nuggetz

Who the hell are you? Yeah it's real fun shooting noobs like fish in a barrel. Its understandable that 12 year olds who've acquired sniper rifles don't want the game in its current form to change but alienating new folks to keep veterans happy won't work either. If you want mindless slaughter go play L4D. When I first logged into a dayz server I was filled with a feeling that I've never gotten from a video game before. True fear. However after a while I realized that dayz is nothing more than deathmatch. I think my idea is viable and would make the game fun and more realistic. Why run dayz if all you want to do is shoot anything that moves. There are 100s of games that let you do that. I understand that anything goes in the real world and people might argue that it applies to the dayz game world as well but think of immersive potential if dayz was allowed to evolved into something a bit different. It takes no effort to camp a noob beach. I don't know how long this would be fun for bandits. I can say that noobs don't appreciate it at all. What's the point? We're unarmed. I've never had possession of a gun in dayz ever. All I want is a fair shake. In real life I would at least have the option of being at home during a zombie attack or having other viable options to acquire survival gear - friends to call or lookup. In dayz the balance is way off. I just wouldn't find myself in the middle of nowhere with nothing on me. That's why my safe town idea is more realistic. Dayz in its current form is like being born at the age of 22 and being dropped into the middle of a war zone in Iraq. . Its only appropriate that new players have some sort of resources or means to survive at the onset as its totally unbalanced and unrealistic the way it is now. I'm all for keeping it real and hardcore but my main concern should be zombies and not 12 year old script kiddies.

Not sure if this has been suggested yet or not but I think noobs don't have a chance in hell as every advanced player just shoots noobs for no reason. Maybe noobs can spawn near their "home town" which would now be under the protection of the military. In a zombie apocolypse, there would be some form of martial law. This would maybe allow a safe haven for people to trade items, meet up for grouping purposes, etc. Being shot in this town is still possible but the military would be there to help fend off random zombies and provide a deterrent against bandits wanting to prey on noobs. The other idea I had which sort of goes with my first is that zombies should feel more organic. I want zombies to move from town to town and walk thru forests. Maybe at random times the town that is under marshal law would be a target of a mass zombie invasion at which point the military would insist that the town be evacuated as the horde would be too powerful to defend against. The military would start moving to a new town (known to the server as being "empty", which could be as far as 4000 kilomoters away and players could evacuate and follow that convoy or go on their own. This sort of event could be broadcast to over radios. I think radios should be common enough for players to be tapped into announcements coming from the government for example or other news sources. Imagine being a bandit camped up on a hill side picking off a convoy of noobs heading to Town X? There might be good looting opportunities in the town that the zombies are attacking too. Anyway, this is just a brain dump of some things that to me would make the game more immersive. Feel free to chime in. I dont have a whole lot of Dayz hours invested mainly because I get killed before I can even start so I'm offering these suggestions.

It would be nice if every time a zombie kills a player, another zombie or two are spawned. The way it is now, advanced players can read an area based on zombie presence alone and know if other players are in the vicinity or not. No zombies=no players around. Zombies should be more random. Give them something to do. Give them a reason to inhabit forests. Make hordes move from town to town. I want to feel that zombies have some sort of intelligence. I want the world to feel organic. Zombies have are moving towards town X today. There's not than many in town y now so people could go there and set up camp.

That's what I pretty much figured. I just wanted to ask before I started asking around for potential group buddies. Long time Arma fan but didn't know dayz existed until yesterday. I was lucky enough to spawn at dawn on my first time which left a very memorable experience. Awesome mod. Needless to say I was shitting bricks

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Let's say I found somebody on the forums who is willing to group with me. How would I find that person in game. How do you actually meet? I assume you can't spawn right to them. So how's it done. Man these forums are slow today.