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Once the bandit skins are removed, there'd be no incentive to cooperate with strangers. The only people you can trust are those you actually know outside of the game. The game will pretty much turn into a Call of Duty deathmatch since everyone, EVERYONE, will shoot first and asking questions later. The bandit skin removal is a horrible idea. There's absolutely no incentive for survivors to work together now. They're removing the ONE thing that's kept so many people from just killing anyone they see. Now there's nothing holding anyone back. tl;dr, game's going to shit once the skin is removed.

Yeah, pretty much. I'm offering up to 50 slots, but it can always be reduced to meet your needs. By "Group", I mean anyone who plan to uses it primarily for DayZ.

I'm still offering this to anyone who wants one. No limitations, you're given full power of the server.

Seeing as I've been playing this mod for about two weeks now, I felt I'd try and give back to the community somehow. Although I don't have the resources to run an actual DayZ server, I'm willing to provide 24/7 dedicated Teamspeak 3 hosting to any group that would like one. This is run on my own personal server box in Kansas, USA, and will have continuous uptime until an undecided date. I'm posting this in the Survivor HQ since this is where most of the groups gather to meet up, and since communication is key in these types of groups, I thought I'd offer them that ability. I can provide up to 50 slots per group, and while multiple servers will be on the same IP, each server will have it's own port, so you'll be totally independent of the other servers. Just shoot me a PM if you have any questions or you're interested, with what your group is, how many people are in it, and any other information you want to give me. Also, if someone feels this is the wrong section or if this isn't allowed in some way, feel free to let me know.

Fear of losing humanity has been the only thing stopping me and my crew from killing anyone and everyone we see. If you scrap them, then there will be nothing preventing us from shooting everyone on sight. I vote no.

I already got the "Shepard. Wrex." Achievement. :>

A crafting system could also create a use to convert ammo similar to fallout. Each ammo type when crafted gives you a certain amount of shells, gunpowder, and metal. Shooting off rounds drop shells. You can turn scrap metal into shells. So an example being: say you have some scrap metal, a box of used shotgun shells, and a markov mag. You can "decompile" the markov mag, use the gunpowder and scrap metal to create a couple more shotgun shells.

One suggestion I was thinking of was have a secondary blood meter. While your actual life will be 12,000, your secondary meter would be 36,000 or so. The logic here is that it takes about 1/4'th of your blood to be lost before you pass out and/or fall into a coma. When a player is shot and bleeding, and loses all of their primary blood, their secondary blood meter starts going down and they fall into a comatose state where only a blood transfusion and a epipen will revive them. People working in groups will have some more time to save their buddies if the coast is clear and they have the necessary supplies. Bandits shooting at people with rifles can still take them out, walk up to them, and finish the job if they so please with a bullet to the head. I think this is a better solution than reducing weapon damage, at least.

Ha. Guess that's just my luck. Saw a bunch of youtube videos of the mod, and it was literally my dream game. Bought ARMA 2 tonight just for it. Spent six hour downloading, and about two hours or so trying to get all the mods working, and it just so happens the latest patch broke it. Haha.