Nichols

I have been on many servers driving vehicles along the coast roads SEARCHING for people to give gear to and have found no one. Conversely I was up in the far northwest corner one day and heard a vehicle but never saw it or the person/people driving it. The closest I came most recently to seeing someone NOT in the group I was with; was on US 870 (before name change) and seeing a bus driving down by Guglovo and when I went to take a look at the driver and the bus to decide if I should sit tight and take a shot or sit tight and not be seen I dropped a grenade when I thought I was pulling up my DMR scope and ended up loosing about 6k blood and the game going ghostly white till I got a transfusion. That was 3 weeks ago with 15 people on a night time rotation in the server and since then with at least double that I have seen no one. Seen lots of dead bodies but haven't seen the killers.

Dogs...an entirely unnecessary waste of resources in the game. However here are a few questions... If I shoot my own dog can I gut it and cook the meat to keep my player alive? If I kill other players dogs would that make me a dog bandit? Would the question above make the SPCA in the game come after me if I left dog carcasses laying around everywhere? Why dogs? Why not train pigs, horses, mules, donkeys, etc...? Last of all IF I didn't want to have a freaking dog am I going to have to get one anyway? Is there a penalty if I kill the damn thing just to make it go away?

You guys put WAY TO MUCH EMPHASIS ON THE "DISCONNECT" thing. The problem isn't the disco within the game. Hell in flight sims guys pull the ethernet cable to their system all the time to create lag and to let themselves slip around in virtual space without getting shot. It is much harder to do but that is what will begin to happen in this game if they eliminate the ability to disconnect in an Alt-F4 manner. I personally don't disco unless I am about to get hammered by a script kiddie somewhere but I do like being able to jump around to different servers because I have a bunch of friends that play on different servers and it allows me to play on different servers often with them without committing to playing on a low population or high population server all the time. I like the idea and just wish people would stop complaining about something that is a non-factor in the grand scheme of the game unlike the script kiddie fags.

I agree about not removing the Bizon and the FAL but adding the Five Seven pistol makes no sense at all. That round isn't that prevalent. I can see adding the Steyr, G36 or Famas but only in rare spawns since they are not completely common in the world like the M16/M4 and AK series weapons. Especially in "post apocalyptic, post Soviet" territory.

How about instead of removing guns...put in the ability to have ammo boxes so you can store larger quantities of ammo in tents. Maybe have ammo cans that take up 2-4 storage slots in vehicles/tents due to the weight and then you can keep your magazines after you shoot them so you will be able to reload the mags or have the option of using the empty mags to distract the zombies. HOWEVER if you toss the empty mags you can not reload back at your storage location unless you find empty mags in the spawns. Also remove the simply ridiculous option of not being able to shoot regular ammo in silenced/suppressed weapons. That in and of itself is just plain dumb. Suppression does reduce the amount of noise that none sub-sonic ammo makes but it doesn't remove the crack of the ammo breaking the sound barrier which is the bigger issue.

Yep I would stay off that server for a while. I can only imagine what might happen if I showed up there with my Ghillie, Coyote pack loaded with my DMR and extra mags, M4 SD, NVG, GPS, Compass, matches, hatchet, e tool. I don't think it would be pleasant to say the least.

Notice I didn't say "Wife" that crap goes out the window the minute the ring changes from engagement to wedding.

Head Bob = something a hooker or a girlfriend does occasionally to get you off; not something that needs to be in a video game.

Can offer at least one if not both of them for the antibiotics in large enough quantity. I would think 3-4 antibiotics should cover 1 weapon.

"How did it run out of fuel so fast?" Its a freaking helicopter not a Prius. Dude 60 liters of fuel in a Huey is not going to get you very far at all. You would have been better off landing on the other side of Solnichny and making a few trips by foot to the south side fueling areas. Otherwise next time try to turn on autohover and you might be able to control the descent without crashing. BUT you were going to be screwed since someone was there watching you tank it into the ground either way since you flew right over them.

Might be able to help you out but don't need anything other than antibiotics and maybe another SVD camo for one of the guys in the group. PM me and lets get some contacts for each other.

It depends on lots of situations in my book. I am going to check the tents and take food, drinks, water bottles, ammo and then start stacking up to kit out new guys or old guys in our group that needs weapons after they get smoked. Then depending on if I have buddies with me or not something is going to get shot up as denial of resources to an "enemy". If you are out looking for engines, wheels, scrap metal, etc... you probably aren't a threat to me and mine. However now that we take a stance of observe and engage if needed you might have a chance of survival. Oh and I found a tractor on a server the other day up in the NW corner of the map and it has served me well in my northern recons lately. Time to get it and its gear back to the southern camp where we outfit the main group.

Yes it will kill them...just maybe not on the server you shot them on but it will kill them none the less.

What about players creating their own safe havens by being able to build stuff with the sand bags. Like bunkers using the entrenching tools, sand bags, scrap metal. Also building generators and hopefully having camo netting to string up to keep the area hidden from ground and air seaches; whether helo's or using high ridge lines in mountain areas.

If so then why not release a map editor to the group and see what some of these talented people could come up with based on real world areas. It would be fun to have regions from all over the world on different servers. This way people can jump around all over the world and get a taste of different climates (which would effect eating and drinking rates of characters as well as body temps) and would allow some interaction other than the typical "post-Soviet" collapsed state.

If the maps can be generated easily or the dayz mod ported over to other existing maps easily I don't think it would effect your characters placement at all. Kind of the same thing when you play other mods in other games right? If you are in one mod of ARMA and want to do another mod I wouldn't think that you need to adjust your characters at all.

Nice haven't taken a vehicle to Cherno loaded like that yet but someday I might after my buddies and I take what we want/need. We are all about helping the new guys who join up with us.

I have been teleported on both US 10 and US 9 (formerly 870) a couple of times and both times have been lucky enough to jump the server and get out of the killing field before getting whacked.

Any one that puts a tent on top of a mountain is begging to get the stuff taken from it.

The group that sSnakeyes and I are a part of had what we believe is that exact scenario happen to us since a helo was spotted flying in the area twice in about 30 minutes last night and we lost two vehicles shortly after the first spotting of the helo in flight over our traditional AO. Anyway I voted no on the stingers.

I suggested it earlier in a different thread but I will bump this one here since I think it would be a better item to have instead of Manpads which are ridiculous since there is only 1 flyable helo per server.

First day...three spawns on the coast and three deaths. This was before I found the group that I currently run with; which was a couple of days later. Then they came down and kitted me up in the basic gear and gave me some basics. Then said...have fun. I lasted all of 30 minutes while learning that zombies could see you and liked to tear you up. Fortunately the guys that kitted me out weren't far away and told me to run back to them...I ran the other way because I knew nothing about the dayzdb map except there was an ingame map that no one wanted to part with then. So finally I lost the zombies and then got shot by someone I never saw. Next spawn on the coast east of Elektro in same spot as the last one and I knew my way to travel. So about 20 minutes later I am in camp eating, drinking, loading up ammo and a weapon before getting ready to go to Polana for my first grocery store run. I was scared out of my characters mind. Now not scared at all but concerned with the weapons loadout and the best ingress and egress route and making sure the overwatch has us covered from the surrounding ridges.

One type of gear I would like to see added is camo netting. With the advent of helos flying around ingame it is easy to have vehicles spotted and tent locations spotted and therefore the larger groups that have started controlling servers (at least the ones I have been on) will continue to grab all the vehicles and move them up north or out west on the maps and they generally have a monopoly on the best ingame storage units. So Camo Netting is my suggestion.

Put it in a tent and blow it up.