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24 Year old looking to play with more mature players around 20+ year olds. I'm a close quarters combat in dayZ. I prefer MP5SD and M9SD. I play medic role, engineer, and infiltration. I'm a serious player who has been in gaming for a long time. I've been in my fair share of established clans and now looking to be in one who I can support with my tactics and expertise. I'll barricade roads, set up entrenchments, repair damaged vehicles, revive downed snipers, build a medic base for blood transfusions and supplies. I execute trapdoor spider role in close quarters areas, where snipers can't see. Forward recon where no man wants to go. I like to do the dirty jobs. I don't require rare equipment, i'm fine with an MP5 or any other common assault rifle. I'm expendible and an asset. Skype: rockstargroover Gtalk: rockstargroover Steam: RockstarG AIM: Rockstargroover

Wow, stop hoarding so many vehicles... It gets to a point where it's fucking pointless anyway

I'm not here to argue, but I'll respond since I am the OP. I had intended for this to be informative, and for BIS decide if this was appropriate or not. I had made my decision. I want to play on a server where admins abhor this type of behavior, not allow and defend it. I see a lot of people trying to minimize what the known players are doing. Calling this an exploit only, or even a glitch. This is not a glitch, or an exploit. An exploit is a use of game mechanics in an unintended way to gain an advantage. It's disconnecting under fire so you don't die. It's ghosting. It's stealing items from others packs in debug forest. A hack is a manipulation of either the server side or client side files in order to gain an advantage. It doesn't matter if you are using a third party designed program to do it for you, or manipulating the files manually yourself. I'll state again; I am not reporting Faindizzle hacking. However, he knew about it. He allowed it. Everyone who reads this can decide for themselves whether they believe this is legitimate testing or not, and whether these players were killing anyone who came into Cherno, and stealing hidden vehicles because they could see across forests to just to help fix the game, I'm reporting this because: 1) NY7 is a server I played on, helped promote and donated to. It is a heavily promoted server, with known streamers playing on it. A lot of people are enticed to come check out this fun server. I'm warning people, as I feel the admins should have been, that apparently there is some testing of potential hacks going on in Cherno. 2) I'm letting BIS know of what I feel may be inappropriate behavior on a server they allowed to host DayZ. Hacks are really hurting DayZ. It's popularity and demand for the product went from just a small base of ArmA 2 players checking out Hall's mod, to having a larger player base than most live MMOs. I like the people I met on NY7. I liked some of the people currently hacking, and I certainly liked Faindizzle whom, until this, I thought could be a leader in this fledgling community. However, I don't stand for hacking, and I'll roll over on people in my own clan if I hear about it. So, sorry if hurt anyone's feelings with this thread, but, yeah... Fuck hackers.

This camp had more then one tent and two vehicles, a white car and a tractor. We stole the tractor and left the white car, until today, we took that a few hours ago. I can't give out the camps location, for safety reasons. I apologize, you don't want to go snooping around there anyways, the 5-6 guys last night will tell you the same.

Probably just luck as in the last week of playing i encountered no vehicles what so ever, but in the last 2 days alone i managed to come across A tractor, 2 broken cars (1 i fixed and then lost), a bus, and 2 bikes being used by other players. If anything i demand skateboards....

Hey guys, Just looking for a group/clan of bandits that mostly play on west coast servers. I got a full kit +DMZ. Hit me up on here and let me know if any of you have an extra spot open... not looking for anything too serious or strict. Just fun, loot, vehicles and what-not. it's getting shifty running around by myself. You can get me on skype at Jonnykling1985.

Unlike yourself I actually find and repair all my vehicles, and yes a few have gone missing unexplicably, however my motto for gear in DayZ is 'easy come easy go'. If you have a vehicle, use the hell out of it as soon as you get it working, don't expect it to be there when you log back in and its all good. Actually some vehicles I actually wish would get stolen (the old boat for example, the thing only goes 11 Spd WTF!)

