Miragenz

Atleast i found an ATV on the dam one day.

I think we/I pretty much suggested the exact same things as you did here. http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3479&page=7

I can understand why anyways, when i die after having reached day 10 or whatever, and i spawn at some shitty place like kamenka whilst all i want is to get started again and skip all the beginner stuff. Not to mention that now you will end up attracting a dozen zombie since with the new zombie setup, i have a zombie on my tail after the first step i take, which isnt exagerating. So if i can spawn at Cherno or Elektro savely without spending 15 minutes of running and being chased by zombies, i'll gladly do that, plenty of running to do afterwards.

Dolina - Day 10. First i end up aggroing basicly every zombie i encouter, blowing 5 dmr mags, basicly doubling my zombie count in 1 day, more then i've killed all week. Continue to due to so endlessly untill at one time i die. Respawn, take 1 step, aggro 2 zombies, no weapon, i run, find a shed, now has 3 zombies in it, no gun anywhere, and everything has zombies in them, the little sheds you cant even enter, even saw 1 'in 'a dog shed. I realize its alpha but its pretty shitty as it is.

Not quite sure as to how to implement channels, but i think it would be interesting to create some form of private channel, which could or could not be intruded. Sounds, perhaps the walkie talkie could emit a certain sound when in use, as in a beep or static, giving a more tactical thing to using the walkie talkie. Range, to prevent this from becoming a global chat, and to make it more realistic it should have a maximum range, maybe 4-5 km, maybe make it dependent on a radio tower in one way or another, and be able to adjust the range just like you adjust the range of your weapons. Eavesdropping, if certain channels would be implemented, private'ish ones mainly, there could be something that allows others ( bandits ) to listen in on your conversation when in range. GPS, just thought of this, but ( intensive ) use of a walkie talkie could allow people with a GPS ( or/and some other tool ) to get a rough idea of where you are located. As with every use the person gets a certain mark on their GPS indicating a radius of which the user is located in.

Tomorrow ill have a look at all the ideas and suggestions proposed so far, sum it all up.

Best part would probably be to be able to communicate with your surroundings, other then direct chat, to be able to communicate with a x amount of km radius. Meaning you could ask if there are people in Stary Sobor for example when you are abit outside of town, and they could reply to you, without the entire server knowing about it. The fun thing is, that there could also be people in the area that are catching your transmission, and they can be eavesdropping in on your little chat.

In general its a good idea, just have to be carefull as to how you implement this, alot of the decisions you make in game are made with the thought of permadeath in your mind. So it shouldnt suddenly become easy to revive someone. It should take some time atleast, when you have been shot down by someone, that you arent back on your feet within 10 seconds. Perhaps your buddy should be able to drag your body towards a save place where he can start '( attempting ) to revive you. Not sure if dragging is possible right now or not.

Not sure where it should go, but i believe there are a number of spots left down below at the map, compass etc anyways. But dont know what else they have intended for those spots.

Think melee should be an option, but just as a last resort as mentioned, sometimes you end up luring 1 single zombie in a town, you got no other choice to either shoot it or run a mile out of town. If you shoot you will end up with another dozen zombies, and apperantly endless waves of zombies in certain situations as i've experienced. Think there should be some options to dispose of a zombie without alerting the whole area when you have all the time and space to do so.

Its not really that hard, but it requires some basic knowledge of the area. I suggest you just pull up a map in google as mentioned and pay good attention to where you spawn, if you both know where you are it can't be too difficult to locate eachother.

Due to the amount of wrecked vehicles in the world i'd imagine there would be way to many car parts out there. It's already fairly easy to find the parts when you look in the right places, dont think we really need more parts out there. Upgrading a vehicle sounds like fun however, more speed or less sound, better armor etc. However i wonder if the average person would bother due to the likelyhood of being shot down in a car and the fact cars get stolen often.

I'm quite alright with the current way drinking works, just think the canteen should suffice for 2 drinks instead of one, when you're surviving you arent going to drink your entire water supply in one go, you will take some sips and stretch it out over the entire day. Now that will be abit excessive but perhaps just double it.

Not sure how i feel about the maximum amount of lives, 5 lives a month is without a doubt way to few. If you are a regular player you will easily die more then 5 times in a month. I'm still fond of the whole journal idea, just something you can write stuff in to make it abit more personal and an interesting item to find.

Ways of communicating are always good.

Kill messages are the least of my worries, people are getting killed all the time, mainly because they respawn since they dont like the current spawn point i suppose. with that comes is that i dont know who i killed since i don't see a nametag or whatever, so i can see that Mr.X died but i dont know if it was Mr.X that i just shot. More annoyingly however are the connected/disconnected messages, they spam the chat and are pretty useless.

You run into players often enough as it is, 50 players are perhaps just not enough, but 100 would be max since players cant be trusted really, and you dont want to be running into players everywhere, its the feeling that the town you go into could have a player in a building somewhere, or that there is a player running in the woods you're running through, always keeping you alert. It would be different if there would be a 90% chance there actually will be a player in the town and forest. And even though the map is pretty big, everyone goes to the little towns and whatnot.

The original arma 2 is fairly complicated, but with dayz there is little to learn, just takes some time to get good control of things, and learn the shortcuts for items and other basic knowledge. But thats just me

In theory that works, but currently i tend to switch alot due to incorrect times announced by the server, making it a pitch black night instead of day, ridiculous amounts of lag making it impossible to play. And especially if you want to play with someone else, or play abit in the morning, afternoon or evening. With the current unstable servers it wont work, maybe if the servers ever get stable and smooth.

Would be neat if the game had things that would prevent you from going into the woods because its just to damn scary. Maybe a few special zombies, creatures or whatever which are pretty rare but roam places the usual zombies dont go, as in forests or buildings, which only spawn at certain times or full moon. Sounds that echo through the forest, screams, howling and whatnot. maybe give human NPCs a role, small group of them walking through the map at night with flashlights for whatever reason, i dont know really, just brainstorming

Think a way to be more unique would be nice atleast, just a little customization so that you could perhaps recognize people.

Think that a form of vehicle defense would be nice, but by making it require multiple people it would give people an advantage since there are people in clans, and not everyone is able to group up with people all the time, especially since atleast 50% cant be trusted. Perhaps just a way to deploy smoke from a car to prevent zombies from going after you, its pretty shitty when you drive a vehicle for a while only to be ravaged by a horde of zombies 5 minutes after you got out

Not sure how i feel about this, atleast there should be an option to remove the tag if you find it somehow, and you should be in a certain range before you can actually see the tag you set, rather then anywhere on the map.