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look dude, you already have 1 back pack each... so whats your issue??? and you also carry backpack and WOW,, its saves the loot. what do you know!? the tent idea is same as back pack, but instead of you carrying it... it carries you! whats so hard to understand? you keep on going on about multiple tents and all... forget about it, i am talking about whole different consent. that is somehow based more on WarZ's Safe zone, than DayZ tent. the only thing that is similar is the fact that you choose where it goes up, and the fact that you aren't invincible near it. WarZ is a shit game!!! i fucking hate it. and waiting for DayZ SA to come out. BUT they did have a good idea there. and if THEY made it work... then its not hard, cos by the looks of that game their level or programing and design is poor! so dont tell me it cant be done. I just think that you are one of those hard core conservatives who doesn't want any new consent, cos it scares you!

The few that want to stick to lifestyle of traveler can do so, as the "basic" tent would have NO storage space and can be packed and taken away at any point, its just to leave the server you will need to unpack it and find a suitable place to deploy. so effectively it same gameplay as it was before, just one tool slot is now taken up by a tent. If a server crashes or whatever you will start back at your tent with progress lost. this is unfortunate. but so are crashes on server. if any other game crashes and you got to go back to last checkpoint you arent happy, but its given... so why not DayZ. the solution to that is fix the servers not the tents. Hackers... well, what can I say. They are just pain in the ass for everyone... and if they empty your tent and teleported it into the sea, then it sucks... what you could do is disconnect and take it on the chin, loose the progress, but save your tent. also back end stuff, 1 person, 1 tent. you cant carry million backpacks, so why should you be able to have million tents? its fair. Aslo at WarZ they have "safe areas" and "global inventory" - which only now i realized how similar my idea is to that. that is implemented there, and works. and most importantly people love it. The only down side is that there aren't enough of the safe zones. and there are huge problem with campers!

but you would have the tent. it would be like flash light, given to you at the start. granted it would be the most basic one. like poncho shelter. but it would always be there... you would only get rid of it when you find something better. and the fact that they don't want one... tough. in real life you would have some sort of shelter, there would be no other way. staying in city would be too dangerous. and you do need to keep your stuff some place. I mean many players may not want food and water meter, and all that... but they having one, because its how the game is. also if people want to travel, let them just keep basic tent, and they can just pack it and go as they please. they would just have to set the tent up when they wish to leave server! that's it. - but since it takes time... you would be able to do that in the middle of combat. hence no D/C noobs! there would be no "home server" you could travel with your tent around the servers just like you do now without it. the tent would be attached to your character. and no, there wouldn't be cases like that with nades. not unless you are very unlucky or places your tent in a very stupid area. Guys, this idea is like extension of your backpack. just static... don't you like your backpacks? do you want to be tied in to one server? do you enjoy people D/C in the middle of fire fight? This is very easy and doable solution to all these problems.

as the title says, I think there should be less weapons with optics x10,000 zoom, where you get killed from million miles away. its unrealistic. from my experience its quite easy to find DMR. and by 9th or 10th day of survival almost every player got a 50cal sniper rifle. which is to me a seems a bit poo when it comes to PvP and realism. if you look at it in terms of realism. in Cherno (for example) you had post soviet state. so where all these NATO guns coming from? if all these guys use are AK's? that's 1! 2... in a squad you have 6 guys with Rifles and 2 with MG's very rear where in the normal rifle team you will have sniper. those guys usually work on their own (team of 2). So the question is... where are all RPK's RPD's PK, PKMs... etc? and why is there a sniper rifle on every corner (so to say) ok, PVP benefits. these benefits would be purely atmospheric. imagine... you walking on the Airfield, minding your own business... and then *crack* and your dead... you just think "What the $%£ was that?" and with sadness restart the game. Imagine the game where there Rearity of MG's and snipers have reversed. same scenario, you walking on the Airfield, and you hear *crack* *crack* *crack*, one round hits you, you are bleeding... you in panic running away, zombies after you... your (real) heart is pounding, you nearly spat out the coffee you were drinking at the time.. Now i am not saying get rid of the optics completely. but it should be nerfed.. big time. for example i think that on every AS50/DMR the scope should be damaged. so when you look at it, the scope got a crack on it. so you still see where you shooting, but you cant see left side of the screen for example, its just a cracked blur. Ammo for MG's could be made up from other mags, like for example 3 AK74 mags to create 2 long RPK mags, or 6 AKM mags to make up 1 PKM box mag. or 3 AK74 to create 1 drum mag for RPK.. etc. all the scripts are currently available in game, we already can split and combine mags.. so why not with this. I think that every optics weapon also should be nerfed. it should either be very slow firing, the Ammo type got to be insanely rear. or there should be some other issues. and if to go to extremes, I think there should only be a few optics weapons, like: AK47 + PSOP high rate of fire, but cant hit anything at the long range CZ, M24, - slow rates of fire. SVD - very rear, very rear ammo.

