Time to ditch the Torch/Flashlight

[Jex 1104]

I do

If they implement actual GPS, phones are useless. For anything other than taking pictures for "immersion" and listening to music. You have normal flash light and weapon flash light as a source of the light. 

So it's not worth the effort to add phones, chargers, and all the mechanics involved. 

 

Phones use GPS and your argument was about charging them. So we have a portable GPS system that can record video, take pictures, record sounds, make notes on, can play music, can play games (you need things to do on a ZA you know) can tell you the time and date, important for crops, and just about everyone on the planet has one and also has a little flash light which gives off less light than a flashlight but enough to see everything ur looking at. It could also hold build recipe's as well plus provide a log of your life length, seds/people killed, etc

 

You can even use it as an alarm clock :)

[Jex 1104]

Any given way of spawning would be unauthentic because people suddenly appear out of thin air. But spawning with (almost) nothing and finding your starting gear at the nearest loot spawns makes sense from a gameplay perspective. On the other side giving fresh spawns more and better items at start would be bad as its less of a progress to actually find something and respawning would actually increase your gear status above that of someone who just lost his/her belongings.

 

Also I think "I woke up at the beach with nothing but a few clothes and no memory of how I got there" is enough authenticity for our purpose. Maybe the spawning gear should be in bad condition as well to represent that something happened to you.

 

We're talking one item like a can of beans or a screw driver if they get anything at all. I hardly think I'm going to be bitching over someone starting their 100th life and getting a can of spaghetti. You'd have to be pretty pathetic to get upset over that.

 

The whole "Waking up on the beach" thing doesn't make any sense either. So everyone in the town died and became zombies? No survivors? It also says that each life you start at day 1 all over again, like groundhog day lol.

[General Zod 1118]

 can play games (you need things to do on a ZA you know)

 

You can even use it as an alarm clock :)

[Jex 1104]

 

A lot of idiots post that clip when they don't understand what is being said ;)

[General Zod 1118]

No

Some of your posts are just stupid. 

Logging into DayZ to play games on a phone ? Why ? If you need this than you find the game boring stop playing it. "can play games (you need things to do on a ZA you know" 

Alarm clocks.... we don't even have sleep. 

Crops... you don't collect crops on exact date but then they are ready. 

There was already a thread about adding cameras. 

Play music ? Why ? Do you want to become full time farmer and play music while working ? 

There go play this.

 

DayZ is not supposed to replace your whole fucking life. Which it seems some people on this forums think. 

 

Listening to music, watching videos or photos, those are things you do in real life, not in game. 

Edited October 23, 2014 by General Zod

[JPWiser 251]

So in a zombie apocalypse you're going to ignore all vehicles and just run around on foot? Nope and chances are, you'll going to pull out a butt load of batteries and other spare parts to store wherever you set up base. Most new, modern cars will run for years without having anything done to them so as long as you keep using them, you'll have power for you phone for years to come.

Well you're making some big assumptions on the lore of how your survivor came to be on the shores of chernarus. The way the cars look I'd say no, people haven't driven most vehicles in months, based on the timing of things. I'd assume most vehicles have been sitting idol for months at least. So yeah once you've collected all those parts and have a charged vehicle like I said you're good to go, but not at all beforehand. Every vehicle your going to find is going to be in pieces and not drivable, so I'd say it's safe to assume dead batteries come with that package.

Edited October 23, 2014 by JPWiser

[Jex 1104]

No

Some of your posts are just stupid. 

Logging into DayZ to play games on a phone ? Why ? If you need this than you find the game boring stop playing it. "can play games (you need things to do on a ZA you know" 

Alarm clocks.... we don't even have sleep. 

Crops... you don't collect crops on exact date but then they are ready. 

There was already a thread about adding cameras. 

Play music ? Why ? Do you want to become full time farmer and play music while working ? 

There go play this.

 

DayZ is not supposed to replace your whole fucking life. Which it seems some people on this forums think. 

 

Listening to music, watching videos or photos, those are things you do in real life, not in game. 

 

 

You argue like a creationist so lets go back to the start of your argument. You said

 

Sure if there is a compatible charger in the glove compartment. And if you find a working car, if it has spare Watts to charge the phone, and that's one big IF.

 

That argument has been entirely throw back to which you answered...

 

Chernarus is poor, I think you would have to put some considerable time into finding one.

 

Again, this argument was shown to be bollocks by byself and others on this forum because we all know that in reality, even kids in Africa have mobile phones and Chernarus is poorer than Africa?

 

You then said, after failing to read my reply correctly

 

Who is using those cars ? If it's only us the players there ? 

Who gives two shits about exact time or calendar ? What you have dentist appointment ? 

Want note book ? Pen and paper.

No I don't. I'm a not social media person. And I don't keep pictures of ex.  

No I don't want to listen to music, makes me unable to hear other players.

 

So farming doesn't use calendars does it. Taking pictures could offer no tactical advantage to planning a raid on a base. YOU might not like music but we don't care about YOU. YOU don't have to listen to it and besides, all those things I added were what you could use it for in a real ZA.

 

The flashlight is perfectly fine for outdoors use and in fact, because it's not as bright it'll give you away less.

 

I could have a pen and paper, but why? When I can have my gps, flashlight, notebook and recording device all in one unit why would I want to carry all these items separately.

 

GPS worked in the MOD so it's likely to be in here.

 

 

In all, there's a lot of good reasons to keep a mobile phone working without the ability to make phone calls and all your arguments have been addressed so we can't go any further on this :)