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The server in wich i play most times, (i think) had all tents wiped out! I knew about 6 camps and had 2 tents of my own and everything is gone. Anyone else noticed tents dissapearing on other servers?

I see... Its not like i had anything really worth it there.. Some meds, magazines, food, water and some stuff like matches, etc. But still... Its my lil corner in DayZ. Lol Ill see if it comes back in the next restart in a couple of hours...

Learn how to read kid. Those "pre-made" posts "Keep crying" or "Your tears taste like heaven" have meaning none the less. The OP is teasing the Bandit cuz the Bandit DC. Where do you figure he was crying?

When do we get a 2nd single? Cuz Shit-damn-ass-mother-fuck if this isnt a great song!

Do you realised not everyone has english has their native language? In fact, do you know that english is only the 4th most talked native language in the world? Spelling errors are bound to happen... I prolly even made a few myself just now. Who are you to criticize?

I get the PvP. I like it. But like so many stated before, the problem isnt the bandits, but the genre of bandits. There is your general bandit, hardcore dude, that kills everyone he sees to check if there is anything worth loot. Then there is your "check me, i reached puberty" bandit, that sits on a hill and snipes Elektro and Cherno! Seriously... What's the challenge on killing noobs 500m away? Where do you get the feeling of acomplishment and happiness? Don't get it... Why not be a man since you are all that confident about your first pubic hair, get into a nice server with +30 players and go snipe Stary or NW Airfield? If i saw more videos like that, shit! Have my beans! But 90% the vids people post its just kids too scared to face another survivor and posting here to feel good about themselfs. And worst its the amount of people with an even worst self estime that come and give them the thumbs up. I understand a lot of noobs are just careless and reckless and deserve the shot in the back of the head, and i even admit that too the ones that get killed, understand why, adapt and overcome, all you poor souls are actualy doing a favor. But again... Why do you feel good about it? Are you all that poor of spirit that sniping noobs is rewarding enough to get you trough the day? It's sad...

This is the story about how much of a noob i can be! So... I spent 5 or 6 days getting all that basic stuff, got an MP5 SD and an M9 SD, got like 5 mags for each, steaks, morphine, etc, etc... I even had GPS! Suddenly, the wild Ural appeared and me being a smart guy, went for a drive and decided to eject to see if i would jump from it Matrix style... Anyone wanna guess the result?

Your brain is just taking up space too and you dont get people being an ass about what crap comes out of that mouth do you? And why do you care? Or everyone else bashing on the dude? Seriously whats all this flaming about? Envy? Like all you pricks like to say: "It's a sandbox you can do whatever the fuck you want!" Well... He did! So what is all you jerks problem? Dont get it, honestly, maybe you spoiled brats just enjoy failing on trying to show moral superiority over someone. I see shit on this forum that just makes me feel piety for the lack of self estime needed to try and bash on someone else without reason on sense.

Good. That's the spirit. Lil advice tho.. Chose what you carry more carefully, take a couple of minutes to go read the wiki and such. Carrying 2 piles of wood while having a hatchet is a bad move. 4 slots for 2 items that you can pretty much get from 90% of the trees in game with the hatchet.

I think its fine. The point is prolly to make big cities more dangerous since they carry high rewards with looting them, and thats how it should be. Plus, harder zeds will improve the PvE "needs". If there are no snipers around, its pretty easy to loot Elektro for example. Zeds are too easy right now. Yes without a weapon its hard, but not impossible cuz truth is, you start with a bandage, so, just find the nearest barn, get an hatchet and if there was any zed inside kill it, and if he made you bleed just bandage yourself. Done. Now you have a weapon. Dont be afraid to lose some blood if the reward is high.

Not really... Imagine a server that restarts every 4h. Again, i cant say this works like this for a fact, but if after a restart everything always spawns the same, he could of have checked the tent after a restart, left, then 4 + 4 + 4 = 12h and he checked it after another restart. And to be honest i tend to doubt he checked every loot to see if it was EXACTLY the same, and lets not forget, 12h later, things might be diferent and you really dont remember them that well. Do you memorize what you see in every loot you dont take?

I can confirm that loot will never respawn if it's not cleaned out. I once checked through the tents in Stary Sobor before logging out for the night. When I logged into the same server the very next day 12 hours later' date=' I checked them again. They all had the exact same loot! [/quote'] How can you confirm that? How is that proof of anything? Thats like saying you went by a bus stop and saw a bus there, and 12h later you go by it again and see the same bus. Do you assume that bus didnt move for 12h or could it be just just a coincidence? Loot spawns in %'s, higher %'s loots like the damn tin cans spawn more often. Maybe you were just unlucky and got the same spawn twice. Prove me otherwise. Just to clear things up, im not here saying i know how loot works, im not saying you are wrong, im just saying you cant be sure, same way i cant be sure of how i say loot mechanics work. People are make statements here like they are speaking absolute truths, whithout being able to prove it. The case may even be that in some servers are occuring problems while in others there arent. Who knows... It might even prove me wrong and prove you all right, but a Dev statement about this would be nice.

