[Suggestion] Giant Voice

[Lithium1056 45]

I see a problem with that, what would that be powered by ? I don't we have electricity in DayZ.

I can see it being effective. Remember we don't have an actual time frame in dayz of when you "wake up" compared to when Zday happened. Most warning systems have a generator. I can see this mostly being an effective ambience in large cities where players cannot interact with it it simply loops a "warning message" every 10-15 minutes

[Zuulass 45]

i would love this

give me a reason to go into town

so i can shoot the person

to loud, quite please

[Rigor Mortis (DayZ) 141]

Not sure how realistic it would be, like said it would need power that obviously isnt available just like that. Also I dont think they actually have microphones attached to these systems since they are usually just recorded messages.

 

Ofc it could be done, but I also fail to see any real use for it. Could be fun for trolling though.

 

I already covered power... but to reiterate -- you could make a hand crank to get enough charge for a few seconds of use, or you could use car batteries to power it... and before you guess as to whether these systems can operate on batteries or through a hand crank charger, the answer to both is YES.  Mass alert notification systems are designed to operate during catastrophic disasters when the main power grid is offline... that's the whole freakin' point.

 

I appreciate that you don't think they have microphones attached, but I must let you know that every one I have installed (notice that I'm not assuming anything... I actually worked on these systems) had at least one microphone -- sometimes one at every speaker stack.  The really cool ones had radio receivers in them so you could use any handheld radio to talk over the loudspeaker so long as you were on the right channel.

 

The only legitimate argument against this is that people will troll with it (just like letting people spray things on walls will result in porn everywhere).  I actually would really welcome that b/c it would be the fastest and easiest way to find douchebag trolls to ban from my server.