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I have a feeling that there are a lot of people out there who probably feel exactly the same way you do, even if they still play it and don't voice that opinion. Eventually, fatigue is going to set in. It's inevitable. That's why building a new play space seems like a worthy goal.

Brainstorming is better done with multiple people who share your interest or knowledge of the topic at hand. For example, let's say someone goes into detail about how they want a jungle themed map with ruins and a research station. Maybe that isn't the idea that gets used, but perhaps that suggestion later influences a decision to add a dense section of forest or a lab somewhere. Maybe this isn't the best example ever, but I think you can see what I'm getting at. It's sort of a chaos theory kind of thing. You never know what a person might say that could later inspire something you might not have thought of otherwise. What I'm really trying to do here is a get a bead on what the community would find interesting. Over the years I've learned that if I were to make a game purely for myself and to my tastes alone, very few people would want to play it. I'm pretty particular and I'm not being pretentious or bragging. It usually means that I get 1-3 titles a year that I actually want to keep playing, if that. Last year sucked. I'm still playing BF4 from late 2013. Even with the problems it had, there just wasn't anything else out there to give me my shooter fix that I found to be deep enough to hold my interest. I still make a habit of playing through the most important games each year if they add something valuable to the industry whenever I get the chance. I just finally got the opportunity to play The Last Of Us, for example. Most of the top ten list of any given year are games that I don't find particularly interesting. That is not to say that I don't understand why people like CoD or GTA (just examples). I absolutely get it as I've devoted a lot of time to making sure I understand. It's just that I don't always enjoy the same kinds of experiences that others do. So with that in mind, I just want to see what kinds of things people want to see in DayZ. I already see one trend emerging and not just from this thread. People, or at least Americans anyway, want an American map. That might be the best way to say it. I'm looking for trends at the moment. Common core concepts that underline the words written.

It's off topic for this thread and I'm trying to do something positive here. I don't normally say anything when people start derailing a thread, even my own, but this is important to me. Let's please try to stay on topic.

This is a very important point, I think. This is going into my notes for sure as a primary design goal. Thank you for your input.

Guys. Please. Can we just quit with the back and forth about the legality of owning automatic rifles?

I was going to try to stay away from talking about my own ideas too, too much until a discussion really got going, but your suggestion touched on something kicking around in my head for awhile that might actually be able to satisfy a lot of the more common suggestions from the forums. A snow covered map. A 15 level hidden miltary complex in and under a mountain. Rural sleepy mountain towns nestled around the mountain range. A transition to lower altitude. Plains eventually becoming miles of suburbia and a large city. I'm thinking Colorado I guess. Colorado Springs fits these ideas perfectly.

The other problem is the comparatively slower velocity of the 7.62x39mm round, making it a less suitable choice for hitting targets, particularly moving ones, at range.

Now that is an amazing idea.

You touched on the failure of in-game walkie talkies. There is a really good reason why they failed. Teamspeak, Steam chat, Skype, etc. are all safer means of communicating with your squad. Since it's highly unlikely that BI would be willing or able to stop players from utilizing VOIP services outside of the game, I don't see how this issue can be helped. They can add as many options for in-game communication as they want, but I don't see any of them being much more effective than the walkie talkies. Your post is, overall, very informative and interesting to me as a student of game theory, but I doubt very many are going to take the time to read it. Cool post though. Have beans.

Thanks for your contribution. I'm not sure how much I will go into altering the gameplay and item balance versus Bohemia's final defaults, but, of course, going with an American map would definitely require the addition of some very obviously awesome items. This has some really great potential.

I have no experience with modding Bohemia games, but I'm 100% sure I will be able to learn. Thanks for the heads up though. I'll begin looking into those tools now to be better prepared.

I dislike the majority of the PVP bullshit that is all over Youtube for this game, but watching stuff like this brings a tear of joy to my eye. Fully geared players camping on the coast deserve to be executed. Well done.

The first thing I did when I found a Longhorn was try to put the scope on a Magnum. :(

I found them in the concrete floor sheds that have a roof that slants down from a high point to one side and a regular door on the said that you can't open or close. I've also found them in police stations, several different houses, and, if I'm not mistaken, at the wrecked civilian pickup trucks that you can find all over the place.

Antibiotics and keeping yourself hydrated and energized. I don't think charcoal has any impact on cholera because cholera is not a poison. You want to basically find a pack of pumpkin seeds, some lime, a hoe and a field shovel (in case of server reset you can have two tools to wear down and redo your garden plot) a well that is off the beaten path, and then hunker down and ride it out.

I wonder if I should start designing a new map for DayZ.... There's no reason why a person couldn't do that once the Enfusion toolset comes out right? So I could start brainstorming and prototyping a map , creating assets, etc. now and by the time the mod tools become available I can be ready to get to work. Exciting stuff, this.

You know what might work? A digital roll of the dice every time you fall with a scaling set of positive and negative outcomes based on height ranging from being perfectly fine as though nothing had happened to instant death with levels of injury in between. Might want to fix desync first though.

I'd like to have to use pliers to pull bullets out of myself. Maybe have to use antibiotics afterwards to ward off infection.

Is that really what everyone is doing? I assumed there would be some people doing it, of course, but I was beginning to think it was odd that I can go from Novaya Petrovka to Svetlojarsk finding unlooted gatehouses, police stations, and hummers all along the way without seeing another soul. On a full 50 player 3PP server. Multiple days of the week. It made me wonder what the hell everyone was doing.

Persistence is off for everything but vehicles.

So, the real takeaway for me from this thread (sorry for the derailing OP! :lol: ) is that I have absolutely no idea how scopes are designed to work in real life and DayZ is going to force me to learn if I want to be effective at range. I've been playing FPS/TPS games since Goldeneye on the N64 when I was pretty young, but I guess all the games that I have played that featured mildots and lines of all sorts in scopes have conditioned me to ignore everything but the very center point of my sight. In most games, it is even likely that the targeting lines (or whatever they are called) are unnecessary fluff just for the sake of the scope looking cool. In this game, it is (or will be, eventually?) actually giving me useful information. I vaguely understood that the Battlefield games have sniper scopes with lines and marks that can be used to gauge distance, but I never bothered to learn it because I never found it to be particularly necessary.

Back in 0.55, people claimed you could do this. I have never gotten it to work. My assumption was that select fire simply hadn't been implemented yet or it had something to do with my control scheme.

You guys are fucking awesome. I just want you to know that. Seriously. Awesome. So if I'm understanding this correctly, in order to hit the center chevron at 400 meters, the slower 7.62x39mm round must arc higher, which is why I am missing shots at 30-50 meters that I used to make with ease.

See I wondered if the fact that the scope was set to 400 and unchangeable was a bug or something. Most other scopes I have interacted with have allowed zeroing to several different ranges. I'm not 100% sure I understand. Any way could humor me and give a little more detail? Maybe some links or pictures or something? Forgive my ignorance. Guns just aren't my forte.