The islands offshore on the coasts should have a better purpose rather than it to be sniper hills :/

[rydekk 250]

Maybe add a whole alcatraz ish prison like a gulag there for something. Maybe you could find prison made weapons like shivs, or riot control guns like perhaps a mosin or sks in an armory. or create a new island with a mountain with on top a military base or a settlement.

 

 

Pros

 

Gives people more reasons to start swimming

New content

 

Cons

 

Perhaps more bandits on the coast camping the area around the islands...

 

 

What do you fellas think,

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

They were going to put a prison on Utes but supposedly it felt too forced so they're not going to put it on Utes (there's conflicting rumors that that means they're not going to add in Utes at all because of that).  Slatsky is a bit too small for any sort of real facility (and since it's the largest of the islands we currently have...).  I believe you lose some of your gear when you go swimming as well (or there's a chance of losing gear) so going to another island wouldn't be worth it till they at least add in boats.

[fitzee 248]

Hi.

 

After all the times I lost gear swimming in ArmA 2, you will never catch me swimming in DayZ :D

 

Regards.

[rydekk 250]

They were going to put a prison on Utes but supposedly it felt too forced so they're not going to put it on Utes (there's conflicting rumors that that means they're not going to add in Utes at all because of that).  Slatsky is a bit too small for any sort of real facility (and since it's the largest of the islands we currently have...).  I believe you lose some of your gear when you go swimming as well (or there's a chance of losing gear) so going to another island wouldn't be worth it till they at least add in boats.

 

Who has to swim? perhaps the military tried to survive there, perhaps blow up (or tried to fully) blow up a bridge ;).

[over9000nukez 199]

island city?

old island castle with walls all around and 1 dock to enter?

prison is good 

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Who has to swim? perhaps the military tried to survive there, perhaps blow up (or tried to fully) blow up a bridge ;).

Bridges cost a SHIT TON of money for even small ones (we're talking a couple million USD for a wooden bridge that's like not even 40' long and 2 lanes wide).  Now if a city like Cherno was on an island that would warrant a bridge, Slatsky has maybe 4 homes on it.  That's not very cost effective, and why would you want a bridge to a prison island anyway?  It'd be another means of escape for prisoners, even if you got a pair of guards with RPKs hopped up on amphetamines watching it.

[DeatHTaX 1217]

Maybe add a whole alcatraz ish prison like a gulag there for something. Maybe you could find prison made weapons like shivs, or riot control guns like perhaps a mosin or sks in an armory. or create a new island with a mountain with on top a military base or a settlement.

 

 

Pros

 

Gives people more reasons to start swimming

New content

 

Cons

 

Perhaps more bandits on the coast camping the area around the islands...

 

 

What do you fellas think,

 

Desync issues first before I give a damn about some island

[rydekk 250]

Desync issues first before I give a damn about some island

 

Perhaps i haven't said i wanted it now :/

[rydekk 250]

Bridges cost a SHIT TON of money for even small ones (we're talking a couple million USD for a wooden bridge that's like not even 40' long and 2 lanes wide).  Now if a city like Cherno was on an island that would warrant a bridge, Slatsky has maybe 4 homes on it.  That's not very cost effective, and why would you want a bridge to a prison island anyway?  It'd be another means of escape for prisoners, even if you got a pair of guards with RPKs hopped up on amphetamines watching it.

 

 

Did i ever said the islands were suppose to be the same size? Or there should be a prison up there exactly? There could be a couple of things up there. Maybe the island is about the size of electro and cherno combined. So a bridge would be cost effective if there would be a large city there, or perhaps a large dock that was used for transport ships. Maybe the island had the largest hospital in Chernarus, or the largest military base with another airfield or i'm just making stuff up on the way. There could be SO MUCH potential with having a few islands of the coast... The size could be from large to small with a few settlements.

[Karmaterror 982]

I really want skalsky (spelling argh lol) gone, give us new islands ranging in size dotted up and down the coast. Keep loosing gear if you swim so its almost an endgame thing, for placing camps on. Also move them out a bit, over 1000m, so sniper shots are hard. Since they didnt add a river that would give boats a real purpose :)

[deepfried 95]

Once vehicle spawns and base building are in, there will be plenty of reason to go to the islands.