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Reasons DayZ might have been set in Ireland. Green fields .... check Forests .... check Lots of dirt and secondary roads .... check Roads end for no reason in the middle of nowhere .... check Railway lines but no trains .... check Cows and sheep running around .... check Signposts that make no sense .... check Large number of unenterable buildings .... check Industrial zones on the coast moving to agriculture the further inland you go .... check A fuckload of zombies .... check Zombies are more active around towns and cities .... check A fuckload of people who want nothing more than to hurt or rob you .... check Most enterable buildings are shitholes .... check Most vehicles are damaged and require repairs .... check Always cloudy, overcast, or raining .... check Weird loot in supermarkets .... check (fucking skiing gear in Lidl?!?!, Barbeque sets in Aldi .... in Ireland! WTF?!?!?) Empty whisky bottles everywhere .... check People always looking for drugs .... check A large number of abandoned buildings .... check People are always stealing your vehicles and bikes .... check Castle ruins .... check Churches everywhere .... check Swimming in the sea may be damaging to your health .... check You can't understand a lot of the people you encounter .... check Full of trolls and griefers .... check A valid mode of transport is a tractor .... check The best weapons are usually found in the North .... check Most military weapons and pvp is in the North .... check Buses have been known to explode on contact with a bush .... check ( www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0710/breaking14.html ) The act of walking down a street might be hazardous .... check People say "friendly" before they try to rob you .... check (always double-check your receipts!) A large number of burnt out cars .... check A large number of bodies lying in the street .... check (although it is usually late at night and they are drunk, not dead) Broken down stone walls in the middle of nowhere .... check The North is a hotspot for snipers .... check (at least it used to be) Churches can be magnets for aggression .... check Reasons DayZ is NOT set in Ireland. Shitload of coke and pepsi but no beer Lakes and ponds are safe to drink from Zombies are more active at night You don't have to wait 8 hours to get drugs from a hospital Most farmhouses have shotguns Cans of pasta No potatoes Almost never see a goat 5 hospitals in a 200km radius (yea right!) Military zombies extremely rare No horses Baseball caps Supermarkets aren't stocked with bottles of wine or booze No off-licences No pubs on every corner No mobs of people hanging around the cities complaining about social injustice. Very few people actually walk anywhere Explosives aren't a rare drop (historically speaking) Going camping in the hills is extremely rare. Much more likely to get hurt by a melee weapon than a gun ( www.broadsheet.ie/2012/07/13/anything-go...-carlow-nationalist/ ) (please note that even our newspapers might be using DayZ clipart)

Not rude .... admin was qouting a famous movie "Babe." Nice sense of humor from the admin. It means you were doing something you shouldn't have and the admin had had enough.

+1 for the title .... Troll level expectancy 7/10 -1 for the post .... try harder. 1/10

Worse, if anything. We're now encountering "groups" of skiddies who server hop together and do what they can to destroy the server before leaving. More and more cheaters being banned every day. Thankfully, vigilant admins are catching a lot of them, but banning them after they've done their damage is too late. Players can post their experiences with cheaters and there seem to a lot of them, but admins are seeing a bigger picture and tbh, it is shocking.

TBH, I'm following WarZ quiet closely. I'd like it to work. Like the OP, the current state of the mod is disheartening. Having said that, I'll probably ending up buying both games, like I'm sure many here will. I'm not favoring one over the other, and in the end, the consumer wins. Besides, WarInc is ftp, and I imagine that WarZ will be eventually too.

Topic title is misleading .... there is no "issue", only a little bit of justice and many tears.

yes. until it is effective against zombies, it's only use is for griefing players + we had a hacker that has blocked every single entrance into every single building in electro on our server. Remove it!

Which is why I made the suggestions I did. If a system like this was used. It is "your" choice. If you don't want to tie an account to a card, you would be free to buy the game like you normally would, play it like you normally would, and the only difference would be that you would be playing with other players who choose to play on untied account servers. Anyone cheating there would be free to go out and get another key whenever they are caught. As for being trusting with information. I use paypal and steam wallet almost exclusively. I have no problems with a games account tied to a source I trust.

