Deathlove

loosing all your gear would just piss players off to the point of it only making camping ppl more of an issue.

You can wear soldier clothing with clown mask and stuff. Iv done it before XD

Shotgun will be coming though so if you see any of the GREEN shotgun ammo save it. Because im sure its going to be ether for penetrating heavier armored characters or be better for some situations rather than the red ammo.

Would love to see some police based clothing and weapons maybe. Riot and SWAT gear would be cool for those that dont want a military look.

Yeah i have some there good stuff.

Military loot should always represent some what of a higher advantage as the gear was designed before things went to hell. Mainly civilization as we once knew it to be. So allot of tech used to make high end weapons and synthetic fibers will be lost. I mean SOME crafted items and found ones other than military should give a higher advantage but i dont think it should dominate. Maybe the ability to ACTUALLY craft military gear you CANT find would be something ideal but they would take items that are very rare and hard to find in order to craft them while you wear whatever.

Well i was Looting this big town just a few minutes ago at night has allot of railway systems and stuff that go with it I think. But anyways i was looting this storage room in one of the bigger buildings in town when this guy with a flashlight pops in. I had my lamp on but i quickly turn it off and run to the other side of it. But this guy with the flashlight comes in and vaguely catches me as i run past him in the other room. I than turn on my lamp and ready my axe. This guy in front of me starts trying to voice chat with me. Being nice and what not. Was impressed that i could get out a weapon without holding a flashlight. He ask me how i did it so i went back into the main storage area and showed him the extra lamp. I than procured a spare gas tank i had than told him to take the lamp and combine it with that and you should get the desired effect. Than we started talking about how hard it was to find food and told him about being able to use an axe to open cans and stuff with. Told him to watch out for bandits and what not and he seemed surprised that they were already coming in game i guess. Well i didnt want to stick around TO long with this guy because you know that gut feeling you get. Went outside of the town and on a hill and rested while i watched this guy mill around the buildings with his new toy. Wasnt planing on killing him or anything but I decided to go back in to the town. Now I went to the opposite side of the town where this guy was looting because i didnt feel like any accident encounters again. Thats when things got weird and a little scary. See i was crossing one of the main street allies to the other side of buildings when i noticed the same guy i gave the new lamp to with it on in the middle of the street further down. I noticed another figure with him looked like a zombie but no it wasnt. Upon watching a little more it was ANOTHER player with him without a flashlight on and they were not fighting or anything i think just talking. Anyways I got the hell out of there FAST considering i had NO gun to fight them with. Was running though the remainder of houses and over fences briefly turning on my normal flashlight than back off again to make sure i got steady direction. And i would stop and wait a little looking back and they started making there way over to where i was slowly. Now it started to kick in my mind they just VERY well might be hunting me but it might be paranoia. So I ran to the train yard and went to a high enough building to where i could see better and SURE enough they were making there way OVER to the same area i was in. By then there was no doubt in my mind this guy was two faced now that he had another partner with him. I stayed on top of the roof as they walked below me with the light off and i could hear slight voiping. They were talking about seeing flashlight flickers in the area and i pretty much said screw it and logged. And that my fun little story. Moral of the story its ok to be nice to ppl but the minute you see the same guy grouping with another that he DIDNT bother to tell you about its time to leave and FAST.

Yeah they kept coming closer every time i turned it on. lol naw they probably just wanted to get some easy gear. Considering iv been watching videos of groups of players mugging ppl just for flashlight batteries or blood alone.

I have but not in this game it dosnt upset me though.

True but i find it odd they would have to hunt down where the flashing light was going they could have just avoided it all together lol.

That would have been cool lol. But its a sandbox game there is no moral code of right and wrong of what to do.

There are bigger things to worry about than some one logging during a fight. Not really because it saves me the trouble of engaging them. As long as theres any unrealistic things like logging out and starting on a different server there really is no survival aspect. I can think of 2 other games you can do this in as well that are supposed to be survival based.

Lol this should be more directed to ppl that combat log farm military areas and airports though. I only did it once this time because i didnt feel like putting up with it again believe me i stay normally but i get a little sick of looking for things just to loose it to some lucky ass hat or hacker with god mode.

You miss the point its not about the combat logging. Its about be careful who you trust. To an extent i sometimes care more about the loot than rather start over again. Being nice almost bit me in the ass hard. Honestly if it came down to it i would try to fight them both if need be but being gunless kind of changed tactics.

Considering it was 2 on one and I only had a melee. one had an axe and im sure the other one had a pistol. It would have been an easy kill for them if i tried to retaliate. Who knows there might have been another with them to.

I dont mind coop. I mind it though when the ppl coop to hunt me down. had i had a M14 I would have taken them out the minute they tried to follow me aways.

They had there weapons drawn and i wasnt about to find out if they were friendly or not.

Naw hearing there voip they were looking for me for loot reasons thats the only reason why they would try to follow my light source without calling out.

I had other decent things rather than guns i DIDNT want to loose. Like enough food and soda to keep me stable, a portable stove burner which is still pretty damn rare for cooking on, can opener in top shape, some antibiotics and actual bandages i cared not to loose. Almost as valuable as guns itself. No hate its just a smart thing to do especially if they didnt STOP following me and im sure one of them had a gun.

Again a rare explosive device that you can put in your backpack that can destroy gear and hurt players if they go to loot would be fine by me. Would make ppl less KOS. Ppl still will but it will be fare smaller especially if you see a well geared player. There may be a 50% chance he has one on his body when you go to loot.

What i could SEE being implemented to make lives JUST as valuable as gear itself would be a device. Some kind of rare explosive trap device you activate it and type in some kind of code so only you can disarm it but basically when your in an area you think your going to encounter ppl if they just want to kill you for loot they have the HIGH chance of not only destroying the gear but the other player themselves or severely crippling and wounding them when the explosive goes off. I could see ALLOT of ppl wanting to avoid pvp just for gear in fear of running into a player like this.

Well if i remember correctly didnt shooting some one or beating them up with a melee degrade some of the gear? Maybe it needs to be upped to higher risk to make ppl stop. Im all for skills to be honest i just dont want it to be a mandatory you must to survive. Cosmetic skills would be ok.

The problem with skills on characters would be that it really WOULDNT matter how good you are at something allot of players will still kill you for the gear which is still more viable than co operating with a player. Sadly this idea has been explored in both ISS and Nether and even though there are no cooking skills ppl still KOS ppl regardless. Even worse when you die in Nether your skill points and lvls reset so im not sure i want to do this over and over and over again just to get a desired result for living a bit better.

Iv memorized where the nearest military base and town is cause i always seem to spawn at the same area but its a HUGE risk every time considering everyone server hops for the good stuff but as soon as i get geared enough i get the hell out of there. And yeah until hunting gets put in your just going to have to try and find as much canned and bottled water as you can.