Zoey, you compleatly missed the point. At the moment the chances to find AS50 are million times greater than finding an LMG of any kind. And thats wrong imho. As on the ground there would be more RPK, PK, Pecheneg SAW, LSW... etc, than Snipers. In a Zombie apocalipse MG woud be tne choice gun for military... as it can be used agains masses! I mean fantastic if you got DMR and can hit a fly from a mile... but when you have 1000 zombitches walking towards you... dont know how about you but i rather have PKM.

Dylanco1.. well, ok, the scope may live... but the nuts and bolts that attach it to the gun, i know its quite common for a sight to come off due to vibration of the gun. for example ACOG on L85's they aren't designed for each other so it doesnt quite fit, hence they had to come up with transition rail. Anyways... I still think that current ratio of the MG to Sniper is WAY off... yes they may be used less... but think of it this way. MG's were mounted on cars, APC's etc etc. there still some in squads... the MG's would have been used in FOB's, Check points.. etc. I mean currently the chance of finding an MG is slim to none. I have been playing since May. and i had found AS50 5-6 times (may be more) but i had never found, nor picked up off someone else a SAW for example... or any other LMG

ok, almost all of your points are good. but tell me, in which universe any shooter can pick up a sniper rifle and hit a bulls-eye on target at even 100m? every rifle needs to be zeroed. maintained, cleaned and kept dry. here (in DayZ) we have scenario where almost every rifle had been laying on the floor, in mud, in water, dirt... etc. and chances are it was dropped to start with... if not dragged around by a zombie for a month before it finally dropped off some place. look at cars in DayZ... all wrecks. why not guns? expecting a perfect scope on a rifle in that scenario would be insanity!!! So my point about nerfed optics still stands think that the optics should be cracked, dirty, blury... etc.because tough shit, but its reality. you leave any gun on the floor for long enough and it will rust and decay! MG's are a lot more durable than sniper rifles. MG's are designed to go though a lot of wear and tear... they are made to last though a lot more rounds, they are designed to have low(er) accuracy for higher rate of fire. where is snipers aren't. and yes DMR's are may be part of the new tactics adopted by US in GW2, but I also hear that to start with they were not issued with correct type of specialized oil, which made all American rifles jam like crazy. and here we talking about well maintained rifles. imagine neglected DMR with no special oil to lub it... it wouldn't work! pure and simple. and if you dont agree with this... then you know NOTHING about real guns! So yes, out with NATO Optics and probably guns in general, bring in things like SIGA, more AK variants... with PSOP and KOBRAs. I agree on SVD. Mosin, CZ... have more things like RPK, PK, PKM etc. that would be cool.

lol ok ok guys, the scenario isnt very well thought thou, but the point is still valid. i rather have a chance to run away in panic than just be shot, thats does not scare me, it just makes me sad and angry. which is the wrong type of emotion for any game. And yes, may be the optics isnt unrealistic, what is unrealistic is that its as common as it is now. also with MG vs Optics Balance shifted if gives you a fighting chance.. rather than just bang - dead!

Terminal Boy, ok agreed. but you still have 2 Gunners in the section. and also since when the AS50/DMR/M24 was more common than SVD.

well, but then it becomes question of balance... you can have gun that fires quickly but at med, range... or fired slowly at the long range. the idea is to make the game more balanced. and narrow the gap between the noobs and vets.

Helicopter sites actually do have smoke... just saying :) And yes if it was fixed location then the snipers would camp it... but that would: 1. Leave less campers for airfields and mil. camps... so effectively you would reduce the number of campers at each prime location making it easyer to loot. 2. Create the risk and hence justification for having high end loot there... cos lets face it Zeds are not much of a threat if you had played this game for a month. You just crawl past themor if you have AKM just shoot the as they run towards you. - but if thrre were snipers then... well it would make fight even.

Actually if the society does collapse religion will boom so much it would be crazy. People would be ready to grab just about any straw that explains why their world had changed. Many would convert to religion. Specially since zombies are kinda predicted in the bible. Read books like Afterworld (not sure who its by

I think what he means is already existing crash site. there is a model for it in the editor

How about making this not a random occurance like crash sites, but a known location... may be to spice up the locations which are at the moment are not really visited. have played this game since May. and I know that there are a routs that every player takes to get to the good gear or cars. for me its usually Kamenka - Cherno - Bor - Zeleno - Vybor - NW Airfield - Stary Sobor - Novy Sobor - Gorka - Back to coast - Electro.... etc. and I dont need to go anywhere else. there are very little else to see... so may be this could introduce a High-Value location, somewhere in Centre of the map, in places like "Shahovka", "Mista", "Dolina"

Someone mentioned that stand alone may be a map based on Ukraine... I beg beg beg... please may this be so. There could be radioactive areas like Chernobyl. there will be a lot of cars there (as they were left after the disaster) Then you have huge river splitting the country in two... which would be cool. There are farming communities and mountin to the west and industrial city's to the west. there could be a nuked city where there is also radiation. There is crimea which is only connected to land by a small bit. This could be like a final fronteer. The last stand. There could be a wall built there with refugee camps on other side and a fleet of ships that was supposed to have evacuated everyone.