It shouldn't be forced into being disabled. It should be upto the server host on what vehicles are available - Afterall, you can't take that heli cross server with you, so there isn't any abuse to be had on that level.

well, him and the buddy who died both had 3000 and 950 Z-kills respectively... and we (my squad) saw them drive a 2 vehicles past Devil's castle, (we could see the nameplates) We considered chasing them down and taking them out (since they were the top on the server) but decided against it... skip ahead an hour almost; we saw that the buddy died, we rejoiced! then we were booted... along with everyone else on the server... and the rest is history

short of hacking, idc how he got the vehicles, he deserved them if he got them, plain and simple. hes hording them so what? theres nothing stopping anyoen from fidning them. if he didnt take it, someone else would, it doesnt matter who has them, someone will. it sucks they are gone too, we all lose things do to explots/bugs, ive seen groupd on youtube lose alot more at once due to alpha. never fun to see.

Meh, I like the idea of having more cars/trucks/atvs/bikes. The best feeling I had playing the game was finding a working tractor with a brand new character taking it to Cherno to get owned. They do make sense as a mobile base, but that is why you don't see them much because they act as a moving tent. I would rather see more vehicles and less military grade weapons, but this isn't my mod. I would love to see dirt bikes more common and without storage, so there is no real incentive to keep them as a mobile tent.

We use the term frequently on pvx (Guild Wars Build Database). Yes, I paid $20 to have fun, I am so stupid. WHAT IF I SPEND ANOTHER $20 TO HAVE FUN AGAIN!?!? You're a unique little snowflake aren't you? Anyways, I have no issues with heli's except desynchs on SUPER laggy servers (200+ ping). Honestly helicopters make the mod fucking amazing. A bitch to learn how to drive, it's a shame rocket hasn't made vehicles more common, they really add to the experience.

I think its good. The problem is that at a certain point of a server, one or more clans will have stockpiled all vehicles for themselves. I'm in a clan myself, and were doing this (right now its going crap though, we just have a bunch of boats :D) but I can understand the frustration. At the same time, when you DO find a vehicle with your buddies, the feeling of blazing by on the road, oh man. And part of that feeling comes from knowing just how rare that thing you're sitting in is.

I don't get butthurt by people killing me. I just tried to start a new character today and was killed either on the coast or in a costal town by players carrying mil-spec gear. I must have died 10 times in 4 different servers before I just gave up. The problem people have is that since the game has no significant end-game content there is nothing left to do but shoot other people along the coastline. Once you've mastered the art of scavenging, avoiding zombies, building camps, and repairing vehicles, there's not much left.

Syphon's in game name is Chriz or Huffandpuff. "On the server CKWgaming.com the admins had a camp i found and raided it and now they look at cords when i log in and they try to kill me so they started shooting at me when i log in so i d/c and they said you combat d/c so were gonna ban you which they didnt and my friends friend is in there clan and he said they use a script to see all veichles and they take them and i also heard they dupe items by puting them in tents and restarting the server so if i log into there server they come and try to kill me so if you can please ban them for abuse. Thank you" We have not looked at coords in order to find you, we don't have access to that, do you have proof? We used someone who was your "friend" to get specific information about you and the location where you constantly combat logged to avoid being killed, which was FRAPS'd. We have copies of that conversation via Steam. As far as banning you, that's up to the actual admin of the server as he has proof of your logging. Your supposed friend is not apart of our clan and we know that he has been in contact with you from one of our sources, we have NEVER said anything about one of our members using a script hack to find vehicles, you are completely false and I would like to see recordings/conversations where it was said. We have over 15 people that frequent the server, we have found, lost, destroyed, etc over 15-20+ vehicles within the month or so the server has been online. As far as the duping of items, show proof? The server has been having various desync issues and has had to be restarted multiple times within the past week or so, the admins are working with the host to correct those issues. You come here spitting lies about the CKW server but I see no screenshots, no video recordings to back any of your claims, where as if needed, we can provide video and text conversations to prove ours. Thanks and have a nice day.

