About Bandit Outfit

[DinDae 1]

Well I know the bandit-morphing is a Work in Progress and have been removed for further notice.

But I do not like how the game and the social commitment in the game have turned out after the removal. I have read that people thinks morphing to another outfit is unrealistic and it was good being removed, and now everybody shoots everybody without questions.

I do found that very sad, because sneaking around or shooting zombies aren't any hard, decide if another player is friend or foe isn't any hard longer either because all are foe.(not all but why risk it when killing other players are easy and you have nothing to lose on it).

That’s my point, people say you shouldn't probably react that way in real life you should work together and survive, and of course some would be pirates but all would need companions(and NOT only irl friends).

But this is a game; it isn't real life so people play it like any other fps. So the game has to guide the players to a realistic situation (see what I coming at?) We need the skins as a social conversation starter. Because even in real life even if you intend to shoot the other person you would probably observe him first, and see if he draws his weapon. But here there are always drawn, because it’s a game.

So I believe that bandit morphing is a great idea, because it will cause players to make a choice.

And a karma system (morale whatever) isn't a great idea to balance the bandit-morphing. If you haven't murdered since say (taken from the air) 8-10 played time, you morph-back to a survival, because then you have most likely played as a survival. And that’s what I call a choice, murder for a bandage and be hard to trust for about 10hours or give the man some beans and travel together or go apart.

I do like finding and changing outfits in the world. But bandits shouldn’t take part of it at least until they got their own models on that outfit.

I did find it amusing the first times I lured people that I was friendly, but there has to be a punishment for shooting other player, so not every interaction with other players will be the same, shoot to kill.

Then you can just add players who shoot first or something turns bandit, survivors shooting bandit don’t turn bandit etc. Bunch of stuff for the system, if you took part in a murder(bit tricky to implement but you get the idea) And just you have different skins doesn’t mean you know the other persons agenda, but you most likely have a better chance finding out with ask first shoot later, than it is now.

Remember it’s still a game, and we need game-elements to help us make it real.

[ZedsDeadBaby 2287]

Since the bandit skins were removed life expectancy has gone up and murder rates have not.

The bandit skin was a broken, error-prone, brute-force inelegant mechanic that accomplished nothing and the game has improved since their removal.

Also, there are 500 threads on this topic you could have gone to and read exactly the same thing without cluttering the forums with another pointless post asking for the return of something that's gone forever.

[DinDae 1]

Since the bandit skins were removed life expectancy has gone up and murder rates have not.

The bandit skin was a broken' date=' error-prone, brute-force inelegant mechanic that accomplished nothing and the game has improved since their removal.

Also, there are 500 threads on this topic you could have gone to and read exactly the same thing without cluttering the forums with another pointless post asking for the return of something that's gone forever.

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Well only time I saw a difference in the statistics was when they removed starting pistol, besides the avg life expectancy cant be trusted because so many people go dying just to spawn closer to their friends.

It isn't removed forever, but rocket got a pretty harsh job when using a tool undeveloped for his concept and thoughts. Hopefully when the mod get approved for support he will get programmers to do mayor changes in the system after his design-choices, instead of the other way like it is now.

And I think it funny you talk about "cluttering the forums" and here you have bumped a thread you didn't approve. Just saying, if you wouldn't be rude this thread would be history.