Why is relogging such an important part of the game?

[JensBond 0]

I havent even played DayZ for more than 24 hours atm. But 2 times now ive tricked death with relogging.

 

First time a guy came up behind me, hit me with a shovel. I was unconcious. My friend kept telling me IRL that i was dead and i should respawn, i had that uncounsious screen up for 2 hours before i gave up knowing i whouldent go back consious, i logged out.

 

Next day i logged back in, i was bleeding heavily, the screen was fuzzy and colorless. Ran around for 10 minutes when i found a shirt to make rags out of, i survived.

The screen was still fuzzy, i changed the game to Windowed mode and it stopped being fuzzy, now it was just black/white.

I relogged and now i had the color back.

 

Second time i alt tabbed and got killed by a zombie most likely, it said on my screen "you are dead".

I rage quitted.

Logged in 2 days later and found myself living with the same gear i died in.

 

So how come relogging/changing options can help me in the game so much?

Same thing with server swapping, i can walk into a house and then just change servers to gain a large ammount of food. Isint it smart to add a 2 minute wiating period when changing servers alot?

[resin_ 97]

This issue is in the process of being resolved, read the last few patch's notes.

[JensBond 0]

This issue is in the process of being resolved, read the last few patch's notes.

ah okay.

 

But... now something even stranger happend. It said i lost connection to the server. I logged back in and my character is gone -.- I guess its forever gone eh?

 

edit: um okay, now my original charcater is back! =D whoah this game is bugged, i guess thats why its an alpha. I cant wiat for em to improve this game.

Edited January 10, 2014 by JensBond

[Korsbaek 1778]

Alpha trouble :D

 

Those are all just bugs because Alpha. I'm sure they're working on fixing most of them right now.

[Redwolf (DayZ) 125]

I find that as long as I stick to the same server, I never lose my character. If I do switch server a couple of times tho, bam, gone.

That is what currently prevents me from logging/jumping. And I'm actually quite glad it is that way. Untill a proper system is implemented, that is.

Without these bugs leading to character wipes, I know I probably could not have resisted doing the above.

[marsmars 155]

well yeah some people abuse server hopping, but right now I think stuff does not respawn automatically so sometimes a server is low on loot and you have no choice but to check other servers

[deebz1234 243]

Echo that, stick to the same server prefix.

 

like only play on CA 24 - vilayer.com, mpgs.com, gameservers.com, frag

or NJ 12, or UK 14, etc

 

those server names are all on the whitelist and you will never lose your character.

 

if you log in to a server by accident not on whitelist, and you notice your character is wiped, you can sometimes QUICKLY logout and re join a hive server and find your character in 1 piece..

[BadAsh (DayZ) 1513]

ah okay.

 

But... now something even stranger happend. It said i lost connection to the server. I logged back in and my character is gone -.- I guess its forever gone eh?

 

edit: um okay, now my original charcater is back! =D whoah this game is bugged, i guess thats why its an alpha. I cant wiat for em to improve this game.

I had a character with lots of gear once, then I switched server and suddenly I had respawned as a new character on the coast. I played some time with it, gathering a few items, then switched server and suddenly my previous character was back, and in his old position!