Chaingunfighter 917 Posted November 22, 2014 Yes. Guess you're right - so its back to old fashioned grenade fishing. Would be nice if you could lob a grenade into a lake, harbor, or river and have five or seven dead fish float to the top; would be worth the grenade. But this will not happen in DayZ - "dynamite fishing" is very severely frowned by authorities everywhere as terribly serious bad antisocial criminal behavior, so it can't be included in the game even if players wanted it. You can't encourage that kind of selfish practical activity in a game.Shooting folk in the back with automatic military weapons is OK though, so things even out. No... it probably won't be implemented simply because the fish aren't actually rendered in the game, and thus spawning a group of fish after throwing an M67 or RGD-5 would simply be awkward to code. I don't think it has anything to do with being frowned upon, considering things like cannibalism and torture are not only available, but possibly beneficial to some parties involved. Granted you were probably being sarcastic and I just didn't pick up on it, but whatever. If they do end up adding it, I won't mind at all, I just think it's a waste of time and certainly not worth the extremely valuable explosives. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilgrim* 3514 Posted November 22, 2014 (edited) No... it probably won't be implemented simply because the fish aren't actually rendered in the game, and thus spawning a group of fish after throwing an M67 or RGD-5 would simply be awkward to code. I don't think it has anything to do with being frowned upon, considering things like cannibalism and torture are not only available, but possibly beneficial to some parties involved. Granted you were probably being sarcastic and I just didn't pick up on it, but whatever. If they do end up adding it, I won't mind at all, I just think it's a waste of time and certainly not worth the extremely valuable explosives. no - I agree with you (and you are technically correct also) .. this idea was a general thought about crafting and weapons and the various things being introduced to the game.. When I think of 'grenades' the first thing that comes to my mind is dead fish floating on the surface as a result of concussion.. after bombardments for instance, or simply from throwing a grenade in a lake.. I heard that this was an easy way in Vietnam of becoming popular with locals for an hour or so.. 1 grenade in a river pool = fish for the village (but there are many tales about that war, so how true this was I cannot say ).I do know however, that in Scotland, a stick of dynamite in a salmon pool could get you 10 or 20 big salmon at the right time of year - and could easily get you shot by the owner's gamekeeper.. it was (or is?) about the same level as sheep stealing. Very bad activity. So in our abandoned pos-apoc country, not only grenades, but also a few sticks of dynamite could be lying around somewhere..and all kinds of interesting things can be done with that type of industrial equipment..Mine was really a thought on creative stuff that can be done with grenades and explosives in general.. you are right about cannibalism in DayZ (I don't object) - I am surprised it came into the game because of the state of the modern games market etc etc.. realistic weapons are definitely ok in computer games except to a small minority of extreme 'moralists', but various other illegal/immoral stuff is 'not ok'. And In places I have lived IRL, "dynamiting fish" was considered probably about as unacceptable as cannibalism . ..definitely much worse than extreme drug abuse or incest, for instance. - and these are places where (eg) murder might be thought "understandable", though everyone would agree you have to pay the price for it. This is only IMO and no offense intended to anyone anywhere. Grenade fishing works far too well to let anyone get away with it. Like hunting elephants to black market the tusks - could that be depicted in a modern computer game as a normal player activity? Also, with regards to dynamite.. and 'crafted explosives' in general (eg fertilizer-based). Various organizations IRL have made effective, or at least deadly, use of home-crafted bombs (and also pipe grenade-throwers, mines, etc), as we know. Fishing to survive is only one aspect that occurred to me. I guess this is far off topic. Sorry people. Edited November 23, 2014 by pilgrim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
