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I'm not going to try to make a long drawn out post about why I agree with Sol. All I can say is that I stopped playing DayZ about three weeks ago. Why? Because honestly I just don't have fun any more. I didn't get killed by a hacker, I didn't lose gear and I didn't get pissed off because I can't "do what I want to do." - I stopped playing because the sense of camaraderie isn't where I wished it could be. - I stopped playing because I was paying 40 bucks a month for a server that I couldn't even adjust the appropriate time zone to make it so my friends and I could enjoy ourselves. - I stopped playing because I wanted a game like DayZ that allowed me to on occasion just play with my buddies and enjoying killing zombies and scavenging while joking around in voice chat. Yeah, DayZ is an awesome game. And yes, it's in ALPHA. I get that. Alpha doesn't mean broken, alpha means in a testing phase to iron out the wrinkles. I sincerely believe people forget that. But Alpha doesn't mean I should have to deal with crap that could be avoided if we had access to private servers. When minecraft first came out, I bought a server and it was not advertised and just my friends and I played on it. I paid XX dollars a month to host it and my friends gladly donated to keep the server running. It's late, I'm tired...so I'll leave my reply with this, (and I doubt I'll reply that often seeing where the attitude of some players goes.) A private server won't remove the "stress and fear" that we feel when playing on a server. Wondering if we're going to get killed or gambling if that run to the NW airfield will yield results of certain death. There WILL be private servers that allow PVP and PKing. But SOME people want to play the game to immerse themselves in an experience with their friends in a zombie apocalypse. Not an experience with PKers sprinkled with zombies. I support you, Sol. But if I could be so bold to say to try not to let your emotions get in the way of proving a point. Your points have 100% validity behind them and I'd hate to have them go unread/considered because it can be seen as a flame war. Thumbs up to you, Sol. - Mr. McGeeGravyMaker

^This This needs to be a sticky lol. My hat goes off to you sir.

Hey guys, I run a server and here is a run down of what happened: There were three of us in game. (all RL friends) We were the only ones in the server at the time. One of my friends was in Stary Sobor. He said a couple people had just logged on. I make the comical reference "I wonder where they are? I better get out of the NW airfield." When suddenly I hear... "Nope, they are in Stary Sobor. I'm dead." The two of us chuckle and the other friend respawns in Stolichny (or whatever it's called). Not even 3 minutes after his death(still us three and the other three logged in only). He sees the three mysterious players pass through Stolichny on 3 vehicles. (One Truck, one ATV and one Sedan.) These are players we've never seen before. There were no vehicles in Stary where my friend had fallen. Let alone 3 vehicles. So I kicked them with an explanation of suspicious activity. Now my friend who spawned in Stoli finds two of their vehicles. They had 11 wheels. 21 cooked steaks etc. etc. just way too much equipment imo. And to top it off, the vehicles were all green. Perfect condition. Could this be the activity of scripts/hacks? Thanks for reading! Just realized I posted this in the wrong section. Meant to put it in the cheater reporting. Sorry admins! PS: To clarify. No one benefited from those vehicles after said players were kicked. We went about our merry DayZ way and he made his way back to camp on foot.

They never came back. Sorry for the delay. I was really asking if there were hacks/scripts out there that could spawn those vehicles. Before making assumptions. I made a judgement call for the security of my server that I pay for. I want it to be fun place for people to enjoy themselves on. As for my friend, no. He didn't want to take the vehicle because he figured if it were hacked it could some how bug his character. (stranger things have happened). Anyways, have a good night fellas.

I had a right to kick him. Not a right to ban him. I gave the reason. I didn't feel like dealing with my server being screwed up over some exploiter/hacker/script kiddies. Better safe than sorry. And I posted for opinions on if it's a possible exploit or hack or not. Not if I had justification. But I do understand where you're coming from.

Hey all, I have an MP5SD and I cannot load regular MP5 Ammo. Is there a reason for this? A glitch? I can use an MP5 with MP5SD ammo but not the other way around.

I can understand wanting to have special ammo for silenced weapons. As for the MP5SD, one of the only reasons I use it is to take care of zombie mobs near downed helicopters/high yield loot sites. I rarely partake in PVP, (unless it's unavoidable). And for the sake of self defense I tend to keep a second primary (sniper) in my backpack to do a little recon when Binocs aren't giving me any confidence. Of course, there is a trade off. I sacrifice precious loot storage for a little added comfort knowing I could hold my own from a distance if needed. But it still is frustrating not having enough ammo for the Silenced weapon that was already rare to find. I found a silenced M9 (just the gun) and thought I was in heaven. Until I played for 12 hours off and on and never found an SD ammo clip for the pistol lol. I know some people have had better luck finding a bunch of great drops. But there are a lot of us who don't play non-stop and scout out all the loot locations we possibly can day in and day out. BTW, this isn't me complaining by any means. I was just curious if that was something Rocket was looking to work on or if there was a reason why it was the way it was.

My whole philosophy now is this: If I see you and you're heading in the opposite direction of me.... Carry on my wayward son. If you seem to be going in the direction I'm going.... There'll be peace when you are done. Lay your weary head to rest. Don't you cry no more.

Well that's too bad. It seems kind of silly you can use SD ammo for the MP5 but you can't use regular ammo for the MP5SD. Perhaps a an upcoming fix!?! :P

Hey all, I've read the "Want to Start a Server Thread" and glanced over the system specs of what the servers need to be. But my question is: How many DayZ servers could I run on one server with those specs and still retain stability? Thanks!

