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If they got attacked it was probably scripted and organized with other staff and developers. The developer looking after the other streamer (The "Battleships in the field!" thread) told them he had to go participate in he PC-Gamer stream. Though it might as much be about keeping hackers from disrupting the stream as much as controlling PvP.

His comment in the thread was, "Where's your sense of adventure!".

He had to reboot for some reason and got to sit there listening to his team getting shot-up while trying to log-in. The team... "I guess radio towers can fly now". I never knew Day-Z had such potential for comedy.

... no, it was probably implemented as a "f*** you" to the people who thought removing the bandit skin was a bad idea. Though apparently it really annoys the bandits having to listen to it.

There won't be much forum support for PvE (or more usefully PvP-controlled) servers because the PvP players like having you around. More targets the merrier, especially if those targets are ill equipped, disorganised, not so focused on PvP and walk around saying "friendly" and holding their fire. It will also reveal how many people would prefer controlled PvP and most times that happened the PvP guys realise they are actually a minority. Of course it is still very early in the development of the mod. It probably has 6-12 months minimum before there's a meaningful co-operative game experience if that's what Rocket is working towards (since he is focused on making zombies challenging this patch he's still working on PvE somewhat). And splitting the server types while the game is so rough is extra work. Accept the game for what it is at the moment (a primarily PvP game), take a break if that's not what you want, make suggestions on the forum (though really it's not that there's a limit of ideas, it's just it takes time to implement) and watch the patch notes as the game matures.

I believe you need to have them in your sights and be within 15 meters... which makes it effectively useless. Even if it does work properly.

I had assumed the original suggester was being sarcastic... but now I realise maybe not.

According to another post I read there's no running animation for most of the animals (other than rabbits) to that would be new art and code for something that's basically just a meat dispenser. There's probably higher priority tasks on his list.

Sigh. Making an observation about a population within a game, and how I expect that population within the game to approach the game, is called making an observation. Also known as making a point, sometimes used in arguments. You could attack it as being a generalisation, or incorrect, but it is not ad-hominem in any sense of the word. You can feel free to make assertions that "CB's" are weak individuals not playing the game properly... I'll see if I can detect the difference from most of your existing posts.

For the loot exploit just lock their personal data from accepting new items if they've looted in the same map cell, on a different server, within N minutes of logged in time (or some reasonable amount of time logged out). If it's not rewarding in terms of loot / time they won't do it. Especially if N is longer than the item respawn. For the people quitting out of combat and denying a kill you would only need a short logout timer. If you can't kill them in that time then too bad.

If your initials are PK and you thought I was referring to you I apologise, otherwise you look pretty silly.

I'm sure the PK's would be keen to get involved, just tell them where you are holding it and they'll be there. Well, within range anyway.

Agree. Something that can store water should be incredibly common. You could have a system where something like a military or hiking flask is a very convenient way to do it, but it shouldn't be the only way you can do it. Not to mention being able to drink directly from the source.

Old enough to recognise Ad-hominem and discard it.

Hey, I can only work with what you offer. Here's a hint, you can counter the argument but I'm not really interested in whether you feel I have the right to post it.

Yes, warning people about the incidence of motor-cycle fatalities compared to cars probably would be a good idea. Not sure how it's relevant but important public safety announcement for sure.

There's lots of hacking, and a forum down a bit lower for reporting it if you get an idea of what user was doing it.

I've never seen anyone grief people with the threat of statistics before....

It would be helped somewhat if spawn locations were a bit more random and erratic I guess.

So out of the hundreds of thousands of players stretched out over 600+ servers you managed to find a video of people acting like dicks. Congrats. There'll be more, count on it. And in a lot of ways it's a good thing, punctures some of the over optimistic media hype. I don't mind it being a hard core PvP game, but people should know what they are buying into.

Nah, it died when there was a competitor with controlled PvP (Everquest) that dwarfed their subscriber numbers and stole their user base. They were forced to offer an option to opt out of PvP. Which virtually all the players did, while I imagine the PK's cried about lack of targets. The same might happen here if there's a competitor or the numbers flatline and Rocket cares (though he has less financial motivation than Ultima did).

Yeah, I can see those emotions are really coming out... .Mostly laughter and "we pwned that guy". I'm glad Rocket thinks he's doing a noble and innovative experiment, but you can't pretend griefing and random PK isn't a popular hobby that people will bring to any game that allows it, and this one encourages it. Most of the exploits are used with the same aim, ruining other peoples gaming. At least with the bandit skin we'd have a somewhat interesting bandits and anti-bandits dynamic and some minor, cosmetic reason not pull the trigger. Now the players are just an amorphous mass of threats and loot pinata's.

Antibiotics is a crap mechanic since it forces you into a highly camped and most likely wired off area while weakened. If it was a semi-common drop with a large number of spawns, fine, but it isn't.. neithers morphine for that matter.

Someone else linked it, but it should be saved ... .