sleepless

Basically youre playing when theres no moon = pitch black no matter what you do. You have 2 options. Play during the day or get better internet. Im on virgin crappy 10mb line and i play on us servers at night (100ms) and uk servers during the day. Also *apparently* if you wait a few hours after dark the moon comes out, but as i dont play night much, cant say for sure.

My 2c, no its not. the problem is theres no way to dstinguish servers that are locked for that purpose and server that are locked for the purpose of letting selected players play without the interference of the annoying general public, that is why there seems to be a no locking rule. However on our server, after a restart people will be let in and after about 10 have joined it is locked for a couple of minutes until they get in game, then opened, rinse and repeat. I suppose the line is pretty narrow on what constitutes abuse so the rule is no locks.

Im guessing military bases, along with all the other phat lewt.

The issue has been reported and needs to be fixed. happened to everyone on DE4 last night, just the once. The respawn with 50 people on the coast was a fun metagame, but its a bug/hack, so squish it.

It was a hacker would be my guess, or some idiot making the most of the opportunity. DE4 had the same issue, we all died at exactly the same moment. I was on TS with the mods at the time and they were as surprised as anyone. there was some dodgy rcon activity so something to look into.

Are you guys running normal time? Play mostly at night but like a bit of daylight in the absence of a moon.

Yeah, set your ping lower, whats the problem? Most are chasing daylight but if you want local players a lowing limit would do it.

Hey all Bascially I lost my Dayz install (Retail ARMA2/Retail OA) when my SSD died. Rather than dick around finding disks and suchlike, I just bought CO off steam. I dont suppose theres any way to rescue my old character as im now on a new game? He had some nifty gear, but what they hey. Also, how do you change the damn fonts/background for this forum? Its next to impossible to read on an ipad with any sort of sunlight.

Yeah thats what i suspected, cheers rep added.

This is not BF3, sorry.

im sure this has been pointed out, but your easiest solution is to switch between EU/US servers to catch daylight. The ping really makes no difference whatsoever, unless youre on a 56k modem.

To be honest the day of the bandit is coming to an end. It was always a noob thing anyway, people falling for 'chopper' marked on the map, bothering to say 'friendly' at all, just worked on new players. Once skins are gone there will be a very brief period of learning, then its trust no one except people you recognise. Everyones a bandit come the change.

Im going to chime in as well with maybe this isnt the game for you. In all honesty, any online game where you only play an hour a day, you might not master for a long time. But I wouldnt go around expecting the devs to reduce the skill levels necessary to appeal to the most casual player. As for that as well, I solo and play a minimal amount a week and have had a great time, ive got most of the non-military loot available and atent to stash it in, although my winnie isnt looking so great now. You just need to learn to sneak and to have eyes in the back of my head, and mostly avoid everyone else.

Hey all deployed a tent and went scavenging, returned and can't save the tent back to my inventory. I've emptied the tent, made sure there was space in my inventory and the damn thing won't save from the scroll wheel. Any ideas?

Cheers mate, i didnt see a pack up option, only a save battered tent jobby. Ill see if i can get that other on up, much obliged.

Thanks for replies I haven't died so I'll try all angles!

Alsatians for the good people, pitbulls for the bad :)

All you bandits crowing, dont realise this makes your life harder. You wont be able to blend in and get more kills. Now everyones going to be a bandit, and they'll have better camo than you. Theres nothing special about you anymore, nothing making you different than the next noob with a gun. Were back to reality, and in that world the bandit doesnt prosper. I used to give survivors a chance, mainly because i didnt want the shoot on sight camo. now its just my brothers vs the world. I like it.

One of the first things i found was a frag grenade, threw it at a lone zombie when my mak ran out of ammo. Little did i know...

Server reboots are happening alot these days, some are automated. Try and get back in.

Markers server is not meant to be reverse time - as I understood it, it was a couple of hours off GMT so it would eventually get night - the UK evenings are pretty light anyway until late now so not that far off - but now has been set to pure GMT, because of issues with timing - seriously if you want a daylight experience go play US servers, the ping is not that bad, I get around 100ms. One thing to add, when you lock a server to let people in gradually it should never take more than 20 minutes tops! A lot less than that actually. Longer than that and its looking abusive! Marker did it in like 5 mins, a one and a half hour lockout as has been seen on other servers is not warranted!

So is this like a private game? Theres quite a few of these going it seems. so is this the future of Dayz?

Realistically there would have to be some dedicated camping to cover all the spawns in the map. If you get shot early... well its better than getting shot later. This boils down to Dayz main ethic - trust no one.