Stalker?? 1 if you had read the book by strugatski brothers then you wouldnt say that.... And 2 the chernobyl disaster did happen in April 1986. Want it or not... its real... and radiation is real too!!! And 3 it would an awesome aspect to the game, as there would be loot... but you couldnt farm it as radiation would slowly kill you!!!

Hi, i am just trying to figure some things out. I have been playing since May... but my loot is Shocking!!!! I dont understand. in 5 months of playing, I havent found half of what people seem to find. I mean whole of the August I managed to survive. and just looked around and been pretty much everywhere on the map and nothing!! in my whole time as Survivour the most extreme weapon I found was M4 SD. that was once. and ONCE i found an M16+ACOG. And yet, i see some n00bs spawn and 5 minutes later find M107... 10 minutes after that they have NVG's and Range finder. etc etc. I know that barracks are THE place to look for that kinda stuff and also Tents at Stary Sobor. but all I ever find are AKM's. I only today (5 months after) found out that there is SVD on this game. I have never seen IT or Ammo for it. I find M240 or M249 mags ALL the time.. but NEVER even seen the gun. I also find m203's but no weapon to fire them from? and when I find crashed Helo... there are just FN FAL's millions of them! and none of this mega mazing loot that other seems to find. To be perfectly honest I feel like a little kid who got left without a cake. :(

"Dear admin... Hail rocket, protect me from the hacker, may his script crash his computer... in the name, of the server the forum and the game... Domain!" But the idea is not very thought through. I mean if you gonna have churches... what about Muslim players? The churches in game now are Russian orthodox.. the main religious group who plays is Catholic. So would you need to change buildings? How would you not offend? I mean at the moment there are huge riots in over 30 ocountries because of some 14 minute film. What if rocket goes ahead and introduces relion into the game and he creates a mosque and someone goes and blows it up... I would imagine that would piss few people off... Also how would mechanics work? If there are celebrations I mean in many religions you got to fast... like in Islam you cannot eat during day light hours for a month.

Jams thats true. and I have good a good gear now, I survived most september so far. but its all looted from someone else. I never actually "found" it. even things like "backpack" I had never found on the floor, i just looted it of someones tent. I just want to actually find something that wiki says its just "rare" or "common" because at the moment wiki's "common" is my "rare"

Hi, Its quite a simple idea, and i am sure that people said it already but i looked thru last 5 pages and nothing, so here it is. I Think that a new filter system would be good for when looking for a server. It would be great if you could Save a server as a Favorit. It would save so much time when it came to selection of the sever. Also a server History would be nice. I mean so many times I had wandered around a server i found... and it would be different every time, either because last one got hacked, or ping is over 9000, or its so dark in there that i cant see 1 foot infront of me, and i am not lucky enough to find NVG's. So a lot of times I just join different server that a favorible to me(be that I found and nicked someones car on them, or its just right GMT setting). but sometimes I forget what they were called. It would be nice to just go to server history and choose them out of the list. Server info, instead of "this server runs ArmaII: OA... blah blah blah" why not have the chatter, stats and times for when someone got killed. logic is simple... you looking for a server and you find one... its right version, its good enough time.. the ping is in low 20's and there are quite a lot of people to play with... but you look at the server info and see that 5 minutes ago everyone died at the same time and/or everyone is saying "omg there is a tank here, and a SUV, lets all have AS50 TWS and blah blah blah..." I simply dont want to join servers where I Spawn, I teleport, I get blown up by a nuke or eaten by an army of para-cows! Time of day filter, this is simple. I am one of those people who refuses to play with their gamma up. and for some reason I cant find any good gear (like NVG's) at all, no matter where i look. AND my biggest problem is internet is shit where I live it only seems to speed up after 23:00 :\ so thats the earlyest I can play anything online. So it would be nice if I could filter all day and night time servers.

I use Six Updater, didnt know about this one. Thanks.

not sure if its possible, but can we have a map that you can mark... but that mark isnt seen by everyone esle on the server. may be have a 3 settings, Red, Blue and Black marks. and could be filtered. Red is server specific. i.e. "I left my car here" *point on the map* - this would be only seen by player. Blue would be player specific and not be seen by anyone else. i.e. "Here where UAZ normally spawns" or "good camp site here" Black this would be server specific and for everyone to see. basically what we have now. The benefits of these 3 options could be quite interesting, if every player has its own marked map. for example... you killed a bandit. you loot his body and take his map. on it you can see, "killed someone here" "My camp" "left my car here" etc. I mean realistically this is what you would do with a map, you would also draw all over it while plotting the rout.. but thats pointless in DAYZ. and I am Tired of people just trolling the map. I hate it when you log on, open map and all over it someone had written "troll troll troll..." or whatever :\

This Idea is old as the mod itself. but I still agree with it.

I have. Its got be something to do with latest update. i played last night on 1.7.2 and all was fine... downloaded 1.7.2.3 and all goes to hell

i am having same issue