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you sir, are a dick. I concur with the OP and think that there isn't enough reason for the good guy to succeed in this game. I see no reason myself to side with any survivors I come across and today, I came across a guy that was sitting in the top of med value residential, when I told I him I only had an axe and show no threat and want to look for food and nothing else, he told me to go away anyway, and then proceeded to kill me as I moved out the door. There is as always a lot of excuses for the way people play the game they way they do, but in the end, people play the way they do because it works within the confines of the game and gives them rewards. If more reward was given for being the good guy, then there would be more good guys.

and did i mention that its fast, reliable, doesn't use as much food as sprinting everywhere and when you get off, your aim is just as if you didn't just pedal your way 20-odd-km across the map. GOLD!

Bicycle is the best vehicle in game by far, doesn't need fuel, doesn't flip like a quad but just as prolific, and hell, if you damage is just get off and back on and its fixed, voila! ;-)

Guess you didn't play Battlefield 3 beta, woeful game that continued to have problems after launch. I think DayZ is a fresh idea that is being played by the likes of WarZ (the name? really?). The only criticism I have of DayZ is the lack of endgame, but I'm a EvE Online player from way back which also has no endgame and had me captivated for years. It all about the friends you make and the memories your create. And yeah, no artifacts found here, sure today I got agroed by a Zed from about 50m away while I was inside a grocery store after taking one single step sideways, but I can live with that.

Hey mate, I think you find this useful. http://www.tunngle.net/community/topic/85461-dayz-1726-saintly-lingor-island-v034-server-files/

I didn't know this. I thank you OP for your wisdom, but disagree with all the rest of the shit that just fell out of your mouth/keyboard. And I quite (see what i did there AzVirus?) enjoy this game despite the hackers. This game is all about dieing, running in from the beach and finding new shit again.

This thread is ridiculous, just like all the others with the same name. I found all my gear legit, Ive been alive for over 30 days now and you want to punish me for playing legit? This is not a solution to anything, you said that a few people stopped playing because they found it no challenge because of duping, imagine how many people like me would rage quit if you took all my gear for the sake of what? so hackers can just script all their shit back? I play on a server that kicks people who have as50-tws's, or any other hacked weapon for that matter. that is the single best idea I have seen yet! Your 'solutuion' is a bandaid fix that will be nullified as soon as the hackers log back in and script it all back. Let me then be the first to say that I am completely, entirely, dumbfoundedly against this idea and all the others like it.

Im having the same

Yeah, thats what I meant. @Zeppa Guess I missed that post somewhere, but that is exactly what I was proposing, so I will go back in my little hole now and wait for my next good idea that has already been mentioned ;-)

Like^^ What about weapons taking damage on use? A-la the Jagged Alliance series, but will need to be repaired with parts... Come to think of it, make weapons take damage just like vehicles running out of fuel. The weapon can be repairable with parts but if the damage gets to 100% it is deemed unrepairable and may as well be thrown away. Also, when weapons are below 50% status then they have a chance of malfunctioning when you fire it. Just some more ideas to throw into the discussion.

I can't c/d any of the other parts of your post, but for the above quote, I have gathered a push-bike, two motorbikes, four quads and a ural since 1.7.2.5 and they are staying put once saved. I do notice that they tend to 'bounce' their way downhill once I get out/off the vehicle but stabilise after server restart, back in the location where they were saved.

mountain dew at green mountain? I would go there to bask in its goodness, if it weren't for the creepy noises from the afterlife.

^ this. People cant hit the respawn button now if they don't like where they have spawned. Has gone a lone way to increased life expectancy.

Congrats on a very amicable response to this turd. I know if it were me, I would have lost my shit at him. I have read rockets post about hosting servers, how hosting one brings no benefit to the hoster and with it comes a lot of time spent removing hackers and dealing with whingers but I didn't expect that. I'm sure for every person that complains, there is hundreds more that appreciate the time and money you throw at the community to make it what it is, its just the nature of it where the thankful people never let you know and the ungrateful are sure to tell you about it.

seems legit

Oh god, please don't yell that like a pubbie ;-) I haven't seen a bandit skin in game yet, I thought they removed that but I guess I was wrong.

Download DayZ commander or six launcher. I would recommend DayZ commander myself. http://www.dayzcommander.com/

Yeah, I haven't had any of those graphical problems with tent's or bodies etc. Still spawning on the beach with all my gear from time to time

yep, had this exact problem.... until i restarted my pc. I was fiddling around with graphics settings and all but mine was a simple fix, hope your is too!

We were at the far West of map cooking dinner when two guys in Ghillie suits on a quad bike appeared next to us with the engine running. We shot the guy off the back and I put a whole mag into the driver. He sped off for about 20m, I reloaded and shot at him again and he still didn't die. He jumped off the quad and killed all three of us while we were still shooting him. I suspect he/they were warping around the map killing everyone because there were a heap of death messages in a row and then the server cleared out. Unfortunately I couldn’t get his name.

Just logged in to the same server again to see what looked like everyone in the server have their name scroll down the left indicating they were killed. No doubt there was someone hacking, time was 1947 PST. There was about 15 people playing at the time, all dead and logged very soon after, left with three people still playing. This server is rife with hackers, hope an admin takes notices and checks the logs some time soon.

Confirmed on of their names to be Joe, he killed me once more in the same fashion just after spawning. Also saw a chopper flying around on the way back to my body which my mate said was shooting at him just after he spawned. After about an hour of running back to find my body, he spawned on the ground in front of me and somehow I killed him with the 1911 I picked up 5 mins before. He had a ghillie suit, as50 with thermal, m4cco-sd etc etc etc. Time was 2300 PST He then warped back to take revenge on me within two minutes of killing him, so I quicly logged out. Shame that my mate that was playing didn't get to the esc key in time and got killed after shooting him a few with his own AS50 that we looted from his body.

No proof aside, make note of it, and if they hear of the same kind of thing happening a few times, investigate. These kind of things detract from the game.