This is one of them. I do not think you really do see loot respawning. I want to suggest this to you then. Go to a city outside of Chenro or Eletro, one that not many people go to-- Like lets say... Rogovo or Pulkovo. I want you to find a house and screenshot the loot inside of it. Then run away from it. Now, decide to do two things, one, hang around within 200m of the building and see if the loot despawned after you checked it and not moved it. If it doesn't despawn, then leave the are and come back in an half an hour. Tell me if the loot despawns/respawns then. Make sure there is no server restart inbetween the time this happens and when you test out what is going on. I would appreciate your finding and what happens with the loot. As i said, i stick to the North towns that are less populated, and no, i dont see loot respawning, i said i see zeds spawning when i arrive, and when i enter buildings all loot spots are empty, wich supports the theory that when loot is too old it respawns when a player gets near. To be honest i never came back to check if it respawned, cuz when i log in i plan a route and stick to it no matter what, unless maybe i see a deer stand in the horizon. Never the less, yesterday, i did see loot spawning. I went to Devil's Castle, went in all the way to the top, and on the way up i saw several loots. I picked 3 or 4 things, but didnt clean any loot completly, and when i came back down, maybe 5 mins later, about half the loot spots had respawned diferent stuff, and new ones that i didnt even know where there at first cuz there was nothing on the floor spawned too. See what i mean? I dont belive the mechanics work exactly how you described, and for example, when people say "I went by a loot, 3h later came back and same loot was there!", this means nothing! In 3h who knows how many players went by? How many times it respawned? Whos to say that the same loot didnt respawn on the same place? I say i consider it an exploit cuz you are forcing the game to spawn new loots when it doesnt need too. If you pick clean a loot spot of tin cans, go by moments later and you pick clean again a loot of tins cans, you are forcing the game to spawn what you want. In reality what you are doing is using the loot spawn probabilities for your advantage. Imagine doing that in a hospital, if you clean it out every 15 mins eventually you will pick up some Antibiotics, wich is wrong cuz the fact is, they have a low chance of spawning for a reason. Its suppose to spawn few times, its suppose to exist as lil as possible of that item in game, but you are forcing it to spawn by cleaning it over and over again until you get them. You are abusing the mechanics to force the odds of getting a specific item in your favor, therefor exploiting. If you want my honest opinion, im not at all against exploiting, its simply a question of moral standarts, i wont do it, but if anyone feels they need it cuz they have the need to get an advantage over the rest, then by all means, go for it. I like to think about it like it happens in the casinos. If you are a master with your memory and can more easily predict what card comes out next, you are simply using your brain to play the game, using the loop hole the game has, but truth is, if you are caught doing it, you will get banned from the casino.

Ravin, im listening to your side, i just dont agree with it. If for you that is like you say "sad", then i can say that that comment shows you are out of arguments. You gave me a specific example where YOU dropped something on the ground. That might change the way the mechanics works. So i have a good reason not to acept you example as proof. I speak for my own experience in looting. I play lone-wolf and stick to raiding the towns up North, and like i said alrdy, when i get to towns i see the zeds spawning a lot of times, wich means no one was there for a while, and when i go to the buildings i find most of the loot spots empty, wich supports the Rocket statement that when loot is too old and a player gets near, the loot clears on it self and the timer for respawn begins. Soooo... In my opinion, you are wrong on how you describe the loot mechanics. Can you prove me otherwise? Am i not in my right to think like this? You can say again all you want that this is sad. For me, all that happen was that you pretty much told everyone that you exploited and are now doing damage control trying to justify it. Nothing else to say.

How is it the same? I must be dreaming. Action 1 - Finding loot spot empty and come back to see if it spawned. Action 2 - Finding loot spot full, clean it and come back to check the respawned loot. (This action is then repeated to infinity) In action 1 you understand the mechanics, and use it, while in action 2, you abuse the mechanics because you understand them. The amount of risk taken is not in question. There are still risks.

@syncmaster: Not trolling at all. Techercized said we could disagree with loot farming, i stated that loot farming in the way described by the OP is in fact an exploit, so im just asking if we agree's with server hopping. If he does, fine, so be it. If he doesnt, then why agree with loot farming? Both are exploits. @Ravin: You can put it anyway you like it. What you described is abusing the mechanics, therefor, an exploit. And again, how you describe the loot mechanics system is wrong, so the other excuse you have been trying to use to justify your actions fails to do so. "What you offer is a town eventually becoming starved of its supplies." - Not true. Old loot gets respawned when a player gets near.

@Techercizer Do you agree with server hopping?

Ravin, by making a loop/route whatever you call it, with the purpose of looting the same loot spots over and over again you are using the loot spawn mechanics for a benefit that shouldnt exist. One thing, is finding a loot spot empty, going to another town close by, come back and check that same loot spot again. Another thing is cleaning loot spots with the purpose of coming back later, so the game respawns loot again, and this is abusing the loot mechanics. You say you take risks while doing it. So do hoppers. There is always the risk of some one being where you spawn when you hop servers. Besides alt+f4 there is a risk in everything you do in this game, and alt+f4 will have risk in the future too for sure. So having risk involved isnt that much of an excuse.

Simple... Can you see who is a robber, thieft, murderer, etc in real life just looking at them? Bandit skins make no sense at all.

Too easy. Starting conditions are fine as they are. If you have trouble, just get a map online and run on the tree line following roads.

Awesome! +1

That too should end. 1 respawn every 5 mins would be nice.