The game DayZ is striving to be...

[scriptfactory 620]

2, You can build a reputation on a private server as a trader, medic, hunter....whatever you want. If you always log back in with same name people will get to know and trust you. That's more realistic and immersive for me than earning a hero status that makes me easily identifiable as a good guy.

 

Player identification needs a lot of work before this will be feasible. As of now anyone can make a character that looks like yours with the exact same name. Not very realistic or immersive, in my opinion.

Edited October 29, 2014 by scriptfactory

[Karmaterror 982]

Player identification needs a lot of work before this will be feasible. As of now anyone can make a character that looks like yours with the exact same name. Not very realistic or immersive, in my opinion.

 

I agree that more unique identification would help this a lot. But I would argue that impersonation was just as easily possible in the mod. It was often seen through in ways like how the person speaks/type, there inflections and/or vocab.

 

Another classic example was bandit groups changing there names each night. Sometimes it worked, but a lot of the time it was pretty transparent when a perfectly sized group logged in, at around the right time.

 

The more I think about it, and even from an immersion point of view, impersonation could have its place in dayz :)

[scriptfactory 620]

Impersonation is good and everything. But if we are talking about "realism and immersion" then some kind of accurate player identification is necessary. I know who my friends are. I would not be tricked if someone put on their clothes.

Impersonation should only work from a distance, like in real life.

[Mor (DayZ) 57]

We don't need a hero/bandit system, for a few reasons...

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I agree, such systems are ultimately based on arbitrary rules that are easy to circumvent. IMO the only solution to encourage cooperation, is by improving zombies (as he suggested)

Impersonation is good and everything. But if we are talking about "realism and immersion" then some kind of accurate player identification is necessary. I know who my friends are. I would not be tricked if someone put on their clothes.

I doubt that you'll see anything of the sort in the game. There are many issues with this. However, you can always use steam like many already do ...