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-edit- I started to reply in a kinder way, but after your rather crass response... forget that. Chubbs, Let me simplify it for you so you can comprehend. If Rocket wants to make a game where you have to do medical research in order to play... eh. Theres another game out there thats a zombie apocalypse game, a MMO I was in the beta for but I forget the name now. (No, not that rip-off zombie game.) It was in Beta a year or more ago. Kinda Wow-ish in style (instanced dungeons with groups going in to fight bosses), but from a more FPS perspective. It had some things you had to google online to figure out in game (they even put an ingame browser to accomodate this...derp). It was kinda lame. After the beta I didn't buy the game because it just didn't hold my interest. While no doubt some will like doing such things, not everyone does. For Arma 2, ace/acre has a level of medical complexity to it that is fun but not so deep you'll get a migraine trying to diagnose mysterious symptoms. Maybe med students will be interested in a deeper complexity though. Chubbs, you want a zombie game or a medical degree? As for crying... Chubbs, what I hear is you crying about people who see things differently from you. Instead of being such a flammer and foul in your reply, learn to discuss differences. Be clever (if you can) and even be entertaining in your posts if you want. "Man up" to the challenge Chubbs. Show yourself to be a human being instead of a troll. And whats this gibberish about "the good of the gaming industry"? You think that makes you sound smart and cool? lol... We are all looking for DayZ to be fun, not pontificating some vague platitude about the "good of the gaming industry".

In the near future of Dayz... Everyone is too sick to hold a gun steady. (Isn't it fun when you can't hit anything you aim at, even zombies?) Half are too blind to see down a sight anyways. (Playing blind wouldn't that be "fun"? and "realistic"?) Food has become so rare... you just had to eat that last can of beans you found. And little did you know that it went bad and now adds stomach cramps. You are crumpled up on the floor moaning (attracting zombies) and can't move. (Is this fun yet?) Finally, you are able to poo... but its too much (hey thats realistic too...) So you are dehydrated now. And smelly... attracting even more zombies. At this point you realize no player has shot you yet... inspite of being a sitting duck, moaning... because no one else has time for pvp either!!! Why? Only 1/3 of the people are playing it anymore. And the remaining 1/3 are equally incapacitated in game. About this time, your mom actually checks on you ad decides it is just too morbid for even her to stand and she takes away your computer... telling you to visit your sick uncle at the nursing home if you want to enjoy sickness, poo smells, and similar health issues. She logs you off and... you get auto killed for logging off while sick (sickness log timer FTW!!!). You sit depressed in your room knowing that once you died in DayZ, you now have to buy a new CD... because realistically you only get one life... even so, going to visit your uncle in the nursing home doesn't appeal to you even after playing DayZ. Wasn't that fun?

I like those goatcheese candy things. Don't remember the name. Not sure what you meant tho Hoik... lol

Played Ace mod some, where the med system was more diverse. It was actually interesting. Dunno how standalone will be, but as long as the diseases arent rediculous (like getting sick on namalsk... almost guaranateed withing 20 minutes of playing) then I don't mind variety in the game.

45 cal was designed to stop bodies under the influence of drugs. I.e. knock them down and out regardless of what the person's mental state was. So "realism" wise it should do more than it currently does in game. Having to spend a whole mag to kill one thing is a bit absurd. Hope it gets adjusted.

Heres how to make Dayz realistic: 1. No one may loggoff after logging on. 2. No loot respawns. Ever. 3. No zombies (no wait they r realz!!!) 4. If you die... thats it. You never get to play again. Having fun yet?

So... zombie apocalypse... cars wrecked, army gone and trashed, but HEY! Zombies kept the city lights on for you! lol Spelling police alert: perpose purpose

Just making a short list. I know you probably know these, but just in case... 1. Tents aren't saving properly all the time. Sometimes they do, but sometime they revert to a previous save. Sometimes they keep the data changed, even doing so for several days, then bam, its back to what it was days ago. 2. Some vehicles aren't saving properly. One server, the white truck - you repair it... and then its broken again. Always something different broken back at its spawn point. 3. Engine drops are way too many. In a recent patch the drop rate was upped, but now I can find engines EVERYWHERE (have 6 in a tent.... derp) and very very little of anything else. Several friends have commented on the same thing. Was better before, Engines you had to look for a little, but tires and windows were more plentiful. Now... if you need 2-3 wheels... good luck. Ran for an hour today just looking for wheels and only found one. Very boring. Before I could find parts for a vehicle and then get to use the vehicle. Now, I repaired the engines on three vehicles... but can't find enough wheels to even get one going. So whats the point of repairing them? 4. Were zombie run speeds upped recently? They are dashing pretty fast again. Plus they instant hit you with NO animation. Walked into a building, a zombie was laying down that I didnt see. AS he gets up, he hits me TWICE. No arm swings, nothing. BAM BAM. Thats just a bit lame, because it happens all the time now. At least before zombies had to swing at you. They did take a funky 3-4 step dying run. But that was more manageable than no animation hits & ziggy zaggy hyper running.

