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it occurred to me that this player was hacking all along, but I don't have any proof. All I know is we were blown up, and the bus was toast. I also think that maybe he wanted to prank the bus, and it ended up being a fatal gag.

Yesterday I lost my 27 day old character to an invisible assailant and decided to try to meet up with a few random players. Side chat was open, so I was able to confirm a few friendlies on the server. People start talking about finding vehicles, and when I find myself in a construction site I decide to pick up some car parts as a way to make friends faster. Soon one of the players finds a bus, and I let him know I have an engine, glass, and scrap. He picks me up from the firestation and then we drive to pick up 3 more friendlies. We decide to raid the NWA for loot and when we are only a minute away, hacker kills us all. Some of us are teleported to be killed again, i had waited a few mins to log back in, and when I did, I was far far away. In chatting with my new friends I learned that the bus was still where we died, and that the hacker had dropped an ammo box in the form of a medical supply box! I ran as fast as I could back to where we died, finally meeting up with everyone again. Now I have all of the gear I lost from my 27 day old character again, plus Camo clothes! We then pile back into the bus, and start towards NWA again. After someone asks what we should do I suggest blowing up the Antenna at green mountain with satchel charges. Nobody seemed to like this idea, but it was then suggested to blow up the Comm tower at NWA. We arrived there, and killed off the hordes of zombies approaching, while one of my new friends planted charges. After he ran back..... BOOM, the comm tower is now a pile of rubble! We returned to the ammo crate for more explosives, and leveled another building at NWA. Now we came back to the ammo crate to rearm. One of my fellow players was struggling with his mouse wheel options when... BOOM. He accidentally triggers the satchel charges in the bus, killing himself, myself, and another player. 2 players survived the blast. Now I spawned at Cap Golova, and it's 3am in RL, I should be in bed already. But I must run back to my body, and the supplies. Finally, after running blind, with no supplies, and dying of dehydration, I finally find our bodies and the ammo crate. I gear up once again and go hide under a tree before logging out. I have FRAPS footage fof when we blew up the Comm Tower, I may upload it tonight.

I want the whole globe. And you spawn in near your actual geographic location....

I've never had trouble finding an ALICE at least. People killing for backpacks are silly.

Nice. Zombies are important.

I too would like a list of Coalition affiliate servers. I guess I can filter for the Clan names listed in this thread, and hope some of them put their names in the server title....

Thanks for sharing.

:facepalm: Cya!

Thank you, McWiggins. :beans:

I give you the award winning short film....

Stop saying Ninja Scroll, I'm trying to forget that it will be out in Bluray format NEXT MONTH. :wub:

We all role play, right? Even if you're playing the guy who hates role playing, that's a role in of itself. I'm a total coward with this latest character. After losing a 10 day mountain man to a hacker, I have a 20+ day mountain man going now. Trying to confirm friendly nearly got me killed the other day, but I still refuse to KoS, or resort to banditry. All of my favorite DayZ memories so far are the rare instances when I can assist a noob, or at least have a neutral passing. The item amounts/types are hacked to bits, making a loot greedy mentality somewhat flawed, IMO. I have not played in a couple of days due to RL responsibility, but if tents are actually working, I may try to be a crappy Hero. See, I'm not a huge FPS gamer (bored with them since 1998), but I love survival horror, and combining it with MMO elements is irresistible, especially with a sandbox platform. So here we are, some people, just another FPS, *BOOM* headshot, some people want to help, some troll, and maybe a few like me are trying to play MMOResident Evil. No surprises here. Unfortunately many people are not very empathetic in real life, and can be downright self centered, and cold emotionally. This game reflects this. Again, no surprises here. I'm a pragmatic person, but not naturally greedy, or a predator, so the way I play reflects this. Personally, I have high hopes for the standalone, and I think it will inspire less KoS, and less backstabbing in the general populace.

