EchoRomeoCharlie

Most people that live in, or decided to stay in medium to large cities would be dead by that point. Food would have dried up, water would be worthless because there are too many people in too small of an area. The people with weapons will have taken over and hoarded any food/water left. which won't be much if any at the 5 year mark. Large cities will pretty much be waste lands. People in smaller towns would have to fight off the influx of the city dwellers that decide to come to the country at first. Most people in smaller towns or living in the country will have died as well since the vast majority of people today have zero survival skills past what they saw on Dual Survival on the discovery channel. They have zero knowledge on how to kill and process game let alone how to preserve meat without refrigeration. People with the absolute best chances to still be alive after 5 years of societies collapse will be people living in the country greater than 10 miles from any interstate and greater than 50 miles from any medium sized city. They will be farmers, hunters, and already have provisions to heat their homes with wood.

Shoulder smash the door from the inside? How many houses do you know of that are locked from the outside? lol...I don't think you thought that through all the way.

I like the idea of being able to cancel a log-out. I think you should stay with your character during the logout wait time with the ability to cancel it at any time. Combat loggers don't want to cancel it at any time so it would allow people legitimately trying to log out to avoid being killed while logging out. I don't like the proximity check...it's going to be exploited to see if an area is clear to loot. The proximity log in check is a decent idea...but it's going to allow loot farmers that are looking to farm good area's free pass at the area. Now when they get to log in without the prompt, they know for a fact, nobody is within x amount of meters of them. Bad. When they deny logging in, they circumvent the wait time. Double bad.

Yeah...that character does stay dead...which is why you spawn with nothing and no stores that you put together in your previous life.

Agreed. During the outbreak, people are going to be finding places they think are safe and they're going to carry weapons to get there safely. Churches, schools, fire houses, community buildings, malls, etc all fair game IMO.