Cavan

I like the idea of including a few more soviet rifles. On a slight lecturey tangent: In general I would say that automatic rifles should have their spawn rates and ammo rates adjusted somewhat to allow for a more diverse low-mid tier of weaponry. The sniper rifles are already pretty damn rare to find and with the exception of the DMR/M14 and CZ have limited ammo. To be honest if they just fixed the problem with regenerating magazines when you log in/out quite a lot of weapons would become less favoured.

Don't even bother going back, assume the guy who killed you took everything worth having off your corpse and celebrated by eating all the food he couldn't carry and hiding the rest. I have never died and instantly thought "oh I can make it back to get my gear from here". I've made a new plan, explored a new area and fought some new people.

I think the easiest solution is to just alter the cycle so that both day and night are significantly shorter. Probably about 3:1 ratio of in game time to real time would be ideal (maybe with a half hour gain per day or so to make it a little less predictable), that way you have to deal with darkness coming in on you quickly if you're a day person and there's still enough time to scurry around being sneaky during the night without it being a "well I have to wait 12 hours until the next day so I might aswell log off/switch server" problem for a lot of people. Then you could also make all server times identical without actually affecting anybody regardless of location or limited play time. Once they're all identical there's no reason to all flock to certain servers at certain times.

The AKM is a one hit kill on zombies, I thought. Personally I prefer the enfield now, it's badass, has better accuracy and the noise levels arn't so different anymore and is almost always a one hit kill on things. Things like the m16 have burst fire for a reason, that burst 'will' kill most things if you aim it well.

Yeah I like the addition of carrying a flare, bonus points if you manage to pass it to somebody else who picks it up like a baton :p. I also like the idea of firing off all but one of your last makarov mag in order to get things rolling, that is how you start a race.

My first kill was somebody who followed me up a lighthouse ladder, I turned around and suddenly he was behind me. I probably overreacted..since I shot him about 20-30 times. That's what it took for the game to finally tell me he was dead, and I sorta panicked that he'd get back up after the first 2-4 shots not killing him. My second kill was a man walking along on the railway, I could see he had an m16 and at that point I only had my makarov. So I ambushed him for that m16. The first mag didn't take him down and he was bandaging, I could see him bleeding from several locations, and I slowly walked up to him while firing the whole time D:. I'd never had a rifle before that point, I didn't know where to look. I'd had an m1911 that I found in a house during my previous life, but I didn't know where to get more mags for it and had run out very quickly. I was very pleased with my m16 and single magazine of ammo. In general I've mostly stopped minding about killing other players, I find I gravitate towards gunfire to see what's up and maybe benefit from it, I don't deliberately hunt other players or go to packed areas with a sniper. If I see somebody coming my way alone I will usually take him out if he comes within about 200m of my location(i'm usually more cautious about coming out of the trees and looking around so i've yet to see somebody notice me first), especially if there isn't that much cover about. What i'm trying to say by half stealing your thread..is that I never felt guilt from killing people. I felt a bit weird that it wasn't needed, but I was always pretty happy to still be alive after it :).

I had a thought, and that was that the scopes would become interchangeable to some degree and in the case of the CZ rifle you would have to scavenge a scope separately and then attach it to your rifle. That way the CZ rifle stays as common as it is now, but CZ+scope becomes a little harder to get hold of. All the rarer scoped rifles could stay as is, but you could then take your preferred scope and mount it to a different rifle maybe?

In the game? I generally would identify that speck in the distance by how it moves and fire before giving it a chance to wave its gender at me. Unless that person has been active/friendly in the chat. In real life? I'd probably be less likely to shoot women, but then i'd also be less likely to A: survive in general B: shoot any survivors at all.

It would be better if there was just something like a 2 to 1 ratio for days to real time. It's not like people are going to get bored if the night and day are only 3-6 hours long respectively..that's still a hell of a long time to wait around and enjoy the dark if you're into that.