Rastamaus

good idea that makes sense and would add realism which is never a bad thing - beans to you

erm.... maybe i'm on the wrong forum here.... correct me but isn't it arma2 that is the military simulator and DayZ is the survival simulator? Surely the last thing this game needs is more military grade weaponry!!

The problem with this idea is that far from making DayZ more DayZ as you suggest, it would in fact make DayZ less DayZ. If you want to play the lone wolf then do so, no one is stopping you but the clans or gangs or whatever you call them are integral to the game, they add a sense of realism too as there is no doubt that alliances would form in a post apocalyptic situation, and that bands of roaming humans would be both the biggest threat to, and the best source of hope for a survivor just as they are in the game.

beans for you sir, splendid idea

nice try, i admitted i was wrong in my assumption that there was something underhand going on, i still believe that all players should start from scratch and that importing gear from one hive to another is wrong. As for calling me slow, well that is fine with me, i am comfortable with my intellectual capacity and certainly won't be worrying about comments made by someone with your level of linguistic prowess. As for wasted time I was not alone in having concerns about this, I heard anbout it from someone else afterall, now though the issue has been discussed and explained so all can see that there is in fact nothing to be concerned about, hardly time wasted.

people disagreeing with you does not make them idiots

I suppose my reaction was a little over the top, i just feel passionately about this game and was uber excited about your version and was genuinely disappointed when i heard about the gear imports. I guess i'm so used to server admins abusing their power and felt this was an example of that, it isn't and i was wrong. Of course, having read your replies and digested what you have to say I see things a little differently now, i will be trying your mod and i am sure it'll live up to it's reputation. Thanks for taking the time to talk me through the issue and being thoroughly decent about it all.

edited due to haters

I appreciate your candid and in depth reply Venthos, you make strong arguments. Allow me to respond to each in turn. As I said I heve never seen a private hive where it is possible to import gear from another private hive, and as I understand it your US and EU servers are seperate hives. Of course characters are transferable from public server to public server and from server to server within a closed hive comprising multiple servers as in the one rocket designed originally. I didn't claim otherwise. My logic does not imply that a player dying creates an unfair situation, my logic implies that one player spawning on the coast with a flashlight and another spawning at the coast with an AK74, a coyote backpack, mp9sd and other things creates an unfair situation. It is the fact that it is possible that pierces the veneer of fairness all games need to maintain integrity. I see now that this arrangement is meant to help existing players and in no way is it meant to give unfair advantage, that does not change the fact that it does give unfair advantage. I hear what you say about playing for a month and building up your character but i fail to see what you mean? In DayZ you don't really build up a character, or rather you do, but each time you die he is reset so that holds no water. What we are really talking about is importing gear. And for me at least the knowledge that some players have been allowed to import gear from another hive sticks in the craw. I shall resist replying to the inflammatory post that follwed 4L4n's as he basically makes the same points as you only less well and with a patronising tone.

just want to play dayz the way he envisaged it, no hacking, no duping and all players starting from scratch, this is why i play private hives, i never heard of a private hive where you can import gear from another hive EDIT: until now

This mod sounded like every serious dayz fans dream, the purists mod they call it....and I was all ready to get it until i learned that players with established characters are allowed to switch that character complete with gear from the US server to the new EU server. No matter which way you look at it this makes DayZ Redux a loaded game in the sense that some players are being blessed with an unrealistic and unfair start to their new dayz life, they are being handed a clear advantage over the majority of the servers other players. Hardly something the Rocket man would condone. Very disappointed to hear this so will refrain from trying the mod. Where can a guy get a pure and fair version of this game? Hurry up standalone and down with hacking, duping, cheating and server admin abusing everywhere.

Running DayZ on a console would be like trying to get a fully ladencargo ship across the atlantic ocean with one guy rowing

to be fair occasionally the search bar doesn't seem to work, having said that I think this thread should be pinned beans to you

Halleluyah

cookie anyone?

no matter which way you look at it, humans, in fact all species, survived for millions of years without the aid of military issue water bottles, our hands when cupped make great vessels from which to drink. Of course water bottles have the advantage of being able to carry water around with you, but it is insane that after 20 fruitless minutes franticly searching for a drink it is possible to die of thirst while kneeling in a lake full of fresh water.

excellent idea, would be 'relatively' simple to add i'd imagine and would transform life in the woods, also pvp would become a bit more interesting even if just the ability to climb trees was introduced, but for me the possibilty of stashing your stuff off the ground in the tree canopy would be sweet. beans to you sir

Good ideas but all have been suggested before, and in a more easily digestible way

specialist apparatus? a fire, a pot and some polythene? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itOHm0IixrQ

Well said, all emotional reactions take place inside the players mind. After a 2 hour crawl around the NWAF where I'd spotted a newly spawned heli and after an hour of searching for the parts i needed i died right next to the chopper, attacked by zeds, the heli and my body with all the necessary parts and fuel laying there together, unattended for all to see, while I spawn at f*ckin' kamenka. 30 minutes of sprinting/zombie dodging later I reached Starry in time to hear the dreaded sound of rotor blades in the sky. I certainly didn't need any mood mechanics to tell me just how pissed off i was feeling. the characters mood is your mood.

not unlike real life then

it is possible to wrong http://www.ehow.co.u...-sea-water.html good idea, have my beans

I'm not a fan of NPC's, except for the zombies of course, but I like your idea of finding a woman in distress. I think there is more to explore here so, what if we took things a step further, after all the AI is already available to simulate the fairer sex extremely accurately and they could easily be rolled out in the next patch, with the german shepherds. OK, so it's yet another mouth to feed and that is only after you've earned her trust, which may take quite some time, time and a whole lot of presents..... But once you've got her trained up she'll earn her beans :thumbsup: there'll be no more untidy tent inventories or empty water bottles for you, she'll restock your backpack and bring a welcome end to half filled mags. After a while she'll be able to patch up your wounds, give blood and have cooked food waiting for you when you get back after a busy day's banditry or from that sad, long walk home from the coast. She'll provide a soft body to warm yourself against on those cold nights, calming and peacable companionship (at least for 3 weeks out of every 4) and, well, someone's got to clean up after the dog. If you can't be bothered with the whole training em up thing you could save time and effort by having well timed affairs with other players women. Perhaps a clan-mate is taking his a bit for granted lately, not remembering the 14 hours of gameplay it took to get her skilled up for vehicle repairs, maybe you hold back at camp from time to time to give her not just sardines and a swig from the water bottle, oh no, it's frank n beans with mountain f*ckin doo baby! until one day you all come back from a helicopter hunt and she has mysteriously switched tents. :blush: Good luck explaining that one. EDIT: you sir get my beans, but not in that way

For those of you interested in functions of a bodily nature..... http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/90438-pooing-weeing-wiping-fleeing/page__hl__pooing http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/39782-bowel-evacuation/page__hl__pooing http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/7624-consolidated-gui-poo-mod-with-pic/page__view__findpost__p__81141__hl__pooing http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/2725-merged-everything-poop-and-pee/page__view__findpost__p__45598__hl__pooing