StrengthAndHonor

So, you are one side of a building. You spot another player. Add a feature - Call out Friendly? What this features does, in order of events : 1) You confirm and decide to call out FRIENDLY?...your character yells out "FRIENDLY?" to the other player. 2) The 2nd player gets a screen option : "Shout back FRIENDLY? Accept Decline" 3) If 2nd player accepts FRIENDLY shout, then you cannot harm each other for 1 hour. Whenever you try to aim your gun at that person, your gun is lowered. Or you simply can't shoot them. Whatever. You get the idea. 4) If 2nd player declines FRIEDNLY shout, or simply doesn't even choose an option, then everything is as is and you can kill each other like normal. This feature is BADLY needed in this game. BONUS feature : Backstabbing Friendly - When the 1 hour is up, if for some reason you are still playing with that player, and he kills you, their face changes or they are somehow marked so other players KNOW these guys are sketchy.

Thank you for taking the time to write this post.

So then just make it so anyone who plays their character on a PVE server can never again play on a PVP server until their character dies. You are too quick to throw out "terrible idea"... are you 13 or something?

World of Warcraft has both PVP and PVE servers. The way they do it : Once you play on a PVE server, you can never again go back to a PVP server with that character. Problem solved.

Not yet, but War Z is coming out in a few months. http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/19/the-war-z-a-new-zombie-survival-experience

Oh, please. Day Z is just an open world zombie apocalypse survival game. THAT ALONE, THAT GENRE RIGHT THERE, would attract millions of players on that premise alone. Don't give Rocket credit for fans loving an ALREADY established genre that has had hundreds of movies and TV shows, with recent ones like Walking Dead and I am Legend and others.... The problem is, there are no 1st person open world MMORPG zombie survival games yet. Day Z is the first to do it, even though it's a mod based on Arma II. Give Rocket credit for doing that, but not for being a genius or creating a new genre. Let's be realistic. People are mostly here for the established zombie survival open world game, not for anything Rocket invented himself.

Yes, I like this idea. Slow the zombies down and make headshots the only way to kill them.

If Rocket is really this anal about changing things and creating worlds where more people can have fun, then someone else will come along and make this game the right way. It's starting to sound lke Rocket is the wrong man for the job. This is not his creation. This is basically Walking Dead the video game. Or I am Legend. This is not his. So..... someone else can just make this game with the ability to create servers that are just PvE, some that are all PvP, so people who want to play that, can. I see nothing wrong with that. Let people have their fun.

Technically... this is just Walking Dead the video game..... not really something they started...

This suggestion does not change basic PVP structure. You can still kill whoever you want. You are just mad that people won't trust you anymore if you decline friendly shout. and this mod is getting popular simply because it's a zombie post-apocalyptic open world game. "Walking Dead" video game. But it has it's flaws, and many people are not happy that we have to play KILL ON SIGHT because we simply can't trust anyone, and that sucks. Many players want to be able to work together with strangers they meet on their voyage......

Why should I have to specify the cone/radius? It's an insignificant detail. The gun can be lowered. They can turn friendly fire off. They can make you a martian who can't kill earthlings. It doesn't matter how it works, the point is the bigger picture that you can't harm that player. Are you a troll?

And what is stopping you from PVPing? This suggestion does nothing to stop PVPing. Read before posting.

This is a screenshot of your signature, Mr. Co-Leader of the Anti-Human Terror Crew : One hour is an example. So an enemy is nearing you, and your solution is to shoot at your friend so the bullets kill him and the enemy? Instead of just moving to the side? Yes, but that would only create situations where the player will then end his friendship with you after about 45 minutes of surviving with you, and say goodbye and go off on his own path before the 1 hour is up so you can't kill him. Survivors don't have to be together forever. And yes, you COULD kill him after 1 hour of being together. No different than what you do now, killing people after 1 second or 1 hour. Anyway, another griefer spotted.

Exactly. This feature still keeps the fear of dying to players... but adds the option of at least cooperating with other friendly strangers you may encounter.. the way the game is now, it's not feasible/palatable for mass audiences. People WANT to be able to cooperate with other survivors sometimes... and you simply can't do that with the way the game is now. Shoot on sight is the only way to play....and that needs to change.

The title of this thread gave me the impression you were going to suggest we roundi all the bandits up and....

This thread brought all of the backstabbing griefers like flies to honey. All of them running here to say how much fun they have backstabbing unsuspecting players. This game has to refuse to cater to these types of griefers if it wants to succeed.

No.. what makes this game is playing in a post-apocalyptic world full of zombies, having to survive and search for gear, weapons, and food, while at the same time encountering other survivors. As it is now, there is only one other type of survivor : bandit. Kill on sight, or risk being killed. That will ruin this game. We need a way to know for SURE when a player wants to cooperate together and be friendly.

Griefer who likes to kill unsuspecting players spotted.

For those of you who still want to kill people, nothing is stopping you. Just decline or don't choose an option. If you don't like that, then you are a coward griefer because you don't want the other person to know you are going to kill them. That type of gameplay will kill this game. That would be no different than what you have now. Just a fancy way of typing "friendly?" in the chat. That is NOT what the goal of this suggestion is. The goal is to create a way for players who want to actually play in a survivor world where there are friendlies AND bandits.... the way the game is now, everyone is just a bandit. You have to shoot on sight or else you will be the one killed and robbed. That is not a fun experience for the players who want to team up with strangers they meet along the way.

No, you shouldn't. Or else this game will never have cooperation among strangers who actually want to cooperate and experience this game like it should be.

This suggestion has nothing to do with complaining about PVP. This thread is about giving players an option to interact with strangers and play the game without having to resort to "Kill everyone on sight"