The Power Nap

Rocket, Are vehicles going to be in the Foundation Build initial release at all? Or are you going to leave them out until the related mechanics are polished? In respect to Arma 2 glare: It's like Steven Spielberg took control of my eyeballs and set them to fuzzy nostalgia. I keep trying to wipe the Vaseline off my monitor to no avail :)

While blood spattered hallways are fun, but I think more evidence of people's lives being frozen in time are far more distressing; at least to me. Children's toys on the floor, half-cooked/burnt meals on the stove, phone off the hook, that sort of thing. When my grandfather passed I wasn't upset till I had to deal with tidying up his house. Cleaning out the fridge, seeing the half eaten sandwich that he was never going to finish, the reminders for doctor's appointments that were moot now, that is what finally made me break down. As a survivor going through somebody's house I think seeing a post-in on the wall reminding a child to take their school lunch, and that mommy loves them, would have more impact on what has been lost then a bloody hand-print. my 2 cents

Happened to me a few times. Last time I was prone right next to a tree. I could see it trying to spawn me in at an invalid location, causing all this.

I think most ideas posed in here are workable. But I think instancing will be something that only happens in the stand alone. I don't think ArmA 2 can handle it out of the box. I'd love to be proved wrong, though.

So basically like hardcore on Fallout? Why not? It's a good system.

Another possible option is making some of the currently un-enterable houses instances like the new Fallout. Paired with the sleeping bag item and the fortifications that have been proposed in this thread, it could meet most of our requirements. The only flaw, and it is a serious one, is that you cannot defend the house from within it. You are also vulnerable to people camping the exits of the house, though this could be deemed a realistic threat. Some of us take sleeping seriously... :)

Why not add a sleeping bag item that you could deploy inside a building. If you "save" to the sleeping bag you can spawn inside that building, otherwise it's outside for you. That allows you to fortify a building, keep server hoppers from bypassing, and allows you to spawn inside your own safehouse.

Zombies want ice cream, but they can't pay so they just punch. Sounds like a lyric from a song, either heavy metal or ska.

Jump Kicks Soccer Mini Game Team Fortress Style Hats Chest Bumps, with associated buffs for showing love to your brochachos (no homo) Bike Locks Player built Breweries Manticores David Bowie Playable arcade machines in run down pizzerias in both Polana and Dubrovka, extra pancakes if both "Splatterhouse" and "Rastan" are implemented Repairable Smart Cars Repairable Stunt Planes High Heel Shoes Repairable NASCAR racers Jellyfish A large Minotaur that roams the area of Guglovo. When he sees you he screams "DADDY!" and runs at you full boar. Drops NVGs. Repairable Ice Cream Trucks. Plays the music whenever it moves. Extra pancakes if the music speeds up the faster the truck goes. Collectible DVD minigame. Forest Fires. Armies of Religious fanatics believing this is the end-times, converting or killing anybody they see. The ability to ring the church bell. Sailboats Road signs as melee weapons Zombies as melee weapons No paved roads Pet Cats Rat Traps, more common than bear-traps. Breaks toe instead of leg. Deploy-able two story houses. Repairable Air Conditioners. Repairable Steam Roller. Air Horns as items. A lot like the Enfield, spawns in a lot of zombies who chase you down. BB Guns. Repairable double decker buses. Haircuts.

Restraints and less-than-lethal weaponry has been suggested before. I'm on board with this idea, but you have to de-grief it a bit. You can't have people stun-locking someone for an eternity. So either enable respawn if they are knocked out/tied up, or have it kill someone if it is done to them repeatedly. Other than that, bring on the rubber bullets, zip-tie handcuffs and bean-bag rounds.

Something I proposed

My 4th post in this thread. I like that you ignored the 'not a discussion of' before it. You're skimming my posts about as much as I'm skimming yours, in short thanks for the bump.

I support arm bands, but I don't think there should be any server restrictions on who gets what color. If you can infiltrate a group by finding the same color armband you've earned it. That being said there should be a crapload of colors...

Seriously, this is a discussion on an alteration to a current mechanic not a philosophic discussion on the validity of 'Lord of the Flies'. You can try and argue that everybody would start shooting each other but that is simply not the case, full stop. Man is a social animal and will suffer brain injury if not in a social environment. ArmA is a simulation, thus shortcuts are needed for all the data you take in on people in real life. The humanity/bandit system is such a shortcut. If you want to argue that it is an incorrect shortcut start a thread/contribute to that thread. They shoot because death is not real in DayZ. It might work if you get permabanned from the HIVE when you die. We all know that is unfeasible, so workarounds must happen.

I would only support this if the bush made a cartoon popping noise when deployed.