I was just talking to my friend/ gaming buddy about this today actually. As an iron worker ( welder) and fan of apocalyptic type of scenarios, I have said on many occasions one of the first things I would do personally is mod the shit out of some sort of vehicle for extra protection. But from the stand point of Dayz, that means they would have to make models for all the vehicles, extra scripting etc etc. The idea is awesome, and makes perfect sense, we can only wait and see.

I have heard that i need to do this in order to get the spawn rates fixed and to get helicopters,can anyone confirm this and or point me in the right direction to get this done? Thanks in advance.Search was not working for me on this topic.

...A few words for an introduction: This particular thread has obviously become too long, probably a bit intimidating to read. For those wanting a quick idea of what I propose, it's basically: - Many players dislike the current state of shoot-on-sight PvP gameplay (see part 1) - Many players want a more in-depth exploration of both character and world story in Day Z (see part 1) - PvE against zombies, as they are now, would be easy and become boring fast.(see part 1 and 3) - The solution: to create a separate PvE campaign for DayZ. (see part 1) - PvP will be untouched and unchanged (see part 2) - Friendly fire will be possible, but bandits will be clearly marked and always in a risky position. (see part 4) - PvE characters will be locked to a server, will have story backgrounds and will be able to evolve in skills. (see part 5 and 6) - Campaigns will have three phases (survival, preparation, and finale), which will take place over a suggested seven real-time days, with evolving threats and a definite end. (see part 7) - Characters will always be in the world, regardless of whether the player is in. So find yourself a safe place to sleep when you log out, or your character may wake up dead. (see part 8) - Loot will not respawn (see part 8) . . . original thread below: Hello, guys. I'm adding a new suggestion to the list I've started a few days ago. I'll get back to those threads later, but I really want to write down this idea I'm gestating right now. The past threads are as follows: http://dayzmod.com/f...cter-evolution/ http://dayzmod.com/f...ners-and-locks/ In this edition I'd like to brainstorm the PvE (Player vs. Environment) gameplay a bit. 0. Disclaimer This is a thread for brainstorming possible additions to the Day Z gameplay. If you dislike the ideas, please criticize specific points and try to help by improving them. I'll debate and try to incorporate all ideas in the finalized proposal as my time allows. "GTFO, this is not WoW" Threads are not helpful, and will be solemnly ignored. 1. What is this idea and where does it come from? Currently, the main draws of Day Z are the "survival" gameplay, the character's evolution through loot, and finally the combat between players (PvP). The ability to roam in a lawless world and either just try to survive or to make other's lives miserable is a mainstay of the game, it's something unique and exciting. I wouldn't want the PvP to go away, and I wouldn't want restrictions attached to the bandit/survivor mechanic (tho some way to more easily differentiate both, and some incentives for following either path would be nice). It's worth noting that the initial "help-or-kill" dynamic of Day Z human interactions has been largely supplanted by the "stay away from others and survive until you can fight back" dynamic, which basically equals "shoot on sight" in almost all situations. We've grown used to it, and we've adapted. Many people, however, are uncomfortable with this dynamic. New players, especially, can't get very far in the game without receiving a severe beating from veteran bandits. Some people have demanded PvE-only servers to be allowed, which Rocket has very clearly refused (one, because it takes away from the DayZ concept, and two because they could be easily exploited to bring "easier" loot into the PvP arena. The more I thought about it, the stronger I felt this division between PvE and PvP could be used in our favor. The main conceptual example I'm following here is Guild Wars. It's a game that tried to please (and, by all accounts succeeded!) both crowds: PvE people in search of story and character advancement, and PvP in search of greater challenges and recognition of their skills. In many ways, PvE has served as a way for players to learn the workings of the game, and entice them into engaging in PvP. In many cases, PvE players have not made the transition to PvP, but that's just fine, it hasn't hurt the game in any way - it just gives people choices. At firt, Arenanet tried to mesh both games completely, applying the same rules to both, but they finally decided this attempt was hurting both sides and decided to have some slightly different skill rules for each. Guild wars 2 is expanding this concept and adding World vs World gameplay, a type of PvP that will allow even the less-skilled to engage in PvP and feel useful, maybe learn a thing or two in the way, and graduate to full-on PvPers. This is the type of action that broadens a game's appeal without at all compromising the high-level competitive PvP, and Arenanet has proved again and again that it can work. The second inspiration is the concept behind Epic's upcoming game Fortnight (http://kotaku.com/59...citing-in-years), itself clearly inspired by Minecraft, which has obviously also inspired DayZ. It's a game of cooperative defense against things that roam the night (well, if you don't know it, read the article I linked, really). The third inspiration, albeit loosely, is the campaign structure of Left 4 Dead. I like the way it tells a story and it always ends in a harrowing finale. The last consideration on this is that, of course, most of the stuff needed for this type of game campaign already exists in the Arma engine, and would only have to be directed accordingly so as to create this new game type. So, let's go for our concepts and guidelines 2. Prime directive: the PvP game will remain untouched This is very important. The idea here is to expand the game so people frustrated due to being harshly treated by bandits when first getting into the game can enjoy it, and finally move into the PvP. I've personally been through this myself, being constantly mad for being shot at while playing a newly-respawned character, and then constantly afraid of all human interaction in the game... until I finally had a character who managed to survive. I now know all the basic skills and I'm constantly itching for player battle. It also means if you're in a PvP game, you know you'll be target by bandits from the very start, and you agree to "man up" and survive in that harsh world... or go back to PvE. So, again. DayZ will still be DayZ. No changes, other than whatever new developments Rocket is planning (bug fixing, dog training, underground bases, and all that good stuff). If you're a seasoned PvP'er who dislikes PvE, you never have to touch it. If you feel you are losing something because you'll be out of green newbies to shoot at while sitting on a hill off the coast (since new players will probably be learning the ropes in PvE ), then you're a sad, cowardly, and shameful human being. 