Fussgangerzone
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Like a lot of people, I find the amount of pvp in the game these days to be a bit of farce. Sure, people could kill you in a real-life zombie outbreak, but these these DayZ Chernarus is like a prison dreamt up by George Carlin ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJ2snsLxWw )
The problem, of course, is the question of how do you balance this behaviour without breaking realism.
Well, you do it it my making things more realistic. In a real situation, the number of humans in an area isn't a constant which is constantly repopulated, it's finite. If you shoot someone, there are less people around to shoot. Reality wouldn't provide an infinite supply of human targets. So how do we implement this in a way that's fair to everybody? You can't cap a server, that's not fair.
My idea is that we use a players murder count as a server handicap.
Example:
I murder ten folk, that's fine, all very DayZ.
The next time I want to play DayZ, I have a server handicap of 10.
This means I can only join a server with 10 free spaces.
It might fill up more after that and that's fine.
But I can no longer join servers with less than ten free spaces, because that's not the Chernarus I left behind. I left behind a Chaernarus that was missing 10 people.
What do people think of that? Fair? Realistic?
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I would say yes. Geographical location and server time are' date=' as you say, not always identical. The question is do servers carry a UTC format or a local time zone flag (I.e. GMT/ BST/ EST)? Also daylight savings, as ever, would need to be taken into account and server name adjusted.
An automated mechanism for detecting the server time and naming the server appropriately could be useful for lessening the burden on admins. I'll have a look at putting a script together, but I'm sure there are existing ones on the inter webs :)
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I would say UTC with + or - values would be the most diplomatic, and it's scientifically defined, so we can all feel clever.
I like your automated script idea.
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Some of us like the dark, some of like the light.
Would it be a good idea for everyone to feature their time zone in the Server Name? In a syntax like UTC-8 or whatever.
I know a lot of servers specify their locations, but of course, we don't all run servers with the same time as the time zone they're in.
How to penalise banditry without breaking realism.
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I'm surprised by that' date=' I haven't had that problem in over a month.
It's not an explicit punishment though, it's simply reflecting that their character exists in a world with less survivors, as a result of their actions.