tiglet

Okay , well it was just a quick thought I had. Ofcourse tweaking is needed if it would ever be implemented and I can see why you guys wouldn't want the message to all players. The plane flying a random course around the map and then dropping a load somewhere randomly too would be very nice. People will probably run towards where the plane was flying anyway. I'd like to hear rocket's idea for this.

The americans, because they aren't affected by the zombie plague? Who's respawning all the loot / zombies / ... oh yes, it's a game. Me saying "a message to all players" should've told you I wanted to have all players know about it. I agree that the map is super huge which could be a problem, but that's part of fate. ofcourse the message to all the players will happen atleast 30 minutes before the drop to give some players the chance to converge to the spot if they're close enough. I do not expect people from all across the map to be able to get to the loot or maybe when all the good stuff has been picked off it already.

if you want to prevent people from server hopping to get good loot, you should also prevent the loot they have farmed fairly from disappearing and changing to a makarov with 3 mags.

It is indeed server-side controlled. Some servers still have the chat global, others have not. The non-global chat is the default for the latest patch, this should be changed leaving servers the option to turn off the global chat.

How about a supply drop somewhere on the map each 30 (?) minutes with a message to all players that a new supply drop will happen in the next 20 minutes at grid ... This would cause some awesome scenarios where groups of people will converge onto a single spot. There again, you'll have the option of killing people off or befriending them and splitting the loot. The supply drop can contain anything from very good guns => empty useless cans. What do you guys think?