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@Jossiboy - There reason for that is because there's two different ways GS is calculated:
The GS showing on your character takes into account your 3 weapons and your 6 year pieces. For example, if you have all 229 weapons and 268 gear pieces, your GS would be 255 on your screen: (3x229 + 6x268)/9 = (687 + 1608)/9 = 2295/9 = 255.
The GS for DZ purposes looks at your highest GS non-sidearm weapon (primary or secondary) and your 6 gear pieces. Using the same example above, your DZ GS would be 262: (229 + 6x268)/7 = (229 + 1608)/7 = 1837/7 = 262.4.
In both of the above examples, the game looks at equipped items, items in your inventory, and items in your stash when it figures the highest value GS item for each location. The different calculation for the DZ GS was created to counteract cheating players that would equip really low level secondary and sidearm weapons to artificially decrease their GS to get into lower level DZs to troll lower level players.
If you need help figuring what your DZ GS is (not that it really matters if it's over 231), post up the highest GS weapon you have, and the highest GS item for chest, knees, backpack, gloves, holster, and mask and I'll post up the math on here for you. Remember, check equipped items, items in inventory, and items in your stash for these numbers. From there you'd be able to see how changing around your gear (equipped, inventory, stash) will change what DZ you're in.
The GS showing on your character takes into account your 3 weapons and your 6 year pieces. For example, if you have all 229 weapons and 268 gear pieces, your GS would be 255 on your screen: (3x229 + 6x268)/9 = (687 + 1608)/9 = 2295/9 = 255.
The GS for DZ purposes looks at your highest GS non-sidearm weapon (primary or secondary) and your 6 gear pieces. Using the same example above, your DZ GS would be 262: (229 + 6x268)/7 = (229 + 1608)/7 = 1837/7 = 262.4.
In both of the above examples, the game looks at equipped items, items in your inventory, and items in your stash when it figures the highest value GS item for each location. The different calculation for the DZ GS was created to counteract cheating players that would equip really low level secondary and sidearm weapons to artificially decrease their GS to get into lower level DZs to troll lower level players.
If you need help figuring what your DZ GS is (not that it really matters if it's over 231), post up the highest GS weapon you have, and the highest GS item for chest, knees, backpack, gloves, holster, and mask and I'll post up the math on here for you. Remember, check equipped items, items in inventory, and items in your stash for these numbers. From there you'd be able to see how changing around your gear (equipped, inventory, stash) will change what DZ you're in.
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Your gear score issue is why many players have mules, characters qualified to level 30 who can be stores for high end gear via the stash which is available to all of your characters. If you only have a single character you will have to sell some high score items to remain in the lower score dark zone. It was supposed to stop trolls but it clearly does not as many rogues in the 0 to 160 are level 80 and above, one tonight was level 94 in the beginners zone, why? so they can bully and monster less experienced / poorer gear and weapon equipped players. Perhaps there needs to be a level of experience cut off for relevant zones, ie levels 0 to 160 dark zone until you past level 60, 70 ,80 whatever seems reasonable then your character is automatically transferred to the higher zone.
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