Gekkonidae

Hive servers are a given, but i'd say make it 30 seconds or even 45 to compensate for assholes trying to hide behind something and log out. 10 seconds is easily enough time for anyone to hide from a 500 meter shot and then log off.

I think that with the coming changes, the only thing it will force people to do is to have those with guns group up and be more militant. I guess i'd rather get my practice in now.

It's whatever to me. Let me ramble about my thoughts on it. I don't typically try to go out of my way to kill fresh spawns. If i'm sitting there camping freshspawns purposely, that's one thing. I would call someone doing that a huge pussy. It isn't cold at all, but let's be honest, it is pretty lame. However, you should always be weary of anyone's intent in this game. As one of the above posters said, many will try to B line and punch you out. I've had different reactions. In my experiences, I've tried to be nice to quite a few freshspawns by dropping gear for them, my gun included and they've tried to knock me out in the process. Every time that's happened, I've just picked up my gun and blew them away. If you're going to be a dick when i'm trying to be nice, respawn and enjoy the time you just wasted. That's just my lesson given on being patient. I've also had people that were downright appreciative of my offer and we're really cool with everything. I've never personally had anyone I've given a gun and bullets to ever turn around and kill me because of it. Maybe it's because they thought that if I had gone that far to willingly give up a deadly weapon, I would give them whatever else they needed if they just asked. They have, and I've been cool with parting with half of my stuff to help them out. That's me feeling nice. That's a chance you take. However, one bit of reasoning that stuck with me through that mod was one tough bastard that taught me how to play the mod. His reasoning, which is still absolutely correct is: "Why would I let the fresh spawn go if there were loot around? Who is to say that if I'm nice and let him go, that later he won't find a weapon, stalk me and then murder me and take all of my shit? I don't want to take that chance and have it be on me." So, I stick by banditing most of the time because of this fact, and well, punching. KoSing for that reason alone is justified, no matter who it is. It's just the safer alternative. Either you or him. It's really up to you whether or not you want to take a chance with people. I do it all the time. I've had it end up poorly sometimes, but usually if your approach is well-mannered, sometimes it does make all the difference. I've actually been geared to the gills running around with 4 other fresh spawns without any of them trying to kill me. I told them i'd give them a hand to get geared up, and fight off anyone who tried to stop us. All of them were cool with it. It really depends on what risks you're willing to take from anyone. Be it the geared up guy, or the freshspawn thinking about jacking their shit. Sometimes you get assholes, or people that don't want to take a chance, and sometimes you get people that are pretty cool with teaming up or letting you help them. There isn't just a black and white to KoSing, unless you see a sniper on the coast shooting bambis... that's kind of an obvious thing what they are doing there lol. One thing is true for this game though, as it was in the mod: Strength is definitely in numbers. Both with people and weapons. So, if you're fortunate enough to team up with a fair amount of people, let's say 6 people, and make a common goal not to kill but to help each other, move together and manage to get geared up together, you can more or less decimate any KoS people in your path. I'm really surprised and don't understand why more people aren't taking this approach. It's been tried and true in the mod.

Are you sure that your saved character wasn't on a 3PP:On server? There are 2 different hives now. I do know that this server was not broken during the whole update. I received notifications from Vilayer that many people broke their servers by not listening. I do know that this server was not one of them. We waited until we received the 'all clear' to turn it back on. I haven't received any other complaints about this, so it does concern me.

Same here, to an extent. With so many eyes on this they have to say a good chunk of what they updated. It would be cool if they left some out though and let us discover thigns on our own. That's half the excitement right there!!

My friends call it "raptor-running" lol

That's actually a handy gauge, if it's accurate. I miss the SVD scope. Loved this thing:

Would be awesome to put gas canisters in a fire and after 5 minutes they explode xD Would bring a whole new level of deceit to the game. "Come, get warm by the fire" *move out of the way for a minute* "just a sec, looking at the map" *BOOOM* *collect gear*

I can agree with that. I think they coded it that way because for one, it's easy. It shows you're focused on that object. I get it, but it could be a bit more realistic.

I want fires in the game soooo bad. Fires and flares.

