william4

did we ever figure out why one of the dayz staff got banned?

Im already having a hard time chosing between Dayz and Gw2 if this keeps up i may just play this more the GW2.

None of the links for me they go to youtube and say : "An error occurred during validation. Sorry about that."

I do believe we have a winner. wow this is the clear win! where is 1.6.

Im not even sure if this is possible in the game but how about the idea of factions? You must chose a side to spwn into. Friendly fire is on but if you kill to many of your own people then you will get pushed from survivors to the neutrals. Kill a few neutrals and you get pushed down to bandits.Keep killing your own type at this point that would be killing bandits and you get pushed into the lone wovles! You can always kill anyone from any other faction type with no penalty to you as long as you dont kill to many of your own. The friendly fire kills should be low say 5 and you get moved to the next faction but should also slowly reset over time. So if i kill 1 of my own faction then 7 days with no other friendly kills it resets to zero. but if i get a second friendly kill then the 2nd friendly kill would take 2 weeks to go back down to 1 kill. Thus making it 3 weeks total of time before making back to zero friendly kills. To get out of the lone wolves you must wait 2 weeks before you get a message asking what group you would like to rejoin. While in this new group if you even chose to go to a new group hell you could stay lone wolves if you like, you are in a trail period for 2 weeks in this group and if you kill more then 2 friendlies you get put right back into the lone wovles . Just because you chose bandits though doesnt mean you cant work with someone from the survivors for some reason that maybe needed. or a neutral teaming up with a bandit. hell maybe a few from each faction teamed up just for the sole purpose to clear a town of zombies but after the town was clear all friendly ideas are off. its all your choice. Of course the idea behind this is to have some sort of idea who the enemy is. Everyone would look much different, everyone would have several sets of uniforms but would stay slightly resemblance of all uniforms. for example bandits might all wear different types of military uniforms. Also once more things get put into the game more parts of the map would become much more valuable thus creating a turf war over parts of the map. say maybe a military base with good weapon loot. Or farming gets putinto the game and good fertile land for crops is somthing people would fight over. Maybe somthing like: Survivors- People who just want to survive and get along, they tend to be friendly an cautious. All they want to do is survive hopefully all while being friendly :) but if need be will shoot you dead. Survivors would like nothing more then to be able and rebuild get life back the way it was! Bandits- These type see the apocalypse as a good thing and use this hard time to their advantage. They love the idea to be able to murder and kill people to steal there belongings without the threat of the police. Would love to see the world stay the way it is as it works out better for them this way. Well do anything to make sure zombies survive to keep the world in the hell hole it is so they can contiue their looting spree. The neutrals- A group of people who could really care less one way or another. Mostly made up of traders who like to find anything they can to trade it for more stuff. While most of them miss the old way of life have given up on the idea of it going back the way it was and would rather just live life one day at a time. They see no purpose in trying to help rebuild because they dont think humans could ever manage that with all the damn zombies and bandits running around. Neutral or no they will still put a bullet between your eyes. The Lone Wolves- a group of people who not only would rather work alone but has been shuned out of every group around. No one trusts or likes you and would rather see you dead. Your ideas are your own and you would rather not fall into a group of anytype. everyone is the enemy and only when you may need a little help here and there will you work with others. This whole post could also be for nothing if its not even possible to do in game. The factions i came up with im sure could be much different and thought out but its late and i just randomly through some stuff out there.

No. Part of the experiment is how we handle dealing with strangers. We can make our own groups' date=' we don't need a game mechanic to define them. [/quote'] Well at this point I can hardly tell my real life friend from the next guy because we all look the same. Also as I said if you don't like the factions then just chose lone wolves and you can play the game as normal nothing will have changed for you. Also the experiment as you want to call it could be the same and seeing how many will chose what faction.

But wouldn't you rather know who is enemy or friendly rather then Just being shot in the face because you have no clue what that person is all about. an like I said if you really oppose the factions chose lone wolves an go on as normal in the game the same you have played before.

The way I see it is it gives some unity to the faction you are fighting for. Also allowing you to tell who the enemy's are. It would create more of a community and team of players. Right now we have no clue who friendly an enemy are. It's really annoying because trying to trust most people is harder then just simply staying away from them. The game really should have more team play involved other then the random group of friends or clans. This adds so much to it I see no downsides. If you really wanna just play the game the way it is now just stay a lone wolf and play as normal. Pick lone wolves an the game would gone on as normal no forcing anyone to be anything.

currency has no purpose here. I dont see why i would take some random coin or paper rather then trade you food for water or gas for bullets or anything useful for anything useful. Not ever would i have use for something useless like money. Currency only works in real life because when you go to work for 8 hours and get paid you would need some sort of payment. Yes they could pay you in foor or water etc but really its much easier to give you something to use to go and buy stuff you want or like. If everytime you went to work and they gave you chickens but instead you wanted a tv that wouldnt really work out instead they give you neutral currency and you go and use it to your liking. Now read that an ask what purpose could currency have in this game? What would you buy with it? more beans? wouldnt it be better to trade water for beans? instead of useless paper for beans.

