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I believe that DayZ is striving to be a relatively realistic mod. Since DayZ build 1.6.0 female characters have been added to the game. With reality in focus I would like to suggest that female characters have less inventory space than male characters to simulate their inferior average strength. Another suggestion is that the effects of recoil could also be bigger on female characters because of the lower body mass(look at the female model ingame). Again, this mod is aiming at being relatively realistic. In case of an apocalypse things like gender equality and political correctness go straight out the window. The strong survive and the weak meet their demise or team up with the strong. Make female characters stand out more in static environments, like in base camps. Give them skills that can be used in a base camp environment. Male characters should also be able to do the same things but not as efficiently as the female characters. Basically add some consequences/bonuses when choosing to play as a female character!

YES Spawning with weapons is for little children. It also makes the game more authentic if you are aiming for the post-apocalyptic world involving civilians as I wrote in the "nerf-women-threand". ;)

I agree with Clodan, threads like this should be locked or deleted as soon as they pop up. It's getting really annoying with all the complaints from kids playing DayZ and not really understanding what an Alpha actually is.

Then why do you continue writing in this thread? And Rocket did not give a definite answer' date=' he even mentioned that DayZ is striving for authenticity so there is absolutely room for further discussion. [hr']

Well good for you that you like boys playing as girls in DayZ... Please avoid offtopic posts like this one. Discuss and come with arguments regarding the topic or don't write at all. I don't understand this gibberish. Maybe because there is no logic behind it? In many countries the armed forces are forced to take in women because the politicians believe that it's popular with "gender equality", many times the women don't meet current standards so the solution is to lower them, but only for women... But again, this is going offtopic. Women are in DayZ now and I am not advocating for a removal from the mod, only some nerfing to carrying and shooting capacity.

Well life is not equal and fair.

I am not a troll and why must this be such a touchy topic? Why do some of you straight away start to accuse me of being a troll instead of giving these suggestions a thought and actually have a discussion? The fact is that men and women are different, we are good at different things. Basically make it show in the game. And the game has taken a turn now when there is a need of campfires, base camps are starting to have a much bigger importance.

Nice patch, only thing I am disappointed by is that female characters have been added. :( My guess is that Chernarus will be filled with amazon women characters that actually are male nerds in reality.

Since women are the weaker gender we can assume that natural selection has been tough on this part of the human population and decimated them to very small numbers. Remember during an apocalyptic scenario the weak are the first to die, and in the case of women they would probably also get raped by bandits or other groups. We can play with the belief that there might be some pockets of females living in guarded survivor camps further inland of Chernarus, beyond the northern parts of our current map.

That would be nice, but I have a hard time seeing it implemented on such a large scale over so many different servers, even if every game server run their own TS server.

And this is why BIS is one of the best game developers out there together with CD Projekt. I would love if people that are new to the ARMA series, especially people who have migrated from games like CoD or BF3 analyze this information and try to understand that this is how a proper game developer studio acts. Rocket is a dev. at BIS, they could have released DayZ as another DLC, but instead they choose to incorporate it for free in the next official ARMA patch, think about this...

I don't agree with most of what these ARMA newbies are saying, I think adding stamina to DayZ would be a terrific thing. One of the biggest ARMA mods ACE has a good simulation of stamina + gear weight. Sprinting from the south of Chernarus up to the north is just retarded and very gamy, there is an option for jogging in vanilla ARMA which is much more realistic, but I rarely see people use it. The moment you start sacrificing realism for gameplay you start dismantling what ARMA actually is, ARMA is a milsim. To all that don't agree with this you can respectfully kiss my ass and go back to your mainstream FPS games like CoD or BF3.