Entaro (DayZ)

The biggest problem with vehicles is that even if they are destroyed, on a restart they usually pop right back up where they were destroyed, in good condition - they rarely repopulate their original spawn points.

No night vision with any sniper rifle. On my server this is already how it is setup. NVG's should be taken out of the game honestly. I hear Arma 3's nighttime is even more dynamic with its lighting. If that is the case, doubly so on not having NVG. Thermal too, thats just a free hack.

Lingor is a great map, and a lot of fun. We've been running a private hive with it + Lingor Units (seperate mod) for about a month now. The map is a lot better overall (though more forrestry might be nice). The cities are more varied and the terrain is great - very hilly and mountainous. More buggy? I couldn't tell you about that I haven't experienced ANY unique to lingor. Work-wise there is literally nothing for the dev's to do. Just create a new hive and its ready to go. Merging the hive to work a single character off of lingor+Chernarus would be problematic since your location is different between the two, though I guess that would be about the only work required if they wanted to merge the two. I dono, I don't care about official anyway, gave up on hive a long time ago - but yall are mising out and they might as well make it an official hive map since it'll cost them close to zero effort. Chenarus is still the best overall theme I think (woodland) but the map needs work, and hive vehicle scarcity sucks.

What community? DayZ struck gold with its concept and people will continue to follow it into standalone. The mod is "over the hill" at this point. Most people seem to be getting bored, lack of updates/added features/hacking widespread. Is it all the hacker's fault? No. Probably a decent chunk of the hackers are doing it because their bored, and hacking extends their gameplay for the mod.

Its not fear its boredom. People revert to their Counterstrike/Battlefield/CoD roots.

Yes, I also have unmetered gigabit on my home line. Oh well for official support, enjoying lingor at the moment.

Game mechanics telling me who are "good guys" and "bad guys" suck.

Hostler Weapon (toggle) can be set in your controls. It lowers your rifle into a position where if you clicked fire it would not fire, but raise the weapon to a firing position, so it creates a delay in trying to shoot somebody. I'm pretty sure you can do it for the pistol too, you hold it with both hands pointing upwards like james bond.

more KOS. KOS KOS KOS. No tension, just skin KOS.

http://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/common-questions-excessive-use/ They have suspended the cap right now which is why I am able to host servers and run up 1000+ gigs in data. Unless you live in Nashville, TN you should have your bandwidth cap suspended right now.

Your base arma 2 profile is your computer name. So... their computer name is probably Admin.

There is no way you used 640GB of data by playing DayZ as a client. I will average 700-800GB as a client + running 2 servers with an average playercount of 15 each (30 total).

How the hell do you take a player hostage? That is purely RP and opens you up to getting killed yourself - there is no mechanic for restraining somebody or disarming them. KOS is your one-stop shop mechanics-wise for banditry in this game currently. Anything else will result in you having to place some amount of trust in the other player to "go along" with you. If you are a roleplayer, then RP If you are not a roleplayer, then just kill everybody.

Creativity is one thing. Having tools to be creative with would be a whole different story. Obvoiusly this game struck gold on its proof of concept and fundamentals. But it needs content and/or tools for players to create content. And I'm not even playing on Hive. I'm on a private server with probably near 100 vehicles in various states of ownership, disrepair or respawn. I think on Hive there is 11 vehicles per server with a respawn timer of like 7 days or something insane. Hive is boring as hell right now. Even the private server isn't that different, you just have more toys to play with. Ultimately the game needs more content.

Sounds like he jumped on the wrong bandwagon. Your friend isn't a hacker though, sounds like just another script kiddie who read some forum somewhere.

Because there is little reason not to shoot somebody on site. The other day I had a bunch of zombies on my tail and ran into a barn. Lo and behold another player was in there with an enfield on the second floor. I said over the coms "friendly! Friendly! please dont shoot!" and he said "cool man! yeah thanks for not shooting me!". Then he helped me kill the 10 or so zombies that chased me into the barn. I asked him if he needed anything, he said no and left the barn. I proceeded to look around the barn at the loot drops and found something I needed - the same gun runs back in while I am in the loot animation and puts an enfield round in my head. I had M4A3, Coyote, etc... pretty good gear and he probably just wanted the upgrade. You just don't need anybody in this game, at least not strangers. A lot of folks have their meta-gaming community and that is where you get your friends from. Encountering strangers usually ends in somebody dying because there is literally no reason to not kill them, unless you are roleplaying or bored wanting to see what happens. There is no survival impetus. You have shiner shit? *BAM* now its mine. There will always be people that just go around deathmatching, but beyond that for people that MIGHT otherwise entertain some type of cooperation or cooersion rather than outright murder... there is no mechanic or reason to support that gameplay.

Not as much as me. :lol:

Consoles suck, games on them suck. How are you going to have a semi-sandbox semi-MMO game FPS on a console? I laugh at your smooth aim. I can't take anybody who players FPS with a controller serious.

lol seconded. I recommend Santuary server until they pull their heads out of their asses.

Crash sites are placed fresh on server restart. I believe official servers per Hive rules can allow up to 7, usually around 4 will spawn. They follow some peculiar rules - It seems like the first one usually spawns somewhere within 1000m of the first person to log into the game, the next ~4000m from there, etc...

Livin the dream on Sanctuary with 40/40 in my server, I feel your pain being on hive.

If it is a hive server, then nothing was intentionally wiped, unless it was destroyed by players as hive servers don't have access to the database. So either somebody came in and destroyed all your stuff, or due to restarts/bugs it got itself deleted or hidden ( might show up later/future restarts). Also, server time is based off of system clock time, so it has nothing to do with anything database related. I suggest you try again with another tent, gear is easy come easy go.

I would bring a couple satchels with me and ask to use the bathroom, you figure the rest out.

4:53:06 "WRITE: ['PASS']" makes me think its a script, especially since the message is flooded many times in a short period. Kind of puts you in a tight spot. For me, I'd ban them, but you have hive rules to consider.