enforcer1975

Would be nice, but you would have to play DayZ 24/7 for that :(

Where i live you wouldn't even have to bother about ammo shortage because you have to have a weapon in the first place. If i'm lucky i could get my hands on a rifle from the barracks closeby or kill my neighbor 4 houses away to get his hunting gear. So the only option would be a melee weapon. I could kill zombie rats with my air rifle though :D

That should be possible. The server should have a timer when the player disconnects so when the player reconnects and joins the game he recieves a message "You have to wait xx seconds to be able to play again". Pagerage. even if that worked, it would add quite a load to the servers and the database. Imagine 10000 players DCing every 5 minutes. Maybe keep it serversided. A buddy tried different methods to punish bad player behaviour and we had different solutions and you didn't even have to be an admin, just your ID added to the permissions list of the mission. ( f.e. black out: player cant see anymore until you give him permission ( good for ppl on a killing spree, they can't shoot what they can't see ), kill, set state, teleport etc ). Reconnecting won't solve anything because the player has an ID and name bound account. He can use a different name on the same ID but he can't access the equipment from his other character.

The devs could make use of the bug when you have a partially filled mag it will be removed when you reconnect. Problem solved no more magic refill/connect. Even when i had tons of mags on my gun i rarely use it, ok it was a .50 so i only used it in emergency situations because its too loud and sticked to my 1911 or revolver instead. Also creating other magazines should be frozen for now because it can also be abused.

The properties have already been worked out, you just have to find a weapons pack ( f.e. A.C.E. mod has a lot of said east bloc weapons ) and add it to the game. But as you said there are more important things like making the game flawless.

Use a mike and direct chat, make the sounds yourself. That's how i signal where i am when i lose sight of my companions.

You wouldn't know i had bad intentions until i kill you....even your best friend could be an enemy ( f.e. Shane from the walking dead )

Replace machine guns with tanks!!!! No need for puny small caliber weapons anymore. Add the SCUD let's nuke this place!!! :@

It's not posible to add a logout timer to the game because ArmA doesn't have that feature. I don't think they won't add this feature either because they made a million sales because of DayZ. You can't avoid CDers disconnecting. you can only punish them when they reconnect by giving every player a timer when they reconnect where he/she has to wait until they can take action and bind characters to servers and not global. This way they will try to evade the target and have to log out in a safe area if they want to bring their character to safety.

I think they made the SD ammo because the bullet information ( velocity, damage, range ) is defined by the bullet class and not by the weapon. The MP5 SD couldn't be modeled to reduce the velocity of the bullet to subsonic, thats what i think. Of course you can fire both ammo types in both guns with appropriate results but the game has it's limitations. Still better than any other FPS where the sniping distance is about the pistol range in ArmA :D I'd rather see more civi weapon variants than military weapons otherwise this wouldn't be what i think it should be anymore. First prioroty should be making the basic mod work before thinking of adding other unimportant things, the weapons in the game do the job more than enough for now.

Lost my Ghillie, too. Was happy to finally find one. Didn't read anything about it beeing removed from the game..so... bug? I was at Veresnik where my Character spent the night, the next day i logged in it was gone. There was also lots of Problems logging onto other servers during the day. I lost my backpack i put in a tent because i had to restart my game because every time i clicked i landed on my desktop and couldn't get back onto the server...

Ask in the BIS forum not here, it's part of ArmA engine not the mod....did you ppl accidentally press respawn instead of abort while trying to DC??

I a post apocalyptic world i doubt most survivors ( specially civs ) have the training to maintain a chopper of even fly it. It's not a car where you just turn the key, fuel it up and wash it every now and then. Military hardware needs more care than you think. If you watched "The walking dead"... That's what will certainly happen when ppl try to survive.

Two things can happen... Player gets shot from 1000m due to the super AI or easy picking, too much military loot flowing around = ruined game.

Why not add zomie wild boars that attack them? Of course they have to stay for a coupld of minutes when the player DCs or else the idea is useless.

That's another mission/gametype. Actually it's just another massive mulitplayer shootout for ArmA and the addition "Life" should be replaced by "War". Don't even bother looking for it. you will regret it. DayZ comes closer to everyday life/survival than what i mentioned above.

I survived for 8 1/2 days not staying under a bush. A buddy had 9 days + change...

Doesn't work, the game isn't made for that. You log in you're in, you log out bye bye. You can only add a delay when connecting until you can react to counter DCers but only if server hopping is prevented, too.

Play Citiy Life or Chernarus Life. You get those random events over there already...i even throw in ppl shooting at you for no reason as an extra.

Zombies don't care if a door is locked or shut anyway. They just glitch through or attack through walls...BIS knows of this problem and didn't do anything about it for years so don't expect them to do this in the near future.

Shitting in your pants helps keeping the Zombies away...i heard spec ops didn't wash themselves days before an OP so dogs and the wildlife couldn't trace them when they entered hostile territory. They also caried their sh*t in a plastic bag in the packs in order to not leave evidence of them beeing there. :) The chance for a zombie to trace a human should be higher if he smells more "human" meaning clean.

There should be more sources for food like you have for water. +1

But you need to model a gun for every scratch...want to volunteer?? :)

You understood what i proposed...halfway :D You can spawn as many times you want to but in the time frame of one hour after your first respawn you only get the equipment you had at the beginning of the countdown independant of the times you press respawn. You die and respawn at 03:00 ( countdown starts, you get a revolver and 2 magazines and a backpack with nothing in it ), you don't want it press respawn hoping to get another gear. BAM you spawn with the same stuff until 03:59 - however at 04:00 you get a G17 with 3 mags, an alice pack with 1 bloodbag and 5 bandages ( lucky ). You die at 04:14 you get G17 with 3 mags etc... at 05:00 you get a different set...

You can trip and break your neck in the process...It doesn't need a 3m fall to break your leg. But i know what you mean but you have to ask BIS to do the changes.