snafuu (DayZ)

I wanted to come up with a smart response to that but I couldn't because all I could think of was clearly dumb. Is this the cost of equality?!

Duh, you just have to save them after you run them over. Wait, what?

It's probably for the best, as this is probably definitely not a trap.

Quiet, all of you. You're ruining my friendship/rainbow fantasies.

No one is friendly and no one is an enemy. Circumstances dictate how they appear and how you appear to them, like what they have, what you have, and what they have fun doing. Most of the considerations are true to reality. As for how it could be changed, I support making the environment far more difficult in general. You shouldn't be able to easily avoid dying in the middle of nowhere if you don't have help. You shouldn't be able to tend to your own medical needs without a significant investment. Let's say you did run into the forest at night and caught a cold. A dripping nose is the least of your problems, because you're going to be tired, noisy, and won't be able to make the best decisions. Something simple and unavoidable that we've all experienced even in our priviledged world would be a major setback and if you ignored it to go about your business, you're going to pay. Needing help to survive would then give other players more value. Currently, the only value any unknown person has to you is the equipment they're carrying. At the same time, they're a large risk. The risk is reasonable, because we tend to forget that humans are easily the most dangerous animal on the planet. Unlike reality, though, and a detriment to gameplay as far as many are concerned, life has too little value. Strength in numbers and even specialization to first survive and then prosper are not currently implemented. Hey, this project hasn't been around for long. Hopefully it really goes somewhere.

Vehicles respawning is normally a non-issue because at any given time most of them aren't being used. Add on top of that spontaneous self-repairs and I'm not sure respawn frequency is the solution. Someone else's suggestion for almost constantly available crap vehicles is neat, though. A place where you can almost always find a bike, if you want to bother fixing it, and it only lasts for a day. It's not the ambition of mobilehomeownership that most people have, unfortunately.

I'd give you my beans but I haven't found more yet.

Who's the crybaby now? Who? FUCKING WHO?

Really now, I think there should be Typhoid (Zomboid) Maries in the game in the future. Just think if you're one-in-a-thousand and you happen to discover before dying that you can be infected and not symptomatic. You're either an outcast or you start making everyone else sick. Honestly, despite turning your victims into killing machines instead of giving them typhoid fever, it wouldn't even be as bad as real life. In real life, if you're infectious you'll want to pretend you aren't because if anyone finds out you either won't be able to live much of a life anymore or you'll be killed. Wouldn't having someone like that infiltrate your settlement be interesting? Wouldn't it be interesting to be that person? No, I'm not starting a new thread.

There are guns and there are vehicles. Congratulations, you now have armed vehicles. What's that? The game doesn't support firing out of your vehicle? That's a shame, but I'm not going to say it shouldn't. I mean, good luck hitting anything, but why not? Just don't add anything that's hard to kill. If you think a dude in a truck with a machine gun is a significant problem, you actually haven't played ARMA... or so I would think.

Oh dear. I'll add you on skype, I guess. Tea first.

If blood was decreased, you'd better believe I'm only using an M16. Seriously, the ACOG version works with NVG and everything. It would be an automatic sniping shotgun. Weapon balance is fucked all around and decreasing blood wouldn't fix that. Even more, we haven't heard from Rocket about it yet, so who knows what will happen? Either way, I can't imagine how only changing blood would be an acceptable solution. That's ass-backwards.

I'm not fond of forcing anything like that either, but on a tangent, some 'gamey' systems do help. The (Haven and Hearth style) player memorization that's been proposed, for instance, is a mechanical rather than organic solution, but would work fine.

Rocket also wants to add more possibilities for drug abuse. Honestly, how could this game ever not be banned in Australia? It's nothing Fallout didn't already do, at least. (I'm aware of the new rating. It's a joke and I'm pretty sure Australia is imaginary anyway.)

I haven't had a lot of testing, but what I have had and have heard from people when I've been around indicates that direct chat is often broken.

I am also quite angry about things. Can I join? aww fuck, I got here after most of the rage died off. I just wanted to be cool.

Hey, I'm just saying that even if you weren't you would still have an infinite supply of the things you've found. It's not exactly a secret.

That's a great way to get very sick. Still, the game could use something to make you more hated than just banditry, so why not introduce Typhoid Maries?

Lot of cool stuff there, some of which wasn't obvious. You (and a hundred other people) are going to suggest it a lot more at this rate, though, because we're a long way off from having any of it added.

You don't really have to add so many plurals. It's a given that once you've got an item, you have an infinite supply of it. I mean, geez.

More like scooters. You're not thinking Chernarussian enough. Moot point, though, because adding vehicles is neither a priority nor would fix the current scarcity.

Sure, maybe we'll have that stuff eventually (population density permitting), but there won't be NPCs. If you can't put someone on guard duty in your future, player controlled, fortified area, then you're not as safe. It's a decision the players will make, just like whether your settlement will be open to outsiders or not, and whether enemies will try to infiltrate it or risk massive losses attacking it. Maybe if you didn't feel like leaving a guard around, the people attacking won't have such a hard time. That's up to the players.

Instanced areas, including underground bases, are a great idea. NPCs and mechanically enforced safe zones are not. It will never happen.

Vehicles don't need to be more common, but something needs to be done to discourage or disallow the current degree of hoarding. No one enjoys it like this, not even the people with 15 vehicles to rub together and no need to use more than three of them. Of course, I don't know what should be done, and once again, more important things...

You don't find any ammo for it. You shoot it and then find another one.