Why don't more players play like this?

[DigitGreen (DayZ) 63]

(Posting here to better my chances of IAmJayJayy finding me again)

So I got on Dayz after logging off last night finding god like loot off of two corpses and a car on my way from Cherno to the NW Airstrip. Like many, I grew tired of trying to be the nice guy and just became a bandit. When I logged in, I scanned the airstrip from the southern field where the strip ends, only to see no zombies nor any players. I grew tired of waiting and decided to check the southern barracks. Despite me being 99 percent sure that no one was there, I still took precaution and crawled to the barracks.

Along the way, I heard a faint sound of what I swore was a person talking. I was watching a video on my laptop, (while I was playing on my desktop) and I was wearing headphones for the game so I didn't know what was coming from which, so I paused the video and I listened in game. A man was calling out to me saying: "Stop moving or I'll shoot." Or something along that lines. Despite having I mic, I wasn't sure if the man was talking to me or someone else, being oblivious to me, so I decided to stop, and see if his words would change, if he kept saying stop then it's not me that's in his sights. And if not, then I might be in trouble. Moving my character's head to my left toward the sound I saw what looked like a crouching body aiming a weapon toward me, he had a ghillie suit so he blended into the leaves on the trees behind him, so I wasn't even sure if he was even there. The next thing he commanded me to do was to drop my weapons, clearly I was in not position to resist, so I went into my menu and dropped my weapons, which was a M4 CCO SD and a Revolver. I had a AS50 in my backpack, but I decided to wait to see if he would tell me to do that too, rather than just doing it.

Next he said that he was walking over, and told me to stand still. Looking at him, I saw that he himself had a AS50, and did have a Ghillie suit on. His actions was the first I had ever seen in this game, and I questioned many things; Why didn't he shoot me? What is he going to do? I was honestly confused by his rare actions upon this situation. Mostly if someone sees me they just shoot me, not giving it a second thought as far as I know. So what drove this man to do other wise?

Despite not shooting me on site, he wasn't being completely friendly, telling me to step away from my dropped weapons. I did so and watched him walk closer to me. When he got to me, he first looked at my weapons, believe it or not, he didn't take anything, he just looked over to me and asked me a few questions. I can't remember them exactly, but one was what I was doing. I told him I was looking over the airfield, and when I saw that no one was here, I decided to loot. He said that he was watching me crawling over. I guess he assumed that I was friendly, and let me get back to my weapons. Then after I got them, he let me go to the barracks, but he wanted to tag along, staying behind me, making sure I don't do anything.

At this point I could have tried to kill him, a part of me wanted to, but the kindness in me made me not do it. He gave me a chance, not just shooting me, leaving me with a anticlimactic end to my characters life, so why should I? Besides, I was around 6000 blood, and maybe this guy had things I could use without drawing blood, no one needed to die, and he understood that, we could help each other, go farther than we could ever go on our own. Instead of attacking each other like mindless bandits, not thinking before we act, we handled this situation calmly and quietly. This has never happened to me before, and the experience, although rather not as eventful as a shootout, seemed to hold a stronger affect on me.

So as I went into the barracks, which strangely did not spawn any zombies, he stayed outside to get water from the pump. Now if I was the kind of guy to attack him at this situation, this would have been a horrible idea. Unless he lied and instead was watching me, like a test to see if I was truly friendly to him, I didn't look outside because I had no interest in doing so, so I'm not sure if he was doing what he said. When I came back out, he asked me if I needed any medical attention, or if I needed ammo that he could spare. I asked if he had a blood bag, and he kindly gave me a transfusion.

Now was the time, better than any other to attack. He was completely vulnerable, in the act of healing me, I could aim my gun and put a single bullet in to his head, taking his life easily. but like I said before, why? Even if I didn't have rangefinders, NVGs, or other things he might have, would it really be worth throwing away the chance to not only have someone who could help me over come obstacles that I may never be able to accomplish on my own, but to also have another friend in this gaming community? I thought of it this way. Either kill him, and have short term advantages that would most likely go away as soon as I die, or possibly have not only long term advantages that I may benefit after I die ten times folded, and have someone to just have fun with? I took the latter, and let him finish, not stabbing him in the back.

School was starting soon, and I had to go, I told him I had to do so, and that I would like to play with him later. He gave me his (steam name?) and I logged off. I was unable to find his account, I found an account with his name, but I could not add him. I just hope that he is reading this.

IAmJayJayy, if you are reading this, thank you for giving me a chance, for doing things different, and inspiring me to do the same with others. And also, send me a message so I can give you my steam name.

TL;DR

Read the story or don't post, I don't care if this is too long for you.

Edited November 1, 2012 by Digital_Insanity

[xenomta 128]

Still a better love story than twilight.

[Slyguy65 499]

Man all that reading...thinking im human and shit....I DO NOT READ DAMNIT I EAT BRANCHES FFS

[AlexLualdi 0]

Holy shit, IamJayJayy, I swear I saw him on a UK server not so long ago, Someone with a name like that you assume a bandit, well, for me anyways, maybe im a poor sense of character, but since he did that, I too grow tired of trying to be friendly and get shot in the back, If I ever see him again or he's down the end of my scope, I'll think twice about shooting and i'll tell him that I .. I guess heard of his deeds lol

[DigitGreen (DayZ) 63]

Holy shit, IamJayJayy, I swear I saw him on a UK server not so long ago, Someone with a name like that you assume a bandit, well, for me anyways, maybe im a poor sense of character, but since he did that, I too grow tired of trying to be friendly and get shot in the back, If I ever see him again or he's down the end of my scope, I'll think twice about shooting and i'll tell him that I .. I guess heard of his deeds lol

If you happen to get in contact with him again, tell him about this, I'd love to see him again.

[AlexLualdi 0]

If you happen to get in contact with him again, tell him about this, I'd love to see him again.

Will do man :) lol Digital insanity, I remember a Keygen music song with that name xD but yeah if

I see him i'll let him know :)

[rata487 9]

to much for me to handle i'm exploding!!!

[Reverend Killjoy 84]

TLDR

[Nwoswat 22]

Still a better love story than twilight.

No. enough of that dumb joke

[synnyster tick 12]

No. enough of that dumb joke

I use to make dumb jokes like these... but then i took a... oh whats the point?

[Sula 1205]

Now it's your turn, Digital, to learn by that and set your standards as I! :thumbsup:

[BwobBwub 660]

Its kinda like frankieonpc's play style, he asks for them to drop there weapons so he can do looting nearby, once he has finished he lets his bambi's go

[Tureilim 3]

I play similarly, but not quite. I keep a person at gunpoint and I give orders for them to keep their back to me, if I catch them around. if they're friendly, I lose the aggression but still tell them to stay facing away from me. if they try something, they die. If they need help and I can spare it, I'll drop it for them. If I'm in a good mood I'll warn them of anything I know of, but I do not play with strangers. If you pass along my path I won't group up with you, but I have no intention of hurting you if you just let me go on my merry wanderings.