shadowjack

I like it. Anything that forces you to make hard choices.

If it helps fight hacks im all for removing it. Hell you can remove my left nut if it ... wait, let me check with the wife ... ok she said go ahead and take em both. Remove 3rd person too.

Perhaps i missed the real intent of the skill system. Is it to mitigate PvP? I don't find PvP to be a problem and I am far FAR from a hardcore PvPer. It looks to me like the enhanced survival aspects of the SA will scale back the PvP at least some. Stripping players of their gear stockpile will give a bit more thought to some about being so casual with their life. Easy for me to say because i stash nothing. If i can't carry it on my back i don't need it. I am good with seeing where they want to take the SA before spending much effort on potential player behavior issues.

There are game mechanic solutions but they are worse than the problem. The best solution is in my own behavior. I am not so concerned with what the other guy has or can do. I have no control over that. I only control what i do. I accept that i wont have the best gear or the greatest skill (im old and my reflexes aint what they used to be) Thats ok, i know my limitations and understand i need to compensate for them.

Not a fan of skill systems. They generally tend to be all give and no take. I appreciate the thought that the OP put into this its just not something i would choose for my DayZ experience. Give me a customizable skin and that's it. The rest is up to me and the choices i make, the consequences i suffer and how i deal with those consequences. As for consequences for death. lets be real ... You die you loose everything, tents, camps, vehicles ... EVERYTHING is gone. It is too easy to re gear. It will still be easy enough if you have a group/clan you play with so really except for the lone-wolf types like me it shouldn't be a big deal. Yeah i know just cuz im dead my stuff wouldn't "realistically" vanish but it would be a good way of keeping the more rare items rare. Just leave the body with its contents in game till server reset but don't allow the person to salvage from their own corpse. Again, if you play in a group your buddies will be able to salvage for you so for many its not a big deal. What can i say ... i have an anti hoarder fetish.

I see a lot of comments that 150/server is to many. I think most are forgetting that Rocket said that we will all have to learn a new game. Who knows how the loot will be distributed or even how building placement may change. The bigger towns will always be more popular ... or will they? Until we know the demographics of the SA map it is all speculation based on obsolete information. Lets get this party started!!!

Even better, bring work home and also have access to the beer fridge.

Survival is about making hard choices. Safe storage eliminates to many of those choices. Tents are not useless, they are an option. I don't use then. The few times i have bothered to place one it is with the knowledge that it is for someone else to use. I can never remember where i put them.

Who's to say trading doesn't take place? I have traded ... or at least tried to. usually what happens if I find someone brave enough to get close enough one or the other ends up giving something the other needs without anything in return. Then there was the time i save this kids ass in Balota (he had no weapon) from being eaten alive, i stop in the tress to patch myself up and ask if he needed anything. I open my pack only to see my stuff disappearing before my eyes. BOOM, one dead kid. Justice is swift and harsh

Thats the thing, right now they are only annoying. They need to be escalated to where they are a real threat. The buggyness isn't nearly as bad as it once was.

If you dont "feel" like making an effort to survive might i suggest taking a wound, laying down and bleeding to death. You will "feel" better in no time. :)

As long as i can drop a Banestone and siege yer little slice of heaven ... yeah i might go for something like this.

Not a fan of adding Kevlar. Game is already to much of a gear fest in my opinion. What exactly is rare anyway? Stuff that is supposedly rare is way to common as it is. Now this may be due to cheaters but to me rare would be an item that has mmmm say 50% chance to spawn once per day across ALL servers. After a years time would have maybe 180 total in game (not accounting for losses). That would be rare. If you want more gear I would go with more survival based equipment and less damage/damage mitigation gear. IF we must have Kevlar ... can it at least have the look and feel of plush flannel PJ's?

O I know man, this is an outrage. I find out the best looking gun in the game is a complete fraud. OMG what is next? We gonna find Rocket is a democrat? :o

I play less AND play solo 97.3% of the time. I don't use tents and vehicles to me are just temporary transportation if im lucky enough to stumble upon one that is driveable (until i crash). I am not at all penalized. If i can't carry it i don't need it. It is not a matter of penalized or not. It comes down to making hard choices ... welcome to DayZ

Not a big fan of body armor but if extremely rare and it costs to use then maybe. I am a believer that for everything you gain you give something up. Wear armor and it slows you down and makes you less stealthy. Perhaps even gives you less carrying capacity like cannot carry an extra primary weapon or heavy vehicle parts ect. For the most part there should be few no brainer decisions in a game like this.

I will be your street vendor. Bring me 5 DMR mags and I will give you a coke.

Yeah, Zombie Max live ammo made by Hornady

Apartment building in Cherno, end of the street across from the hospital, up the stairs, 1st door on the left, password is 3 soft knocks and say "i am NOT friendly"

I would buy the game, log in, log out and never log in again. I wanna live forever. :P

So whats wrong with needing 3 or 4 guys and a truck to collect a main rotor?

This is not a realistic, unrealistic issue. This is a core game mechanic that all things are at risk at all times. The ONLY exception is what you carry on your character is safe when logged out. That is the ONLY safe storage and i pray to the DayZ gods it stays that way.

Let go of the gear fetish. You will enjoy your time here much better. I would rather have my body be persistent in world after log out than have safe storage.

Not only no but HELL NO. If Joe teammate is down you should only know this if you saw him get hit or he was able to scream out "IM HIT" In fact I would like to see a players mic/in game chat be cut off if he looses consciousness or blood get to a certain low level. Why should a group magically gain extra powers? Being in a group IS power. The better co-ordinated and skilled the group is the stronger it is. And then you want to nerf bandits? SERIOUSLY? Please my friend don't propose the above and then say I do not get you wrong, I am CERTAIN you do NOT like "that part of the game" Lets wait and see what SA brings. I think we will see a bit more balance... maybe.

You telling me i wasted all that ammo for nothing? Here i just thought i was terrible unlucky