Another topic about encouraging teamwork within DayZ

[mattldempsey 8]

The idea here is that you should need to work with other players to fulfill your own characters max potential.

 

How?.... By giving us the ability to learn from each other.

 

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The Basics

We should be able to learn certain 'skills' off of each other by being in the presence of those capable using said 'skills' and benefiting from the experience of being in that presence. Skills would include crafts such as 'weapon maintenance', medicinal prowess, etc.

Gaining experience in that skill would allow you to perform it better. An example would be you are able to take better care of your gun and it will accumulate less wear & tear overtime.

Everyone should be able to perform EVERY skill, however without adequate knowledge from experience you should not be able to get good results.

 

 

Implementation

New characters would spawn with the basic functionality of all skills but with the chance to spawn with a varying level of knowledge in one skill in particular. If skill was based on a 1-10 level system there character could look something like these four examples below;

1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1

1/1/1/1/1/4/1/1

1/1/1/7/1/1/1/1

1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1

As you can see two of the characters spawned with a higher level of knowledge in one of the skills, they can then pass this to those with lower levels of knowledge in that particular field.

 

It could be based by being in the presence of someone performing one of those skills. Or by reading books to each other. To further encourage a teamwork attitude you could make it so that the knowledge is not immediately transferred to each other but it takes a certain amount of time (30mins) to sink in. If the learner kills his/her tutor within that time then the knowledge can be lost in thought.

 

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The way I see it, this sort of system gives players a choice when they find other players.

 

1. Kill them immediately, loot there body in the hope they have some gear (that you may have just damaged) that will keep you going until you find someone else to kill

or

2. Approach someone in the hope that you can learn important survivor skills that will allow you a much greater chance of surviving.

 

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Imagine if you approach someone to find out they have knowledge on how to maintain and pilot light aircraft (when DayZ is more developed). It could be very rewarding!