DayZ SA.... Horses! Listen out.

[tals975 10]

Hey!

I was just watching Lord of the Rings, and was wondering how they get from one place to another so fast.

Then I remembered the horses, and I said to myself "Damn it! Walking is soooooo slow. Why don't DayZ have horses?!"

So here is my suggestion (couple of stuff, will put them by numbers):

1) Horses should be spawned in areas of barns, farms;

2) The horses would spawn inside stables;

3) Stables should spawn atleast one horse, up to 4 depends on how many you want.

4) A horse can carry two people, 2 weapons, and 20 slots (Each side would have a place for a weapon, and 10 slots. Seems reasonable, right?);

5) To access the gear, you need to be on the side.

6) The horse moves at the same speed on and off road;

7) The horses will either be 6, or will move at slightly higher speed off road (Yep, OFF road. Horses don't like walking on tarmac, the hoofs slide. [i'm a little expert in horses :D ])

8) [Reference to 6] The horse will be moving at roughly 45 KPH across all terrain, inc. woods, and up steep hills at roughly 20 KPH (Galop - boosting).

Will move at 35 KPH, and 15 on hills (trot).

9) [" " 7] The horse will run at around 35KPH on road, and roughly 55 off road, 25 up hill (Galop).

Will move at 28~ on road, 45 off road, and 20 up hills (trot).

10) Horse care:

-Horses will need food. I don't know what kind of food will be in the SA, but if there are vegs, then that. If not, then normal food, aka beans. No meat tho.

-Horses, if get shot, will bleed, which will make them slow down over time (they will have 25K blood).

-If shot, they will lose the same amount of blood as us, but will bleed faster.

-If the horse is bleeding, you will need TWO bandages to treat the bleeding. Horse chest is a rather large thing.

-if shot in the legs, the leg will either;

A) Instantly break, causing the horse to stop moving (and if possible, to lay on the ground)

B) Make the horse slow down until stop, and after it stops, you couldn't get him moving untill treated.

-If the horse's leg is broken, one morphine should do it.

-Under 10K blood, the horse will start slowing down. At 2.5K blood the horse will stop untill is gives a blood trans.

-Every canned food will give the horse 500 blood, every veg, if there is one, will give 1K.

-You will need to visit a pond from time to time, in my opinion, every 20 minutes of gallop or 40 of trot. If not, you can give it a water bottle.

-Blood trans will give the horse 12.5K blood.

11) Horse "parts":

-Pain

-Blood

-Thirst

-Hunger

-Legs

Now, the "fuel" monitor should be either the blood or thirst.

12) While running on a horse, you will LOSE temp, caused by the wind.

13) You can access the gear while standing still.

14) You can bandage (etc.) on the horse while standing still.

15) If you run into trees, the horse will not take damage ;)

16) If you run into any stable, your horse will regen health, hunger and thirst, over a course of 15 minutes.

17) [POSSIBLE] A horse will wander off if you get too far off of it, to the closest stable.

People said:

whiteboy greg - Kill the horse, get the meat!

That's it, for now. I can't think of anything else.

If you can think of anything, please tell me and I will add it under your name :)

THANKS!

TL;DR

Your problem, stop being lazy and read it!

Edited January 9, 2013 by Taltal

[rustledmyjimmies 361]

This would take an absolute shitload of work, and horses would probably end up being like hatchets (which need reloading and can make walls bleed...)

[BSB Jimmy 360]

too complex but still a good idea

[whiteboy greg 21]

If i can kill and eat my horse im in. But the other guys are right in how hard it would be to implement.

[Falabox 76]

I think the idea is awesome but like the guy above said ,Its too difficult to program.

But none the less the idea is pretty good.

[whatup2003 67]

I'd rather ride a bicyle...

[tals975 10]

This would take an absolute shitload of work, and horses would probably end up being like hatchets (which need reloading and can make walls bleed...)

I don't say they have to put it right from the beginning. They can work on it over time!

too complex but still a good idea

Thanks :D

If i can kill and eat my horse im in. But the other guys are right in how hard it would be to implement.

Yes you will be able to, and it will give you 1X meat.

I think the idea is awesome but like the guy above said ,Its too difficult to program.

