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I do endurance sports, and I can tell you from experience, you cannot drink much directly from falling rain. Filling a canteen, from rainfall, without a device to catch it, would take forever.

I gave up on tents until I hear they are fixed. Use at your own risk. I have a sleepy server where there is usually less than 10 people on at a time where I play. And I have a motorcycle there. I don't mind avoiding people at all.

Cool, I hope I can catch this, thanks.

btw, you'll probably lose stuff to the vehicle respawn bug. also this: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/56-dayz-stories/page__st__1400

I don't mind surviving alone, stock piling ammo, and working on vehicles. When you do this all alone, it takes a lot more time.

I do not KoS, I have, but only a few times, a long time ago. I've enjoyed survival horror since 1996 and to me I'm playing an enormous survival horror mod, and part of that is surviving the murderers, and bandits. Also, I am not a jaded FPS maniac so shooting/killing zombies in different scenarios is still fun (though not particularly challenging). Once people organize properly, I believe the Good guys will vastly outnumber the Bad guys. I'm hold up in the woods until things pan out more. Things will likely take some time to develop depending on changes that happen through the mod, and when stand alone is released. I am tempted to hunt solo bandits, or maybe a sniper with one spotter, but it seems the humanity mechanic is still not working so I haven't taken that leap. I have assisted noobs a couple of times, which was nice, but I find making contact too risky in general.

Right now, if you find a self repairing motorcycle, you'll always know where it will be when the server restarts, and can hop on and ride (provided you have a jerry can). I always save within 2,000m of where I know the motorcycle will spawn on a particular server, and if there is no server reset, then there's a chance it will be where I saved it.

I went 3 days straight looking for a vehicle without finding one. It can be extremely frustrating. ATV's are easy to find, but I find them difficult to handle, and they can flip, crushing you. Also, vehicles beget more vehicles. Once you locate one, and can zip around, you start finding more. The first time I found a motorcycle, within twenty minutes I had found a bike, and a tractor as well.

no, we all noticed it before, that's why we acted surprised. /enter sarcasm

I'm a lone wolf, and at one point last week I had 1 motorcycle on 2 different servers, and nearly had a sedan fixed up on one of the servers where I had a motorcycle. I play on low pop servers. If you find one that's "sleepy" enough and carefully search the spawn areas, you will find a vehicle. Legit DayZ requires patience as well, so take your time and plan out your moves around the map. If no vehicle in spawn point A, have a B,C, and D lined up. It also helps not to be picky. My first 2 vehicles were tractors.

Is that...? Could you have...? Never mind, beans-at-you.

There's a bug with starving and dehydrating. If you log out and back in you go back to the health you had when you started starving, but you begin losing health again immediately.

Found a red Motorcycle, with flames on the side. It doesn't seem to have the auto fix bug and I keep killing tires... This was taken a few days ago, I am now at 9 days and about 700 kills. Currently working on a sedan too (if it's there when I sign back on), just need 2 tires.

The only two people I've seen in the last three days were actually afk and i could have easily shot or looted them but instead went my own way. It's a conscious choice we all make, and their shouldn't be flags or stats that drew it, skins would be enough (when they work). Living in the woods on low pop servers makes reading parts of this forum seem like reading a newspaper from a foreign land. As a lone wolf recluse, dayz is a totally different game.

i LOL'd = beans

Last night there were two threads with camp locations, both were obvious traps imo. I'm against it but it's really just meta griefing, which is allowed. I've found some fortresses and never even wrote down the locale so i could revisit it myself.

Troll much?

If you run an Nvidia card, control panel, 3D settings, add Arma2OA to list, turn off threading, play game. Almost this exact thread title pops up every 12 hours at least lately.

Turning off threading for ARMA2 in Nvidia control panel worked for me. The frequency of these threads is silly.

thanks DMS, i've been lazy and haven't turned off that setting yet. now i've done the fix. finally. have some beans.

tents that are tarps, that are traps.... hmmm

I found a fortified camp like this high on a hill in the north once. On an adjacent hill they had a bus walled in with sandbags, and a few tents with what I believed to be scripted items. I wiped out those tents with grenades taken from the other camp, and moved on.

always wary of those zombie goats. looks shiny! the pile of money in front of my monitor grows.

It depends on the server for me. On one server (where I have a motorcycle), the places you name are unapproachable. On another server I was just on, no problems at all....

First tents, now vehicles too. There's a lot of time left before the standalone, I would be surprised if they didn't patch this up soon.