homeslice1986

That sounds awesome; but I would like to see craftable radios (and other useful electronic) that are simple (ie a simple receiver and tuner), rather than just "here's your radio, in perfect working order, just needs batteries!" If you can craft, fix and find mechanical things, why not electrical?

I would argue that, while it would be awesome, having lots of different components would be a far to complex system, especially as not many people know the resistor colour codes. Sure a simple google search would yield the answers, but having to tab out of the game all the time would get annoying. Dont get me wrong, i'd love to see a system as in depth as the individual components, and having to hunt all over for a specific 400 ohm resistor to get a radio to work, but it's the kind of thing that wouldn't interest anyone who isn't an engineer, and would probably lead to more frustration for the player. I'd rather see a simple system implemented first, then make it more complex as development goes on.

I think it would be cool if you could find electronic components in the world and craft simple things from them. Now, I'm not saying go down the whole resistors/capacitors etc route, as that would be far too complex, but if you could find things like circuitry, copper wire and maybe even soldering irons you could craft things like rudimentary short range radios, door locks, maybe even a fan that makes a noise to attract zombies. Now of course, not everyone knows how to make a radio from old circuitry, but if the skill books idea sticks around, you could find an electronics textbook and use it as part of the crafting recipe. So for example, you could have 3 circuits, some copper wire and a soldering iron, to craft a short range radio, using the textbook. But, if you are doing it for the first time, there could be a higher chance of failure, as you're not quite an electrical engineer just yet, so you can just take one look at the book and say "yep, all 400 pages of that have been memorized, I don't need this anymore!" (I'm sure this is a point that may have been raised before, but pah, I'm lazy, sue me.)

Its fine, nobody was expecting it.

Will you be able to learn as go? e.g get better/faster at doing actions the more you do them?

Ill take that action, 5 beans says the 26th! And I couldn't care what it looks like, it could look as ugly as a bag of greasy spanners, its the functionality I care about.

Make the M107 harder to use, replace the AS50 with something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTRS-41 so there is at least something to use against vehicles. And make it as rare as rocking horse sh*t too.

Sounds good :3. Also, with the custom loot table, it could work well with the crafting system, say, finding 2 broken arrows outside and crafting them into 1 "good" arrow.

Congrats kid, welcome to the horde. Also, I have socks older than you..

Night time is where I've had some of my best experiences on DayZ, without NVGs I should add. Learn to embrace the darkness, and how to use flares and chemlights correctly.

I guess its safe to assume the buildings will spawn from the same loot tables as their enter-able types?

I dunno, last time I checked (which was a while ago) the heartbeat thing did work quite well, the closer you got, the louder it was, but you could still hear it from a good distance away.

I doubt this will change many peoples behavior in the game, bandits will be bandits at the end of the day, and by the time you're close enough to see the claret chances are they've already shot you in the face. The problem with the humanity system is that its very hard to balance, if you give the game away about a persons nature too far away, it renders the system pointless, as people will happily shoot anyone who seems a bit dodgy. Too close, and see my above point. Theres no easy way to deal with this.. Good luck Rocket, old boy.

As long as there's no MLP fanfics involved...

So in theory, someone could play the game, write about their adventures in the game, and then have it uploaded into the game itself for others to read while playing the game? We have to go deeper..