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If people aren't aware that someone is near them, and you've then typed in chat "friendly." it is in my experience, more often than not a language barrier. And if it's not and they do understand then just shoot them and loot the crap out of their body. They should have been more aware of their surroundings.

I think these ideas are brilliant, but definitely removes a lot of the element of constantly being on the move, avoiding bandits and zombies, surviving in the wilds, etc... But it could work if they implemented some form of blueprint idea as suggested. Or by using the current method of making the individual items very hard to come by so that you can only feasibly build something if you are in a decent sized group. That would stop two bandits building a fortress at the end of the airfields and major towns and just loot running and killing everyone. An interesting thought would be if the strongholds you built were susceptible to random zombie herds (I'm thinking end of walking dead season 2 here) where you have a nice little safe haven built, and you wake in the night to one of your party being bitten by a zombie. Absolutey hundreds of zombies outside and you just have to split, every man for himself and try to survive. Breaks up the feeling of safety and keeps the game dynamic.

You can fill at any water source, be it the ocean, (stupidly) pond, lake or hand pump. If you are in a small source of water like a pond, you need to be swimming in order to fill your canteen.