GodsProxy

It is not a simple binary answer. The game should be not boil down to are you more oriented towards PvP or survival. It should boil down to a conflict of culture. Right now the game does night require any group dynamic or cultural development in a post apoc' setting. This is endemic of the fact that the game(not to discredit the game, it is in its infancy) lacks depth and a true survival challenge. Twenty minutes into a fresh spawn I usually have at the very least an AK/M9, food, water, hatchet, water bottle. I'm now set with not much else to do then survive against other players. It now turns into a game of, spawn, get my gear, get safe and then hunt people because that is the real survival challenge of this game. It almost feels like a sim of Hunger Games except easier. When the game evolves into a challenge where lone players cannot just do a 20 minute clean up of Electro on a dead server then pop on and PvP their asses off and do it again, when loot is more fluidic and rare in its spawns and zombies are a real threat that requires a group to strategically sweep a large town that should be swarming with Zombies then I feel we are better able to adequately provide a true answer. Right now it seems to boil down to either I PvP to grief bambies or I PvP because that is the real challenge in the game.

This right here is what I hope the game evolves into. I started to play 6 days ago and took the advice of many and joined a private hive white list server with three others that I started playing with. It took us about six hours of multiple deaths to group up because of people running around killing us at our various spawns. Multiple times I was killed within minutes of spawning with no gear... A decision to open fire on someone should have some weight to it, consequence. As it stands there are no consequences. Getting geared up is too easy. Zombies are a mild nuisance. The game is still learning to walk and as it matures will be great. Hopefully many of the ideas mentioned get implemented and the game goes from primarily PvP to grouping up, staggering across another group while being surrounded by zombies and having to make the decision if opening fire to take their gear is worth it or is diplomacy and trying to work together to get out of a tight spot a better course of action.