tliesnham@mac.com

I haven't been active on DayZ for awhile, partly due to me switching to a new PC and never getting round to re-installing Arma 2 again as I originally installed it manually rather than through Steam. It's a good video, you have my beanz.

It's funny you should mention that all the players in Electro were dead as that was the same for me about 15 minutes ago. Usually I see quite a few very much alive players running about the place looting the firehouses and such but everyone was dead. I assumed it must have either been a massive fight that broke out between players and then the zombies got involved. Maybe we were on the same server anyway doing what I do best I decided to loot ammo and food off of them. That's rather unfortunate that your AK started to randomly fire, I usually have mine on semi and only really use full when players are around as at that point i'm not bothered about ammo but getting out of there alive. It was a funny story none the less.

Rule 4: Trust no one

I wouldn't quite call myself a beginner anymore, but that video sure gave me some good tips. Everyday I'm gaining new survival tactics to increase my lifespan on this game. I'm currently on the outskirts of Electro and recently I found an AK-74 in the firehouse. PS. I gave the video a thumbs up :thumbsup: and of course gave you some beans :beans:

That is the problem with laptops these days I am assuming that that laptop is costing well over £1,000 considering the specs, but you could quite easily get a very nice desktop instead which will play this game and others to come for years to come. You say you don't have enough space for a desktop but really unless you are quite a traveler and game on the move then there is really no point getting a laptop. Granted it will probably play this game on high, but when it comes to Arma III you will probably be looking at playing at medium to low settings and of course if this doesn't bother you then go ahead.

I would say purchase wise a one off payment. Development wise through the studio with some input from community. I would say servers should stick to the current model as unless there is a monthly charge for the game studio run servers will become very expensive to run.

I personally have no problem with Bandits as long as they play fair, as in like you say not pressing AltF4 when they get killed. It is probably those Bandits that have caused Bandits as a whole to have a bad name. I do agree with the Player killed Player approach as that would be needed for the Bounty Board to be able to function. I also agree on the loot from the kill is enough of a reward, this would also keep the system relatively simple and not having a need for a reward system to be implemented into the game. This idea will only really work if both sides agree to it, and so far I think that is happening.

But from a Bandit's perspective I could imagine that gaining a title of DayZ's most wanted would be rather prestigious in the Bandit ranks. Anyway I suppose it is a taste of your own medicine, getting back at the bandits.

That is true I suppose but if this system where to go through i'm sure the developers could implement it so that when you kill a bandit it doesn't count as a murder maybe. I'm glad to see that Bandits like this idea of being hunted down themselves, we'll have to see how this idea turns out.

Well I suppose bandits could equally have some form of bounty board for survivors that are a high threat to them. On the terms of showing you what a gear a player has I don't think would necessarily work unless the bandits, who have been shot by him can provide info on that. I think for now until some form of bounty system is implemented and that is an if, we will have to probably make a bounty board out of a thread on these forums.

Those are some quite important problems to consider, as I can see where your coming from with those points. I suppose possibly though in the standalone version the developers may add in nameplates, although I suppose that wouldn't be particularly realistic. So I suppose a thread with bounties on is equally a good idea.

This I suppose would have to be implemented in as in a reward system. So I'm not quite sure how the developers would go about doing this, but potentially the rewards could be anything as considering the items a player has are kept in a MySQL database the data could easily be transferred over to another player. On the reward front I suppose the player placing the bounty could choose what they were offering as a reward. On Thortimer's point I suppose yes simply the satisfaction of killing an insane murderer and getting their gear would be a good reward.

Sorry if this topic has already been brought up before, I do apologize if it has. After getting killed today by a bandit, it hit me that a possible feature that could be implemented into the mod is some form of bounty board where friendly players can put up bounties for those players that they know are hostile and or bandits. Obviously there would be problems with this as no one has a set name and there could be 100s of Maxes, but potentially a permanent name is something that could be added in the standalone version as if you kill a tonne of survivors in-game your name would be tagged some what as a murderer. At the moment bandits can simply change their character name and have a dozen different aliases. I'm not trying to moan about being killed by bandits and all that, i'm just saying that this could potentially make live a lot harder for those bandits out there who at the moment a living the easy live. I for one generally only shoot when shot at first so for me as soon as a bandit spots me i'm dead. Anyway what do any of you folks think of this idea? Feel free to add anything below or possibly make a few changes to my idea.

All of those components look and fine so I would expect those parts to be able to run the game fine on at least normal settings, possibly high. My only concern with that build would be the processor as for this game you do really need a quad core as it is very CPU intensive. It is probably the only game for me that is bottlenecked because of the CPU and not the GPU. You should consider changing that i3 for something a bit more powerful such as an i5, as the difference will be quite noticeable not only in gaming but in general computer use. Obviously like you have said in your post you don't have much more to spend, which could be a problem but instead of going out and buying this setup straight away I would suggest that you try and get a little more money put aside and go for an i5. Good Luck with your computer :beans: