lrp1984

Err, I'm thinking the exact same thing about your message here.

What I doubt is your ability to run into a group of armed players on your own and convince them to all put their guns down and tie each other up. In my near 1500 hours in this game, I have never seen that happen, nor can I imagine any scenario in DayZ beyond a strictly enforced roleplay server where that would ever happen. You'd run in, demand they put their guns down, and get shot at or punched out by a crazy Russian. Sure, it's possible to see a group of 5, or even 10 armed players, and single handedly slaughter them all (done it myself many a time), but it takes stealth, quick reactions and a certain degree of luck.

I doubt that's ever happened

I've never seen fog in standalone, nor read a single developer reference to it. So yeah, I think you had an issue with your graphics.

Fog was on the mod, not standalone.

95% of the Bambi's you're trying to protect are Bandits who just got killed and there is nothing they like more than a friendly geared player who'll feed them up, and then turn his back long enough to get a stone or cooking pot slammed into his head and all his gear taken. If you're foolish enough to not be wearing a helmet near a fresh spawn you'll simply get punched out. If you manage to avoid the hits before long you'll have a pile of fresh spawn bodies at your feet, and then get shot by the next "Hero" that comes along for being a Bandit.

You'll sadly never find this server, as it doesn't exist. 1) 24 hour real time is very unpopular and I can't think of any servers that go with real time (the only way for restarts not to effect it). The main issue is that on a server running at real time, if you happen to only be able to play dayz after 7pm due to work etc, then you'll only ever play at night, and most people don't want this. 2) There is no fog or rain in DayZ Standalone at the moment on any server, so you'll have to wait a few patches for this to be re-added. 3) Public hive? So you still want to be able to server hop? 4) The minimum player count is 30, so you wont find a 20 population server.

I found myself alone in the woods recently with a group of 6 players after me, armed with my trusty SKS/PU against AK's. It actually played out a lot like the season finale of True Detective, moving from tree cover to cover, headshotting my pursuers until I ran out of trees and still had two after me. I charged them and went out in a blaze of glory. PvP is what makes DayZ such a fun game, and it doesn't matter if you live or die in the battle as long as you're having fun.

And extremely boring.

Hey all, we're back in the top 3!

Take a screen shot of your favorites list showing the two public servers that you have different characters on, or provide the names of these two servers. Until then, I am going to assume you're on either two private servers (every private server will give you a new character), or public and private.

I have an easier solution, allow people to pick their spawn rather than it be random. Groups can re-group easier, solo players can try different areas of the map after a death. No more suicides, and a much happier player-base. The fact that you're all trying to think of ways to punish players that want to play in a group without spending up to 30 minutes to meet them is insane. This is a game, and random spawns only serve the purpose of trying to distribute players across the map. However it's very unlikely everyone would want to spawn in the same place at any given time. In a 50/50 server there is very rarely more than 10 people in any given city fighting it out. Another option would be to allow people to "group up" and when grouped up you can pick a spawn close to any member of your group.

Depends on the side-arm. An FNX at close range is as lethal as any SMG or for that matter, assault rifle. If you're sniping you want to keep a relatively low profile and having a RAK, 74U or MP5 with spare clip and ammo requires you to have a backpack, which you want to avoid

I have no issue with people needing to log off, and sometimes you need to log in the middle of combat (usually girlfriend/wife demand related). However the OP said, and I quote, "The man with the mosin had returned, his gunshots getting closer and closer to my building i could only assume they were together. I felt that i had pushed my luck and a logged the hell out." He didn't need to log off to sleep, eat or meet his girlfriend (who he said he'd take for dinner at 8pm, and it's now 9pm and he's not even dressed and he has 9 missed calls on his phone...) he logged off because he thought he'd probably get killed and didn't want to lose the new gear he'd got. That's combat logging, and that's what I find a little annoying. The guy with a broken leg could have logged off and switched to an empty sever to apply a splint in safety, but didn't. So right now I have more respect for the killer.

So you combat logged when his friend came?

If I'm a fresh spawn the first thing I do is pick up a rock from the beach and try and knock out the next person I see. It might ruin your night if you're fully geared, but it makes my evening a lot better.

I'd craft a rope from the hairs on my back to lash two turtles together as a raft to get to prison island.

Yeah, 'pikeyed' would be a better term to use.

Naaaay, I'm a horse.

We seem to be back up to our busy status and back in the top ten most popular servers on gametracker. Come and join us (before we change IP again!)

If you go up to the caves in the north, and follow the tunnel, there is a wall you can walk through on the left, on the other side is a secret military base with stacks of guns and ammo.

No patch for the next few weeks. I'm pretty certain unless you don't play at all, or stick to unpopulated servers you'll die long before then.

It's back to being pretty busy again now.

Yes, it is. However the IP address was changed by the host without any notice, so it will have disappeared from everyones favorites and history. It will take a little time for people to find it again. The characters and hive is still the same though. The server reached 50/50 the first evening after the change of IP, however it is not quite as busy in the daytimes as it was, but like I said, people will start adding it back to favorites and will find it again.

IP address updated to 109.169.60.52:2602. Thanks