Wipe MichaelVoodoo25. Leave everyone else.

Eh... less toys to play with. Less fun in the long run. I don't even use L85 or as50. L85 is a junky firearm IMO, only the scope is semi useful for spotting. AS50 is powerful, but I don't like it since I can one shot with a DMR just as well if not better. But then... next thing you know someone will complain about how unrealistic and unsustainable a DMR is in a post apoc-world full of zombies. Rocket already nerfed pistols (even the 45 cal) which is designed to be a body thumping stopper bullet. Now it takes almost a full mag to kill a person or zombie......... Rocket nerfed einfields. No scope and was super loud, which was fine and a fun risk factor to firing it. Theres more, but you get the picture for the direction things are going? Come on... this games gonna get boring at this rate. Oh wait.... its already getting boring.

Cookie truck. Chocolate chip. That is all.

Welcome to The Sims of Dayz. (Novel idea, but not very fun IMO.)

Lol... its just a discussion. No ones bent out of shape. (Seeing this picture I laughed so hard... I woke my poor wife up!) Yeah, I've noticed a number of formerly steady players already drifting away due to the end game not being subtantive. Dayz has no endgame except what you make of it (i.e. banditry, helping others, new maps or other events people may create). Making it harder to get things only makes it less fun IMO, because of how easy it is to get totally wiped anyway. Tents can get robbed easily (especially since its a little harder to hide them now). But I've had way more fun after getting camos and an m249, for example. But then I get to where I don't wanna play, because now I don't want to die and lose it. So making it even harder to get gear... I know I'll likely not play the game at all because I won't see it as very entertaining. Maybe there should be some different game modes fo Dayz. Like some of the smaller maps provide easier PVP for people, or team battles, etc. Dunno, just trying to think of what will help provide more endgame content. Didn't mean to be glib or unkind. Its just a discussion about a game. So I just popped off my thoughts.

If you enjoy starting over with absolutely nothing, feel free to not use tents and then die. I like to have SOME measure of progress in a game. Can't see my humanity anymore. Harder to hide tents now than before. And now you want to make death a total wipe of gear? Psh. Whatever. Doubt I'll play this game much if it gets to those terms. Not really a contradiction, you just missed the context. You lose your immediate gear as is. Usually if bandits/hackers get you, they bury your body. Sometimes if your respawn is too far away, you may not have time/ transport to get back to your body. As for wiping everything because of hackers... they'll just come back in and spawn more. So a total wipe will just punish the legit people who worked to get what they have and will then be wiped, while hackers will be right back in 10 seconds where they were. Not just a bad idea. Its dumb.

No. You already die and lose everything as is. Why punish people who have worked hard to find tents and get gear. Just no.... derp.

Dunno about turning the icon blue at 100% but at least that would tell you when you are there. I really disliked the speed up on hunger/thirst a few patches back. Used to you could eat and be "green" for a while. Now.. you eat and 10 seconds later its yellowish already. Just something dissatisfying about that... lol Make it green for 100% and make the food/drink timer stay green longer. Just bugs me to see it turn so fast. Makes it feel like you can never accomplish anything, not even a few minutes of solid green stats.

Bandits I can handle. Its hackers that are the real issue. As for the suggestions: Blood on hands if loot a player corpse. (zombies can smell the blood on you, and you can get rid by washing in a lake) no... countless times I've just found a body. Even nonbandits loot corpses... High powered guns much louder so if fired near zombies they come running. they already are & do. All high powered guns only spawn far up north, and make it cold up north so need certain clothing, drugs & food to survive the trek. most already do, AND they nerfed pistols to be weak as water (takes a full mag to kill a zombie unless its a headshot...) So the game is now more boring, and the new spawns who find a pistol first, can't defend themselves against the guys who came back down from the north with that already loud powerful rifle. I say put pistols back to where they were. 45 cal was made to be a slow moving but HARD hitting body stopper. Zombies should go down to it like they used to. Also vehicles break down in the cold and disease spreads way quicker in the cold. Vehicles already break when anything looks at them. And you want more breakage? Already you get sick real easily on the water, and you want more of that? Go play namalsk. Derp. All that should slow down the KOS mob with high powered guns cos if they die its a long dangerous trek to get more. No... it doesn't. Scarsity makes people more desperate, more likely to KOS. Namalsk is proof of that. Scarse food, easy sickness... people KOS constantly.

