Official names of buildings

[overdosed (DayZ) 77]

Often much confusion would come when you try to give directions to someone and/or describe a building. Especially when english is not your first language. Many times have I had to explain multiple times to some of my friends or just random people either where am i waiting for them or wheres that nasty sniper camped. And most of those times having official names for all the building types wouldve saved much trouble and confusion.

 

So im wondering is it possible to either get an official list from the devs with the different buildings and their names, or even do something like counter strike, where you get name of the location youre in at the top corner your screen. It would basically work like this in Dayz - you go into a building and open your inventory and somewhere on the screen the name of the place is displayed. For example those 2 story corner diners, when you enter one you can see that the certain type of building is called "corner coffee shop" or something, or those sheet metal 2 story shacks are called "industrial shack". Ofcourse those are easy examples. The trouble comes with the 10 different types of barn like structures and the different civilian houses.

 

I dont see this as giving any advantage other than saving some time and confusion. Its only intended as a learning tool and can be disabled from the menu. And sure after some time ppl would just stop needing this and would disable it themselves,

 

Edit: Forget about this, wasnt even suggesting it seriously. But some way of streamlining building callsigns would still be much appreciated, even if not official.

Edited February 7, 2014 by overdosed

[skyline-gtr 130]

Generally distance and direction are used.

[overdosed (DayZ) 77]

Generally distance and direction are used.

 

I know, but then again many ppl just cant orientate themselves when I tell them "2 story building south - southeast from us" or "long barn to 1 o'clock" And again haha long barn... there are like 3 types of long barns and even more short ones xD

[skyline-gtr 130]

Often buildings do not have names but only numbers.

I suggest that if your friends have trouble orientating and that is preventing you from killing people, then you could benefit from some training, instead of simplifying the game.

Realistically if you cannot communicate with your friends in these types of situations then you would die.

[randomtask 18]

That's why when in a group you move in some type of formation where everyone's 12o'clock is pretty much the same direction. Once you get the direction of fire and start laying down some suppression, you can then pin point the location of the attacker(s) and move accordingly.

[overdosed (DayZ) 77]

Well the biggest problem for me here is not directions(I myself am absolutely fine with those, but sadly they seem troublesome for many other players) , but the language barrier. Many times in the heat of battle I wont be able to explain myself properly, because as I said english is not my first language. The right words would just skip out of my mind. 

 

And yeah forget about the names of structures in your inventory(wasnt even suggesting this serously), but some way of streamlining or releasing an offical list with callsings for most buildings would go a long way in helping even native english speakers. Ive seen countless youtube vids(and played with many people) where a native english speaker would struggle and fumble while trying to callout a building.

[skyline-gtr 130]

The language barrier should not exist in this case.

Using Numbers for distance and simple compass points for direction.

It is almost universal.