Hello fellow survivors :)

[Kraorr 6]

Heyas, I been playing for almost 2 weeks now, still getting used to DayZ but I feel a bit more comfortable now.

My ingame name is HeronGuard (reference to an old game called Myth made by Bungie before Microsoft bought them^^)

I am now looking for people that are close to my mindset, as it has been extremely tedious - in fact impossible - to make contact with anyone ingame through ptt. People either freak out and run away or start trying to find out where I am from the direction of the voice to just gun me down. I'll just give you my type of game logic I am having.

1) I'm a terrible target to shoot at, as there is nothing rare to loot on me. Given where you might find me, you are much likely to have "better" things already on you. Besides, seeing a hatchet/crossbow while he does not see you won't be much of a threat. Left mouse button is the most simple solution. Do as you wish, whatever the endgoal of pressing it, or simply don't and observe me for a bit, or approach me and give clear signs and ingame ways to convince me you are friendly. I won't flee but keep ways to avoid upclose contact with you if possible. It takes radical means to kill people. It also does to gain people's trust.

2) I won't shoot others and rather help; need blood? I never carry bloodbags, but I can provide you cooked meat and hunt animals in the surroundings until you're back on foot. Looking for something in particular? Since I scour the places a lot I do tend to remember where you could find what you're looking for if I saw them. I could go and help you, or if you rather go alone/only with your mates, I will just give you the directions.

I won't lie to you as I don't see the point and even warn you if spotted or suspected hostile activity were near the area.

3) You/a buddy needs morphine? I might have one or two at best, if not, none ever. In either case, even if I have only one morphine shot, I'll give it to you. I've gotten used to crawl for hours when I'm unlucky and get mike tison'ed by a zed. Why? By moving slowly I actually found out that it helps me a lot to memorize the areas a lot faster, in details. Anything of slight interest for the modest wandering scavenger, outsider looking for water sources, likeliness of animals to hunt in given areas, I get to crank those in my head better. The crawling struggles simply ended up being the most efficient way for me to learn the map ^^

But hey. That doesn't mean you can shoot me in the leg after I give you my only morphine for you or your buddy :3

4) Things I will not tell: spotted military grade weaponry under any form. I do not want to help people who wish to gear up in the aims of being able to use such weapons, as they are clearly designed to gun down other players in a much more efficient manner. They are what KoS players wish to use more than any other type of weapon. I will however, should you wish to go to a designated area that will spawn these types of weapons, tell you if I saw/suspect player activity in the area you are wishing to go to. That's as far as I'll help on that department.

5) If I find tents/vehicles that have military weapons inside it, I will destroy it, or dish out the gear that I consider ill-purposed and save state it. Not joking. The less warfare available, the safer my travels are.

6) If you are a bandit/survivor/camo/gullie: If you try to shoot me and I see you, I will retreat at all costs. If I am forced to shoot back, I will. If I am fortunate in retaliation and happen to get you unconscious, I will unarm you if possible before you go unconscious. Yes, I will have room in my backpack to do this. This should furthermore tell you how little there is to loot from me. "What are you gonna do about those weapons then, keep 'em for yourself?" That's on 7).

7) If I want to opt for optimal cautiousness, I might even try to take out a zed nearby, transfer your weaponry to its body and I will hide the zed's body. It is possible that I use other kinds of tricks to make sure that you cannot be hazardous to my health once you wake up. I will not kill you however - if you are a survivor/camo/gullie, that is. If you are a bandit, you'll get what you give: death. I wish to keep my heroskin as it benefits my explorer style, running faster, so the only person I *might* kill is just the bandit that opened fire on me. I'm friendly but there is a line to draw.

"But not all bandits are what they seem they are!" Idd it is true, KoS policy from better safe than sorry, shoot first ask questions later is, in a sense, an understandable way of thinking in DayZ. However once you have a bandit skin from this logic, you are forcing people to apply that rule onto you. I will not shoot you unless you drop your weapon, walk away from it and look at an opposite direction than onto me and your weapon. It is my only possible way to interact with you if you really intend no harm to me. If I see you doing a switch weapon motion and/or start running, you're might end up with a few primitive consumables called arrows in your body. You can giggle if you want, but it's actually a good weapon to knock people unconscious in but one hit and I got used to shooting the crossbow since I begun to play, it's been almost the only weapon I have been using since I started playing this game ^^

I think that sums up my behavior in game. Remember, a dead body gives you loot for sure. A dead body also does not drag you to cover and patch you up while you are unconscious and defenseless. Just saying...

In a nutshell, I'm starting to do what a friendly would do with some common sense of keeping cautiousness a priority, without systematically using the left mouse button.

I am fluent in both french, english and live in EU. If some peeps want to tag along with a player like this, send me a pm. I wouldn't mind joining a private server, hive-connected or not as well. Heck, maybe even join some clan that have similar wishes to play the game like I do ^^

[The_Dude (DayZ) 27]

Look me up! The_Dude.

I'd be happy to travel with a fellow survivor and watch each other's back.

[Kraorr 6]

The Dude!? "Here I was, enjoying my 2nd amendment rights... And you people had to freak out on me."

Teehee you use quote samples from him (postal games)? If you don't you should, you can use them for many occasions in the game... I've been actually dreaming to see that happen on a dayz stream, two guys playing, one with The Dude's quotes, the other Duke Nukem.... xD

I'll pm you, just gonna try to see how longer I'm staying alive at the moment ^^ I'm trying to make it my last loner game, some sort of end of noobness pilgrimmage ^^

I am from EU however, be warned that it is likely that either you or me will have some delays on games we would join together, resulting in some sad tales to tell.

