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Sorry Mook- just curious about the whole shoes thing? Can you elaborate on that?

Fuck sakes... forums are on some lag / delay mode that's causing spam posts... then they don't edit right away... then they do. Anyway. Keep in mind the PET bottle trap is for fish (cut the top off and put a worm inside... believe they only work in the ocean- not in ponds). The rabbit snares are wire crafted with a stick. As for the clinics I'm sure Emu can figure out a place off the normal beaten path that can server as a natural "cease fire" area to develop skills. And hey... if the clinic gets ambushed then that's DayZ.

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Were you injured and drinking pond water? Were you struck by zombies? Did you eat raw meat? Kind of depends on what you did as to how you can resolve it. Generally keeping hydrated and energetic is the toughest.

Hmmm- was thinking more in terms of an "in game clinic" to help people with the game. Clinic like a course / tutoring session. Go around and learn some of the crafting, fishing... leather clothing.. tanning hides... tanning armbands (like ours but not like ours) etc. I don't find this getup is too, too bad. I'm mean the whole mechanic is fucking stupid at this point but that's alpha. It's important for me to stay drenched so I just move from pond to pond and stay moist. As long as you're drenched or at least wet it does slow the heating up and if you're staying still does lead to rapidly cooling off. Heating up isn't a huge deal provided you are able to stay hydrated. I'm pretty well set up in that respect and healthy so it minimizes the chance of getting sick from drinking from ponds.

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Okay... let me be the first to post my image- Get a photo of me alive going about my business and we'll figure out one thing. Get a photo of me dead... and we'll figure out a lesser thing. I think it's fair to say out loud that the armband is our trademark... if we get griefers acting like admins / HH then we'll just murder them with prejudice. I'm looking for a pair of those designer sunglasses if anyone wants to do an swap for something!

We could probably work out a neutral zone to meet up if folks want to clinic and develop or otherwise enhance their experience. No shit folks- if you're at all interested in exploring different aspects of the game, emu is THE guy. We can timeout our aggressions (for whoever wants to) and help build on enriching the experience. We have some guys coming in who are pretty new- maybe we can figure something out. Out of those boundaries... We'll let it play out the way it plays out!

Ah! Okay... we run a pub so that's good to know for the future.

It was just you two on the server and 3 of us. To be honest we were entertained by the the rather unorthodox shifting... have to admit is was fun to listen to the gear jamming... We weren't tracking to kill you- we were, however, interested in making contact. We weren't sure how that was going to play out- which is why I concur with the statement below. I think you'll get unanimous approval among our group in this regard... Funny enough- one of the encounters I stumbled into on our logs a few days ago was you texting to someone about offering them a backpack... Didn't look like they took it- whoever it was... but it gave us a bit of a sense that you were playing the game with good intentions. Don't think it was us taking pot shots at you... other thing about the server pop is that it doesn't update immediately and will sway at anchor between sooner and later on its own accord. I checked the log and I don't see anyone actually hitting you- but interestingly enough we've had that happen a few times now to a couple of our own guys. Not sure if there's treachery afoot or not- however most of the script kiddies don't waste their time on low pop servers- which I think it was throughout the day today. I don't know if all our guys will buy into this idea- but I'm going to post a screen shot of my character configuration... Might be fun to run a bounty on screenshots of each other in game. Not sure what the prize would be but we can come up with something if folks like the idea. Alive worth more than dead!

No exaggeration: Figure it out.

