Clothing Pockets (Separate the inventory slots!)

[jaggardos 126]

I thought this was a bit obvious, so did a quick search, but it seems nobody has posted something like this, correct me if I'm wrong.

Got a ammo box the other day, and it made me think how one earth I was able to put it into my trousers pockets (pants, whatever). Obviously, it wouldn't fit into jeans, as they are 2 slot, but with cargo pants etc which are 4 slot, and the 6 slot ones, just seemed a bit unrealistic that you could fit a massive ammo box, somehow into your trouser pockets. So this made me think...

Clothing should have the same amount of slots as it does now, I'm not disputing that, but these slots should be separate. 

 

Simple example:
 

Blue jeans have 2 slots, I am assuming for each pocket (not including back pockets (might be something to think about)), however, you can't fit a Gun Cleaning Kit box across both of these pockets, as that is physically impossible and probably quite painful. It would make much more sense to have two slots, but each is independent, so you can only fit 1 slot items in each. 

Complex example:

Combat vests have lots of individual slots, as they have different sized pouches for items such as magazines, radios, water reservoirs etc, and so this should be addressed, with arranged slots for each pouch.

Below Ive done some quick photoshops to demonstrate what I mean:

This one shows the main clothing and combat vest. As you can see, slots are arranged into pockets/pouches depending on how big and many there are, I've even included a special "knife slot" on the vest. As you can see, I've added some slots for the pants for example, to make up for the fourth pocket. With jeans, I think it would be best to still keep it as two slots for each pocket, but have them separated.

 

 

With this one, I've shown the bag arrangement, with the main compartment having the largest amount of slots, then two side pouches, and finally the front pouch. This is exactly the same amount of slots (30) as the current system is, none have been removed or added.

I hope this idea hasn't already been thought of, and the dev team find it insightful if they haven't already planned it, and of course fair  enough if they have!

Thanks,
Jaggardos

[basinox 300]

I have been thinking about this idea myself. have these beans!

[Element47 2480]

[Swede (DayZ) 6]

A very nice idea and something i've thought of myself. Beans to you sir! 

[Corto 34]

You beat me to it. I thought of it the other day and even my girlfriend thought it was funny to be able to place an ammo box or any 4 slot item on the jacket/trousers/vest. I think that this is a great idea for a game that aims to be as painfully realistic as it can be. I think the hardcore brigade is going to love this. You got my beans.

[monolith1985 109]

i always thought the 4 slots in the jeans was for 4 pockets

 

but yeah it does make sense, but i think it wouldnt be too practical, especially with some items fitting in slots horizontally and a few vertically.  it would make the inventory system unnecessarily complex, and people would debate stuff like certain items being sized 2 big/small compared to other items, like a water bottle taking up the same room as 2 pens, and so on. i mean you can already store a kitchen knife in your jeans pocket and run around, which you wouldnt do in real life.  but if the slots are just slots it could be like the picture above, where the weapon is stored in the pants, rather than in pockets, so it kinda works as a generalization 

 

personally though i would like to see it implemented into hardcore servers at least

[jaggardos 126]

I didn't think I was the only one to have thought of it xD

Monolith - Yeah I agree about the complication of items etc, they would have to set up the ability to be able to turn items like water bottles or knives around, and maybe have knife sheaths that stop the knife from stabbing you if you run around with it in your pocket or something

[rickenbacker 190]

This would only add unecessary frustration, so I say no.

[Corto 34]

There shouldn't be any problem with the horizontally placed items. Jaggardos, make this update on your main post: slots don't need to be separated at all (I love it, but it's going too far), torso slots only fit 1 slot items, trousers and vests fit up to 2 item slots whatever the orientation of those items are (come on, in real life you rotate items to fit your pockets, even if they usually rest horizontally on a table), backpack can store any sized item. It's not so realistic, but it's much fair than the current system. In any case the slot grid stays as one piece like it is now (let's not complicate more with asking to be able to rotate items like if we were playing tetris).

[yogi92 50]

This idea seems somehow interesting. However separating slots in clothing is slightly too much I guess. What I would do instead, is making a number of hotbar slots dependent of your clothing. Say, with trousers you get in the beginning, you get only 2 slots, and then better trousers/jackets/vests would grant you +1 or +2 slots. Let's say that best clothing would give as much as 5 slots and rest would depend on your backpack. What do you think about that?

[Martmital 436]

This man had a good idea...

 

 

What about something like this?

 

 

 

Edited February 9, 2014 by Martmital

[Corto 34]

Separating the slots is way too complex. Limiting the size of items you can fit on each clothing type should be enough.

[yogi92 50]

in fact, once the images were shown, I kinda liked he idea even more. But how about adding this for hardcore servers and let regulars have some casual gameplay?

[cj14 189]

Nah, inventory feels good to me. Is a game, so we do not need THAT much realism

[Corto 34]

in fact, once the images were shown, I kinda liked he idea even more. But how about adding this for hardcore servers and let regulars have some casual gameplay?

 

 

Nah, inventory feels good to me. Is a game, so we do not need THAT much realism

 

Casual gaming? How dare you?!?! You will burn in the hardcore fire. Now really, hardcore gamers seem to be really touchy on this forum. Don't mention "casual" or the'll all jump in the bandwagon here.

[ananist177 92]

pretty cool idea, i like it! :thumbsup:

:beans:

[UnarmedCiv 54]

Nah, inventory feels good to me. Is a game, so we do not need THAT much realism

 

you shouldnt be able to fit a 4 slot pistol into 2 (2x1) slim vest pockets.  Makes no sense.

 

OP gets beans, even though the idea has been posted before. 

Edited February 10, 2014 by UnarmedCiv

[Canned Muffins 82]

you shouldnt be able to fit a 4 slot pistol into 2 (2x1) slim vest pockets.  Makes no sense.

 

OP gets beans, even though the idea has been posted before. 

I could duck tape 5 or more items/ pistols or sidearms to various spots on my body no cloths required. Horizontal slot items would be ruined by this idea so I will have to decline on its legitimacy for being a good feature given the current loot table and possible future items. With this idea essentially any above 2 slot items is made useless or forced into the bag when they very well could be held by other parts of clothing.

Edited February 10, 2014 by Canned Muffins

[Corto 34]

A pistol shouldn't take 4 slots in the first place. A normal sized .45 pistol could very well fit on a jacket side pocket. If you read all the thread you may notice a post from myself where I say the slots should be kept together but have different size rules, like fitting only 1 slot items o 2 slot items. You have your point with duck taping things to your body though, but that doesn't invalidate the fact that you can't combine individual pockets in real life to fit an object with the equivalent volume of several pockets added together.

[carcinovich 156]

Pocket size, or how much inventory an item takes, may be considering weight, too.

[kein (DayZ) 4]

Gr8 idea

[VuRaL 46]

Well,

 

Professional backpacks are mostly labels by how many liters of storage they have.

 

And how much you can carry is depends on body condition.

 

So IMO:

Clothing and bags should have slots per pocket with indication of how much liters each pocket can have.

Items should have labeled how big they are (in liters), and how much they weight.

If you are healthy you can carry more in weight, if not you you carry less in weight. (This also can be used to generate a total weight which can be used to calculate how fast you can run depending on your weight, how high you can fall from and if you can swim or not.)

 

 

 

Note: OP has my beans for bringing up this.

Edited February 10, 2014 by HellGuy

[fundan@gmx.de 82]

Re-suggestion but still YEAH!

[irishroy 1347]

Would fit a bit with this one, i think:

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/172527-new-modular-military-backpack/

[GodOfGrain 191]

+1