Either way I'll contact you soon, then. If you are confused about "The Dude quotes", then listen to this

You can find the ones from the very first Postal, though it was earlier in the 90's where some degrees of violence were a lot more taboo and the censorship less present. But the first postal was beyond borderline creepy :o

Edited September 2, 2012 by Kraorr

[The_Dude (DayZ) 27]

The Dude!? "Here I was, enjoying my 2nd amendment rights... And you people had to freak out on me."

Teehee you use quote samples from him (postal games)? If you don't you should, you can use them for many occasions in the game... I've been actually dreaming to see that happen on a dayz stream, two guys playing, one with The Dude's quotes, the other Duke Nukem.... xD

I'll pm you, just gonna try to see how longer I'm staying alive at the moment ^^ I'm trying to make it my last loner game, some sort of end of noobness pilgrimmage ^^

I am from EU however, be warned that it is likely that either you or me will have some delays on games we would join together, resulting in some sad tales to tell.

Either way I'll contact you soon, then. If you are confused about "The Dude quotes", then listen to this

You can find the ones from the very first Postal, though it was earlier in the 90's where some degrees of violence were a lot more taboo and the censorship less present. But the first postal was beyond borderline creepy :o

"This aggression will not stand, man!"

-The Dude abides.

[herrjon 478]

Good for you man. I try my best to help other people out, but it's tough without some form of out of game arrangement. I do however carry at least 2 blood bags, 2 epi-pens, 5 bandages, 3 painkillers, and 4 morphine (I'm a broken leg paranoid), with more stashed back at my camp. Sure it doesn't leave me much room for food, water, or ammo, but most of my paths run me through a market every kilometer or so, and I don't fire my guns much. I do carry military guns, but I find them better if I'm in a sticky situation with some bandits, and I can play guardian angel from some newbie running through Cherno using my sniper rifle.

I'd love to play with you, but I can't play outside US without god awful ping.

Edited September 3, 2012 by HerrJon

[Kraorr 6]

Good for you man. I try my best to help other people out, but it's tough without some form of out of game arrangement. I do however carry at least 2 blood bags, 2 epi-pens, 5 bandages, 3 painkillers, and 4 morphine (I'm a broken leg paranoid), with more stashed back at my camp. Sure it doesn't leave me much room for food, water, or ammo, but most of my paths run me through a market every kilometer or so, and I don't fire my guns much. I do carry military guns, but I find them better if I'm in a sticky situation with some bandits, and I can play guardian angel from some newbie running through Cherno using my sniper rifle.

I'd love to play with you, but I can't play outside US without god awful ping.

Hehe, 3 proposals to chill around with U.S players x) I guess if you'd all agree that we find a way to hook up on some voicechat app (I avoid skype but if not possible for the others I'll just do it) Since I'd be the only one from EU I'll just give it a try on U.S servers and we'll see how it goes, if I'm lucky hitting some server from the Eastern parts I'll prolly have around 80+, 120 at most I think.

Having a much better weapon given your mentality makes sense; mine is more about giving nothing that goes out of the ordinary in case I die, so that the loot hungry killer finds out he just wasted bullets and might have given away his position while at it :3 "Die and give little to no reward to your killer" As for those who won't investigate my body to take no further risks, or the kos for the lulz guy, it's fine either way: I won't have anything precious to hope to get back and attempt making an item recovery for my dead body ^^

Even though I say this I try taking minimal risks, resulting in finding morphine much later on, while bloodbags and epi's... well, let's just say there's something called artefacts to prevent me from even thinking of doing it. I wouldn't want my dead body to provide blood bags, whatever the reasons of my death, that item is already too efficient in my eyes!

[herrjon 478]

Hehe, 3 proposals to chill around with U.S players x) I guess if you'd all agree that we find a way to hook up on some voicechat app (I avoid skype but if not possible for the others I'll just do it) Since I'd be the only one from EU I'll just give it a try on U.S servers and we'll see how it goes, if I'm lucky hitting some server from the Eastern parts I'll prolly have around 80+, 120 at most I think.

Having a much better weapon given your mentality makes sense; mine is more about giving nothing that goes out of the ordinary in case I die, so that the loot hungry killer finds out he just wasted bullets and might have given away his position while at it :3 "Die and give little to no reward to your killer" As for those who won't investigate my body to take no further risks, or the kos for the lulz guy, it's fine either way: I won't have anything precious to hope to get back and attempt making an item recovery for my dead body ^^

Even though I say this I try taking minimal risks, resulting in finding morphine much later on, while bloodbags and epi's... well, let's just say there's something called artefacts to prevent me from even thinking of doing it. I wouldn't want my dead body to provide blood bags, whatever the reasons of my death, that item is already too efficient in my eyes!

I wouldn't worry too much about it, my play time is pretty erratic, I'm solo with casual team ups whenever we happen to both be on.

The thing about not carrying around anything useful is, most people will kill you in fear on losing their stuff, even if all you have is a makarov or a hachet. There are even some that firmly believe an unarmed player is a threat. Better to get good gear and learn to play safer and smarter.

As a solo, blood bags and epi-pens aren't nessisary to carry around, just make sure to have morphine, bandage and maybe painkillers. Save that room for cooked meat, as that's the best way to heal up as a solo. I only carry the meds I mentioned because I'm an aspiring medic and want to be able to give a pair of wounded guys the full treatment. For the artifacts, try filling the screen with it, then pressing left shift and '-' on the numpad, then just type 'flush' with no quotes. It usually works. I know for sure the NW hospital in cherno isn't blocked by artifacts either. That's usually the one I stop up on anyways, as it's the easiest to acess.