SoWeMeetAgain

the usual killing on sight?

First off: I just got banned from the servers over there, also IP banned from the forum, so keep that in mind while reading my post. Why did I get banned you ask? Well, in the "trading post" over there, special rules apply. Basically you can only shoot someone who steals from you in there. I was guarding a fellas body who had died due to a bug in the TP. Two dickheads came along, looted the body and then hid it. I had asked them not to. The admin Rolle backed their decision "you cannot claim a body". Ridiculous. They refuse to discuss on that matter by the way, more to that later(*). I couldn't do anything to the cowards inside the TP, they knew that, they stayed there in hiding, afraid to go out and get robbed by me. A lot of shit talking back and forth happened, I kept insulting them, they kept provoking me "what are you gonna do" and such. In the end I got fed up and killed them. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpJ7yHagbaQ I did it fully well knowing that I was breaking the rules, fully well knowing that I would get banned for it. I didn't expect to get the forum ban to be honest, but that's alright. The ban was just, I knowingly broke the rules. It's just that the rules are shit. (*)Rolle keeps himself out of the discussions on the rules most of the time, he basically lets his gamemasters run the show. Which is a big mistake, since some of them (not all) basically have gone full retard power trip. They bend the rules whichever way they want. Example: I was told by two "community helpers" that I was allowed to kill someone when he doesn't get out of my car even though I tell him to, in the TP. Now "Fabian", a player some of the power tripping gamemasters dislike, shot AT a player who wouldn't get out of his car, someone ELSE then killed HIM in the TP. What do the GMs say this time? "oh you got killed righteously, you were committing violence in the TP unprovoked"... fuck yeah. So really... this server could be so good, if Rolle got his head out of his ass and actually do some interaction with the players and listen to them. Also fire his whole GM staff and pick new people. Do a fresh start. Remove the trading post for now until a good ruleset for all the eventualities has been worked out. And listen to the players on that. Once again - be careful with making opinions off this post - I just got banned there and even though I still feel oddly satisfied with the whole situation (they really deserved to get shot), it is possible that my view is blurred

Awesome server, the admin Rolle is a real cool guy. Still some assholes on the server, but a LOT less than on public hives!

heyho since my thread in the bug report forum doesn't go through (...) I'm posting here: Since the new update my tents do save (yay) but they also slide down the slop they're placed on just a little bit after each server restart. Thus they will soon be in plain view and/or inaccessible because they slide into trees or such. Am I the only one experiencing this? Is this a known bug? greetings

"kiddies"? I think a "fuck you" is in order.

why do you insist on playing on 3D-on-servers?

So you're still at the "big airfield"? I'm kiiiiinda near (not really haha) and I would help. Do you still need it? If yes send me a PM So I went to the NWAF and waited around for a while if you would write, you didn't, so I went back somewhere else. Hope you found your help elsewhere ;)

what probably happened: you can only put 10 weapons/toolbelt-items into one tent if you add one more it gets placed somewhere outside the tent. unfortunately that somewhere can be very far away ... on some flat surface in the vicinity.

http://www.dayzdb.com/database/aks74u According to that it would need 5 shots to kill a survivor, no matter where the hit is. But I just encountered someone who took at LEAST 5 shots and then gave me ONE headshot with a pistol to kill me. Also - why does the AK do less damage than an M4A1? At least according to dayzdb... Are these numbers all correct? 5 shots with AK(74u) should kill? How much more dmg does a headshot do? greetings

you could have sat in the chopper (not as pilot!) and then used the following to access the helicopters gear: open your map, on the top left of the screen click on units, click on your name, click "gear" in the right upper side of the screen doesn't help you now but good to know for the future I guess ;)

hm... the amplitude of sound goes down with distance^3 (approximately! it does depend on the sound for eg a whistle with its clear sinus wave carries farther than a human voice with all its distortions), the hearing of humans follows a logarithm of the amplitude, it's not that simple.

Good day sirs! I wanted to reach you through your website dzvs.co.uk but I am not getting an activation email :( I wanted to talk about your server which me and my buddies have now chosen to be our regular server. Please contact me via PM or such :) greetings

title pretty much says it all - petzl makes good ones ;)

How about more zombies overall, making them walk in groups. With that(!) make zombies different - single zombie should be NO problem, you shouldn't even take damage most of the time fighting it with an axe. Three zombies or more? You're in deep shit. How to accomplish that? For example when a zombie strikes you, you would become disoriented and lose quite some stamina. Yes this would require a stamina system which should be a good idea anyways. How about making it impossible to have all the items at once? So you could be a hunter with hunting knife, axe, matches and a flashlight, but can't at the same time carry all the other things like tool box, entrenching tools etc. Maybe add new items for weapon maintenance and other things. The former two ideas combined would mean you HAVE to have a group or a pretty save tent if you really want to play alone, otherwise you will not be able to do everything on your own. Get rid of the night vision. Yes, there, I said it. It's stupid. Carrying stuff shouldn't be "x spaces" only. It should be a combination of volume (in liters) and weight (in kg). You can fit so and so much volume into your inventory(pockets) and backpack, however heavy that may be (to a limit...), but carrying heavy stuff should slow you down and drain your stamina (see above) faster.

ah you're right, the AK74 shoots that 5.45mm bullet.

