Pens write on anything... this can make things more interesting.

[gangrenetvp 74]

Why stop with pens writing on paper? 

You should be able to write them on anything. Add some rotten fruit to a canteen(to poison it)... write something on all of your canteens so you can tell them apart... All gear could have things written on them... might give all of the gear a little more "personality".

I like the idea of poisoning some blood, water, and or food on me. So when they loot my corpse and make a wrong choice they may regret it. ;-)

I could even label my items "1", "2", "3", etc... and if I know "2" is poisoned... I'll not drink that one. Maybe I'll even label some AB blood as O+... ;-)

Basically, when you inspect any item and bring it up to full screen, there could be a message box below the item telling you what, if anything, is written on it... it could be useful in many ways.

[TedZ 424]

Great suggestion, in real life you'd be able to mark things, which is pretty useful in survival, so it'd be a great idea, but we'd need a black market pen!

[Shadow Slayer 13]

You can spray disinfectant spray on food to poison it.

[Beck (DayZ) 1768]

I heard they removed these features because people wrote racist comments all over the place on note pads.

[Problematic 71]

Great idea but I could imagine this kind of thing being a bitch to implement.

[gangrenetvp 74]

It's not a bitch to implement... They already have the functions built with the paper and pen... simply add that function to every item... done.

[bad_mojo (DayZ) 1204]

Would have to limit the characters so people don't write a story on a can of beans. Otherwise I like it.

[UnicornDroppings 23]

I heard they removed these features because people wrote racist comments all over the place on note pads.

 

LOL

 

your idea of coding your items is cool. good idea