Jumbaliah

you should have told them you needed help and were friendly. then when they entered the building you should have greeted them with a bullet to the head. maybe they had morphine after all.

sorry you're having this problem. You would think someone could help a brother out and just simply reset your character. not like you're a paying customer or anything....

sounds like atlis life. lol good idea though, maybe someone will make a mod for it. Or just go get arma 3 and play atlis life. not bashing, just saying.

Will we also have to carry toilet paper? What if I use a surface that gives me a rash? They should add baby powder for those with sensitive skin Think about it. You can't just take a dump in the middle of the street. What are you going to wipe your butt with? They should make different quality wipables that will attract less zombies if the good ones are used. Quiltin Northern > Tree brush > note book paper. If you use the quiltin northern your behind will be nice and clean and no zombies will be attracted. But if you use note book paper you will miss some feces and have some crotch rot that attracts a horde. /sarcasm

Well, you see, people are getting this post-apocolyptic zombie survival game confused with a tamagotchi pet

Cant waiitttttt. It's going to be so good. I'm glad Dean and them paved the way for games like this. Once we get a big developer with stock piles of cash (like SOE) we will finally have an awesome zombie apocalypse game. Yes. It is actually quicker to go into your inventory and just drag the item you want into your hands. The hot keys are broken Wish they would. They should have never released it when they did. It should still be in closed Alpha as painful as that may sound.

Again, I don't want to have to time my bowel movements with a game. ;)

Same. When it goes that route this game is going a route I just don't want it to go. They rumored about it in the mod as well and there was just as much of a kerfuffle at that time as well. A lot of people say it's about the fact that kiddies will abuse it and poop on our corpses or throw it around at balota, which is true they will, but it goes much further than that in my eyes: It's distasteful - I can't think of any way to implement a mechanic like this without at one time seeing the message on my screen "i really have to take a poop". Even if there is no "high def" visual of you squatting and making a little brown baby it's going to be implied and it's going to leave a sour taste in my mouth. If the screen blacks out and you do your business it's just cheesy, they won't go that route.You can implement all the disease mechanics you want without pooping - Contaminated wells, passing disease onto other survivors, spoiled food, infectious weapons and clothing, etc. All these can be accomplished by other means other than someone took a shit in my well or I crapped my self in a gunfight. I just don't want to think about it - As it is currently and I hope it continues to expand (in a different direction) you are constantly thinking about the health of your character. Thinking about where you will get your next meal, especially if you are travelling long distances, being prepared for broken legs or zombie attacks with the right equipment are all justifiable means of survival that I want to think about in a video game. They are fun and I enjoy it. Needing to find a spot to crap between my journey from NE to NW is not fun and I don't want to have to even think about it while playing a game. It's going to be broken and unrealistic just to be a nuisance - Ever go a week without taking a dump? I have. Especially on a low calorie diet such as our survivors are you can probably get away with only needing to take a crap once every other maybe every third day. When it's implemented in DayZ you can almost guarantee you will have to take a crap every third can of food you eat. The Walking Dead doesn't focus on their characters pooping - AMC's hit zombie drama doesn't focus on their characters taking a crap and how they overcome the struggle without any toilet paper. It may be in an episode or two but if it's in DayZ you will take thousands of shits within the course of a couple hundred hours of play. So how does the hit T.V. show overcome not having the depth of "realism" you would encounter in a real life situation? By just not including it... by making your audience assume that the process takes stage somewhere off screen, because who cares about when the main star of a T.V. series, or your video game character, has to take a dump? If it's implied our characters sleep while we're "offline" it can be implied they poop then, too - You play for 12 hours straight and run across the map 3 times. You're not tired and don't need to sleep. But you took a crap 4 times on your journey. Talking to a friend on steam voice: "Hey, I just spawned and found some food, water, a fire axe and some clothing. I'm gonna duck out to the woods and take a shit then lets meet up in balota"

It doesn't represent the entire community but it does represent a fair sample of the entire community. The sample size may be kind of low as of now but it has been staying around 63% of people who don't want this in the game. All you need for a true sample of a population is a way to randomly select participants without any bias towards the question in hand. I'm not sure what percent of DayZ players are also on the forum, or what percent of forum members aren't on DayZ, but with a few hundred more votes any poll on this forum could be seen as scientifically accurate. (within ~3% deviation from the mean with a few hundred more votes)

You are drinking from streams IRL where there isn't an infectious disease that turns people into living flesh eaters.

If pooping is put in this game we must also be able to do this with it: http://aceflashman.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/frozen-poop-saves-life-of-eskimo-hunter/ TL;DR Eskimo gets trapped in an ice cave, takes a shit in his hands, molds it into a poopsicle in the cold weather, and then stabs a polar bear in the head. Of course we would have to find a way to refrigerate our poop in the summer time, but in the winter this should be a viable option.

I understand that entirely but it's just so distasteful. There has to be a line drawn for realism and i'm pretty sure it's somewhere before pooping. It's not an argument of "I don't want to take care of my character" because I love that portion of DayZ, and I think the vast majority of other players do as well. But I don't want to have to sit there for 5 minutes watching my character pinch a loaf (or even 30 seconds). Aren't there more ways to implement disease mechanics into this game without said pinching of loafs?

theres nothing left to "test" is the problem. we've done everything and told you what needs to be done and you're like "alright. good idea." and then 3 months later something is done about it. i have no doubt the game will get finished and it'll be great, it's just going to take 2 years. Looks like i'll just keep shooting people thru walls and camping on top of fire houses

The more realism the better right? If we really...really want to get into the subconscious mind of the post apocalyptic survivor why stop with pooping?

Oh I understand the reasoning. Every survival mechanic in this game is designed to keep players out of major cities and in smaller towns away from people in order to ensure survival. If you're in elektro and have a turtle head poking it's head out you're going to have to shit immediately or zombies will be all over you (attracted to the smell i would assume) Fortunately, there are better ways to get people to play the game as you want without making them have to take a dump.

If they add pooping then my character should also have the desire to have sex. If i don't have sex then my testicles will swell, become sore, and i'll be very agitated until I release.

If you can actually do those things i'm for it. If i can take a crap and run around elektro with it in my hands, i'm for it. But for some reason i really doubt you will be able to do that. At most you're going to have to shit, your player will squat, take a dumb and that's it. And if you don't your character will get smelly and have zombies attracted. Just a dumb idea all together. F this game

alpha. stop complaining god.

it was? mine wasnt

oh snap. another fan boy

ALPHA god how many times do we have to say it?

any friends.

I'm with the OP. I've found pieces of paper with things like this written on them before. Doubt they actually lead to anything. Just gibberish

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