Newbie guide - fast way to learn to play DayZ

[frosti 2165]

No walls of text, just 7 min long movie that will explain basics:

DayZ Chernorus map with loot locations:

http://dayzdb.com/map

Additional guide movie on how to get advenced gear:

Do to high population of cheaters and hackers on non-whitelisted servers I suggest to enlist and play on some whitelist servers like those for exemple:

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/98174-uk10-zombieworldeu-chernarus-1-100-slot-whitelist-applications-discussions-9943-hacker-free-looking-for-new-players-apply-now/

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/120731-uk10-zombieworldeu-chernarus-2-40-slot-new-weapons-vehicles-whitelist-private-hive-apply-now-for-a-great-server-free-teamspeak/

[frosti 2165]

I thought I'll add a map that shows potential danger zones.

[beatSTV 631]

very helpful good post

[b683960 3]

Additional guide movie on how to get advenced gear:

So admins on official dayz-servers misuse their "power" to get all the finest gear?

[frosti 2165]

Well in that movie was showed that admins did rollback few times when their/their friend's items were stolen from camping tents, so it was not such a big deal like plain item spawning (with is impossible to do for admins on official servers from what I know).

But, it is generally known that admins of servers of mmorpg (grinding/farming/collectin items) games *always* help themselves or their friends using their admins power, it's the part of online gaming.

[herrjon 478]

I don't know if it was a rollback situation, if you look at the date, September 2012, that's when you still had to save tents and if you didn't, the tent would go back to the gear it had in it. So you could put down a tent, dump your entire loadout into the tent, save, pull it back out and not save, and then on server reset you'll have a copy of everything you had in it. I don't even think you can roll back a main-hive server, at least not as a lone admin. You have to rollback the hive, not just the server.

Question on your danger zone map though, what does the green mean? Is that supposed to be safe, or just less dangerous? Cause I wouldn't consider Grishino very safe. Also, the red area should cover more of Dobbry hill, since a lot of death happens on there.

Edited January 31, 2013 by (TMW)HerrJon

[AIRCAV 62]

Bullshit.

All admins cheat just as much as all players cheat. You're making a sweeping, unfounded statement.

Come over to Balotabuddies.net we've got a great crew of people, and several flavors of whitelist servers. Our admins rock.

AC

Edited January 31, 2013 by AIRCAV

[frosti 2165]

Question on your danger zone map though, what does the green mean? Is that supposed to be safe, or just less dangerous? Cause I wouldn't consider Grishino very safe. Also, the red area should cover more of Dobbry hill, since a lot of death happens on there.

Green is low possibility of encountering players (potential bandits) [but not as low as on non-colored area]. Also yeah, yesterday I painfully noticed that traffic on that hill is pretty high, I would say like Orange level.

[sobieski12 835]

Bullshit.

All admins cheat just as much as all players cheat. You're making a sweeping, unfounded statement.

Come over to Balotabuddies.net we've got a great crew of people, and several flavors of whitelist servers. Our admins rock.

AC

To blame other servers to be corrupt admins, and then to advertise your own server for having legit / fair admins.

* Why should I trust the server admins on your server?

There are various server of which have excellent admins and overall good maintenance.

* Finding a "Good active admin" is rare today, but it easily makes the game 10x better in catching those who cheat and script.