Zera_Grey

Sandbox isn't free for all it is meant to be player run and when most players are a-holes you get a crappy community. that is the issue because most players have low intelligence and/or imagination they do the simplest thing they can, shoot anything that moves. sandbox means do what you can, you can kill people on sight or try to take stuff over, roleplay, do something other then what you are told you can do. sandbox is great on paper because on paper people aren't dicks in real life they are and because most follow the lowest common denominator it screws every in the community. DayZ will only work if the community grows up and stops playing like little brats. I'm not saying eliminate pvp I saying stop killing for the sake of killing and thing might get better.

I die, I don't shoot on sight in any instance, there is no point. if not him some other guys going to kill me and it turns to an endless cycle. really the fun is gearing up again, so it just mean more fun for me. I want to at least get people to think before shooting. if you aren't shooting at me then your presence is of no concern. if you are I will probably just sit and wait for you to kill me. its not fun shooting someone, my bullets are for zombies only.

A lot of players are looking for things to do, so here is a list of 32 things to do in DayZ. if anyone has more they can think off add it in comments. heres a list of things you could do: 1. get a clan together 2. try and take over cherno or elecktro, 3. hunt for tent cities, 4. build a base, 5. hunt players, 6. start a zombie killing spree with an ax and see how long you last. 7. try and make friends without being shot 8. go around as a medic helping people 9. take over a building and defend it. 10. find a ton of wire fencing and troll the cities by placing them in doorways 11. find and fix a vehicle then crash it in to stuff till it explodes. 12. find/steal a heli then fly over elecktro or chronos 13. hunt snipers 14. sit next to a campfire and chat with random people who come by 15. go on a night server, go to a major city then light it up in flares and wait 16. see how long you can last in a night server without using a flashlight 17. in a night server go around throwing flares into random towns for other people 18. throw a grenade 19. roll off building roofs of really tall buildings 20. sit in a bush and snipe players 21. start a trading out post 23. start a military group who trades services for goods 24. host an pvp event on a server with prizes and what not 25. host a player get together and see what happens 26. find a bike/vehicle go for a drive. 27. go to the place that can not be named 28. go north 29. build a small town with sandbags and wire-fence. 30. do what ever you want 31. get some friends together and see who can kill the most zombies before they die. 32. try to live only in a major city for as long as possible. ----------------------More things to do-------------------------- 33. Die... in a hilarious way 34. Kidnap players 35. bus/van/truck tours around the map 36. open a transport service 37. escort players from point A to point B 38. don't shoot on sight 39. go around serenading people (if you have a mic) 40. sit in the back of a working bus wait for someone to take it

yea my brain stopped functioning for a second it is fixed now

really you can do a lot with out needing the game to tell you to do it or how. heres a list of thing to do: 1. get a clan together 2. try and take over chronos or elecktro, 3. hunt for tent cities, 4. build a base, 5. hunt players, 6. start a zombie killing spree with an ax and see how long you last. 7. try and make friends without being shot in the back 8. go around as a medic helping people 9. take over a building and defend it. 10. find a ton of wire fencing and troll the cities by placing them in doorways 11. find and fix a vehicle then crash it in to stuff till it explodes. 12. find/steal a heli then fly over elecktro or chronos 13. hunt snipers 14. sit next to a campfire and chat with random people who come by 15. go on a night server, go to a city then light it up in flares and wait or take screen shots. 16. see how long you can last in a night server without using a flashlight 17. night server find go around throwing flares into random towns help players see whats ahead. thats 17 things you could do in DayZ if you really wanted something to do.

If this happened it would be kinda cool to see players do. I would probably would if I was in desperate need of food or a certain item. I really don't frequent cities because my computer would lag to much and I have a no player killing rule I follow. @ SwineFlew you can make your own trading post or "secure" area by fencing off a building and working out of it. DayZ is only limited by the players really there are plenty of things you can do if you put enough time and effort.

Adding an Event forum will allow players to host get togethers or pvp matches. it can also be for groups or clans to post a forum page to keep from cluttering the other forum sections. there would only be one clan/event post from event/clan organizer. if you are just looking for a person to run with for awhile it would have a section just for that. wandering medics can have a thread for posts. if people need help a section/thread for that(things like building vehicles or parts, cover for a chrono/elecktro run, etc.) not too important but it would add organization to the forum, so these things aren't swept under the mass of other posts. add a trading center to this as well and make it a hub for players. After a zombie Apocalypse people will try to rebuild some normality. if we could start in the forum maybe we can bring it to the game.

talk to a admin of a server so you are not hijacking someones server for this or pulling in people who are not signed up. this way they can clear out the city beforehand and make sure there is actually loot available for the contestants. also contact live streamers to play so that it is able to be viewed by those not wanting to participate. if you actually got some streamers in you could link their pages here so people can see whats going on.

do not praise the hackers. this idea is cool but it is all hacked if players got together and did this it would be awesome. adding hacked gear into servers increases what should be rare. there is nothing stopping legit players from doing this it just takes time and willingness to trust each other. after all if legit players set this up had a sign up and streamed this it would be awesome both to watch and get to know each other. it gives pvp lovers free roam and some sport. rewards could be player donated and or gathered items, you could have different types of battles like clan vs clan, king of the mountain, capture the flag(which would be an item). just take this idea and do it legit with items already in the game and not hacked items. really the only thing limiting in this game is the players creativity and the willingness of people to let players do this in peace with out fear of being sniped.

done I think this is needed with a growing community in the long run these surveys will show the shift in view point of the community..

