The Throne: A new status effect and action

[CloaknDagger 4]

 I just got back from work, and I was ready to play Day Z. I messaged my new Day Z friend on steam, and it turns out that he was ready as well.

 

But, of course, the day was long, and by this time, I had to poop.

 

And now I have realized that this is what Day Z needs.

 

No, I'm not shitting you. (Yes I am)

 

Think about it:

 

Players get a new status and statistic: Bowel Movements

 

Over time, it will increase, dependent on food intake and physical health. If you eat too much, you will fill up much faster, and if you are sick, you could get diarrhea, which would lower the amount of liquids in your body, damaging your hydration, perhaps fatally if you mismanage it.

 

If allowed to reach a certain point, Bowel Movement will literally make you shit yourself. This would lower the quality of your pants slightly, and 'infect' all items in said pants. This will tie well into the disease mechanics that the disinfectant spray is supposed to be involved with.

 

You can take action to reduce the Bowel Movement status, however. At any time over a certain minimum, you will be able to voluntarily defacate. As expected, you will crouch down for a moment and do the deed.

 

This will however, make a bit of a mess. It will infect YOU, since you have poop smeared on you. A risk of infection could occur if you don't fix it. There would be two simple ways to combat this:

 

1. Toilet paper. You need to wipe your butt, so use something to do it. Maybe rags or bandages, or later actual toilet paper. Rags would be able to be cleaned later, like old-style diapers before they were disposable.

 

2. Water. You could just take a bath to clean yourself. This would remove the dangerous shit buildup in your ass, but would subjected to the dangers of the soon to be implemented wet mechanics.

 

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So, to summarize:

 

New Mechanic - Waste

 

+ Ties into Disease mechanics

+ Additional Realism

+ Simple to implement and tools are already in game for it.

+ Another facet of living in the Post-Apocalyptic world.

 

So, forumers, Devs, what do you think of my idea? I was joking at first when I thought of it, but then I realized it actually made a lot of sense, and I think this could actually add something to the game, and also make it pretty much the only videogame to actually have this feature.

 

Or am I just full of shit? (I'm not, I just went and it felt great)

Edited February 26, 2014 by CloaknDagger

[janol 65]

You haven't followed the development discussion much, have you?

Edited February 26, 2014 by janol

[CloaknDagger 4]

You haven't followed the development discussion much, have you?

 

No.

[irishroy 1347]

they said no poop, pee and nudity ;)

[Wolfguarde 108]

Last I heard this was on the menu.