lazyorc

I would like to be able to spawn fairly close to a group member. I am not a huge fan of running simulators :P Maybe if the group member is dead then you would spawn in a default spawn location and have to find each other again. If you die and your friend is alive then you spawn a couple of miles from his/her location. You still are disoriented, but you know your friend is not too far away.

I just read this article on IGN: http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/15/dayz-on-consoles-could-happen Talking about instanced underground bases. Being able to set up a lab to study the virus. Would be cool to capture zombies inside your base and do experiments on them :P

Bases will be death traps with snipers on the horizon

John Wayne killed plenty of black hats with a .22

One thing I would love to see in dayz is storage cabinets. Instead of picking up a ton of loot and having to drop it on the ground ( I think after a while this loot despawns?) The map makers could go into all of the buildings and add a storage cabinet that saves all the items that has been put into it. For the sake of immersion, only certain items can be placed inside a certain type of storage cabinet. Food would be placed in a cupboard, guns could be placed on a gun rack, medical supplies would be placed in a medical cabinet. I have read around for other similar posts and it seems people want to be able to "claim" a building or storage unit as their own. This is not part of my post because I don't see the realism of claiming a building just by putting a sign or something on it saying it's yours. In this post I want to talk about just plain storage cabinets- inside random buildings for all to use and claim the items inside it. First come first serve style. One way to actually "claim" a storage unit would be to find a 4 number passworded safe. This would take a while to crack, but it would be possible since you already know the password is 4 numbers. You could also use a finger dusting kit to find out which numbers have been used recently. Once you crack the safe you can set the 4 number password for yourself. So do you think this would make it too easy to get gear if too many people are using the storage system? After all you could always take everything in the cabinet and throw it on the floor so others can't use them > :) Also the storage cabinets capacity could be limited so that you can't store 20 cans of beans in one for example. To be clear: - "Storage Cabinets" are placed by mod team at dayz in strategic locations on the map. - They do not spawn anything inside them, only items placed by players can be found in them. - The storage can not be picked up or moved in anyway. They are part of the map. - There could be many different types of storage units like cabinets, gun racks, medical supply cabinets, and crackable safes. - Only certain types of items can go in its appropriate container. Guns on gun racks, food in cupboard, etc.. For now give me some feedback, I'll take all your comments! edited for clarity.

Most likely the things found in the storage are going to be things you would likely find in the city that it's in. Unless people are running from one city just to deposit things in a storage location in another city, and even if this was the case the storage capacity would be very limited. The idea is to give players a kind of hiding spot to place a useful item and have to remember where they put it if they need it later. Not to horde a ton of crap. This also adds a new element of surprise as you search a cabinet and find something unexpected that another player placed in there. Or possibly you were trolled as someone put a bunch of empty tin cans or soda cans where you stored a can of beans :(

So you are against any base building? At least you have to risk getting killed by zombies to get to the storage, unlike tents which can also dupe objects.

Well the idea is to put items you don't need right away but that are useful. They wouldn't spawn anything inside them, only items that players have found and placed in them. You would hope people would be nice and fill the cabinets with goodies instead of throwing them on the ground, but people are people what can you do. I also wanted to talk about adding not just storage cabinets but closets, chests, gun safes, medical cabinets, etc.. but I don't have time right now. I like the idea that you can only put certain items into certain types of storage units. So you can only put guns for example on a gun rack or gun safe for example. I will try to elaborate more thank you for your comment!

This is the idea I was thinking about most. To use a house and the furniture inside to store items instead of the tent. The cupboards for food, under the bed for rifles, the bed nightstand for pistols. You wouldn't need to place a sign on the house as that would attract attention for bandits to come knocking. There wouldn't be a need to stop zombies spawning outside as they could be a defense against intruders. You would need wood to board up windows and reinforce the door against zombie attacks. If you somehow lock yourself out of your own house then you need a crowbar, sledge hammer, or explosives to get back in and of course using these would make a lot of noise and attract zombies.

What about adding dynamic furniture to houses; such as cupboards, hackable gun-safes, deskdrawers, etc. You could only store certain items in each type of furniture such as only put food/health items in the kitchen cupboards, place guns under the bed or in the closet and hide a pistol in the nightstand. From what I read in the upcoming arma 3 game will have destructible structures. If explosives are sort of rare in Dayz, then houses could be blown up but also fixable. This would give a reason for players to build a house back to normal and then store useful stuff in it as you sort through all the trash like tin cans.

Oh thanks a ton for this, I am new to the game and this saves me a ton of searching the forums. I hope the dogs can sit/stay because they might become a real nuisance when sneaking through a town?

Fix lots of bugs first, but in the meantime give us a few official comments on what kind of suggestions the dev. team likes the most :)

I like duct tape idea but it might be too over powered xD

So I generally try to stay away from people since everyone is so paranoid they kill you on site. So I was walking around Zelenogorsk and all the sudden I see a player squatting right next to me with a sniper rifle. I smacked him once with the hatchet before he could see me then he shot a couple of times and then I smacked him again and he died. I went through all of his gear, he had tons of stuff I have never seen before so I picked some stuff out and walked off. This is my second day playing and I figured that since Zelenogorsk is so far away from the spawn area that there would be no way this guy could make it back to get revenge, but 2 minutes later I turn around and there he is. The same guy with the same sniper rifle and he kills me. How did he make it back there so fast? Usually I spawn on the coast?

I love the server notes on dayz Commander! http://imagebin.org/224684

The server I was on is called US 411 - hosted by Duck Tales Player named Nate

Thanks people, I was kind of mad that maybe he had friends in a heli pick him up at the spawn just to come back and get me. I feel better knowing he was more likely a cheater

Just downloaded Arma2 joint operations on steam. where do I put this DayZ-1.7.2.5 folder?

I keep getting bad version server disconnected.

Sorry for more ignorance... when I try to run dayzmod -mod=@dayz -nosplash it just crashes to desktop. Also when I just run arma 2 it gives error bad cd key given at startup. I just downloaded and installed from steam. :(

Thanks, also I found the helpfull forum topic thread lols. Maybe they should put an installation page on the download section oh well..