WebCole

You could go: Game purchase + cosmetic micro transactions. If all you were able to buy were Char skins, vehicle skins, weapon skins etc no one can cry about imbalance (although such is the hatred for micro transactions that they probably would anyway.) Personally I reckon you could Kickstarter the shit out of this as long as you can get some decent coverage rolling.

This was version 1.5.3: I turned from a Bandit back into a survivor, my screen went black and I was stuck on the retrieving character data screen or something similar. I aborted and loaded back in and the contents of my backpack had disappeared.

In the short time in which vehicles were in, I saw with my own eyes 2 helos and 2 cars. Admittedly the choppers disappeared after server restarts, and I'm not sure what happened to the cars, but it does seem like, at the very least, helicopters spawn too often. I've totally never seen a bicycle though, do want :P

It wasn't exactly clear, but I was talking about the Eating/Drinking thing, not the realtime day night cycle. To clarify, what I meant was that even if the current day/night cycle was halfed, I would still find the current amount you have to eat and drink an annoyance.

I agree teamkillers should be kicked. But seeing as you have teams of 1, it seems beside the point ;)

Sent an email off earlier about this. The devs probably have better things to do than talk to whiny players, but it would still be nice to know whats going on :P

It would be cool if starting weapons were slightly randomised, and the revolver was turned into a rare find (as it is such a powerful weapon right now.) Randomised starting weapons might also make it less desirable to kill other newbies, assuming the guns were all equally as good.

My direct is working.

In my experience systems like this come in one of two forms: Obnoxious or Flavour. Either its annoying or its a "cool little addition" and I've never experienced a middle ground. As it stands right now, its Obnoxious. Even if day/night cycle was halfed it would still be Obnoxious in my eyes.

I ask myself what this mod be without PvP. My answer is pretty dull. And not because I like to go around popping fools at every opportunity before anyone starts :P My point is if you don't have that possibility of conflict with other survivors suddenly the game loses so much of its flavour, its tension and a lot of its hook. On the flip side, I think it should be made less desirable to just kill everyone you meet. My 0.02

These are a handful of ideas intended to make it more desirable to band together into survivor groups. The rationale behind most of these ideas is that if something functionally requires more than 1 person to accomplish, and it is desirable to do so, then you are encouraging teamplay. Limit The Map etc Inventory Slots As it stands you can carry a Map, Compass, Hunting Knife, Matches, GPS, and a Watch. As soon as you acquire the first 4 of these (in bold) you are set to go pretty much anywhere. What I propose is limiting the number of these items that you can carry to 2 or 3. If you could only carry that Map + Compass you found, the natural solution is to get a friend for the Hunting Knife + Matches. In short it gives groups a concrete reason to rely on one another, and a sort of dynamic specialisation of roles without implementing a class system. (Problem: Players holding all of the utility items in their backpack and switching out for what they need at the time. It may have to be impossible for survivors to put maps etc in their packs, or some other solution to be found.) Heavy Lifting Make it so that those larger items, such as Rotor Assemblys or Engine Parts require 2 players to carry. This would mean that only survivor groups could easily repair vehicles, and should make it more desirable to find friends in the post-apocalyptic wilderness. :P Note: I am not quite sure how this would be possible to implement, but I believe ARMA 2 already has certain things that need to be carried by more than 1 person. The Act of Repairing Change the amount of people that need to be present to repair a vehicle. For instance, you can repair a motor bike by yourself, but in order to repair a car you need to have 2 survivors close to the vehicle. For a chopper you would need 3 - or more - survivors close the vehicle (as they are a more powerful asset than a land vehicle.) Again, this gives survivors encouragement to form groups and work together to survive and progress. Of course, it doesn't stop bandits from killing you or robbing you to get at your fancy toys ;)

Nope. Gone 4 ever. Oh, I heard they'd just been removed temporarily, sad :(

Q: Does this mean my tent will be getting added back onto the server soon? :)

Huzzah :D

You start out with 2500 Humanity. 2500 / 30 = 83 ish So am I missing something here, or where is the number 2 coming from? :P

Thats good to know :)

It should take something like 70 murders to become a Bandit. According to the Leaderboards no one has murdered 70 survivors. Bit of a discrepancy somewhere along the line.

I agree, those should be taken out as well :)

Notes sounds like a cool idea :D

Oh hai, Web Cole here, you may know me from PR or RPS or somewhere else ;) I like to hang out on the EU located servers, I tend to move around a lot and stay low key. If your nice to me, I'll be nice to you :P

I found an Mi-8/17 and despite having multiple parts for it there was never any scroll option to fix anything.