[Show Off Your Base]

Here's a little base experiment we tried... seems to work well as a large garage.  Zombies love walking through the walls though.

 

http://imgur.com/ffnB61c

[Is it time to move on? Epoch standalone or Arma3 mod?]

While I agree that Arma2 is dated, I wonder how many people would be happy with moving to Arma 3 that don't already own it.  I bought Arma2/Arma2:OA specifically for DayZ.  It would take a very polished mod to get me to shell out for Arma 3 since I have no intention of playing the game itself.

[Show Off Your Base]

There is some of that to show what is possible. To be honest I wish I had the time to play enough to build up the resource, though we did build up a fair amount for our base as, as a developer, it is necessary to experience it as a player. Though we added walls and floors as a trade item and sold loads of vehicles on the test server at the traders, so not entirely cheating. I may have duped the odd backpack due to industrial accidents ;)

You will find a lot of developers spend very little of their time actually playing for playing sake, I know i don't.

Don't let that stop you putting your base up, is not about how big a base is, everyone admires well crafted, cleverly placed bases, as I am sure we all have one somewhere on the public servers we do play on now and again :)

A good call if you ask me, let's see some of those bases that are well lived in and are the place you call home on your server.. That is what modular building is about after all..

I should add I am pretty sure that a good percentage of these bases are through hard work. Is not that hard for a group of 2 to 6 to build up the required material.

 

It didn't stop me.  I built a 3 story wooden base (2x2 walls) with a ramp leading out from the second floor and then splitting in three directions... each one leading to a helicopter landing pad.  Oh, and a 1x2 garage connected to store a fuel truck.  I just was disappointed that very few of the bases posted here appear to be created through the realistic means of a few players.  That's what I'd actually be interested in seeing.

 

For example, I want to see someone who build into the side of the Pabeda Dam, or people who've converted an in-game building into their base, or used the old castles as a starting point (ok there is one of those here... :) ).

 

I've done quite a bit with base building (as can be reasonably done within a month) and so far and my experiences tell me that unless you have a clan that is big enough (and in multiple time zones) to protect your base 24/7, it's best to keep things nice and subtle.

[Show Off Your Base]

This seems more like the "show off your base that you created because you are the server admin or know the server admin and/or somehow exploited the acquisition of cinder blocks".  Boooo...

[Updating the Wiki]

Ditto.  I built some of my first cinder block stuff last night and was surprised that the recipes did not match the Wiki.  

[Are all epoch servers suffering right now?]

Our server admin had a little fun with the players last night and spawned several helicopters throughout the map.  There were quite a few of us searching around.  I found the MV-22.  :D 

 

I was also talking to him about doing other similar events like this from time to time.  Might not be a bad idea, but you'll want to have some way to get the word to your player base.  If they aren't logging on, hopefully their friends are and can tell them.  :)

[something needed to maintain realism...]

I know what you're saying, but that is a complex problem to solve.  If you want it to look real then create some walls and put it underneath.  It's not quite a truss, but it'll look more realistic.  A ladder would be "cheaper" in terms of materials, but it might not be desired to have the ability for someone to use said ladder.  :)

 

I do think that it would be great to have the devs add a craftable/buildable "wood post" or "wood support" to the game that is exactly the same height as a wood wall.  Not only to make things look more realistic, but it would help you fill in gaps when your walls don't quite fit together.  How many people have ended up having to craft an entire wood wall because they botched the placement or because the server adjust the positioning on restart ever so slighty?  :)

[zed proof walls]

Floors and ceilings together, or just one or the other?  We tried putting a floor up the other day and it didn't stop them.  We ended up destroying the floor after seeing that it didn't work because it was damaging wheels when driving over it (it was just barely protruding from the ground).