Since this is Sandbox, make it Sandbox?

[bbfhavok 0]

Not sure if this has been offered or not yet, sorry if its a double post.

Basically, i'm asking for this. Also, the coding might be difficult, but if Minecraft can do it, why can't we (LOL)?

Resources + Crafting Tools = Craft Items

Example - wood + hammer + nails = something you can make into a house/small camp like?

This will allow players to create safe havens/camps/etc...

Maybe it's not a good idea, or maybe its not what the developers want. But as far as i can tell the game really has no objective, so maybe allow us to create our own objectives, like build shelters, protect shelters, survive within those shelters, go loot to expand shelters, meet new members we can accept into our shelters, etc, etc, etc...

Let me know what you guys think on the crafting ability being incorporated into the mod, i think it would be fairly simple and you would see a dramatic increase in players.

-1 (if you don't want crafting.) +1 if you do.

+1 for crafting capability.

[djkling 5]

You could use the commander build mechanic i think, but crafting is not in the Arma2 code, this mod is just that; it mods existing mechanics not makes whole new ones per se.

[Haplo (DayZ) 44]

+1. it would be great to see players forming alliances etc. with this physical kind of reward. i think rocket has plans of introducing factions, so perhaps something like this could already be in the pipeline..

kling, wouldn't it be great to see dayz released as a game unto itself though? :P such a move could really be the edge bohemia interactive need to take a huge step forward in the gaming industry

[scoffield77@gmail.com 192]

I'd like to be able to craft wooden bolts for the cross bow.

so +1

[Spriggan 1]

Here is yet another op asking if we can build bases... just take a small town or one of the castle in game and fort it up as a base.

Zog, one of the castles in the game, I think smack dang in the middle of the map, right next to a water fountain, I have a team of 5 including me that are on key location of the castle keeping watch while another team go to the local towns for looting. We don't have the best guns but we make do, even wired and tank trapped the side walls . We have made still to this day even had our fair share of server hoppers but still we continue our pressence and keep it as sandbox as possible.

[1n5anity 0]

There taking tents out to avoid people making towns. I dont think this idea would slide well.

[dominance 0]

Are they taking tents out?

I think the ability to make towns is cool as it brings variation to the map, and you have no idea what you will run into.