Starting in a bed and sleep in a bed

[ibux (DayZ) 22]

When you start in the game, it would be cool if you spawned lying in a random bed in one of the many houses around the map, and maybe you would be lucky and there would be some decent loot in the house. I also would like that you had to sleep in some kind of bed before your logged out.

[dulix11 731]

Meh, I suppose. But what have you been doing whilst the apocalypse is running rampant? Sleeping?

[ibux (DayZ) 22]

You can make your own story i guess.

I just think its fitting to be sleeping when your logged out.

Maybe if you logged out in the cold wilderness you had a chance to get sic, or some thing.

Edited June 27, 2013 by ibux

[Serious Stan 202]

A good soldier sleeps when he can, not when he want to

[ibux (DayZ) 22]

oki, but what if i am a civilian?

[Serious Stan 202]

A zombie apocalypse i can imagine being much like a war scenario. war against the infected.

And noone in the right mind could relax enough in a bed to sleep while zombies were roaming outside unless the building was properly sealed off.

[taco241 393]

You wake up in a sealed off room, with a chair or something against the door.

I like this random wake-up thing better than standing on the beach.

More disorienting.

[Dr.Duff 211]

Maybe a few different scenarios, like a hospital bed ala 28 days later as one example.

[SoulHunter (DayZ) 233]

A good idea. You wake up/spawn in a room. You see the zeds outside of the building and look around quickly to get some supplies and get out of the building asap.. Or you try to protect that room/house/building against zeds! It would be fun tho :P

[joe_mcentire 2074]

why not more randomness? at the beach, in the forest, in a bed...etc..

[LordDante 30]

why not more randomness? at the beach, in the forest, in a bed...etc..

That could actually be good. Why not spawn anywhere on the map, for instance? Why always the beach? It would be tons of fun, spawning in the middle of the forrest, trying to find the closest civilazed landspot. And then it wouldn't be always "OK, lets go north".

This could also drasticly reduce fresh spawn kills and Cherno/Electro looting a.k.a. Deatchmatch+Zombies!

As for the background? Well as we know, we make our own stories:)

[Feral (DayZ) 622]

seen a lot of suggestions for new spawn points, my personal favourite was spawning in mid air with a parachute as if your character has just bailed from a burning plane

[LordDante 30]

seen a lot of suggestions for new spawn points, my personal favourite was spawning in mid air with a parachute as if your character has just bailed from a burning plane

Oh I can see that in front of me: "WHERE AM I? WHAT IS THIS? HOW DO HELL DO I OPEN THIS?? WHAT BUTTON DO I NEED TO PR... *BAMMM*" :D

[SoulHunter (DayZ) 233]

That could actually be good. Why not spawn anywhere on the map, for instance? Why always the beach? It would be tons of fun, spawning in the middle of the forrest, trying to find the closest civilazed landspot. And then it wouldn't be always "OK, lets go north".

This could also drasticly reduce fresh spawn kills and Cherno/Electro looting a.k.a. Deatchmatch+Zombies!

As for the background? Well as we know, we make our own stories:)

Well its already confirmed that the players will spawn in the buildings anyway :P

[ibux (DayZ) 22]

I guess im just a strange person, but it ruins the game a little, that i can just logg out were ever, and i cant stop thinking about it.

What if you lock the door to your room or put a chair or some thing infront of it, and if the door was breached by another player you would have a chance to die. If you slept outside you would require a tent or good warm clothes to survive the cold nights, or you would get sic.

[LordDante 30]

I guess im just a strange person, but it ruins the game a little, that i can just logg out were ever, and i cant stop thinking about it.

What if you lock the door to your room or put a chair or some thing infront of it, and if the door was breached by another player you would have a chance to die. If you slept outside you would require a tent or good warm clothes to survive the cold nights, or you would get sic.

I think it would be just more punishing, than challenging. Imagine, not all people have that kind of time. What if you suddenly have to stop playing for God knows what or you loose the connection. After you get back, should you be punished for not locking yourself in a nice house or not building up a tent?

I think it is better to leave it to our imagination how players survive the nights or how they sleep.

[ibux (DayZ) 22]

I guess, but on the plus side people who just camp on the outside hill of a city just logging in with their sniper rifle may end up dead. If you have some realy rare item, like the one in the world item rocket talked about, it will have a chance to go back to the loot table if people is offline to long.

Edited June 27, 2013 by ibux

[WBK 176]

I love the starting in the bed idea! I think the best way to implement it would be to have designated 'spawn houses' slightly further inland and remote than the current spawn points. They'd have to design houses to look like they'd been lived in for a while, i.e. lots of empty tin cans, boarded doors and windows. You'd have to walk up to one of the doors and perform a 'remove boarding' action or something to leave the house, but it'd be a tiny thing to do to greatly increase immersion IMO. One of the things that really annoys me about the mod is that you spawn on the beach. What the hell? This place is an island, and it's infected. There ain't no way I would be coming here by sea, without any evidence of transport, to a place riddled with infection. Only problem is that some people might camp the houses, but I suppose that's not too much different to spawning in Kamenka and getting destroyed.

In theory, I really like the idea that your character still exists while you're logged out. It could get rid of those pesky spawn-in-campers, you don't have to pretend that you hid in a bush between Dolina and Polana for 24 hours, it would remove some of the desire to KoS (you don't want to be killing someone 5 minutes before logging out), and ultimately it adds a sense of realism and immersion. You see the sun setting and think "oh shit I have to find somewhere to stay tonight!". But we have to acknowledge this would take up a lot of people's time, time that they might not have as a casual gamer. And it would only encourage people to play for ridiculously long hours, because the rewards for staying up when everyone else is asleep is that you could possibly find them and steal all their loot and kill them. It's a really nice idea, but the benefits don't justify the shortcomings.

[elitekiller0820 0]

in a campsite with a campfire going? :P

[ibux (DayZ) 22]

When i play the game i like to pretend that im exploring a real place. I like that it is supposed to be hard and unforgiving, but i think they need to step it up a bit, cuz it is a bit to easy.

It could be in a "hard mode" only. We could have some hard mode only items, to encourage people to take the challenge and play hard mode.

Edited June 27, 2013 by ibux

[LancerG2 369]

For a second I thought this was minecraft inspired. Nope. Beans to you though.