Gas siphoning - good idea. But one slot is enough, they aren't that big/bulky. All you need is a lengbth of garden hose. Wish you could use that to fill the chopper... Lootable vehicles (for parts) I've thought of that but not posted. I too think is valid to be able to loot parts from vehicles... New tool box action? Eh, not sure I'd want to stand around for 2 minutes watching my character rip an engine out. Realism is one thing, boredom is another. Scavanging parts from abandoned cars is fine, but don't make the game tedious.

Seems all a bit strange. I understand the desire to hinder server hopping... but this is going to make the game so much more tedious to have to open every loot drop manually to search it. Also, you can farm a spot faster than you can server hop. Take the Stary tents as an example. Clear tents one after the other and they will respawn before you get done. So whats the difference in the end? Suggesting no respawned loot for that individual for 5-7 days will kill the playability of the game. Most places I don't bother looting because they don't drop anything I am looking for. So, if the few places I do look don't reloot for days... what do you think I'm gonna do for those days? Go play something else... or perhaps start killing people to get their gear?

Chabowski... Thank you for proving my point about your closed mind. lol... Reread what I wrote. I understand your view, allow your view, and my suggestion includes room for your view. Yours does not allow room for others views. Also, I understand Rocket can do whatever he wants to. He could add purple dinosaurs named barney if he wanted to or make it to where Chabowski always spawns in a pit full of zombies with no escape. But Rocket DID put up a suggestions section in this forum... and that is just what I'm doing. Suggesting. Perhaps it isn't me who has difficulty grasping a simple point? slonlo's comment above is probably the most accurate (and not rude to others!):

While its a pain at times to respawn away from friends... I'd be satisfied with them at least fixing the supposedly RANDOM spawns. EVERY time I die I spawn in the SAME place. West of Kamenka. Every time. lol... whats up with that?

The arma series (including OFP!) has always been amazing in the size of the maps. But it still has problems hosting large numbers of people on one map.... just imagine hosting multiple maps. I don't know how other games do instancing. Maybe they have you "fast travel" or "enter" the new map/area and it switches you to a different server? That seems like the only feasible way currently. But you'd have to take into account fuel used. Doubt you'd reach these different places on a fishing boat or even a pbx. Thered have to be some way to increase the fuel capacity/or calculate it from cans carried. Nice idea, but doesn't seem doable yet.

If it doesn't matter at all, then why did you pontificate your views? Why snob about it with "learn who Dean Hall is" etc? I do believe Mr Hall has put this forum up and included a suggestions section for us to comment in. Whats so hard to grasp about that? I do understand you have your preferences. Rocket has his. I have mine. But instead of binding my opinion on everyone, I've made a simple suggestion that allows everyone to play in an enjoyable way... whats so totally off about that? (PS you repeated yourself again. : P)

Fact: Not everyone wants to play that way. Fact: You do have a closed mind when you only see it one way and allow not even the slightest consideration for other's views/preferences... over.... a... game... Fact: For those too lazy / bored / hassled / whatever to find a server with the settings you want, but with enough energy to create a doomday scenario of not being able to find a single server with settings they like these, can: (1) Get dayzcommander and have it filter your settings for you; (2) rent your own server and create server with those ever so special settings which is the only right, holy, and true way to play the game, (3) find another game to play perhaps Dayz isn't for you (thats what guys like you tell us to do... derp!). You have options too you know... don't be so lazy & and cop out, passing blame on the ability to have options in the game settings. Fact: I don't want you to repeat yourself again. : P Fact: I know who Dean Hall is... Thus, comment like this are why my recent posts have been more terse. When people get snobbish over "how to play a game" it just gets absurd. Those are your preferences. Thats perfectly fine. You can enjoy the game that way. I can enjoy it a different way. Get your nose out of the air and recognize that your one way to play isn;t the only way. And go rent your own server if you can't find one to your liking. Fact: You do not need to lose any sleep over the fact that I play the game differently than you. I certainly won't lose any over how you play.

I guess people just lose sleep at night when people play this game in a way different from them? Serioiusly... just leave this as a server side setting. I personally don't need the dots, but like so many other suggestions that *force* everyone to play a certain way, gives no one any choice, this is just unnecessary. Let server side settings adjust this and let people choose. If your server goes without dots and can stay full, then good on you. Don't force people to play your way only... : /