Rakoth

Mild point of contention - If you have a rifle in your backpack and a hatchet in your hand, you CAN swap between the two (both will necessitate a reload)! Just be careful of how you do it and do not inadvertently fill your backpack while the larger item is out, as you can accidentally delete your primary..

.. the only thing I could possibly think of, is trusted groups, like say the Medics (ie, if you're a whitelisted medic, then you can be sure they won't bone you over in a "oh yeah, make your way to this windowless house, I'll heal you up real good in there" kind of way.) I could, of course, be completely wrong. :V

I'm going to second the bus thing. But I'm also going to suggest keeping your mic turned on and blaring, I dunno, Party Rock Anthem through it while you're cruising through the wastes... but that's mainly because I want to see a bus roll by with LMFAO streaming out the windows.

I'd offer to shlep on down and fix you up, but I'm scooting off to work in a few. Morphine ought be in the boxes you see laying around - if you inspect the loot pile and just see, say, empty cans and bottles? You're going to need to pick those up and move them away from the boxes, as they are in effect blocking your access to the box. Strange, but there we are! You could try slipping from one server to another, I suppose, but I can't say I've ever seen any hospital completely emptied out before. Small Edit: If you cursor over a box and mouse-wheel it, and it says 'restock at" or something like that, then you can properly access the box. Another small Edit: If everything really is empty, try moving a small distance away (ten to fifty meters), waiting about five or ten minutes, then checking back - This will usually refresh a loot point at least in other places, though I'm not entirely sure it will work with the hospitals. Worth trying though.

I wholeheartedly endorse and support the Trusted Medics, and I've never encountered or needed one - It's the attempts and the optimism that gets me. I'd see about signing up with them, myself, but I fear my "run around willy-nilly when going from A to B" would probably get me, and my patient, killed, heh. Maybe if I ever get a bicycle or something... although, then I'd just ride around ringing the bell making a :D face, and that's just as bad. Hope it works for you, Doc - Chernarus can always use more good men and women.

Weirdest thing. Grabbed the new patch, logged in to the server I usually play in, and while it's still loading... 'Rakoth was killed.' I :C-faced for a minute, figuring perhaps someone found my cool-awesome, or coolsome, hiding spot of underneath a bush, when the world finishes loading and I'm in debug plains, very much alive but completely stripped of ALL gear - Not even a backpack or a bandage. Still :C-facing, I ESC'd, aborted, disconnected, hit okay... Appeared in Elektro. Fortunately this was just a five or ten minute to where I was, and my corpse was still there, dead by "unknown causes." Is logging out under bushes dangerous now or something? I mean, it didn't seem to kill me, per se, as I never got a "You died" message or the choice to pick a male or female skin, but I did respawn elsewhere so... yeah.

Hm, actually, this sounds to me like he might have thought you meant him ill. I've come across well-supplied corpses more than once, and I tend to surmise they either slipped up and got swarmed by the dead, or a bandit got the better of them - He might have thought you were the former, helped out, and went on his way, but thought you intended to kill him or something if you were following him (or he really didn't want attention drawn to him or the like.) Whenever I've helped someone out, I tend to backpedal away watching them (to make sure I don't end up with a bullet in the butt) or back off and watch them until they scoot away out of view at which point I book it elsewhere at a sprint. A hearty "thanks!" goes a long way with aid, tho', if you get it instead of a bullet to the brain.

Does it have fuel? :3c

Last I was aware it is a legit item with no purpose (for now.) Though some have said there's a Morse code you can pick up on Green Mountain every eight hours or so.

If I'm a fresh spawn and none of the usual places seem to have any of the loots (or at least loots I want) at the supermarket, I'll gather all the excess loot (Makarovs, bandages, tools, etc) into a neat orderly pile in the foyer / main entrance of the market, and dump all the empty cans and bottles on the stoop out back, before running across the street and rolling around in the grass behind one of the houses waiting for respawns Keeps everything clear for new loot, makes a nice and neat pile for people to go 'Oh, hey, that's what I was looking for' and gets them in and out faster so I can get the loot that -I- want, and it makes me smell like fresh grass. On account of the rolling. Zombies need greens in their diet too, you know?

They seem to be the same to me, excepting that a few have been running while in-doors, which terrified the crap out of me and also led to 11K -> 0K blood by way of being knocked unconscious somehow. Don't worry though I managed to run all the way around the coast and get my stuff back.

If you're feeling gutsy, hang around at the military loot points and empty them out (move empty cans and bottles, useless weaponry, and whatever else you don't want into a neat and tidy pile away from wherever they spawned,) move a bit away, then wait for 5-10 minutes. Usually new stuff will have spawned in. It's ballsy to do if it's a heavily-trafficked area (balota airfield or the camp south of it, Cherno fire station, etc) but no guts, no weapon of mass destruction.

