TheHappyPeanut

It's likely that I would attempt to rob an individual if I had a partner with me at the time, but it's not a risk I'm willing to take if I'm traveling alone.

I disagree with shooting players who are obviously freshly spawned at the coast. I think it's wrong because 1) they have no supplies and 2) you're ruining the session immediately for them. However, once they get further inland or you see that they have supplies, they're fair game. But to make it clear, I don't kill everyone on sight. There are a hundred variables that determine whether or not someone is worthy of being killed. I ask myself these questions: 1) Does this person have supplies on him? 2) If I allow this person to live, what is the likelihood that we will meet again under different circumstances? To be honest, if a person doesn't see me and doesn't have weapons on him, I'm not going to kill him unless I have no other choice.

The problem is that this isn't real life. I've had this discussion with friends. You would do things in DayZ that you would never do in real life. You would never kill someone in real life for a backpack. But in a virtual game, you have nothing to lose, no remorse. It makes it much easier. And using bullets on zombies is a bad idea because 1) it wastes ammunition and 2) attracts other players and additional zombies.

"Kill on sight" means to kill upon seeing. That does not mean that you have no reason to kill them. It means nothing more than to kill upon seeing.

I fail to understand why people continuously complain about being killed on sight. We are playing a game based in a post-apocalyptic zombie-infested world where food and water are rarities; a game where it can take hours of scavenging to build a somewhat decent supply of resources. You're living in a fairy tale world to believe that you should not be killed on sight, and for multiple reasons. 1) Food, water, and medical supplies are rare. My friend and I barely have enough to keep us alive between each town. If we see someone who appears to have anything we can use, they'll be killed on sight. 2) It's a dog-eat-dog world in DayZ. You're out of your mind if you think I'm going to trust someone who has absolutely nothing to lose by stabbing me in the back. Trusting a stranger in this game is instant suicide. If you're concerned with being killed on sight, avoid survivors at all cost. In a game that took me two hours to establish my character, you're damn right that I'm going to murder you to ensure that you don't pose a threat to me or my partner. The majority of people who complain about killing on sight would do the exact same thing in the situation they were in; they're just angry that they ended up losing in the situation they were dealt.

Let's be realistic. No one would make their servers freeze in time if night time's gameplay wasn't so horrible. It's exactly why people want their servers running daytime only, because nighttime is absolutely unplayable.

Is there no way to throttle the amount of users who are capable of loading at once? What if you just pulled one server online at a time?

You are some serious nerds.

Yes but what type of idiot wouldn't use a stick if he needed to? Is that what you would do in real life? Just let them devour you when you run out of bullets? I imagine you'd throw yourself to them.

There really needs to be melee weapons. If you run out of bullets and zombies are chasing you, you're just dead. There's no discussion. Just dead.

Or you could just increase the amount of animals in the game...

As much of a pain it is to not be able to play in my own server at times, I can understand the reasoning behind this. Let's say you're playing with your friend and you are currently being attacked by zombies; you have the ability to kill the zombies together, but what happens when an admin wants to make room for a member and kicks you? Well, your friend is overrun and killed by zombies. How would you feel? I know exactly what you would do: you would complain about it on the forums. Because no one cares about the consequences as long as it's not happening to them. It's simple. Don't be a dick. I understand the frustration server owners experience, but you're going to have to suck it up until reserved slots arrive -- which is a feature that the game REALLY needs.

Finding your friends wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to continuously do it. Don't get me wrong... I love a lot of zombies, but when they respawn faster than you can kill them, it's ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that once they start chasing you they will stop for nothing. So basically, you run out of ammo and with no melee weapon, you are screwed. So you die, find your friends all over again, and repeat. That's just not fun to me. You look at games like Killing Floor and there are a lot of zombies in that game, but they are pretty balanced; they don't respawn in five seconds. And then there's the pathetic pathing of the zombies but I'm pretty sure that's not so easy to fix due to the engine. I'll see if this next patch does anything decent.

Not sure if trolling or serious...