A Challenge Gamemode?

[noblebrutus@live.co.uk 26]

I've been wondering about this for a while, it would be set up as a kind of competition (I'll get on to that later.)

The Main alterations to the current game and their effect.

The major change would be: No loot respawn, (perhaps increased loot at the beginning, but what spawns when the competition starts is all there is.)

This would have catastrophic effects on the game... early game there will be more than enough to go round, but as time goes on supplies get depleted and survival becomes more challenging. Many people whine about banditry in current DayZ, and there is a fair point that there is always more than enough supplies to go round. Therefore there is no actual need for banditry in Vanilla DayZ. However, with no loot respawning, banditry would slowly become more necessary... but at the same time ammo would become more sparse (since it won't respawn either).

People would try and stock up and hoard resources, making bases far more necessary and functional... and allowing players more opportunity to search for and loot other players' bases. Items would gain more actual worth and zombies would become more of a threat as the game progresses.


How Could this be implemented?

This poses many hard questions. However I'll outline how I can see it working below.

1. It would be a private hive exclusive gamemode.
2. Prior to the beginning of the game, an application thread could be launched on this forum. The admin running the server could then add accepted players to a whitelist.
3. A minimum number of hours must be logged by each player each day/2days IRL (Number of hours set by admin to reflect how 'hardcore' they want the game to be).
4. Death in the game would cause instant removal from the whitelist... so people will value their lives all the more. The decrease in player population would then effect all remaining players.
5. The game lasts until all players have died or the admin calls a close.

Points 2 and 4 could alternatively swapped for death resulting in being added to a blacklist if preferred. (Ie you don't want a lengthy application process or a controlled number of survivors from Day 1).

Whitelists and Blacklists would be reset once the game has finished.


Other notes

I could also imagine this being a great gamemode to stream or do a commentary on since each action holds so much weight and things could get very tense and competitive. Also some far more interesting stories could come out of this mode IMO.

I believe this would create a 'truer' DayZ experience for fans who would love a more survival based challenge and are willing to invest time into it.

I think that this could be implemented without too much work by the devs, since the changes it makes are quite straight forward.

Once you're 'out' you can of course return to playing regular DayZ and/or sign up to another game of this type at another hive.


So... what do you think?

Edited August 28, 2013 by NobleBrutus

[Hoj0 (DayZ) 31]

I really like the idea. Seems like a team based mode to me.

[noblebrutus@live.co.uk 26]

Yes, I can imagine clans or groups of friends trying to cooperate early game to gather resources, and perhaps patch up a vehicle (would be a lot harder without loot respawning).

But inevitably you eventually get to the point were there's five players in your group but only four cans of beans between you.... or a player might decide to grab what they can and run... From what I've heard these are the sorts of scenarios that Rocket would like to see (me too!) and is something that really doesn't occur in the normal game.

Thanks,

[DemonGroover 8836]

I have thought about a similar idea before and it would be a nice if a server could implement this type of game once in a while.

Much like the Survivor Gamez though i think it would be interesting if all players could spawn at once so there is a true level playing field.

I would definitely be interested in this sort of experiment.