Graffiti / Markings Spray

[zorisx 7]

I think it would be a great idea to mark your intentions on multiple objects through the world. For they could be used to lure survivors, help lost survivors, or warn people of bandits and show direction.

Finding a spray paint canister (different available colors available) would allow you to construct many different possibilities to interact with strangers...for better or worse.

Any ideas on how this can be improved?

Do you like it? Dislike it? Discuss!

[Max Planck 7174]

Yeah!

The hobo sign code could be used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo#Hobo_.28sign.29_code

If you had a spray can, it could give you the choice of making one of those symbols.

[zorisx 7]

BAHA thats awesome!!!!

I think it would just allow us a non-threatening ( possibly ) way of communicating with people. I often leave multiple campfires lit through the forest hehe. I'm sure people have used them I know it ^^.

[Optimist (DayZ) 6]

This is such a simple, yet great idea.

[zipper 69]

Would love to be able to spray vehicles as well. Nobody in their right mind would drive around a bright yellow car. At the very least they would spray it completely black, and more logically it would get sprayed with some sort of camo pattern.

[johnyflash 10]

i like this idea

[Stoop_Kid 2]

+1 simple and effective.

[zorisx 7]

bump for more votes =)

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I think this would be great, you could have ownership sprays or markings like SURVIVOR BUS on it.

Clans would love this idea as they could broadcast their notions.

[El Barto 227 25]

+1, nice idea and could be handy, perhaps to leave a warning, or distract someone while you use a sniper rifle to kill them

[Claytonaj 12]

The idea of spray paint ties in to other ways of making a semi-permanent mark in the game world, like having pen and paper, or a journal. I found this thread from a little while back which suggested all of these things (and dictaphone, camcorder).

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=9070&highlight=pen+and+paper

It's such a great idea, potentially giving a huge amount more depth to the game. You come across a body, you inspect it and discover they were killed by zeds. On the wall beside them is scrawled "HELP ME!". In their pocket you find a battered journal recounting the last moments of their life as they bled to death.. (Of course, if you are dying as you write, your last words should automatically be "Arrrrrgh..." Holy Grail style)

Equally, it would begin to permit more quest-like activity, within reason. In a house on the coast you find a note in an empty whiskey bottle. It says, "Come to the power plant at 19:00 alone and unarmed, I have a job for you." Sure there's no reason to trust whoever wrote it, but damn it's intriguing and if you just spawned you're already unarmed, so what have you to lose? You might have much to gain. You arrive slightly before time, and scout the area from the trees. You can't see anyone, so you approach slowly. On the wall outside you see an arrow spray painted, pointing left. You follow the arrow, then another, and finally one points inside... Entering the building the silence is eerie. Someone has left a loaded rifle, a can of pasta and a canteen, along with another note and a strange symbol painted on the wall. The note reads, "Follow the road inland to Mogilevka. Trust no one. I am watching. If you don't do this, you will die." Muhahahaha..

People want objectives, let them create their own!

[DemonGroover 8836]

Wouldnt people just draw big knobs everywhere?

[FlashHawk4 44]

I know for a fact that if I got a spraycan, I'd run around putting

"IF YOU CAN READ THIS, YOU ARE WITHIN RANGE"

everywhere.

Just to screw with people.

And that's what I love about this game.

And you had an original idea!

HIGH FIVE!

Also, +1. I commend this idea.

[Claytonaj 12]

Wouldnt people just draw big knobs everywhere?

That depends whether people are cultured, intelligent, sensiti.. oh I see your point.

We'd need a new stat, alongside headshots, "cocks drawn" and then some sort of sanction if your count gets too high. Like the bandit skin perhaps you should be forced to wander the streets in a giant, luminous pink prophylactic that squeaks whenever you move.

[FlashHawk4 44]

I Lol'ed. That's just great, and I want to see that in every video game now.

[omgwtfbbq (DayZ) 1069]

PENISES EVERYWHERE

[lockpwnage 2]

So counter Strike, inb4 a crap ton of porn sprays.

[Claytonaj 12]

So counter Strike' date=' inb4 a crap ton of porn sprays.

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Not 'sprays' as such (i.e. imported jpeg or gif, etc), but the ability to direct an aerosol can of a single colour (though you could have several different colour cans) to produce a symbol or text. People could do some great 'art' in the game, but you'd be hard pressed to render a pornographic image (you try drawing a recognisable vagina in Microsoft Paint! Go on, try! Then send it to me. Please. haha).

[Just to clarify, don't send anything like that to me. Please. :D ]

[thePCGamer 0]

Yes! I will write "If you read that you are dumb" on all buildings of cherno!