Server hopping and cheat quitting

[manseman 0]

The possibility of just hitting a key to instantly disappear from any kind of threat in this game is kind of like being served a gourmet meal with a big steamy turd on top. It's way worse than any bug that makes you die or lose gear or whatever. It takes a way the core of the game, play to survive, and turns it into log out to survive. No penalty whatsoever.

Why not simply make it so that you need to remain stationary for, say, 30 seconds before your character will actually disappear from a server that you log off of? If disconnected prior to this, the character will remain in the game with the player having no control until the time period has expired. Of course this will make people die more often when their connection drops, but hey, tough shit. It'll teach you keep your head down all the time. And it's still infinitely better than the current broken state this game is in...

[epeenoire 82]

Your character already remains 5 seconds after leaving the server, afaik. Right about now, they can't make it longer due to some technical issues but I think they will increase the time or do something similar in the near future.

[Ejaculacid 19]

Server ghosting will never stop until we're all on one persistent shard like EVE online.

[norreka 45]

Some servers at least do something about combat logging

[Legacy (DayZ) 1091]

Duplicate and common thread.

Locked

Rocket is already trying this, and it was in a previous patch. It's being worked on.