n4ndoz

Hey guys. I don't have any clue on how I should name my idead, but here it goes: (mechanics explained below) Briefing: The main idea is to implement a system in wich players can loot blank pages of paper, write on it and stick it to a wall, or just leave it through the map. I know that at the first look it looks like a poor idea. But it isn't. You must find blank pages and a pen, or pencil, or even a dead player's blood(from it's corpse of course). And you simply write on it and do wtv you want with it. You can murder a player and leave your mark on it. You can advise the players that certain areas are dangerous. Or you can put bounts on bandits through out the map. Or try to advise that you are loot a area and you will shoot everyone in sight. Or you can simply leave you story to the fellow survivors around chernarus. Mechanics: Items Needed: 1x Blank Page(per Note/Journal) 1x Pen Blood from Corpse(ok, it would be easy if you are a psycho to simply put your finger into a corpses wound and take some blood to write lol); How does it work: 1- With all the items in your inventory you right-click at the page and select Write here. 2- A small text box appears(limited to 200 chars.), and you write wtv you want. 3- Finished writing, click the "Done" buttom, and at the same slot that was the Blank Page, there will be your "Note". 4- You target a valid surface(Building's walls, a player's corpses,vehicles), slide your scroll and look for the option "Stick Note here"; 5- Some one finds it, scrolls over it and 2 options pop-up: Read , Remove from wall. Pros: - If you are a friendly player you can loot a area and let other friendlies that you are looting there, or you just passed over there. - You can let ppl know if there is a bandit on the server, without having to Alt-Tab to the forums.(ok, the Notes won't be all over the map, but whoever is nearby will have a probability to read it and be aware); - If you wan't to group with strangers, mark a meeting, try to recruit through it.(ok, there wil always be betrayers, trolls, bandits, but in a real situation I would prefer the risk of it than trying the direct contact)(Note: even if a camper is trying to troll you, you can alwasy risk and try the contact) - Many more... Cons: - People will surely try to spam internet shit(solution: a character limit and restriction(only latters and a few other special chars are permitted)); - Liars; - Trollers, scammers, etc; - A lot of notes on the server, screwing it's performance(solution: the notes aren't "saved" so, with each server restart they are all gone)(solution2: the Blank Pages are stored at ammo and food slots, so player won't take a lot of it and are single stacked) Why did I had this idea?: I'm a friendly player, and all of you know that as for now, most attempts of direct comunication are almost a suicidal action. This way, you could simply put your note there and anyone who got balls enough, or are desperate to find a group would come a long. Or even, as I said, in a real situation, I would advise players that Im in the surrounding areas so, this way or they have big balls to fight me, or they keep out from my sight. Hope you like my idea. And if any of you have some suggestions, please post it here! p.s.: sorry for any grammar mistakes, ensligh is not my language. =)

They appeared now!! We got what we need and left the rest for the clans that come here. Including a poor guys that killed himself on a road east of cherno with a ATV! lolololololololol

Thank you for this reply, bud. We are on vilayer too. Btw, thank you all for the replies! You are all welcome toour server, and don't forget to bring your clans. Competitionis always nice on this game!

@Okano Well, bud. Believe me, we had 10 guys looking at all the spawn locations I know that for sure will spawn a vehicle. Not only, but including the ones you mentioned. And nothing. We restarted with a tent, made this "tent test" we putted a flare on it to test the "Save" option. And rigth when we restarted I was in front of it, it re appeared and all the 9 other guys was looking for vehicles, we stood looking for 3 hours, almost got killed by a group of bandits(wich we rapidly got rid of). And, one more time, no vehicles. =) After a few restarts the tent disappeared and after all didn't came back. Really strange!! I think we will contact vilayer for further info.

As I previously posted in here. Me and my clan are noob admins and we are still learning how do admin. a server. Our server is now online but we are still testing on it so the restarts will be frequent until this weekend as we hope. And as for now we are having issues with the in-game Server Control, so we cannot precisely advise you all that we are restarting the server. This way, if you joined our server and US 1304, and the server restarted DON'T think we are exploiting, we are just noobs. For example, the first day of the server it was stoped because we did not know how to set the BE ping kicker. As for now, we are trying to figure out stuffs about the server control. If you join our servers expect restarts each hour until the next weekend. One more time: THE SERVER US 1304 IS NOW ON TEST FASE, WE ARE RESTARTING THE SERVER EACH HOUR. If you want more info contact me on skype. n4ndoz3 For now, we thank the guys who understand it and please don't report us for abuse since all we want is to host a good server for you and US to play. Best regards, F.E.A.R. clan.