I do it because I enjoy seeing people come together. I want to provide a good playing experience for myself and more importantly, the people that play on the server. I personally like 3PP:ON, but a number of players and the other guy that admins like 1PP:ON, so we switched it to that. I've also been getting a few requests to add in at least some night time to the server. I prefer day, but just to spice it up, I make around an hour of it night with the rest of it day. When it comes down to it, I want to help out the community with the way they want to play with what small amount of power I do have to help with that. It doesn't take a lot of time investment to do that. I mainly just play on the server, hang out with people on it and have a good time. I rarely introduce myself as the admin, because I don't want that affecting the way anyone would communicate with me. I might be an admin, but i'm a player just like anyone else. As an admin, we don't really have that much power at all at the moment. I actually like it that way, because it largely keeps out assholes who have a spare few bucks to pay for power. I understand why the devs laid down some ground rules. But even now, you see people trying to bend those rules as much as they can. I hope that the bad ones are being reported. I've played on some servers in the past where I really liked the admins and then watched it go to a few of their heads. I quit playing on those servers because of their utterly shitty actions. There is no global chat at the moment, and it's hard to detect anything because we don't get access to log files or any of that. We get names, but it's nothing special. So it's not like I can really make any judgement calls on any weird behavior, unless it's really obvious and then do process of elimination. Even if I could, I wouldn't kick or ban without proof like a video of someone hacking or cheating, or see it with my own eyes. We don't get any god mode or anything like that. It's a shame too, that people abuse that type of position and the whole community isn't trusted with access to anything that may help. The intention of having tools like that is to manage the server and use them when you need to, and nothing more. But again, people are worthless cunts. Anyway, nearly the only force of action we have at the moment is restarting the server, which is a disruption to the other players on that server at the moment, so think before you just hit the reset button. tl;dr - I try to listen and be fair with what little power I am given and avoid disrupting my player base as much as possible.

Probably a bug. If you think about it, shotguns should have a higher chance to ruin gear if anything with all that shot flying all over. As far as killing someone goes, i like them for that. I just wish slugs were spawning at the moment.

That's utter bullshit at its finest right there. I admin a server and I don't go resetting or crying when I get killed, EVER! That's blatant abuse. I rarely even tell anyone i'm the admin when I meet up with people. I've said it before, but being an admin is maintaining a server properly. It isn't an excuse for being a fucking dickbag. If an admin cannot act like a normal, every day player of that server and have to do shit like this, they have no damn business having a server at all. Good admins don't interfere like this. Think of the other people that could have been trying to play on that server that kept getting disconnect messages every minute or so because this idiot doesn't want to die fairly. They were just putting them out too, disrupting their game experience for totally selfish and unfair reasons. There isn't a whole lot that admins have control over at the moment, but with what functionality we do have, I try to appeal to my player base by listening to what they suggest, keeping my restarts punctual and try not to interfere with their experiences. Edit: I would say the harshest thing I've ever done as an admin was kick 2 players with the highest ping to let a couple of friends on because the server was full. Still, that's not something I would do very often and don't enjoy doing it by any right. But hey, being an admin does at least have some small perks. I just don't think someone should go around kicking people all of the time like some sort of asshole.

I kind of agree with the OP to an extent, but I would like to see other areas be more attractive. Right now most people just run to cherno or balota. It's really pretty boring. Every time I head anywhere past maybe 1 small town north of the coast towns, I never find a single soul. All I have to do is run back to the coast to find a million noobs with no weapons, or decked-out server-hopping fresh spawn killers. I think they should still nerf balota a little bit or at least put another military area in novy or gorka to kind of spread it out more. We need more reasons for noobies and noob-killers to get off of the coast and explore the map.

Just a quick question here about in-game time and daylight/night time. I currently have my server set to restart every 6 hours. What i'm wanting is to have either 4 hours of daylight and 2 hours of night in order to get a little night time action in for those that enjoy it, or 5 hours of day and 1 hour of night. Having played different mods based on the DayZ mod out there, I've noticed a lot of people like a little night time for fun. What time does it get dark in the game? I'm not sure about this. If I knew, I could set my server to reset at time X and achieve what i'm describing.

