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Sounds great to me. Sadly I'm currently really into hardcore, so I will have to wait until I have a devastating death until I switch back to regular (and I will have to reconcile dealing with third person) so I won't be playing on this server for a while but I think that's a great idea.

What? Server hopping? That's... not really going to go away. People will always be able to server hop. Or are you talking about server owners changing the cycle themselves?

Nope. I don't really give a fuck. Like I said, it's like getting mad because other players have guns... or NVGs. I know, that's an abstract and possibly silly parallel but really... I just don't care. That's my last post on this topic. Sorry, but this is going nowhere.

Why does it even matter if people do indeed jack their gamma and brightness up? Why does that have to ruin the game for you? Though it's a bit different because a player must find guns, it's like saying, "they have guns! That means they are able to kill me easier. Unfair! I hate this game!" (One could also draw a parallel to night vision goggles. If another player has NVGs, they have an unfair advantage over you and obviously NVGs should now be removed from the game.) It just seems a bit childish and more of an excuse to not ever have to deal with night again than an actual argument. Sorry. To each his own.

Is there any kind of day/night in this server?

Aw, man! That sucks. Or I suppose it could be done with the new accelerated time, though restarts would get in the way. Thanks for the information.

What's the day/night like? Is it accelerated (few hours day, few hours night) or what? Figured I'd quote you here to see if you know, having played. Seems the OP is not very active here. Server looks awesome assuming there is a nice day/night cycle!!

Have you changed it to day/night now that we have accelerated time?

Hey man. I just found a hardcore server that supposedly restarts every 24 hours. There has been discussion that this is not possible; I have no idea whether it is or not, but here it is. http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/66.55.158.161:2302/ I might try it out sometime so see if it does indeed restart every 24h. Not sure if it's day/night though. (sorry for double post)

1. I am wondering the exact same thing. A little scary, that one. 2. 30 minutes, I believe. Don't quote me on that, might be wrong. Edit: Sorry, it's 30 minutes or less in game that causes the timer... not sure how long you have to stay out of a server to evade it... but I know you can. I usually just take an hour long break and when I come back, no timer.

This. ^ Though... fists don't make "short work". With SA's zombies, it takes me about 20 or more face-punches to kill a zed. Is that just me? I hope that's not just me.

I think that combat logging is a much bigger issue than server hopping and I am dumbfounded that the devs have implemented a generally annoying and immersion-breaking system to prevent server hopping (99 second timer) whilst completely ignoring combat-loggers. I couldn't care less about server hopping. I server hop from time-to-time, simply because I have a list of servers that I play on and if one goes down or is [almost] full I go play on another one. Combat logging needs to be the priority. My vote: "I don't give a shit."

I suppose so, it makes sense. I just don't know about adding explicit "objectives" to a game like DayZ. But something along the lines of it, possibly using power to get electricity and stuff to player settlements or some kind of lighting for camps or something might be cool. Interesting idea at least. Edit: sorry, did you say anything about the day/night cycle of your server? I apologize if I'm just blind. Oh also, is it Hardcore? --- I have gotten to the point where I have a nice list of *possibly good* hardcore servers, but the only problem is, my least favorite ones are the populated ones. So I find myself joining different servers for different activities... looting up? I join a less-populated one. Want some player interaction? I join a more populated (but not ideal) one. It's really making me feel guilty and not have as much fun as if I played regularly on one perfect server. It seems that there are plenty of us that think the same way about game difficulty, day/night cycle, etc., so maybe we all just need to populate a server together! I have a few good ones, if anyone is interested.

Is there some kind of nighttime cycle? They don't, aside from any that players place or use. I suppose that would be cool to draw more people in who wouldn't usually play at night but I wouldn't like that at all because it'd ruin the whole apocalypse feel for me. Night=dark. Very dark. Like, blackness.

Sounds like a good idea! I might or might not participate simply because I might or might not be busy but it sounds great! I play hardcore (stable) so it would work out fine for me. I have never done anything like this and it'd be nice to meet some nice players after being KoS'd 3 times last night.

