hungrycookpot (DayZ)

I'm sure these are not trivial problems, but I think the main problem with the game as it stands is tents and vehicles not saving. The visual artifacts are annoying, but easily fixed by flushing vram, important but not urgent. Then work on moving to standalone and redo the systems that don't work right.

Honestly without stuff like tents and base-building, Day Z would be much more boring. Since tents are bugged right now, I've pretty much lost every single tent I've ever placed within a day at most, and it really ruins the game. It feels like a really long and boring arcade game. Spawn on Coast, Raid Cherno/Elektro for stuff, Go to Stary or NW Airfield for military stuff, Go back to the city and pvp until you die, Repeat. Raiding for the same beginner stuff sucks, skip it with tents?

tools so far are all non-consumable, they don't afaik have durability, while consumable items can be collected in multiples (must place extra tools in your backpack) and can have a number of "uses", like ammunition mags. It makes more sense as a usable item, like a trap (could have multiple uses). Having as a consumable also allows the dev to control the usage of duct tape, in case it turns out to be too powerful, by manipulating the drop rate.

I haven't seen a tent eat any items yet, because every time i place a tent and put stuff in it, it completely disappears? I first placed 2 tents in a remote area, both full. Came back next day, 1 of the tents was gone. I'm pretty sure it wasn't raided, because nothing in the weapons tent was touched. Then I put some fortifications around the remaining tent, and when I came back the next day, all the fortifications and tent were gone. I have since lost another base completely and 2 more tents.

I really like a lot of these ideas, but I think that as a tool, duct tape would be way too powerful. Taping mags together? Binding players? An item that allows that type of stuff would probably be more balanced as a consumable item like food, so that you have to collect and carry quite a bit of tape to do something like tie up a couple people.