Not that i would steal anything from you but im pretty sure a server ban on someone for stealing is not allowed or even ok. Stealing and killing is part of the game it happens. It sounds really cool and gives more reason to play the game and another goal. Maybe a good idea would never let anyone trade straight from the area where everything is stored but instead have your mailmen take the trading items to an area of your chosing. this way they never know where the trading location is. Also like i said you should really find out about server bans for theft as im pretty sure that you cant ban someone from a server for that,i could be wrong though.

While i will agree the game needs more stuff to do to keep it going, at the same time this is alpha and clearly will be getting more things to do as time goes on. If you dont like whats happening in game now maybe leave and check back in a few months. Also using the term "gay" to describe somthing the way you did makes no sense and really shouldnt be used, just makes you look like a troll. Also saying that the game is being nerfed sounds pretty dumb and makes you seem more like a troll. So if you are serious then it sounds like you may not like the game your playing and should check back every once in a while, but honestly i think its a troll post trying to piss people off.

It would be nice at this point if someone from the Dayz team or Rockect himself would make a statment on this so we can at least get some sort of idea here. Its pretty obvious alot of people have issues with the dark. Just the thread alone should say somthing its grown pretty large. Could we get somthing from you guys maybe like, "there is nothing we can do to fix the issues because of the engine of the game". maybe, " we could change it but at this point we like it how it is" or even " we are thinking of ways to change this" how about "We have no plans for this issue yet and have not even disscused it " or " we have plans to change this and would like more feedback " i will even take this " it stays the way it is stop talking about it we dont need any feed back on night time anymore". Simple reason for a word from the team is to see at this point if its even worth debating about. If it cant be fixed due to the game itself then we may as well move on. or even if they say its staying the way it is and no feedback is needed then we can move on. But if they say they want feed back and for us to keep talking then by all means keep the debate going. just give us some sort of clue what we need to do with this topic and if there is at least a point in even talking about it.

I would say something close to what you are saying and showing in the pictures is very true for what most of us want. Only thing i will add is just outside of that small area that you can see well around you i think you should be able to see silhouettes. maybe like 5-10 meteres (about 16-32 feet) outside of that you can see silhouettes of people and zombies. Then farther out have silhouettes of buildings also and trees. Once again no one is asking for a darkened day time to were i can see everything like daylight but just faded black. What we want is just enough to understand what is going on very close to us. Hell even the backround picture on the fourms have night time as dark with silhouettes of zombies. But even the background on the fourm is much more light then i think anyone is asking for.

Well he (rocket) clearly made the game for people to play other wise he would only have 1 small server that is locked. Also flares and chem lights are easy to use. But its annoying that i have to become this large glowing becoan to even see a few feet in front of me. Im not asking to see miles down the road im just asking to be able to see around me and a few feet around me. not more then 5-10 feet, an im not even talking full on being able to see im just saying a little bit of light so i can make some stuff out around me. Not sure why thats so hard to accept.

yeah true , trust me im not bashing it at all sounds cool. I was just wondering what purpose it has because it seems like a chat room out side of the game that already has a global chat. either way ill give it a try sounds interesting.

I havent heard this radio yet i will listen when it comes back up. I hate to be the downer here but couldnt this info just be typed into the global chat box in game? "Bandit killing people in cherno" " roaming group of bandits near elektro"

Um....press F' date=' tap your left mouse button, flare released. Problem fixed? Okay then. As a game mechanic night should be harder. You shouldn't be able to run around at night without a light source. If you can, it's essentially no different than daytime. Does that satisfy you as a viable reason? If thats what you want it to be is harder sure you can have any opinion you want of the topic. Ill agree to that if youll agree to being able to not shoot most weapons very well because no normal person can pick up any weapon and be dead on sniper with them. lets not forget that running from city to city is out of the question here to no normal person can just run all day and night hauling tons of crap with them. so more likely you should only be able to trek at very most maybe 10 miles living on the food an water you have at hand. glad we are making the game hard and unplayable. that all sounds fun. also no one is asking for the game to be made so easy you need no light source at night. what most people seem to be saying is just a little bit of light so i can at least distinguish a very small area around me and maybe the silhouettes of people in a very close area to my chracter so no more then 50 feet. Maybe this could be less inside of the forest.

Um....press F' date=' tap your left mouse button, flare released. Problem fixed? [/quote'] nope problem not fixed. i want to be able to at least see my chracter in 3rd with out having to light up 1 mile worth of area and giving away my position to every bandit that wants to muder me. I dont think anyone is asking for it to be so bright to see miles down the road. What i think most are asking for is maybe some what visable 5 feet in front of you and it slowly trails off the farther away from you. Say around 20 feet its so dark that i can barley see anything but i can still make out at least out lines and shadows of things. Then maybe around 30 feet it trails off into pitch black. Ive been in some pretty dark and desolate areas before and never have i not been able to make out my own hands. even in the pitch black areas ive been in you can even make up people who are pretty close and what direction they are moving now granted you may not be able to tell who excatly they are you can still clearly make out whats going on. Flare use should be used to light up areas that i would like to see before heading into the area. What flares should not be used for are to light up any and every area i need to see because my screen is so dark i cant even see my own weapon on my chracter.