Intrigued or confused? Setting up accounts the same way as it works for subscription games, but not actually charging a subscription, simply means providing your details on account setup. Some companies i.e. paypal go a step further and charge your credit card a small amount and then refund it when you provide the code the charge showed. If you have ever used a credit to buy a game online, you do know that those companies still have your details and that they are linked to your account? Where do hackers come into it?

Using an alienware m17xr3 with no problems running any game at max settings. DayZ, BF3 ... no probs. Extremely happy with it. Would I ever buy another one? not a chance. This one is a replacement for my previous Alienware that gave me nothing but problems. I ran for about 10 months and then gave me 18 months of hell. At least 3 service people to my door to replace parts. One return to the company when it wouldn't even boot. They "tested" it and said nothing was wrong. A week later, it returns, and still wouldn't boot. After months of complaining, I demanded a replacement. The replacement offered was actually a downgrade on my previous system, but the Dell legal team basically told me to like it or lump it, due to "depreciation" of the value of the original, despite the fact it was unusable for almost 18 months. They took 66% off the original value of the laptop, and offered me 34% of the price I paid back, or the m17x. They refused to extend my warranty to cover the time the original was out of service too. When an alienware laptop is working, it is a joy, but once it stops, it is a nightmare. Upgrading is almost impossible. Difficult with any laptop, but even more so with an alienware. Home repairs/replacements are impossible. PC repair companies won't touch alienware with a bargepole. Replacement parts have to be purchased from Dell because generic ones won't work, and these parts are up to 300% more expensive than you would be able to source them independently. Even upgrading your graphic drivers can be hell (ATI catalyst won't recognise Alienware systems due to "legal issues" and the only drivers you can get are from Dell which are usually 6 months behind.) I love my laptop, but know that the next time it dies, I'll either build a new pc, or if I need a laptop, it won't be alienware.

MW2 was completely destroyed by cheaters. MW3 seems to be the same according to reports. BF3 is infested with them too. All games that were 60 ->200 bucks depending on dlc and premiums. A solution? Maybe not a subscription model, but accounts should be tied to a credit card. Purchase the game through the usual channels, create an account, and tie it to a credit card/paypal account/ steam wallet etc. that can be used for DLC and expansions. In the event of an account ban, it prevents any future accounts being tied to that credit card/paypal account/steam wallet. For players who don't have a credit card, they could purchase the game through normal channels, but would be restricted to playing on servers without credit card account verification. Alternatively, with permission, the account could be associated with mom's, dad's, granny's credit card and would then be tied to the account. (gift purchases etc.) A player cheating and losing their account could still use the credit card in order to purchase a new copy, but would not be able to tie the account to it, meaning the account could only be used on unverified servers. And of course, any blacklisted credit cards would also be invalid for account setups on future products.

@armyboy Agree that some admins can be quick off the mark to accuse others of cheating, but saying you ghosted, and then that you were playing legit, doesn't sit right. If someone suddenly appears in the middle of a camp, that is otherwise blocked off to outsiders, and kills two of you, what would your first thought be?

At the moment, there is no weapon depreciation in the game. The better weapons will be kept in circulation and become more common, regardless of duping and being scripted in. Hiding bodies is one of the few legitimate ways to remove weapons from the game. If I'm already geared and have taken what I need, I'll usually hide the body, heck, I even hide bodies I stumble across and haven't killed. I also use my backpack to "eat" weapons I've found to deny them to others. You just need to tell an unarmed survivor that there's an AK in the firehouse, and have them find you a few minutes later and kill you with it, to start doing this. I've no problem with the current game mechanic of sinking into the floor. If a player "dies" and respawns knowing exactly where to run to, in order to gear up again, that's just as unrealistic. By leaving the body intact, I'm also denying them the fun and adventures of having to scavenge, avoid zombies, and gearing up again, and am thus destroying their gaming experience in DayZ. So hiding the body is really doing them a favor in the long run. ;)