okay so I emailed the company about how they get weapon damage info. I asked for a simple overview, here is what I got: Hello XXXXX, the usual process behind the configuration of weapons is as follows: - we start by introducing some basic values for each weapon type, - do some the edits which are based on the publicly available knowledge on the weapons and impact ballistics, - tweak the resulting configuration by gameplay (including the feedback from our military advisors). If you would have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. With best regards, Ivan Buchta Arma 3 Creative Director Bohemia Interactive a.s.

its not like zombies are not killable it just takes more to kill them. if anything this adds challenge to zombies and makes you think about ammo. against players not so helpful, rocket needs to keep the zombies taking more to kill but also change players so that it takes less to kill other players.

never said that being shoot doesn't kill but insta-death from one shot is not an absolute definitely when shooting at a body. and as I said the calculations are for the original arma2 not for dayz as from what I heard we have more blood then the base arma2 which is why it seems ineffective it works for the original game not dayz. not sure how they receive there data for calculating weapon effectiveness but I would assume they do testing. I also sent an email to them asking about it hopefully I will get a response. best way to figure something out is to ask the developers how they do it. rocket just has to create a dayz side fix to help level it out to something reasonable for the mod itself. till then grin and bare it because arma 2 fixes are for arma2 as I said Dayz is just living in Arma2's world it isn't arma 2 and can't dictate how they update the base game. .

well I going out on a limb in saying that either they are falsly advertising or people who watch to much movies are trying to decide what a gun is capable of. on the site for arma2 they advertise whats below straight off their weapons page and a link to prove I'm not just bullshitting. Arma 2 features a variety of personal weapons, grenades, artillery pieces & tripod- or vehicle-mounted weapon platforms. All weapons and their features were created according to the specifications of their real-life counterparts. Features: Accurate models including graphics, sounds and animations. Variants with different scopes and accessories, including collimator sights, optical sights, grenade launchers or silencers. Optics have realistic zoom and field-of-view settings and reticles. Animated parts for shooting and reloading (triggers, receivers, ammo belts) and eject brass. Customized character animations for holding weapons based on inverse kinematics. Simulation of bullet ballistics, including material penetration and bullet deflection. Ammunition power and magazine compatibility according to the real life. Impact effects and sounds for various materials in the environment. Tracer rounds are used in a realistic way. http://www.arma2.com...y/index_en.html the player issue is that dayz players have more blood then the average arma2 player at least from what I have heard which is why their is a discrepancy between bullets and damage not the updates fault.

I'm confused, weren't people asking for more challenging zombies? now that you actually have to fear the zeds people are complaining. I don't care infected/zombies head shots always lethal end of story. body shots don't mean immediate death and being in a fevered state with little to no pain sense they will keep coming. unless you hit the heart you are not going to get immediate death. just because you shoot something doesn't mean it will die right away. not saying it doesn't do damage but it won't necessarily mean insta-death. people finally get what they want and start complaining that it is to hard. the changes are made by people who know what the guns are capable of doing so stop belly aching. the changes were for arma2 not dayz. dayz is just living in armas world and should be influenced by the changes made for the MILITARY simulation, and just saying I think they know whats what when it comes to guns.

just add bows as weapons no need to craft them. EDIT: hunting bows exist just make the bow a weapon for civilian spawns.

for one not bashing your idea but if you don't like finding high grade weapons in cars don't loot a car simple fix. to get in a tent all in real you just slash the side open and by pass the lock. the tent isn't invincible, its fabric. I agree harsher environment is needed. you can set up bases you just have to get creative, saw someone sand bag a doorway I assume they are going to spawn there eventually wasn't keen on sticking around. just be creative, rockets been talking about underground bases so in the future there will be hide aways.

well it doesn't have to be the infection it could be a common water born virus that you would find in nature

most people will just spray the cities and steal everything from players then shoot 'em all, just because they can. bandits will abuse it, but in theory it would be nice it is just a lot of people are going exploit it.

the zombies should be the only npc's around and their goal is already to kill you. we have plenty of loot around we really don't need anymore. the whole point is seeing other players around and trust me those players want to kill you too.

it would make things dangerous in fields and forests but people can abuse this.

I like it though I don't think it will end kill on sight probably just wind up surrendering and then getting shot. but making people more aware of the option will be a good start to attempting to get trust back in the game.

yes, in survival the environment is just as much a threat as the enemy your fighting

I don't mind it at all what you are proposing is an overly simplified system that has been overused in so many games. making it less buggy and maybe being allowed to stack certain items would be a nice change. I feel the inventory adds to the game, yes its kind of clunky but it fits.

1. no 2. no because this is not a movie the first zombie/infected we be like any other zombie/infected adding a super powered mutants just doesn't fit in the game. 3. it take time effort and lots of near misses with zeds and humans if they can fix up three cars and hide them good for them. 4. rocket mentioned skins which I guess would count as clothing plenty of ideas on this already exist. 5. I don't think the zombies should be easier near the coast. the game already gives you the basics for survival just don't go running into the nearest town you will be fine. 6. well they kind of have broken boats on the shore in certain places no loot but they exist. you can gt plenty of supplies already just put effort into. 7. one post had a good radio system just opening it up to global chat is to dumbed down for what it could add to game play. 8. yes to ending server hopping, no to two minutes d/c wait some people really just have to log out at the time. if they log right on to another server after maybe add a delay to rejoining any server but the one you originally disconnected from. 9. no to graffiti yes to possible useless things as loot so that going into a building you have to wonder if you will actually find something to help survive or an empty sardine tin. 10. not every one likes pvp it is their opinion and they are entitled to it. don't be douche and people won't whine about it.