Hello guys, hello Geez, we need to talk. Pardon my english 'cause there gonna be some mistakes.
I've been with DayZ since arma 2 mod, through good and bad times. And I'm tired, so god damn tired. I know dayz isn't about the loot, and I agree with that and will always confirm it. But loot is a part of the game, significant one.
I've had few barrels stucked in the tree, 2 stashes in different places to be precise. Both of them survived through entrire 1.26 (that is hell amount of a time). One of them was visited by cheater, but he was polite so took only some ammo, that was fine. Now with 1.27 wipe I updated those 2 shashes, nothing lootgoblinny, only few weapons for unstable times. Today I found out one of them was wiped clean. I haven't checked 2nd, but I'm 99,9% sure it is wiped too. There's always a chance normal player would find it, but count all the trees on Livonia and calculate chances, they are on but they are extremely low. And 2 of them in the same time... This is not the 1st time, nor the last one...
Barrels in trees are the only safest way to store some loot. Buried stashes last not too long, underwater crates are easy to find, and bases, boy, gets raided less than in 3 days.
It's not about the loot at all, just the amount of time I've spend to find all those barrels, slow-carry them to locations, waiting for restarts to chop trees, countless hours of finding weapons and things, and I'm talking about not regular guns, all from bunker raids and from Sakhal containers. And I also have life and job, I don't spend 24/7 in Dayz, time I play is my free time, way to relax.
And some moron just bought some soft and wiped with all that my spent time.
As you said publicly multiple times that all online games have chaters... 100% true, but if dayz had same amount of cheaters as other games I wouldn't say a word for you, dayz has x10 (or even x100) amount. The only thing that helped me cope with that is dayz vibe itself, told you it a lot that dayz is soo good that even cheaters can't ruin it. But there's always a line. Sonner or later bare vibe won't be enough.
Ofc I left the message to the visitor from bullets if he decide to come back "FU PIDAR", but that is discrace that I have to do it from bullets or paper every time.
Let be honest, you won't do nothing with cheaters, as BE keep working (just drinking beer during workday) and it considered as "work". Yes, they ban a lot of them, but that is a drop in the ocean. And I wouldn't want either for you to spend time and limited resources on cheaters.
What I ask you bring the notes back, so at least I could leave a message for cheaters (repeat - FOR CHEATERS ONLY, if any player finds my stuff by luck or accident - I have nothing but respect for them), so at least they wouldn't be so happy. And please, add high caliber sniper rifles able to 1 shot even on 700m+, that will bring extra emotions/experience that will boost the vibe at least for some time.
I will leave dayz for a month I guess to let the emotional wounds heal and come back fresh, but every time such situations kill tiny part of me, and that is not cool.
P.S. All said above is related to cheaters and only to cheaters. If somebody kills/raids you without any additional soft, only on pure skills and with a bit of luck - good job and thanks for not cheating.
P.P.S. Or just remove ability to place barrels in trees so there won't be more/less safe ways to store loot at all. I'm really tired, I hope you guys won't just let this slide or throw it in a farthest bin
Thank you if you read all this, and good luck with further updates.