im just not seeing the reason to stare at a screen that is so black that my monitor may as well be turned off. Even if that seems real to you its just not fun to do. Then your prolly gonna say well this is suppose to be a realism mod but clearly it has many things that are not real at all and are made to cater to being a video game. Because first an foremost its a video game an meant to be fun. List of things in game that are not even close to real, some made unrealistic for the purpose of being a video game. - zombies are unreal. - being able to run non stop across the map with a back pack full of stuff. - being able to pick up an shoot any gun with extreme accuarcy most people have no clue how to shoot any weapon at all. - anyone is able to some how reapair any borken down vehicle, most people in real life cant even change their own oil let alone reapir a helicopter just plain unreal. - Which now brings us to the idea that people can carry around large tool boxes big enough to repair these broken down vehicles and then also carry around the large parts to repair the vehicles. - how about the fact that i need to make a fire yet the huge forest of wood is extremly useless to me. i think i could gather up a few sticks and use my flare to make a fire. - The idea of a global chat box is just plain unreal we would really have no way to communicate like that. -Random spawns of items, that just magicaly respawn on their own. -spwning zombies out of thin air - the fact that i need to eat food so often or im going to die - blood count is at 12000, what kind of count is that? didnt know i had 12000 blood in my body in real life. - a temp gauge that reads from 100 and yet can drop really low ive see like 30 what is that even measuring? - my temp drops even though im running around, if i get rained on for even a few mins then my temp drops very fast I could come up with so many more things that are just unrealistic in this game , so lets stop using the excuse thats its realism and it needs to be that dark. The fact is most of the things i listed are the way they are because it is a video game and needs to be that way. I mean who would want to play the game if your chracter could only travel a few miles before needing to stop and set up camp and rest for a day. Just like most people dont want to play a game that has a pitch black screen, in fact so dark it may as well be played with your eyes closed.

The servers run on the same 24 hour period as we do in real life. The server time is most often around the same time as the server area. You most after guess where the sever is located because of the name of the server. So if it says uk1 then the server time more then Likely will be based in the uk. So if it's 7 pm in the uk the. It would be 7pm server time. Some servers have started to reverse the time so that way when it's night time were the server is its rally day time. Hope that helped an made some sense.

Yeah sorry I meant hypothermia. I'm posting from my iPhone and it likes to auto correct to words it feels like an I didn't catch the error.

I've been hiking in the middle of the forest with the army many times never did I lose track of my own hands in front of me or even the person 5-10 feet away. I've been to Iraq an have seen pitch black with zero lights on for many miles an guess what I could still see my own hands and the people around me I could even make out the humvees and other trucks down the street. I could see the the outlines of buildings etc could I see fine details of any of that no but I could still see what was around me and still make out what was down the road from me just from the shouilites of things. Also it's a video game not real life yes blah blah it's a realism mod. But in reality this game is far from it, I don't get hungry to death every few hours, I don't need water every few hours I also don't lose tempuartue so fast just be being rained on for a few mins to the point of death and hypnotherapy and also not many people could run non stop for many many miles without having to stop an take a break for a few hours. An to top it all of if this was real not many people would move around at night anyway thus making the games own idea unplayable for anyone playing at night. While yes we want some realism at the same time we need to rember it's a video game that has many non real things happening.

I also think NVG are just part of the game and im ok with, but for me to be able to see at all i need to turn gamma up which is dumb to play a black and white game. I would rather just play ok a euro server at this point. dark should be very ill agree to that but wont i agree to is just being compeltly blind, its just that dark. I mean i should at least be able to see my own chracter and the gun im holding. Not really seeing what your tyring to do here, the game runs off the time of the server not my computer. So i dont see how changing the time at my end would have any effect on the server im playing on.

So pretty much at night people who up the gamma or people with NVGS are at a much more advantage then people without that. So i must play the game in black in white gamma mode to be able to see anything like some of the other people who run around with it like that who just love to shoot me a the while i have to look at a black screen or run around with a giant glowing stick or flare in my hand saying shoot me im right here. It would seem much better if 5 meters in front of me i could see ok and make out who is around me and then every 5 meters or so it gets slighly darker till around maybe 50 meters it starts to get to dark to see. at which point i could throw some flares and see what is beyond my vision if i feel the need to. But right no on my screen at least all i can see if pitch black and i cant even see my own chracter when in 3rd person mode or the gun in my own hand. Like i said before if its like this i may as well be playing the game with my eyes closed or the monitior turned off.

Well in any case no one well really see eye to eye on this. For me no matter the night time its 100% black to were i can only see the stars in the sky it is no different then if i were to just close my eyes. In the end its still a video game and playing a game with a pitch black screen is just dumb. Id have to say most people agree with that , lots of people talk about it and lots of people server hop to aviod the dark night and some servers change the time zone for that server that alone has to say somthing. while i do agree night should be dark and hard to seen anything to far away, the way the game is built right now i may as well turn my monitior off as it looks the same. Only way i can change that is to change gamma to play black and white, which is another thing alot of people do, which should tell you what they think of night time.