Foreign aid supply drops

[Paralaxative 4]

Just a thought about how gear could be better distributed as well as using server restarts.

What I thought would be cool is if care packages would randomly be dropped over the map, a dirty great big military plane could slowly and loudly fly over the map, attracting hoards of zombies to follow it.

It would drop a care package full of pristine medical crafting and food items that the following zombie hoards of zombies would then stand around making it near impossible for solo server hoppers to loot on their own and add a difficulty element to receiving good gear.

People would see the planes from a distance, it would attract players from all over the map to converge in a parallel line to the flight path to scavenge the drop, bandits would have a field day if they reacted quick enough too.

No doubt this would be difficult to implement but think it would work very well.

[cywehner1234 582]

I would REALLY love these. Crashed helicpoters added a sense of that feeling "omg i found one" I want that feeling again, and nothing does that right now in DayZ SA. This would REALLY make things intense when these drop cause everyone would go to it.

[doviszxc 194]

Sounds abit RUSTy.

And Dean said he doens't like events like this, sorry.

 

EDIT : But dean is leaving the team so hell knows what bohemia will do.

Edited March 19, 2014 by Doviszxc

[CGNoodlePot (DayZ) 149]

Let's just go back to the good ol' helicopter crashes. I miss these events. What worked in the mod should just be ported into SA.

[Paralaxative 4]

Sorry iv not played the mod or Rust... Only just came back to pc gaming after a long time away due to work.

I thought it would've been cool, keep it random and infrequent. My view on it is if there was some civilisation left out there that after a while humanitarian work would commence at a millitary level such as this from other countries.

[valtsuh 68]

heli crashes would be cool but those need to be completely random spawns

[Paralaxative 4]

Heli crashes would be cool, the only reason why I didn't jump at that idea was for immersions sake... How many helicopters would crash over chenarus in reality... Where as aid drops could be feasible... I'd be happy with either though, just an event that's something random and rare that draws focus of all players to shake things up a little.

Sinking ships off of the coast would be interesting too... Fog horns and smoke bellowing from a ship in distress a klick or so off of the coast carrying random supplies... You'd have to swim out, hope for no bandit snipers to pick you off from the light houses or coast line while your making your way to drag back a box of random crap from millitary supplies to those beer can holder baseball caps!