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Great, great thread.

They'll punish unintended gameplay or enhance certain playstyles, sure. I don't think Rocket just says things just to say them though. To imply that is to just imply that we shouldn't believe anything he says. He's talked heavily about group mechanics and factions as being the principal manners in which he wants to encourage more players to play together, rather than kill each other. It's funny, it's almost like he's offering incentives rather than punishments. Huh.

Watch out guys, he has TWO NOTE BOOKS full of design plans.

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I stopped reading your entire post after the first line, because you didn't read the thread. I've already advocated group mechanics here and it's something Rocket's already advocated. What most of the posters here are trying to convey is some sort of punishment, pyschological effect, or some sort of other debilitation for players who indiscriminately kill other players. I'm for none of these things. I 'am' for more weight being added to the death of a player, so that taking a life ( and losing yours ) is a much more harsh reality on you as the player. Before you interject into a conversation, please, do the rest of us a courtesy and at least read the thread. Once you've done that, I'll do you the courtesy of responding to your points. I may not be a huge fan of Skyter's, but at least he reads the thread and responds appropriately.

This. We just don't have the tool available to us to easily facilitate a workable day/night cycle right now. If you want to be mad about this - be mad at the DayZ devs for putting such tight leashes on the server hosting companies, not us.

What he said.

How does his story 'not add up'? You made a knee jerk accusation without any real proof and a third party came in here and utterly refuted it. Edit: Y'know what, whatever. Nobody is gonna get banned because of your wild accusations, and you're not man enough to admit you were wrong. Thread over.

Honestly the only people who really want to play night time right now are guys already rocking NVGs, especially now that gamma/brightness controls are throttled. It's hard to really blame guys who want to keep their servers busy that they want to keep their servers on a consistent daylight cycle. I know you worked really hard for those goggles, but 98% of the playerbase doesn't have them and can't really play without them.

Not true. If you have evidence you can get them banned.

People keep saying this ( and I agree ), shit even Rocket has said this, but I have yet to hear one concrete suggestion beyond this that doesn't effectively ruin a particular facet of the game.

Why would this guy create an account to just refute what you said? He's not part of CC apparently ( as far as we can tell ), and he can just change his profile name next time around if he really IS cheating - so whats the incentive for him to lie, exactly? Same with the server host, what reason could he possibly have to come in and defend this guy unless it was legit? If it wasn't, he could just have easily said nothing, or just banned the guy. Osiris, it happens man. Sometimes you get outplayed, happens to everybody. Just take it like a man and move on, bud. Don't make yourself look bad by continuing this.

US 147 is not spawning any zombies, and it seems most locations are not spawning any loot whatsoever. I was only in the server for about 10 minutes, but it looks like people are still killing each other in game. Not sure if it's a glitch or if the admins are doing this intentionally.

Absolutely agree, so long as these guys are blacklisted from the hive and run their own private hive, I'm perfectly ok with it. Private server, private hive, ya?

Thanks for the link on this Pugs, very informative video.

It does, you just decided that logging in and running around was going to net you a group that desperately wanted you to join them. Sorry it didn't work out that way. Welcome to DayZ. Try hitting up the Survivor sub-forum and find yourself a group to play with. If that's not up to your standards, then maybe this really isn't the game for you. Arma 2 has a lot of other great mods to offer that you could look into.

So engaging in the KoS mentality in this game automatically means you're a CoD kiddie? It's really funny how this sort of insult has evolved. If you go to ANY game's forum, they have some game they like to throw at you when you're not doing what they want you to do. For CoD I'm sure it's World of Warcraft or something, in WoW it's probably Counter Strike or Rift or some other game. What does this prove exactly? Are you superior to someone else because they play the game differently than you? The problem is that the 'Survival' aspect of this game is a literal joke if you strip the PvP away. When's the last time you died of starvation or thirst? Recently? If you've been playing this game for over a week and this happens to you regularly, I don't know what to tell you. The zombies are easily manipulated and lost, and the food/water system is extremely easy to manage. So what's left? Killing other players and getting killed by them. This elitist 'survival > pvp' mentality is just as obnoxious as the guys who brag about murdering new players on the beach. Until more survival mechanics are implemented, the game is going to continue to be played this way. People who embrace it aren't bad, morally bankrupt, or childish. They're just playing the damn game.

Who's your hosting company?

Helicopters are NOT in the game as of right now. If you found one, it was injected in.

Your condescension is uncalled for, bud. I just asked you what you would call it. You don't have to be raging and screaming in all caps for it to be complaining. You are clearly upset that someone shot you in the game when you had no gear. That's called complaining. The word doesn't necessarily have a negative connotation, but it is what you were doing.

This. The global chat was a huge waste of time and was never used constructively. It basically denegrated down to flame wars between butthurt parties and bandits using it to lure unsuspecting noobs to their death.

Man, you compared a forum poster to the Colorado theater shooter. Not only was that in poor taste, but it demonstrates you're no better than the people you so viciously rail against here. You don't get to call other people out for trolling. Tone down your own vitriol on the forums before going after others for their posting habits, mkay?

Help me wrap my head around this real quick. So you obviously hate the game in it's current state, and everything from Rocket says that it's going to continue in this direction. Why waste your time and energy raging here when everyone is just going to ridicule or just ignore you? Why not go find a game that's more enjoyable for you?

Y'know, instead of waiting for GW2 or PS2 like your sig shows, maybe you should just go outside or something if you hate this game so much.

This made me laugh.