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I think DayZ would be great with more objectives. What about finding your family? I think this would be a really immersive objective because it has an emotional aspect to draw you in and make you part of the world. Finding your family is a pretty standard plot in zombie fiction so I think it would suit the game perfectly as an objective. It could be implemented quite easily. Just say every time you spawn you also spawn three corpses in random buildings throughout the world. This could be done clientside so they would only be visible to you (but tracked by the server). All you had to do was hunt around until you found them. When you found a family member you could examine the body and find out how they died. Then you could drag them outside and bury them and put up a cross. Finding all three family members could earn you a special skin or something which made you less visible to zombies. As to locating the bodies, maybe you could find letters which would give you clues where they were.

Well it's kind of grim, I admit it, but I think it fits with the grimness of the post-apocalyptic scenario and the hardcore nature of the sim. Plus it would be easier to implement than having living characters in the game. I mean, you wouldn't know they were dead until you found them, looking at it from a role-playing perspective. So it would be a kind of narrative. Failing that I'd love it if other people could come it with suggestions for story-oriented objectives that could be generated dynamically. I just think the game would be so much better with some kind of immersive, narratively interesting objectives which could get you to relate to your character. Maybe you could be looking for your missing puppy. Or a childhood toy you lost. Just something, some quest to keep me in the game world. Even a very difficult one would be fine, like finding one single object with no idea where it is. Just to give me something to do. At least then you'd have an excuse for going into towns and getting into dangerous situations.

OK I'll look at that, thanks.

Definitely. It's clearly an exploit. Should definitely be a cooldown timer on it of at least 10 minutes, in my opinion. It's the same when spawning in with a new character, if you don't like where you spawn you can just respawn somewhere else. Breaks the immersion.

I don't agree that there are always objectives. It doesn't take long to get everything you need to survive in the wilderness if you loot one of the main towns. And if you aren't interested in fixing vehicles there's nothing for you to do. I've been in the situation several times where I've finished collecting supplies and weapons and suddenly been at a loss for what to do. For people who don't have a problem being a bandit it's fine, they can just go into a town and ambush people and that gives endless entertainment. But I don't like attacking other players so I don't have anything to do in the game once I've collected all the survival loot.