Lt.Bravo 3 Posted December 8, 2012 I thought up of an idea of Hunting cameras or "Trail Cameras". For those of you that do not know about hunting, Hunting cameras are cameras that have a sensor that if anything comes across about a 70 ft in front of it. This would be pretty cool to keep around your base's as security. For example. Lets say you have vehicles at your base. You can go back to the camera the next day and check out the footage of where the person entered, about how many people, and the direction they drove off in. Lets say they drove away from your camera like a different direction that the camera cannot see. You may want to scavenge for more than one and set them up in vantage points to cover every area that you would want it to. They do not have to be used in bases but however you want to. I am pretty sure people will come up with some creative ways of using them. I also put a picture so that you can see what they look like on trees or you can even post them on a pole. Hopefully my thought gets put into an option, Thank you, Lt.Bravo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fraggle (DayZ) 15720 Posted December 8, 2012 Hmm, it'd need a lot of work to implement it in game, I like it though.I'd prefer more rustic/home-made devices as opposed to technology like dead-weight traps and so on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BigEdMan 11 Posted December 8, 2012 Wouldn't more player placed objects simply add to the load time and slow the database down even more?I could be wrong I've never really looked into how the server databases utilize player affected data.To individual players it's just one or two cameras, a tent, barbed wire or stashed vehicle. But collectively it's thousands of pieces of crap being added by hundreds of players that the server needs to keep track of. Plus some added objects (vehicles, tents, dead bodies etc.) all have inventory that needs kept track of by the database. So I would assume that each individual camera would have its inventory content (pictures) that the database would be to keep track of.Would be cool but I don't know if it's worth the added lag. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michaelvoodoo25 3120 Posted December 8, 2012 What wrong with the traditional tried and tested methods? eyeballs?I've been hunting and camping many many times, I have never needed a glorified security camera, and one that note, what are you going to do when you have footage? won't the offending players log off? with some of your precious loot with them? Even if they do your base over will you be online to notice it? (Anyone remember the real time SMS message app someone suggested? as you were being robbed you recieved a real time message telling you it was clobbering time)By the time you had gotten the information the vehicle and loot would be well gone. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lt.Bravo 3 Posted December 8, 2012 Not necessarily, If you get to your camera and see the direction they headed off with your vehicles you can basically predict where they will hide them. I know this because I have tracked down my stolen vehicles about 7 times before by using eye witness accounts on friends that told me what direction they headed. Sure i spent about 2 hours looking for them but hey I got my shit back. But if my friends weren't there then the cameras were and I can use that, It can also be used to place in random places in the woods and lets say you decide to check those random cameras you put and you end up seeing vehicles headed into heavily forested areas where bases are usually placed you can track them down and take their loot. Yea you will lose any guns they logged out with but thats why you log out with the 2 favorite guns that you do not want to be taken. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michaelvoodoo25 3120 Posted December 8, 2012 No offense, not trying to be a twat!Loot is easy to find, it would be easier just going to a barracks.Vehicles can be destroyed, then meaning you have to loot the parts to repair. Wouldn't a key / lock mechanism be more effective? as opposed to a hunting camera?1st rule of DayZ "Don't get attached to your gear" I started playing as a camp wrecker, I would actively search for camps and take everything and destroy all stuff, The numerous times I have taken vehicles they have never been taken back to their originating camps.Eye witness accounts are live accounts, a camera will not have as much information, for one it won't tell you where it was last seen! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vapordad 81 Posted December 8, 2012 Camera's? Digital Camera's? What's next computer's? generator's? power up cherno? Vibrators for the lady's?I left my flashlight on all night and you know what.... Now the fucking batteries are dead Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lt.Bravo 3 Posted December 8, 2012 No offense, not trying to be a twat!Loot is easy to find, it would be easier just going to a barracks.Vehicles can be destroyed, then meaning you have to loot the parts to repair. Wouldn't a key / lock mechanism be more effective? as opposed to a hunting camera?1st rule of DayZ "Don't get attached to your gear" I started playing as a camp wrecker, I would actively search for camps and take everything and destroy all stuff, The numerous times I have taken vehicles they have never been taken back to their originating camps.Eye witness accounts are live accounts, a camera will not have as much information, for one it won't tell you where it was last seen! No dude.... whenever we find our vehicles back we move obviously not stupid enough to go back to the same place, also yes I know , Dont get to attached to your gear but you would like to use your best gear as long as you can and if you can get it back hell why not? And especially if its a vehicle... would you rather walk for an hour or 2?Camera's? Digital Camera's? What's next computer's? generator's? power up cherno? Vibrators for the lady's?I left my flashlight on all night and you know what.... Now the fucking batteries are dead and also yea I do not appreciate your sarcasm but no not power up cherno..... Trail cameras to keep track of shit that going on. gives you an edge, an advantage....... Not like im trying to add generators even though they may be added, or freakin airplanes man, they are just simple hunting cameras......... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michaelvoodoo25 3120 Posted December 8, 2012 I just think most players wouldn't use it, so there would not be use for it in a Russian country. Until you suggested it i had never heard of it, so to me it would serve no purpose. Give me traps and trip wires any day of the week to protect my stuff (If i was that way inclined). That is where the fun would be for me if people were trying to rob me. I would not be trying to track down items I could replace easily enough.Most players can find out where vehicles spawn and with a lot more servers now offering Max Vehicles there's usually more vehicles than actual players!Cameras would not be needed due to the high availability of stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Very Ape 748 Posted December 8, 2012 Hmm, it'd need a lot of work to implement it in game, I like it though.I'd prefer more rustic/home-made devices as opposed to technology like dead-weight traps and so on.Yes! Let's make us more traps, deadly traps. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steak and Potatoes 13480 Posted December 9, 2012 I would use that camera for all the wrong reasons, players would catch on when they visited the cherno pub and went to use the stalls :huh: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