3. What's the objective? What will we be fighting for? What do I lose if I die? One of the main criticisms directed at PvE-only Day Z servers is that, without the threat of rampant banditry, the game will become too easy and will quickly become boring, once the player is fully kitted-out. The idea here is that, in a PvE game, rather than playing a freeform sandbox game with no definite ending, the player will be thrown into a battle against ever growing AI forces, and against the clock itself. I will describe the actual campaign further down the line. The first thing we have to deal with, in order to keep the game interesting, are the stakes involved. If I die, what do I lose? In the current PvP game, you lose your equipment, and if you can make it to your body again and it hasn't been looted, you're good to go. In this game mode, you would lose your equipment, but also any progress made in character skills (discussed in part 6) and your score would be reset to zero. you'd be a new character, starting out with no additional knowledge of the world around you. It's also important that the characters should be server-locked to allow persistence and coherence in the campaigns. Each player would be allowed to have one PvP character, as is current, and maybe three ongoing PvE characters (so he wouldn't be locked out of the game if one or two of his servers went down for a while). Then, there's the fact that some people will *want* competition, even in a PvE game. The success of each survivor will, then, be measured in a score board once the campaign ends, and all positive actions will be counted, whether it's zombie killing, healing other players, or fixing vehicles. This final score will not be a crucial part of the gameplay, and shouldn't, by principle, affect any persistent character or ingame stats, but would be recorded in a player's stats, and maybe shown in global leaderboards (eg. Player "Dude" has played 10 campaigns. He has 1000 points as a survivor, 500 points as a bandit. He has succeeded in 8 out of 10 campaigns played). This is just to create a way to record his progress and achievements, for those who like such things. 4. Tension is essential: Friendly fire and Banditry. This is an idea for a PvE game, separate and different from the base game's PvP. For some, this will make this mode "not what Day Z is about". For others, it'll be a different face of Day Z, a different way to be part of this world. Those are the people who will be interested in this game mode. How, then, do we turn this PvP game into a PvE game? The first, most obvious - and worst, imo - choice would be to turn off Friendly Fire. While it would solve the banditry problem for good (as in: there would be no bandits, since there's no player killing), it would greatly detract from the game's realism and tension. Anyone could run around with an axe in the line of fire of a friend who's shooting down a zombie horde, with no consideration to tactics or self-preservation. Everyone would be able to trust everyone, and never be on their toes at the sound of gunfire. This would not be good. There's a way out of this, however. We keep friendly-fire on. We give the victim (anyone wounded by friendly fire) an option to either forgive the shooter or punish him. If the shooter is forgiven, all is well. He loses some points so he'll be more careful next time, but he keeps on playing normally. If the wounded player feels the shooting was purposeful and decides, to punish, however, that player is labeled a bandit. In this game mode, bandits will be severely punished. First of all, they get identified clearly. Whether it's different clothing, blood on their hands, eyes shot with red or whatever, it should be easy to tell if someone's a newly-converted bandit. Notorious bandits (anyone with more than one player kill) would become even easier to identify, first by having their position revealed in the map to anyone when they fire a gun, and then by having their position permanently revealed in the map to everyone, if they kept on player-killing. (Maybe they would laugh out loud wildly after a kill, too). The only way a bandit could score points from now on, would be by killing players (and not zombies) or aiding other bandits. Killing a bandit would add a large amount of points to a survivor's score, rather than detract them. The most important part, however, is that bandits will not be able to respawn. There are two options after this: a ) The player is locked out of the server for the duration of the campaign. His character would be dead and gone until a new campaign opened in that server. This would create bands of roaming bandit-players, terrorizing different servers (up to 3, if 3 characters were to be allowed, as described before), but leaving the server clear of their nefarious presence once killed. b ) Any bandit killed will rise back as a random zombie in the map, and will be locked to that form until the end of the campaign. This player could still get his kicks as a roaming zombie trying to kill unaware survivors, but he would have reduced senses (blurry vision, muffled sound), and would be noisy and easy to kill. On the other hand, he would be able to move very fast and would feel no hunger or thirst. Maybe if he killed a player, he might be allowed to respawn as a bandit again, although with no equipment, and going against stronger survivors (since the survivors will have improved in skill and equipment by that time). I personally like this idea best. This mechanic would create several overarching dynamics in the PvE game: - Most players would want to cooperate. Being a bandit would be a tough life, as the more one killed, the easier he would be to spot, and the only way to push on in the score board would be to keep killing. If the choice was to lock the player out of the game, he would soon become completely unable to play PvE. If we adopter the zombie-bandit path, then he would be locked in zombie-mode, which could be exciting, but also disorienting and frustrating, especially against a group of organized survivors. - A strong, organized team of bandits could premeditate a coup and strike against a survivor group in the middle of a coop game. This could cause a game to melt down completely, causing a failed campaign - which would be a great emergent dyamic, in fact! Or, maybe the bandits could better survive the final event with the loot they took from survivors? So many possibilities. - Survivors would have an incentive to organize bandit hunting groups. Some players would keep on getting food and fixing vehicles, while others would strike out to destroy bandit encampments. Both would be making good scores, if successful. 