Bandits, Bandits, Bandits; everyone gets a Bandit!

[pacific_coast 632]

noun

 

noun: bandit; plural noun: bandits; plural noun: banditti

 

1.

a robber or outlaw belonging to a gang and typically operating in an isolated or lawless area.

 

"the bandit produced a weapon and demanded money"

 

synonyms:

robber, thief, outlaw, gunman, crook, mugger, gangster, raider, freebooter, hijacker, looter, marauder, bandito;

 

...

 

you didn't get robbed.

 

you didn't get restrained.

 

you didn't walk away.

 

 

YOU WERE KILLED.

ON SIGHT.

 

The person who killed you was not a "Bandit".

 

also, a person, or a group of people in the distance and maybe armed... aren't bandits either.

 

you didn't get robbed.

 

you didn't get restrained.

 

you walked away.

 

they were other players. this game is full of them.

if they didn't rob you, they aren't a bandit and you aren't a hero, either.

 

fellow gamers, please don't let this slang noobery pass into the dayz lexicon.

 

sincerly giving zero fucks,

pacific coast

 

[pasilius 3]

I actually agree with you. There used to be a lot of bandits in DayZ, meaning those fellas who liked to rob people and maybe even poison someone every once in a while.
Now there's just people shooting anything that moves.

Edited March 16, 2014 by Zerthactu

[omgwtfbbq (DayZ) 1069]

See my old thread from nearly two years ago. Not much has changed: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/33746-controversial-topic-banditry-is-dead/

 

This thread is all shitted up now because the links went dead and what not. Lack of capitalization is because me two years ago felt that wasn't important.

Edited March 16, 2014 by omgwtfbbq

[Smartsham 21]

See my old thread from nearly two years ago. Not much has changed: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/33746-controversial-topic-banditry-is-dead/

 

This thread is all shitted up now because the links went dead and what not. Lack of capitalization is because me two years ago felt that wasn't important.

Funny how the first comment on your thread points to whats happening now, that "It only got worse."

[Sistinas1973 50]

You left out the part of the definition which classifies a bandit as a murderer as well. Imo, the word bandit should be removed from dayz and replaced with robber, as they are more inclined to let you live. A murderer needs no excuse.

[lipemr 160]

there's no bandits nor heros in this game, there's no good or bad, there's just people, and the huge majority of them are douchebags.

 

just that.

[Martmital 436]

 

sincerly giving zero fucks,

pacific coast

 

 

Yet giving enough to start a thread over the issue!

[daisho 74]

On the other hand, meanings of words (can) change over time.

 

Like, the word "nice" did mean "foolish" or "silly" in the middle ages, while the word "gay" refered to someone being joyful and light-hearted and only developed the way people use it nowadays hundreds of years later.

 

So I'm pretty sure people will adapt the word "bandit" for whoever kills them on a server, no matter if they robbed them or not and there's noting we can do about it.

Edited March 16, 2014 by daisho

[minime1000 78]

Everyone knows what you mean when you say bandit so it doesn't matter.

[ninjaontour 123]

Those of us who have the intelligence to make the distinction between the two feel your frustration.

 

"Stand and deliver, your money beans, or your life"