sachad

If, might, perhaps, could, ... those are the key words. This stuff isn't set in stone. A fixed morality system sets things in stone. Morality mechanics have no place in DayZ.

Tanker helmets look awesome!

Don't mind ENO75, he's just hatin' cause he sucks at not getting killed.

You're going to milk this thing til the cows come home, aren't you?

I can tell already I'm going to enjoy this place...

You already have armbands, on top of all the other ways to visually distinguish yourself from others. What more do you want? And as for facial recognition, I can't recall the last time I even saw a decently geared player without face cover. Everyon's wearing bandanas, balaclavas or other masks as soon as they pick it up.

Says who? Armored vehicles will be the last of your worries when you're finding nothing but books and rotten zucchinis.

What about just not letting people do combos beyond basic camo print?

Epoch's that a-way --->

I lived exclusively 'off the land' for a while. Only things I looted were clothes, a machete, arrows and things needed to craft gear. I managed pretty well, became a decent shot with the bow even, but I finally switched back to normal playing because things got repetitive after a while. Also, I find that just playing 1PP adds volumes to immersion. You're no longer looking at a guy on the screen, you are the guy.

I'm crying already!

To be fair, the forum cleanup was a necessity, since everyone and their brother would come in here and spam the boards with topics about (perceived) hacking. There is a proper channel to file these reports. The forum is not it.

Most squeakers I've met were pretty friendly, actually.

Plus it'd make for some killer immersion, having your friend propped up against a tree, bleeding out while you desperately rip up a shirt to try and save him in time.

I've got three cases with your name on it, if you can offer me a plain black balaclava!

Team play should be its own reward. If your motivation for it needs to come from a meaningless personal happiness value, then really, you're not a team player, are you? The beauty of the game is that there are no fixed penalties or rewards for playing a certain way. All that matters is whether or not you're alive.

Riders vests that can take more than one punch!

So you sent him to die, is what you're saying? :P

Good grief, next they'll be asking for acoustic guitars so we can sing kumba-ya around the campfire...

Today I indulged in some banditry. I figure with a wipe coming, I might as well. I was headed into tent city at the NWAF, rolling up from the west in a truck I found at Vybor with a great arsenal. AKM with drum mag and spare 30 round mag plus some 80 extra rounds, sawn off with snaploader and about 40 shells, Magnum with speedloader and 120 rounds, 1911 Engraved with spare mag plus two derringers and about 40 spare .45 rounds, some brass knuckles and my trusty black axe. By then I was in clad black, cargo pants, assault vest, Riders vest, gloves, boots and aviators plus a black drybag (of course). Even the AKM was all black and metal. The only flaw was a green balaclava... So I am going through the tents, not finding any rare things, just some ammo and food. I'm just about to enter the lookout post facing the airfield when I spot a zombie aggroing towards the runway. I take a closer look and see two guys running past the hangars. They shoot the zombie with an SKS, which aggros another zombie which is also shot before they enter the camo building. So I decide to teach them a lesson about why it's a bad idea to carelessly use guns at the airfield. I left my AKM and my clothes in a bush, taking only the sawn-off and the magnum, scroundged together a half-decent outfit consisting of green cargo pants, a gorka jacket and a UN helmet, and picked up an SKS from under a tank. Then I waited. About five minutes later, I can see them coming up. I came running out of a tent like an idiot, they panic fired at me while I zigzagged to safety yelling "Don't shoot me I'm friendly!" and threw my SKS away in surrender. They bought the act and told me to come out. I told them I spawned in Vybor and decided to try my luck at the airfield but that I hadn't found much. We did the round again, and gradually they told me more about them. They had morphine, cooked steaks, a rangefinder, an M4 mag from a heli, all things that piqued my interest. But the fatal mistake was telling me that one of them had an MP5 with optics and two magazines. If I had any thoughts of letting them go unscathed, they squashed those thoughts by divulging that. So I told them I was going to leave and try the bases further west and asked them if they wanted to join, they said no, so we said our goodbyes. I went off and retrieved my hidden gear. I waited for them to separate, then snuck up on the one not holding a gun. I managed to knock him out with the brass knuckles and handcuffed him. Then I found the one with the MP5 and shot him in the head with the Magnum. I left the engraved 1911 and some gear and took the MP5 and the magazines, plus a box of 9mm, before going back to the unconscious one. When he came to I told him who I was and what had happened, and why I did what I did. He got really belligerent, so I told him I was going to let him live and keep everything except the MP5 if he calmed down or shoot him too and then hide both bodies. He told me to go fuck myself, so I stabbed him a few times until he passed out from blood loss and finally died. I didn't bother hiding the bodies after all.

Looking for a black balaclava (no skull) and a Riders jacket, preferably pristine. I can give you two empty protector cases for your trouble, both worn, and a rangefinder and/or binoculars, both pristine.

Because a morality system punishes people for a certain playstyle. How are you going to determine if a kill was self-defence or cold blooded murder? How do you know your character is even affected badly by killing? Some people are born killers, others faint at the mere thought of blood. You have a very misconceived view of where this game is going. This is supposed to become the anti-game, as Dean Hall once said. You're talking about punishing people for being violent, and databases where you can look up information. That's just silly. The consequences of your actions should be dynamic and dependent on the environment and circumstance, not hardcoded into the game. And when you remove the ability for people to be complete mysteries to others by giving you access to some eBay-like comments system, you take away all of the uncertainty and fear that comes with meeting people in the game. The thing you need to ask yourself is, how would a meeting go down in real life. You don't pull up a trade screen from 50 yards away, you meet the person and trade. You don't get access to a comment section when meeting someone, you have no idea who they even are. Your complaint is that there's little else to do after gearing up except for getting into firefights. That problem is already being addressed.

'Riders Jacket is completely ruined and cannot be mended'.

Forget breaking limbs, I want zeds to stop one-shot ruining my riders vest!

Dinner is ruined!