SHNAP_MULE

I was just minding my own business looting Berezino when all of the sudden everyone in the server got teleported to an area full of tents and crates with a prompt that came across the screen reading "WELCOME TO THE THUNDER DOME! AMMO IS IN CRATES, HELI SPAWNS IN 5 MINUTES!" or something like that. We were then teleported to another area that looked like it was just outside the NW airfield. We were all given giant sniper rifles with thermal scopes and PDW's as secondaries and everyone started killing each other. As people spawned back in, they were immediately teleported to the same area while some dude in a ghillie suit mowed us down with a PDW. There was also a few dogs running around. Out of the 3 times I've played DayZ this past week or 2, this has happened twice. :|

Sadly, I have to agree with this. I literally just got done playing and was bombarded with graphical glitches, buildings spawning nothing and/or spawning a bunch of random things like alice and czech packs, and spent more time at the loading screen than I did in game. Not to mention being gunned down within minutes of spawning either from sniper, hand gun, or both at the same time (chased by guy firing G17 at me while a sniper took pot shots at both of us from the forest.) <_< I MIGHT have been able to play a total of 30 minutes. I think I'm done with DayZ for a while.

It might be cool to have some kind of perk system implemented. For example if you take to killing players, zombies are more responsive to your presence and your "loot luck" goes down since you're rarely looting towns anyway, just stealing from other players and avoiding high traffic areas. If you take to being friendly, moral, and just, then zombies are less responsive and your "loot luck" goes up. This might be difficult to implement and there might be some holes with that kind of system, but I think it might be one possible solution to dealing with the insane amounts of PK going on right now.

I've never had any issues at the Stary tents. I've been killed in Stary after attracting a shit load of zombies along with a group of 3 players further in town, but never on those tents. I always find sweet gear in them too.

Lag. If she was cheating you probably wouldn't have come out of that engagement alive.

Just avoid big cities/players unless you're ready and willing to shoot or be shot. I've been watching some of ROOTDestiny's DayZ gameplay after watching his video on youtube "Destiny vs The No" (really funny by the way...should look it up if you haven't seen it yet.) In one video he was explaining to a friend that the only rational decision is to kill everyone you come across because whether or not it is in that other person's interest to kill you, you don't know and you won't know until your dead. Since the possibility of them killing you exists, the only way to keep safe is to kill them before they kill you. I think this is where it falls on the developers of the mod to implement something to the gameplay to have incentive not to kill everyone you meet and be able to trust people through out the world more. Until then, shoot to kill and QQ.

I was playing in a Seattle server a day or 2 ago and a guy got banned for disconnecting in the middle of a gun fight. I don't know how the BattleEye stuff works, if it was the admin's doing or what, but the chat box lit up with red text from the BattleEye client saying he was banned, his IP was submitted, etc etc. TL;DR Keep disconnecting.

I've spent a good deal of time sneaking around Berezino because I'm paranoid as hell and tired of losing all my gear, but I've never actually ran into another player up there. That place is loaded with gear. I've found fully functional off-road trucks, gps's, ATV's, tractors and other sweet gear just lying around. My character has never been as loaded as she is right now. I've also got extremely bored of sneaking around, living in such paranoia and "snapped" a bit, running all over Berezino and down the coast to Nizhnoye playing Yakety Sax through my direct comm with a tail of zombies behind me. Through the entire process, running through town and gunning down the zombies on rooftops with un-silenced weapons, I never ran into a player. I guess it just depends on the server?