A better way to travel

[InTafiir 1]

First, I'd like to say, I've ALWAYS HATED cars and choppers. Never liked that players would use choppers to fly around and kos everyone and scout out others camps. Ruins the experience. As for cars, I never understood how there would be an infinite fuel supply. Even with it running low when the server runs, abusive admins would restart the servers to refuel them. We all know they would. For bikes, they're fine I guess, no complaints. However, I would like to purpose something. In my recent gameplay for DayZ I've taken a liking to the cowboy hats.. So here's what I'm thinking.

Horses:
Riding - Find or craft saddles for riding. (Using leather/hide made from cows or horses and rope.)
Taming - Laso/lead or feeding it apples? (Laso/lead would take 3 ropes to craft, apples picked from trees, regenerated after restarts.)
Speed - (Just an example) If players run about 10mph, a horse could run 30 ~ 50mph. It'd still be a faster way of traveling and add a bit of interactable wildlife.
Feeding - Of course, adding more to the gaming, you'd have to feed and let the horse drink to keep it alive.
Loot - If you kill it, you could get horse meet for food, hair for rope, and leather/hide for clothes, maybe even use the hide to fix cowboy hats and make saddles.
Keeping - You could tie the rope to a tree to prevent it from running away.

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Everyone loves vehicles for the extra storage too, I haven't forgotten that.
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Donkeys:
Riding - Same as horses, basically.
Multiple - Make it so you can link the horse and donkey together, so while the donkey carries loot and follows the horse, the horse is controlled.
Taming - Same as the horses.
Speed- Same as the horses.
Feeding - Same as the horses.
Loot - I guess same?
Keeping - Same as the horses.
 

 

The saddle would be different, here's what I'm thinking:

You get rope and hide from cows/horses, Craft a saddle, upgrade it to a max of 5 times. 
stage 1 - Plain Riding Saddle.
stage 2 - 20 spot bag.

stage 3 - 25 spot bag.

stage 4 - 30 spot bag.

stage 5 - 50 spot bag.

Obviously, the more space you'd want the more you'd have to upgrade it.

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Having THAT many horses could cause lag, right?

So I was thinking you could tie it to GUID's, like how the inventories work. This way, they'd travel between servers, and when the player logs off, the animal goes with it.

 

 

This was just my suggestion. I'd really love to see it around. Especially to keep with the whole survival aspect. Let me know what you think! (And yes. A couple of these ideas are from minecraft.)

[DURRHUNTER 597]

you dont have to have a saddle to ride a horse....

 

Anyway, horse meat is common and tastes good and makes sense. Tamming horses should be extrmely hard so you cant just go get a horse. There should be pack mules as well. Also, they will add animals sooner or later just wait. This isnt minecraft horses.

[Lumeria 27]

From what I have heard from threads similar to this, horses may be implemented as they have been mentioned by Rocket though they are hard to do apparently but saddles are way easier. I do agree that horses,donkeys and saddles should be in the game. Wild herds would be cool.

[InTafiir 1]

From what I have heard from threads similar to this, horses may be implemented as they have been mentioned by Rocket though they are hard to do apparently but saddles are way easier. I do agree that horses,donkeys and saddles should be in the game. Wild herds would be cool.

I've honestly never heard of rocket say that, but then again, my memory isn't the best. I'm hoping because I'd love it~ :)

[boneboys 7988]

Welcome to the Forums and thank you for the suggestion.

Just letting you know that we have a search tool that works if used correctly.

 

I would love to have horses to ride in-game (and dogs but that's another story).

 

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/2232-game-suggestion-horses-as-vehicles-or-motorbikes/#entry22591

[Nicko2580 398]

I do want cars, motorbikes etc but I think they must have fuel and require regular maintenance. Even if it's just like 5 separate parts that can break and all you have to do is get a new part and press F on the car to fix it, that would do for me. 

If they don't then I don't want them. No infinite fuel. 

Same for horses. If you don't have to feed and water them (although granted they'll mostly take care of feeding themselves if left on grass) then they shouldn't be in the game. You also shouldn't be able to right them at full gallop indefinitely. You should be able to ride them to death if you try that (sort of similar to how I resent the fact that you can run at full sprint across the entire map... can't wait for that to end.)

Edited February 18, 2014 by Nicko2580

[TEST_SUBJECT_83 465]

Helicopters will be next to impossible to maintain.

[cywehner1234 582]

Is this red dead redemption?

[Nicko2580 398]

Helicopters will be next to impossible to maintain.

That would be the idea. That way they're only used in absolute emergencies.