Playing with Friends?

[OrsonR 0]

I would really like there to be an option that allows people to join with their friends. This shouldn't be available on all servers but I feel this would be a great thing to implement as a server option.

I'd like to hear some opinions on this.

Thanks in advance

[Mos1ey 6301]

This would be way too easy to abuse. This isn't a casual game where you can just jump in and play with friends for 10 minutes.

[OrsonR 0]

This would be way too easy to abuse. This isn't a casual game where you can just jump in and play with friends for 10 minutes.

To address the realism problem, you should be able to spawn into a server with some friends because in real life the first thing you'd do in a Zombie apocalypse would be to find those you know, and it would work so that once one person is killed they are not allowed to re spawn back into their group

Also if it was just a server option the hard core players could play on the servers which didn't allow this

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

The key parts of that sentence are that you'd have to "find those you know". Not magically appear next to them. Although in the standalone mechanics are being tested to make group play easier.

Edited October 23, 2012 by Fraggle

[Zeppa 562]

Did you try searching?

here is one.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/98237-spawn-in-groups/

[OrsonR 0]

The key parts of that sentence are that you'd have to "find those you know". Not magically appear next to them. Although in the standalone mechanics are being tested to make group play easier.

Ok thank you for your reply.

Surely some servers that had this option would balance themselves?

[Mos1ey 6301]

To address the realism problem, you should be able to spawn into a server with some friends because in real life the first thing you'd do in a Zombie apocalypse would be to find those you know, and it would work so that once one person is killed they are not allowed to re spawn back into their group

Also if it was just a server option the hard core players could play on the servers which didn't allow this

Playing alone and run in to trouble? Abort and rejoin with 10 of your buddies spawning on you.

Need a vehicle? Split up and check different spawn points then all spawn on whoever finds one.

Need to gear up? Server hop possible crash sites then spawn on your friend when he finds a fresh one.

Too much potential for abuse... You might as well just let everyone teleport at will.

[Lights Out 141]

You should be able to join a server as a group, however, there will only be a chance that you actually spawn together just like there would only be a chance that you'd be together if something like this went down. The chance would have to be hard coded along with some parameters to stop people from abusing the system.

For an example, you join as a group of 6. Maybe you all spawn separately, maybe there is a group of 3 and the other 3 are spawned solo in other locations, maybe 2 groups of 2 that are in different locations and the other two are spawned solo at different locations. Everyone spawning together should be VERY rare. I'd further explain how the coding of it would work but no need to get too technical, I think you get what I'm saying.

However, if you die, you should NOT be able to spawn back into the group. This should only work when everyone is a fresh spawn.

Edited October 23, 2012 by Lights Out

[OrsonR 0]

You should be able to join a server as a group, however, there will only be a chance that you actually spawn together just like there would only be a chance that you'd be together if something like this went down. The chance would have to be hard coded along with some parameters to stop people from abusing the system.

For an example, you join as a group of 6. Maybe you all spawn separately, maybe there is a group of 3 and the other 3 are spawned solo in other locations, maybe 2 groups of 2 that are in different locations and the other two are spawned solo at different locations. Everyone spawning together should be VERY rare. I'd further explain how the coding of it would work but no need to get too technical, I think you get what I'm saying.

However, if you die, you should NOT be able to spawn back into the group. This should only work when everyone is a fresh spawn.

Yes this would be a good idea

[RebeccaHuff 0]

It is enjoyable to play different multiplayer zombie games together with your friends and it much better if you are in battle or survival game.

[starwarsfan@gmx.de 450]

You should be able to join a server as a group, however, there will only be a chance that you actually spawn together just like there would only be a chance that you'd be together if something like this went down. The chance would have to be hard coded along with some parameters to stop people from abusing the system.

For an example, you join as a group of 6. Maybe you all spawn separately, maybe there is a group of 3 and the other 3 are spawned solo in other locations, maybe 2 groups of 2 that are in different locations and the other two are spawned solo at different locations. Everyone spawning together should be VERY rare. I'd further explain how the coding of it would work but no need to get too technical, I think you get what I'm saying.

However, if you die, you should NOT be able to spawn back into the group. This should only work when everyone is a fresh spawn.

Uhm... isn't that what would happen now if you spawn with 6 people on a server? There aren't that many spawn points on the map so the chance that at least a few of the group would be spawning with someone else would be quite large.

If anything I think once the map is larger you should be able to choose a rough area to spawn in for example wether you want to spawn on the south coast, the east coast or somewhere up north(if they add spawn points there). So you'd at least have a better chance to find each other because you spawn somewhere near eachother, but don't have the advantage of just immediatly being teamed up at spawn.

Just my two cents.

[indominator 95]

press I, they will log into your server like normal people, and boom they will join your server, done, you are with your friends, in the same country, to me that is almost the same thing, i know its tiring to walk a lot, but its the way it is in these big cities with overcrowded and unfunded public transports

[OrsonR 0]

press I, they will log into your server like normal people, and boom they will join your server, done, you are with your friends, in the same country, to me that is almost the same thing, i know its tiring to walk a lot, but its the way it is in these big cities with overcrowded and unfunded public transports

I agree that this is true, perhaps if the server browser is cleaned up abit that this would be better

[OrsonR 0]

Uhm... isn't that what would happen now if you spawn with 6 people on a server? There aren't that many spawn points on the map so the chance that at least a few of the group would be spawning with someone else would be quite large.

If anything I think once the map is larger you should be able to choose a rough area to spawn in for example wether you want to spawn on the south coast, the east coast or somewhere up north(if they add spawn points there). So you'd at least have a better chance to find each other because you spawn somewhere near eachother, but don't have the advantage of just immediatly being teamed up at spawn.

Just my two cents.

I think this would be a good idea, but only for some servers, I know many people would like some serves to be more 'hardcore', But personally I'd like to try this out