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More vehicles and non-lethal weaponry. I feel like those two things would need the most time to get unfucked from their initial introduction, where all of the other options are functionally less complicated, and less likely to cause major issues if they don't work right. Object manipulation/basebuilding comes in at a close third, though.

In the southern United States, there is a problem with feral hogs that have hybridized with the Eurasian boar. Google "Pigzilla" if you like. At several points after European colonization, Eurasian boars were imported from Germany as a game species, and interbred with feral agricultural hogs. Hogs were not native to North America, and the feral populations are considered to be an invasive nuisance species. Even so, the people who hunt these hogs--often as a professional service provided to landowners for a fee--will at the very least harvest all the meat from them; they will often donate it to homeless shelters, or food banks. Out west, there is an abundance of open spaces and wildlife refuges with generally healthy ecosystems. Ironically, "wildlife refuge" is a euphemism for "federally managed waterfowl hunting facilitation." In Oregon alone, there are controlled hunts for bighorn sheep, deer--both buck and doe, elk, pronghorn antelope, rocky mountain goat, cougar, and bear. At times the number of controlled hunt tags issued are in the single digits for some species, as they are that closely managed. There are also seasons for seven different species of upland fowl, duck and goose season, and wild turkey. In every case except cougar, the hunter is expected, and legally required, to harvest and not waste the meats of these animals. There is also a general hunting activity known as "varmint shooting," in which property owners seek to remove an overabundance of certain species artificially supported by their agricultural activities. People generally leave the carcasses of these smaller nuisance species for scavenger birds or coyotes. Many farmers and ranchers also cull the populations of coyotes due to the impact on the local food chain, of their providing a food source for an artificially large population of prey animals. To my knowledge, varmint shooting is the only hunting activity in which it is generally accepted to leave the carcass of the animals shot. While this practice may be controversial to people from urban areas and no practical experience with land management, it is ubiquitous due to necessity. I once did some work for a farmer who claimed to expend upwards of 7000 rounds of .223 ammunition in a single year, shooting at ground squirrels on his large alfalfa ranch. This same farmer also had purchased an entire pallet of chewing gum to feed to the squirrels, as he was told that it would kill them by gumming up their digestive systems, while passing through larger, non-target species. An acre of alfalfa can support over a hundred individual squirrels, collectively capable of eating nearly a ton of material in a season. Left unmitigated, these unnaturally large populations of squirrels can reduce the yield of an alfalfa farm by 20 to 30 percent. It gets bad enough that cattle ranchers on irrigated range land, tired of seeing broken ankles on their cattle from having stepped into burrows, will post paid advertisements in the newspaper seeking people to come out to their property and shoot every squirrel they see. I understand that some people may not agree with varmint shooting as an ethical option for ensuring the safety of crops and livestock. I guess if people feel it is wrong for farmers to kill those squirrels, they should consider how they would react to having rats in their house that steal thirty percent of their paycheck every week.

I don't know where you are getting your "most hunters" data, but I think your numbers might be a bit off. If you are talking about people who pay tens of thousands of dollars go travel to another continent and kill something rare for a cool mount/rug, that is definitely not the majority. Here in the western US at least, people who hunt big game and waterfowl do so for the meat. The forests are crawling with game cops who have a boner for issuing citations. Going to the trouble of hauling all that gear out into the woods and shooting a deer, just to let it sit and rot; only to be tracked down by the combination of ATV and pickup tire tread patterns for a humongous fine and confiscation of the rifle involved is not a very attractive prospect for anybody that I know. Thanks for perpetuating ill-informed stereotypes though.

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You must have just gotten teabagged too hard, without proper preparation. Next time, leave a note in your pockets asking to be force fed a pristine banana before anyone teabags you while unconscious. Be safe out there. ; )

It took a while for me to be able to report bugs. I remember when I first started playing, I did not know that a separate account on the feedback tracker had to be created. I just kept on trying to log in with my forum account, and it never worked; so I gave up. It was by sheer chance that I thought to register a new account on the feedback tracker; about six hundred hours into my play experience. Just as with all things DayZ, the learning curve for submitting bug reports is very steep, initially. Once I figured out how to navigate the tracker, it became much more simple to submit text reports. Sadly, the upload limit is dismally low, and there is no facilitation to embed videos and images--such as we can do on these forums. I'm actually planning to update some of my earlier reports with better documentation, and I will be including links to forum posts, wherein I have already embedded video documentation of the problem. I can't help but notice the ironic inefficiency of this process.

You need to have someone else get in the drivers seat and turn the vehicle on. Then it will work just fine again. Upvote the bug report.

