DayZ Discussion Thread.

Problem is, and go ask around the community, that half the players playing ZA1 and 2 have horrible lag. This is either server performance itself, or ISP related, I would'nt know. ZA3 and 4 are smooth as silk. Heck, it's even discussed on the Dayz South Africa Reddit page.

Then again, it's been a while since my group has played on Za1 or 2 so this could have been rectified by now, we pretty much only play Lingor now.
 
Lyt said:
Whenever you want to play Day z , join the webafrica ZA1 server. All the players are spread throughout the many servers , and there is never more than 15 players per server at peak times. Lets make a combined effort to populate 1-3 servers and screw the others. It is a lot more fun to play on a server with 40 people than 10.
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All the people who join pls remember to make sure you know the lyrics to Rebecca Black, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber etc songs! Ask Lyt for help, I think he knows it now :)
 
Maplassie said:
Problem is, and go ask around the community, that half the players playing ZA1 and 2 have horrible lag. This is either server performance itself, or ISP related, I would'nt know. ZA3 and 4 are smooth as silk. Heck, it's even discussed on the Dayz South Africa Reddit page.

Then again, it's been a while since my group has played on Za1 or 2 so this could have been rectified by now, we pretty much only play Lingor now.
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Maplassie it was fixed long long ago and ZA1 & 2 is now running the best of all the servers & the good thing is the server restarted cleanly about 2 weeks ago, so very few tents on it atm
 
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Purely out of interest, why exactly is there such a negative attitude around ZA5? I've noticed it a lot over the last few weeks and I find it pretty distressing, seeing as we had a server running for more than 2 months before any of the others came around. Just curious, because one or two people I've spoken with actually sound like they have a grudge against the server for some reason.
 
Graal said:
Purely out of interest, why exactly is there such a negative attitude around ZA5? I've noticed it a lot over the last few weeks and I find it pretty distressing, seeing as we had a server running for more than 2 months before any of the others came around. Just curious, because one or two people I've spoken with actually sound like they have a grudge against the server for some reason.
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I don't know what is going on there now, but I used to play on ZA5 Normal DayZ until maybe 2 months or so ago.
My issue was with some of the regulars (not all, some good guys there also) on there. The whole thing with them pretending to be friends or friendly and then repeatedly backstabbing ppl and all the dodgy things happening on there made me and a bunch of other ppl go look for a new home.

Lingor is fun to go on and play and hunt the regulars when I want a change of scenery. Still its not easy for new ppl when 3/4 of the server plays as 1 group (regulars) and basically controls the map. +10 to Matt thou
 
LimpNoodle said:
All the people who join pls remember to make sure you know the lyrics to Rebecca Black, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber etc songs! Ask Lyt for help, I think he knows it now :)
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I sang only Justin Bieber and Britney Spears :P. The other guy sang rebecca black. And you guys robbed us!!!!!
 
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LimpNoodle said:
I don't know what is going on there now, but I used to play on ZA5 Normal DayZ until maybe 2 months or so ago.
My issue was with some of the regulars (not all, some good guys there also) on there. The whole thing with them pretending to be friends or friendly and then repeatedly backstabbing ppl and all the dodgy things happening on there made me and a bunch of other ppl go look for a new home.

Lingor is fun to go on and play and hunt the regulars when I want a change of scenery. Still its not easy for new ppl when 3/4 of the server plays as 1 group (regulars) and basically controls the map. +10 to Matt thou
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Thanks for the feedback! It's really appreciated. I don't have any means to play the game myself, so I'm not often up to date with what's going on in the servers, but I really want to promote a fun and fair playground for all players.

I'm a bit swamped with university work at the moment, but I'm going to try and see if I can make time to make amendments to the way the server is run and the state it is in. I want to see if I can't set up a regular server restart schedule again as well as have a look at the spawns on the server. I don't know how everyone feels about it, but I think the current three helicopter spawns are way too much for a map that is only 80 square kilos, as it grants way too much power to whoever is holding it, especially seeing as having a helicopter makes it really easy to go find the others. It becomes an issue of whoever has the helicopters controls the map and the rest of the people just have to hope they don't get spotted.

If anyone has some more feedback, or has a bit more sensitive feedback that you don't really want to express in public, feel free to PM me. I really do appreciate your input. Without a PC to play the game on, I'm pretty much helping to run the server for you guys, so I don't draw any benefit from it other than knowing you guys are having a fun time. ;)
 
So many local DayZ servers atm. Really do sux with the number of players we have. People are just spread to thin and the stupid sniper campers with their AS50 TWS's in the cities are not helping the community one bit.

What we actually need I think is ISP's to drop servers and have @ most 1 server each and no Regular crap ones either.
Or one proper private hive server for all the legit players to gather and play on. Something like the Byrgesen Gaming Community.

Standalone is still months away :(
 
Yeah, in the beginning ZA1 and ZA3 had 25-30 players on it at all times about, now with all the servers, people spread out too much.

I still stand with my point though. Remove the ability to store ANY sniper rifles in tents and vehicles, a small change like this would go a very very long way in the long run.

Also I see some people mentioned a new script that detects TWS and other illegal guns. If this works, it would be awesome.
 
We removed all the L85s from Lingor a few days back, because it was getting a bit out of hand. Anyone running with an L85 pretty much dominated the server at night.
 
@Maplassie Yes dude, I wish the isp's/admins could work together and sort something out. As it stands now things are starting to look sad and people are not really experiencing DayZ as it should be. I agree on the tents etc comment and if scripts can keep our servers clean from TWS's it would be great!

