I have an idea for helping with the KOS problem. Rocket should read.

[SageZ 13]

The military has proven time and again that even trained soldiers will find themselves unable to fire at another living being if given enough time to think about. It takes a split second to feel empathy for another living being. Your brain, unless you have an antisocial spectrum disorder, is wired for empathy as an adult. If you have empathy you will suffer consequences for killing. This isn't some kind of weird morality but simple brain chemistry. Killing another person causes mental trauma that can take decades to overcome and may not be able to be dealt with at all.

I am not saying to stop the killing. I am saying let people suffer something for having done it.

This is a fucking game for christ sake.

[Bubbajones 238]

South Africa doesn't have blood diamond mines. South Africa has a legitimate mining industry, one of the biggest in the world. (Source: I am South African) You're thinking of West Africa.

 

Regardless, Kill on Sight is an attitude of some DayZ players. Don't like being killed? Then don't be seen....

 

 

my apologies. i didnt even realize i said South.i corrected my post.

[SageZ 13]

Op actually has a very well thought through idea that you kids should listen to or go play one of your useless little games, that the market is full of.

Meeting people deep in the wild, and saying "hi" to them, would rarely result in a gun fireing rampage from the message recieving party.

KOS has nothing to do with reality, killing other players sometimes does. The KOS in Dayz is very unreal as it is now, and other players are seen only as loot boxes or possible threats to iliminate.

There is no insentive what so ever to let another player live, yet in real life you would have hundres or thousands of good reasons. Let me name you a few if you are still 12 and havent grown up yet.

1. The fear of going totally insane from killing other people (Go read Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment if you want more in depth wisdom on how this might affect you kids)

2. The fear that you just killed the last human being on earth, and now you have to live with the zombies

3. Company. If you have been in the wild for weeks, you would never ever just shoot someone down, you would very carefully try and make contact.

4. Grouping against zombies. This is one of the things I fail to understand. In an apocalypse, you would be desperate to find people with whom you could group up with and fight off the zombies, not so in Dayz. (maybe if they made the zombies a real threat, they are pussy easy to kill right now)

5. Empathy. You see a guy bleeding, dying, and you shoot him in his face to take his gear? come on, you may be 12, but this is insane behaviour that hardly exists in real life, even considering an apocalypse. Empathy is one of the main drivers of human evolution.

Point is, in a game with no real consequences for killing other players, it will be just end up becoming your every day lousy and super boring and immature first person shooter experience.

The OP is not talking about taking the HARDCORENESS out of the game, but to make it more real, more mature, more like real life.

Kids go back to school please, and stop ruining our otherwise fantastic apocalypse simulator!

You call people kids , yet you sound like a naive and ignorant person who has no idea what this world really is. Do you realize that people get beheaded and their bodies left on the streets , tourchered , raped, burned, shot, eaten, kids killed in front of parents, every fucking day. Just cause you live in your fucking happyland doesn't mean that humans aren't capable of doing fucked up shit. And who are you to say that every person would have a mental issue when killing someone in an apocalypse, if you wanna go all realistic on this, I'm sure many people wouldn't think twice before taking someone out especially during a zombie outbreak. Edited January 16, 2014 by SageZ