These ideas are similar to others suggested, but it's my brain fart contribution. I made a thread for this but maybe this belongs here. 1) I understand that killing zombies is boring after awhile (I'm starting to feel it myself), and that PvP adds replay value, but I think it would be great to make Zombies more challenging (more blood, but make them stagger when shot), that might make teamwork a more desirable strategy, if at least 2 guys were needed to unload on a Zed to kill it quickly enough for a safe outcome. 2) Then add a secure property mechanic with light barricades on town borders, not a safe zone with no PvP, and a way to clear zombies for extended periods of time while you still occupy a town/city. IE, if you kill ALL zombies in a certain range, and set up the barricades in a certain time limit, they cannot respawn quite as quickly or in as great numbers as long as the barricades stand. Then you might see more focus on acquisition, and retention of properties, clan versus clan. All the while, trying to stem the flow of Zeds. This idea requires larger amounts of players per server to make it work, and might be too much "structure" considering the original vision, but I thought maybe some of these thoughts might be interesting to put out there for discussion. I've read similar ideas on here regarding property acquisition, but when I thought this up, I did not recall reading anything with these particular features. Whether you like my ideas or not, thanks for reading.

I think the whole "loot competition" reasoning is somewhat flawed logic. When you kill a fresh spawn.... what do you get? Another fresh spawn. Add to this the proliferation of hacked in items breaking loot percentages, and competition for loot, the way it was intended, no longer exists.

34 as well, schreck. I wondered how many others were around in my age bracket. We remember Pong!

maybe he had a sudden case of a conscience? no, you're right, derptastic fail.

You're welcome, DeeTwo I think it's the "Ivan"/Russian hat Zombie too, I thought maybe the OP could clarify. He has padding on his clothes, similar to hunting clothes I think... could be wrong Edit: Friendly suggestion on a similar note, you might want to add item drop info for each type as well. From Wiki: About 35% of zombies have loot on them. On civilian zombies you can find Canned Food, Soda Cans, rounds for common Weapons like Makarov PM or Lee Enfield or empty cans and bottles. On military zombies you can find ammo for rare weapons, for example AK or STANAG. They also have a chance of dropping HE and Smoke Grenades.

It's like this, but for Zombies. "wider aggro range when compared with hoppers." I believe you meant crawlers. And which one is the "Hunter" that drops Bear Traps?

Go to Mogilevka, wait for the C72 bus to Grozovoy Pass. Get off at the 4th stop. If zed driver, pay in Bandit brains.

The scripters will always be in the mod. And the only change will be said, "waves". I don't think it's cause to put down the game right now. No offense, really nothing to see here.

Yeah, and then add tags to the equation and you've got x-ray vision! It would be cool to see some cap on gamma/brightness. The only real reason to have NVG's right now, is so you don't have to adjust gamma between day and night....

If you're not a bandit/sniper, the bandit/snipers seem like total dicks. Personally, I don't see ANY challenge (ooo bullet drop physics, lol) in attacking someone who does not know you are even there. It's a valid playstyle that unfortunately can leave a bad taste in the mouths of those who want to play more "friendly". Don't become jaded, don't KoS if you don;t "believe" in it. DO take whatever you like from tents.

Cool idea. Beans. But I'm set for gear, don't want any of what your giving away right now.

Apparently I play the most boring form of DayZ, the Lone Wolf Mountain Man. I avoid all of the other players and mainly search for motorcycles, ammo, and a sleepy little town where I can rack up Zombie kills. I will likely give up this style next time my character dies, as I have to admit, it is getting a bit boring even for an immersion/RP player like me. At this point I'm fascinated to see how long I can hang on this way (21 days in currently). In 21 days I have come across maybe 6 players, 5 of which tried to kill me, 3 of those 5 were hidden/sniping, the other 2 I was able to escape, without engaging. Honestly, it's been so long since I've been in a fire fight, I'm not sure how well I would react at this point. When I die, I might try for Hero, find a clan of older gamers, or possibly go Medic Never a Bandit.

Cogent rant deserves beans.