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Same server would function as normal, you would log in/out at the same position as normal. However, joining a new server would place you on the beach, not the same place as the server you just left.

The zombies in the Chernarus Apocalypse mod don't zig-zag. Maybe the AI could be tweaked or borrowed.

As I posted in the suggestions thread (http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/54577-adding-my-2cents-admins/#entry521751) ... the solution doesn't have to be more expensive. 3. You should spawn on the coast every time you join a new server but you don't lose your gear. It would stop ghosting and server hopping for advantage. It would prevent players from preparing raids on another server and spawning directly into an enemy camp bypassing all defences. It would prevent snipers from spawning onto mountain tops and buildings to PK and then server hopping to repeat. It would encourage players to form communities and learn to play with other players who have made that server their home and it wouldn't have any effect on lone wolves either. It might affect squads that server hop together, but in reality, how hard is it for an experienced player to meet up with their buddies again? It would prevent combat logging and sitting in the lobby while a squadmate comes to heal you. It would prevent combat logging to another server to self-heal, and then logging back in to continue the fight.

Game Purchase Cosmetic DLC purchase (skins, aka Killing Floorz) DLC Expansion Purchase (new map areas + cosmetic stuff only) New Studio develops that is Kickstarter funded (preorders) Community and Studio servers. (Studio servers also serve as patch and update test servers).

Twinkie factory in post-soviet region? The game isn't set in the States .... you should be asking where all the empty vodka bottles are.

Our server was teleported 3 times in the couple of hours I was on, the day before yesterday. That's 120 players that were affected excluding the douchebags who did it. I was expecting a pile of hacker reports with our server name in the title ... and you know, UGG, not a single person came here to report it. That would indicate to me, that for every player that is pissed off about cheaters and actually posts here, the problem is 100's of times worse. I'm thankful for the few players that do cry about it, because if it keeps getting worse, maybe someone will sit up and take more notice. The streamers are commenting on the problem, the youtubers are commenting on the problem, the dayz forums are commenting on the problem, third party websites are commenting on the problem. It is only a matter of time before the major gaming sites start commenting on the problem. The only thing I've heard from Rocket or the DayZ team, that could be considered "official", is that they are looking into allowing private hives and possibly passworded servers. I do understand it is an engine issue with arma 2 and not dayz. I do understand that BE are the ones supposed to be doing something about it. I do understand it is an alpha. I do understand that it is an "experiment." The issue is that the "experiment" was a success. DayZ is responsible for more copies of arma 2 and OA being sold for DayZ, than the original game, afaik. Now it needs to be taken seriously, and you coming up with cry baby statements that "cheating threads piss you off" is only adding to the problem.

He's a troll. Just check his post history. Ignore him and he'll go away, or report him, either way, he'll go away eventually.

The discussion to shut down our server too, has started. We've been running servers for 12 years. CS, CSS, L4D, BF2, BC2, BF3 and DayZ. We've had top 3 ranked servers across Asia, 2nd ranked servers in the world, 1st ranked servers in the UK, and love DayZ, but our dayz server has been under attack constantly for the last 5 days and even though we're following the TOS to the letter, we're close to giving up.

Gun wear and tear wouldn't be an issue for me, as I rarely use mine. I can see it as being a potential gun-sink. I also think that having poorly maintained weapons lying on the ground or in fields wouldn't be out of place in the mod. If it had been introduced at the start of the experiment, people would have accepted it, but people are generally against change. I don't agree with the removal of the anti-material rifles. In a mod that has helicopters and vehicles, they have a place. I don't, however, believe that we need two of them. Removing one of them wouldn't hurt the mod all that much. The bigger issue is the sheer number of weapons in the game. But as I've mentioned in previous posts, and taken a lot of heat over them, the biggest issue is the artificial injection of weapons into the mod. Duping and hacking in of these weapons is creating a huge imbalance that affects player behaviour and play style. The game and weapon drop rates might be perfect as is ... but we'll never know until the artificial injection of weapons is removed or reduced. Ammo drop rates might also be perfect, but again, we don't know because of the glitches that refill ammo, either intentionally or accidentally. I've made similar suggestions from this thread here. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/54577-adding-my-2cents-admins/#entry521751

And just another reason why we are thinking about shutting down our server and roaming free.

You failed to read my post, or you failed to understand it. "Until duping and scripts limit the number of rifles being artificially introduced into the game .... crying for nerfs or removal is pointless." I'll even elaborate .... yes, there are too many snipers and too many sniper rifles. This is not a problem with loot drops. This is not a problem with the mod as it was designed. It is not a problem with the sniper rifles themselves, or how players use them, it is a problem with bugs in the alpha. Yes this is an area for suggestions, but perhaps the suggestions should be more towards fixing the number of duplicated weapons and spawned in weapons than removing the offensive weapons themselves. Remember the first time you found that CZ550 or DMR? Remember the first time, if any, you found that AS50 or M107? "Found", not raided from a camp with 10 of them, or picked up from another dead player, or magically appearing in your backpack. The OP is suggesting that "all" sniper rifles be removed because it "ruins" the "game's" intensity. He wants all player encounters to happen in the towns and cities. He is saying that players/or him using a sniper rifle and sitting on a hill detracts from "his" enjoyment of the "game." I am saying that the player behaviour in the mod is dictated by the artificially high number of those weapons he dislikes. Maybe if people realised that no item in this game is rare anymore due to exploits, they'd stop suggesting nerfs or removals.

