Hygiene

[Yiddus 0]

This is just a small idea I came up with while playing the other day. Seeing as you can get illnesses and infections in DayZ, I would say that the issue of Hygiene is very important. In real life if you cut yourself and then roll around in mud or suffer a wound from something dirty, or especially something metal, it can quickly become infected.

Hygiene could be displayed in the Debug monitor or in the heads up display with the food and water levels.

If your Hygiene reaches 0% then you are highly susceptible to illness or infections. - For instance if you break your leg and your Hygiene is at 0%, you could suffer from gang green and slowly die.

Hygiene can be replenished by swimming in a lake for a short while - this of course will lower your temperature meaning by routine you should find somewhere warm afterwards, quickly.

[Bunster 7]

I agree about the hygine think it should be in the game and the ways you make it out its not something that hard either just going for a swim to get clean seems reasonable enough.

[SystemiK 366]

Yes, and furthermore I believe we should have to clip our toenails occasionally (this will make our socks last longer).

[Superior 9]

Swim in a lake, you say? As long as they fix the losing items bug!

[WhiteTigerShiro 25]

Swim in a lake' date=' you say? As long as they fix the losing items bug!

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I don't think that's a bug... unless it's one of those "happening too much" things like with zeds breaking legs. In any case, I think the idea is that you'd "strip down" before bathing. So the issue would be more on fixing the bug of items sometimes disappearing when you drop them.

Edit: As for the suggestion itself... I don't hate it, don't love it. So I'll just let the topic take its course, and if it appears in-game some day, I'll just deal with it. ;P

[Yiddus 0]

Thanks for the replies. It's not something necessary, I agree, just think it could be a nice little addition.

[SystemiK 366]

I don't think that's a bug... unless it's one of those "happening too much" things like with zeds breaking legs.

You are right. Losing your gear when swimming is a "feature" of Arma. One of the last Arma 2 beta patches has made a change to this (can't remember if it was a server setting or if it is changed in the mission file).