Element47

one day, handguns will spawn again in the shithouses.

61 hours and still not figured out that spawns are limited for testing purposes?

thats not a problem. thats intended limitation for testing purposes. guess what, sherlock.. maybe this game isn't for everyone?

lemmings. its in their genes. every thriving ecosystem has a balance of superior and inferior species. spawn-suiciders cant handle the swag of DayZ so they cope out. im looking forward to stats tracking. those lemmings will have lower average time-to-live than balota tourists

i hop if the server i joined is pitch-black. threw my light away a few days ago, and bumping into objects constantly is kinda.. underwhelming.

spawn points are currently limited for testing purposes. there will be more, and more diverse spawn locations in the future

dhaaaii-seeee

maybe theere has been a sudden drop in the US-French relations? ;) some servers may take quite some time to appear in the server browser.. other than that, try connecting via IP..

there are currently several factors that boost the antisocial behaviour: - we have a massive influx of new players who dont know better - we have obscene amounts of loot for testing purposes - we have limited spawn points for testing purposes - many features that would engage players beyond the combat are not yet implemented due to early stage of development all together, you have a huge amount of hyped-up people, easily armed, who have little idea what else to do other than combat generally, i am against punishing a certain playstyle per game mechanic. we have often encountered group dynamics where people bonded together to hunt for bandits, and i think thats one of the main points in DayZ - player interaction instead of artificial game mechanics. we might as well witness bounty boards in future, when notes and annotations are implemented. you might then find bounty rewards and hit contracts written on notes and pinned to church doors, for every interested party to read and engage on

there is a great article about the PvP aspect of DayZ by Matt Lightfoot http://www.makinggames.de/index.php/magazin/2061_the_art_of_pure_pvp_in_dayz

i found the stashes from the later mod - small, barely visible holes in the earth - quite appealing.

for me, this is a coop PvE game. i play cooperatively with those who are friendly, and treat those who try to kill me on the same level as the infected: as part of a hostile environment. AM I DOING IT WRONG?

going by that definition, i am a PvE player, just for me, hostile players are part of the environment. i am an explorer, a scavenger, and last but not least a medic. if i am forced to defend myself against hostiles, it is not different if i defend myself against infected. it is just more thrilling, because the hostiles are often a little bit smarter and thus more challenging. Now, people are calling for more, harder zombies, zombies that can actually pose a threat and be a challenge. What is the difference between a smart, dangerous AI and a hostile player? most players are actually less dangerous than the higher difficulty bots in quake 3 arena, and that was decades ago..

but they are not separate. they share the same, public hive. also, and i really hate to say that, because this should be obvious, but at current stage players are in no way entitled to play the way they want to play. in pre-release testing, you play the way the devs need you to play, thats why we have one hive, one set of rules, increased amount of loot, limited amount of spawn points, limited amount of infected etc, etc.

except its not "their house". they have not bought all rights to the code, they have aquired a limited license to use the code within the terms of agreement. if you rent a car with your hard-earned money, you abide by the rental contract, and are not free to do as you wish with it.

this is the meta that many say spoils the game experience. i appreciate your effort and work, from an academic viewpoint. as tempting as it is being able to have computer-assisted position analysis, i think it shouldnt be made publicly available as a.. lets say.. consumer product. whoever has the know-how to aquire and process the data to the abovementioned result, please, use it to your hearts delight. but making it available to everyone may trivialiaze the game a tad too much

No one has a problem with PvE servers per se. The opposition is against PvE servers connected to the main hive, thus creating effective safe heavens for gear farming. OP does not talk about an unspecified future, but about current instances of servers being revoked for breach of contract, for creating unofficial PvE rules and kicking players for not following them.

i just sacrifce a chicken, spray the router with its blood, throw three pinches of salt over my left shoulder and log back in. works every time.

whoa what the holy fuck.. did you just hexapost?

nature sound all the way. its athmospheric enough, no even mentioning the zombie-bunny.

DayZ originates in the modding community. I cannot possibly imagine how Dean and BI would explicitely forbid modding of DayZ, and even if they did, there is always a way. there are private WoW servers, so modified DayZ servers disconnected from the official hive will come one way or the other.

this shouldnt be an argument at all. the game follows a certain vision, a vision to which many in the community subscribe. the core game as envisioned is designed to explicitely allow malicious acts and player versus player actions. as this game is under development, servers are available as managed hosting solutions, under a certain ruleset, to which hosters have to agree. the developer can ensure, that the testing servers all follow the same rulesets and thus test data is meaningful. if a hoster is in breach of the license agreement under which he is provided with the dedicated server files and updates, he is in breach of contract, and thus has forfeit his right to host. its that simple. there is obviously a demand for PvE servers, and they will come, they will be realized as private hives, as to not throw the balance of the public game out of the window and allow for exploitive actions. but until the game is finalized and private hives implemented, the testing needs to be conducted on the servers following universal, public, equally binding rules. if you cannothandle the requirements of testing a game before its finalized according to the rules set by the games creator, you should wait until the variant of the game you wish for is realized.

can openers. and IV sets. to hone my supply&logistics skills during alpha, i hand out free can openers. if you see a heavily armed guy in solnichny handing out can openers, that might be me.

this is an excellent suggestion. but placing modified items to trick other player would require items which are put into the world to persist for a long time to work to full satisfaction. as much as i would love to see it, i fear that would be the limiting factor

i suggested harvesting that white shrooms that grow everywhere waaaaay back.. for medical reasons