Spiderdude20

Of course. What else would you be doing there? :P

You've been waiting for two damn years huh? Yeah, and when did the alpha start again?

That would be a good idea... if you wanted to take away clothing items and customization too.

I'm going to be blunt here, and say THIS ISN'T AN ANTI KOS IDEA! Yes, people will be douche bags, and they will shoot you in the face and desecrate your corpse no matter what! BUT, if they value their in game lives, they will be more smarter, and careful about how they go about it!

I didn't say they would be banned on ALL servers, just the server they died on. That way they can still play the game, but it would have to be on a completely different server until the time expires.

Beards... sorry guys. It won't work. Even if you get one, you're still going to be back where you started. You will die, and you won't even give a shit. I've said this COUNTLESS times in other threads, but skills and character attributes would be a great addition! Now for newspawns that have absolutely nothing and they recklessly get themselves killed, well yeah they have nothing to lose. But when they pick up that first can of beans, or can opener, backpack, weapon, whatever, then all of a sudden they go from "Okay, I'm just going to wander into town and see what happens" to "Holy shit! Now lets se- HOLY SHIT A PLAYER! HIDE!" As for skills, things like getting better at cooking, weapon maintenance, clothing maintenance, medical practices etc etc, would be a very effective way to prevent people from needlessly killing themselves. Character Attributes, basically your body adapting to the harsh environment, would also be a good way to promote survival. Now I seriously doubt it would be set to where if a player survives for... 135 days, then they become immune to headshots without a helmet. The Devs aren't stupid. A larger character creation option would also be a big incentive. If you make yourself in the game, you'll be hard pressed to keep yourself alive, would you? No? Then go ahead and shoot yourself when the option comes. Death penalty. People joked about putting in a 8 hr or 24 hr respawn timer. But this is a good idea. *Points gun at your head* NOT A WORD UNTIL I'M FINISHED! THANK YOU! This idea however, is that after you die on a server, you are banned from playing for that server for about 8hrs. That forces you then to play on a different server with a new character. Now what if you're playing with friends? Then oh well, you better tell them what server you moved to, or you will be playing without them. Harsh, but needed.

I need to state, that this might be the wrong game for you. The main element in this game, is to try and survive. It says so on the Steam page! DayZ is a gritty, authentic, open-world survival horror hybrid-MMO game, in which players follow a single goal: to survive in the harsh post-apocalyptic landscape as long as they can. More survival features will be put into the game because of that. So you're going to immediately hate it and move on. But yes, there needs to be a fine balance between intrusive, and non existent. Guess what? That balance is non existent! The only "horror" that's in the game, is when I see other players. Zombies? HA! They are an annoyance, even as a fresh spawn! It's an alpha, I know. But people are instantly assuming this game needs to stay a PvP focused gear grind fest with zombies as the backdrop because there are features planned that aren't in game yet. For a sandbox to work, it needs toys for people to play with. Lots and lots of toys. Eventually there will be a balance between the PvP survival element, and the PvE survival element, fighting off zombies, the weather, wild life and so forth.

*Applauds* You sir get my beans. These are 20 awesome tips that I think everyone should follow. The code one is especially important. It lets you and others know what kind of person you are. My code is a simple one. Don't try to kill me, you live. Don't try to rob me, you live. Don't threaten me, you live. You do any of these three, you better think it through, and accept my offer to back down, or you will die.

Ty! Been wondering how to get into it. :D

Question, how do you get on the experimental servers!?

I have it on my FNX, and I barely miss with it.

lol, it's why I hate 3pp servers. Hardcore all the way!

Ah good ol Electro. You're armed? Nope? BANG DEAD! Yes? BANG DEAD! This is why most rational people avoid Electro, or you go there to kill people. Keep it up! :D

If someone could post to another thread that's already made this idea,we'd love to see it (Search function sucks hard btw :P) With Damny's idea, I think it should happen if you hit the guy with the Blackjack (or whatever you're using to knock the guy out with) more than once, then it should have a higher chance of killing them. For everything else, non-lethal would be great to have against players for all sides. Bandits, tired of constantly finding ruined shit off a person you shot? Say no more and pick up a taser, tranquilizer dart, tear gas, or the many non lethal weapns around and knock the poor sob unconscious, before you rob him blind :D. BUT, these weapons should only work against players, and not against the 'infected humans' otherwise you make an already non threatening threat even more worthless and unnecessary.

