Foods! Plz coment

[timboski 618]

Farming would be far too time consuming though fun to wreck someones hard work :D

My thoughts are:

Deer - common but fast and skittish so need great patience and skill to hunt, high yield.

Farm animals - rare since they are easy to hunt, medium yield.

Rabbits/small animals - very common but similar to deer with them being difficult to hunt, low yield.

Fish/fishing - Simple fishing mechanism such as throw nets, low yield.

Fruit/veg/fungi - relatively common (apple trees, greehouses etc) some fungi could have negative (though possibly hilarious) effects, low yield.

Some foods can be eaten raw but with a higher chance of making the player ill.

[Penny Sue 77]

Hello there

The foody aspect could deviate the game away from the PVP bias the mod seems to have at the moment and could give reasons to defend land etc, but how would one guard ones crops when offline?

Rgds

LoK

People gotta sleep SOME time! Just like leaving your car or tent... roll the dice man!

Or get organized and have real people doing real patrols following real shifts. Want to protect your awesome stuff? Get some ppl together from different time zones to keep an eye on it most of the day & night.

[DayZoey 110]

Manually farming is... not a good idea. Not even from a game play perspective but from a realistic perspective as well as illustrated by both The Walking Dead and just... playing this game.

It's a bad idea because one doesn't stay alive very long unless they are mobile, nomadic and difficult to track. Whenever my friend and I set up a tent, it's to stash basics in case we die and we can't get back to our bodies (A few blood packs, a couple morphines, some canned food and soda) but we stay ahead of bandits because we're always on the move, roaming from town to town, staking out and then ransacking the place for supplies and gone before anyone can draw a bead on us. If we hear gun fire or something doesn't feel right, we move on.

It's also a bad idea because as The Walking Dead illustrated (given that Zombies respond to noise in this game as well, not just sight) that if you ever got in to a shoot out anywhere near your farm eventually it would be overrun by the rotting bastards from every direction. If you're forced to leave that's a ton of time and effort wasted especially if it happens before the harvest is ready and you're barely surviving as it is.

And as mentioned before, people would wreck it just for fun or they would steal all the food. It's not like you could hide it in the forest either because the plants wouldn't be getting any sunlight. They'd be competing with the existing trees for sunlight and guess who was there first. So you'd have to plant your crops in an open field (unless you grew them inside a warehouse with UV lights like a giant marijuana farm) where everyone could see them and easily raid/destroy them.

In short: Plants versus Zombies DayZ is not a good idea, it doesn't fit the atmosphere of the game at all.

Something I would like to add though, it would be nice to see more than 4 brands of canned food because I imagine that Heinz Baked Beans, Frank and Beans, Pasta and Sardines would get pretty tiresome on survivors after awhile. Even if they're imaginary brands, I'm pretty sure wherever Chernarus is, the local merchants didn't buy only 4 brands of canned food xP

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

Tinned swan.