What if - in the later stages of this game - when you start securing towns, restoring power, you can wipe out all of the zombies within and then NPC civilians slowly start to spawn within. It will then be up to the group who restored the town to protect it and its inhabitants. Zeds who manage to get in can attack the civis and in turn, turn them into Zeds. An advantage of having more civilians within a town is that the more you have, the more loot spawns. Not sure if this is possible, but NPCs could collect loot from surrounding areas and return it to a location within the town. This idea would certainly give a purpose to protecting built up areas.

As some of you may know, we say the letter 'Z' differently in the UK/USA to those in NZ. We pronounce 'Z' phonetically as "zee", whereas in New Zealand it's "Zed". So did Rocket - a New Zealander - intend for the game to be pronounced "Dayzee" or "Dayzed"? Is this important? Not at all. Does he care? Probably not. But I was curious.

What about "Da - yez" any takers? No?

I'm just wondering why people object to NPCs so much?

May I ask, why not? I would understand such a limited intellectual response had my suggestion been "I know what would make this game great: Let's make hacking part of the experience.", but that is not the case. If you're going to say "No" at least give a reason why. @Schrapple - i like your idea

Could you expand on this? The only way I could imagine an American saying it differently would be in the style of a sassy black woman: "Lafonda, get off yo' ass guuurrrrl, we gon' play sum' Dayzaaaayyyy."

I don't claim to have made this video, I just came across it. Some guy playing Dayz stumbles across this character... Listen to the stuff he plays down the mic, very creepy... http://www.twitch.tv/justxrippedn1ck/b/327671117

lol. People like this make the game so damn good!

That second one is brilliant! When he looks into his car and sees him again - priceless!

I was thinking about this today. It's a similar sort of system Eve uses I guess, a whole world created by players. It would require a bigger map and many more players, but I like the idea of people banding together, securing a town, electric supply, food supply etc. In turn that gets made into a safe zone. Before you know it there is a whole economy of trade running, and the emphasis of the game shifts from PVP, PVE to a much larger dynamic. This is how Eve works, there is much more than just fighting. People have come together to make huge corps, mine, trade and buy. They build huge fortifications and start manufacturing their own equipment. Imagine something similar on DayZ? In a sense it would be like real life and eventually the Zeds would become something of the past, something that would just be part of the games history. Of course, for a model like this to work well, and for it to be fun, it would need a server that can host more than 50 players! But there is so much potential.

I was thinking about this today. It's a similar sort of system Eve uses I guess, a whole world created by players. It would require a bigger map and many more players, but I like the idea of people banding together, securing a town, electric supply, food supply etc. In turn that gets made into a safe zone. Before you know it there is a whole economy of trade running, and the emphasis of the game shifts from PVP, PVE to a much larger dynamic. This is how Eve works, there is much more than just fighting. People have come together to make huge corps, mine, trade and buy. They build huge fortifications and start manufacturing their own equipment. Imagine something similar on DayZ? In a sense it would be like real life and eventually the Zeds would become something of the past, something that would just be part of the games history. Of course, for a model like this to work well, and for it to be fun, it would need a server that can host more than 50 players! But there is so much potential.

The idea is simple, if you're a new player and you're looking for a companion, simply write your name, mic status and server here. Rather than having a tonne of threads reading: "Zombieguy83 wants players to fight with." I will simply update the list as people leave their details on this thread. From there you can contact each other through private messages, detailing your locations - should you wish to. Example: Name, Mic/No Mic, Server, extra info. I will be editing this list as more people add to it! While this thread is at risk of exploitation from bandits, there is also a genuine chance for new players to find another to team up with... And who knows, what happens around those campfires, stays around those campfires. :heart: The Cherno Lonely Hearts Club List: :heart: :heart: Yahhzoo Mic, Altlanta 8, plays between 07:00 to 11:30, can also play all night. Looking for: Friend, Group. :heart: Daedrick Mic, TX6, named his group after a popular frog-based game. Looking for: Members to join his group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/DayzFroggers :heart: Strez21 Mic, wanting a server to call home, EST time zone, veteran player. Looking for: A group or squad to establish a camp with. :heart: Nodoc Mic, Wanders from server to server - mostly found in Texas. CST time. Looking for: "A friendly soul" :heart: Mutant268 Mic, still hasn't found that perfect server, GMT time. Looking for: A friendly face, anyone who won't shoot him on sight.

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When it gets long enough you, and your teammates can use it as a fast rope to rappel from second-storey windows.

Post in the lonely hearts club and i'll get you on the list!

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You've been added to the list!

These guys need an army medic/doctor/red cross on sleeve skin pronto.

Tried to delete but can't.

Good call, i'll get on it.

It's worrying to hear that most people would rather sneak into the barricade and destroy everything. Whatever happened to: "I'd love to join them and help fight the cause?"

I'm sure you're going to get this a lot. TL;DR Seriously, condense the information into two short sentences per para. Space them too.

I think you'd need to come up with an idea first. Maybe when a bandit kills an innocent, they automatically leave a calling card of sorts. This gets placed within the victims inventory and cannot be removed. A white slip of paper with the players name. Lets face it, bandit behaviour is border-line psychotic, and calling cards - if the movies are to be believed - are common.

Firstly, let us understand the back story to this post. In the last 10-15 minutes, Thywolf has been playing a round of DayZ with a brand new character following the quick death of the one before that. He went into a city/village looking for supplies only to be killed by a bandit hiding within. In an uncontrollable fit of rage, Thywolf decided to gather his hateful thoughts - rather too soon - and vent his anger in the one place that people may listen, the forums. Unlike many players before him, Thywolf chose the suggestions area of the forum - a brief stroke of genius - as this meant that his ill-thought thread would last substantially longer than a stint in the General Discussion area. Well done Thywolf. But seriously, imagine this was real life. There are thousands of paranoid/evil/selfish people out there, those people would kill you just as quick as they do on this game. This is PVP.

This is such a simple, yet great idea.