RPlasticPirate (RP)

Hi everybody I'm RP and I've been watching the live stream with PCGamer and stalking all of you, read some stuff and talked to the dev's a little. Its really late/early morning so there might be errors but generally expect it to hold water and if you have questions I'll see if I can get a dev to answer. Anyway: here are some easy steps and tips on properly joining servers and minimize chances of fail for everybody :P 1. Know this is an Alpha which is basically software speak for something little better than a prototype and fail is gonna happen from time to time even if you do everything correct. Currently even when you get in you can get disconnected. In that regard pro tip: Red chain icon means you are possibly out of sync with the server so if it stays on for more than a few seconds it will start count and then you as good as lost but very often its just normal internet that is stealing your packages for a while and something everyone will experience from time to time. Yellow BTW is actually much worse contrary to common belief and means its confused about the packages of information its receiving from the server so that is often a unrecoverable situation. So you might want to not go into combat if ether icon is lit for more than a few seconds. Currently at lot of the servers restart a few times a day and the dev team is swamped helping server admins and helping new server admins in so we can haz moar! 2. Know if your real life time zone is day or night - look out side or at our watch - night time is roughly 5-10 times harder depending on realism of server etc. so if you are new to DayZ it might not be a good idea to join a server after 8-10 PM local SERVER TIME. This means if you are in the EU like me you can join a US server with reasonable ping like NY and get a few more hours of sunlight! Just be aware that Asian & Aussie servers usually kick EU and NA players as we have too high a delay (ping/roundtime delay) and it will badly affect everyone so they rightfully have auto kicking so we don't spoil their fun. 3. Plan your joining with friends and generally always, always try to join a server that's less than ~60% full. If you know your going to have others join or you want to play with them its recommend you all go back to the server selection and select one with between 0-20 players for the 40 or more slot servers. The servers tend to fill quickly and the worst thing people can do to the back-end is everyone trying to join a the same few nearly full servers. Which brings us to: 4. Don't disconnect before at least 10 minutes have gone by if you are joining a server that's more than half full or you are playing in peek hours. People disconnecting and connecting leaving a really heavy burden on the back-end and its a big no-no! This will not help you join faster it will actually make it worse for everyone and you somewhat simplified go into the back of a queue. If you make it to "Requesting data from server" chances are you are probably going to make it into game. 5. If you join a server with few people it will fill quickly and everyone will get in within very short time if you are not 10 people connecting at the same time. BTW generally the back-end isn't overloaded - when we experience long loads its the servers that are too full so join a server with less people on it. 6. Please don't suicide to get a better starting location - its really bad okay? 7. When a server crashed expect it to take time to start up. Then BTW you might consider starting on another server as just rebooted servers take a long time to get into if all 50 people are trying to connect. It simply spams and spikes on the back-end so it takes way, way longer than necessary even thought the next server with 5 people on it may get you instantly back into the fight. Also if your group go else where the other server will fail less so everybody will get in faster. 8. Remember: Since we all play with the same persistent world your actions not just in-game are affecting everybody! Additional tips: - If you make it to "Requesting data from server" chances are you are probably going to make it into game. - When you are a bird something went wrong and you need to disconnect and try again completely. - If you are unable to move and in the forest after 10 minutes have past 9 out of 10 times you are not going to make it. - Peek hours are late night EU, early evening NA as with most online games. On top some EU players move to NA servers after dark as the dark is really, really scary and I want my mother please where is my mother? **edited for tips**

I'm danish and former, then part time and now passive DAI ;)

Neat one... needs more updates for the recent changes thought...

^^ That...

Reality sucks - deal with it or play Dead Island something crappy.

I like where this is going...

he is legit thought... he will be starting the legit torrents from now on.... Iz will be seeding too...

Its legit... will be seeding

Interesting...

there is another thread about melee attacks... I'm poking the devs about it on my intern wish for feature list... Currently most actual features like this are in the back of the queue to the massive amounts of new players and servers that needs to be handled etc...

How popular the game is? Over 7000 playing right now and roughly 10 times more active players and its growing very fast. How many players and lag can i expect if im playing from israel? In terms of lag this game works so that most euro or us can play on the others servers no problem so you should have no issues playing on euro servers. Theres is no servers in Israel at this very moment but things are going fast. Does playing with low graphics becouse of free arma 2 really matters? Well I bought every ARMA2 thing to get best details but its fine without. Would get the arma2+OA thought so you get the vast majority of textures - its 30 bucks or so on steam etc.. Final question-Is the mod really that worth it and as great as it sounds? Hellz to the yeah... best mod I've ever seen.

Was just waiting for something like this to happen - it's really beneficial for the fun of all and people should understand where PL is coming from its a gentlemen sport to have enemies and that you play everywhere online meta-gaming style but you don't go hating RL but are mature about it. When I was barely old enough to drink I went to an EvE meet-up RL and got my first beer and friends from my mortal enemies which where like twice my age (they where pirates - I was ISS carebear). ... come to think about it that sounded wrong :rolleyes: Also total every [ex-] eve player was waiting for this:

Actually it works well if you left click from library not desktop shortcut.

Using the poor mans night-vision at night is actually worse in many situations due to how the stuff you are changing works. It does how ever help some to get a really good screen that shows black and gray nuances well - preferably the new OLED's like on your smartphone if you just one the lottery (yes they are sold now in 56" weee). Also even I, a graphics geeeeek, has turn off post-processing in this game as the movement blur is too unrealistic, nonadjustable and very unpractical as this game is ooold compared to say Crysis 2 motion blur. BTW as a side note: except this too be fixed somewhat in ARMA 3 as its clearly using modern graphics pipeline and can do it much better if you have a newer card. It wasn't simply feasible when ARMA2 came out.

hahaha.. great beating a AAA title at launch!

This makes soooo much sense - it even works out great if the enfield was removed if that will add to many weapons... I'd love a more realistically common bolt action sniper without scope. Its actually way more common than the Enfield even in west Europa as collectors and gun people like it. I really support this as a fellow stalker/sniper. Will go bug the dev's again about status... damm they are gonna ban me soon if I keep this up *tears*

I approve this message! Maaaannn you guys remember Half-life 1 and the expansions and how horrifying the zombies was? Will go bug a dev about it...

neat story.... btw I think some of the 6 or at least a few people he met that night was DayZ dev's/inner ring server hosters.... :) So you might say there is more to be sorry about. Also Rocket was deeply sorry he reset the humanity only to fuck up his char :D

TL:DR pointers: - If the server is nearly full take one that is half empty as you join nearly instantly - tell you friends to join you not their full server - your world is the same. - Don't D/C and rejoin nearly full server - it will just make it worse for the back-end for everyone and simplified you are going back to end of the back-end queue :D - Don't D/C before at least 10 minutes has goon - it takes time to login on the servers that are almost full - but really you should join a half empty one.

Only issue is this is BI stuff not mod stuff I think... wouldn't be easy or can't be done unless its a BI dev so won't be fixed short term :)

ppl are looking into lowering the max ping as that might be the biggest issues for stability for that many people. Seen servers doing up to 70ish

This timing out stuff should be better soon (tm for you EvE bitter vets)... There is gradual changes made as its a bunch of different issues. BI is making something in the next patch BTW as the ARMA2 was never made to handle the load this mod makes so somethings needed to be changed in their code. Source is the interviews and I talked to some of the devs these past days...

I'm RP - danish defence vent but a mil sim guy way before that. Worked with IT and games all my life and got an engineering degree in it now. Hoping to help people here and if feasible the dev team with debugging and dev.