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  1. Seeing a target is a sufficient reason to shoot it. All potential extermination targets are potentially dangerous and also potential competitors for resources. That's more than enough reason to exterminate them the first chance you get.
  2. Careful! People can read what you write here! Your first part is just repeating the mistake of your last post, but this time explaining and admitting the mistake to everyone, apparently without realizing it. What you say is exactly what is meant by calling it a hidden tautology. You're also begging the question, since your claim "better DayZ players have more DayZ skill" contains the conclusion "DayZ skill exists." Since, after all, DayZ skill would have to exist for better players to be better because they have more of it. But you weren't setting out to prove that better players have more DayZ skill, as opposed to some other quality which makes them better, were you? You were setting out to "prove" that DayZ skill exists. What you need to do is quantify DayZ skill and explain what it is. As it stands, your "better players have more skill" argument could be overcome in a number of ways. Someone could just say "no they don't" and defeat it that way, since the burden of proof is on the professor, so to speak. Another objection is "there are no such thing as better players in DayZ." Another objection is "there is such a thing as better players, but better players do not have more DayZ skill, they have some other quality which makes them better." Plausible qualities could be knowledge, or luck. Understand I don't mean any of this to disagree with the notion that people can be more or less skilled at playing DayZ. You invited people to "prove me wrong" and unfortunatly you what you posted was wrong, both times now. Nothing is worse than thinking you're right when other people know you're wrong, so consider this some friendly help. It takes practice and patience to think through what it means to actually prove something, and there's one standard for it, so if you screw it up, it's easy to tell.
  3. I can prove you wrong! "a player that is superior to another DayZ player" is just another way of writing "a player who possesses more skill than said [sic] inferior player" So, what you're saying is "a player who possesses more skill than another dayz player has more skill than the other player" A hidden tautology, not an argument for any position or fact. Doesn't speak at all to whether there is such a thing as "skill" in DayZ. It may be true that people can be more skilled than others at playing DayZ, but what you wrote doesn't support the idea.
  4. So you can look over walls.
  5. It should be extremely hard to survive a gunshot wound in dayz. "bandage + saline bag = 100%" is really really bad design. It might not be right to have it be "one hit and you're down," but you should succumb pretty quickly.
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    good idea to rid the coast of bambi hunters,

    This how it originally was. We set up shop on approaches to Balota, and had a steady diet of vermin for experimentation and extermination. We prefer they'd put it back that way, to be honest. We get a larger volume of successful exterminations with the new spawn regime, but it was more rewarding before. Much more experimentation was done prior to extermination. At Kamyshovo, with the spastic zig zaggers and punch spamming vermin, we often exterminate targets immediately, or even before making contact with them.
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    Should Cannibalism be in DayZ?

    It is not unlawful to promote civil disobedience. It is unlawful to threaten the president's life, that's about it. What are some things being censored today in America? For an example of Germany's outlawing freedom of speech, expression and conscience, i submit a racist holocaust denier named Fredrick Toben: (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/lawreports/joshuarozenberg/3175523/Tobens-arrest-fatally-flawed-says-lawyer.html) Make no mistake, freedom of speech counts most when people are the most wrong and what they believe the most objectionable. It is on this fringe- racism, holocaust denial, other sorts of hateful speech, that many otherwise civilized and morally developed countries fall short.
  8. It takes moral courage to do our work. "courage" and 'cowardice" don't ordinarily apply to video games, you know. But in this case, moral courage does. The life we save could be yours.
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    What is the point of guns?

    To kill things from a distance.
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    Should Cannibalism be in DayZ?

    Which topics can you be punished by the government for speaking on, Soulfirez? Yes, a few examples would go a long way to establishing you're actually talking about something real.
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    Should Cannibalism be in DayZ?

    How can the right to freedom of speech be abused? And what on earth are you talking about with the rest of that mess?
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    Should Cannibalism be in DayZ?

    Countries that don't protect freedom of speech, conscience, and expression are not as morally developed as countries that do. Much of the economically developed world still has a way to go.
  13. We all wear press vests as well, that's what makes us look distinctive. It is the height of honesty for me not to tell anyone what servers we are on and when. You have no business knowing, meta-gaming, etc. That information is to be kept from wreckers, thugs, etc.
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    Do you support "Killing on sight"?

    I don't just 'support' it, I think it is a categorical imperative.
  15. Germans... what could go wrong?
  16. We wear distinctive uniforms already. If we could wear special insignia, we would wear it with honor, and with great pride.
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    Do you combat log?

    I heard its pretty easy if you have a keyboard that records macros to make a combat log one.
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    Combat Logging -,-

    Wrong thread. Combat logging is what is meant when people say "discretion is the better part of valor."
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    Should Cannibalism be in DayZ?

    The people have spoken, and what they've said is true. Cannibalism should be implemented before hunting/foraging.
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    Time and Place for everything ( KOS)

    The time to "KOS" is when you see a target, the "place" is wherever you see it.
  21. An sks is not in any way shape or form any kind of "marksmans rifle" ...
  22. The rather limited and localized area in which players now spawn lead to a big day for the Medical Division. 55 exterminations. This was the scene when the server restarted, and a lot is left out:
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    Farming your own blood.

    Saline bags fix the screen discoloration that comes from losing... blood. Saline bags restore your... blood. Saline bags do not give you the status effect... 'healthy.' Saline bags do not give you... 'health.'
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