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Good evening Survivors and Bandits (It's in the evening here - deal with it B)) With the 1,000,000 unique player count just around the corner, I'd just like to announce that I, Rammfisch, will be creating a full blown survival guide designed for beginners AND more experienced players. In case you don't care enough to read on, just know that I will be working on it along with a few friends to create this masterpiece in literature :P. Updates on how it's going along will be added to the thread as I go along. It won't be some 1 page load of garbage explaining that you need to eat & drink to survive, and how to pull the trigger. I plan on working on this for a few weeks give or take to make it as pristine as possible. It will cover pretty much everything, and I'm open to suggestions on what to add etc. - Help from the community is essential! The survival guide will be set up in a PDF format (not some shitty word doc) and will contain chapters on all the essential things to know. I'm not some noob with little to none experience with the mod, or even the actual game ArmA 2. I have played ArmA 2 from release and I began playing DayZ back in the days of when you started out with the .45 revolver, so hopefully that gives some credibility. Anyway, so far whats going to be in the guide will be as follows: - Spawn positions and where best to go from there including that position on the map (image will be including). - Basic spawn positions for all the essentials in the starting towns (image will be included) - How the zombie's... Operate. (movements, view/hear distances etc.) - How to stay alive concerning other survivors (or god forbid - Bandits) - Can't really guarantee success on this one though. - Advanced, in-depth analysis on weapons and projectile ballistics. - Weapon spawn chances in certain buildings (image will be included) - How to navigate with & without basic navigation gear. - Where to go for what reasons. - Vehicle repairing, finding and driving/piloting walkthroughs as well as emergency procedures. - How to shoot (this may sound stupid, but many people don't understand how a lot of the open sights/scopes work). - How to conserve necessities (ammo, food, water & med suplpies) - What different symbols mean - how to fix them, how the basic game operates (inventory etc.) Obviously much more will be added and I'm open to any criticism and suggestions. I'm not looking for any hate comments and it is not necessary as this is just a little free addition to everyone in the DayZ community.

Yeah, however it is just a little free addition so it can't really do any harm :)

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I'll be sure to PM you tomorrow and we can talk :) Anyway, I must sleep. So hopefully some more people see the thread so I won't be putting time into something that no one cares about XD Keep the suggestions coming, people! :)

It's alright, Toothless. I trust you :P And thanks for clearing it up for everyone. Nice to see some valuable players around and not people server hopping and committing mass server murders.

If I could give you beans twice, I would :P

Good points :) Also, when I do end up releasing this, I will list all the names of people who helped out, Grezvanny13 and leeds2007, you have been added to that list :P Keep those suggestions coming! :P

Good evening Survivors and Bandits (It's in the evening here - deal with it B)) With the 1,000,000 unique player count just around the corner, I'd just like to announce that I, Rammfisch, will be creating a full blown survival guide designed for beginners AND more experienced players. In case you don't care enough to read on, just know that I will be working on it along with a few friends to create this masterpiece in literature :P. Updates on how it's going along will be added to the thread as I go along. It won't be some 1 page load of garbage explaining that you need to eat & drink to survive, and how to pull the trigger. I plan on working on this for a few weeks give or take to make it as pristine as possible. It will cover pretty much everything, and I'm open to suggestions on what to add etc. - Help from the community is essential! The survival guide will be set up in a PDF format (not some shitty word doc) and will contain chapters on all the essential things to know. I'm not some noob with little to none experience with the mod, or even the actual game ArmA 2. I have played ArmA 2 from release and I began playing DayZ back in the days of when you started out with the .45 revolver, so hopefully that gives some credibility. Anyway, so far whats going to be in the guide will be as follows: - Spawn positions and where best to go from there including that position on the map (image will be including). - Basic spawn positions for all the essentials in the starting towns (image will be included) - How the zombie's... Operate. (movements, view/hear distances etc.) - How to stay alive concerning other survivors (or god forbid - Bandits) - Can't really guarantee success on this one though. - Advanced, in-depth analysis on weapons and projectile ballistics. - Weapon spawn chances in certain buildings (image will be included) - How to navigate with & without basic navigation gear. - Where to go for what reasons. - Vehicle repairing, finding and driving/piloting walkthroughs as well as emergency procedures. - How to shoot (this may sound stupid, but many people don't understand how a lot of the open sights/scopes work). - How to conserve necessities (ammo, food, water & med suplpies) - What different symbols mean - how to fix them, how the basic game operates (inventory etc.) Obviously much more will be added and I'm open to any criticism and suggestions. I'm not looking for any hate comments and it is not necessary as this is just a little free addition to everyone in the DayZ community.

