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Possibly too late to influence things, but I hope DayZ doesn't ever get the capacity to build your own buildings. For me that is totally unrealistic, and would negatively impact the feel of the game. Why would you build your own building when you don't have months of time, probably don't have house-building skills, and in any case you live in a world that should be full of abandoned buildings? Creating your own buildings would change the feel of the game completely - its not city building game, its a scavenge and stay alive and interract with people (either by talking or shooting) game. It feels like the first month or two after the infection starts. If players could start building stuff and making guild-like towns and whatever, it would feel more like a year or two after the infection, when things are less chaotic and new stable social structures are being created. Less about surviving the chaos, and more about taming the chaos. Meh.

I don't like the idea of sleepers, don't like the idea of players being able to "own" more than what is on their backs and in their pockets.