@ -DarylDixon- then you have been extremely lucky. I'm 39 this month, and I've encountered so many cheaters, that the prospect of starting over, maybe multiple times in one day, has driven me away from the mod. I watch youtube vids of others playing, livestreams, and lurk on the forums, but just can't bring myself to start again knowing the effort will be for naught because an 11 year old (or someone with the mental age and social responsibility of a preteen) decides to kill me and everyone else on the server at the click of a button. I'm subscribed to over 40 youtube Dayz uploaders, and the vast majority aren't making vids any more for the same reasons. After a serious motorcycle accident and a recovery that is taking years, DayZ and other games are one of my outlets to stop me going insane from being housebound. Cheaters have no concept of other people and their circumstances. They simply don't see other players as people. All that matters to them is their own instant gratification. When people defend cheating and/or berate others for thinking that cheaters are the scum of the earth, because it is "just a game", for some of us, it is more than that. It is an escape, and cheaters violate and destroy that for us.

Go read Rocket's Reddit interview .... a lot of your questions have been answered already. Standalone will be running on the Arma 2 engine with elements of Arma 3 .... (VRS 2.5 if you like). It will be using Chernarus Plus (new areas and more enterable buildings).

Completely disagree. If normal players are "bored" with a game, they stop playing it and move to another one. Cheating because you are "bored" is not normal behaviour and is used as an excuse for being a immature dickhead. Anyone claiming to have cheated because they are bored, needs to have a period of self-examination and question their own mental well-being.

Agree with you 100% OP. It is disheartening when cheater report posts are filled with .... "It's an alpha." "QQ." "Go play another game." "Here we go again." "Screen shots/Vids or it didn't happen." If a player cares about the mod enough to come on to the forums to make a post about a cheater experience, either don't respond, or be supportive. "agree." "+1." "That sucks." "Report it to the server admin." ..... responses would be a lot quicker to make and not signal you out as a douchebag. TBH, when a cheater report is met with derision and hostility, i believe that it is those very posters that are the cheaters themselves, as evidenced from other fps communities. "seems legit." "no cheating, just better playing." "not cheating, just more skilled." "naming and shaming not allowed on the forums, reported." ... those type of posts are usually made by players already banned, currently cheating, or by players with bans in their history.

If my clan mates are correct, vilayer will rent you a private server, but won't let you password it, which kind of defeats the purpose of running a private server to prevent cheaters. If you can't password a private server, what's the point?

The first question is misleading. It is ignoring the actual ownership of .50cal weapons. I have access to both types, but have never used them, and ownership is not dependent on who found it. They aren't in my play style and I prefer to run with an assault rifle or LMG. The first question also ignores the circumstances of access to the weapon. Do you have access to one because a friend is carrying one and you can borrow it? Do you have access to one because you belong to a group that has multiple members who can easily search a map for crashed choppers? I, for example, work with a group of 20+, and I have access to all weapons, legitimately, although SVD is still the rarest.

Here's a taster .... http://vimeo.com/46627975#

Server hopping for kills and shooting players who are friendly .... this thread has everything!

It would be great if a parser could compare the two files. Another way we accidentally discovered players bypassing battleye on our servers is the Battleye high ping kicker. We had a couple of "incidents" while our server was low population. All the players on the server were either clan members or known regulars. The only two players who weren't known to us had Russian names and pings between 350 and 400. They shouldn't have been able to play on the server if the ping limit is 200. So if battleye handles the ping kicks, they must have been bypassing it ... correct?

For those looking for endgame, justice, and a perfect example of positive humanity in the DayZ world. Stumbled on this vid earlier and it made me happy. Give this guy some love.

I have nothing to contribute to this thread, so I'll just keep quiet.

This is a terrible observation. If you actually read that post, the OP stated that he got bored and started cheating 4 DAYS after buying ARMA CO. So this loser starts cheating after 4 days, and you hold him up as an example and claim that it was the mod's or Rocket's fault he turned into a douchebag? Elsewhere you defend the mod in it's alpha state and talk about how players don't seem to realise this, but yet you seem to support someone cheating because it is an alpha?