Swineflew

Double post.

That's a valid course of action, however ban first then make a ban appeal isn't a good response. I'm assuming that's Latin and the quote is similar to "ignorance of the law is not an excuse" but there is no official weapon listing, and you're enforcing a rule that doesn't even exist. It's like the government telling people they can own guns, but not which ones and if you buy the wrong one you go to jail, does that make sense to anyone?

Anyone want to argue this point or do you guys want to keep dodging it?

This topic has made a bad first impression.

Oh, we'll there you have it guys. Snipers, overpowered in DayZ because they'll airstrike you.

This is 2012 guys..... try google, or server general subforum.

1) Snipers aren't overpowered and serve their intended purpose. 2) If you're running around in the open 500m from a tree line, then yea sure it may seem imbalanced that you got shot, what do you expect to happen? 3) Your PvP server weapon crate idea is a stupidly vague generalization about people who pvp in a game with intended pvp and try to label them as "cod kids" You're whole argument is "I don't like how people build their castle in this sandbox".

There is a big big difference here. Punishing a certain type of gameplay is bad game design. Rewarding a type of gameplay is good design. There is a difference. Rewarding "survivor" play is a better way to "balance" than discouraging "bandit" play.

I feel like I should expand on this. There are people who enjoy being punished for dying or losing. We enjoy games with consequences for making bad choices. Eve is a great example of that type of game. If you're stupid you get punished. You could lose all your ships, your money, things you worked months for could be gone in minutes because of a stupid mistake. There are enough games that hold your hand, and wipe your butt for you. We didn't have that in games a long time ago. We had lives and continues, you died too many times you had to start over from the beginning, is there still a game that does that anymore? Old MMOs used to lose exp when you died, so you'd do your best to play smart and not die. I'm going on a rant, but what I'm basically saying is that there are a lot of people who like harsh, cruel, unforgiving games like this and a lot of people hate when someone tries to turn it into another game that will hold your hand. There are enough of those games out there in the world.

You're taught as a child to not trust strangers. You even said yourself in the very first paragraph it was a risk, you went in knowing there was a good chance you'd get shot, and you still went up to them. This isn't a survivor/bandit issue or a problem with dayz. PEBKAC.

Well that settles it for me, you haven't seen it, so it must not exist.

So if you snipe you're either a uber 1337 pwnzor sniper or a terrible nub that altf4s? :facepalm:

I haven't played in awhile, but you've been bleeding out for 30 minutes?

A lot of stereotyping and generalizations all up in this thread.

I've already given ample reason why you shouldn't be banned for just having a hacked in weapon. Why people can't understand that boggles my mind.

He's not spiderman. What does he get for saving a fresh spawn (assuming that's what he's shooting)

Link to the server report? I'd love to follow up on this. Admin abuse really bugs me for some reason.

Simple, not everyone who plays DayZ uses a wiki to verify every weapon the loot off a dead body. Believe it or not, a lot of players don't use third party sites (wiki) as an official listing of what weapons they can and can't use. I'm willing to bet a lot of players loot hacked weapons and have no idea that it's a hacked weapon.

Sounds like a joke server. Make a legit report for abuse in the right section, link this thread showing admitted banhappy admins and move on.

L85 needs removed more than 50cals tbh.

Dafuq?

Nothing would change really. Same DMR spam except they'll be using a DMR.

My favorite part is where you make bandits seem like they're more moral than snipers, or like sniping is a seperate category of survivors/bandits. News flash, if you're a sniper you're still either a bandit or survivor, the intent of your kill doesn't really change the fact that you killed them. You may want to distinguish yourself from other players killing, but the only way to do that is to not be a killer. So yes, not all bandits are snipers, or hackers or dicks, that doesn't make you and better or worse than a sniper or dick. Fuck hackers though, you are better than them. I'll give you that.

You'd think that a sub-forum dedicated to clans/groups would be a more suitable location for forming a group.

I was refuting his ability to judge someone based on a brief chat. Him not liking someone doesn't justify him killing them and trying to rationalize shooting someone by saying he can infer their intent is simply that, rationalizing. Him saying "I could tell they were bad" is simply something he uses to seperate himself from a bandit, he wants the ability to kill, but wants to take the moral high road and I think it's funny, hence why I like people who post like that.