Loot system should be adjusted (less dependency on server start)

[alleycat 135]

There is something wrong with the loot system. I heard the loot only spawns on server start? If that is true, that is hopefully getting fixed.

 

 

Because check this post from someone in the "show your gear" topic:

 

 

This is what I got on one hour playing in Balota air strip. and I got my backpack almost full as you can see :) I got a 30 round mag to the M4A1 with 14 bullets as well as the one with 30 :)

 

 

 

 

I was throrough as hell when I looted, and I was actually going through 2 remote towns (zelenogorsk and some other town) which are not near the coast. I searched about 20 buildings, and I really looked for stuff, I crawled under beds and precisely scanned all shelves for tiny items that others might overlook. What I got was:

 

3 mosin rifles

a box of 20x mosin bullets

10 pairs of jeans

3 cans of soda

5 rotten fruits

1 can of tuna

1 wrench

 

and some other low end gear (basic clothing)

 

Took me about 2.5h to loot that.

 

 

Why does that guy up there (and many others in the topic) have tricked out m4 with many attachments, huge backpacks, food that is not rotten from one hour of balota looting (I covered a much larger area and amount of buildings.

 

 

I dont mind loot being rare, and I actually love the system of looting hiding behind furniture but favoring people who caught a server start over people who dont care about when the server starts is not fair.

 

 

And if you get that gear from 1 hour of only looting the airstrip it obviosuly means there was server hopping involved.

Edited December 17, 2013 by alleycat

[r4z0r49 4761]

That is correct for now during this mass test loot only re-spawns when the servers starts. Later in the development this will change.

[Scizoo (DayZ) 31]

Rocket:

Loot Distribution

* Loot not spawning in every building

* Loot not well balanced

Balancing the whole world is very difficult. We also plan to centralize distribution of key items so there will be a global economy. For now, you have the basics and while this is not ideal it is enough for testing. We look forward to our exciting features with this!

 

 

Just sit back and relax :) 

 

Edited December 17, 2013 by Scizoo

[mercules 1290]

3 Mosin Rifles and ammo for them is "low end gear" are you insane? 


As it is gear is not respawning at this time because they are figuring out how to do it correctly so that it doesn't cause sever lag or lead to circle farming a small area. When it is done they will put it into the game. Early Release ALPHA.

[alleycat 135]

That is correct for now during this mass test loot only re-spawns when the servers starts. Later in the development this will change.

 

Will this get fixed some time soon? It seems like a rather large issue because I would ather not server hop or wait for a reboot to find some gear. And players who are aware of it can basically run their own night clubs with whores horses, booze all paid by the 500 million m4 rifles per square kilometer on the land they claim*, while the unwashed jeans wearing savages kill each other over the last rotten orange in chernarus.

 

*numbers slightly exaggerated

Edited December 17, 2013 by alleycat

[alleycat 135]

 

3 Mosin Rifles and ammo for them is "low end gear" are you insane? 

As it is gear is not respawning at this time because they are figuring out how to do it correctly so that it doesn't cause sever lag or lead to circle farming a small area. When it is done they will put it into the game. Early Release ALPHA.

 

Well once you have one mosin rifle, the other 2 you find are not much of use.

 

 

About loot spawning. How about this:

(I actually coded that myself in an attempt to code my own dayz clone)

 

1. Spawn loot at server start

2. After 2 hours, remove all loot, then do a new loot respawn across the map.

 

This way the server does not stack loot and it only has to do that spawn pass once every 2 hours.

 

I did that on a small dedicated server on takistan with all enterable buildings and all building pos were checked. The whole process was complete in 20 seconds.

 

(I dont mean to be condescending by proposing to the dayz team how to spawn loot, it is just a suggestion that worked for me on a local server and from my limited knowledge the hit was not too hard for the server.)

[mercules 1290]

Well once you have one mosin rifle, the other 2 you find are not much of use.

 

 

About loot spawning. How about this:

(I actually coded that myself in an attempt to code my own dayz clone)

 

1. Spawn loot at server start

2. After 2 hours, remove all loot, then do a new loot respawn across the map.

 

This way the server does not stack loot and it only has to do that spawn pass once every 2 hours.

 

I did that on a small dedicated server on takistan with all enterable buildings and all building pos were checked. The whole process was complete in 20 seconds.

 

(I dont mean to be condescending by proposing to the dayz team how to spawn loot, it is just a suggestion that worked for me on a local server and from my limited knowledge the hit was not too hard for the server.)

 

Which is basically the same as 4 hour server restarts only twice as often. You will still have people who have the timing down and race around and scoop up items after a "Loot Reset" only now they have twice as much. 

[alleycat 135]

Well teh advantage of a running loot respawn is that you dont have to reboot and players do not need to reconnect.

[mercules 1290]

Well teh advantage of a running loot respawn is that you dont have to reboot and players do not need to reconnect.

They need to reboot anyway to help with server load and eliminate issues that would crop up from constant running. So they just left the loot/zombies to spawn on restart since they are doing it frequently anyway. 

[5P4RK4 (DayZ) 50]

I didn't have any issues finding loot at all. 

 

Get off the coast, the inland is bountiful. You can tell what buildings have been looted by open doors usually, and even in those there was gear (you can only carry so much). Once you figure out what buildings have high spawn rates, server restarts should really not matter that much. The gear cap is extremely low right now, there is very little benefit to farming or getting a server restart timed perfectly. Just go to new places, there is gear literally everywhere.