Grouping and Spawning

[jb9909 0]

Some ideas I have for grouping and spawning are:

• You are able to create a group and it indicates where they are by a marker around them, even from far distances

• You can spawn close by your friends if they accept (player allowing friend to spawn near has to be a freshly new spawn within upto 1 hour)

• You are able to have a gps and program your group into the gps only if you both add eachother

Edited May 1, 2014 by jb9909

[mithrawndo 166]

1.  I think it actually quite important that a large part of forming groups is ensuring you can identify your friends. There are no team markers in real life, and DayZ is trying to be authentic!

 This could be so easily abusable. Please expand upon how you would like this mechanic to work, as right now I can see lots of ways to exploit this mechanic.

This one, I like. A rare in game item that allows you to have an in-game map. If you find another one, you can pair them together and give it to your buddy so you can find each other... or at least find the GPS unit. Should your buddy die, if his killer takes the GPS unit you can track him down unless he disables it... but then that works the other way too!

[Daemonkid 493]

1 and 2 won't ever happen, and thank god. You want to group with friends? Better log out near each other or play at the same time really.

It's just how that it is, and it won't change.

[Nails 150]

Try Wasteland. It's fun and has all those things.

[MetapoliC 263]

Hey there.

 

I can't agree with you on your 1st and 3rd point simply because this game is trying to become more realistic.

 

1st. There will be possibilities to mark your teammates but the marks will be on their bodies, like clothing.

3rd. A GPS will not work after apocalypse. In real life ofcourse.

 

Your 2nd point is something possible in some way. Like a team is able to choose one town as their home and spawn somewhere around it.

[mithrawndo 166]

3rd. A GPS will not work after apocalypse. In real life ofcourse.

 

For a time it would, I guess it depends how long after the apocalypse the world is set. The land based control segment of the GPS system is there primarily to make adjustements to the GPS constellation's constituent satellite flight paths. It would likely take several years before the first of the satellite's orbits decayed sufficiently, and the way the system functions this satellite would then mark itself as "unhealthy" to the rest of the system. There's a redundancy of 33% built into the system (it's designed to run with 24 satellites but there are actually 32 satellites in the GPS constellation).

 

If we're talking 50 years after "DayZ", then yeah the GPS system will be inactive. If we're talking 10? Well, it won't be as accurate but it's not unreasonable to assume there will still be 20 or so satellites available in the constellation, albeit slightly off path and hence not especially accurate by GPS standards!