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You need to factor in cost-of-living too. It might be cheaper to live in Thailand, so salaries might not compare directly to USA....

Winchester and scope.

It made me realise how awful the AKM recoil is actually fighting with it. AKS-74 is ok but my god I'm not touching that AKM again - ended up looking at the goddam sky!

There's something dire and enjoyable about new being a fresh-spawn and duking it out with others or trying to kill geared players. It also means a common place of stripped loot where a zucchini could be come a weapon. Spreading players more evenly over the map removes the sense of adventure to get different loot - travelling to the far reaches of the map. I've had as much enjoyment fighting with brooms for a can of beans as creaping around in pristine mil' gear looking to creep up on and take down a squad. Bottom line; I'm not sure you can predict everyone's level of enjoyment and perception of the game and turn that into a generic, enjoyable experience by normalising spawns.

Berezino >>> Kamy >> Elektro I also see a fair number of server hoppers at the heli crash sites. Sometimes people around Stary / Novy but I think that's just because they're in the middle and I'm around there.

Yeap - camping out heli crash sites, guard houses, and places like that is an easy way to farm loot. You don't even need to fight people - simply watch where they run to log off then get there in 30 seconds and shoot them in the side of the head. By the time they enter their next server you will be long gone and they will be back on the beach wondering what happened. The perfect crime.

Yes toss the CR, it's not the best option and better options are pretty easy to find right now. Personally I find the ranged silence of the Sporter + Hunting scope a lot of fun if a squad/player are in an open position. You can plink away and reload merrily without them knowing where you are. Winchester is loud as hell but stands a good chance of downing someone in a hit or two. I currently run with that but you need to be more careful about placement because people will know where you are much more easily. SVD is the new snipe meta gun if you can find one at guard house before someone else server-hops in and gets it first.

People seem much more careful on full servers, taking sly routes and time to check out towns. On lower pop players seem more willing to risk running down the middle of the road or through open fields. Sometimes I deliberatly choose mid-low pop because I think I'll be more likely to run into someone

I've got that quick flick to video settings and back out down to a fine art now. Cool story :)

Please explain the difference between a "custom server" and a server running custom addons or mods? (serious question)

I only use my nose and mouth to operate keyboard and mouse.

Long story short; get a Berezinho spawn

Yeah you've got it right there.

You want to use vocal if possible. One of the main ways not to die when you meet someone is to keep moving around while your talking. That way if they pull a gun or they have a buddy in the trees, it's much less likely they will kill you. A combination of the game currently running unoptimised (low fps) and bad panic-shooting means even at point-blank range you can survive merely by running in tight circles around a player whilst they run out of ammo and then you can run off or kill them.

Sound brings so much to this game in particular, I could not imagine playing without it.

All the loot is not in schools and guard houses. Yes, a lot of loot is there but not all of it. And on a private server the loot you are after may well have been picked up and you don't have the option to hop to another server. Sure, you can get geared at a school / guard house. But my point is that some players want more than just the loot that's around these locations and some items take a long time to find.

Depends on what you're looking for and if it's a private server. You're not really in a position to say anything is "wrong".

Correct - you do not need to care about your character... but.... if you've been playing for 10 hours of your real life time to get some particular setup then you may end up caring one way or other.

<--- Another EVE player o/ DayZ has more of an immediate social challenge and opportunity system than EVE. I've rarely, if ever, met a stranger and trusted them in EVE they way I have done in DayZ.

Best way to leave a note? Write a shotgun into somone's face.

I'm finding it more playable now than it has been for a month or so. As mentioned above there are still those alpha nasties hanging around but there's quite a lot of good there. - Zombies no longer run through walls so you can lock them in/out (though they do hit you quickly) - Loot is around and decent but there are loot-splosions all over the place so it's "too easy" at present if you know how to exploit those locations - Good range of guns and weapons now in game - I haven't experienced hackers badly in a while (though I'm sure they're still out there) Meh - load it up and player a few lives I guess.

Hunting scope - found in some feed huts in the woods and I think in a deer tower too. Drum Mag - Around the crashed armoured cars SVD - Heli crash site.

Pushing SHIFT near the edge of something because in another game I play the shift key stops you from falling off the edge. So in this case I sprinted off the edge into the void and death. I have done this, fully geared, about 5-6 times. Normally I rage-quit for a week when I do it. :lol:

That reload clip had me cowering in a corner mashing buttons in a blind panic. :D :lol:

I'm pretty-much visiting YT every day waiting for Eddy stories to drop. Keep up the great work :-D