PlayZ | EU Epoch Panthera custom add-ons

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Hello!
I am an admin on the newly created PlayZ Epoch Panthera server.

Please note that the server is BRAND new. So if there aren't many players on... Yet.

The idea of the server began when the owner (Scrafty), me and the other current admins on the server were looking for a good Epoch server that wasn't flooded with child bandits and had a good community yet also had the desired add-ons we wanted.

We couldn't find a single one.

Scrafty is now running a server from Amsterdam (so it's perfect for UK players as well)

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You can find the server by simply using DayZ Commander by setting the mod to
"Epoch Panthera" and then typing PlayZ in the search bar or adding 109.236.85.30:2502 to your favourites.  

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Our current add-ons are:

No plot-pole needed (you are able to use them though).
No building decay.
Indestructible cinder and metal floors.
Build Snapping.
Non roaming AI missions. (You don't have to do them, but they have awesome loot. Also they are marked on the map.)
Tow/Lift. (This also means you can lift vehicles with helicopters if someone isn't inside, and towing tractors can tow EVERYTHING.)
Safe-zone for traders.
Backpack protection for in trader zones.
Custom weapons and custom vehicles at traders. (This also means chainsaws for a briefcase each! Or sell for 50oz gold.)
Build-A-Bike. (From a toolbox.)
Self blood bag at medical areas (like hospitals) and medical vehicles.
No trade animations (very useful.)
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AI Missions.

 

A very important note: Most AI missions spawn buildings along with them, like the Villa from the mayor mission or the log cabin in the civilian chopper mission. Do NOT build in them. During a restart they will be knocked down and won't be there anymore. The best way to tell if a finished mission building isn't part of the map is if it's in a random location like the middle of a forest with a tree growing out of the roof or on the side of a mountain at an impossible angle. If you do make the mistake of building in one, do not remove (or destroy if it's wooden) the items used to build in it. An admin will delete each piece of the construction and refund it to you.

There are several AI missions, all AI has been set to try and flank you once attacked. They will shoot you even if you do not shoot them first, although they will return to the mission cargo if you run off. They don't randomly roam around the map like some AI plugins.

Most AI carry a radio on them. These radios are useless to us but traders want them for the gold circuit wires inside them and the copper that makes them work. You can sell them to traders for 3 gold each. On the marijuana mission you can also sell the hemp the bandits grow to traders for 5 gold per bag. (You can also buy it from traders for the same price, so it almost acts as a currency.) 

The missions have been customized but not made over powered, on some missions the .50 Cal gunners do not spawn, on others up to 3 will spawn. Some guns have been added that you can ONLY get from trading with other players or doing the mission yourself and looting the dead AI, like the MK Sniper SD and other MK weapons.

Do remember though, all vehicles (cars, lorries, helicopters and planes) will be stolen back by the AI after restart if you got it from them. It's best to use it as a joy ride or a salvage opportunity. They can also be sold which is possible the best use.

Missions include:

Armed vehicle: Just an armed vehicle that spawns with a low amount of AI. The prize is the vehicle and no loot boxes spawn. You can sell the vehicle at bandit or hero traders. Not a bad mission to do while you're just starting out because if you fail, what do you lose? And if you don't... then you have some easy gear to use to get yourself to higher tier loot. Please remember though, this isn't just a random broken down car you found on the road. This belongs to someone. If the server restarts the AI will take back the car and the mission will be back on the map. It's best to sell it or at-least use it until it's nearly a server restart so you can salvage all the wheels and glass as a middle finger to the bandits who will sneak it back with them.

Bandit Base: Some bunkers spawn with AI bandits and a loot box full of weaponry. This mission is quite hard. It's best to do with a friend and to consistently change position after every couple shots. If you alert the bandits to where you're hiding they will just sit and wait for you to poke your head back over and blast your grey matter all over your band new SUV you just bought.

C130 Crash: An AC-130 spawns on the ground slightly damaged. Bandits patrol around it and the prize is the AC-130 which you can sell. Really expensive vehicle with in an intermediate mission? Yeah. But good luck taking off a 40 meter wingspan plane on top of a mountain. And if you're a God-like pilot and pull it off, you deserve the briefcase of gold the trader will give you for it.