5. PvE will be about story and growth first, competition second. I'm an avid consumer of stories. I love reading books, I love playing RPGs and adventure games. I love movies and series (zombie movies and series too!). Don't get me wrong, I love shooting people in the face in combat simulators, too, but there's a lot a game can achieve beyond that visceral pleasure of repetitively testing your skills to press buttons and slide a mouse around. That said, what are the stories we create and consume in Day Z? There's the basic story of getting yourself to learn to survive in the wasteland, learning to sneak around the zombies and run away from gunfire. The story of how you found your first hunting knife and how you camped yourself near that barn where you found your trusty winchester rifle. And then there are the other stories, the best ones, about how you defended your barn from a group of invaders, and how you gave a dying man morphine and a can of beans, and he became your friend (or shot you in the back, in return). All these stories, about interaction with the world and with other players, are derived from the emergent gameplay allowed by the amazing sandbox that is the Day Z mod. Many people, however, have questioned themselves about the rest of the story: Who is this character I'm playing as? Why did I wake up in this beach? What happened in Chernarus? What is the zombie infection? Is it a global pandemic? Has the world as we knew it ended for good? How the hell can my guy do all the stuff he can do? Of course some hints to the background of the infection could eventually be added to the PvP game, but the first questions would still be left unanswered. The character questions. Everybody knows the best zombie movies are not about the zombies or the plague, but about character interactions. If all characters in every movie or series were military-man #5467, the super-genius who's the lovechild of McGyver and Chuck Norris, able to fix cars, perform leg surgery, hunt like a pro, run a marathon without breaking a sweat, sneak like a ninja and shoot like a veteran, what fun would any of these stories be? So, the PvE campaign would be a way to answer exactly these questions. How would we do it? Keep reading. 6. Each character is a character of his own In my first suggestion thread, I created a set of rules for character advancement, and suggested some possible player kits for starting out. The idea was that characters should have individual personalities, strengths, and weaknesses; they would work best as a group, and would have a chance to advance in a path parallel to the loot-hoarding that is the current objective in the game. As the character survived and performed other tasks, he would be able to pick up other skills, or improve his own specialties a bit. Here is the thread link again: http://dayzmod.com/f...cter-evolution/ The main criticism the idea received is that the need to improve skills would create an imbalance between starting characters, leaving them even weaker against the environment and easy prey to ill-intentioned veteran players. Well, in the PvE game, everyone would start with different skills, and the environmental challenges would be initially smaller, as well, increasing exponentially as the players developed their skills and equipment. If a survivor died along the way, he would spawn again an untrained (or rather, specifically-trained) character, and would need extra help to survive, and a group of survivors who dies too much would easily face defeat in the campaign. 7. The campaign phases So, we finally arrive at the campaign itself. A bunch of survivors are thrown into the world, unaware of the existence of other survivors, or the nature of the threat ahead of them. The campaign would play itself over phases, more or less. The main objective would be, of course, to survive against the environment, the zeds, and the bandits. The secondary objective would be to learn more about the zombie plague. And the final objective would be to get the hell away from the game area before the final, cataclysmic event. All the time the city is quarantined, and any attempt to leave the city will be met with stiff military resistance (ie. "you are dead" screen) I'm thinking about splitting the campaign into three phases, which would play out over seven real-time days (the amount of days could vary from server to server). A player would be able to join the campaign at any time, but newly created characters would be unskilled, as described above. The phases would be the following: - Phase 1 (Day 0 to day 2): Characters are scattered around Chernarus. They are weak, cold, disoriented, and completely defenseless. At this point, players would have to go into town, attempt to gather basic survival resources (canned food, bottled water or soda) and gear. The city suburbs are sparsely occupied by zeds, making it slightly easier than what we're used to to sneak around and obtain these basic items. A few individual, scattered zombies roam the wilderness. The city is out of power, and all important loot-generating places are either firmly locked (skilled players could unlock or bust them, by finding the correct items) or impossibly crowded with zombies (I'm looking at you, supermarkets and airfields). Once the characters have the basic survival needs covered, they must focus on reaching each other and organizing themselves. The priority is to reach the power plant and get it working again. This could allow for street lights to be turned on, but more importantly, it could allow for the radio and cellphone towers to be activated. The radio and cellphones themselves would be found in the sparsely-zombified suburbs and small towns. Cellphones would allow for