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The point is, a wipe would remove all the old gear from now banned hackers that is still in game. This would mean hackers would have to respawn gear, exposing themselves to bans. It's insane to suyggest this would fix the problem, but it would reduce its spread for a while.

The issue here is that some players find spawing in Electro and Cherno the best spot, others think its a disaster. I personally woulld like to spawn way up the east coast, or as far west as possible. These locations put me on a short run to a supermarket that are less contested, with a bunch of deerstands on the way. I actually dislike spawning in the major places as it means I have to dash through a murderous shitfight to get anywhere. There is some holdup for legitimate players with the disabling of the respawn, but it was too much of an exploit for players trying to return to a firefight to reclaim their gear to leave in.

Duping may be an issue, but im talking about findings tent groups with multiple copies of every item in the game. A non hacking duper would still need to aquire these items fairly in chopper crash sites and in barracks to start the duplication process, this is possible, but lets be honest, its amazingly unlikely. From what i know from the two dupers I am aware of, they tend to do quick dupes to expand their exisiting items they already have. They then play with these duped items, they dont bother amassing masses of stuff to build a camp up north as its a waste of time.

If you need an argument in support of this, head up to the NW corner of the map and see how many tents and camps are up there with masses of gear that is clearly hacked. I understand that some hackers will keep on hacking, but Battleye seems to have got on top of some of the hacking now, however their are a massive amount of "legacy" weapons that have been passed from body to body for ages from the pre battleye crackdown. I also think the fact that their are tent cities up N - NW indicate (to me at least) that a single hacker is spawning heaps of gear that he then sticks in a camp for his clan / mates. This means a group or clan only has to risk one account to generate all the hacked gear, then everyone gets to loot it. Otherwise why the hell would hackers create tents and store gear if they can spawn whatever they like? I think it’s due to this approach, where one account risks the ban to create the gear for everyone, leaving others cheaters with “honest” accounts. Wiping out these camps would then force cheaters to rehack, risking detection under a (hopefully) better battleye detection system. Im all for it

You wash up on the coast as an almost dead guy. Its totally fair that you respawn in a random spot. The constant respawning was making this a joke. Players were dying, then mashing the respawn button until they respawned close to their bodies so they could get all their old loot. Suck it up and enjoy the location you are in.

Admin abuse is getting really annoying, its not as common as player hacking, but its way more demoralising IMO. We played on a server recently and the Admin player and his clan had an invunerable, teleporting bus FFS!. The real rub was that we were kicked for killing a few of them. My Mate has a video, and im trying to get him to make a report but hes lazy as hell. I have made a suggestion for the standalone game that I hope might go some way to fixing admin abuse. If you are in the mood, head over the the "suggestions" thread and make some comments / suggestions on my idea. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/83273-community-ratings-rankings-for-servers-to-help-identify-dodgey-servers/

This is the horrible truth, it may take a while to run to the far NW corner of the map, but when you get there its hacked loot paradise. I set my new spawn to auto run north west the moment I hit the beach, then ill head off and do some stuff for half an hour while he blunders up, stopping occasionally to check he isnt lodged in a tree or against a wall. Ill stop at a supermarket if one is on the way for food, drink and a bigger pack, but my first aim is always to find a camp and raid it. Why fight zombies for the chance of a DMR, or AK Kobra spawning when you can run NW and find a group of tents with 5 of every item in the game unguarded?* This is just another way hackers are screwing this game, but I am too weak to resist the urge to loot their stuff * Items may or may not be actually unguarded

Standalone thermal vision binoculars would be better than a set scope on a gun. That way you could have thermal vision, but you would still have to use a normal sighted rifle to make your shot

I think its unfair to ban a player for having an illegal weapon. Not everyone reads the forums, and finds out what it dodgey and what is legit. In fact the game would be a damn sight more realistic if their were not detailed guides on every weapon and its damage and players had to work that stuff out for themselves. I have no understanding of how much power admins have, but I think a solution to this would be to strip away any "non approved" weapons or gear from players that enter a server. Then people would get into servers, but would have any illegal gear removed from their character. This would be a massive disincentive to hack, and it would also mean hacked gear would stay off "clean" servers.

I was going to start my own thread, but i found this one that essentially had my suggestion. 3rd person is a joke. If we are including the ability to locate our eyes 3 meters up and behind our heads, why bother with a "realistic" game? I love this game due to all the realism other games of late dont have. You bleed till you bandage yourself, crouching behind a wall and waiting doesnt up your health You get hungry and cold, you are not a superman You get out of breath, you shake and can't aim well So why in hell have this level or realism, just to have a floating 3rd person view that allows people to look around corners without exposing themselves to fire, why allow the ability to see inside a building without walking in. I take the point that there are some servers that have 3rd person disabled, but these are few and far between. At the least we need a lot more of them. I still think 3rd person is the single most unrealistic aspect of this game though

I agree, Combining the L85 with a sniper rifle is only really good for detecting people to then shoot with your sniper rifle. Carrying both makes you the perfect overwatch person for a clan or your mates, but it leaves you underpowered if your going to be assulting buildings solo

you know what would be really badass? The suggestion you are making listed in the title. There are way too many threads with "this idea is great" titles that give no idea of the actual content. Its asuggestions thread, of course everyone thinks their ideas would rock, or they wouldnt put them up. That said. I do support the idea of some additional "horror".. dead bodies coming to life, zombies jumping out when you open doors, etc

Adding a normal scope as well would make it unbalanced. I agree, the L85 is an amazing gun due to the thermal, but like everything else, the trade off is thats its hard to use in the day when a normal scope would be better.

I think the idea is sound, as long as there are other workarounds and hav ing "the key" to a car doesnt then mean you can just be a moron and leave it anywhere and expect it to be there when you return. If you find a car you should either need to find the keys, or have a toolbox, the toolbox means you can rig it to hotwire, however if you do hotwire it keys are then no good (except to lock the door) This means if you hotwire it, others can do the same. as for the car alarms, I dunno. thinking realistically, almost none of the vehicles I have seen in the game would normally have car alarms, ATV's, junky old utes, military trucks etc dont usually have the "screamer 9000" fitted, as their owners are usually not worried about having them stolen. The only few vechiles that would have alarms in real life would be things like the nicer pickup trucks. I do agree though that it is too much work to get a vechile up when they are so easy to steal. However the above posters point about allowing people to remove parts when they leave a car would fix this nicely also.