About the imprisoning someone idea, it won't work unless there's a way to prevent server hopping. Otherwise, I like this idea!

I'm also boggled by this. When people are talking about realism regarding zombies, infection or not,I facepalm. Are zombies and this virus that infected the civies and military personnel real? If they are, I've never heard about it! You think it would have made the news! Since it's Alpha, zombies aren't very threatening for the moment. Oh wait we can't call them zombies anymore. They're infected humans. <_< Why is this game called DayZ, if they aren't zombies!? Now if they made the 'infected humans' fast like in 28 days later, then I would be shitting my pants and running for the hills, that will slow me down and give the humans a chance to catch up. But then we need to discuss about the players that are armed to the teeth, and ready for war. If these things are alive, then they are too damn easy to kill! You don't need a headshot! Shoot them in the chest, legs, and you're safe! There is no danger for a zombie rushing up to you, and scratching you in the face, or biting you, which they should do if they are crazed! Besides taking damage, there is no other danger! The players being immune to the virus. I'm not going to ask how it's realistic, cause I would look like a hypocrite. But it brings up a point. Why doesn't anyone think to take a sample of any of the survivors blood, and isolate the antibodies, or whatever it is that keeps everybody immune, and develop a cure? I'm assuming that the infected can still be saved with said cure? If not, then WHY AND HOW ARE THEY ALIVE!? Rant over, ready your flamethrowers.

Giant. Zombie. Gorillas. Make it happen Rocket!

Like the title asks, is it possible to ducktape peoples mouths in this game so they can't speak, either by text or public chat? No I didn't become annoyed by someone in game, would have just shot them if that was the case. Just something that came into my mind.

Yeah, no thanks. I like not having my brain throbbing. :P

Time to add fuel to the fire, and since I haven't read the last... ten pages or so, I'm probably going to be treading on familiar ground. First off, I'm sorry you're not enjoying the ALPHA version of the game. I mean, it's not like you bought the game not knowing ahead of time what to expect... right? WARNING: THIS GAME IS EARLY ACCESS ALPHA. PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE IT UNLESS YOU WANT TO ACTIVELY SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAME AND ARE PREPARED TO HANDLE WITH SERIOUS ISSUES AND POSSIBLE INTERRUPTIONS OF GAME FUNCTIONING. That is what's on the Steam page for the game. I'm assuming you read it before you bought it right? So, calling this game crappy when it's still in development, and hasn't even reached beta yet is, well, pointless. Don't get me wrong. I'm not speaking as a fanboi, or a troll, or whatever it is you're going to call me. But saying with 100% certainty that this protect is going to suck isn't very productive. Now having low expectations to avoid disappointment, fine that is fair. My point is, if you don't want to stick around and witness the development of this game, report bugs, and provide feedback, then okay, don't do it then. But don't tell people this game is going to suck and not buy it. That's Dean's job. :P

I was going to say, just say hi to someone rather than sticking a gun in their face and acting friendly. But then I remember what The Governor did in The Walking Dead. For those that don't know, he approached a medium sized group of military soldiers that were pretty heavily armed, and when they lowered their guard when he said he was friendly, he popped one guy in the shoulder before the rest of his group opened fire and completely annihilated the soldiers. So yeah, don't approach me for ANYTHING, or you will die. Trust no one unless you have the upper hand.

Wouldn't you consider every military shooter a hide and seek game? You hide behind cover, and seek baddies to kill, and what does have to do with being killed by zombies, bugs, and inexperience?

You were in Balota. what did you expect? You go to Balota to die, nothing else.

Yeah I can. My own stupidity, suicide, invisible zombie ghosts, and stupidity + zombies. I avoid players like the plague.

As some people have pointed out, this isn't a TDM or DM game like a CoD or BF match. This is an open world, survival horror hybrid MMOG. I've never played the other ARMA games, so I don't know how they play out. But from what I've read, they strive for realism rather than heart pounding twitch gameplay.