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Please don't do this. Full loot pvp is what makes this game unique. Removing that would be a bad decision Where as I love the idea - it'll make it less of an incentive to kill people for their gear if it could be damaged/destroyed, which increases the incentive to team up with them to benefit not only from their gear, but having another set of eyes and guns too.

As in DC abusers will stick around for a bit? Nope, it means dead bodies won't disappear straight away after you kill them - that was a bug introduced in the last couple of patches.

I think you need to read up on Ayn Rand and Objectivism if you think Ayn Rand should be associated with survivors and not bandits. Both bandits and survivors can be one or the other though. The purely lone wolf survivor wouldn't fit into the same mould as a team-player survivor, where as a clan of bandits would have a similar structure to a survivor co-operative.

Not a bad idea, I like it :)

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Dear fucking lord, does no one read what the hotfix does before complaining it hasn't fixed something it hasn't said it would fix? People, he's not said it would fix the spawn or chem light problems, so going "This hotfix hasn't fixed it" makes you look like you've not even bothered reading the first post. On a more positive note - cheers for keeping the patches/builds/hotfixes coming, Rocket! It might take a while to track down stuff like the spawn bug, but this is an alpha, it's meant to be for ironing out stuff like that!

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You'll want some lotion for that.

Awesome stories! Keep up the good work!

Rocket said a few days ago that Bandit skins wouldn't be getting removed until Thursday at the earliest.

Don't get me wrong, I think the balance does need to be tweaked a few times until it's just right, but rocket needs the server/character data from each patch to see just how much tweaking is needed. But yea, rockets intention was always to try and make a fairly realistic zombie survival game. I don't agree with all his choices, but given this is pretty much the first such game of it's kind, I'm here for the ride because I like the concept. If ultra realistic isn't what you're after, though, than yea, you're sadly going to end up disappointed.

I'd like to not have to decode vague messages in patch notes, I still have no clue what "Should not be pellets for the Winny" even means. Pellets for the Winchester have been removed, just like the note said.

Apparently not having the newest equip file causes the problem. You need to check to definitely make sure it's up to date.

It means that whenever you disconnect, whether it be through aborting properly, or ALT+F4, or whatever, your character is saved as it was then, at that location. Previously, the game wasn't saving when you left the game, as it should have been.

I agree, innocents shouldn't be banned, but if people paid money to get ArmA II JUST for this mod, then that still doesn't mean they're entitled to anything. You didn't buy the mod, so rocket owes pretty much nothing to you. If he wanted to, he could just turn off the database tomorrow and call it a day. I doubt he will, but he'd be entirely within his rights to, just as he's entirely within his rights to do whatever the hell he wants with his mod - because it's his mod. Ultimately, if he wants to ban people, then it's tough for them. Like I said, I doubt he'd do that to innocent people, but the possibility is always there.

Other than the large performance boost to the game it's given, obviously. It's an Alpha, things change all the time, some things to try to increase performance, sometimes to make things more intuitive, or to make the game easier or harder. It's one of those things you have to get used to, unless you want to sit out and wait for it to hit Beta, when the game development tends to start settling down a bit.

No, it means that your character's state is actually saved when you disconnect now (regardless of the reason, be it aborting properly, or Alt+F4), as it wasn't doing so previously. This not only means that you don't get reverted back to whenever it was last saved (which could be a few minutes ago) when you come back, and also makes it a lot harder to do the easier duping exploits.

Right click does nothing for me lost a 2 day character due to it after this and have already rolled back until it is changed or alter to some a reliable degree' date=' why was it changed to begin with? not broken do not fix it. [/quote'] According to rocket, it was broken - it was causing a fairly big performance drain, due to the previous system checking what actions you could do every second. Now it only checks when you go into your inventory to use things. No worries! :P

The skins aren't gone, to my knowledge. That's happening on Thursday (unless plans change) from what rocket said a day or two ago. If the bandit skin had gone, it'd be in the patch notes.

Good to see that some people (such as Virfortis, the_fencer0, BurstFire, and rocket himself) can have a difference of opinions, take like civilised people, and come to a reasonable compromise. Really, why do people have to insult other people just because they have a difference of opinion? No one is 100% right or wrong here, even rocket has admitted he isn't. I'm pretty sure he doesn't need everyone trying to protect him from people who disagree with him by insulting them and trying to drive them away - he'll either ignore them, or do as he did, and talk to them. Sure, the comment was made in jest, but finding it a little offensive is an entirely reasonable view, and it's not like Vir starting spamming or insulting anyone - he posted, clearly and concisely, his objection to a derogatory term used by the creator of the mod towards some people who enjoy his mod. rocket replied, and it's all sorted now. How about we all just learn to accept peoples' differences, not let them get to us, and chill? I'm pretty sure the forums would be better without all the insults, flaming, and anger issues.

I believe a couple of people had said that they are all coordinates for deer stands.