Some servers where guns are NOT available

[JohnDMarshall 23]

It would be an interesting experiment if the DEVS could give us a few servers 1pp and 3pp where NO GUNS were available. The only weapons being crafted bow/arrow and melee weapons. Yes we could try this on private hives and you could try to do this on public servers but in the end you would have some people sneaking in a gun and just laughing.

 

I believe the interactions of the players could give better insight into how to make the survival aspect of the game more than survive long enough to get a gun.

 

I know a lot of people would be upset if there were no guns but on the other hand a few servers with just the option for no guns would make a change. Seeing groups of people fighting each other medieval style would be interesting :)

 

Albert Einstein: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

 

I am a hermit and have only killed 2 people in over 2000+ hours of game time. Most of the time I avoid people because of past experience. I carry a mosin scope and am a walking bush purely so I can avoid people - I have killed hundreds of zombies/infected and animals in this time. My longest shot so far on a zombie is 945m and the 2nd person I killed was another sniper at 855m after he shot one of my friends. 1st kill was after a friend was shot in the back by a fresh spawn with a gun.

 

Give people guns and they turn ugly. When I dont have a gun I am nervous, after I get a gun I consider others as being a greater threat as they may kill me and use my gun to KOS others. I dont want my efforts to get gear used as a means to make other people miserable.

 

 

[liquidcactus 719]

Interesting idea.. even pistols only like goldeneye wouldnt be a bad idea 

pistols as the only guns obviously  B)

 

I agree with what you say and your playstyle.. 2000 hrs wow man thats alot.. im at 300 hrs for the sa and i did about 450 in the mod..

I always avoid everyone also.. like you self i have only shot a couple people but it was so long ago i dont even really remember? but I havent been killed by players very often at all.. 

 

I find one of the biggest parts of this game is to try your best not to be shit scared of other players and just try to chat.. every time i have tried to talk to a player even if there weapon is raised they always talk back and the situation always ends up working out fine. Obviously this wont work out every single time but I am more so explaining personal experience here rather than dictating how one should approach others but regardless every time I have tried to talk the will always talk back. Other things to factor in also are i play on a private hive and the server is never super busy so i think it draws a more "survival play" mindset of players than "lets gear up and shoot everything that moves like a retarded child" kinda mindset.. (maybe) 

 

I still do agree with the hermit play style however and staying away from popular routes etc.. I just cant wait to see how rare guns will become later on but dayz is taking so long I'm trying to distract myself from it.

[Keck 12]

It'd surely be an interesting experiment, but I doubt you would see a change. The people playing this game don't care if they have a gun or not, they will just kill you anyways. Once I was walking through some city and saw a guy with no guns, walked up to him and started taking. Instead of saying anything he just mumbled something into his low quality Mike and smashed my head in with his sledgehammer. People will always kos you in this game, even without guns.

[OrLoK 16185]

Hello there

 

Id have a random but limited set amount of ammo that would not respawn

 

let me use my mosin as a club/pike etc.

 

Make ammo a rare commodity and many wont be quite so shooty.

 

Rgds

 

LoK

[rybec 339]

Make ammo a rare commodity and many wont be quite so shooty.

I would like to agree with you but I can't.

 

If player X has a rifle and sees player Y have a rifle, player X will still shoot at player Y. Not simply for having some action in the game, but it will possibly (or likely) end up in having more ammunition than before.

That or the knucklehead will shoot anyone anyway without being concerned about the future of the life of that character because "lol yolo".