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Scrap metal isn't just a texture, its an entire model, sure you could have shiny scrap, matte scrap, and rusty scrap, but it'd still be the same model, just different colors. And as said above it would all add up memory wise. Now I do believe some things will have multiple textures, but that's more to show the item's 'condition', (IE a rusted and grimy gun to show that it needs to be cleaned and maintained, not 100% sure on it but thought i saw some screen shots, might have been for something they're doing in the mod though with cans of food))

Pretty much the truth. I mean after all, there is the black market. While AK style guns are the 'most popular' guns on the black market, they aren't the only ones. AKs and M16s would be the most common guns for us to find (after all there was a war fought in the area recently right?) just for the fact that Army's are pretty lousy with keeping track of loose guns, not to mention sometimes Armies (particularly the US) just sell their equipment off after a war to the locals rather than pay money to have them shipped back (and that's not even counting a true black market where things just 'go missing' or are outright stolen/lost) I for one, and at least a few others, just don't want to see 'off the wall' guns that make no sense as to how they got there (I don't have a link but there was a heated discussion about about AA12s in the same respect) I'm not saying I don't want to find a gold plated AKM or Desert Eagle in Chenarus, I just don't want to find a prototype gun where only 10 were made, 9 were destroyed, and the last one is hanging up on the gun maker's wall just because it's a cool gun. I live in the US, (Hawaii specifically) where some people still got their great great grand pappy's old Kentucky rifle, or grandpa's old M1 Garand, or the Chinese AK Uncle Bob brought back from Vietnam piece by piece in the mail that they occasionally take out to or just shoot with. Im sure in Europe the same thing happens a bit, (The Mauser great grandpa took off a dead nazi that he used for hunting after getting out of the army, the crate of AKMs Uncle Vasily asked your dad to hide under the floorboards from him because they we're about to be demiled so on so fourth).

I wish, could really use a job about now...Maybe I could actually use my now rusty CAD skills to build new buildings in game. I didn't mean a literal 'you take 5 mins to get to the next map' kinda thing. You'd load as fast as your computer/the sever allows. And 'spawning with less supplies' is the only thing I could think of to keep it at least Semi Realistic. That or the next map would pick up right where the last map left off, (IE the 'travel' spot is at mile marker 1.6 in Chenarus, and you spawn at mile marker 1.6 in Novigrad, or whatever its called.

There are trains, not working but there are locos and cars (wagons) on the tracks. And as for 'very fast travel', Chenarus' rail operation does not seam to be made for much more than commuter and freight traffic. So you're not going to see an ICE or Shikenshin barreling down the tracks. And contrary to popular belief, its actually fairly easy to derail a train (easier the faster you go). Yes you might see large freight loco send a pickup truck flying at a grade crossing going 80mph, but that train's being sent back to maintenance right afterwards for a full inspection and repair. But that same train runs over a well sunk log or even a 6 inch gap in the tracks and shit will happen. The main problem. How the hell do you power something. There's no 3rd rail or overhead gantry, so electric is out of the question (not to mention the overall lack of electricity). Petrol/gas isn't really used on anything but very small inspection vehicles or older motive power (this would probably be the best bet however for a 'train' in DayZ). There's no evidence of any sort of steam operation or any of the required facilities to run steam, so this leaves Diesel (there's what appears to be a Diesel loco on the docks of Cherno/Electro, I probably could have just skipped to that) Then theres the problem of actually running/starting up a locomotive. I volunteer with a railway society, we run with small 45 ton switchers, just from that simple set up you got like 4 switches, 2 buttons, and 4 levers, and thats just what's visible (theres 2-3 hidden masterswitches that kill the battery). Now say you just hop into the cab wanting to take a joyride, how you do start it up? Did you remove the parking break? Did you put fuel int he fueltank or the sand bunker? Is the air resivour valve closed? Alright you got it up and running, but your going in the wrong direction. Ect Ect Ect. I can do one of these solo IRL (I have to stand on the sides in the middle to avoid derailing, and to work the break on the one we have), This or a speeder would probably be the best bet of us having rail vehicles in game.

