Tangled Butthair

It's not about the difference. It's that it allows people to get the best gear with NO RISK. DayZ allows people to get the best gear WITH NO RISK AT ALL. If you don't see a problem here then I have nothing more to say....

You are really ignorat, I am not telling you to play MY game, I am looking for a solution for the issue. And the issue with playing on unpopulated server IS an issue. If you don't see that then you're blind. You're probably one of those guys who only gear up on a 0/40 server and then switch to a full server and they're ok with this. What is the point of this bullshit? When you play on an empty server you are guaranteed that you will find the best gear and won't die, there is no risk. Therefore it's killing DayZ A good solution would be not letting people see how many players are on the server. Not only will it increase realism but solve the problem. Also decrease the number of servers so players aren't so spread across thousands of servers.

k stop derailing the thread with the gamebreaking thing just get over it and focus on the problem.

DayZ is a game where players compete with other players and playing a "singleplayer" DayZ on a 0/40 server is against the purpose of the game. Especially when you can switch from the singleplayer to multiplayer with gear from singleplayer. If it's not game breaking then it's something that definetly should not be there and it ruins the whole game experience. This problem was there since the mod and it's still here. It is annoying but since this is dayz standalone it's time to end this bs.

I don't know if people even notice this. It's game breaking and it makes the game unplayable. It allows people to simply CHEAT. This issue makes me not want to play DayZ... The unpopulated servers. The ones that are 0/40. People can go there to "speedrun" the game and get the best gear, backpack full of mags without caring about other people (since the server's empty it's pretty much like single player. You collect gear in single player but use the gear in multiplayer.). Then they go on a populated server with the gear just to PvP and they have advantage over people who are trying to get gear on that populated server. Isn't collecting your gear one of the biggest things that make DayZ? Then why does the game let you collect it alone on the server and then switch to a server full of people. Yes the server switching is what makes public hives public, but that doesn't mean it should be easy and gamebreaking. Solution: Private hives that you're tied to are the best solution of course. But it's not the perfect solution because to play a fair game where everyone has equal chances I have to sacrifice the forum item trade and other features that can only be on public hives. I haven't found a good solution to this yet but I know that the solution must: prevent people from playing on 0/40 servers but at the same time don't force them too much to play on the high populated server and it has to make sense Does anyone have any ideas?