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Body bags starting to move and follow you (caterpillar style) around hospitals, etc. ...Or maybe not. :rolleyes:

Nice. Any chance of a link? :)

I thought Rocket mentioned some time ago that this was being looked into? Dropping grenades from helicopters might be cool, too. :)

An attempt to redeem myself after my crappy "hurricane lamp" suggestion. ;) My suggestion is to be able to craft infrared 'viewers' from things like old video cameras / cameras and phonecams (all very common everywhere) and infrared lamps scavenged from security systems in shops, carparks or just IR filters used in photography (also pretty common) stuck over a regular flashlight. Q - "Don't be silly. Who the fuck would be 'tech savvy' enough to make one of these?" :rolleyes: A - "Anyone who can operate a roll of duck tape! ;) Just about any digital camera will do but newer ones have an infrared filter in them to keep IR light out which sometimes needs to be removed (older cameras are better because they don't have them). You can test this theory out right now if you want...Get your camera or phonecam out and get the television remote control. View the end of the control through the camera and press any button on the control - you'll see a light come on at the end. Now try it without viewing through the camera and you will see nothing. Illuminate something in infrared and you will be able to see it through just about any digital camera. This is more of a germ of an idea really, and I'm hoping that others might be able to expand it a little into something that could be able to be utilised in the crafting aspect of the game. Again...thought, please?

I'd be interested to know the actual percentage of servers that do operate a day and night cycle and the reasons why people do or don't play on them.

Lol. I don't play the game (yet) so I don't know how many servers are set up in permanent daylight. (Kinda goes against the whole 'realism' thing, IMO.) I just read around the forums and saw that folks seemed to covet NVG's and thought this might be a good alternative until a player gets some. Perhaps if stuff such as this were more obtainable then people might want to play in the dark more, maybe....I dunno.

I'm closer to the senile end of the spectrum. ;)

Correct. Though, I think a powerful conventional lamp with an IR filter over the lens would do, too.

Not hand-held ones, though I imagine they must exist. I've seen small security cameras with IR LED's around them for sale on Ebay:- http://www.ebay.co.u...=item2ec3d86d0c Problem is, led's are weak and I think some of them glow in the dark - which would be undesirable ingame, I think.

Ahem.... :rolleyes:

@mZLY....The suggestion is somewhat different from NVG's and night scopes which work on an entirely different principle altogether (image intensification)....Although, NVG's and night scopes can also see stuff illuminated by infrared light. (Night scopes I used in the military also came with an IR torch attached to them.) This is essentially a 'poor man's night vision' which would enable visibility of stuff within the range of the IR light source, it doesn't work by amplifying low levels of available ambient light. The advantage over a regular flashlight is that other players would not be able to see the light. It's probably best suited to creeping around buildings or woods, etc. in the pitch dark rather than sniping people at a distance. - If you wanted to, say, ambush someone in the dark from a distance then you could 'plant' the IR light source at the appropriate spot and then watch from a distance through the camera.

Yep. I suspect this is because there's a filter behind the lens blocking the IR light from getting to the sensor. I don't know the reason as to why they do this. I suspect it's to try to ensure that the image taken is more faithful to what you actually see with the eye instead of picking up extraneous light from IR sources like security lights, etc.....Who knows?

I remember that guide from a while ago. :) It's not quite what I'm suggesting. My idea is little more than taping an IR torch to a digital camera of some sort and viewing via the LCD display. I thought this would be more practical since there's no soldering or fiddling with circuit boards required.

I'm not sure I understand. Are you confusing the hurricane lamp thread with this one, perhaps?

Ghillies seem to be quite sought-after items but (I think) not the sort of thing one would just find lying around given the Chernarussian scenario, so why not make them craftable? Possible ingredients:- Flight suit (From dead or zombified aircrew). Camo netting (Often talked about here in suggestions so why not put it to other uses as well if it makes it into the SA?). Glue or string for attaching the netting (Available at all good shops, supermarkets, etc.) Hessian/burlap sacking (Found all over the place, particularly farm sheds, etc,). Paint / spray paint and/or boot polish (Again found in various places). Rifle camo could easily be crafted from just hessian and maybe some paint for added effect. Just a thought... :)

Did a quick search but found nothing specifically pertaining to them. My apologies if the suggestion has already been raised. Pros - Obvious, really. Give limited range of vision when in darkness. Can be used to signal choppers, etc. like a flare. Cons - Will likely attract unwanted attention but might be useful as a decoy/trap if left sitting somewhere and then the area is watched from a distance. Need matches to light one. (I toyed with the idea of being able to throw them like a Molotov with a limited chance of setting fire to the target...But 'meh'.) Thoughts?

They're also called barn lamps in some parts. I understand there are plenty of those in the mother land. Also, the flame (and therefore brightness is adjustable to a certain extent). I made the suggestion because I thought it might add variety to the game. If the idea is impractical or not really worth bothering with then it's no biggie.

How long do chemlights last?

Make players really suffer and give them supermarket 'own brand' stuff. ;)

Nice idea. It would also be nice if windows could be blacked out in some way to help avoid detection...Though, I suppose the smoke would be something of a giveaway.

I agree on all the points above. Powerful lamps and batteries could be salvaged from chopper crash sites, though I don't know where you might get a large enough IR filter for the front...Maybe sheets or rolls of IR filter plastic could be had from schools/labs, etc? ....Or maybe military choppers have good IR lights on them as part of their Forward Looking Infra Red system? I don't know. Maybe some research would give a better idea. I think it could be cool if you could set up an IR lamp or lashlight somewhere and then watch from a distance with a camera/phonecam as a sort of trap that will illuminate people without them even knowing. "Besides the gadgets. You should have a button to keep your eyes closed for a while, so when you open them your vision adjusts better to the dark. " Slight derail. - Did you ever wonder why so many pirates are depicted as wearing an eye patch? It's not necessarily because they'd lost an eye. Imagine you are a pirate captain on the deck of your ship in bright Carribean sunshine and you have to go into the gloom below decks to read charts, or whatever. You wouldn't be able to see shit even with the oil lamps lit...So what do you do? Answer - Lift up your eye patch revealing one eye that is accustomed to dark...Voila! Instant night vision! B)

Lol. I don't even have the game. - Nor am I married anymore and my son (from a previous relationship) is a strapping man in his 20's. Just to be clear - I don't advocate any sort of domestic violence. :)

Beat the wife and kids up. ;)

Yes, batteries occurred to me. There are various ways one can recharge phone / camera batteries without the regular mains adapter but these are probably too complicated for an in-game crafting system, I suspect. Maybe they could be recharged through vehicle cigarette lighter sockets and just assume you always have an appropriate adapter with you?

Hehe.