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Sorry but I don't think there's a place for this in the game. The whole idea behind the game is that you lose all your gear if you die. Why giving people the ability to buy all their gear and just keep it if something happens? It would kill all the fun having bambis running around with custom stuff.

The animals would be great. With the infected, maybe only a slight "spark" with a red tone so they´re differenced from players, but in no way in the same intensity that with animals.

Ok updated the first post :) I believe that now it should be clear :D

they don't manage their FB page for what I saw. Usually the troll comments should be deleted and all drama stopped from the beginning. I would suggest to join the FB group instead, the place is thriving, and Rob their admin is great taking out the toxic stuff out as soon as he notices it.

Yup. Vanilla and ez servers are out of the idea. I believe that any "realistic" suggestion is focused on hardcore/1pp servers or mods. I still disagree with the immersion break, since you would be dead in real life. I mean you connect, you die, next time you will know, same as with every other realistic feature this game has (cholera, hypothermia, etc) and will have in the future. Also it shouldn't be a penalty for not being logged it. It just penalizes the bad decision of spending the night on a winter outside, same as IRL. If you logged out in a house, you can be 1 month away, the game should count it as 1 night only!

I believe both ideas can work together. I actually see the contrary to an immersion break with the search of a place to logout, since that's what you would do in real life, planning your route taking in count places to rest (log-out) etc

No, re-read my post lol. I just said that weather changes in the place you log off should affect the character, not that he should physically stay there (which would suck pretty hard). :) But having some hunger thirst effects in place would be fun too! This actually is what happens when people log-off. Your character is relocated to an X location in the map and it just stays there till you respawn. When you see the "bug" of a player spawning dead (or receiving damage) its because a hacker found the place where the characters are "stored" and started killing them. This happened to me a couple of months ago, so I had to research a little this issue :/. There was a video showing this, but cant remember the name . So if the characters are already "in-game", it would be possible to manage the statuses they have based on their locations (theoretically at least o.O?) You can relog after a couple of hours and move your character to a safe location. EZ :) It´s not a "log off" punishment. It´s all about bad and good decisions during a survival situation. And you might be surprised how many people die IRL because they didnt found a shelter to spend the night (or even insulated their bodies from the ground). It´s logic to find a shelter to sleep during bad weather conditions. And yes, this is a suggestion that wouldn´t fit EZ servers. I only play in hardcore ones, so all my suggestions go that way XD

I got curious with this thread :). How about a little poll? https://goo.gl/forms/cdJXAxZr3kUa4wKR2

Accidental disconnects would make you reconnect to find a shelter and then disconnect. I believe that the effect should be a long one, and only be "lethal" when its very cold or you're far in the woods with wolves and stuff. Yup, the time elapsed should effect, like for example minimum 8 hrs to add the weather effect, and another X hours to add the cold, hypothermia messages, etc. IRL people dont die in 2-3 hours neither :) Yes there are/will be very cold days, but I dont think that going so extreme would help (at least not in most servers, hardcore ones might love that tho), the fact of having you searching for shelter for the night would be enough to add that "spark" to the game without the fireplace and interior temperature added to the mix. Infected should not affect one, since when you find a good spot to "sleep" you can assume your character locks the door and makes sure no one enters while he's sleeping :). The idea wasn't meant for people to come to populate areas, but to plan their route taking in count their "sleeping time". It doesn't make the game more difficult, you just search for a shed or sleep in one of your camps. Also this is not an idea for public ez servers, would be more suited for the hardcore ones :) PS. i really hope someone makes a zomboid mod for dayz with all the features that game has :D

31. Hope to grow up to be like green_mtn_grandbob some day :D Yeah, people younger than 25 don´t understand forums mostly. They got used to the raw pre-filtered info flow of facebook, instagram, reddit, twitter, etc. The high level of organization forums have isn{t valued by them, they just want to see what others like. If I listen to my paranoid self, that was planned to keep people in a permanently distracted system where they have troubles to organize and keep track of discussions that could evolve to system-threatening levels :P

Seriously, i'm expecting to have the best game ever :D

I don´t think it will affect the PVPers, they will use it to know where people is to get to action faster, or to brag about the people they killed :v

We only have like 5 channels. The spamming is felt starting with 15-20 players (been playing a lot of RP lately). Indeed it would boost the interaction #, but the quality will decline considerably, since people doesn´t get the radios for an ingame purpose being ready to use it, but will just do random stuff with it -.-.

yeah, I´d been playing in a private server with 30-60ppl most of the time and have been alive for like 2 months already. Only approached to like 5 people in that time, seen a lot wandering around, but when you know how to move around without being seen is rare the case when you pop into pvp players, and when you do is as much of a surprise for you and for them, so they run to find cover before trying to shot you, and by that time you are already gone.