Well a skill system of some type could deter a lot of senseless killing in a way. If skills aren't too much of a pain the ass to level up (I prefer a 'repair 5 tires, get a little faster and less chance of failing at a vehicle repair' type of thing) 'I just got my repair and crafting up to a high level. Do I really want to try and gank this guy for his beans? He might have a buddy nearby...' Then again you'll always get the #YOLO COD players who would stab you with their hats, teabag your corpse, then bitch in side about these 'stupdi zombitches fucking up mah teabagging!'

Rabbit Chasing. Both on Foot and in a car. Bonus points if you actually mange to kill/run it over.

It's true for just about anything. Just using the road leading out of Kamenka as an example. You could walk/drive/fly at any western edge of the map (would be a good way to stop people from trying to stash stuff in the debug plains) or even fly that direction, and you'll come out an an aproximate area on the other side. Might be simpler to have set places to transfer unless your flying or on foot, or have trade offs (Ie chance to pop a tire if you offroad in a non offroad vehicle, use up more gas offroad, ect)

Thank you, same could be done for other maps as well. Say you want to go to Takistan (or whatever official non Chenarus or Chenarus bordering map they make), you'd need to load up a boat/car/aircraft with 10 jerry cans and 40 items of food and water each. Load up the boat/car/craft and go to the outskirts of the map and same message pops up with a 'choose your destination' option. Non official maps (when they come around in standalone eventually) will have a minor problem with this however. But this is all stuff for later on down the road, well after we move from Alpha to Beta to Release. But I'm sure things can be worked out eventually when private hives/servers can make their own hive clusters (IE Balota Buddies US UK and AUS Chenarus maps would all be linked, as well as any other official/unofficial maps that they add)

Something like this I would be for.

No, I have almost zero faith in public health, (or private health for that mater). I do have faith in Fear, fear gets governments (and people) to abandon things they hold sacred, or stand up and beat their chest like an idiot. Say 'security is a joke at X' and nothing happens. Plant something that looks like a pipe bomb at X and things happen. If some super virus/airborne rabies did happen, people would flee, they would take ridiculous steps, do 'home remedies' and other nonsense to protect themselves. A dad who's paying attention and see's whats going on will take his family up to his isolated hunting cabin in the woods to try and ride things out. Another might board up the house, line the windows with plastic and fortify in place. Governments would panic at first and try to contain things, shut down airports and harbors, blockade/blowup bridges, set up police/military check points. I'm not saying everything a government does will help to stem the tide, after all China kept quite about the early Birdflu cases in the hopes they could lock things down and prevent a panic. As I said, the entire world will not just break down in a day. Then again we really don't know anything about the story of DayZ and Chenarus. It could have fully well been a terrorist attack/lab experiment gone wrong and the zombie problem could be localized to Chenarus only, with NATO and other forces putting the country in as full a lock down as they can, with Idiots (survivors) like us breaking the quarantine to go play zombie killer.

A way around this would be breaking up the maps into different servers on the same Hive, IE say there's 10 Chenarus+ Maps per Hive cluster and 4 Novigrad map servers. You could start on either map, but once you make your choice you have to travel to the other map or die and select a different one. Lets say Novigrad is west of Kamenka, there'ed be an area a few miles from Kamenka next to a road sign where a message would pop up, "There's nothing in this direction for quite a ways, you should make sure you have enough supplies (food, drinks, gas) before going further. Game would figure out how much supplies you have and consume them as you load into the next map. IE say you have 4 canteens and 3 MREs and have just eaten drunk a lot of food and water before hand, you'll consume maybe 2 canteens and 2 MREs before you get to the Eastern edge of the map. If you have a car you'll consume 1 food and 1 drink and about half a tank of gas depending on the vehicle. (if you were on a bike youd consume a little less food and water than on foot). If you only have a can of beans, have a broken leg, and no water and are starving or near starving you'll die on the trip. If you have less gas than you need you'll lose your car (with a chance to take things you really need from the car before you abandon it) and consume a little bit of food and water along the way (unless of course you have a fully jerry can in your car, then'll just consume that)

Classes. And realistically it would have to be at least a week for shit to have gotten to the point where the only non infected in an entire country/province are the ones immune to the virus, and that's a 'worse case' scenario where someone was deliberately spreading the virus and nobody was really making any attempt to stop it. Would have to think it's at least a month since the intial infection (and i mean like patient 0, not just when the infection hit chenarus) The entire world isn't going to break down in the span of a couple of days.

