Psyl3nt

The more valuable you make life the more joy for the bandit that wastes you.

I was wondering if it had been considered yet to make perishable items go 'mouldy' if you get them wet, for instance if you are running through the rain and have bags of rice in your backpack then it gets mouldy after a while and would make you sick of you consumed it. Other things could be affected by the rain also, maybe even have it so you have to have the item / food out of the backpack for it to get wet, because I guess it's stands to reason some backpacks would be waterproof. Maybe if you use the compass in the rain it goes rusty and you have trouble seeing the markings, so if it's raining and you want to eat rice or use things like the compass you would have to find cover / go inside a building. just a thought, wondering what others think.

Just has this happen to me. Was playing on a gameservers server.

it's more the storing stuff that I'm interested in, currently i'm 'full', so it's time to go on a death mission, off to the airfields and other hot spots to either kill or be killed and start again. Still kind of fun, but yeah, would be more fun I think when we can store things and go scouting again or establish a base camp to work from.

Had a bit of a search couldn't find anything on forums - are there tents in the SA yet ? (ones we can use), I'm sure I picked one up at one point but considering the evenings drinks I might have been on the mod... Having the ability to save gear in a tent or otherwise might alleviate some of the banditry also, as at the moment once you are 'full' you have nothing left to do except fight. With some storage you can offload your gear and go scouting again, giving us a bit more purpose.

i'd like to see it for when others are using my PC, my sons friends often play the games on my PC while over, currently I won't let them use my dayZ to play together because I will lose what I'm up to / position / gear / whatever. Not so bad at the moment being in alpha and not expecting characters to last, but once it's a full game . . . . .

Once there are more objects in the game, I think the m4 won't be the 'best in the game' anymore, it's just with the limited loot tables at the moment it is... (the mosin could be the best, once it has a scope on it, it's long distance lethal).

the loot locations seem fine. Everyone has the same opportunity to get the same loot, how they use it is up to them. I've said it many times, there is nothing you can do to stop KOS / spawn killers on the coast, if the loot is further away they will go there and come back. At least having something near spawn gives everyone a chance. Leaving everything up north just turns that location into the meat grinder. It's not just 'some' players who KOS, it's ALL of you ! I've had no interactions with anyone where someone didn't get killed, except one where I was armed and someone else was not. On AU servers, it's KOS or be KOS. That's your choice, so if you want to have any interaction with anyone not in your own clan / team then you best have a weapon and hope they don't. Thing is the RP side of it gets killed when you let someone travel with you and they just log out scared that you are going to kill them later. There is no solution to this, it's the way the community plays, the players who all claim they don't KOS are most likely lying and just pissed off that they haven't had the upper hand and lost the fight more often than not. I know players just like it, "look look there's someone... get them ! " , until it happens to them, "why the hell did they kill me ! " - go to forums ... rage about KOS. You want it to change ? - then stop doing it.

Those players who do want to head up north can do with the weapons to defend themselves from the deathmatch types, it is an even playing ground when everyone can access it. You won't stop the new spawn killers by removing loot, you will only stop the other players from having similar powered weapons in the same areas. So you want everyone to play your way and have the battle zone in an area that you like ? It's no good to make one area the military zone, it just turns it into a meat grinder, at least now it's kind of spread out from one end of the map to the other, either place you can get good weapons, so people spread out, you don't just have three quarters of the server rushing to the one place. It would actually make the pVp worse I think.

translated OP; got kos, tried to do the same, didn't get the needed 'revenge' so make a statement to 'punish' people for making them mad.

Would be good, are people really going to have characters strategically placed around the map waiting for combat to arise there so they can combat log effectively ? seems a bit of a stretch to me, I'd imagine 2 or 3 characters would be the maximum. Wouldn't be a bad idea, sometimes you just don't feel like starting fresh and can have others to play on with before having to.

There is loot near all the spawns, you do have to run the gauntlet though, cherno, elektro, balota, etc .. there is a reason they are death traps, but once you get in and out you can move away from them. I don't consider a character 'alive' until he's looted one of the main towns and gotten away with the gear.

Was just answering the OP. But on the rest of the thread, you won't stop those kinds of players no matter what you do. They will happily travel for hours if need be to camp spawns and players they know are in a weak position. At least it gives the 'good guys' starting out something to fight back with, as I guess many of those players would spend their time up north and not be interested in hanging around the spawn areas.

I guess if you wan't to avoid the pvp nature (a 'hot' area) then you can just avoid it ? Some places are bound to be death traps. I'm not a fan of KOS, but I don't think removing gear to shutdown a hot spot is a good idea. It's a military area, it stands to reason that military gear would be found there.

I don't mind the idea, maybe balota or the NW-airfields were being used to transport nuclear waste, or plutonium for secret military weapons programs. When the outbreak happened there was no maintenance and the failsafes no longer worked, waste leaked out around the area ??? There can always be a way to justify it.