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i keep hearing / reading / seeing vids / talk to people on TS / about a lot of hacking but i must the be the luckies little %@! as in 3+ weeks i have only been hack killed twice and never turned into an animal, or thunderdomed or the like. Is it chosing less populared servers, where in the map im hiding, the gear i have or just dumb luck so far that i havnt seen more cheater and hackers and general douchebagger ? no i am not a script kiddie - im too old and wouldnt know a arma II script if it hauled off and kicked me in the nuts ..

just an idea based on little thought and an idle brain waiting for the end of friday work to come - but could have multiple maps that would require a more complex vehicle fixing, additional maps and charts and radios and more fuel etc... something that would require a lot of time, or a larger group to accomplish and thereby upon completion to allow you to get to another map. Each map could not only have a different theme for the "shiny" factor but perhaps an increase in the amount of military hardware - which would need more repairs - and therefore more time to fix and set up, or more people to accomplish. The different maps could only be accessed once you get off the first map, and there could be a variety of themes / flavours to appeal to the different sorts of players .. more surviror-y or more pvp-y. just an idea.

I have killed 2 people in 2-3 weeks of play one was unarmed and one had an axe .. neither were direct threats to me- both were instinctual kills. in one case i was watching 2 well equiped players loot a market .. i was debating what to do next .. when a guy came around the corner at full speed with an axe .. i could have run .. or waiting to see what he did but after years of gamming i ended up shooting him with the AK i had just found before i had time to think .. the second case i was in the top floor of the fire station with mulitople zeds around and then i heard player footsteps .. so i moved to the stairwell .. aimed by mak and waited . when the guy came up through i shot him - i didnt know he was unarmed .. but i wasnt about to wait to find out. so sometimes people arnt being jerks - they are just trying to survive and dont trust anyone .. cause they have themselves been killed for no good reason too many times

I dont think you would want a base in / near zed spawns - would just be a pain the @$$ all the time - unless there are some rules about "purging" an area tha you control. Which means setting the base up out in the wilderness somewhere - using existing PPO (player placed objects) for protection and / or canalizing. A water source would be a plus. Cover and or concealment would be a plus. But too much cover would make it easy to try and infiltrate and or approach the base. Too bad we cant use our axes to clear a firezone around the base - while leaving the trees right at the location. Road access would be a plus - to drive vehicles into the base. - although no necessary You wouldnt want their to be too much in the way of overwatch potential - so one would have to pick a hilltop or un-exposed hillside. One might assume that going all the way North or off to the Western side would be good to limit the amount of player traffic but i would contend that it would be better to be in the middle - thereby allowing players to move from the location to nearby loot spawn areas and to not make the trip, for new toons, too long. Did answer where exactly ? nope. but as its a hypothetical anyways .. meh...

happened to me once .. not much you can do .. i was just glad i wasnt dead and had to restart .. i think i was smart and avoided the cities and just went north right away and lived a little longer.

in 3 weeks of play i have seen 1 hacker and 1 group of hackers - of course i can not prove it - but i am pretty sure. for an alpha mod of a game that promotes scripting .. thats not too shabby. It certainly isnt every server all the time.

cant say for sure but i would assume that you are not patched the same as the server you want to get onto. either you need to patch up or your desired server needs to patch up.

although i love pvp i would also love the option of playing on a pve only server only. I would like the option of chosing whether or not i am going to let other player affec my valuable time online. I havent the foggiest how to achieve this in Dayz without making it server by server. Some games like Eve allow the sandbox model to go ahead by making "zones" - some where PVP is 100% and other areas where PVP is limited and other areas where PVP is discourage through in game mechanisms. i dont entirely mind being killed in Dayz .. had some fun experiences that ended in my untimely demise.. i will recall them "fondly". But as the OP mentions, my worst PVP experiences where ones where people talked to me on TS as fellow survivors for a time before shooting me in the back of the head. This ferments the KOS principle which i must now follow, even though it means i may end up killing a player who much like myself could play entirely without shooting at other players, who dont shoot first. I dont want to ruin some players day, because i was paranoid to the point of becoming a psycopath to same myself from other psycopaths i had run into earlier that week. People say it is realism .. and to a degree they are right, but it would also be realistic for humans to band together, to put aside their petty differences and needs and work together to survive. Humans always do better working in groups; we are essentially a pack animal. In a real outbreak, infection appocolypse some people would indeed kill on sight, but many others would band together and roam around in groups, benifiting from more eyes and guns - sharing the loot and making the best of it. Dayz as it stands now does not allow for that, not because of the game mechanics, but because of human dynamics. If humans are not able to play nicely together to detrement of many of the players gaming experience then checks and balances should / could be put in place. As any attempt to do that would me bet with a huge amount of hostility from the rabid masses i would suggest that the only quick and dirty way to fix it without upseting another chunk of the community would be to allow servers to be set as pve or pvp.

I hop from server to server to find the right server. One that is not laggy as heck, one which is the same timezone as it states in the server info - ie daylight when its says its supposed to be, and one that is not hacked. I do not see this a duping or cheating .. its a matter of finding a server that isnt going to ruin your gamming experience for the night. I would love to play on the same server night after night .. maybe get to know some of the other people .. but servers are up / down / un-patched / in need of reboot or otherwise "wrong". I do not think that limiting my ability to keep trying servers to find the "right" one is a bad thing.

I usually head into one of the 2 cities and die trying to gear up .. getting frustrating to be honest as i want to just play the survival game for a while - just cause - but i tried that without morphine once and then your legs end up broke and you have to crawl 10km to the nearest medical facility .. so not trying that again. from now on im gona head into Elektro or Cherno to get Morphine and get out - everything else i can get up north somewhere. or from now on im gona head into Elektro or Cherno with no intention of surviving .. and just pvp for the fun of it.

once to date - but i expect that to climb as i dont get what i want from the game which is to have fun.

I find it doesnt matter .. you can not trust anyone you dont know in real life, or are not a member of your clan etc.. No one esle can be trusted really .. even though i keep trying to be nice they keep killing me, even after talking for a while on voice. The more you play the more you develop a shoot first and dont ask questions policy.