Rags!

So the problem of spawning into servers that don't appear to have any loot can be fixed with relogging into it?

I've had the same character for the last three days of so. I've dropped it, moved it around, put it back on, everything. Still wouldn't improve the condition. I don't think it's a bug since the verbiage of the notification is very specifically "reinforced" and not "repaired".

Bullets are part of the Chernarussian environment.

I was referring to the rule, not the exception.

Lack of vehicles spawning loot in Stable are the reason I don't play it. When vehicles don't spawn loot it condenses the community of players, since they no longer travel to places where they know that looting opportunites are available from vehicle loot. Pustoshka is a fantastic example for myself. I always went there, but when we lost vehicle loot spawns, I never went close to it. It just wasn't worth the trek there any longer.

I can definitely see the reasoning there, and it's a solid line of thought. At this point in time, though, I think that the fear of hackers is more of an issue for a server administrator trying to keep a community complacent than the community worrying about a couple people doing with one server what they could do by server hopping normally. I used to own a server in Garry's Mod, and was the founder of a pretty sizeable community or over a hundred and thirty members based around it, so from the perspective of an admin or an owner, I don't think that the ability to kick "without reason" is something that should be against the rules in an objective and exact sense. Lots of times, these things have a way of sorting themselves out on their own. Myself and a group of players I play DayZ with were always perplexed at the awfully convenient server restarts of the Hardcore -ZaP- servers, so I stopped playing on them. But there will come a day when the issue of Pay-to-Win MUST be addressed and things will have to be done about it. Because while I don't consider it a real issue now, I am absolutely sure that soon it will become a huge problem.

Alright, here's something that I've noticed from reinforcing an Assault Vest with Duct Tape... After reinforcing it, that vest probably took over a dozen zombie hits and stayed at the condition it was at when I applied it: Damaged. It wasn't until I Crashed to Desktop next to a zombie and spawned back in that the vest was reduced to Ruined status, and some of the items inside were damaged as well. So it's very possible that patching Vests and Raincoats will not so much make them look newer or improve their condition so much as immensely help to prevent them becoming damaged. As time goes on, I'll be very curious to see if Duct Tape adds any appreciable damage resistance to projectiles. Reinforcing a Hunting Backpack took almost two whole rolls of Duct Tape to complete.

"Should" was the verbiage used. Pay attention. I know the rules, but I don't have to agree with them.

DayZ has about the same learning curve as the Olympic Pentathlon.

You paid for the server. You should be able to kick/ban as much as your heart could want. If you server hop because you "don't have time to regear" I will find you and I will stab your ankle with a shiskabob stick.

Or don't randomize it, but use the properties of zombies in certain areas of the map to help balance the risk/reward aspect of looting. Places with better loot could have more deadly zombies.

Stick around. You might learn something yourself.

There are also rifles with magazines.

What a bunch of tools.

I don't know if this has been posted, but just in case it hasn't been or for those who are not aware...I have seen Humvees spawning loot now. I've found boots, cargo pants, even an SKS spawn by them.

I dunno. Most of the people I meet in DayZ are a bunch of tools.

Here is my review of the current Experimental Build. 8 / 10

It would have been funny if he was asking for a refund for his computer and not the game.

I'm 440 hours into the game. My hand still trembles. Maybe it always will. Part of me hopes it does.

Have you considered that maybe the leaves are moving very fast?

This is DayZ. That sounds extremely plausible.

I'm still getting the same problem...I spawn into a rainy server and die because I can't find any matches to light a fire.

I'd rather have a gun I could fire more than five times before I had to reload one shell at a time.

Now I can finally start picking up the bitches.

Alright, you enjoy your one AKM without a magazine then.