@Graal That is pretty cool, wd. Who are you on NAG btw? I still prefer playing on other Normal DayZ servers thou.
 
waiting for WarZ and DayZ standalone until i start again... tired of playing with and being picked off by hackers and dupers...

I mean at frag lan this last weekend i met a guy who talked to me about dayz and how I mustn't join a specific server because they will kill me. The reason given after i asked him why was like all the other dbag clowns playing DayZ:
"Because we can".
He told me of a story of a guy who apparently killed him, and then they hunted him down as a group (even though he plainly said it wasnt due to revenge because the player killed him when he called freindly the first time), cornered him in a field and then forced him to drop his kit or be killed. He then went on and said they told him they would not kill him if he sang a justin bieber song over voice chat and only after i started calling him and his bunch of tools a few choice names did he say if he sang he would have been given a GPS.

now correct me if im wrong, but the GPS is CRAZY hard to find... and now they are giving them out to random players if they sing or do some other wildly immature act? Im sorry but that is just plain wrong for 2 reasons:
1) being its a GPS... more than likely duped.
2) besides the fact that you as a player have stooped to a level that surpasses douchebaggery, how freaking immature? My 8 year old sister has more integrity as a human being and she is the definition of a hellspawn on most days.

I asked if he and his group of misfits dupe items. He said they store stuff in tents and when they take stuff out it all just comes back after a server restart, therefore its not his or his team mates fault, they merely capitalize on server error.
While yes its server error, they are clearly duping and have no problem duping GPSes, AS50s and L85s :/

Im sorry but hearing that just steamed the hell out of me... reminded me why i stopped playing.
 
@panthis Almost told you to build a bridge there lol :)
While I agree with some things I also think you should really relax a bit and just wait for that standalone (thou I'm sure it will have it's issues also).
I think making ppl sing and then giving them a map or something (it just happens that a GPS is not rare anymore) is quite funny and far better than sitting on a bigass city buildings just sniping all bambies.

Just about anything other than just shooting anything you see is cool by me. I also do not see how you can blame the player for just playing the game. Its really not his fault that the tents do not save, but rather the sad state of an Alpha Mod atm. People just do what they need to keep up with the rest.
I myself prefer to go find my gear and run into fights in the forests or ambush some ppl etc. Way more intense when that does happen.

One thing is for sure. Most people atm do not get to experience what DayZ is actually about and they will get a big reality check when the standalone comes.
I think most of the current issues can be solved by a nicely edited & configured Private Hive server. Something I'd love to look at getting up if there would be enough ppl to support it.
 
To be honest, listening to what everyone is saying, I really don't think I'd enjoy play DayZ if I started up again now. Back when I played, people didn't even use tents. If people wanted weapons, they went on the gun-runner route, Med tents at Balota -> Balota Airfield -> Stary Sobor -> NWAF. If you died, you went looking for new weapons.

Now everyone has giant tent cities and if someone dies it seems they just run back to their tents and get all their equipment back. It entirely misses the point of the game and, in my opinion, kind of ruins it too. Heck, back when I last played having a vehicle was something that only happened when you were incredibly lucky, and then it was a giant mission just keeping a hold of it.

The game is nothing like when I played. I can't presume to speak for anyone else, but it sounds anything but fun to me. Sounds more like one of the core features was somehow lost along the way, which is that death actually held penalties for the player and was a real issue.
 
Graal said:
The game is nothing like when I played. I can't presume to speak for anyone else, but it sounds anything but fun to me. Sounds more like one of the core features was somehow lost along the way, which is that death actually held penalties for the player and was a real issue.
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Nail on the head
 
@panthis and I agree with direction you are going :) Lets hope for the best with the standalone!

@Graal yes it is kinda sad atm when you think back. The way the game has changed with all this is massive. You adapt and still try to find fun from it. My team have tried to not use tents etc atm but with the other ppl around it does not work so well. But even with that the thing that pisses me off the most atm is ppl camping cities with AS50 TWS's, server hopping and just shooting anything that moves.

I still think a proper private hive sever can really bring back the old fun.

"which is that death actually held penalties for the player and was a real issue" Yes! And the standalone should bring this back!
 
Graal said:
To be honest, listening to what everyone is saying, I really don't think I'd enjoy play DayZ if I started up again now. Back when I played, people didn't even use tents. If people wanted weapons, they went on the gun-runner route, Med tents at Balota -> Balota Airfield -> Stary Sobor -> NWAF. If you died, you went looking for new weapons.

Now everyone has giant tent cities and if someone dies it seems they just run back to their tents and get all their equipment back.
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THIS.

THIS is exactly why I wish we could modify servers in such way that certain Items could not be storable.
ANY sniper rifle
L85
Night Vission goggles
Ghillie suits
Camo clothing.

Also they should completely clamp down the storage limits of tents and vehicles in general. You should be able to store a maximum of let's say 2 rifles, a handgun and some supplies in there.

This will bring the game back to it's roots so to speak. I remember when we first started playing the game. When it was pitch black darkness, you would run for ages until you found a landmark, then make your way to places at a snails pace while leopardcrawling all over the show and using up about 50 tonnes of Roadflares, just to get a Winchester and a waterbottle and think JACKPOT. Whenever you saw players your heart would start pumping, and you would hide away etc.

This, this is what DayZ should be. Now you die and you don't give a fuck, just ran back to the tents and gear up again!
 
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