I see posts and always here people talking about turning into a heartless bastard or just a complete jerk after a certain amount of time playing this game due to other players killing you so much. Why? Why would you want to contribute? We need more players that don't KoS. Why would you just give into that and turn into one of them? There are ways to not die to other players in this game. If you fine them first, then you have the power over what happens. Not them. So don't just fucking murder them because you had a couple bad experiences in your first days. Yeah, we need people that KoS because it's part of the game, but we don't need more. I saw the first reply (or so) and the guy said that he "turned into a heartless bastard a week into the game" because of "how many times he was killed by another player" and that he killed players with little gear because "they are just going to turn into his murderer one day". WTF? This needs to end. If you are truly a good person, play the game like you are, imho. Amazing social interactions are possible in this game, and we are not able to experience them because of people that don't think about their actions. Killing on sight is never going to end as long as we have weak players that decide to do it because of how many times they were killed as freshies.

I have found a server that somehow has a *possibly fractured due to restarts* 24 hour day/night cycle. They restart at certain times during the day and (I suppose) restart the server back at that time (manually?). Sadly it's in another country (Germany) so there are probably going to be many non-english speaking people which means more KoS's for me when I'm trying to yell "peaceful!" and nobody can understand me. Edit: So I suppose a possible way to achieve an almost cohesive 24 hour day/night cycle is to have admins 24/7 and have the time set back to when the server restarted every time it restarts? Do you ever play hardcore? We do have accelerated time, I believe, but I'm not really sure how it works / what servers are actually using it. I honestly don't have a problem with say, a 4 hour restart, because I don't mind taking a break, but what annoys me is the high loot that comes from frequent restarts. What my question is, being slightly new to the standalone, what is with the "time" being all over the place in the server list... it's not, say 12:30 or 1:30 and so on... it's like 12:35 and another will be 4:56 etc.. It doesn't make sense to me. I'm used to the mod where times are all according to time zone and advance more or less in real-time.

I get it. I just don't care. I don't let other people ruin my gaming experience. Again, I guess I'm just weird. "There are other people in the game that can see better than me! Well I hate night then. Ha! That'll show them! Dirty exploiters!" I don't change my gamma or brightness. I wonder why? Maybe because I don't let other players "ruin my gaming experience". *beans4u*

You once again have my beans, sir. Hell, I was just playing at 12am in-game-time and it was nice and bright. Especially, provided a full moon. Nobody is ever wrong in their opinion, but this whole anti-night thing is getting old.

I suppose I'm weird in that I simply don't have an issue with that. I don't give a shit if there are other players with an advantage that is upping some video settings to see better. I still enjoy nighttime and I still believe it to be part of DayZ. I'm going to keep my brightness where it is (default) and enjoy the game. In all fairness and honesty, I am one of those guys that doesn't get mad when he gets KoS'd and looses everything. I love unfair challenges. So maybe I really am weird. But nighttime is necessary, and we at least have to agree that it's annoying to see thousands upon thousands (possible exaggeration) of "24/7 day!" servers, and hardly any true day/night servers (or at least as close as possible in the SA). This. ^

The one that says "daytime" in the title? Awesome! So 30 mins night 30 mins day and what... 2 hour restarts? Sounds pretty nice if so. Lol. I don't get these people having issues with night time. My brightness and gamma are at default and I have no issue seeing. My monitor brightness is not very high at all and I am just running on a normal laptop... and I can see fine. Night is the best. It's part of the game, in my opinion, and it should be unavoidable. Possible sped up (12 hour day... 6 of dark, 6 of light) but not done away with. People need to stop complaining and realize that they are playing a game that is meant to be somewhat "hardcore" or at least difficult from a survival stand-point. Ugh. Edit: And guess what... in a place with very little to no street lights, etc., (Chernarus during the apocalypse) night time would be damn near pitch black! I'm not one for making games as realistic as possible, because I don't play games to experience real life all over again, but for a game like DayZ, I think it should be realistic in that way. Just my opinion, I respect yours and understand your point completely.

Have you had any luck? I'm looking for the exact same thing.

Since you bumped this thread, I suppose this doesn't count as necro? Anyway, does your server here get a lot of traffic? It sounds perfect for me but I prefer to play on *busy* servers because it's boring without other players around. Edit: Oh, ....it's down. Aw.

I'm now getting over 500 ping. I don't think it's going to work out. Back to the drawing board.

Well I suppose I'll get on and try to open some doors. I assume that might be a good gauge of connection. Thanks for the help, guys.