aj_ (DayZ)

A humanity meter would be pretty nice. It would solve the problem rather elegantly if you simply gave respawning benefits to humane players, and harsh penalties to murderers. For example, an extremely humane player could spawn with a mosin and some ammo, and a serial killer would spawn without a flashlight and starving. The tradeoff would then be between starting off with better gear and being able to gear up fast by killing other players. The problem however is deciding how you gain / lose humanity. You can't just say "well if I kill a player then I should lose a lot of humanity", because what if you killed him to defend yourself or one of your buddies? What if I just knocked someone unconscious but then looted all his gear, potentially sealing his fate? Any system you put in place to detect who started a fight or to gauge the severity of players' actions would be necessarily complex, flawed and open to abuse, because players are crafty. I don't think there is an elegant solution to this problem.

Yes. It was horrible to experience it, but great that it got me thinking.

I'm a newbie, and currently healthy. I've had to bandage twice due to zeds, with rags which I didn't clean (didn't even know you could do that). Never ingested anything that wasn't food (non-spoiled) or water / soda. That means no vitamins, no antibiotics, etc.. Drank several times from ponds and wells. I always have too much food in my inventory, so when I find one I eat it immediately, but I never binge eat. I also sprint all the time and never stop to regain my breath.

Depends on the food. Some anecdotal evidence (separate incidents): - ate a box of cereals; became thirsty. Could be a coincidence. - ate a can of beans; no longer thirsty.

This game has the buggiest mouse input I have ever seen in my 10+ years of gaming, and frankly I find it scandalous that you would release software like this, even alpha (as the mouse input is the single most important thing in a shooter). Please fix it ASAP.