They dont look for batteries because they don't need them (they dont use radios, nor flashlights). The only ones that constantly looks for them are the ones that use a radio (as myself) or the end gear people that need power for their scopes and the snipers for their rangefinders. If you give everyone a radio, everyone will start noticing them and picking them up. And as I said, you only need a couple of hours looting to get your hands on 2-3 of them. In this scenario you end up with a lot of people with a lot of radios and a lot of batteries to power them indefinitely (my current character have a radio with the same battery for the last 2 weeks, and I turn the radio frequently to check if there are some bambis in the city I plan to loot or a player is really close to me (by the background noise). You will have to reduce the spawn rate of batteries or their longevity, which will really suck for all other uses that a battery has.

You know functioning batteries are common, they spawn literally in any place and can be found if one looks well enough. Having a functioning battery with you all the time isn´t so hard. So that´s not a valid point

True all the emergencies services people have one in real life. Infected are people, so they should have the last things they had before going mad.

This is what I call a good solution! :D Maybe making the spawn rate of radios in the police/medic/firefighter infected higher will fix this.

circling the wheel could change the item you have in hands based on your hotkey placement too.

Thats a quite douchy move. Would rather have an optional side-chat that I can chose to turn on or not, than just not picking up any radio and killing the immersion of talking with someone after taking all the work to get one. Everyone happy that way :)

The issue is real with server chat, but I believe this could be done in a separate "feedback window" where there could be little chat, and instead of that a couple of feedback options like: Are you experimenting troubles? Communicate to the administration: I have lag bubbles I have desync issues Ping to server went crazy Hacker spotted (provide some details maybe) Found bug or map issue etc This would allow the info to be easily compiled and presented to the server admins to take notice when a given number of people is experiencing the same problem. But overall I believe that radios as spawn items it will negatively impact the post-apocalyptic atmosphere: One of the most immersive and remembering moments in the DayZ experience is the initial sense of the unknown you feel upon spawning in the middle of nowhere, you have no idea where you are, you see no one around, you move, a lot, and then see someone in the horizon, you run towards him and find out that he attacks you, he's an infected. You loot around, feel somehow lonely as you would IRL in a similar situation, and then you find a radio! Yay, a way to communicate with another human being, You loot a little bit more, and find a battery, you plug it in, and there you are connected with someone else. Spawning with a radio will totally ruin all that magic that a player experience when he spawns, specially the new players. Imagine how immersion breaking gonna be to spawn, turn the radio ON and hear/read all the 60 ppl that are playing the server at the same time? It will be the same side-chat or kill count that we had before: People will do random trolling, communicate their killers locations, brag about their kills, etc, etc. I would rather have a hidden/optional sidechat instead of ruining the radio communication experience in the game if it comes to that. However I'm 100% for the revamp of the batteries system: Spawning in broken radios (walkie talkies or just the radios that are in houses) Spawning batteries in gas stations, supermarkets, in apartments (they should be quite common) but apply their state Spawning batteries in shiny orange packages (as you would find them in real life) Creating radio stations in big cities with some old equipment that could be used for communication Making one able to pick the radios that spawn in houses and be able to catch some communications Fixing the batteries so that pristine ones work longer and the rest for a much shorter amount of time and adjust their rarity based on the state. NOTE: Since we´re in Alpha this can be tested to see how it would work in a real life scenario. Maybe with beta when people numbers gonna go up. Also I was mostly referring to hardcore servers. Public easy ones can have that without any issues since people plays there casually and it doesnt matter if you want to have a chat with 60ppl while you're looting alone.

Woohoo hype!!! :D PS. Pls no radios -.-

I would add here that: - Apples: You search for apples in a tree once, if it´s negative - there are no apples in the tree. When results positive you can keep searching till the 3rd negative message in row. - You cant sprint more than 10min straight. - You don´t go to military areas since in RL they would be occupied by dangerous people and they would be probably empty anyways since gangs will raid them as soon as they can. -

Have a small program to add an ost to the game. Anyone willing to offer his blood as sacrifice?

I believe that the fact that new games came out that attracted most of the casual playerbase is the reason for this. The only ones left playing are mostly veterans and survival people who know how to play the game and avoid being seen. You almost dont find bambis anymore because players live longer and know how to survive, which includes reducing unnecessary travel to high traffic areas and mostly are in the forests.