Custom Ghillie Webbing and Solution to Crowbar Problem

[The Friendly Bandit 137]

Hey guys

I've been on the forums for a while, and this is my first suggestion! Let me know what you think.

My idea was: Why not be able to make your own ghillie/camo webbing? Not for the mod though, I was thinking more for the standalone with its crafting system at a later date.

FEATURES

- Made by finding a cloth, strings/glue(?) and a using a knife or hatchet to cut off parts of a plant.

- The camo netting would look different based on what kinds of plants and cloth you used! This would allow you to customise it for any terrain, including the desert or snow (if such environments are added)

- Depending on how much bush and cloth you use to make it, the ghillie web could be used for a number of things such as: netting camo over any of your guns (like the svd camo) a standard ghillie suit, or, if it's made to be as large as possible, draping camo over structures or vehicles in your base so choppers are no longer able to spot your base in an instant!

If this were to be added, then I think being able to find ghillies and camo guns should be impossible to make it more realistic (these would be gone a week after the apocalypse as everyone has taken them) and then no two ghillies will look the same!

My second suggestion is to improve that useless crowbar.

FEATURES

- The crowbar counts as a tool (like the hatchet)

- You can lock cars that you find if you find the keys that only spawn with vehicle at its spawn point) and cannot access cars unless you have keys or a crowbar (but to do so you need to break one side of the windscreen glass)

- To start a car if you have broken into it, you need to hotwire it, and for this you need a toolbox

- Make the crowbar much rarer

I believe this will stop the fact that it's near impossible to have a vehicle without it being stolen when you log off. Nowhere is safe on the map as there are people who search every corner for vehicles. The safest way to get a vehicle is low-pop servers and I don't believe the game should be this way.

Let me know what you think of my ideas :)

EDIT: Wow Steak and Star liked my post! I thought Star was too busy killing me in game to even check the forums!

Edited March 11, 2013 by The Friendly Bandit

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

I like the crowbar and hotwire idea they should make it so it doesnt have 100% chance of hotwire on the first try so you could be there for a few minutes scroll slamming as a timer goes and says [hotwire failed].

I like the idea of making your own suit I think using the knife to cut away parts from branches that take up inventory space the same way you build a fire essentially combine to your suit and wear your current enviornment.

beans for you.

[The Friendly Bandit 137]

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[The Friendly Bandit 137]

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[starthealmighty 597]

beans for that idea,

i like it because i could feel safer logging out knowing that the common riff-raff cant Steal my glorious Tractor's

[Sutinen 635]

Well, basically you could just break a car window with no tools, but it wouldn't be that effortless or safe. Either kick the shit out of it or use something to throw at it.

It's kinda like having to find a water bottle to drink from a water pond currently in the mod.

Edited February 4, 2013 by Sutinen

[thehero 119]

What about if you had a gun? I'm sure a good strong smack with the butt of your rifle would break a window

It's kinda like having to find a water bottle to drink from a water pond currently in the mod.

Edited February 4, 2013 by whosknowswho

[Sourcarrot 27]

I like the ghillie idea but i'm not so sure about realism with the crowbar idea surely you could shoot out the window or smash it with pretty much everything but i suppose it would make having a car more enjoyable

[Assassin8813 5]

The car lock is definitely a great idea, and that could honestly go for every vehicle in the game. Keys for the ATV and Motorcycle, chains and a lock for the Old Bike, and everything else would use the locks that are already implemented into the doors. Kudos to you for being the first to post about this. I hope this idea get's through to rocket.

As for the crowbar, it is pretty much useless at this point. To add on to what you have to suggest, I think that the crowbar should be a necessity to break into buildings with jammed doors, making loot harder to find without a crowbar. I like that idea too.

[The Friendly Bandit 137]

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[TIC 1050]

Don't see why I would need a crowbar to lock a car when I could break the windows with it and hotwire then speed off just like that :P

For the ghillie idea, it should be possible for Standalone.

[The Friendly Bandit 137]

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[Thorsblood 26]

I like ghillie suite's....this make's them easier to get (in theory) I'm game :D (I like be the Hero bush tyvm lol)

[Assassin8813 5]

Don't see why I would need a crowbar to lock a car when I could break the windows with it and hotwire then speed off just like that :P

Well, you wouldn't use the crowbar to lock the car, you would use the keys that you found in the car to do that. But yes, you could in theory use the crowbar to break the window and steal the car w/o keys.

However, I think that to tag along with the whole idea of hot-wiring, when you do that, the car should have a random chance of turning off each second (like 1/250 maybe?), and it should take a considerable amount of time to hot-wire the car.

Food for thought.

[The Friendly Bandit 137]

Just resurrected this dead thread!

Edited March 11, 2013 by The Friendly Bandit

[timboski 618]

The car lock is definitely a great idea, and that could honestly go for every vehicle in the game. Keys for the ATV and Motorcycle, chains and a lock for the Old Bike, and everything else would use the locks that are already implemented into the doors. Kudos to you for being the first to post about this. I hope this idea get's through to rocket.

I've heard the lockable vehicleidea a million times. It wont work because if someone finds a locked vehicle they will just rage and destroy it. That's what I would do. Vehicles are for everyone's use and if someone finds the one you have been using then tough titty.

Edited March 11, 2013 by Timboski

[The Friendly Bandit 137]

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