ImBored

So apparently chernarus is about 140 miles wide. But people say they can run across the whole thing in 30 mins-1 hour. So what gives? Is it not as big as they say it is? Cause im pretty sure the Chernarus natives dont run at 280 miles per hour. And even if you claim it takes you 4 hours you would still be running at the speed of a fucking cheetah! Maybe im just dumb, so feel free to go ALL CAPS on me if you want, but I dont get it.

No. Heres why I dont think its a good idea: 1. The most unique thing about DayZ is that your not bound to anything that even gives you a hint of how your supposed to play, people are plopped into chernarus and they try and surive, if Rocket wants to change how people plays he tweaks game mechanics he doesnt add stuff in. We want people to make their own trading outposts without having to actually set one up. 2. If its allowed to banditized at all then it will be constantly, it would become a bandit hotspot But the main reason is that we want people to make their own stories nad trading outposts, not do it for them. btw, im not trying to attack you for posting your opinion, im just stating why im against this idea.

Just read an interview between Rocket and some other people, and im not going to search for the interview again to get an exact qoute but basically Rocket said something like "When Dayz was just in sweden everybody helped eachother out and there was no such thing as bandits. Then when we introduced European servers everybody started killing each other." or something along those lines, LOL. Can you imagine, there was a time when bandits didnt exist. personally im looking forward to the updates that will promote team building. Can you imagine small "tribes" of 5-10 people getting into actual Arma style fire fights. Cause lets be honest, right now what DayZ's PvP consists of is getting sniped randomly while running through the woods, and getting shot on sight by noobs, and thats not fun its just annoying...unless your the bandit. And no, I am not a "carebear" as they're called on this forum. Im actually a very hardcore player. But this game is 10X better when you play it with other people, and that type of play needs to be more accessable to everyone.

Yes, my thoughts exactly! Im not a solution giver though, a clan search button might help.

And you should finish reading mine, I was just laughing at the idea that DayZ was once without bandits, not promoting it. And if you read the second part of my post at all you would know I was actually in support of pvp in the game.

As someone who plays Arma more than Dayz, I would have to disagree with you. And Im definitly NOT talking about "bases" or large scale battles. Just small group firefights breaking out occasionally would add alot to the pvp of the game. And I especially want it to highlight the signifigance of loosing a member of your group, so no, people gathering supplies and then getting back into large battles is not what I had in mind. You clearly didnt see my vision.

oh for fucks sake...Im the OP and I realized I didnt think it through very well! So no, all of you people saying 225km2 is 225 on all sides are wrong, you can stop spamming my thread now!

Well, at least I can sleep at night now...lol...

oh I see, sooooo...im an idiot?

Alot of people acting like nobody is friendly in the game, so I've been keeping track of all the people I've met for a few days. So far here are the results: Out of 16 people: I killed 1/16 Tried to kill me 5/16 Friendlies: 10/16 No friendlies? I beg to differ. Results will vary try it for yourself. Post the results.

Well since you said "players converging to get it" or something like that, I assume you want all players to know its location. that would ruin the feeling of being alone and lost in the wilderness of chernarus. And if you dont want all players to know where it is then it would just be a pointless game of stumbling upon it by luck. besides even if everybody did know where it was, the map is so fucking huge that a new supply box would have been dropped by the time anyone got to it. Plus, on the side of realism, who the hell is dropping it anyways?

I can see other peoples flashlights in game just fine

We dont want insight from "new" players. They dont know what they're talking about. Its honeslty not even worth giving your insights unless you've had at LEAST 20-30 survival attempts. Dont mean to be rude but seriously... EDIT: once again dont want to be rude, but I can assure you that my opinions of the game when I first started playing where very different then my opinions now, give the game some time before you start making suggestions for the future of it.

So I actually just spent 10 minutes making this account JUST so I wouldnt have to hear people say "Bandits will have control over the coast without spawn weapons" anymore. Here is why I dont think that will occur: 1. Why would Bandits kill new players, because they basically have NO loot anymore. 2. Bandits will be too busy travelling inland to look for good loot to stay on the coast. 3. There is already evidence that this wont happen, i.e., the thread thats titled "Cherno is actually safer now". 4. The spawn points arent really that predictable (atleast in my expirience). By the time they actually find a new player, they will be starting to get hungry and have to leave and look for food. So maybe im just not understanding why people think this will be a problem, I dont think it will be.

Rocket, if your reading this, dont give us back our starter guns, and don't tone down the zombies! Heres my story: So I just played the new patch for the first time. It started out when I snuck into cherno (or elektro not sure) being careful not to alert any zombies (which really isnt that hard if you just use patience). I made my way into a firestation where I found an AK-47 and 3 mags for it. Just as I was walking out two guys with assault rifles ran past me (definitly no shortage of guns with the new patch!). They were being attacked by a horde of zombies and the horde started chasing me too. All three of us ran into a church where we briefly fought of the MASSIVE horde. They ran out of the church after that and I was going to follow them but I heard sniper fire and saw one of them drop to the ground, so I decided to just take my new weapon and make a run for the forest, gun shots whizzing by my head as I left the city. It was complete choas and complete fun. Not sure if others have had similar expiriences or not, but im loving the patch. and on top of all that, for the very first time my charcter was actually starving and thirsty! ive never had a shortage of food in the game before! Rocket if you are reading this, I love the patch!