Ikea Convoy: Two URALs and a Humvee spawn next to a huge loot crate. It's surrounded by about 15 Ikea workers in bright fluorescent jackets with very powerful snipers and close range STANAG guns like the M8 Compact. There are 2-3 .50 Cal gunners. It's hard to do this mission even from 400 meters with silenced snipers. The AI is advanced and they have impeccable aim. One shot knockout.Bollocks
This mission is VERY hard. But the loot is worth it. It may take up to 3 friends to do it, but sharing the loot 3 ways is still hard to carry back to base. Mortar, cinder, combo-locks (Not to be confused with "bollocks") and packs of plywood are some of the few useful base-building items to be found here.

Crash: The simplest and easiest mission. A helicopter crashes into the side of a hill. It's completely charred and smoking off in the distance and cannot be fixed. some bandit survivors of the crash stand around it. Take them all out and you can have whatever they had on them. You can do this mission very easily with a sniper but be warned, they will shoot back.

Disabled Civilian Chopper: An unarmed chopper is taken down by bandits and all survivors killed. The bandits are well armed with snipers and machine guns, and the chopper is flyable. The bandits will be hiding in a log house very near by and there will be a very low tier weapons crate outside. Since it isn't armed anyone of any status can sell it at AWOL's airfield. You may need a friend to do this mission, using just regular guns unless you're a lone wolf that happens to be a very good sniper.

Disabled Military Chopper: Like the civilian variant, this helicopter was taken down by bandits, but they managed to pick up military weapons from the members they took out inside the chopper. They are harder than the civilian mission AI but the helicopter is worth a quite a bit, since it's military and therefor armed. You will need to use a hero or bandit trader to sell it.

SUV Weapons Cache: A higher tier weapons crate will spawn with bandits paroling around an SUV. They will not drive the SUV and it's simply there for you to steal and sell. The weapons can be piled into the back of the SUV and sold along with the car at a trader plaza. The bandits will put up a quite a fight and may hide behind custom mission spawned buildings.

Mayor's Mansion: A huge villa will be built with the Mayor inside. His hitmen in black suits and sunglasses will hide inside along with Takistan soldiers. He carries a very rare golden revolver that can be sold or kept as a souvenir and there will be a high tier box of weapons inside the building. This mission is very hard. I advise doing it with several friends with silenced snipers. The loot is very expensive and worth selling and even the guns and radios on the AI can fetch a lot of gold. An excellent mission to do if you need money to buy a safe or a chainsaw.

Medical camp: Some crazy rouge doctors have formed an alliance and have stolen all of the medical equipment from local hospitals and plan to sell it for inflated prices. While making a camp to settle for the night half of them keep watch in case someone tries to invade them. Take out these snakes and help out others with the loot, or keep it all for yourself. Be warned though, the loot isn't really as high value as the doctors make it out to be and can be found on hospital floors where they dropped it or simply forgot to raid curtain hospitals, and they are heavily armed.

MV22: An MV22 (or better known as an Osprey) has been landed by bandits. While some go out to find fuel to fill the half tank others keep watch. Take them out and try and fly the tricky aircraft to AWOL's to sell for a hansom price. A great mission to do. The bandits are very clever but lacking in numbers and the aircraft sells for lots. But do you know how to fly and land one of these things? Because I know I don't. You're welcome to try though.

Ural: A huge Ural truck has crashed into a tree due to the bandit driver being drunk. While the rest go off to search nearby industrial buildings for spare wheels see if you can take out the few left to guard it. Sounds easy? They have high powered sniper rifles in the back of the Ural and have taken them out to use. Try and keep moving around so they're always in the dark and don't know where your shots are coming from. Best not to do this mission if you have good gear on you or a fancy vehicle filled with gold. They may have a medium value weapons cache but the Ural is almost worthless and they have very good vision and can plant several good shots into your chest.

Weapons cache: Like the SUV weapons cache, but without the SUV. The bandits have lower tier weapons and guard a box of only slightly better weapons. It's an easy mission for some easy loot. If an end-game player takes out this tiny fleet of bandits they may leave you a decent starter weapon for you. Not a bad mission but is it worth it? You decide.

