Aira

I've tried a little bit of everything. But fact is: night sux^^ I would like it more with gamma down, but if your friends are using gamma up and you can't even see them without light, and they don't want you to use light, cause they can see everything, and they run far in front of you, and you get lost, and they tell you, omg turn your gamma up...that sux too^^ So rocket have to lock gamma to give your flashlight even a right of existence :)

@OP: This brings a totally new light into the dayz world. I've never thought of that, thats awesome :D I would like to see player created stories rather than given events. But the game would really need to provide the possibilities. Military camps for infected free areas and providing healing and providing protection sounds awesome too :) Would add great to the simulating nature of the game. Like a really deep simulation of a post-apocalyptic world. Imagine you start dayz as a new player and there are cities built by players, rival cities maybe, you have to decide where to go, there are player built streets and... ok that is minecrafty like... but unfortunately i know what a minecraft map looks like after some time... chaos everywhere! So maybe only big groups of players could build something or like this... Dunno, i'm drifting away but i think this brings a nice idea to the possible future of dayz. Aira

Nice idea but maybe it should turn green after helping other people and be grey at the beginning :) But can be exploited as well. First, help a friend to get green status, than group up with other friendly's, than shoot all friendly's. Simple :(

Back to the roots: Counter Strike! Of course you run faster with a handgun in your hand than with a big rifle (ironie off). But at some degree it is even true ._. I could run faster with a rifle on my back than in my hands.

rocket shouldn't go after eve. eve is crap imo. The shoot on sight mentality comes from eve. (Trust noone, everyone who's not blue, is an enemy) The sandboxiness that is focused on doing the most efficient (adapt or die) comes from eve. The senseless "i am bored ima going to destroy other people things to laugh at them" comes from eve. I've never seen a community so full of hatred and "all people who are not my friends are crap and should be killed" mentality like in eve. I loved the attempts of "i can kill you but i don't cause you are more worth to me alive than dead" at the beginnings of dayz. But than the "lol L2P noob" players came and destroyed the fun of many, leading to the ever lasting war of the PvEers vs PvPers. But in this game, the PvEers cannot win. The sad thing is, that the game could have excellent pve capabilities with grouping, fighting zombies, lot of fun and stuff. And awesome PvP battles on the other side. But you cannot put both things together. PvP always wins, cause in this game environment you can only fight back by doing PvP. So the best idea might be to split the community into PvE and PvP Servers. Thats how many big games have done it, rather than private and official servers. My opinion. Aira

Matches and knives + hatchet and water bottle are the only things you need to survive forever in the forest near a waterplace without ever need to go back to the zombies, to civilization. Thus, they are rare to stick you to the zombies and populated areas to create conflict with other people + with zombies. simple :D

The trend goes from looting your stuff at NWAF to killing people who have looted NWAF to Killing people who killed people that have looted NWAF to raiding tents of people who have killed people that have killed people that have looted the NWAF :/

It's all about Stargates :o

As tradeoff you can run forever :D Have you ever tried to survive without drinking and eating in 45 mins while fulltime running? I know there are some permarunners out there but your survivor is an average survivor named bob :P

I died, spawned in elektro, found a compass, ran to a known bike spawn location, found a bike :o Bike'd to my location of death, terribly misbike'd, finally found myself. Looted all the stuff. Simple :>

There is the challange to fix the vehicles before you can use it, currently. I think the map was created for vehicle use, it's just too big for running... Since i have vehicles i don't even consider walking 100 meters anymore... ._. But running 8 Kilometers? No thanks...

Still revolver/m1911 in my opinion. Which one to use is your personal preference.

Can't imagine for arma 2, we have to wait for standalone i think... But i wouldn't like to get close to infected, and the nasty smell would make the vision blurry as hell :/

Yea the bicycle has a light at the front, but it isn't working :( But since everyone just turns brightness + gamma up or have duped nvg's, i rarely see any lights in chernarus.

Wohoo! No duping anymore :D

Not in topic, but i had that too, i fixed it by deleting the checkfilelist.lst in both arma2 and OA folder and let steam check the setup to download them again.

Cool thing, if we would have made it from killing to trading already :D DayZ feels like a super fast development of human society simulation^^ But i like it. Hope everything goes well :)

Yea if you are behind a brush or tree Thermal can't see you :)

It was nerfed once wasn't it? :/ But still a good weapon.

I thought this is the bandit campfire? Survivors loot, bandits kill or steal. Simple. Best amount of loot is in enemy camps ;)

Yea i use Mk48 too now, but before i used the Saw. I like it, you can put Stanag into it too :) So if you have no belts but Stanag, you can still fire :D Only the Red dot of Mk48 and the damage is better for me.

+1

@OP: I consider many post as useful piece of discussion, but i don't get your point of posting this story here :/

Since it would only be used to kill players... against it.

When i started DayZ i was running from zeds and came across an other survivor, and he shot the zeds for me, i was very happy :) I like it when player help each other with the zeds, especially for those new to the game. It feels much more fun if you see an other player and you think "yay i finally found someone we can group up against those zeds" than "hopefully i never see an other player in my whole gaming experience, i want to play DayZ Singleplayer, leave me alone!" ;)