Jonny Splash

On the REDUX server they have implemented this idea by introducing CHLOROFORM. If you find it you can sneak up on a person and essentially put them to sleep for approx 90 seconds. Non lethal, super sneaky. I've got a bottle in a tent, yet to be used. Muahaha ha ha. ha.

I just realised what Dayz is missing. Stats! Highscores and ridiculous challenges. Get 3 mountain dew in a tent, get 1000 zombie kills etc. Incentives are needed. Motivations. After playing for a while now the "survival" aspect seems completely irrelevant. The prestige of "surviving" needs to be brought back! Also stats. Can we have some stats please :) It is a videogame after all...

Thanks for all the responses guys. Definitely think we have established that stats becoming the "aim" of the game is a bad idea. Not that I was proposing that in the first place but seems like there is some room for people to be amenable to at least having the option on a personal basis to track progress through game life. Of course the basic premise of DayZ is survival, and the sandbox type adventure that ensues. We have all been seduced by the pure aesthetic that the game has induced but that's no reason to become purists or "i knew about this band before you, I'm a true fan.." kinda fanboys. True there are already stats in the game, (zombie kills, murders, vehicle kills, etc etc) and I kinda like them, although they don't really influence how I play the game. I understand you don't want stats to influence how people play the game for fear of destroying the unique thing this game has. However there could be a way for "stats" to become a part of the game that would enrich the whole experience. I think what I'm looking for is for the players to become more a part of the actual world that DayZ inhabits. Currently it feels like you are invested to a certain extent, and if part of a clan with camps then even more so. But it would be great if by virtue of what your character has done (measured by certain statistics) the environment could be interacted with to greater/lesser extents. Might also be a way to weave story lines into the game by virtue of the work people put in to their characters. Give people a reason to strive for something other than: A) Get knife and matches - live in a tree B - Kill everything you see on sight - yawn C) Join a clan - scavenge - kill - rob - fall over.

Haha! Rubbing one out to stats that's great. "The amount of times BKs mum rubbed me off divided by price paid" etc etc :) I find it rather amusing that statistics can provoke such disdain, and why they are considered as NOT adding to the "realism" is kind of confusing to me. I think stats would add to the game rather than detract from it. Granted I don't think you'd want stats/highscores to be the main motivation for the game, no way. But they could definitely add something. If only to keep track of where you've been in the strange world that is Dayz. Oh and Bean with regards to your notepad idea, yeah, it sucks; sorry.

Hmm. If you want realism why not try "real life". ?? I just think the game could do with giving reasons for players wanting to survive. Currently the only reason players don't want to die is because they'll lose the gear they have on them. Fair enough, but gear comes and goes and you can save with tents vehicles, have friends resupply you. But it would be awesome if you truly got some kind of in game respect/prestige/honour for surviving for like DAYZ.....

Boy? Sure thing kid. Never played WOW so not sure what you mean but in regard to Dayz I definitely feel that some kind of stats/score would give players something to feel precious about. If it is as you say "your life out there" then surely you'd want to enrich it with as much good stuff as possible!

Dear players, Come and get involved on a great server called FOGEYZ and help us take them down! We are a splinter cell resistance group that have been banished from the ranks of FOGEYZ status because we found out too much, and realised their diabolical plans. They have strength in numbers but we have skill on our side. Don't want to give too much away here because they will be listening, but PM me for details. We get guns, we get vehicles, we get the zombie kill highscore. Get involved ! Server is whitelisted but pretty quick to get on as there is usually an admin around. "Get your ass to Mars" Jonny Splash

Didn't get Kuato though did you?! :) The leader of the rebellion survives to fight another day! And if it wasn't for the missus I had outmanoeuvred you just before restart. I do hope you are finding things legit by the way. Don't be taking the fun out of it by "requesting" locations ;) All the best