Lady Kyrah

That was a very interesting talk which I tend to agree a lot with from a societal point of view. But we are talking about individuals here, individual notion of well being is subjective. For instance, if in order to stay alive i have to harm someone else, if in order to feed myself i have to steal from someone else (and condemn them to starving) these where the right decisions because they ensure my own survival. My second point is that... while i liked the talk, this sounded like "moral imperialism", that we should "educate people" on how wrong their society is, and in essence, destroy what we perceive as a wrong value system. And it just become one value system fighting another.

Not necessarily , they just do not share the same moral values. In some societies it is believed that murderers have to be executed, which you may or may not consider barbaric.

I did vote that i always play with the best intentions. But it really depend twoard who, the good fortune of one makes the misfortune of another.

Dare i ask what is "good" and what is "evil" ? Last time i checked there aren't really clear boundaries and it's more of subjective thing.

I really do not see what's the issue with walking... if chernarus was a little more realistic, distances would be 2-3 times what we have now. Walking from A to B is long, get used to it, that's why we invented vehicles, you gotta make due without them.

What's the harm in knowing what (type of damage) killed you?

There is little to no chance to ever see your target in that thing. But you have my beans just because, for once, someone isn't trying to request an overpriced and unrealistic gun accessory.

Zeeboy, don't you think BIS is going to run their own thing rather than trusting a random forum dweller?

Ah yet another sight thread. If it was up to me you would all be using rusted ironsights and scopes so scratched that it's a miracle to even see through them :)

I think you are missing the point. A social experiment doesn't need to simulate all the aspects of life to produce meaningful results. You might not shoot everyone for no reason, in a real liefe situation, but would you trust a random stranger? Would you take a defensive stance? Part of sticking together as a group is that even without violence you can usually bend to your will a smaller group with a different agenda, through social compliance and peer pressure.

Which doesn't help when said detonator is of the "dead man switch" style. As for silencers, frankly I'm not even sure that it would be quiet enough to avoid Zed detection, you want to avoid alerting zeds directly around you, and even with silencers your gun is still going to rattle in a very audible way.

I don't think you should get a message telling you Who killed you, but certainly details on your death, ex: You died, last causes of damage: -Bullet through the chest -Internal bleeding

I did like the old Arma GPS that only gave you your coordinates and didn't really have any other display, it made maps a natural complement to it. Such a "coord only" GPS would be interesting in my book, with a simple "set/reset" function for a handful of recorded positions (it could then show a simplistic compass that point toward the set target).

Yes but when it come to DayZ it's sort of a self defeating behavior. Where as individuals we take decisions that ensure our own survival, but at the same time, on a grander scale, considerably lessen the game experience as a whole. "It's nowhere as fun as it should be, but at least I do not lose." There might be more meaningful interactions but they simply cannot be allowed to happen. This reminds me a bit of the prisoner dilemma.

Not sure about the paired PDA idea, but being able to store GPS coordinates in ... well a GPS would be nice. You could mark rendez-vous points, stashes and so on. And the next person to "inherit" of that pda would obviously be able to access the stored coordinates that where on it.

You are right, to me it's the most interesting bit. Players ultimately spoiling their enjoyment.

One small issue: It doesn't really happen in a dayZ setting. Ammo is scarce, you need to literally burn through ammo boxes for it to even matter.

I think it's a good example how the "mini maxing" gaming culture is affecting video games in general.

I haven't anything else to add.

So it has to be black and white? I tend to go for "realism until it has to take a backseat for gameplay reasons"

Thank you Orlok for being one of the few with their head screwed in properly on this forum. So many reactions to proposals, (especially this kind) tend to be of the knee jerk kind...

The level of immature "EWWW GROSS" reactions in this thread...

Sometimes you have to play the cards you've been dealt. That's where you see those who try to make the best of it, and those that just quit. If anything, i feel that the walking dead, and other zombie survival fantasies are attracting a crowd with unreasonable expectations. You're not gonna be the hero in this game, you're not gonna have an epic adventure, unless you really fight for it. Everyone want a slice of cake and nobody is willing to share.

There is such a thing as a bad suggestion, this forum is filled to the brim with them.

It isn't biased. Whether a game is in alpha or not doesn't matter, you review what is available because that's what people will experience. Of course if you do that, it would be a good thing to "update" said review when there are significant changes. And a game is "released" the second anyone can put their hands on it, doesn't matter if it's finished or not, you can't just count on empty promises.