Cactus wrote
We do have a couple of questions regarding Factions and appreciate if you indulge us with some clarification :-
1. Am I correct to say that the day/night cycles in Factions are accelerated ? What would be the game's timescale in terms of say, 1 hour real time ?
Hi mate!
I'm very glad that you guys enjoy it; I will be happy to clarify what needs be.
As Juno said the timecycle is real-time, one hour in-game is one hour IRL.
The only way to skip time is to sleep in a tent, wich will skip 6 hours.
You also have a "skip 3 hours" option if you play with the Cheat menu version. I've also set the mission time in mid-summer, wich is why nights are so bright and short - so it should still be playable even if you don't have NVG's or a tent to sleep in.
Cactus wrote
2. Does loot spawn in Factions follow the same mechanics in DayZ 1.7.6 ? By that I mean, does loot trigger when a player approaches withing approx 200m of the spawn points, and if we clear the spawn point of loot, new stuff will spawn around approx every 10 minutes (loot farming) ?
The loot does follow the same rules - the only exception being that it doesn't de-spawn at all.
But it will respawn if you farm buildings.
Cactus wrote
3. We have not installed CoWar mod although some of us are planning to do so. Do we need to start a new game after installing CoWar or are old savegames compatible regardless ?
You shouldn't need to restart a game - but keep in mind that, if you remove some of its addons you don't like, you might have troubles resuming a save. It doesn't concern all the pbo's provided in CoWarmod, but nonetheless I strongly recommend to have a good look at the description files and/or try it on another mission (you can install the mission in a sub-folder if you don't want to mess with already existing saves).
Cactus wrote
4. Some of us noticed that recruited survivors have an annoying habit of shooting anything that moves and shooting all too frequently to the point of being annoying. Is there some easier way of enforcing some trigger discipline with recruits aside from micro-managing with the clunky Arma2 orders menu ? Will CoWar be helpful in this regard ?
The easiest way to manage them in my experience, is to select them all at once (for me it is the " ²" key but I can't remember if it is the default setting) and order them to hold or open fire according to the situation. I wanted to set up a quick script to order them to target either the zombies or the bandits (to make the player's life easier somehow) but sadly, I was unable to come up with something satisfying...
Cactus wrote
5. BAse building .....did I read right that it is currently not possible to remove structures we have built should we decide to tear it down ?
Yup, totally forgot to fix that... I might do it for the next update, but I think it is somehow broken in the original script written by Daimyo : you have like 90% to fail in the process.
Cactus wrote
6. How about tents that we pitch ? If our character pitch a tent and then later got killed, will it be possible to go back to that tent, pack it up, and take it with you?
If you die, the mission's over! (Unless resuming a save if you're not playing in Expert)
There's currently no such things as respawn for the player or persistant environment : you'll have to restart the mission (everything will be reset, and vehicles locations will change randomly).
Cactus wrote
7. WHat happens when we shoot survivors (as opposed to Bandits). Will we get a negative humanity rating and become bandits ourselves leading to survivors automatically treating us as hostiles ? Similarly, if we kill bandits do we get a positive rating to our humanity?
The "humanity" feature is broken in SP... Instead there's the rating function from Arma 2 : if you kill too many survivors they'll hunt you down. Killing bandits doesn't raise this rating currently - I'll change this for the upcoming update. But the bandits are quite numerous - it's gonna be tricky to balance this. Also as Juno mentionned, the bandit skins in the Skin Menu (press '0' twice) are 100% functionnal in this matter.
One more thing : killed survivors AI respawn at a random town near the coast.
Cactus wrote
8. What are your current plans with DayZ 1.7.7 ? Is there any ?
I will definitely update Factions to 1.7.7 when it comes out.
Thanks for playing & commenting back!
EDIT : thinking of it... I might change the old bandit skin so the player is considered as a hostile by survivors. Don't know why I didn't do it already actually...
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