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If you actually think that vehicles are going to be the end all be all of convenience, you're sorrily mistaken. You must find one first, repair it to working order by finding various parts, keep it fuelled up and keep it from being stolen. Just because they ad vehicles does not mean that you will instantly have a means of travel across the map. These people screaming for vehicles really have no clue on how hard it's going be to get one, maintain one and keeping one. OT: I am pretty confident that the SA will not become a game like the others you speak of OP. It is pretty clear by watching Hicks' live streams and Rocket's posts past and present.

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This is correct. You cannot have a restart past 4hrs because it's an automatic thing with all GSP's. You can have less but not more. Exactly.

Just to prove a point.

Just to get this into people's heads... All servers will restart at 4hr intervals unless set to restart sooner. There are no 6hr or 8hr restarts and cannot be because again, all servers will restart automatically at 4hrs. Also, currently night is not pitch black and brighter than it used to be. People seem to just want an excuse to not play at night because it's much easier to play on a 24/7 Day server.

Weekly maintenance. Should be over soon.

Have to bind a key to throw or you can drop it into vicinity. You need rags/bandages and sticks to create a fireplace kit. Logs and matches to place into the kit to get it lit. Camp-fires are only for cooking, currently. You can't remove soaked or damp status as of yet, but making a fire should cure that once this function is implemented.

Link to the TOG community site added to OP.

Currently that's the only difference but in saying that, awareness of your surroundings is an absolute necessity.

That depends on the person really, some claim pings that high are playable, some say not so much. Only you can determine if it's unplayable or not, really. ;) Ping kick is currently at 300.

But you must go on! You're a survivor... Whatever doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger. ;)

Navmesh is like a blanket that covers the whole map. Certain parts of this blanket, things can roam freely, other parts are a no go zone. Walls, doors and whatever other entities they make the Navmesh consider non enter-able. This is to work with Zeds, Animals, respawning(players I assume) and afaik(and has been mentioned) the player camera(no more looking through walls). Of course, it seems the only worry is that server performance will drop even lower than it is currently. Let's hope not.

They have brightened the night to a level where you can see and it's not pitch black. Although it does need fixing still and that will come with the new renderer I'm sure, but at least what you speak of seems to be gone. There's a discussion or two about the night being brighter. I just find that people easily make excuses to not play at night when, regardless of pitch black, monochrome or whatever, people make excuses. Meh to each his own.

No, the whole server does not consist of our community members. Even though I am a TOGger I mostly play lone wolf style and will shoot other TOGgers if they so choose. :D

Private hives are not allowed currently and when they are they will be a shard of the main hive not local like Xelpher is suggesting.

So if it's not connected to the main hive, it doesn't actually count as well as not being very legal. You are free to play as you see fit, although I do frown upon certain douchebaggery(using exploits and the like). If anything, there may be serverwide events in the future but nothing you need to concern yourself about if you don't want. Restricting playstyles in DayZ is not my idea of what DayZ is, but being a douchebag is definitely not fun either. Although, the server is an official TOG server, we are not a clan. We are a multinational gaming community with thousands of members and our basic code of conduct is complete fairness in gameplay. We don't cheat and are mature gamers who don't pull the bullshit you see with a lot of clans.

My server is located in AU so not sure what your ping would be but no I do not have a 24/7 Day server. I set it to get at least an hour of night play so it bounces from a 3am in game time to an in game time of 5pm. Currently I am testing a 4pm in game time, but don't seem to get enough night for my liking within the 4hr period that the server is up. ;) I will always have a day/night cycle, whether that be accelerated, 24hr cycle or what I am able to do currently.

It can't, unless they are manually setting the in game time when the server restarts. If you have Admins that around 24/7 to do this, it's possible but definitely not automatically. That would be the only way to accomplish a 24hr Day/Night cycle because when the server restarts it restarts at the time it's set for. So are you telling me that you're running hacked versions of the Standalone because I'm not sure what else to get from this. All Standalone(Official) servers that are connected to the main hive restart at 4hr intervals and there's nothing you can do about it.

It is true unless there's something wrong. I am currently with Vilayer and have been with Multiplay and Gameservers and it's the same with all GSP's. Every 4hrs hours regardless of what you think, the servers will restart. Ask your GSP or look in their description of DayZ servers. https://www.vilayer.com/gameinfo/DayZ-Standalone.html And yes, I'm calling bullshit.

Standalone servers cannot go for more than 4hrs without being restarted, it happens automatically and there's nothing you can do about it. The only thing you can do is get shorter restart times but past 4hrs is not currently possible. This is what hinders Day/Night cycles to a point. You can have the server restart at an in game time where you can get some sort of day/night cycle. What needs to happen is like in the mod, upon restarts the server continues in game time where it leaves off when it restarts. Or we get accelerated time.

But there's a big difference between writing scripts and writing things directly into the engine, more work for the latter I believe especially rewriting huge chunks of that engine. Modding already confirmed via Steam Workshop at least but we won't see modding until private hives are implemented, which could be awhile.

Some kind of monitoring needs to be in place to keep some Modders from monetizing their Mods or stealing code without proper consent from BI. Examples like Zoombies(shutdown) for Arma 3 and "Insert Mod here" for DayZ Mod. Taking scripts from others and inserting them into the game then calling them yours or outright stealing assets/code is ridiculous. Then not releasing the Mod to the masses and monetizing it because you call it yours, when in actuality it's someone else's scripts/assets, shit like this needs to be addressed. I'm all for modding but some of the asinine BS that these Modders did has to be kept in check. You can say that Modders need full reign and be able to do what they want, but to keep the shit(mentioned above) from happening again there has to be some structure to the process, not just a willy nilly approach like the Mod. I think also with the way private hives are going to be, I'm not sure if pay 2 win loadouts and such are going to be possible. Which is a good thing. Watching the RTX Vid this morning, Brian Hicks did confirm that Steam Workshop will be utilized for Mods.

Loot respawning is not in game currently, they may try it out from time to time on Exp but besides that we have to wait.

The monochrome night won't be the way it's going to be with the new renderer I'm sure. So many people that complain that night was too dark, now they give people a night where you can actually see(for the most part) and people still use the gamma exploit(which looks more like shit) and/or still bitch. I think it's just the fact that these people just want 24/7 day and will give any excuse not to play at night no matter what it looks like. I like night time play and always have without using gamma, it adds to the game play whether it be monochrome, pitch black or otherwise. If people are afraid to get shot while using your torch then no version of night will help, you should have to use your torch(or some kind of lighting) at some point to have to see, like interiors. If night was to the point where you could see perfectly all the time then it would just be better to have every server at 24/7 day because there would be no point to having night. I find it funny that a lot of people say they want DayZ to be difficult but when it comes down to it, they just want easy mode if they can get it.

Yeah but the private hive will still be private just a shard of the main hive. It will still prevent server hoppers because it's a private hive(shard) just connected to the main hive. Like I said, this is how I'm understanding it. So, you can still have a private hive per say just not the way people are used to. This would also eliminate badmins getting access to "their" hive and doing what they do best. How they're going to work modding with a model like this I don't know but there was early mention of the Steam Workshop as well as it being more structured. Maybe some kind of licensing?