Other then infected zombies, which have a higher chance to give you an infection and deal a little more damage, there are no 'specialized' zombies. Most of the stuff that happened is either a bug/glitch, or just bad luck/rng on your part.

I would call Chenarus a 2nd world country with a lot of rural areas. Rocket has spoken about wanting to do a more 'Western' map, as well as ways to connect maps/servers together (take a boat or car to the edge of the map and you get a 'transport' option or some such), but that'll probably be sometime after the ACTUAL release of Standalone (not the alpha release).

I'd love a bayonet/spear. I can do stealth kills on zombies and still have my gun out? FUCKING SWEEEET!

NO! Don't go away magic Information Fairy! Come back to us!

The one and only time he gave a 'release date' was last year, and even then it was more of a 'we should have it out by the end of this year (2012)', they 'missed' that deadline (they couldn't just port over stuff form the mod to the new engine, so they had to pretty much start from scratch) and ever since Rocket has been VERY gunshy about giving out dates, and whenever he does he qualifies it in some way, "Well we're going to have an internal review in June to see where the game is, and then we'll think about a release date then." People frothing at the mouth have selective hearing...or vision as the case of the internet and saw RELEASE DATE and JUNE and started cranking out the media machine to preach from the top of Everest that Standalone would release in June. Same thing with the 'we have a specific release week in mind', they saw RELEASE and IN and A and WEEK and had a joygasm. People tend to forget that sometimes shit happens. Like when something as simple as a power outage that lasts 5 mins can delay things by a week. A malfunctioning fire sprinkler can destroy an entire office worth of computers and hard drives.

I may be wrong, but this is what Rocket wants to go for, the more you do something, the better you'll be at it (though with the short average lifespan, it wont be something like 'repair 100 items' to skill up, it'll be like 5 repairs and you get a little better till you reach a cap, then when you die your back to 0 for everything). A Dev made class system (where you choose what class you're going to play as before you start playing, IE WoW) has pretty much been confirmed to not be in game.

Not quite what the OP was talking about but yeah, still sounds like a good idea. Most glass bottles are actually fairly hard to break, though Im sure if you swing a JD bottle hard enough it'll break over someone's head, maybe breaking their head in the process. A thin stick could be used as a stabbing weapon, or a thicker one used as a club.

Sounds like a sweet idea, maybe also have it work if you have a chemlight/flare/whatever's going to be handheld light in standalone. Color would affect how well you can see too, IE a red chemlight or military flashlight will make anything red on the map not show up, or not show up well rather, same for green and blue and whatever else their adding to standalone.

Technically SmashT got it first, but I'll still give you beans.

Kids: MOM! You said the Chicken would be ready in 2 hours and its be 2 hours and one minuet! Mom: Sorry but the FUCKING HOUSE CAUGHT FIRE because the oven sucked. We're eating McDonalds and sleeping in the car till the house gets rebuilt, which the contractor said should be in June. Kids: BUT MOOOOOM! We want chicken now! You suck! Dad: Kids...go get my belt. I think Mom, I mean Rocket needs a Dad in this situation.

Thank you, I was going to say if thats what people think a school is, you people must have gone to some shitty schools that got their money by multitasking the classrooms as storage lockers.

Guys guys, come on now...Rocket Clearly stated that it would be released on Smarch 13th 2013, when the weather will be lousy so we can all stay inside and play Standalone. Donuts, I mean beans to the first one who gets that reference.

It is now, was in Off topic before it was moved if I remember correctly.