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So, I read everywhere that everyone is excited about the new features, that will prevent serverhopping. I don't like the idea of people alt+f4-ing out of the game, but I don't see the problem in server hopping to get better loot. Let me explain that: Imagine, you have everything you wanted, a ghillie suit, NVG, rangefinder and gps, but you lack a good sniper rifle. In order to get a good sniper rifle (AS50 or M107) you need to look at the barracks or you are lucky and find a heli crash site, which are rare, and IN ADDITION, are often looted. Especially on servers, that don't restart every few hours. So, to get that desired weapon, you need to rely on the barracks or on perfect timing when a server restarts. This is where I see the problem. To get that final piece of gear, there are two known points on the map and x unknown places on the map. So you go on a server, check that two points out, they're empty, than what ? Travel over the entire map and hope to find a heli crash site that no one else on that server has found yet ? Or go to another server, check that two known locations, nothing there, go to another server, check the barracks, you see where this is going? I would rather see that there are more known locations, that spawn the best (military) loot. I'd love to see the best of loot spawn on NO airfield too. It's a long journey from NW to NO airfield. I'd be fine with that. Or put it someplace else. OR make stuff respawn more. The last time I played on a server, my friend found a new weapon in the barracks, that he wanted to put in his backpack. His backpack was full, so he decided to put stuff he didn't need on the floor where he picked up the new weapon. Since there wasn't more usefull loot, we decided to go back to berezino for some medical supplies and to meet with some other friends. Later that evening, all my friends went off, so I decided to go back to the NW airfield and check out the barracks. Maybe there was some new loot... As I entered the barracks in search for loot, I found the exact same things on the exact same place where my friend left them hours ago! In addition, all the other loot spots contained the exact same items as the first time we entered... So please, to prevent serverhopping, don't punish the players that do it, make the game so that we don't need to. I don't wanna serverhop, I wan't to stay on that server, that I like. But if one cant find what one's looking for, what else should one do? Hope one can understand what I wrote. Sorry for bad english. mfg PS: I think I didn't make myself clear on one point: I don't do serverhopping, I usually play with my friends on one server all the time. I'm just sayin' that I can understand people, who do this. Maybe I should work on my english before posting here again ... PS2: I think I need to clarify another thing: This isn't about the AS50 or the M107. These are just examples! It's about all the best military loot. So don't get to fixated on these items.

Well, I can see your points and I regret even opening this thread to discuss the possibility of lowering serverhopping in a "gameplay" way instead of swinging the ban hammer.

Finally, a person that can accept that other people do have other opinions...

Well, I put time in the game, every free minute I can spare, and I survive the meantime. And we do work in a group and we don't have best gear and stuff. It seems as people don't understand my point: It would be nice, if you'd have to travel more to check different places with the best loot. That would, of course, include more points with good loot, but it would also lower serverhopping in a more "natural" way than just with this "technical" fixes. And the loot percentage can stay the same or be lowered, I don't care. Basically: More loot points that are far away from each other so you have to travel there.

Yeah, it is meant to kill me. And I have been killed by zombies and bugs and players. And I don't have a problem with that. But when I see that other players already found ridiculous amounts of all that stuff, and braging about it, I wonder why I never find these things. But I see where this is going. You cannot have a normal discussion on an internet forum. If your opinion isn't the opinion of everyone else, you're basically a moron, deserve to die and should immediately leave the internet ... So for the sake of it: You're all right, I'm an idiot and this topic can be closed ...

Again: I don't wanna get what I want instantly or free of time investment! I want to invest time in this game! I want to play with friends and raid cities! I want to survive in the wilderness and hunt animals for food. But: After I played a lot of hours, I'm just a little disappointed that I never found NVGs, or a Rangefinder or something like that, while it seems that other players have shitloads of these things...

So, I invested about 130h in this game, I died about 2-3 times after figuring out the basics. I don't want to get everything instantly or in a short time frame. I looted the barracks about 20-30 times (who really counts?) and never found anything better than an M4 SD. Don't get me wrong, I love my M4 SD, it's a great weapon, but it's not what I wanted. I don't have a problem with investing a lot of time to get the stuff I need. I enjoy playing with my friends, raiding cities, exploring, just surviving. I know, that the game is not entirely about getting the best loot, but I think it's not an unimportant point to a lot of people. And to all the people that wish me to die: Are you reading what you're writing? Do you realise, what you're saying? Are you still sane in your mind?

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I think as long as the game is not fixed and the zombies are cheating through walls and stuff, I will use this method. Basically what JeserEric said.

There is a cheat or hack or something, where everyone on the server dies! I had this twice, I was running around in the middle of nowhere with some friends, and all of a sudden, all 3 of us fell to the ground and the "you are dead" screen appeared :(

It noticed me, because as soon as I pointed my gun in its direction, it froze. It started moving again after I started looting again.

So you're commin' to this place, the OFFICIAL dayz mod forum, the place, where an OFFICIAL bohemia interactive employee presents his mod for ArmA 2, a game by bohemia interactive, and ask if there are clans that operate on CRACKED copies, because you obviously have NO LEGAL copy of ArmA 2 ? are you for real or just trollin us ?

As I first began playing DayZ, my attitude was 'i shoot everyone who is not in skype or TS with me!' ... I never actually met other people, until that one day in the supermarket. It was short after the introduction of female skins. So I was looting the supermarket, equiped with a Lee Enfield. Then a female skin entered the supermarket. I say female skin, because I dont know the gender of the person playing it. The female skin had no weapon, so I figured it wouldnt be a thread to me, because it was probably just spawned and/or new. So I decided to skip my rule of shooting everyone on sight, and continued looting the place. There was a shotgun in the supermarket, that I didnt pick up. A few moments after I decided to let the female skin live, it shot me with a shotgun. Long story short: Everyone on sight gets killed now! Short after that, I entered the northern firestation in Elektro. As I entered the tower, there was another player, aiming his makarov at me, but using voice chat, he almost sobbed to me "dont shoot, dont shoot, help me!" ... but before my brain realized the words he said, I already unloaded a full makarov clip onto him and he died! And I don't feel remorse! It could have been a trap. Or not. I don't care. That one situation in the supermarket changed everything for me. I am now a proud bandit!

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i got that issue too ... played fine yesterday and this very morning, but cant play now, stuck on loading screen

day z has no singleplayer ! u can only play on a server with other people ...