^I'll set one up and post a link here this evening :) Great idea.

lol... I agree with the mod clipping the person in question's steam name. That's a bit ruthless to be posting. It sounds like that guy is gonna have a bad time. You should use classier methods of deception. If their group has a TS server that you have joined before, go in and talk to them acting like you want to meet up and everything's cool, and then show up with 5 or 6 guys ready to waste him and anyone else with him. Collect loot and prosper. That's what I've always done :)

Yep. It's good for killing zombies (even though extremely loud) and that's about it. There's really no reason to saw it off without slugs being available at the moment.I would just use a regular shotgun. I cannot tell you how many times I missed on players using the sawed off from even 10 meters away. Thing is worthless.

90% of the DayZ community uses this map, unless you live under a rock or already know the map so well you don't need it anymore.

Shameless plug: I don't know what time zone you are in, but I too work a 9-5 job. Thankfully, our server has 6 hour restarts at 12a, 6a, 12p, 6p EST. I set it up to start at 3pm and restarts with roughly an hour of night time play before restarts to get a fuller experience in the game. You should look up my server if you're looking to get home and not see a million night time servers. It's called Pinky And The Brain. I do feel for you though, I HATED getting off of work only to have to crank up my brightness and gamma and fumble around in the dark the whole time trying to find anything.

My thoughts exactly. I really wanted to test the grouping and spread but had no volunteers. The live bambi test subjects did give me the information I needed though :) I'm glad to hear i'm not the only one with unfortunate findings. Since the patch, I have not been able to find any slugs at all. I'm sticking to the regular shotgun for now.

The concept of a sawn-off is pretty cool. I just used mine for about 3 days. Killed 8 or so people with one. My findings lead me to believe they are a bit more useless than a non-sawn-off. Again, the concept is really cool, and I feel like a badass with one, but the damn thing is really inaccurate. I took 2 shots at someone's head roughly 10 meters in front of me while they were moving and completely missed. I've also taken other shots at players from 5 meters to 15 and have missed. For me, it's just too unpredictable. I wish they'd at least make it have the ability to be holstered. If you found two shotguns you could at least use it as a backup pistol when you couldn't find one. As a primary though, I really don't recommend sawing it off.

^nice. My Asian chick was knocked out with a fire extinguisher last night (R.I.P.) when I decided I was done with her. I took her down to the coast around berenzino and tried to find someone to give the gear to. First guy asked me how i was doing and tried to punch me out, so I shot him in the head. The second guy just told me to leave him alone. The 3rd person was actually a girl that was relatively new to the game. I started giving all my stuff to her when 2 guys come up out of nowhere. Was weary of them so i picked up the shotgun and my shirt with rounds in it. I was naked otherwise. Well, one of the guys picked up the axe I dropped for the girl and asks me where I got all the nice gear as he tried to swing the axe at me... I backed up and listened to them for a minute. Guy says they are friendly and to come over there. So i told them that they were about to get what they deserved and it was too late because dude swung at me. Shot the guy who swung at me in the head and the girl and other guy started running and screaming. They ran to the next town over while I was trailing them half naked with a shotgun. They picked up more people in town and it was suddenly 6 or so people vs me. They were all screaming about the "crazy naked bandit bitch with a shotgun" I took 3 of them out before one of them finally got me with the fire extinguisher lol. Funny stuff. I kind of wished I was able to get the gear to the one person uninterrupted though, but oh well. It was fun all the same. Started an African girl character last night and already have a mosin and some other nice stuff.

Pretty much this. The whole 'leave character in game for 45 seconds after disconnect' thing has already been done in DayZ Origins and it works fine from any time I've ever had someone try to combat log. I've busted people doing it and killed them accordingly. I think it would work here. However, you're still going to have people hopping servers, so that would need to be addressed as well. Not sure how they could do that aside from private hives. I really hope they come up with something though.

I'm pretty excited if this is true. I would REALLY like to see the Ruger 22. Kind of like the Winchester in the mod, except with a Ruger (if they keep true to the actual gun) you can modify the shit out of it. The Winy was my go-to in the mod, so i'd think this would be its successor if this were to show up in the game. Would be a really nice mid-range rifle to have. *crosses fingers*