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this game has been touted as a sandbox. I got the idea from Xyson.. which is far more sandbox than this game.. it's also a successful model.. i've also been playing darkfall for 3 years and 1 thing for sure shit that is unnecessarily frustrating will drive off 99% of the population.. also a system LIKE this opens up a lot of possibilities for turf wars and territory control.. i also didn't say shit about starting from scratch (refer to me playing darkfall for 3 years) i said starting from some random spot and having to travel 30 minutes just to get back to a point that I havent already seen 100 times.. this game you don't start from scratch at all.. in fact you start with everything you need to get by for a long period of time..

honestly i think a lot of people would buy the game as is.. but put it up for like 30 bucks or so when it gets to a more "beta" like state. Or maybe you can work a deal with BI and offer it a package thing.. ARMA+DAYZ for 50 bucks.. i get what you are saying tho.. you wouldn't want to sell it as a game until it was closer to done. even a donate button would probably bring you some serious green.

boobies.

dude you keep on and on about "realism" it's a fucking zombie game.. ZOMBIES ARE NOT FUCKING REAL.. you play video games to escape reality.. All he's gota do is A) shorten the day/night cycle B) make the bright ass text go away from connecting/disconnecting that blinds the fuck out of you and C) tweak the light just a little bit so you can at least see enough to see a tree that is right in front of you face.. also back onto realism.. if you were really in pitch black like this and zombies were about the smart thing to do is find a safe place and hunker down for the night.. that'd be one boring fucking game tho....

dude, this is awesome

Torque 3D could handle this shiz. Plus the server will run on linux. Plus you get source and pay no royalties. Hard part is gonna be the gfx. check it out at garagegames.com

bro.. Video game may be art but it's also a multiBILLION dollar industry. Plenty of great games have come out and cost actual money. His ideas while fresh are not entirely new. Big studios don't necessarily pick them up but others have very similar qualities. PVP focused, anyone can do anything, full loot etc.. DayZ flavor of this type of sandbox game is very cool and could become very big. But as has been seen with other games people eventually tire of them if development is slow and the community becomes useless because of just too many suggestions and too much bitching and complaining etc.. he doesn't have to sell out just cash in and put some full time effort to his vision to eventually sell out to EA and go hang out on the beaches with playboy models...

Rocket is like the Zack De La Rocha of computer nerds.

lol.. the only reason i could see him thinking money fucks things up is the fact that once he starts collecting money this becomes a different beast. Not just a hobby. He's got to collect and pay taxes. Especially being from the EU (i think i read that somewhere) it's probably a pretty ridiculous thing to deal with.. on top of he'd have to hire someone or quit his day job and actually deliver a finished product (at some point). To me it's not a big problem.. Collect 100s of thousands now hire a couple of people. .hammer out updates keeping people interested and focused.. eventually turn it into an RPG ala darkfall or xsyon or mortal online and charge people a recurring fee.. or better yet get bought out by EA and go chill on a florida beach somewhere.. opportunities have arisen for this fella..

rocket stated that he won't take money because money fucks things up. And if you ask me' date=' he's right. [/quote'] that's actually ridiculous.. few bucks to a CPA to handle his taxes and he could turn this into something big. Battlefield started as a mod.. There are not many successful game projects that required no money...

he's wishing he had charged a dollar.. and when beta comes out he should charge something.. at least listen to a community that will pay for his shit over a community who might not even stick with it.. he made ARMA a lot of money..

or will the zombies just keep spawning and zerging me down?

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I've got property out in the middle of no where. When there is no moon out and its night it is very dark, but your eyes do adjust and you can see things like trees when they are right in front of you lol.. You can also see the ground and for the most part quite a bit within a certain radius of yourself.. everyone just turns their HDR up an gamma and brightness. so it's pretty silly to think this is OK. Just needs to play with the lighting a bit more and come up with something that is a little better. could also consider putting flashlights in the players bag when they respawn. it would not be as big of an issue if the day/night cycles are shorter.

it's causing my eyes to hurt with the really dark background and massive amounts of connect/disconnect white text

so.. am i to understand that tents are sort of like vaults? As in a place to store things.. If this is so do my things go away when I die or will they remain in my tent? I assume other people can loot things out of my tent? If your stuff persists even when you die I could see people setting up camps and using them as a sort of base.

makes sense thanks. I see some potential with this as a means to stock up on things so that you can make your way back when you die and re gear.. Also seems like the groundwork is laid for some pretty cool features in the future.

After like 30+ minutes of running over hills I found a little town. I needed water badly.. among other things. Problem is there's freaking zombies everywhere!!!! I was ill equipped to handle them and as soon as I started to they zerged me down. There any kind of tricks/secretes to go stealth mode into these places to get what I need and get out?

sweet wish i had tred this last night.. thanks for the info