Eh Taste... Glad you guys reached out! Those are mostly familiar names- yours included. We've seen Rena and Ronin working together the most- We've seen Kai quite a bit but the other two I'm not as familiar with. In fact I'm pretty sure we were tracking Rena and Ronin the other evening in a vehicle around Kabanino / Grishino but we lost them as they went further north. To be honest I expect much of the "action" per se to take place in the traditional areas. You know, the Chernos, the Elektros... Berezino is hit or miss since the NEAF is just not worth the jog anymore. Obviously the NWAF is still highly contested territory though as Philbur points out above even that can be a peaceful experience. If we're around the NWAF unless we have a distinct advantage in numbers it's generally going to result in someone shooting someone. Mishkino is what it is... and the heli hook has been the arena for bloodshed several times- particularly around Zelenegorsk. We (the Helpy Helpers) tend to work on the peripheries of those areas since those are the places where you have a realistic chance of actually having a dynamic encounter- ie: it's not ALWAYS going to be KOS for your own safety. Every old dog needs to get into a gunfight every now and then so sometimes we take our peace buttons off and wade into Cherno or the NWAF like everyone else. As the host while we do have access to logs that can show people are being shot, punched, stabbed, axed etc we can't see where any of it goes down. I presume with some of the sheer volume of activity in a short amount of time that it's just a general tornado of PVP going on in Elektro / Cherno / Wherever. It's funny, actually, since we've known you guys were around but there is no record of us having had an encounter. Quite often at night our guys are talking about you... wondering where you are since we tend to cover a lot of ground but have never bumped into you for better or worse. With that said- if you guys want to live in harmony with us then we can take the conversation offline and we can figure out (in general terms) where you guys are "working" so we can deconflict our activities. If you guys want to duke it out in long term and unregulated rivalry (basically just letting it play out the way it is)... we'll just keep doing what we're doing. I think both could be fun. As our server regular membership numbers climb, there's a much, much higher chance of seeing 40/40 on the server regularly so I'm glad you guys stick around. Our group right now (the ACTUAL Helpy Helpers) is about 13... though it's an informal number. We've got guys with 2000+ hours and some with a few hundred that don't play that often and everything in between. We'll usually have 4-6 online during the normal peak hours so if we have you guys in there and a couple randoms that pushes us up to our critical mass of about 12-15. Once we're there, it doesn't take long to hit 40 as we've done almost all weekend.

A restart (not reset- just a simple server restart) does in fact often cause a loot "redistribution." Granted this doesn't mean more, nor less... but it does get moved around. With that said I agree these idiots who still go into "MAX LOOT- 30 HELISPAWNS" servers need to figure it out.

The servers are forced to reset every 12 hours...

A bunch of us have asked the same question different ways and not got an answer. Hopefully we'll get some clarity from someone who knows how it's supposed to work so we can actually test it out.

Yeah... it'd be a solid choice. You won't get the most of it with your current setup but if the time comes to get a new machine you can swap the card over to that and have an upper mid-tier card. Just remember to thoroughly cleanse your system of your AMD / Radeon drivers before you install it.

Minimum Requirements- DayZ OS: Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7 SP1. Processor: Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz or AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHz. Memory: 2 GB RAM. Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 or AMD Radeon HD 5850 or Intel HD Graphics 4000 with 512 MB VRAM. DirectX: Version 11. Storage: 10 GB available space. Sound Card: DirectX®-compatible. Not sure if the mobo on that rig would take more than what he has now anyway- maybe with a bios upgrade? Keep in mind the Radeon 4800 was a 2008/9 era card when it was considered "high spec." Just being conversational... a RAM upgrade is usually a goto to breathe life into a computer but to be honest 8GB was practically unheard of for regular desktops back then. Not to overstate it as much as just to acknowledge that it certainly wasn't common.

Funny to see the guy with 2200 hours in this game insult the guy who posted 3400 times. This should be good.

Suit yourself.

The best option I was talking about was the graphics card- not the 700 card specifically. As I said, the lowest I would go is the 760. As you said a 960 may be similarly priced. On that note, for a guy on a budget purchasing a used graphics card isn't the worst thing a person can do. I've purchased a few for my folding rigs and haven't been disappointed. With that said, it's definitely a buyer beware scenario and you need to be prepared for disappointment. That's the cost of buying cheap.

New processor is useless because you'd need a new mobo anyway... new graphics card would be a start but dude... Windows Vista?! Jesus. The 1080 Nvidia cards are pushing prices down quite a bit... recommend you get into an Nvidia 60 level card (760 would be a modest but affordable step up.) I don't know which AMD card to recommend... but a 760 is about as low as I would go with the Nvidia. A LOT of its functionality is going to be limited by the archaic nature of the rest of your hardware but it's the best single step option that you have.

... and high fences.

Eh philbur- not sure if you use the same in game name? Haven't seen you around... Possibly different time zones? (Disregard, just found you in the log!) You are right in that we are often low to mid pop but when our regular group is in it quickly swells to full. Thursday and Friday night were packed and all manner of stuff went down. Last night was pretty quiet but many of our guys took a break so we didn't quite achieve our "critical mass" number of people (about 15). I'm working around zelenegorsk right now and we've got most of our group scattered. I think we are doing okay with m4 parts but if you're still in need of .357 let me know and I'll put a stack in a barrel south east of Zelenegorsk for you in Drozhino. I'll screenshot it for you if we need to set that up. See ya,