Me and some friends are renting a server at VIlayer. But we've got some problems regarding the RCON control panel, and we see that everytime anyone loggs on. And we are restarting the server almost each 5 minutes to implement the changes(since we are kind of noobs at Arma 2 servers). So, we are afraid our server gets blacklisted. So, to avoid this problem can we lock the server for a day or 2 and then reset it's data base for us to at least figure out how can we work on it? What we don't want is people reporting us for restarting the server every minutes thinking we are doing something ilegal or wrong when in fact only one guy is loggin and testing and figuring out how all the stuff works, but it seems like people wan't to join our server anyway!!!! =( So, if we lock it out will there be any problem? Or, if so, can we at least do something for the server not to appear on the list until we really stop testing?? Thanks a lot in advance. =)

Really thanks, man. I will contact them asap. As I said it's not for farming or anything like this, it's just that we don't want to offer to the player that come to our server a bad first impression. So they can come here and stay for as long as they want.

@Graz Really thank you, man, for the reply. I already did this and "shutdowned" the server for now, until we know a little more about it. We are now testing at private(lan) Arma2 servers, but soon enough it will be very late(1:35 night BRT), so I think the server will remain stopped 'till tomorrow. You think Vilayer or anybody else will complaint about it? Since the server was stopped I think there isn't any problem. And, one more thing, I can't PM Vilayer myself, I'm not the official guy who rented the server. He doesn't speak english, so we have to manage how to communicate with this little big problem. But, thanks for both of you who answered. =)

Please!! Can anyone answer to this?? We already stoped the server.

Hey guys. Something disgusting have been happening these days. Me and my clan been playing on a server and made a camp. It wasn't the best and surely not the greater, but we had 4 vehicles(Bus, Motorcycle, UAZ, ATV), and suddenly the server we was playing became victim of a hacker attack. Since yesterday when me and I think all the players on the server got teleported to the International Airfield the server has been attacked. Today, my friends were playing on it and our camp got heavily attacked by a hacker, he exploded all our Vehicles and tents with satchel charges I think, but what matter is that we lost everything, all our tents got emptied before the attack by someone we really don't know who is. But what matter is that one of my friends(he asked me to report in here since he doesn't speak english) says and trully believe that on, if not the only one, hacker on the server was the Admin. Since I can't confirm this, it is more a supposition than a afirmation. What he was saying is that on the 2 times he got killed, a msg appeared on his screen saying something like: "XXXXX* killed(Friendly Fire) - YYYYY". (Note*: the XXXXX matched the admins name, and I won't say ithere, so, if a forum admin or anybody who is really responsible for this kind of stuff want it,I send the name via PM) (Note: the YYYYY is my friends name) So, I don't know if the poor guy had his CD-Key spoofed, or if it was really him, but it is strange and isn't the first time I saw a admin or somebody with the RCON pw hacking a server. strange as it is, it is each time making me give up on this game since everytime we conquer a lot of stuff or a hacker comes and destroy(yes, it wasn't the first time) or a bug fucks us.

I was alive and well equiped at a server when suddenly all the players on the server was teleported to a area that I believe was the main Airfield. A friend of mine managed to get alive for a few seconds to see some guys camping at the Control Tower, but he got busted by a cheater. They wascamping at the bodies, probably they will loot everybody and go away. Can anyone do something??? This is disgusting!!

Funny that nobody even replies to this!

Now my friend is reporting airplanes on the server. This is disgusting how Battleye sucks.

Man, believe me. With a little "dedication" to the game you become harder to kill, used to avoid playersand the survival iseven more intense. Ok, the world is in ruins, society is all fuc*** up, but you can learnfrom whatever you did in your past lifes, you keep evolving and leveling up without a damn EXP bar that wouldl ruin your notion of learning stuffs. Eventually, after some days you will see that you learned alot and will manage to survive a lot more. From my 3rd day and 5th-7th char on I survived one week with him, only dying by the fucking debugforest. This game, even with the !¨@%#!¨@% CoD fraggers this still one of the best games ever made, because in here the only perks/skills/abillities you gain or unlock willbe directly unlocked in your brain and not on a virtual sheet. So, man, give it another try. Think well on what you are doing in-game and surely you will find your way. You can even find a group. I found one and none of my RL friends are in(they don't play DayZ yet). Found my group on a local community(dayz.com.br) and we are doing fine, in one week we had a lot of good stuff and was doing very well, now we are even better. You can do it too, it's just a matter of patience. And remember, this is a game where the most simple decision can fu** your so beloved char so bad, so you need to play it like a war vet. And even though, you can still have fun, and nice moments. In what game a chat between 2 players is more intense than inside DayZ?

