Train/Locomotive

[Mystic Bagel 128]

cool but unrealistic

Huh???

[valtsuh 68]

Huh???

or maybe not unrealistic but the train would be hard to get working.

Edited June 25, 2014 by valtsu99

[Odrakis (DayZ) 20]

I do not think it would be unrealistik. Everybody could use a hand car thingy, you don´t neet some special skills for that.

You could even get a diesel train t move (in real life) if you have the slightest idea how such machines work. But it would be hard if not impossible to get a steam train to move. It needs many hours to get enough heat to move. When steam engines where common, they often had them run thorught the the end of a shift because a start of that thing takes so long - from the first lighted match to the moment you coul actually drive, it takes HOURS!

 

TL;DR: it ´s not unrealistic if it´s a handar or even a diesel machine. A steam engine is much harder to run.

[liquidcactus 719]

I don't like the idea of a train at all. I could think of 1000 other ideas I would like to see before a train. I don't think its a terrible idea, just not one that I find to be something I would deem significant to game play and or interesting at all.

 

Trains follow a track... Thats all they do

[Odrakis (DayZ) 20]

I don't like the idea of a train at all. I could think of 1000 other ideas I would like to see before a train. I don't think its a terrible idea, just not one that I find to be something I would deem significant to game play and or interesting at all.

 

Trains follow a track... Thats all they do

 

I appreciate your participation on that matter.

 

You are right, I know, a train just follows its track. Seen from the point of realism: one of the first thing I would do if the apocalypse comes over us is heading to the nearest train station and see if I could get a train running. It´s safer than a car I guess.

 

Sure, it´s no big change to the gameplay, it is just one more thing that fills the worl with a bit of reality and interaction.

[benedictus 160]

cool but unrealistic

 

Lies havent you seen the movie Snowpiercer, that train could go on forever.

[Helix2000 128]

god i would love a train. i can just imagine people new to the game shitting themselves as a steam or diesel locomotive roared past from berezino to electro.

 

on a more serious note, having a train, as the tracks circle the entire map, means that you can move enormous amounts of people and supplies to most places very quickly, so if you found a train (which would have to be a rare occurrence) it would have to be a massive job to repair and refuel, and to counter the overwhelming power of such a machine, there would need to be many ways to stop or slow it (sabotaging tracks as well as machine parts) and that would just about balance it out.

 

i want to be a train robber!!!

[Odrakis (DayZ) 20]

 

 

on a more serious note, having a train, as the tracks circle the entire map, means that you can move enormous amounts of people and supplies to most places very quickly[...]

 

It could just be s aisngle locomotive with broken couplers or something like this, so that it is impossible to attach boxed cars or smth. That way you could only transport 2 or 4 people.

[StrikeEagle 7]

The track is already in the game so it'd be a shame not to utilise it. It would have to be a mammoth effort to get going though - but it should be possible.

[TiggyPooh 134]

I just found this vid... lol enjoy

 

 

Btw interesting is that the train was standing at the new town west of NWAF and is now further down the track... so it has moved!!!

 

This is where the train stands now

Train station next to devils castle.

 

 

Another curiosity is the train station, if you zoom onto the windows you read a note in dutch saying "Do not park you cars here, please".

Autos hier niet parkeren AUB  <_<

 

Why is the note written in dutch?

Edited June 27, 2014 by TiggyPooh

[Odrakis (DayZ) 20]

I never noticed that dutch note, pretty strange. What´s it doing out there and why the hell on earth does it have to be in dutch? :D

 

Also the model of the train looks pretty detailed - never looked at it closer in the game. It´s perfect and it just WANTS to be used xD

[vladomir 8]

I would like to see a train run around the island slowly so you could jump on and travel but not player driven. You hear train coming so you run to catch it.

[Odrakis (DayZ) 20]

I would like to see a train run around the island slowly so you could jump on and travel but not player driven. You hear train coming so you run to catch it.

How could this happen, I mean seen from the realistic way.

 

If a zombie apocalpyse happens, a train/the driver would just stop and run for his/her family or something.

So how could it be possible that a train just runs around the map forever and ever and ever :D

Do you catch my meaning? :D

I appreciate your contribution though :D

[caik 122]

I made a comment on another thread "runaway train" and it got me thinking.

 

I like the idea of the train, as a means of competition between rival clans. Once people get settled on a server and start barricading/building we get to know our rivals and bragging rights become sought after. How about every so often after a reset a broken train spawns at the crest of a huge hill in the very NW corner of the map. Repair work required to get it moving, lubricating to increase efficiency, pimping with spray paint so you get noticed.

 

The only control for the driver should be a hand brake with a speedometer in 1st person (horn obviously)!

Once released the train goes into freefall and off you roll, the distance reached is dependent on how often you use the brake for signposted (sabotage with spray paint) speed limited corners (possible derailment = loss of bragging rights). The train will come to a halt eventually. Remaining in position until random respawn (lets everyone know to head north for a battle over ownership) to repeat process.

 

Much fun to be had screaming like girls (on direct) as you roar through opposition towns spraying bullets yeeha!

 

Regards, Craig.

Edited July 3, 2014 by caik