SURVIVORS

[Salvatore Spampinato 10]

Hmmm what could be a new thing to add to dayz that it isn't useless or too much off topic? I'm not talking about TrAdInG NpCs, those need a lot of work and you can't just like place one like nothing in a vanilla server. 

 

Npc?? 

 

I'm talking about a normal npc survivor that has the task to search for food, attack zombies and whoever tries to kill him, obviously Im not talking about random bots in a server for making it easier, Im talking about 1 or 2 bots that spawn at every wipe and remove the last 1 or 2 of before. 

 

Usefulness

 

uh? theire useless? a waste of time? well an addition to these bots Its a barter system. 

 

I give you this, you give me this. 

 

these survivors have various type of requests(maximum 2) and depending in the request the npc survivor will give you something in exchange. 

kinda simple but obviously needs some hard work on it

 

Expansion of suggestion.

 

well,that was my suggestion but, if you're still reading this, user or moderator, then I think you're interested about what is fluttering in my head

let's go to the Expansion. 

 

Murderer or Savior? 

 

This expansion to my suggestion implements a reputation system. let's say that you killed 12 players and 3 Npcs

The Npcs that will know that you're around will run away

What if you're new to the game or just not a killer? 

Npcs are gonna peacefully walk and will not mind about you. 

What if you killed the players with a very bad reputation? 

The Npcs will see you as a very good person and will give you way more great items in exchange in the barter system. 

This was my suggestion, thanks for reading it. 

I had some time so I decided to pass it here writing what I was thinking in the moment and probably this suggestion Will not even be take seriously but at least I passed my time without decimating my braincells on social media. 

Edited May 13 by Salvatore Spampinato

[nemorus 265]

Another game with omnipotent characters, huh? Well, at least in "Skyrim" town guards know about your misdemeanors because of real spies. Chickens, bees, horses and alike snitch on ya constantly. But here in "DayZ" we don't have such grand intelligence network on hand. Unless infected could be persuaded to share their knowledge that is. And bartering... An old topic that is. People were doing that for years with each other - that is if they wanted such interaction. Trader mod could be a nice addition - but i honestly don't see it. Too much of a hassle. And there would almost no interaction - because AI is AI. And in this game AI is dumb.

[Salvatore Spampinato 10]

3 hours ago, nemorus said:

Another game with omnipotent characters, huh? Well, at least in "Skyrim" town guards know about your misdemeanors because of real spies. Chickens, bees, horses and alike snitch on ya constantly. But here in "DayZ" we don't have such grand intelligence network on hand. Unless infected could be persuaded to share their knowledge that is. And bartering... An old topic that is. People were doing that for years with each other - that is if they wanted such interaction. Trader mod could be a nice addition - but i honestly don't see it. Too much of a hassle. And there would almost no interaction - because AI is AI. And in this game AI is dumb.

great affirmation, in the making of the suggestion I already knew that such a request would be too much or too complex

my goal was to add something different than zeds, maybe something that could've build up a little storyline or something that gives chills you know

I would want so bad some letters in houses where the family or person tells a piece of what's happening in the start of the infection, like a family killing themselves for survival or a owner of a dog killing his own dog or someone killing his self before he would begin to be a complete infected so he writes a letter before dying, something like this could be sooo immersive and would have a lot of sense, but I guess that if they didn't do that before, they will not do that now. 

[nemorus 265]

Namalsk and Deer Isle smuggled their lore that way - through notes. And i'd say its a nice addition to their stories. Still... Best notes in this game are player created ones. But too bad - Bohemia did not reintroduced that feature for vanilla. We only have mods - and let me tell you, they're great!

[Salvatore Spampinato 10]

On 5/13/2024 at 9:44 PM, nemorus said:

Namalsk and Deer Isle smuggled their lore that way - through notes. And i'd say its a nice addition to their stories. Still... Best notes in this game are player created ones. But too bad - Bohemia did not reintroduced that feature for vanilla. We only have mods - and let me tell you, they're great!

Yea... on pc