At the moment dayz doesn't seem like apocalyptic game but more like pvp shootout game because of everyone wasting loads of ammo and running with 2 main weapons and full backpack of secondary weapons. The game would seem more apocalytic if player would need to make every bullet count. So, my suggestion is to: 1) lower amount of guns so that having a single gun would be as cool as having a full geared set of items. For example in the civil coastal areas you could find only secondary weapons (pistols) and only in special buildings like guardhouse or police station. To find submachine guns (mp5, scorpion, pm rak) you would need to go to small military zones like balota airfield, prison island, zelenogorsk military, vybors base, kamenka military base and stary sobor tents. To get the big military guns you would need to go to mishkino base, NW airfield or look for heli crashsites. But how about hunting rifles, shotguns etc.? Those come in second suggestion... 2) Im not sure of other countries but in Latvia, to keep a gun in house or appartment, you need a metal box/safe which is screwed solid to the ground or wall. My suggestion is that player could get hunting rifles, shotguns, etc. only in those metal containers. You could find those in some houses, apartments or even garages. The safe/box could work same as fridge or wardrobe - like a static container to store the items, but the safe/box would be locked. To get the items that are inside the safe/box the player would need a lockpick to open it. The container would have enough slots to store one primary gun, one or two pistols, up to three stacks of bullets, maybe some clips or speedloaders, a scope, and a weapon cleaning kit. [two bonus suggestions] - 1)At the moment (0.59 stable) its easy to find a gun but hard to find bullets. I hate the idea of it. Lets make ammo rare and the guns even more rare. 2) And please lower the amount of canned food and soda cans. Players should look for food to survive not to be like "oh I don't like sardines" or "dude, you really gonna eat those damaged beans?". It would be a lot better for the dayz story if the player would use nature to survive - go hunting, look for apples or go fishing. Who does this now? Only those who role-play or who haven't tried it. These changes would affect gameplay drastically: 1] it would take much more time to go from bambi to fully gared player 2] less KOS because of amount of bullets or guns 3] zombies would seem more scary if a player would have only a few bullets. 4] good use of lockpick 5] almost no wars in coastal cities 6] more frendly encounters 7] shity weapons wouldn't seem so shity anymore (Im talking about, trumpet, sporter, amphibia, derringer, p1, crossbow, improvised bow etc.) 8] players would need to do something to get the food not just pick it up from the table (fishing, hunting, searching bushes/trees) 9] canibalism would be a choice of survival not just "a cool thing to do" because of the symptoms. 10]... 11]... 12]...
