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Should the casual/impatient portion of the community who didn't play the mod back in 2012 go sooner rather than later? I hope so

In the day z mod I remember having small slots which were for specific items, such as compass, matches, gut knife, watch, gps etc. I think this issue has been addressed before and am not sure if they are going to change it, but can we have some give-away slots for things like pencils, batteries and maps? I think that these should take up negligible space relative to actual food supplies, bullets, weapon scopes and medicine. Could there be separate backpack slots for these small items so we don't have to worry about swapping food for a pen? http://spartanwarfighters.net/miscel/DayZ/DayZ_Inventory_Presentation.png [screenshot showing the old item slots on the bottom left - This seemed to work quite well in the mod although some items did not really belong there.]

You don't gear up instantaneously. You have to hide the tent in a very remote, far away, least expected place and just hope that nobody goes there. There are certain people that go around searching for tents and stealing all the good stuff. It's a similar scenario to running back to your dead body if your squad got into a firefight. Obviously re-spawn is one of the biggest flaws in the game at the moment, so I think it would be cool if you get banned from a server for 1 day to a week when you die, or at least you have to wait about 30 mins - 1 hr before you can re-spawn again.

spends a couple days searching for the parts for a broken helicopter, finding said helicopter and watching the hard work pay off

Once a hacker, always a hacker

Have you ever heard of rods and cones? Yes this phenomenon happens in real life

I'm pretty sure the devs used to post on here quite often, that's why there used to be so much traffic right?

It will be 'DayZ' when they add the chopper

As far as I'm aware all Aus servers are 1st person and nobody really cares

I remember when my zombie kill count was in the thousands, I was very afraid to die and always had squadmates for protection / medic. I ended up setting up hidden tents around the map with the most rare things I could find and only used my favourite gun (m14). The game eventually ended up being about using the car to check all helicopter crash sites and helicopter spawn locations. After that character died (road ambush) my aim for the game was to form the biggest squad we could make. We eventually merged about three different squads together to make a squad of ~15 people, which was one of the most fun things to do. Making a large team / clan with a large base is one of the most fun end games scenarios imo. There's also an adrenaline rush from getting into squad vs squad fights and risking losing all your stuff. (e.g. skip to 2 minutes into this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDBvrx3hsUk&t=2m0s or 2:20 in this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuNxVeP2aZs&t=2m20s - there were a few extremely rare times when I was pilot and we got into chopper vs. chopper fights)

I suggested this a while ago but I think it would be a good idea to bring back the zombie kill count (personal or server score board) The game also needs to have a range of super rare things like helicopters, ghillie suit, range finder, gps etc and some sort of base building / tent storage or it is too easy

Really? That is pretty sad and I guess you don't use teamwork very often. Situations where mic has been useful for me include - getting into conversations with other players - calling out "it's me don't shoot!" when a firefight breaks out and one of my friends is pointing his gun at me (night time) - communicating the position of an enemy sniper to a nearby friend who then killed him in one shot the list goes on

My mic is dodgy too (very cheap one) but it still gets the job done and has not broken in 6 years. Mic does not have to be compulsory but it should be highly encouraged. It is the same that having a keyboard, mouse and sound is not compulsory but is highly encouraged. For instance, I don't really see how anybody can progress from lone wolf play style to squad vs squad play without using a mic.

1st person only has already been implemented in all Aus servers... Also it's not that hard to get a mic and use it. People seem to fail to realise communication is a key part of the game / player interaction and having a mic can save you in many situations.

Seriously though, this game is trying to maintain its niche/indie status even though it's one of the best selling games on Steam. Day z used to be a hard game when you had to search the whole map for a broken helicopter/truck and then find about 10 parts to fix it all the while risking getting killed by other players and zombies. Then making a hidden base or taking over an area or fighting other squads It is hard in the sense that you can be killed by 1 random bullet or zombie and you can bleed/starve/freeze to death. It is also much more challenging playing at night

Snipers give the game tension. Half the fun of day z is being cautious about whether you're walking into a sniper death-trap. If you get sniped, it's your fault for being dumb and/or impatient.

My idea to prevent people from farming servers for rare items is to make the super rare items only spawn when the server is full or very close to full. That way people won't server hop the NWAF etc on empty servers and get top tier gear or anything super rare. A flaw in this system is that people might be less likely to join lowly populated servers. Thoughts?

because it is more fun to make your own auto-run set up

[i searched for a thread similar to this but could not find one] The developers need to bring back the server zombie kill count scoreboard that you could bring up and the "Day 1" "Day 2" etc. message. I'm not sure why the developers removed it but it is definitely a goal that some players worked on. Perhaps a time survived in-game would be better than days survived though because some people log out for a week and play a little bit then log out again. This sort of scoreboard is a way of showing off and also a way of seeing if there's any 'high priority' targets on the server. If you think this is a bad idea please give me some valid reasons why.

any transport helicopter with side guns, preferably the huey

If you want PVE only go play a PVE game like L4D...

It would be more fun if you could only kill them by hitting them in the head although this does not make sense. Then again the whole zombie/infected concept is completely flawed in many ways unless you're talking about necromancy/supernatural style undead (why don't zombies attack each other, why are they able to eat raw meat, why do they only agro when they see fresh meat yadda yadda yadda). As mentioned in this thread it's quite difficult to get headshots in the current engine. If limb shots only slowed them down and you had to shoot them in the head or spinal cord it would be cool but it wouldn't work in this game so I voted no.

why not?

would people with a high amount of time alive or zombie kills go around getting into random kill on sight deathmatch?

There is no need for PVE servers but what they should do is bring back the zombie kill count scoreboard and possibly an 'in-game hours survived' scoreboard next to it.