Odysseus (DayZ)

The great thing about that airfield is that it is a magnet for bad guys. Good guys will run the gauntlet for some decent stuff, but they don't stick around. Bad guys will stay there and prey on unarmed players. That's the game, for them. Therefore: Keep the airfield and the loot, and you keep the bad guys in a known and avoidable location. Remove the loot, and the bad guys will migrate.

I think it is a little too fast, but that it is probably designed to be this was for the sake of encouraging a lot of activity in the Alpha. If my little PMSing bitch of a character didn't need twelve cans of food a day to survive, I would almost NEVER be seen in the towns.

Re: carrying an empty or broken gun. Twice now I have subdued a player with a melee weapon by aiming my empty rifle at him. I am fairly certain, from past experience, these guys would absolutely had bashed me to death had they not thought I had a working gun. My suggestion, then, is the opposite on this account. I say carry a gun and be a good actor. Nobody has to know. And, if you're lucky, you might find the parts or ammo you need eventually.

I'm gonna guess that probably a majority of DayZ players on Christmas Day are probably not very enthusiastic Christians.

I've learned to avoid townships and cities like the plague... but eventually, I've got to start scrounging for food. The risk hasn't been worth it. On the server I've been playing at, today, every house seems to have been ransacked just moments before I arrive. There's been nothing, hardly even any rotten food. Nothing, that is, except gunmen. Now, I'm running the risk of starvation... and it's a shame, too, as I've got some decent gear collected and I really, really do not want to spawn on that damned beach, again. So it got me to thinking... It'd be awfully nice if players could hide in the woods and basically survive on a creek bed. I'm a country boy and a former Boy Scout, I could live out there for months setting traps and living off of the land. Maybe instead of being a lonely and desolate place, the forest could have fruit trees, mushrooms, and other vegetables - and teeming with wildlife, such as rabbits, deer, and turkey. Why not the ability to loot/skin these items and go completely native? How about the rural houses having hunting rifles and bows and arrows? Just thinking aloud.

Thanks for this. Bean'd you.

I like your style, Victor.

I wouldn't want this stuff to be any more rare than it already is... a more even dispersal would be nice, thought, so that "good guys" didn't have to run the gauntlet at the army bases, which are constantly being camped.

I have never killed a fellow survivor. That said, I know my luck - if I were to give up on being what I call a citizen and turned bandit, my first victim would be an honest citizen like I was, and I'd have instant remorse.

Feel free to add me. I've never struck another player, never fired a single shot... but I've been murdered, plenty.

I think this mechanic is going to have to be implemented, somehow, in order for me to enjoy the game long-term. I don't want to run for twenty minutes to meet up with my friend, if we only have thirty minutes to play. Many of us will opt for a different game, in that case.

Looking forward to finding my place, and helping my fellow survivors establish a new world.