communication between any pair of survivors anywhere in the map, while radio towers would allow any survivor to broadcast to all others, but only within range of the radio antenna. Possible random events in this phase would be civilian helicopter crashes, cryptic radio transmissions, abandoned ships hitting the beaches with supplies loaded, a medium-sized band of zombies moving from place to place. - Phase 2 (Day 3 to day 5): The zombie threat increases. Bodies that were littering the towns have now risen up as zombies, making going to town more dangerous. Several medium-sized bands of zombies start to roam the wilderness. In this phase, players must concentrate on preparing to get out of the city and creating defensible bases to fend off zombie attacks. They should, by now, have enough numbers and firepower to invade industrial sites and military bases, in order to get military-grade guns and vehicle parts. A secondary objective will be to find out more about the zombie plague. Listening to scattered radio transmissions in strange frequencies, finding classified documents in the military bases or finding evidence in crashed helicopters will both reward the player points, and give hints on what the cataclysmic even of Day 6 is going to be, and how to prepare for it. Finding a character's own family house and picking up an object of sentimental value could be a personal objective awarding points to that one character. Possible random events in this phase would be military helicopter crashes, large roaming zombie hordes, and invasions from small teams of hostile human military AI. - Phase 3 (Day 6): This is when all hell breaks loose. Over the day, radio broadcasts will easily pick up hints on what is about to go on in Chernarus. At a certain time of the day or night, one of three cataclysmic events (with a duration of a couple hours) takes place in order to end the campaign. a ) A massive, never ending, zombie horde overcomes the military quarantine and invades from one of the roads. The only way to win is to manage to get a motorized vehicle through the one road through which the horde came from. Expect to face hundreds and thousands of zombies. Shooting them is fruitless, so the players have to either avoid or go through them with vehicles. Running over a zombie will damage a car, so players would have to prepare cars with fortified fenders or risk maneuvering through them with a motorcycle. b ) A large army team invades from one of the roads. They aim to exterminate all moving creatures, zombies or survivors. This scenario can be won by eliminating or avoiding the military AI and exiting through the one road from which they came from. Players would have to prioritize firepower and tactical positioning for this defense. c ) Chernarus is going to be nuked! The military blockade on the roads remain, but a radio transmission says a rescue boat/chopper is coming. Players have a few minutes to find out which port it'll land at, clear the area of all zombies, send a signal and get out. Players have to split between getting enough transports to get everyone to the right port or airstrip on time and having enough firepower to kill all zombies surrounding the area. In this phase, killed characters do not respawn. Their scores will be tallied, but they will be left out of the game, and can spectate through the eyes of live characters. 8. Other gameplay mechanics After the third phase, the campaign can end either with success or failure. Success happens if even one survivor is extracted off chernarus alive. Failure happens if all survivors die in phase 3 (either killed by zombies, or the military, or bandits, or the nuke). Scores will be counted by character, so if someone loses a character along the way, they go back to zero. There's another very important aspect: each character will be permanently present in the world, whether or not the player is connected. So, not only will ALT+F4ing to avoid death be useless, but the player will have to find a secure place to leave his character when he logs off, as the character goes to sleep. An asleep character has his items safely stored, but he can be killed by a bandit or have his face eaten by a zombie (at which point he becomes a lootable corpse), so he better find a safe, protected place to sleep in. Any character who hasn't been used for over two days will be considered to be "in a coma", marked in the map and anyone will be able to loot his items. This last part is important becase, in the PvE game, loot will not respawn. This is a zombie apocalypse, and as resources are used up, they will be gone. It is very possible for a team to have completely expended all the resources in chernarus by the time phase 3 comes, and will be unable to complete the campaign. This will also make it even more important to loot every single loot spot, even the smallest houses, for important goods. Since characters are server-locked, there won't be a risk that a player will strip one server clean in order to help the fight on another one. 9. Other maps This is simple: in order to stave off boredom by repetition of the campaign cycle, other maps could be converted from ArmA to PvE DayZ, or even made specifically for the campaign. They could have different objectives and finales, and different survival strategies. 10. Final words This post obviously became much larger than I originally thought it would be. From an idea, it grew into a design document. Maybe it's too much for Day Z, maybe it's too different. But maybe that will be enough to inspire some kind of PvE mod once standalone Day Z is out (after all, Day Z is a mod or ArmA2, there's nothing stopping anyone from making a mod for standalone Day Z). There are so many other ideas in my head right now. Maybe contrast the big noisy finale with a "bleak" version of the PvE in which there are no vehicles and no survivor respawn: you die, you turn zed. The threats to survivors grow, resources dwindle, and only death awaits all. Everyone is infected and ultimately dies after the third campaign day, if not gutted by a zombie sooner. The one with the highest score is the winner. Of course there are problems with this idea. Servers would have to be stable for the whole duration of the campaign, or at least have a way to periodically save all loot and character locations, in case of any problem. Maybe the players would be able to prepare too fast, being completely equipped in the first day, and then just wait bored for the finale? Who knows. These things would need testing. I'm tired now. My eyes hurt a bit. Thanks for reading.

