Lady Kyrah

Yeah, don't do this, you don't want to end up in court for harassment/stalking. As much as you want it to be, hacking isn't solved with neighborhood watch or threats but through proper securities built into the server. Trusting the client for anything makes it potentially exploitable. Again here, this is an alpha, the game specifications change from day to day, expecting BE to be as tight as possible is foolish. Right now the game is about getting things to work at all, security hardening is likely to be the last check-mark on the to-do list. This is not a finished or fully functional product yet, right? So why would you expect it to be secure?

If you need your random banter there is always IRC.

It's his game and he does whatever the hell he wants with it?

Man she must be having a lot of fun with you :)

If you think this you obviously haven't been following the stuff with the server renters complaining of their lack of powers.

That's the idea, it's the game really that is the most important setting, if the night is pitch black (as in RGB 0,0,0) you can crank your display brightness all the way you want it is NOT going to make any invisible details appear, since your display will still receive black 0,0,0, it will just look grey. It's the game that decide of the colors to send to the graphic card, then the card, and then the display will apply correction in how they represent those colors. So locking ingame gamma adjustment (settings menu) as long as you are connected to a server would mean that in order to change your gamma you would have to log out and then log back in. It's not perfect but it's mildly annoying, and it's all you need to get 90% of the gamma abusers to stop.

Well one simple thing to do would be to lock the game's gamma setting if you are in-game. It would at least prevent on the fly gamma adjustment in-game, which would get rid of most of the issue (seeing things that are not supposed to be visible)

Here is a crazy idea: We all know we are in alpha right? could it be that gun specs are not set in stone yet and that whatever values they have are there to test the attachment system? After all dispersion values are just a couple of numbers in a config file, at this stage of the game, as long as it work as intended, who care about the actual values in it? (beside those expecting a playable experience that is) In test builds i myself have on several occasions used grossly exaggerated values to ensure that the equation it is fed into behave as expected.

Man eating bunnies do exist, it's just that nobody lived their encounter with one to report it.

However, in an "accurate" world, the wind direction you get from where you are shooting is only a small part of the whole story, the wind downrange may be completely different. So even with skill there would still be an imprecision factor. Weapons are also not perfect things.

Don't be silly, you know exactly what i ment. But you get beans for trying. What is wrong with discovering a game as you play it rather than through spread-sheeting? Is the idea of making a mistake so intolerable?

You are welcome. Well min maxing is not necessary to enjoy a game.

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Spend more time playing the game and less time dissecting it.

This is eastern europe, not a 3rd world country... it's actually a bit insulting.

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This topic might be seen by some as a trolling: It isn't, move along. The average person, when presented with a difficult problem will usually go toward the path of least resistance, there is no doubt about this. Am i the only person out there not looking forward to empowering servers to "make themselves unique?" Because that's what it really is, little snowflake syndrome, people believing they can make it better/cooler (better and cooler being very subjective) and reap the reward of being a popular server. I sort of trust the DayZ dev team to make the "wrong" decisions, and make the game worse for everyone (in a good way). Which is something i do not trust servers to do, there is a definite conflict of interest between making your server popular and making it hardcore. Lets not forget the numerous modded servers in other games where players are almost expected to buy perks for real money in order to compete, beside the fact this money should go to the developers, is this even ethical? At least with the current "public hive" system, there is no "escape" to a version of the game that is "more tailored to my own unique little needs". You either play the game as it was designed, or you go play something else. A very rare thing in these days of customer entitlement where everyone prostitute themselves and their integrity for customer satisfaction. Devs, remember that you can still decide to keep the game true to your vision, you don't HAVE to allow private hives, you still have the choice, if you still care taking it.

I don't know where you live testy but you do know that self incrimination is a thing right?

Or a rifle butt. Locks only keep honest people out.

Why not trust the devs to do just that? I thought that it was the plan from the start.

It depends of the game really, Minecraft and Arma 3 benefit a LOT from modding, TF2 and Counterstrike:Source? If anything it made them worse. I think "harsh survival game" is a bit of a diametral opposite to "modding sandbox", the very idea of a survival game is that you are pitted against the game and try to beat it against all odds. Making it a tailorable experience considerably dull down the concept.

Yeah but at the same time, humans are flawed, a player may catch sometimes blatant cheat attempts, but frankly (personal cheating experience on counterstrike 1.6) most long term cheaters will be covert, will se ESPs to increase their awareness and aimbots to win fights, they won't teleport randomly and drop bombs on people while flying upside down. And how many people have an inflated view of their own abilities to a point that they automatically assume a cheater killed them because "it couldn't be any other way"?

Well for one, as Jimmy pointed, it split the community, and it dilute what the expected experience is. Also a lot of changes are really of the novelty marketing type, "we are different for the sake of being different, come join our awesome server!" I also believe that a single "game" will return much more accurate feedback in response to features and changes than having each "private" server evaluate their own. As it's seen with Team fortress 2, finding a server that isn't jam packed with modifications that actually make the game worse is quite difficult. I see people providing servers as performing a (valuable) public service, i do not see it as a "build my own survival mmo mod". There so many game engines nowadays that can be used for free, modding is becoming almost irrelevant, go learn C++ and build your own so you can at least claim full authorship.

Not all of them, but in our days of "zero technical knowledge required" turn key GSPs, all you really need is to be able to enter your credit card number and have some disposable income to be an "admin". Hell, it doesn't really deserve the title i think.

The devs don't get a cent of your server rental fees. So i don't think they would give a shit.