Hey all, I run a DayZ server and one of my players told me there were some guys in Elektro camping people with a silenced sniper rifle and apparently teleporting all over the place. They weren't able to give me the names and there were 20+ people in the server. Is there anyway to understand server logs to figure out who may have been there so I can keep an eye on that player to see if there is any validity behind the other player's suspicion? Thanks!

Bump. Maybe it's not possible, but it would be nice to have a secure hold on ensuring the fairness throughout the server.

Just kidding. I love this game to death. But I made you read this post. Now, stop trying to read negative stuff and look for the posts that will generate good feedback to make the game even more rocksteady.

I am not one to feed the troll... Well, I kind of am. I own trollinmylawn.com lol. ...but, just reading Finest's replies makes me laugh. I want this thread to keep going. Fortehlawls.

I have to agree with them. Don't remove it. But I'm +1 for allowing anyone to take it down if it's going to be a problem.

Heya Furball, I got set up yesterday afternoon. I know it typically takes 24 hours to get set up but just wanted to give you a heads up. It would be Hosted by: Kaos-Incorporated.

Just ordered a server myself. :) Cheers.

Well, I guess now the Crossbow will find its sole purpose. lol

Dude... It's alpha. But seriously. I can see your point. But you can always use your imagination. We all spawn on the coast. It's possible there is a little backstory to that. Maybe you washed up on shore from a helicopter crash or a plane wreck. Hell, maybe you were camping or something. The point is that they wanted to add an element to make the game a little more challenging. When we spawned with guns, people would get killed all the time right when they spawned due to new players camping the spawn points for extra clips etc.

I've been playing a lot of DayZ and absolutely love this game (as we all do I imagine if we're reading these forums). The idea would be the same concept of the helicopter crash sites. But they would be a little less rare and along main roads inbetween/close to cities. Here's a picture I can attempt to paint for you. You're running through the woods with your faithful friend. You're low on blood, you've used your last bandage and you can't even aim you're gun because you've got the shakes. You two have just left the northwest airfield. You have no hope for survival other than to make a potential suicide mission towards Cherno to get to the clinic there to resupply. As luck would have it, along the road 20 KM outside of Cherno...is an...Ambulance?! Could there be supplies!? Salvation! But wait...we should probably scout it out. It could be covered with walkers or bandits. You get the idea. I'm not a story teller. :P I think it would be fun to have something like that. Something random and something that would in some cases be even more exciting than "YAYS NEW WEAPONZORS"! My other suggestion would be perhaps a couple more hospitals/clinics in the northern part of the map. Opposite of Berezino. I understand they are the bigger cities as well as along the coast so it makes sense the hospitals would be there. But I've traveled all the way to the northwest airfield. Only to have to talk myself into heading back south to get medical supplies. Yes, I am aware this adds to the immersion of the game...but call me devil's advocate here...I hardly see why there aren't any clinics in these mid-sized towns (mid-sized compared to Elektro, Berezino and Cherno). I wouldn't want the map to be littered with them by any means. But perhaps one to three of them strategically spaced out. These could be some good locations for them: Stary Sobor/Novi Sobor Zelenogorsk Lopatino Thoughts? Oh, and thanks for reading.

I wish I had video of this. But my friends and I were in our Mumble server while grouping together in Elektro or Cherno (one of the big cities) and we were prone in a field surrounded by 15-20 zombies. We were all freaking out and a couple of them were like, "Dude, we're going to die." So I starting talking to them in character and said. "Well fellas...it was a good run." I dropped all of my gear for them and just started running. They were all like, "NO!!! RAGE! YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR!" And I was yelling things like, "DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME! FIND YOUR SON JIMMY!" The zombies overran me. While they were eating me I was screaming, "OH HOLY GOD THIS IS AWFUL! TELL MOM I LOVE HER! TELL HER!!! PROMISE ME!!!" Granted, I'm aware the above is one of those, "You had to be there." moments. But we laughed our asses off. And it allowed them a chance to escape.

I can see your frustration and can see what you're trying to accomplish with this idea of adding a timer to the respawn option. But who is it really hurting? I have been in a sever with 40 people seeing the same people dying over and over again in under 5 minutes and have experienced no server-side issues. Evotech has a good point. I'm in a Mumble server with all of my friends. They are near Berezino and I spawn in Kamenka... They want to head towards Black Lake, a mere 10-15 minute hike from Berezino, yet it would take me 1-2 hours to get there IF things went smoothly. Not factoring in the food, drink, medical gear and ammo I'd need to survive the journey. I agree that exploring and getting lost and making your way to meet up with fellow comrades is what makes this game so appealing, but not when you're going to spend a better part of your entire gaming session just looking for them. And what if you are 10 minutes away from them after walking for 2 hours, you get killed and spawn back in Kamenka? Would that make you want to play the game again? Probably not. Yes, perma-death is awesome. I was turned off to the idea at first and my very first death sucked so much that I almost didn't want to play the game again but the more I died, the more I tried, the longer I lived, the longer I enjoyed my experience and the more I didn't stress so much about dying because it really is the process of acquiring all your loot that makes the game fun (for me anyways.) But as soon as you add a timer to my respawn time. That will take away my experience and cause more frustration than not. Hell, it's frustrating enough not spawning in the location you want to after 10 tries lol. Add a 3-5 minute timer? *rage face* If you were going to add a timer, then add spawn points to choose from. Yes, I'm aware this would result in players favoring certain locations...but that's what's going on anyways. Just my two coppers.