nickcakes

Nope, didn't waste my time reading it. Your OP was enough dumb for me.

3rd party chat is NOT gamebreaking, and will always be part of any game. this is a PVP game, and the game 'mode' is probably set to co-op to put everyone on the same team for coding purposes. sorry that you have no friends.

or i could just shoot you in the face and take a look at all your loot that way

Having looked through the dayz files, it appears that the loot respawns are on a 10 minute timer from when the pile originally spawned as well. Thought you might want to include that in your OP if you can confirm it.

there's a stickied story thread for these already

This is a game. Not real life.

If you aren't modifying the game in any way and it hasn't been deemed an exploit by the devs, then it isn't. Server hopping for loot is within the current game mechanics. It may be cheap, yes, but the only people who have declared it an exploit are crybabies on forums, not the devs, so it isn't.

Yes. Other than the giant maps, pretty much every fps engine does all of these things significantly better. I have high hopes for dayz on arma3 engine.

this will end well

Arma 2 is a dated, buggy engine. DayZ is good because of the game concept itself, not the engine it runs on.

This is a video game. You can't draw a single inference from it in regards to human nature.

save yourself some time and just hit the respawn button in your game menu

Being friendly and kind to everyone you see sounds like a real shitty way to survive a zombie apocalypse.

Every time you post, I become a bit more embarrassed to be part of the same human race as you do.

There is an entire section dedicated to hack reports. What good would a list of servers hackers have joined do? I imagine there have been hackers on every existing server at some point, so just make a list of all of them?

It's a pvp game. Why would you feel bad about shooting people?

lol..

PVP is already balanced. You have just as much opportunity to win as anyone else.

Because killing other players is the only real challenge in the game.

Teaming up lets you use blood bags, bandage unconscious players, etc. It also gives you strength in numbers. Not to mention, playing with your friends is simply more fun. There are plenty of reasons to team up and have fun, if that's what you like doing, and there is plenty of fun in solo pvp hunting if that's what you like as well. As stated by rocket, this is primarily a pvp game, and that's not going to change. Ever.