Marijuana fields: The bandits are bored. No one wants to fight them. They have started cultivating weed but don't want to share it, they still have their weapons from previous missions but keep their snipers in their Ural and stupidly forget about using them. See if you and a mate can snipe them out of existence and then smoke until you forget about your own existence. Try and save some for the traders, they will pay well for such quality mountain grown marijuana.

 

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Other tweaks and features.

Hero traders have slightly cheaper vehicles compared to bandit traders. Some very high tier vehicles cannot even be bought by bandits meaning that bandits and heroes have to barter and trust each other in trading, which will be fun.

There will be admin events every now and then, we will spawn in a villa or a multistory industrial building on an airstrip all using the same skins with very low humanity and have some gold on each of us. After death we will not spawn back or teleport back.
After we are all dead and all bodies have been looted we will remove the building.

There are more skins spawning as packages in the loot tables.

All admins play as heroes. This means you can trust them to refund you items if something randomly explodes due to some Dorito guzzling rule breaker.

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Rules.

To be honest I don't think our rules are too harsh, but I would gladly take suggestions in adding/changing/removing some.

No blowing up cars in bases. If you manage to get in legitimately you may salvage them though or damage the glass/wheel so it becomes salvageable.

Do not block roads or build on roads. It's OK to place something that's removable, (no... not wooden walls.) like tank traps or ONE barbed wire kit but not entire bases or road blocks just for annoyance and no actual assistance to your survival.

Abusing ANY glitch or using an add-on in a way that's abusive, annoying, spammy, or in a way that isn't supposed to be used that gives you an unfair advantage will result in an instant ban.

Glitches or glitching on purpose will result in a severe warning. Repeating it or using a similar glitch to try and loop hole the away from the blame will result in a ban.

No excessive base camping. If you see someone off in the distance returning to their base it's OK to wait for them to open the door and then kill them. But if you wait outside a base for hours eating Doritos and drinking Mountain Dew (in and out of game) while you have pink children's cartoons playing on another screen to amuse you then you will be aggressively shouted at.
 

Apply Wheaton's Law to everything.

 

I would post all other more generic server rules but by the time you start playing mods of mods on custom maps on a military simulator you should know them by now.
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To be honest I can't think of anything else to put. The server is currently a brand new a blank page, see if you can scribble some unreadable lunatic ravings upon it so I can put something else.   :beans: Good luck!

Also sorry for that huge wall of text.
TLDR; Add 109.236.85.30:2502 to your favourites on DayZ Commander, I think you will like it here.

If you DO care about the several hours I wasted writing this and you did read it... congratulations, I honestly love you for doing that. I spent a lot more time on this than I did on my CV. Which isn't a good sign about my future at all.

Edited June 17, 2014 by SpaceOnyx

[nightwolf2350 0]

Looks good. I'll join the server and see how it is like.

[spacefrontier 2]

Looks good. I'll join the server and see how it is like.

Thanks man, it's good to have some players on.

[peyket 0]

Is there anything that loyal players might receive for joining? Like a car with a bit of gear in it and a key? or even just a car? I'm not asking for it, but is there?

 

Joining anyways :) Server looks great !

[spacefrontier 2]

Is there anything that loyal players might receive for joining? Like a car with a bit of gear in it and a key? or even just a car? I'm not asking for it, but is there?

 

Joining anyways :) Server looks great !

We try and make it fair for everyone, but if you lost that gear due to a hacker or someone base glitching we would refund it?

So not really, sorry. D:

I think (might be wrong) but if someone donates instead of getting loads of in-game money, guns, cars or building supplies you get to choose a building we can spawn in and make permanent on the map. You would be able to base in it (even if it was military E.G. a hanger) and it would spawn loot.

But otherwise we don't give out free loot since it's nice for everyone to be treated equally :D.

Anyway if you still choose to join I'll be on today, hope to see you in-game!

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Updated the post to add some new things.

Edited June 17, 2014 by SpaceOnyx

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Added a server post on the Epoch forums to attract more players :D