Exactly my thinking. Like...1 event per 3-4 hours/day or whatever per server or something. Combined with the big wide-openness, it'd be pretty rare to actually see a heli go down or something like that. 1. According to whom? All that's been revealed is that Chernarus is fucked. There might be some military entity with a few planes left, who knows? It might only be a day or two after the infection, it's not like planes would cease to exist by then. 2. Throw it off balance? Yeah, it'd be exactly like dying, so don't do it if you don't want to. Sometimes, though, people get tired of a character, or want it to go out in the most epic way possible. You don't have to do it, but a plausible way to actually "survive" would be cool. 3. According to...? Zombies are AI. Animals are AI. I don't want there to be huge NPC squads of terminators, or shopkeepers or anything. Just a few bots w/low supplies roaming the hills. 4. You realize that ARMA can support way way more vehicles than DayZ uses? And not just car hoarders, anyone who wants a car. Also, alleviates the issues with designated car spawns. 5. Again, according to who? If rocket/whoever can find a way to make it work, then it'd be awesome. If not, w/e.

No. Vehicles are nice as they are. Like the Macarov back a few patches ago became garbage because everyone had one. Now that you start without they are nice to find. Vehicles would become the same because everyone and their grandma would have one. I do howerver think there should be more bicycles or possibly a scooter.

