Mad Z

This might have been the case in the mod, but people looking to gear up now just go to Balota, which has equivalent loot to the NWAF.

Yeah, this actually is the biggest argument against this idea, which I agree the coastal spawning system fixes. That being said, with a center of Gorka extending west to the fields north of Novy, south to Shakshovka/Guglovo, west to Berzino, and perhaps as north as Krasnotov, this area might be big enough to prevent this.

You can spawn at or very close to the almost all of the most valuable areas of the map, rather than traveling to them. That is why it should be changed.

There really is no reason, besides convention, that we spawn along the coast. There is no good reason to prevent spawns from being set inland instead. In my opinion, the best location would be in the Gorka-Dubrovka area, given its proximity to a good town/medical area (Berezino) and a decent military area (NEAF). At the same time, it is equidistant from Balota, the new Kamenka/Zelenogorsk military installation, and the NWAF, all of which should be "end game" areas, not spawning locations. If these places, as well as Cherno and Elektro, were not as easy to access as simply killing yourself until you get a nice spawn (all of them are except for the NWAF), it would encourage a lot more map movement/spread as well as a different playstyle in these areas. Why allow yourself to be killed in Cherno or Elektro when you know it will take you at least 20+ minutes to run there again? I know that I would play much more conservatively in these towns if I didn't consider them to be somewhere so easy to get to, and I think others would do the same.

I may or may not have tried that the first time I found one... the answer is no.

Im assuming this isn't actually a bug, but getting sick from my first zombie hit gives me roughy 0 motivation not kill myself immediately.

You're lucky you got a choice. I logged in about month ago on my 90 day ish character to find it back on the coast with nothing.

Personally, I prefer private hives because the good ones have better safe-guards against hacking, and they will often roll-back after a hack attack. Servers connected to the main hive rarely have these privileges. Also, there are plenty of good private hives out there that do not spawn you with ridiculous gear.

I use third person whenever I'm not aiming/firing my weapon. Why? First person in this game severely limits even the reasonable field of view, and make me feel sick after any extended amount of time.

They removed this option a while ago. Funny that they wanted to move to no icons, thus the removal of debug, yet the end result forces people to have icons.

Hopefully all those empty tin cans and whiskey bottles might be useful for something...

In my opinion, anyone with the patience to fly or sail (or swim!) such a long distance repeatedly deserves to have a secret base.

Not really, just look at how many servers are being hosted at the moment. Number seemed stuck at around 5000 for the longest time, now it has broken 6000 for the first time. Sure, not all servers have people on them, but the game is far from dead.

"Broken mechanics"? Situations like this are what make the game so intense!

Looted 4 chopper crashes on a server and found only m4 and m16 variants. Boring as hell.