But none the less the idea is pretty good.

THank you <3

[whiteboy greg 21]

Plus from the latest QA it sounds like they are going to have a hard time making doors not break your limbs before the release of the SA so I think ANY major additions are looking suspect.

[tals975 10]

Plus from the latest QA it sounds like they are going to have a hard time making doors not break your limbs before the release of the SA so I think ANY major additions are looking suspect.

Then after.

[whiteboy greg 21]

Yeah, that is something I would like to see in an expansion or just as a free update.

[psstloaf 17]

good future release, take my beans!

[tals975 10]

good future release, take my beans!

Can have mine as well! :D

[GenTroy (DayZ) 22]

Suggestion:

If you take horse into glue factory, it automatically dies and elmeers bottles spawn as loot.

[tals975 10]

Suggestion:

If you take horse into glue factory, it automatically dies and elmeers bottles spawn as loot.

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[pmjkerr 76]

My in-game name would be Darryl Braithwaite and I would never ever dismount.

[tals975 10]

My in-game name would be Darryl Braithwaite and I would never ever dismount.

Lol

[DemonGroover 8836]

Mine would be Sarah Jessica Parker and i wouldn't be able to bring myself to mount it.

[whiteboy greg 21]

HEEEYOOOOO!

[Steppwolf 97]

Support this 200%, i don't think it is possible though :(

My dream would be SA with red dead redemption horse system, that would be totall awesomeness.

[cindyanne1 41]

Eh... I like horses as much as the next person, but as far as DayZ goes I'll have to take the opinion my father had. "A four-wheeler is so much better. It still takes your butt from A to B and you only have to feed it when you ride!"

Still, I hope the SA game does incorporate more "mounts" as it were. And hopefully finds a way to make them at least semi-permanant (you can still have it stolen from you, but if you log off with it you will log back in with it... that kind of thing.)

[tals975 10]

Eh... I like horses as much as the next person, but as far as DayZ goes I'll have to take the opinion my father had. "A four-wheeler is so much better. It still takes your butt from A to B and you only have to feed it when you ride!"

Still, I hope the SA game does incorporate more "mounts" as it were. And hopefully finds a way to make them at least semi-permanant (you can still have it stolen from you, but if you log off with it you will log back in with it... that kind of thing.)

True.

Maybe if the horse had some kind of REAL advantage, such as maybe going 75 offroad? Even where trucks go 30, like woods?

Edited January 10, 2013 by Taltal

[mattldempsey 8]

Not to my tastes. Middle earth is a continent, DayZ is barely the size of a English county.

Its a 2 day ride as far as fast as the nazgul flies from edoras to minas tirith

Orlok says: we are all entitled to what "we" think is a good idea, if one disagrees, try to do it in a more constructive way. The rest of the post is great.

Edited January 10, 2013 by orlok

[Aerosion 4]

It's not complex, it's just like adding another vehicle with legs, i agree that walking can get a bit boring from place to place and this is a good idea, i think if we had it it would be a bit like Red Dead Redemption, and i think caring for the horse is a bit to much for people as they could keep the horse for ages and it instantly gets shot with all there loot in and probably be bugged making it despawn :/

[tals975 10]

It's not complex, it's just like adding another vehicle with legs, i agree that walking can get a bit boring from place to place and this is a good idea, i think if we had it it would be a bit like Red Dead Redemption, and i think caring for the horse is a bit to much for people as they could keep the horse for ages and it instantly gets shot with all there loot in and probably be bugged making it despawn :/

Yeah, I guess. Maybe if they make it so horses take less damage, or stuff. Maybe when he takes damage, he gets a boost in speed, because he's scared?

The huge advantage of horses are, they are plenty, and they're easy to take care of. You don't need to carry around 12 slots of car wheels just in case you bump into a tiny pine tree. Imo, the HUGE advantage of horses is that basically EVERY character can take care of it. Basically all of us have water bottles, can get to a pond, have food and basic medical stuff. So when you find a horse, you can just ride it! When you are sick of it, either kill it or let him go so another player can use it from the nearest stable.

[ididi9 (DayZ) 53]

No game yet has made successful horses that don't spaz over difficult terrain.