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Most of the map is hardly ever utilized anyway. Everybody just hangs around the coast. Why do you think that the map will seem bigger when you're making it excessively difficult for people to NOT travel from the spawn area? Chernarus is not small at all. It's massive. There's immense amounts of room. Making it harder to move won't make it seem bigger. It will make it seem only more empty than it is now for anybody who actually does travel.

There must be lots of things you don't understand, then.

Well, since you asked I'll tell you. Blood types? Testing kits? Syringes? None of these are essential or necessary to performing basic player functions. None of them. They are there as an option, not as a necessity. I know I never have used any of these items in my 500 hours in the game. I don't need to. I have them there as an option, though. Socks, in the way you're speaking about them, will affect everybody and simply add another item that a new player MUST acquire to simply be mobile. In a game where the coast is already clogged to the brim with new spawns and server hoppers looking for a few minutes of jollies before another server hopper gets their jollies first, the last thing that this game needs now is another set of items your character will need to make it further inland. Requiring players to have the right kind of freaking socks is penalizing mobility. Look at it from the perspective of a new spawn... If it's raining, you have to have fire or waterproof clothing. You have to have food. You have to have water. You have to be warm. A new spawn shouldn't also have to worry about whether or not they have the right kind of bloody socks in order to play the game. Don't confuse items that are there but not necessary with items that you are going to create as a necessity to basic player functions like moving around. I'm not saying that life should be easy, but there's a line between survival and frustration. I don't want to have to spawn in the game, find everything that I need all while avoiding players with firearms and a bad attitude only to be halfway to the next town before my character bleeds from his toes because my Hane's Plush n' Pert foot covers aren't of the necessary caliber to facilitate movement.

Dev say no, make game hard. Shooting hard so like it is, no change. Too easy if change be happen. DayZ not supposed to have easy in it, shoot stay shake.

As an Eagle Scout and ESAR participant, I can confirm that the kind of socks you wear is one of the most important pieces of clothing you can choose for yourself. Regardless, I think that this would only cause an overabundance of socks clogging up loot spawns and would offer very little in the way of actual gameplay benefits. It's really, really, really hard to fuck up a pair of socks, anyway. I think that shoes are a sufficient footwear issue at the moment, especially considering that shoes will degrade over time and will require maintenance. Piling sock maintenance on top of that seems excessively intricate.

Maybe it flew away.

The way you spell "zucchini" is amazing. Beans for you.

The new office and hangar don't spawn loot right now. When it does, then we'll see how the area plays out.

Everybody spawns around the coastal areas, and there is so much opportunity there for loot and excitement that many many of those spawns never leave sight of the ocean. If you saw spawn locations spread out all around the map, then you'd see people in more places. Hopefully, that will happen soon. Because fifty or so players on a server that all spawn in the same areas...it's not good. The coast is absolute chaos, and you will run into lots and lots of new players and new player hunters with an intense frequency. And then you can go to cities like Zelenogorsk and Vybor and Pustoshka and not see a soul or any evidence there was anybody ever there. When people KNOW where other players will be and where they are spawning, that takes away from the organic nature of the survival element of the game.

You're up to your neck in...server hoppers?

While server hopping I wouldn't consider cheating, since it doesn't break any objective rules of the game nor modifies any game files in your favor... ...it's definitely, certainly, indubitably contrary to the spirit and the design of the game. If you do it, you are a coward and you are a liability to the community.

You're calling a zombie survival games where the zombies come at you in "waves" and "swarms" silly. I just want to make that clear.

I don't think this idea. It's not a bad idea, though. I just don't like it. Imagine how easy it would be for server hoppers or the first person in and area to not only get enough stuff for them...but for a buddy as well. Limits should be placed on how much stuff you can have with you. You have ample storage space as it is. There's no reason to basically encourage people to pick up even more of everything all the time. Besides, once things have weight...

Have you modified the .ini files in the Steam Apps directory? You need to change their properties to "read only" so they aren't changed by the in game settings.

The dry wells affect me about as much as the fear of sunburn affects Usain Bolt.

Just think, in the time it took you to get that, 7,892 server hoppers laughed at you for playing legitimately.

So, I went to Berezino for the first time since the update. It was all like

So long as there have been video games... ...there have been people trying to find ways around playing the video game so they can play the video game.

I had a Kiwi that lasted about seventeen seconds once.

Not trusting anybody is your choice. I trusted somebody I met today, and we're Steam friends now. Met him in Svergino. Not everybody is a murderer, and if you treat everybody like they're one, that makes you the murderer.

You are the embodiment of what's wrong with this community.

There's currently no reason not to fill up your backpacks with all the food you find, dropping it when you need to make room for ammo or other tools.