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Nope please dont do anything like this. IRL how can you see if somebody is gonna rob a bank or kill someone else? You cant. So why should we be able to see it in a game, which has emphasis on "authenticity" and "realism"? Talk to people ingame or avoid them all together, but please dont ever put any kind of "flag" or "sign" on players.

lol............................ So by your logic, BI should not try to fix exploits like this, simply because you like it. Well guess what, its a unintended side effect and it has a bad impact on the game. For that very reason it should be fixed asap. You are a prime example of why software has to be "idiot proof" theese days, because people will go out of they're way, to exploit bugs/cheats everywhere..... BACK ON TOPIC: Uhm, i have to say no, keep 24 hour days ingame, It gives a certain realism feel to the game. I remember the mod had some "mods" (modception lol) where we had shorter days ingame, and it just felt wrong. Most people tend to leave at nighttime anyway, so if we had, say 6 hours of daylight ingame, every single server would pretty much empty every 6 hours.

VAC isnt implemented yet and BE works fine..... There will always be people who hack/cheat, its impossible to get rid of them, so stop blaming a perfectly fine AC for this.

This value controls grass density and how far you can see it: sceneComplexity At least thats the case for Arma 2/3, so im 99% sure its the same here :)

But what if you are teleported to the middle of the ocean and dont have a gun or its impossible to kill yourself because you are swimming. Ingame suicide is not the answer here. In full release it could be, but for alpha/beta testing purpose it simply isnt.

Ok so how about this: We get an option to kill our character in the menu, but it can only be used every 48 hours or so, maybe even 72 hours. This would be good for people getting stuck, accidently teleported, etc. but it would not cause abuse to get a better spawn or avoid illness ingame. Should not be difficult to code a local timer, which removes the option for a given period of time.

I like the idea of different kinds of Zed's, like an elderly and younger versions, but the Z's in DayZ arent dead zombies, think more like infected people (28 days later and so), so they do not really decay like you describe :) Also, it has been stated since the beginning of the mod, the reason we players arent turning, is because we are immune to the virus. We simply cannot turn, only get sick and die :)

Yes giving people to option to choose what character will be in your "hall of fame" is the ideal choice :) Perhaps a maximum of 5 slots or so.

Unfortunatly Steam can only be online 1 place at a time, and since you need Steam online to play DayZ online, it isnt possible. As mentioned by others, your only option is 2x Steam account and 2x DayZ :) As of right now, you might be able to join a server with 2 of the same account, but that will be "fixed" later on. In Arma 2/3 servers can kick duplicate, which means only one account can play at any given time :)

No, multible characters = permadeath isnt scary anymore. The tension 1 life gives, cannot be replaced by anything else and is most certainly one of the most important features of this game. Give more characters and people wont care if they die, not to mention the "demand" to get global inventory and crap like that. Theres a reason this didnt work in other games, such as WarZ, you have one life, one character. Treasure him and keep him safe :)

Ohh yeh, names would be awsome, but i have to say i do not want to see a summary of ALL your characters, should only be the 3-5 "longest lives" you have had :)

Have to agree, anything above 70-80 players would screw the game over and make it into one giant pvp fight, nothing else. You should run into players, but it should not be every 2-3 mins, and thats exactly what would happen if we had 150 players on a server. Imagine Cherno or Elektro, if theres 50+ players in thoose cities, clusterfuck as Mo1ey says hehe

Yes we need alot of stuff like this. Good suggestions, have some beans :beans:

Isnt it already planed? I was under the impression we are gonna be able to write on paper and leave notes and stuff for other players. Could be wrong though :)

OMG didnt even think about this option hahahaha. Just imagine standing in Cherno, looking out a window and on the roof of the firestation you see a gyu with a polaroid taking selfies with Cherno as a background lol.

Exactly, it should not be difficult to add a "photoshop filter" on top of the polaroids, and ofc make it worse and worse quality based on the quality of the polaroids you put into the camera. And yeh, being able to write on it ofc, but it should not be restricted to any specific place you can write, basicly you should be able to write where ever you want on it, both sides and even across the picture, if you want :) Perhaps we could even go as far as having a polaroid pouch of sorts, kinda like the bag we see ingame for various food items now.

Not a bad idea :) But it has to be local only, no leaderboards or anything like that. It would be nice to have a summary of your 3-5 best characters, so you can screenshot it and show to people "Hey ive been alive for x days, bla bla bla", as long as it stays far far away from any kind of global leaderboard :) And also, it should not have kill scores for anything, basicly just the "days alive" counter and a possible screenshot of what you looked like when you died. DayZ isnt about who can kill the most or who can be on top of a leader board tbh, so we should never have any kind of kill scores, it would turn the game into "yet another arcade zombie shooter" in my opinion.

For this reason EXACTLY, it should not be like this. People will exploit the crap out of such a feature lol

We got a heathen over here!!!! But seriously, why not. If we can find bananas, kiwis and oranges, littered all over the placed, why not eggs :) Sure it does not seem "authentic" but if where to go down that road 100% we would have NOTHING but canned food, boring :) Its a game, not a IRL simulator, so i would love to see this hehe.

Good point, and thats exactly why people shouldnt do this :) Go tweak your game files and get rid of all thoose processes you dont want manually, so much safer. Most of the time theese "FPS enhancers" only give placebo effects anyway. It does not take much know-how to make it work better on your own. @BelMarkduk No i havent done anything like that, i can only speak from the years of experience ive got with BE, from Arma 2/3 server hosting :) But you are right, we will see false positives, especially so early in development.

Save it, it will come in handy when they get the ingame radio protocols implemented :) As far as i know you will be able to use it as a regular walkie talkie, but you can also use it a a "bug", turning off the speaker on it and placing it somewhere and then listening to it, to spy on people :) BUT it does not have any ETA yet, though.

It would help if you could provide screenshots of the errors popping op :)

This is VERY important and its awsome they are looking into it now :D

Yes, BUT only download from trusted sources.................... A youtube video is not a trusted source hehe, but some people needs to learn it the hard way i guess.

But this is where the steam security comes in play, because if it is "this simple" steam would be out of business lol. So no, it isnt really that simple, if it was nobody would use steam by now, coz it would be a giant problem :) And to clarify, BE doesnt not read your memory, it reads your current running processes (much like Warden in WOW) to see if you are running illegal 3rd party software :) And then its scanning your client constantly, to make sure you dont do something you arent allowed to do. We can compare this to Warden in WOW, sure it was possible to cheat and to bot alot in WOW, but the reason it was so damn easy was because the software you were using was "masked" from Warden, so it never saw it running in the first place. This is where the "cat after mouse"-playtime starts. Warden found a way to see the software running, mass ban rolled out, software got updated to mask it self better, warden didnt see it again. BE works in a very similar way, when it comes to checking running processes, but it also check every single thing you are doing in game, and i mean EVERYTHING. So basicly, if you are doing something BE is configured to "not-allow" boom, you get a kick and it gets reported to the logs. Could be an error in the BE filters or could be a serious security issue, you cannot find out until you start reading the logs and understand what people did :)