Think there should just be some way to prevent car hoarding, cars should still be something special and not common, but right now they become a myth. In the last month closest i've come to vehicles was the sound of a car in the distance and the ring of a bicycle whilst i was inside a house.

ADMIN NAME : [iCE]-COL-KNIGHT I was playing on the server "US #069 CHICAGO (1.7.2.3/94997) [VET][GMT-4] Multiplay :: -hosted by www.icesoldier.com" when I went to the "Factory" looking for vehicle parts for my ATV and UAZ. Little did I know, upon scouting it I see a lone player inside the factory, armed with what looked like a Lee Enfield, but was really an FN Fal. Enough of the small details though, seeming how I don't trust anyone in this game other then the people in my specific group, I decided to fire upon him. I missed those shots because I was too far, and he returned fire. He did not hit, so, I moved in closer, threw a frag grenade and picked up a murder. Little did I know, the person I killed was the server admin, who was also part of the "[iCE]" clan. Upon killing him, 1 - 2 minutes later, the server went down, then came back up. Upon reconnecting to the server again, it went down. I like to think that since I killed him, he dropped the server in attempts to roll it back to where he was alive. Sadly, he doesn't know this doesn't work but now I lost some vehicles. Wah wah, I don't care about that. I care about him abusing the part of the game where he wasn't being careful. [Tl;Dr] Killed admin, server went down 1-2 minutes later, hasn't come back up. EDIT : INCLUDING VIDEO LINK : http://www.twitch.tv/ch053n/b/325305742

Because if a player finds your camp where you park your vehicles, he can only take one of them. So if you have a lot of cars he can't take them all, but if you only have one, you're screwed.

this is why I think that vehicle spawns should spawn in new vehcles evry X amount of time up to a maximum amount of said vehicles of that type in server at any one point

Hi I found my first vehicles 2 days ago, and it was a lot of fun. It was a big truck that gave a completely new dimension to the game, it was like a "main base" for our team, I was starting to get bored of walking everywhere and having so few space in my inventory, but it was so fun defending this truck against other players, having to repair the damages... I think it's a good way of implementing base building in the game. A vehicle is just like a big house on wheels, and you have to take care of it all the time by repairing damages, finding fuel... The problem is, I played almost 100 hours and only found 1 car and 1 truck. The truck was incredible luck : it was standing in the middle of the road, with a lot of weapons and gear inside, so maybe the driver crashed :/ And the car had already 2 passengers, and we had to kill them to get it :D So cars are super rare. IMO there should be more of them, because that's simply so much fun... I want to see car jackings and clans fighting each other to grab their vehicles full of stuff! So what's your opinion, and what do you think could be the cons of adding more vehicles spawn points?