Go here: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/62008-dayz-survival-guide/ Don't post on this thread

Thanks for the support! :) I'll try my best to make it live up to it's name :P I'll be putting a fair chink of time into it too, so hopefully it all pays off :)

I think I'll take your suggestions on board :P *maybe* give them a little extra help, but yes, I do agree with that quote, and I love your idea of teaching people how to play. A valuable asset to the ArmA community :P

Accidentally posted the same thing twice. Read the other post :P sorry! Edit This post seems to be more popular XD nevermind, I'll just keep both posts active.

Selling cheap admin rights - $10 - $15/person/month. If you have a group which wishes to have admin rights I'll drop it (30% for 2+) (40% for 4+) (50% for 7+) (60% for 10+) We can negotiate prices to best suit you. You get absolutely full admin controls - ingame admin, RCon admin etc. You don't get access to the dedicated server or server files but I can modify anything you like in them. Contact me if you are interested: Steam: Rammfisch Skype: seayouentee The reason I'm doing this is because I need some help managing the server and some help to pay for it every month as I don't want the current players who use it as their home server to loose valuable vehicles/camps etc.

He's pretty much right :P But yeah, this option goes out mostly to those who want a home server where they can update it accordingly to them, server restart when necessary if they need to. I must say, having my own server and being able to call it home and use all the powers of the admin has been quite helpful - I find anyway. But each to their own :P

You are allowed to kick, ban and warn. You just cannot do it for no reason. He asked what you could do, and that's what you can do. Kicking and banning for a illegitimate reason is wrong, yes, but you still have those options.

Talk in global chat, ban, kick, warn other players, restart the server and change options in the server files (however you'll have to contact me to do that).

Probably a hacker.

Don't think so, no. Should be back soon. Couple hours or less.

Poland. My home country ;) Enjoy. And no idea how to fix your problem. I've seen ths around a bit. And I'm about to say what you dread.... Update your drivers ;)

I had a look at the logs but I can't really see much to determine who it was. I'll check the playtime and score on the server info and post back the results on who was on the server for least ammount of time with the greatest score. Should give a good indication.

Ok, so I'm not looking for hate because I'm impatient. I don't mean to be impatient, it's just I have bought a dedicated server and split the cost between a few friends to help pay the cost, and in return, they get to be an admin. I am paying about $15 more than them, as it would not be fair for them to pay the same price and not get access to the dedi. But anyway, I'm waiting for my dedi server's IP to be whitelisted by the DayZ team. I'm not requesting them AT ALL to put me at the top of the list. I understand they're busy. I've looked on the forums and found some very broad answers which didn't really give a direct answer. And I don't want to hear "Well you answered you own question, it could take from anywhere between blah to blah". With that aside, I'm on my third day of waiting. I'm not saying that I'm disappointed, I understand why it can take a little bit, but the others who are helping me pay don't. So I just need to give them a general idea of when it will be ready so they don't think they're wasting their money. Any help at all would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Possibly because of the upload factor. Where zombies switch over to your connection once you agro them (hence the despawning of zombies when you disconnect).

I don't think that's the problem. I'd like to see the hypocrisy when you encounter a problem which you cannot solve and have to revert to other people for a solution. There is no need to insult people just because they have an error which is quite easily attained. Grow up.

When you get stuck at wait for host, it's a problem with the BattlEye files not communicating as they should with your beta patch. I'm guessing you are either running 94945 or 95054. Download these 2 files: http://www.battleye.com/downloads/arma2/1.61/BEClient.dll http://www.battleye.com/downloads/arma2/1.61/BEServer.dll and put them into your arma 2 operation arrowhead/Expansion/BattlEye folder and replace the files already in there with the ones you just downloaded.

It took me 3 days. So not too long. And they review your entire account. So if you apply for one IP, then another 2 days later, they will be whitelisted at the same time.