From what I gather, what's saved is what you put in it and save the first time, IE pitching a tent then putting in two wheels, a lee-enfield, six canteens and a can of beans then saving means every time the server restarts, THAT will be what's in it, even if you add or take away stuff after the fact. If you disassemble the tent and move it, next restart the tent and its contents will be there, too (correct me if I am wrong.) This seems like an easy thing to abuse, now that I think about it.

Hey, at least you didn't spend some two hours running around Cherno grabbing vehicle parts to repair an ATV you came across up by the NW hospital only to accidentally flip it 10 minutes later like SOME people. ... I miss that ATV, it was like an ATV to me...

It used to be, apparently, that the first reset after a saved tent would clear out anything put in it (if you put anything in it) so it was recommended to drop in a empty can or the like until the server reset... Then start storing actual stuff. Last patch evidently broked how stuff is saved on the hive, so... Get situated, but don't expect tents to work correctly. Vehicles, I think they're just straight weird and kind of a crapshoot. Been hearing different opinions ("Saved vehicles always go back to original spawn points on server reset!" "Vehicle saving worrrrrks!") but I wouldn't get attached to any vehicles. Not that you should anyway, but, yeah.

I believe sandbags are what deter zombies - Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

To be fair, this is hardly relegated to RP servers, or RPers - Some of RPers (and I use the term loosely here, because squeezing one out on the keyboard != RP) just happen to be, uh, open with their perversity. More on topic - I lol'd. Having rolled up female and male toons on DayZ, I can note that bandits are much more likely to speak to you in a degrading way if your avatar is female, whereas males tend to just be shot at. One week of female char lets you hear 'bitch' more often than you might have heard in the whole of your life, interestingly enough. Some time when I die in the future I'm going to make a femme char and the next time someone is all, "Bitch, drop the hatchet, bitch," I'm going to effect the deepest bass voice I can when I ask if this is going to be one of those rape things.

A lot of US servers (if that is what you are connecting to) work off of real-time ... uh, time, offset by just a few hours (IE, a east-coast server might have its in-game time at 8 PM, whereas in the real world it is 10 or 11 PM.) Your best bet is to, indeed, get DayZ Commander and see about getting two or three servers to tick as favorite for different playing times - I have one that's UK for evening, and one that's US for afternoon. Nine times out of ten there's enough light for me to see by. Conveniently, DayZ Commander lists in-game time for some servers. So far as finding people to play with... that's harder. If you don't have any friends RL that you can convince to buy the game and play the mod with, you might be in for a bit of a slog trying to find companions. According to the statistics I just pulled out of my ass, roughly 93% of the people you encounter will shoot to kill because either they think that doing so is funny and/or boss, or because they are terrified that YOU will shoot them first; 5% will say 'friendly' and mean it, but not be terribly interested in grouping up with a stranger in case you do want to shoot them in the back; and the last 2% probably would kick it with you for a time.

Best bet? Drag yourself to that village and see if you can't spot any signs that identify the place. Then look up a map online (if you don't view this as cheating or anything) and get your bearings, then head for the nearest place with a hospital. On my second life, I had to crawl through half of Cherno to get to the hospital for morphine after I inadvertently sprinted off a large and climbable tanker (I went up to get a look around, out of curiosity.) That took a bit of a while. Crawling across half the map? Probably take... a significantly longer time, heh. If it gets to be too long a walk - er, crawl, you could toss a post in Doc Wasteland's thread and see if you can't get a trusted zombie apocalypse medical profession to come out to you.

If you're using the Six Launcher, that might be why; last I was aware (earlier today) it doesn't bring up your version to 1.7.2.5 (current version for a lot of servers) for some reason, even though I think it installs the patch (maybe?) Like others have suggested, I'm going to attempt DayZCommander myself and see what happens with that. Might want to give it a whirl yourself. Edit: Yeh, looks like DayZ will fix the Six-Launcher-Not-Updating issue that'll give you access to more servers.

If the OP is unaware, it's worth remembering that placed tents are exclusive to the server they are placed in (someone correct me if I am wrong!) So if you placed on US 1176, that tent will be on 1176 and only 1176.

Phew. And I thought sneaking through the Balota airfield while several people with a civilian URAL were loading up spare parts, or being chased by a crazy axeman from just outside the same all the way to the Cherno supermarket (I won the fight, amazingly) was alarming! Keep fighting the good fight, you crazy survivor, you. I expect to read more in the future.

I've only crossed one so far (a bicycle that I stole from a bandit after he killed someone else and tried to find me in an industrial building) and logged out while in it, but that clearly doesn't save it - Alas! Browsing the forum, I've a general idea on how this thing works, but some things I'm still iffy on. If I save a vehicle and log out, does the vehicle remains in the game world for anyone else to steal (I'm going to assume 'absolutely' but it's nice to know for certain and you know what they say about assuming)? Anything I toss into the vehicle remains in its inventory through server restarts (providing the vehicle doesn't disappear permanently through a restart,) right? Speaking of server restarts, is damage persistent through them? If I cross a vehicle that needs repairs out in the boonies, can it still be wheel-button saved so it won't despawn while I'm getting the repair items for it (if it will despawn after X time to begin with)?