I refuse to exploit, Abort, or server hop to avoid death, obtain gear or kills. What about you?

[Max Railgrave 78]

I, a resident of Chernarus, pledge:

• To remember that my gear can be lost to a multitude of factors at any given moment.
  
• To never disconnect from a fight -- whether player or zombie.
  
• To never disconnect to remove danger, death, or zombie aggravation.
  
• [ONLY EXCEPTION] That I am only allowed to disconnect if a Hacker is posing extraordinary threat.
  
• To never disconnect specifically to replenish ammunition
  
• To never disconnect / server hop in order to "ghost" or get the drop on a player.
  
• To never disconnect / server hop in order to obtain items.
  
• To never exploit any glitch deliberately.
  
• To report all bugs, glitches and exploits through the appropriate forum channels.
  
• To never commit any act of hacking, cheating, or other actions condemned by the developers.
  
• To treat the developers of the game as human beings, who code this out of their own time.
  
• To abide by Rocket's rules.
  
• To face the consequences of my ingame actions, and the misfortunes of Chernarus, with dignity.
  

Signed,

Max Railgrave

Reply with "Signed" if you agree, and if you have what it takes to try and live up to this. These are ideals, though. We are human, and we can make mistakes. I've greyed out the less severe parts.

If you only agree with part of it, please copy and post which sections you dissent with.

Edited July 25, 2012 by Max Railgrave

[Fryseboks 30]

Alt+F4 doesn't even work for me, only brings up the command panel :(

[sixgun 5]

I also agree to this. To DC while in a fight is an act of cowardice. Finish the game, die or win. And take it like a man.

[Momiji 46]

I only Alt-F4 when i am being attacked by a hacker or a hacker is on the server.

[Max Railgrave 78]

I only Alt-F4 when i am being attacked by a hacker or a hacker is on the server.

That is an acceptable edge case. I am modifying the pledge.

[hkurban 31]

The only rules here I break is hopping on and off a bike to fix it, and while I won't DC to replenish ammo, I will swap mags before they are empty knowing full well that next time I log in to play they'll be topped off. Other than that, I abide by this.

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

The DC issue is being dealt with in the new update. It's going to start recording certain behaviour patterns and then start issuing warnings/bans. Yay!

[Tfortacos (DayZ) 41]

Everytime I die with great gear, I start at the shore and I find even greater gear... it's amazing.

[01da 218]

Honor in a multiplayer fps game?

[TGxGriff 5]

Signed

TGxGriff

[Max Railgrave 78]

Honor in a multiplayer fps game?

Yes. Honor in a game is keeping the game fair and playing it the way it was meant to be. Dishonor is to take actions of exploitative nature "because you can." Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

In the final version of Day Z, hopefully we will not need to take this pledge, as the game itself will negate the exploits (although being respectful to your fellow player is definitely a good thing).

But for now, we, the players, can consciously choose to do the right thing and not abuse the Abort command, among other things.

This thing was inspired by the Summoner's Code written for League of Legends.

Edited July 25, 2012 by Max Railgrave

[sixbarns 217]

I don't because I have more fun restarting than running around with overpowered gear.

[M O N S T E R 599]

The only rules here I break is hopping on and off a bike to fix it, and while I won't DC to replenish ammo, I will swap mags before they are empty knowing full well that next time I log in to play they'll be topped off. Other than that, I abide by this.

Did you just break the record for contradicting yourself in the quickest amount of time?

-MONSTER

[M O N S T E R 599]

Oh, and;

Signed sincerely,

-MONSTER

[Bluelightning14 0]

signed my good man!

~Bluelightning14

[hkurban 31]

Did you just break the record for contradicting yourself in the quickest amount of time?

-MONSTER

I don't just disconnect when I feel like it, but when I log out for the day, I usually have a few mags with 2 or 3 rounds left, and the next day they are full. No contradiction to be had.

[M O N S T E R 599]

I don't just disconnect when I feel like it, but when I log out for the day, I usually have a few mags with 2 or 3 rounds left, and the next day they are full. No contradiction to be had.

You're doing it knowingly while you say you don't do it on purpose.

This in itself is a contradiction.

-MONSTER

[Brudagon (DayZ) 64]

Too many loopholes, not signing my soul to the devil

[Barronism 88]

I'll do it for bugged zombies.

I was in a house earlier and died. I had roughly 1.5k blood left after a firefight and was looking for matches to make a fire. A zombie walked through the wall and made me bleed out. Just straight through the damn wall, I had killed 3 with an axe near the door and had heard him, but was waiting for him to walk through when BAM! got hit from behind and it resulted in my death.

So screw trying to play fair with zombies, they don't fight fair. So either will I.

However, I don't mind dying to players. I don't carry things I don't mind losing into pvp. So its ok.

Edited July 25, 2012 by Barronism

[hkurban 31]

The intent of my statement was to say I do not just log off when my magazines are nearly empty just to get them back up to full. Still, since I know about this bug, I'll swap mags before they are empty, and assuming I haven't died, the next time I log in they will probably be full again. But if rocket has fixed it and I find the mags still have 1 round left in them, oh well. Boo hoo. Call it a contradiction if you want, I won't tell you what you can and can't do. If my intent was lost or we're just seeing things from different angles I apologize.

[Max Railgrave 78]

Too many loopholes, not signing my soul to the devil

Please elaborate what these loopholes are.

[omgwtfbbq (DayZ) 1069]

pff....i don't alt+f4. I alt+tab. it crashes my game.

[Max Railgrave 78]

The intent of my statement was to say I do not just log off when my magazines are nearly empty just to get them back up to full. Still, since I know about this bug, I'll swap mags before they are empty, and assuming I haven't died, the next time I log in they will probably be full again. But if rocket has fixed it and I find the mags still have 1 round left in them, oh well. Boo hoo. Call it a contradiction if you want, I won't tell you what you can and can't do. If my intent was lost or we're just seeing things from different angles I apologize.

If you prepare in any way for the coming of a bug in order to maximize its beneficial effects upon you, you are technically abusing the bug. However, I consider ammunition to actually be the lightest offense of the pledge. In fact I may remove it, because it pales in comparison to how bad disconnecting from potential death is.

If I were a server admin and I had to choose between banning someone who disconnected to replenish ammo, or banning someone who disconnected to avoid a fight, I'd ban the latter person every time.

Edited July 25, 2012 by Max Railgrave

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

I don't because I have more fun restarting than running around with overpowered gear.

Unlucky because the new update has removed respawns.

[M O N S T E R 599]

Unlucky because the new update has removed respawns.

Once you're dead, you may never play this game again.

-Rocket