Rope

[Beizs 186]

Simple suggestion, wouldn't take much work to implement, I don't think.

 

Rope. Rope already exists in game and already has some great uses. However, finding rope can be a pain and while animal guts are an alternative, they're not particularly reliable either.

 

Rope, so far, is only really used for a few things - tying people up, making bags, making fishing poles and making bows.

 

Now, the first idea I have is literally just adding an extra option on the menu for a group of items, while the second is a little more in depth.

 

The first is being able to take shoe laces out of shoes. Shoe laces are, generally, pretty good quality and could be used for any of the above tasks (though not many would work very well as a bow string, imo, but neither would just general rope). Removing the shoe laces either makes the pair of shoes badly damaged or adds a status effect to them (laceless), which gives the chance of them slipping off randomly (obviously there should be a message if this happens). Maybe could increase the chances of one of the many new leg injuries in the current EXP branch.

 

The second is crafting rope. There's a multitude of ways that you can make ropes that are useful in many different ways and of varying strength. From woven grass, which can be surprisingly sturdy, albeit thick, to making twine.

 

So, good idea? Rope is an incredibly useful tool in real world survival, and can be pretty damn useful in DayZ, too. It's also a very basic resource that can be found just about anywhere and I think we should get a few more ways of acquiring rope (as well as expanding on its functions, like for basic base building, etc).

 

Bonus Round

 

Lassos would be awesome for catching animals, as well as for setting up traps. Made with a piece of rope, you could use it to catch animals for hunting when you do not have a ranged weapon, or, in the future, use it for traps to snare smaller animals or even people/zombies.

 

Tying zombies to static objects in game would also be nice, using it as a trap (tie a bunch of them up inside a building, for example), an escape method (lasso on either end of the rope, drop one end over the zombies neck, the other over a solid post) or, if we ever get them, horses.

 

Nets could be made from a bunch of rope and could be used to catch animals or fish, ensnare players or even zombies. Nets could also be incredibly useful in base building (you can use a net to lay out the basic structure of a tent like structure then cover it with leaves etc to waterproof it and make it very, very camouflaged). Two rope could make a small net, which could be used to catch fish and small animals like rabbits, while four small nets combined to make a medium net could be combined for base building - and two of those combined could make a large net, which could be used to catch large animals, zombies and even humans.

 

Trip Wires would be pretty awesome too. Could attach one end to a wall, using a nail or something, and the other to whatever you like. Landmine would be nice with this - the player runs over the trip wire, sets off the land mine. Could set up a trip wire with a grenade this way, too, tying it to the pin and securing the grenade in place.

 

Hanging would be especially fun on RP servers, but could also be a useful way of killing somebody once you've captured them and don't have any means of killing them quickly/cleanly. Or you could even use it to kill yourself. Could tie it to trees initially, then to anywhere else that you'd be able to hang somebody from, if somebody went through and found everything and added in the functionality.

 

Clothes Lines could also be nice once there's rain etc, as a method of drying wet clothes.

 

Attaching things to things, or, more specifically, tying items to the outside of your backpack. Would need to be fairly limited to not make it OP, but  you could tie an extra gun to the bottom of your pack, which requires and extra three or four seconds to draw. Could use this for tools, too, or whatever you could imagine.

 

Base Building has already been mentioned, but just throwing it out here, too. Rope would be great for making small structures, as well as barricading (lashing things together).

 

Speaking of lashing things together, Rafts would be awesome, too. You could either use an oar, which would improve your speed, or just use a stick to row. You'd use rope and logs to craft the raft. Especially awesome once rivers are implemented, but could even be useful in getting over to islands.

 

There's a bunch more things that rope is useful for. Some of this is already planned, some of it isn't. But, for many things, we should need rope. Considering the fact that it'll be such a useful commodity, there should be more than one way of acquiring it.

Edited May 20, 2015 by Beizs

[LoveAffair 329]

[cash81 506]

Agreed, with so many boots/shoes laying around there would be an abundance of laces to be able to craft/repair all kinds of things.

[bulldog six 13]

+1. would also make a great addition for helicopters: fastroping. but without ropes it's fastfalling.

[OnionOfShame 138]

Something that would be pretty cool would be using ropes to climb up or rapell down rocks and buildings. That way we could get on top of any building, making combat more dynamic.