Seeing who is on.

[barnabus 1708]

When you hit "P" you can see all the players who are currently logged into the server you are on.  I believe this function is a bit too broad.  I would like to see it narrowed to being able to showing only the names of players who are within 1 KM of your current location.  

 

Most of us are gonna have some kind of spidey sense that someone is in the area just by looking around, foot prints in the dirt, broken grass, smell (especially when/if get tobacco and this quote from "The Book of Eli: You know what's good about no soap, you can smell a hijacker from a mile away!"), etc would help us determine this things.

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

Whilst a great idea it would have to be very broad so proximity finding would be more difficult then easy.

[barnabus 1708]

Oh well, just a thought, I know the longer you survive = the more stinky you will get, especially with no option to bathe.  This may be a good idea too, I have heard that those who took the time to take of themselves and made it a point to conduct personal hygiene, as much as they could, while being POW's or in Concentration Camps had a much higher rate of survival than those who did not.

[sachad 1016]

Actually, I would like for some option that completely hides the number of people on a given server. You would literally have no idea how many people were there. Could be none, could be that you were the last one in before the server is full...

[nettles 396]

I do agree that player numbers should be hidden somehow.  Too many loot babies that get on servers with less than 3 people to clean out the military bases.  Also, about the bathing, I hope they do add personal hygiene.  It's been something on my mind for a long time.  Going unclean for too long increases your risk of infection because of the amount of bacteria making a host out of you.  I wonder how many 12-year-olds would drown trying to figure out the bathing system?

Edited September 30, 2014 by nettles

[barnabus 1708]

-snip- I wonder how many 12-year-olds would drown trying to figure out the bathing system?

Better yet I wish there were wells for them to fall into and get trapped.

[UltimateGentleman 355]

How would hygiene work for smelling people?

 

I smell someone

The smell is gone

I smell someone

Oh fuck some stinky bastard is nearby

Oh it's just a zombie

No wait it wasn't!

The smell is gone

"You are dead"

 

 

Anyway I'd like the feature to turn off seeing who is on but not to know who's nearby everyone would just use that to hunt players, walk one direction with the player menu up, soon as someone pops up you're heading their way all you need to do is stand on a hill and watch.

 

I would rather the audio worked so I could just hear people walking around at a reasonable distance.