we have thousands of players so from a storyline standpoint it would make sense there would be at least one town that is zombie free and 'safe'. People want to promote team work but at the moment one of the biggest issues is meeting up with people in order to do so, or setting up a group in the first place from the randomers who would want to do a bit of groupwork. So my proposal: 1) Have one town somewhere towards the middle of a map, a small one, declared as a universal safe zone/neutral area. 2) No zombies would spawn in this town, as it would be assumed since it's a popular place the population of them would be constantly decimated. 3) Weapons fire within the towns limits would issue a warning to the player, similar to some other mods that give 3 strikes before kicking a player. If this is viewed as too harsh, is there a way to simply disable weapons in the limits? 4) I appreciate that there is nothing really to stop people from shooting with long range rifles from beyond the limits, that cannot be helped. However, if the town does have high traffic of players, such a strategy would be extremely risky and probably lead to that snipers death. 5) There would be no loot spawn within the town, however a fairly safe area that is neutral to bandits/survivors may actually start a barter system, so people would be encouraged to take spare maps and compasses to perhaps trade for ammunition and other supplies. 6) I don't want this to be seen as trying to be a 'carebear' thing, but survivors want a place to group up and explore the world, and even bandits may need to trade for supplies. Not just that, having the ability to trade with players would add a new survival dynamic encouraging hoarding of essentials for the possibility of aquiring something more useful. 7) I would not like to see the use of NPC guards or anything of the sort, it should keep to the games current tradition of letting the players look after themselves without intervention save for something enforcing a no shooting policy in order to facilitate group play. I am hoping such an idea is a middle ground for the people who want to really play just for the survival, without being detrimental to the people who are happy with the PVP situation. Of course, the flipside is going to this town would probably make the surrounded area infested with bandits, but in the spirit of DayZ, high rish=high reward.

I think soldier zombies should be tougher, they are decked out in combat gear for starters so taking a few more bullets would make more sense, same for Police, they might have a stabjacket or the like on which would offer at least a little more protection.

Theres a huge thread called Quit Quit Quit or something on the front page, about exactly the same thing. Normally I hate the 'Use the search box' brigade, but really, you could have just looked on the page XD

Nice to see someone being gentlemanly about combat for a change on here.

It's bad enough being forced unconcious by a Zombie bitchslap, and thats only for a minute. Taking my control of a character away for 10 minutes for the sole reason of 'Oh you're a bit tired' is lunacy. It's bad enough that we all seem to have incredible thirst and fast metabolisms, don't need to add Narcolepsy to the mix.

One of the major problems with the AI in Arma is it only has two settings: 1) Helen Keller mode, standing around doing nothing and basically useless. 2) T-800 mode, where they are a laser accurate force of killing machines. I dont trust the AI one bit, besides, they could flid out and target everyone from the main game faction (which everyone is in)

Yeah sorry I meant hypothermia. I'm posting from my iPhone and it likes to auto correct to words it feels like an I didn't catch the error. Only pointed it out as it made me chuckle. I pictured Paul McKenna suddenly appearing when it started raining. Scarier then any zombie :p

When I first started playing, I tried to be nice and got shot. Then, I progressed into killing everyone I could for the hell of it. Now, I've found a middle ground. If I can avoid people, I do. If they have something I want, and they are vunerable I might slot them. If I go into a building and I see you in there, damn right im shooting you. I didn't hunt you, you appeared, and are in my way and I will not trust you in close quarters.

Believe me it would be nice, but while some servers are very well organised, a lot of servers simply arn't. A lot of people play solo for example, or simply don't know people well enough to be part of a good outfit. It's just an idea that might level the playing field for those who either cannot or do not want to be part of a specific team while not forcing them to be forever alone.

I wasn't aware coldness caused Hypnotherapy.

Oh I was thinking along the lines of the game telling you if you had won etc, but if it was up to the players it would be easier, would make it more immersive.

It's not a demand, it is a suggestion, the purpose of this forum is to 'suggest' things. You are entitled to your opinion and thank you for it, I personally disagree but that is my right too. Lets see what other people think :)

But that would be a very server-specific system. What about other servers where people are not so organised, or what if you simply cannot get on to play with your friends? Besides which, barricades can be removed by people, servers reset etc etc.

Problem with this is scripting it, Poker is a rediculously complex when you think of all the types of winning hands you'd have to add in etc. Besides, what would you play for? Would have to be a numerical currency or unit.

People have posted similar ideas yes, but not this specific idea. If we just searched for similar idea's all the time and added to that there wouldn't be very many threads at all :p

Why? When you're dead, you're dead. You don't reincarnate with your worldly possessions, unless you're some sort of ancient Pharoah.

That is actually exactly what I call them aside from the "fucking" part on the last one haha. People who do not speak British English calling zombies 'zed's' drives me up a wall to be honest. It's like an American who spends too much time on a forum with a lot of Western Europeans such as the Steam forums who constantly say 'mate' when it's something they never use ever in their normal lives.Some cultures and sayings need to stay where they originated from' date=' 'zed' is just the way they say the letter Z if some of you are not familiar with it. [/quote'] Know a few yanks who use British slang, it just sounds awful. It brings back repressed Dick Van Dyke memories and I despise it.

You can't really punish people for server disconnects, for one major reason: Joining a server is a lottery. I mean that as in a lot of the time you will join and get a 'Waiting for server' message, or get stuck on 'Receiving data', sometimes the server will be unplayable with lag or pitch black. In those cases you will end up disconnecting to find a new server, so by some of these idea's it could lead to people being punished for simply wanting to find another server that works better.

Not sure it would be that good. No real heavy cover, tons of big big open spaces just begging to be shot by anyone with a scope. The towns themselves are pretty small and tend to just have one road going straight down the middle so killing Zed's would be far too easy.