Someone Get Rocket to Read This Thread!

[mikesrevenge 0]

Rocket! I love this mod you are working on. I love it so much I hate it! While I'm pretty sure I have a general idea of where you are going with it, there's a few things you need to be aware of. Here are some suggestions I hope you consider.

Updates:

I hope this piece of pseudo code explains it:

if clientversion notequalto serverversion then kick message: "WRONG VERSION"

This will cut out a lot of troubleshooting and angry players trying to get on a good server. It will also prevent things like BEING SPAWNING INTO THE WASTELAND WITH AN 8 DAY OLD CHAR AND GETTING SHOT.

Game Difficulty During Alpha/Beta

Ok, I know this game is supposed to be difficult, and that is one of the reasons I like it. What is putting me off is the fact that I've lost everything several times due to server glitches or dying from in-game glitches. Please for the love of the community throw us a bone. Make loot a tad easier to get, make us spawn with more items, give us something so when we lose our stuff from updates or glitches it won't be as hard to bounce back from. This is just during alpha and maybe beta, so what's the difference? You'll have a much happier fan base.

Nighttime:

While I understand the ambiance and the scared helpless feeling of being in the dark in a situation like this. The game in its current state is not really playable at night unless you have NVs. Even in remote parts of the world on a moonless night you can still see a few feet or more infront of you. Enough to get around anyway. Your eyes adjust, the stars themselves give you enough light to see. Right now you can't see ANYTHING without a flashlight. Even with the flashlight you get a small circle of vision. The idea is completely awesome however the implementation is completely wrong.

Bandits:

This is a zombie survival game, and you have people playing not to kill zombies, but to kill players. The more there are, the more they will ruin the game. I've seen griefers ruin games. Nerf bandits, check characters. If they are killing more players then zombies on average then change their model, make it harder for these people to continue. As is now Cherno and Elektro most of the time are nothing but new players spawning in getting killed by people who have no intention of killing zombies.

[Techercizer 82]

Oh, so instead of reading all the OTHER threads about these topics, rocket needs to come read YOUR thread specifically, because it's so much better than everyone else's?

The sense of entitlement in this title is killing me. Learn some humility and tact.

[imagelesskjc 35]

Nighttime:

While I understand the ambiance and the scared helpless feeling of being in the dark in a situation like this. The game in it's current state is not really playable at night unless you have NVs. Even in remote parts of the world on a moonless night you can still see a few feet or more infront of you. Enough to get around anyway. Your eyes adjust' date=' the stars themselves give you enough light to see. Right now you can't see ANYTHING without a flashlight. Even with the flashlight you get a small circle of vision. The idea is completely awesome however the implementation is completely wrong.

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Right... I can play this just fine at night, without either a flashlight or NVG's. Maybe its how people are playing the game, rather than the game itself?

[mikesrevenge 0]

Not paying any attention to ignorant comments. Go flame another thread...

These are suggestions, nothing more. If you don't agree that is fine. Don't answer for anyone but yourself.

[Gaidoon 19]

Not paying any attention to ignorant comments. Go flame another thread...

These are suggestions' date=' nothing more. If you don't agree that is fine. Don't answer for anyone but yourself.

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I agree completely others have no right to complain about your thread and judge you they should give constructive criticism or ignore the thread.

[imagelesskjc 35]

This is a privately owned forum, where all opinions (Unless completely derogatory from my experience) are allowed. You've got to take the flamers as well as the supporters. If you don't want to deal with them, I suggest creating your own forum.

Protip: If you can't handle skepticism, you're not going to make it very far on these forums.

[DryGulch 32]

I'm sure glad he came along and sorted all that out. That's it folks, wrap it all up; we're done here.

[duddbudda 33]

flamers as well as the supporters

so disagreement is flaming now?

[mikesrevenge 0]

I suggest creating your own.

Lmfao, google my name.

I didn't know suggestions could rustle so many jimmies... Reminds of Facepunch when it was young.

[imagelesskjc 35]

Lmfao' date=' google my name.

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Nice! Now if you want to have a "supportive" only thread, post it on your forums.

In the meantime, enjoy the criticism.

I didn't know suggestions could rustle so many jimmies...

My jimmies are unrustled, you're just the 50,000th person that has created a thread like this. I suggest using the search function and posting in the appropriate thread in the future.

[Insaniac (DayZ) 235]

Point 1: difficulty, we are testing the game so we should not have this alpha period made easier simply because it's not a finished game yet. If the games difficulty is a real issue later on Rocket will decide to do something about it.

Point 2: light sources/tools like flares and chem-lights spawn almost everywhere, they make you more noticeable which makes night time a more difficult and dangerous feat if you can't cope without needing a light source. However there are a large amount of players who can deal with the dark and use it to their advantage so I don't see this as an issue at all.

Point 3:Bandits are just a term given to people who for one reason or another kill other players, this can be because of mistrust that others may attack them or because they need their supplies to survive or simply because they don't care about other survivors livelihoods. In any case they are just players who make the choice to look out for themselves rather than help others and are a crucial part of the survival aspect that this game has.

The logging in to outdated servers is really a player issue, if you don't bother to read what version a server is at and what version of the game you are running then I personally have no sympathy for you at all.

[mikesrevenge 0]

The logging in to outdated servers is really a player issue' date=' if you don't bother to read what version a server is at and what version of the game you are running then I personally have no sympathy for you at all.

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All of your suggestions make valid points..... The server mismatch problem occurred on a server named 1.7 running 1.7.1.1. My jimmies became very rustled at that point.

It just ensures consistency that's all.