AKs should hit harder than an M4/M16 -_- bigger bullet, much higher energy and impulse

Well, it would surely make playing together much easier than playing solo, but you could still do it. Just a real hassle when your boots get worn out and you don't have the necessary tools eg. Having all that stuff in your "tool belt" is kinda unrealistic as well :D I actually love playing at night, too. Try using chemlights and road flares, they have a real nice glow :)Also the flashlight isn't completely useless (if not all other players would have duped night visions) ... Maybe make flashlights use batteries too (good idea, theanes) and maybe with some duct tape you could fix them to a weapon.

I agree making the game harder would be better. How about more zombies overall, making them walk in groups. With that(!) make zombies different - single zombie should be NO problem, you shouldn't even take damage most of the time fighting it with an axe. Three zombies or more? You're in deep shit. How to accomplish that? For example when a zombie strikes you, you would become disoriented and lose quite some stamina. Yes this would require a stamina system which should be a good idea anyways. How about making it impossible to have all the items at once? So you could be a hunter with hunting knife, axe, matches and a flashlight, but can't at the same time carry all the other things like tool box, entrenching tools etc. Maybe add new items for weapon maintenance and other things. The former two ideas combined would mean you HAVE to have a group or a pretty save tent if you really want to play alone, otherwise you will not be able to do everything on your own. Get rid of the night vision. Yes, there, I said it. It's stupid. Carrying stuff shouldn't be "x spaces" only. It should be a combination of volume (in liters) and weight (in kg). You can fit so and so much volume into your inventory(pockets) and backpack, however heavy that may be (to a limit...), but carrying heavy stuff should slow you down and drain your stamina (see above) faster.

Hello! I registered in another forum that is for a server I regularly play on. In there I just got a private message from and admin telling me that my weapon is hacked in (it is not! I got it from a tent and it is in the wiki so it should be absolutely fine). He also said if I don't drop it he would kick and or ban me. He told me that they use "some program" to scan player gear. I hope they don't also know where I am and where my tents are... because YES, the admins are also players on that server. Can they do all that? I remember a statement that you should not be banned for using hacked in weapons if you don't hack them in yourself. (That is even IF the weapon would be hacked in, but as I said it doesn't appear to be, since it is a regular weapon in the game and I got it from a tent) Also scanning player gear (hopefully only that!) doesn't seem right to me. greetings

hey. last night the helicopter got stolen by us. it was ours now. to the guy who "found" it... I highly doubt you went there on a regular trip, especially just this morning, just in the last few hours. between 4h36 and 12h16 ... no. And no, nobody heard it, there was only one other player on the server and he wasn't even near us. really I suspect an admin looking up the position and taking it back. please answer... If I do not receive a satisfying answer, and I will be the judge of that, I will make sure your servers get blacklisted on a side not, whom do I have to spam to get a server blacklisted for this kind of admin abuse?

and the cool thing about that gun - the flashlight works :)

good day sir! I had the same problem at the start. What fixed it for me was fixing the gamepaths in dayz commander, also using the "launch using steam" option AND the "replace original Arma 2 [...]" (right below the other one) option. also you have to start steam as an admin (right click, run as administrator) and open the game through that at least once (arma 2 combined operations) if all that does not work, possibly you need to install the arma 2 beta files by hand once, following this guide: http://www.dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_install_DayZ#ARMA2_Beta_patch I hope this helps you. have a nice dayz

I know vehicles are bugged and all, but look at the situation from my point of view. We find the helicopter, we wait the coming server restart (0300), the helicopter is STILL THERE, exactly the same position, exactly the same damage to the engine (everything else green). We repair the engine, we fuel it up, we fly it somewhere and some hours later WOOOOSH it's gone. It was not at the point from where we took it, but my buddy saw two people with a vehicle standing there. And that on a server where the admins seem to be full of themselves and even stating that they know better than everyone else and only their rules count... rules which I couldn't find anywhere. Maybe in french? I wouldn't know I don't speak french.

Ah, you're right. I thought you guys were talking about the ammo thingies.

aww yes, that was a mistake just now. Can't argue with this one. But that's just one now :)