Idea for vehicles

[taff2304 11]

• 
  I had an idea for the vehicles, in dayz mod it was relatively easy to fix cars and get them going when in reality its much harder i was thinking maybe instead of having just an engine block having smaller components such as alternator, battery, oil filter head gasket and other components making it a lot harder to repair cars so not everyone is driving around in them i mean you could always put scrap cars in that you can scavenge off .
  
• 
  Oh and instead of just finding a tool box find different tools for different jobs like spanners and ratchet sets stuff like that and make it so you don't just click fix this or attach that make it time consuming it would bring life skills into the game and make a mechanic or someone who knows how to do it valuable in a team. There is a game called gear head garage now if you have a look at it i don't mean make it exactly like that but maybe something along the lines having to bolt and unbolt and maybe having to find oil to put in the car instead of just petrol it would bring a lot more danger and nerve into it because say you were planning a run into a major town and you have a running car, how long will it actually run for so it would be nervous times if you were stuck in cherno with a broken vehicle and trying to fix it at road side surrounded by zombies so it would bring a whole new feel to the game and make for a lot more drama. Its just an idea guys would love to see it in play and implemented in the game i am a mechanic btw lol so maybe i want it more than others but would be cool if you like the idea comment andif we get enough they might just put it in
  

[FlashHawk4 44]

Okay, I might have some good news.

I wanna say that Rocket has explicitly stated that repairing vehicles is far too easy in the current alpha of the game. Obviously, at least a little bit of this can be traced back to the ArmA vehicle damage modelling (it's hard to simulate repairing a vehicle when the only parts that can take damage in the first place consist of "engine", "wheel", "fuel tank", etc...)

Anyway, most of us would like it to be harder, but we don't want something artificial like a class system where you have to check the box marked "Mechanic" if you ever want to fix a car in your life or a book system where you HAVE to read the magic manual to instantly master the skill.

Therefore, the best way to include this is (in my opinion) making the actual act of fixing a car more like what you as a mechanic would actually do. Maybe not "here's a list of 46 parts that are broken on this Jeep, good luck", but more like "it's not turning over and it's making this really specific funny noise, I'd better ask my buddy who's good at this to see what's wrong with it".

Obviously that puts more of an incentive towards teamwork, since not everyone knows how to diagnose a car's problems and then set them right.

Just my two cents.

Edited February 19, 2013 by FlashHawk4

[taff2304 11]

yer thats what i was saying make it so you actually need to know how to do it to identify wats missing and whats wrong like a mechanic really would do i hate games where u read a book and know it all i would love it to be like "OMG you are a mechanic you can repair cars you gotta join us" sorta thing just like medics and other stuff make it so that there is actually some knowlage that needs to be there yer most people know basic medical stuff but put some fancy shit in there so again a medic is valuable (when i reffer to medics and mechanics being valuable i mean real life medics and mechanics not skills in game )