Gekkonidae

Changed to 24/7 Day for the time being, effective now. She's open for business!

For now, I have to agree with this. I also think this might be why my population is dying off. For now i'm going to switch it to full-time day. When they fix flashlights in one of the upcoming patches, i'll change it back. That would be great to have a place to chat! I have a group I run with for other games, but the TS is always packed, so I can't advertise that one here.

Agree with Smash here. I hate saying this so much, but if you've ever played the Origins mod, it's just like this and it just plain works.You log out, get up from comp and go about your business. Just know that your character is in game for another 30 seconds. If you come back and you're on the beach, you know what happened, but not exactly. I like to think of it as getting attacked in your sleep or something. It's only 30 seconds but it can make a difference. I've only ever been popped while logging on there once or twice. Both times it was my own damn fault, too. So always make sure you're in a safe spot when logging out.

^I don't think that's very fair to quote a pretty old comment and tell them they are wrong haha. Of course they are wrong. That's before the upcoming patch was announced that will deal with this lol. But anyway, i'm pumped for the 30 second anti-combat logging mechanic and the server hopping penalty timer stacking each time you try to hop to more servers. Good riddance to both forms of scumbags.

Yep, turn that up and make sure your HDR qual is max too and it's a world of difference. ..until they change it anyway.

Gotta take that risk sometimes brother. I'm always nice to a fault with the nubbins.

Been that guy holding it lol xD

I completely agree. It's already been reported from what I saw on the official bugs page. They know about this. Give them some time to address it. To be honest, there should be a lot of light in this circumstance, and in most cases it will get your ass killed. However, I agree that it's a little excessive haha. Try not to use your flashlight so much. I really wish they would just put out chemlights like in the mod. I know flares are coming soon, so that's a start.

Props to OP. I've experienced all of this. Newbs, stop the whining and consider your resources and get a leg up on the real nubs that will be joining the game later, after your training is complete.

It should be 45 seconds imo, but that's just me. It works on Origins anyway. You won't get them all, but you'll get most of the bastardly closed quarters combat loggers, and anyone with a keen sight would be able to find them. I like both methods of attack, personally. You're still going to have hoppers and loggers, but i think those attempting both will give it a second thought before trying to be a fuckwit about it. That will give you a nice little advantage to counter-reposition yourselves against a ghoster, if you never got them the first time around. This is a survival simulator, so don't be a huge wuss about it. Those of us in pursuit should give ourselves a nice 60 second hunt before getting the fuck out of said area where either occurred. Seems a fair start to me. I guess we'll see what they come back with on the numbers.

In other news, i'm noticing a drop in players since I've introduced a little night time. Do you guys like any night time at all, or prefer a full daytime experience?

The link on the server MOTD is to contribute to help pay for the server monthly cost, no TS server is up at the moment.I'm going to talk to the other admin about a possible TS server rental for the server tomorrow. Stay tuned.

I have had that message about failure to load working gloves at startup of the game on the experimental build when i tried launching earlier. It was a little weird. I wonder if they know about it.

Yeah that was really dumb on his part. Usually when i get told to not move, my gun is out and i'm screaming at the other guy to do the same shit xD

This. Exactly. Most annoying shit in the entire game. Let me run 20 minutes only to end up with a server hopper who's been spending his 20 minutes looting everything good from 20 different servers shooting me in the face as soon as I arrive. That's fair.

With amount of KoS 'total whiner' threads that go up vs these types, you almost have to see at least one of these a day to turn even just a few heads around. ;) Agreed on the +1

You could try to PM a forum moderator and they could possibly pass it along to the devs if you don't want anyone exploiting them. Try Orlok maybe?

I would personally love to see campfires and tents. In fact, aside from vehicles and the new AK coming out, they are the most anticipated things for me. Storage and the ability to light up the night with a fire with friends. Add a pot on a gas stove and some cans of beans going around and all is well. cannot wait for both!!

If they are unarmed and don't have a pack on I don't even waste my time. It's stupid to unless they attack you. I just tell them to stop and then say something like "Get the fuck outta here you little shit! You don't have anything. Run away or i'll rethink my decision" and leave it at that. Especially if we're nowhere near any loot.

Thanks for getting back to me Dorner! Glad to hear :)

I was going to say combat logging or ghosting, because these are fixable and even more annoying. I've played using TeamSpeak and without. Yes, with an organized group on TS against you, you're probably going to have a bad time. My advice is for you to do the same as those groups because you're right, it's a losing battle.

They are adding it. I think it will be a nice replacement for the winchester, if you've ever played the mod anyway. Decent firing rate, mid range rifle.

As a community we could always make the "thumbs up" emote at a distance become the international DayZ sign for "Hey, i'm cool, let's trade". If the other person doesn't respond, then 'no deal'. I think it's a good idea anyway. I have yet to see any community-made signals for anything like this in the game, so it will be interesting to see how it plays out. Some other games i've played in the past with PVP, someone always seems to come up with some sort of signal for stuff using what is available to them.

It shouldn't be. We waited until we were given the ultra all clear from the providers after the patch to start it up. Apparently some people were starting their servers early and it completely fucked them up. (which lead to some of the character deleting crap) If you do experience this while playing on the server and then re-joining, please let me know.

I haven't experienced this yet guys, so please let me know if you're still experiencing this. I really only play on my server here and haven't had any issues.