You seem hostile to, or at the very least, disdainful of the concept of people playing on an official vanilla server for extended periods of time. I'm not sure where you get the idea that only rented servers deserve to be persistent with any degree of certainty over long periods, but we clearly disagree on this fundamental aspect of what constitutes the basic provisions of DayZ playability. I suppose we will have to cite irreconcilable differences as the reason to no longer continue this discourse. I feel that your sentiments are toxic to the majority of the playerbase. You surely wouldn't be foolish enough to suggest that the vast majority of players rent their own servers, and thus make up the core constituency of Dayz players. I'm almost certain that this purported lack of agreement as to the longevity of distinct individual 'official' server persistence would be an oversight. The very idea of a company making a multiplayer game and selling it for real money, yet failing to provide adequate and appropriate server availability, is absolutely ludicrous. At the least it would be negligent, at the worst, fraud. I'm sure BI would take the necessary steps upon official release of the complete game, to ensure that players could use official public servers for extended periods of time, with relative certainty that their game progress wouldn't be arbitrarily lost. You sir, are trolling. Read the last line of your above quoted text, and honestly tell me that that was not a taunt directed at people who wish to play on neutral territory. You say there is no agreement that such provisions be made in terms of public server availability. I have not seen their agreements with SP, so I do not know. Common sense would dictate that providing servers on which their online multiplayer game may be played, is an implicit part of the product that they are selling, labeled as DayZ Standalone. When I purchased the game, I purchased it as a one-time transaction, to include the finished game--upon completion. So unless they are going to pay to rent us each a server, I am fairly confident that providing free, public servers is a part of the original purchase. Again, if you honestly feel that BI would not be completely dropping the ball, by failing to ensure the persistent availability of distinct instances of official public servers, we are at an impasse; and I would strongly discourage you from pursuing this line of discussion with me any further. I find your ideas on the subject to be inconsistent, and objectionable. Good day.

Google DayZ SA heatmap. This will give you a decent reference to see what the traffic is typically like. Remember, if people go looking for camps, they plan their route thinking about where good hiding places should be. I like mediocre hiding places, and counter-intuitive hiding places; both have their advantages and weaknesses. Everybody and their brother looks at the dense woods at the western and northern edges of the map as an out-of-the-way place to safely stash their gear. At the same time, players looking for high-tier loot, but not willing to risk the exposure of running through the helicrash areas or military bases, will cruise these woods hoping to get lucky. Food for thought: There are a few places on the map where you find blue barrels that cannot be interacted with; either sitting on pallets, or at the downspout of rain gutters. Hiding a couple more barrels in plain sight will likely get overlooked by most players familiar with the map, but may be inspected by newer players who have not yet learned to ignore these set-piece barrels. Edit: I've heard that the wardrobes get wiped on server resets.

Doors are for squares. If you have a disconnect or server reset while driving a doorless vehicle, you will step out and go through the log-out animations right next to the vehicle. If it happens in a vehicle with working doors --present, and not ruined-- you will spawn all the way back in the last place your little feetsies touched the ground; sometimes this is a very long ways back.

Try rotating the tires until none of them appear to clip into the ground. I have also had issues with vehicles driving exceedingly poorly; spinning in circles, over-revving in third gear, generally poor traction. The V3S is just a slow, stubborn, workhorse. You need to learn the gearing, and try to avoid steep hills for now. I have no doubt that it will be improved upon in the future, but for now, it is only worthwhile for moving large amounts of cargo; and even then, it seems unnecessarily sluggish. It should. Just be glad that you haven't had desynch related brake failures yet. Those will ruin your day in a profound way. Also, beware of gates; the steel ones with vertical bars. Collisions with gates are being handled poorly by the physics simulation, ATM; it will force your vehicle into the ground, destroying every single component. Luckily, inventory isn't affected, and it didn't kill me; so I got that goin for me.

