Fraggle (DayZ)

TBH if you're going to open a thread making suggestions you need to be prepared for those suggestions to be criticised. I believe you're wrong in presuming that people either want to be a bandit or a survivor. From personal experience having played with many groups for hundreds of hours and having read hundreds of posts discussing the subject I can safely say it's not as simple as bandit versus survivors. It's just my opinion and it's no more valid than yours so try not to be so offended.

I'm from London but I say DayZEEEEE. It's probably from watching too many vids made by Americans. I might just use Potato from now on though.

Sort of. The last time he raised this issue he was slightly more inflamatory. He seems do think the devs have no idea what they're doing.

Err, regarding issue number 4 I haven't played using the Debug menu since the last update.... With regards to issue number 2 I think many people including the devs understand that it's not the best solution. It was introduced to test different mechanics, that's what the mod is for. Now that it's being handed over to the community modders expect to see many changes to this in the future. As for the idea of selecting Survivor or bandit for a new character, I hate the idea. DayZ is much more complicated than that, for many people it's not a straight up choice of being either and it's these subtleties that make the dynamics of the game so interesting, that's why the system (and your suggestion) is flawed currently.

I've asked the admin of my home server for some advice but it's sods law that he seems to have taken a couple of days off. If he gets back to me in time I'll let you know what he says.

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Walker AKA Nostradamus. I think Venthos has answered your questions as best he can given the circumstances. Like every new game mechanic introduced to the mod only time will tell. You seem more concerned about scoring points for a correct prediction than actually dealing with the issue at hand. For all of your negative posts I've yet to see you offer up anything better. I predict that the people that are going to hate the system are a) combat loggers ( I expect to see many QQ threads from these guy's B) ) and b ) people who play on servers with crap admins that are unable to manage their own community. As I've already stated, if you play on a server with a crap admin, no game mechanic in the world is going to help you.

I've already bought my bunker and spent 100 ingots furnishing it in the finest game breaking vanity items available.

Wow, that attitude is really going to drive this community project forward :/ . The only people that benefit from situations like this in the long run are lawyers and solicitors. I personally hate all of that letigious bullshit. It would be a sad state of affairs if a modder working on a community project for free and for the greater good of that community felt the need to take legal action and line the pockets of some already well heeled legal eagles. Luckily, many of us still have that god given gift of common sense, thus enabling us to deal with situations like this sensibly without a single lawyer ever needing to be awoken from his over-priced Merlot induced slumber.

Now you aren't making any sense. The troubleshooting section is where you should post if you are having issues. Duplicate posting for attention is against the rules.

No offence but if you haven't managed to successfully install it yourself then it's highly unlikely that you're a prime candidate for producing a guide for others... I suggest you post your issue in the troubleshooting section. Ninja'd by Boneboys dammit! Buried!

If you're going to ask for a topic to be pinned then it needs to be correct. I find your guide confusing and incomplete. I admire your effort however. Maybe if other people want to add to this and improve it then it will be suitable for a pinned topic.

What are you talking about. You're not making enough sense for anyone to reply.

I pretty much lone-wolf at the moment although I used to run with another medic. I met him when I used the medic thread for assistance and then we became good friends. He's had some issues IRL so hasn't been around much for a couple of months. I'm an unofficial member of a few groups but I don't like to get too involved with clans and so-on because all of the in-fighting pisses me off. ATM I only play on a private server because it's got a great community and is hack-free. Also, they've got there own medical team thing going on which I haven't joined yet. If I come back to public servers for some med runs I'll give you a shout!

Leadon - Take a look here: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/99986-need-medical-assistance-find-a-medic-here/ It has all the info you need on getting Whitelisted. Being Whitelisted doesn't mean you are part of the TMW though, it just means you are a trusted independant medic. I used to do medic runs every day to help people out, it's good fun and I made some great friends too. I'm thinking about taking it up again soon...

Nice!!!!! I may have to dust off my Whitelist certificate soon and get back to it.

You need to read more. Especially if you're a server admin. The last post I read on the subject is that Admins will be given tools for the standalone. I'll try and find the post for you, it was written by Rocket a week or so ago. Also have you read the latest dev blog post on Tumblr? If not you should. I'm not saying that everyone has the time to keep up with these things but I am saying that you should try to before making posts like this.

I would forget these twats and remember the bigger goal. Don't let people like that make you give up. Just think, when they run into issues (which they will) they'll have no idea how to sort any of it out because it's your code. There's always going to be a grey area where someone will edit and possibly improve your code and then call it their own. If it's a straight up case of them just taking without giving you any credit then just make yourself a nuisance, I'll be happy to help, ask anyone here, I can be a pain in the ass when I want. Also, for the most part, people here are pretty well informed and it won't take long for them to be found out.

It's a known bug mentioned in the change-logs for the last update. I don't use the debug at all anymore, it's amazing how quickly you get used to it. The long-term plan for the standalone is to remove the indicators completely and rely purely on cues and indicators given from within the game world itself.

It's not that stupid, it can be confusing if your not familiar with Arma. All you need is either: Arma2:CO or Arma2 and OA, which you can then combine. The ArmaX version is fine too.

BTW - I know a very good admin (team) that I'd be more than happy to recommend to you for running one of your boxes. I haven't asked him/them yet but if your still looking just PM me and I'll put you in touch.

I think the key (as with most things) is finding a server with a good admin. Where I play, I trust the admins. Any bans are always discussed in the open and dealt with accordingly. If you're playing on a server where the admin is a douche, no game mechanics are going to help you, that admin is always going to be a douche. P.S - Sorry Venthos, I'll get off of your thread now.

To be fair, common sense dictates that you should always find a nice quiet spot to log out. Being worried about logging out in a building in a busy city is a small price to pay for dealing with the bigger issue of combat logging IMO.

I've been loving it. It's a well designed map that has various choke-points lacking in Chernarus. Don't get me wrong, for me Chernarus will always be the best overall map for now but of all the "new" maps Namalsk is my fav. The temperature adds a really interesting tactical element. Where I play it's fair to say that it has become a bit of a PVP map but that isn't an issue for me since I can enjoy a separate character on there and then skip back to Chernarus for my more "long-term" character.

I know several people that only have good things to say about the Redux servers, I'm VERY happy to see Venthos getting involved and hopefully getting some of the credit he deserves for his hard work. I remember reading his first post ages ago about what he had planned for his project (as well as prior posts when I could sense his frustration at some of the game mechanics) and it's great to see it has come this far. Rather than just sitting on the sidelines complaining, he has stepped up and offered a solution. Not many of us can say they've done that.