Sure it would!! Well, I just wait for the devs to implement something like this. But ppl are now so concerned with a lot of other stuff that won't give a shit to this ideas.

Did you fixed the problem, man?? A friend of mine has the game fu**d up by the same problem. We thought about reinstalling whole shit again!

Well... Im trying to download the patches but it requires me to log on! How do I proceed?

The only thing that would make sens to implement is the blood marks,and appearent ones. And make they can only be gone by washing your clothes swimming or going by a river/lake/etc. This way there will be no more than the fake-reallity Rocket want's and will satisfy all the other players. But, as I've been insisting, it won't stop the CoD d-bags from fragging all around. A Bandit is generally not a killer by nature, but someone who will STEAL your items and kill you if you try something. Ok, it's better to kill on sight and fuck off the bla bla bla. A CoD player is a guy that kills only for the pleasure of increasing it's Frag count, and is what happens in most of the servers all around.

C'mooooon!! My char got wiped aswell. My only fear is that I logged off in camp!! So, if anyone else got my char it will be spawning at my camp! I tried everything in hand to make my way back, but no, I couldn't my char is still wiped. Lost: DMR; NVG; Rage Finder; Coyote; M9SD; Grenades; Map; All belt items; Food; etc Please, Rocket, fix this issue! I can start another char, but start a char because of a wipe like this? This is a hell of a madness, loosing all my stuff, and what if anyone logs onto my char instead of me, and this is something that is frequently happenning?? They will steal all that has in my camp!! All that took hours for me and my fellows to get, and will be stole by a !@!*@#(!&@ that had the luck to spawn with my char. Anyone have a solution to this??

Yeah, man. I tried to search but I think I screwed something, nothing came up when I searched. But I think that boths posts, mine and DreamDragon's will make the idea even better. This isn't a "must have" but is a nice idea and will surely make the game even more immersive!

Holy mother of zombies, man!! The idea is now perfect!! My topic is almost invisible, and yours is more. Can you merge this ideas into yours so we can have more "visibility"? If you want, of course. But this idea is really nice.!!

I hate when ppl say: "If you don't like, then don't play!" Averyone in here are not saying that don't like the game, or are even COMPLAINING ABOUT THE GAME!! What the fu**?? What about some classes on text interpretation? What at least I am complaining that the Game proposes a hipotetically new sandbox mode, never seen before, and what is happening is simply a deathmatch. I'm saying that I want to play this game how it is really meant to be played, and not like a deathmatch. C'mon. I wan't to try to contact someone and not be 100% sure that if I do it I will get shot. And pls, do not say that making contact IRL would get you killed. It will, as soon as the world has turned into a Mad Max like state. So, please, man... And, as someone said before, we MUST complain now so the game would be well constructed later when I will really play this shit, because now ALL OF US are a bunch of stupid testers, nothing more.

@Strategos Hey, man, now I think I got you. Really good. The idea is amazing, but is still too hard to implement and to control. You will firstly need a team to develop this system, so I think soon enough when Rocket realizes he need a huge team to develop the mod as a game, it maybe become possible. I will draw something and to try to show you how do I figured a really simple server model for this. Acording to this model to go from a map to another what will happen(Server 1 to 2)?: 1- In-game you will reach the map transition zone(the entire edge of the map but maybe a width of 1km ), your location info will be transfer.'d to the HIVE so it can process and save it, you will keep walking, you can eat, you can even die. 2- Now a option will pop up(Continue to another map?) if you choose Yes, then the client will attempt to connect to server 2 and you will still be on server 1, but on a transition zone, iddle, watinf for it to search for the maps; 3- You choose one and than the HIVE get your info and put you in the same Transition Zone, but on Server 2 now. And you was safely delivered to the other part of the map as soon as you get out of the Map Transition Zone But, of course, the map transitions zones will become no-mans land very quickly, because even if it would be the entire edge of a map. Now I think I got your idea. Am I right?

Yeah, Dragon!! Really nice. I'm sorry to almost double post it, but I really didn't found your post! Im going to read it entirely when I'm in home, working working right now!! =)

FUUUUUUUU Had the same idea and nothing came up on the search. May have searched for the wrong terms. This idea is wonderful, I would really like to see it on the game. DreamDragon, please, consider merging the two posts into one. I've got some nice ideas for this system that will fit nicely to this thread. (http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/35501-journalsnotes-writing-pages-and-leaving-through-the-map/#entry338444) p.s.: did not copied you idea, just did not found it before posting. sorry =)