so... when you log off, what happens to your character?

[RunningMan]

see, in rust, theres this thing called "sleeper" that makes your character asleep on the spot where you logged off vulnerable to damage until next time you log in

is there a such thing in dayz?

i just hope not

[Yurisatan]

no , when you log off your character usually gets deleted

[Noppo]

You character INSTANT disappears.

[CASH]

same thing as in matrix when they anwser a phone

[jacobzuper]

The log of system in DayZ works this way that when you log off your character dissapers and get's saved in a public hive so that when you log in you start at the same spot with the same ♥♥♥♥. Though not all servers use the public hive, and then there is also a bug that get's your character deleted, never happened to me but that Yurisatan seems to have the problem...

[hujensen]

That would definitely fix combat logging problems :-)

But not a good idea for a game like DayZ. All the players who go to the coast to kill freshly spawned players because it is the easiest would just start looking for sleeping players instead to "fight" with.