After the 100th thread on nerfing snipers, remove snipers, remove ghillies, remove anti-material rifles, reduce ammo spawns, lower sniper spawn rates, I'm compelled to scream at the screen! The game at the moment has very very few legitimate sniper rifles in circulation. Most of them have been duped, either accidentally or intentionally, or have been scripted in by emo cheaters. We DO NOT know if sniper rifle drops need to be nerfed, or ammo drops need to be nerfed. It is an alpha, it is a mod, it is not a full game and it is not a completed game. Until duping and scripts limit the number of rifles being artificially introduced into the game .... crying for nerfs or removal is pointless.

After being teleported yesterday, and witnessing it happening twice more while sitting in the lobby, getting admin access, reviewing the log files, and finally understanding how difficult it is for admins to maintain their own servers. I'm joining the suggestion crowd even though I know that this post would get more views in the general or cheat forum areas. 1. Please give admins the ability to set up "XXX was killed by XXX" messages on the servers. It would make our job a lot easier to detect cheaters and teleporters. It would make it clear to players that they are being killed by a cheater, not admin abuse. It would allow players to report cheaters, by name, to the admins If the messages were added to the logs, it would also make tracking down reported incidents easier. 2. Arma 2 is rated PEGI 16+ we can't prevent players below that age from getting the game, but server suppliers should request proof of age before renting servers to them. It won't stop admin abuse, but it would reduce it. 3. You should spawn on the coast every time you join a new server but you don't lose your gear. It would stop ghosting and server hopping for advantage. It would prevent players from preparing raids on another server and spawning directly into an enemy camp bypassing all defences. It would prevent snipers from spawning onto mountain tops and buildings to PK and then server hopping to repeat. It would encourage players to form communities and learn to play with other players who have made that server their home and it wouldn't have any effect on lone wolves either. It might affect squads that server hop together, but in reality, how hard is it for an experienced player to meet up with their buddies again? It would prevent combat logging and sitting in the lobby while a squadmate comes to heal you. It would prevent combat logging to another server to self-heal, and then logging back in to continue the fight. 4. Set up tents so that they autosave every time an item is placed/removed from them. It would reduce duping by a huge amount. When a game mechanic exists that allows players to dupe accidentally, not intentionally, there is a huge problem. It would prevent false accusations of cheating. 5. Bind one tent to one profile per server. Allow that profile to dismantle that tent and replace it, even after death. It would prevent tent cities due to duping exploits. It would promote teamwork or encourage betrayal to order to set up a camp! As is, one tent can be used to create an infinite number of tents simply by placing and replacing it. There is nothing to stop a player having one tent on multiple servers. 6. Reduce the storage capacity of tents. At the moment, a single tent is able to store 10 weapons/tools, 5 (full) backbacks, and 50 items. It doesn't leave a lot of room for sleeping. It would reduce hoarding. 7. Make tents more functional. Sitting near a tent should have the same effect as sitting by a campfire at night. (sitting in a tent is not safe if you value your bones). Logging off beside your tent when on low blood and then logging back in the next day, should have reduce/repair damage such as blood loss.

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Just spotted on YT. DayZ - How It's Meant To Be Played Don't judge, I only do this because I know others use it against me. It's only fair. Everything is recorded on online "official" servers. ENJOY. Creds go out to all my peeps, you know who you are. So it shouldn't be too hard to track down this a-hole and his peeps .... right?

^^^^^^^^^ Posts like these lighten up my day and make the world a better place.

Oooops ... sorry, didn't check the other sections to see if someone else had posted (or the a-hole was spamming it). Just came here from YT.

1 player out of 900,000 says he hasn't seen many hackers and therefore the mod is fine because it is in alpha vs literally thousands of posts, screenshots, videos, of rampant cheating occurring across the world. 3 new pages of cheat reports every day. OP is extremly lucky or is trolling ... but yep, look away, move along, no problem here.

Could be worse. We've never banned or kicked a single player off our server. We have had our camp raided and had to relocate many times. We've had our vehicles stolen many times, and not one server restart. Then a couple of noobs steal our vehicles, park them less than 1km from one of our camps, we steal them back. Then they go onto Reddit. Post our server and the location of our camp for 30,000 people to read. Claim that the admins are cheaters and used a vehicle hack to steal back the vehicles. They talk about non-existant admin abuse, and that everyone should raid them because they are cheaters. Our server has been overloaded with cheaters and reddit users "getting revenge" for the last 2 days. We haven't shut it down, banned, or kicked anyone, but very tempted. 3 teleport hacks in 1 hour is bloody ridiculous. All because of one little butthurt player who lost his vehicles after stealing them from someone else.

Thank you ... even if you are a bit of a pessimist. ;)

toolbox + axe + scrap metal = ability to make your own bolts. fully in favor of quivers too.

I don't agree with the boss zombie idea. What were these infected in real life ... MMA fighters? Pilot/soldier zeds that are resistant to headshots (helmets). Army zeds that require maybe an extra bullet. That's about as far down the "boss" zombie route I'd like to go.

Wow ... 1 day and buried 3 pages deep. Are these suggestions "that" bad?

Turn DayZ into a hat simulator? No thanks. Costume sets have their place, and it's with orcs and dragons and magic. If ghillie suits are a problem, it is because of the duping and the noobs that hack them in. The ghillie suit was one of the most sought after items in the game for months, it still is, they are still a rare drop, but not to the guy who found one, and now has 50 sitting in a tent under a tree in the middle of nowhere, the tent that sits next to another tent that has 10 as50's in it. Fix that before you complain about them. More skins ... absolutely agree, but sets ... nope.