MoebiuZ

Do you really think doing atrocities is the normal status of an human being? Most of these examples are not as natural as it seems. Soldiers in war actually are psychologically affected for murdering (following orders, by the way). People working for cartels, or african pirates, etc are dead threaten, or wasted by drugs when doing atrocities. Yes, there are individuals in the world that totally lack of humanity, but these cases are not the usual, and they are insane in most cases. My point is that being a player killer in a videogame has no consecuences, and a player (not the character) feels fun "ruining" the progress of another player. And don't take this negativelly, all of us like that sometimes and the most the other player is humilliated or their progress broken, the most we enjoy, don't use the excuse of being "roleplaying" an evil character. But in a game like this that shoulnd't be the objective, but a real survivalism experience. Yes, with it's player vs player, but making sense. Being at a roof for hours to kill some random peeps, or making hunting groups to roam the map looking for players to gank doesn't make any sense on a zombie apocalypse. And that diesn't self-regulate, never did in any game. Well, perhaps in Eve online, where bandits actually had something to lose. That's the reason I'm suggesting some game mechanics, that perhaps aren't the better, but it's possible to do something to regulate that transparently. Is not about to make friends a become hunter of bandits, because that is just the same "let's have fun killing other players". (btw, making friends in a game where everybody shoots you in the back or from a roof is almost impossible, and bring them from a forum or other reallife friends is as artificial as imposing some restrictions to regulate the game)

Since DayZ is (or should be) a zombie apocalipse simulator, not a military simulator, here are my suggestions: Killing other players PVP is good for the game, but not when it becomes the only point of the game. When you kill another player in a videogame it has no consecuences, and is fun, so becoming a bandit for no reason is the easy option, and like is happening with DayZ mod, the player interaction other than shoot first, then ask becomes almost nullified. In a real world, killing other person for no reason (or even with a reason) is not as easy, and it has a great psychological impact. So I think humanity should be used to simulate that situations, and to add a cost for being a bandit: - A player killing another player for no reason (for example, he isn't very hungry or thirsty with no food on inventory) should get a great humanity decrease. - Negative humanity should have negative effects on the player. A psychologial effect. First he can start having shakes (adrenaline and guiltyness). Then he can start speaking alone (revealing his position). And with a very negative humanity, he can start becoming mad (similar to random blackouts when low blood, he can start losing character control. Let's say, the character do weird things like starting to run for no reason, or start shooting to air due to madness). Other kind of things could be lack of famine, degrading his health in th same way of eating always the same food. - Exceptions to these humanity decrease could be things like self-defence, or shooting a "flagged" player. FLAGS A flagged player is a player who you can shoot with no (or very low) humanity consecuences: - A player that robbed you - A player who shooted you - A "war declaration". That war declaration should be for groups (so should be a mechanic to make groups). This kind of thing could be used for players willing to play pvp with another group of players, for example defending their camps, without ruining the playstyle of other players, or loners being shooted for no reason at all. OTHER SUGGESTIONS - Zombies should be a real threat in the game, not a secondary threat compared with players. - Military grade weapons like sniper rifles or launchers should be non existant, or extremelly rare (like 1 or 2 in the entire map), and their ammo too. Civilian weapons should be more important for a game like this. A game full of snipers is just gamebreaking like we already experienced on DayZ mod, and the game loses their whole point. I know some pleople likes that kind of playstyle, but there are already tons of games for doing that, and in this game it doesn't make sense. - Sneaking robbing should be more exciting and rewarding that shoot and rob. Mechanics for that would be cool. - Overall, the game should be focused on survivalism, adding tons of features for that, and leaving pvp as a feature more, not the most important feature. SURVIVALISM - Fishing - Lockpicking (doors, boxes) - Cure researching (end game feature) - Clothing sewing (repair) - Hunting traps