My bad. I guess I should change my terminology to "stock" servers--meaning ostensibly unaltered from the standard, vanilla condition server. In any case, if I see a server that retains a name in an 'official' format, I feel reasonably safe in assuming that the server conditions have been left in their original states. There are vastly more servers with "unofficial" sounding names, so I assume the ones left in their original condition are, in fact, the official ones hosted by the GSP--as opposed to having a paying customer admin. My experience overwhelmingly confirms this assumption. I know I am working from an assumption here, but rather than playing on any server that contains the word "loot" in the title, I generally prefer to play on servers with unaltered names; though for social reasons, I have chosen my preferred 3pp public stash server on one that had been renamed--as is ostensibly done by most people who rent servers. I Understand that a person can rent a server, and leave it named "DayZ XXX YY-YYY", and that when they stop paying the bill, that server may go dark. I consider it to be overwhelmingly unlikely though, that a person would go to the expense and trouble of renting a server, and never alter any of the server settings. For this reason, I generally assume that such officially-formatted names belong to official, or "stock," servers. I accept a marginal, and unknowable risk that some boob has gone and rented their own server, yet done none of the things that renting a server would allow them to do, besides simply playing the game as we all can on the official servers. Looks like you had to read back on the first page a bit to find something of mine to nitpick. If you decide in the future start an epistemology debate about any of my posts, don't bother. You missed the point here, and I assume you will be missing the point in the future. If you are still around here next year, I'll ask Santa Clause to stuff some common-sense into your stocking. Mookie knows what official server means, or presumably means...

Sheds and houses should have them. I've got loads of them stashed all over the map. They really aren't that rare. If you are having a really terrible time finding one, it could be a case of bad Juju. I recommend a cleansing ritual. Farm an entire plot of zucchinis, and eat them all--this may take a while. Once you have done that, go find a can of sardines and force-feed it to a fox. You will find a tire repair kit in the next place you look.

You can also use the new UI, and simply equip the repair kit to hands, and repair them while on the vehicle. Be aware though, that the new UI does not give you any status feedback except for the text ticker; mind your food and drink intake.

Stuff it in a barrel and go look for some damned helicopters. A quick use of the search function should produce many well- drawn maps of popular helicopter crash-site search paths. One-hour resets, so you should do fine on-foot, or excellent in a Lada.

Also maybe work on enforcing those server hosting guidelines about kicking for no reason on public servers, and the ubiquitous public servers with "Loot" as the prominent feature of their titles. For me, looking at the server lists everyday, seeing nearly all of the fully populated servers still having names suggestive of more loot, or faster spawn cycles; well this is the biggest indicator of open disregard for their player base. If 80% of the fully populated servers have something indicative of "loot" in their names, then any other server renters would also have to break the rules to even have a chance at competing for a well-populated server. I won't even consider renting a server until they get this whole enforcing their own rules, thing, down. One should not have to resort to false advertising, and using prohibited terms, to have a fair chance of getting a reasonable server population. Allowing this to continue for so long, as-is, has set a bad precedent for the future behavior of server renters, and really, trivialized the entire matter. It is the rough equivalent of having left cereal boxes on the kitchen floor for a toddler, so that the parents can continue to sleep-in. It appears that the people responsible for making sure that there are publicly available servers that the game can be played on, have done the absolute minimum in executing their duties. Any price increase of a product so obviously flawed, is surely to be regarded as a poke in the eye.

This fix has not shown to be effective in my experience. AFAIK, the only thing that will fix this is to have any other player drive the vehicle a bit. Tested many times. Perhaps in walking away, somebody else has interacted with the vehicle. I have tried walking away, like a kilometer, and returning. I have also tried logging out a kilometer away, and returning. Neither worked for me. 2nd driver; immediately driveable vehicle.

Put a lid on it... Also. Nice title.

You sound like you know a lot about duping... I've found a fair amount of FAL, VSS, SVD, and an AUG and a UMP so far in the past week since I started playing on stable. Absolutely none of them were duped, all from helicopters. I don't really think that they are that rare right now; might be related to their newness. You sure sound like you know a lot about duping...

Well, I've heard them too. Gonna have to cite independent experience. I usually don't even respond to copyright trolling.

Proof or it didn't happen. I can't be expected to read everything.

I've been running a public character with a VSS for about a week now. I definitely does not have the sound qualities that it should have. Aggros as much zombies as the longhorn, from ranges up to 300 meters. It still has the high-pitched "pew" sound. The actual sound of SP-6 rounds appears to be something more like this. It would seem very likely to not even hear a hint of this gun in an open field at 100 meters. I've heard paintball guns louder than this rifle.

Not really prison island either. I swam out there with Cold the other day. It was unremarkable; sparsely distributed, low-to-mid tier stuff. Basically like a really lame PD that is a pain in the ass to access.

I cover a lot of ground.

They are, indeed being stripped. Last night on experimental, I had the misfortune of putting a couple wheels on a car, only to have them whisked away by an inter-dimensional scrapper. I of course took this as a sign from the vehicle gods that I should transcend my earthbound state, and started hopping to other servers and stripping their cars for parts. It is a thing. I blame the hive, and human nature. If it can be exploited for easy gain, people will exploit it. Edit: even on a private server, when I'm building a car, the first place to look for parts is where I know other cars spawn.