johnflenaly

For alt tabbing esc works effectively. There is also an option to lower your weapon to a relaxed postition (the character has it pointed at the ground), you first click will raise the weapon back to the shooting postition. AFAIK this only works on rifles and not pistols. Your last option practice actually weapon handling and keep your trigger finger off your mouse till your ready to fire.

Can we remove backpacks, and start with nothing!

You misunderstand. Most people tell newbies to "get off the coast" so as to avoid getting killed. But apparently people getting spawn rushed (ie. not getting off the coast), is just cause for taking makarovs away. I thought rocket did it to make the game harder in the beginning, but hell you might want to ask him. Personally don't care either way, its still not very hard IMO to get geared up sufficently.

You mean like marks on the in game map. Its a ARMA feature, however depending on what von channle your in when you mark the map will allow more people to see it. If you mark something while in side chat as an example, everyone with a map on the server will see your marks. They are server side. So if you mark the map and log off they will stay till they are removed or server restarts. So what I think happened is you logged off, the server restarted or you got a another server. When you did someone else had marked the map on side chat, allowing you to see thier marks. As to your pack sounds like a bug.

Depends I've killed a guy through the wall of a two story tin warehouse looking building. On the other hand the military tents at Stary seem to be bullet proof. YMMV

Not sure were you getting this, most sks rifles have a internal non detachable 10 round magazine; Russian, Polish, Romanian, Yugoslavian, North Koren, Albanian, East German and some Chinese models. There are Chinese models which can use ak47 magazine ,so your kinda right. I hope they add both.

My group usually finds at least two after every server restart.

Ran a car into a tree the other day, so I got to try out starting over in the latest patch. Most fun I've had in awhile.

Cool can we get a thread lock now, becuase this isn't going anywhere.

Takistan no, its very bland. I think Zargabad might be cool to try at least. Large city with some out lying areas. Crap ton of enterable buildings compared to Chernerus. There is a river that runs a long one side of the map and there are plenty of water pump/wells that dot the map.

No change, doesn't work for me.

You can pry the server from my cold dead hands!!!

Mosin nagant please, I would prefer the carbine version but also don't forget the sniper version with the PU scope. SKS for sure, maybe also the Norincos that can use AKM mags !!!!. Maybe some older stuff like SVT40 or PPSh-41 and PPS. I don't know if non soviet block suplus firearms would be in keeping with the theme of Chernarus, but something like a Garand or Veitnam era m14. Could also go a little more modern with something like the mini14 in 223 with 30 round magazine.