Feral (DayZ)

bees and honey is a good idea, bee hives would be simple to model, you could light a fire nearby to reduce the risk of being stung, a swarm of angry bees chasing a survivor would make enjoyable viewing edit - cats, not so sure, what would they bring to the game?

I think the OP is worried that the game will become unrealistically moody and darkly atmospheric, like a generic horror b-movie - like this perhaps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwOMDlj2jwk

Some people seem to think that by parachuting in you will be visible to every player on the map with a gun. That is simply not the case, there are players now who lurk along the coast actively seeking fresh spawns, but if the whole map is a spawn point (or rather the entire sky above the map) then this shitty practice ends. Of course occasionally you are going to get unlucky and be spotted by a bastard but that can happen now so it is a mute point.

DayZ minus Z (zeds) = Day as a game name Day sounds Gay

it's europe - should be crows

yep and the swarms of bandits scanning the skies above airfields

not sure where you get the 'if your character catches fire' bit from, but the image of a smouldering survivor desperately rolling about made me smile so beans for that

personally i don't see the problem with infected kids, it would add extra horror and i think all but the strangest of us will feel uncomfortable shooting kids even infected ones and that would make the game more disturbing. I do sympathise with those who are against it though and for the sake of realism it would be easy to explain a lack of kids by using an evacuation back story.

also bad spawn locations will become transformed from 'fucking kamenka' runs to the light house into 'hmm, i wonder if i can hit that zed' suicide dives

like all the beach kills we get now you mean? at least it would be a fun way to go as opposed to running about screaming 'friendly don't shoot, i have nothing you bastard' you could try to aim at them from 5000 feet and have a small chance of taking them out with your corpse

lol, is she infected? you get what you pay for

hardly a game breaker, you could say the same about spawning in elektro as opposed to spawning at kamenka, also if you choose to land in a city you better pray there aren't players on the ground aiming up at you, best place to land would be remote and quiet spot.

barcelona fits the bill, surrounded by rugged terrain including mountains and forest edit - Durban (south africa) too, with great white sharks in the ocean and lions roaming the land, rambling townships, thick forest, mountains, rivers and modern ctiy scapes. Not to mention zulu zeds

yep, there are some good uns out there, they are few but they are there.

if power corrupts then absolute power corrupts absolutely

for many i fear reading this must be like finally realising that there is no god, that we are all alone and at the mercy of an uncaring universe/public hive

hackers and the blindly optimistic newbies mainly

main hive is broken dude, best thing is to play private hive or a dayzmod mod like 2017 or dayZ+

speak to Trizzo http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/user/98529-trizzo/

Haters only hate the things they can't get and the people they'll never be

Neither do cows or sheep or pigs, my point is in a post apocalyptic world there will come a day when there are millions of functioning horses and no functioning vehicles

what about a simpler 'notebook' style system. You get an option via mouse wheel scroll when you are within 20 mteres of a player to 'memorize' him. You can then open your notebook (which may feature in SA) and make a note - eg - '(player name) - friendly, gave me morphine - factory' Now whenever you see this player again at close range the 'memory' will appear. When your character dies his memory dies with him.

i met a guy once who thought he was funny, he kept telling everyone he met how funny he was and people smiled and said 'sure' and exchanged concerned glances with each other while he began telling another one of his spectacularly unfunny stories...... Long story short he killed himself

for me night time is the best time to play