Night = More loot

[Not Home 3]

Couldn't find this in search so sorry if its already posted.

Basically I think loot drops should be much better at night so that players have an incentive to play at this time. Also I think night vision gogles should be taken out of the game because I think managing light sources is much more fun.

Great night loot should be counteracted by there being more or even tougher zombies so that players can only get this loot if they are realy stealthy or if they group up.

Thoughts?

[Zeromentor 169]

Although I agree that playing with chemlights, roadflares and flashlights (gun equipped or otherwise) is 'Funner' for me, I don't think NVGs should be removed. They should probably wipe them from the game in one patch but let them keep dropping, forcing the dupers, and clans that have everything stashed away to come out and play for once. But then again, I wouldn't mind a complete wipe either, as it is an Alpha.

Anyhow, I don't think Night time should cause better loot to drop. I play at night most of the time (and I don't have NVGs, I just like darkness). People might assume many things about me from that statement, but just know this: I hunt snipers camping on airfields.

Anyhow. You can't really force people to play at night, or push them into in. In reality, most people would only be active in the day (though I'd still choose the night) so it stays fairly real.

I do not support this.

[Not Home 3]

  On 7/12/2012 at 10:11 AM, Zeromentor said:

Although I agree that playing with chemlights, roadflares and flashlights (gun equipped or otherwise) is 'Funner' for me, I don't think NVGs should be removed. They should probably wipe them from the game in one patch but let them keep dropping, forcing the dupers, and clans that have everything stashed away to come out and play for once. But then again, I wouldn't mind a complete wipe either, as it is an Alpha.

Anyhow, I don't think Night time should cause better loot to drop. I play at night most of the time (and I don't have NVGs, I just like darkness). People might assume many things about me from that statement, but just know this: I hunt snipers camping on airfields.

Anyhow. You can't really force people to play at night, or push them into in. In reality, most people would only be active in the day (though I'd still choose the night) so it stays fairly real.

I do not support this.

Fair enough but how about NVG's only being spawnable at night to make them less common?

[Zeromentor 169]

NVGs are already extremely rare. In my time, I have only seen one pair, and that was on a clanmember I killed. I hid his body without looting it so his buddies couldn't reclaim it. I died a few seconds later to his comrades.

None of my friends have had NVGs. I have never owned a pair. A pack of people I used to run with, a group I wouldn't call a clan, had FN Fals with nightvision scopes, but only a few and those were taken by a clan they had been in numberous fights with. (They lost after I left the group)

NVGs are already very rare, and outside of clans that have the time to sit at the NWAF or go heli hunting ALL DAY EVERY DAY, or people that cloned their NVGs using duplication glitches, there are almost none. There really isn't any reason to make them more rare outside of stopping the whining. But those whiners would find something else anyhow, so that still wouldn't fix anything. Most people dying at night aren't dying to snipers with NVGs but players with their brightness and gamma turned up, or desync'd to a different time of day (7pm instead of 8pm for example) or those players using flashlights and roadflares and lighting themselves up.

[khknight 3]

I'm all for giving players an incentive to play at night, but lowering loot spawns during the day isn't the right way to go about it.

[Not Home 3]

  On 7/12/2012 at 10:37 AM, khknight said:

I'm all for giving players an incentive to play at night, but lowering loot spawns during the day isn't the right way to go about it.

Um.......I said nothing about lowering loot during the day. Just increasing it at night.

[enforcer1975 1111]

I don't know if this idead would work. The "sweet spots" will be looted anyway. I only used the night for cover three times now, one time i heard a car at main AF and ran away because i only had an axe and the guy driving must have a an NVG because i didn't see lights. :)

[Not Home 3]

  On 7/12/2012 at 11:59 AM, Enforcer said:

I don't know if this idead would work. The "sweet spots" will be looted anyway. I only used the night for cover three times now, one time i heard a car at main AF and ran away because i only had an axe and the guy driving must have a an NVG because i didn't see lights. :)

Would u use the night for cover more if u knew there were better rewards out there? I know what you're saying but I don't think the airfields and traditional sweet spots need adjusting much. cities at night i think should have loot more like before the patch when they removed most guns from these areas.

I really want to stress that there should be more challenge for these loot spots though like tougher, more alert zombies in the night or even just more of them so that this is only accomplishable with a friend or 2. The idea here is to give incentive to play at night and to form groups.

[Zeromentor 169]

  On 7/12/2012 at 1:18 PM, Not Home said:

Would u use the night for cover more if u knew there were better rewards out there? I know what you're saying but I don't think the airfields and traditional sweet spots need adjusting much. cities at night i think should have loot more like before the patch when they removed most guns from these areas.

I really want to stress that there should be more challenge for these loot spots though like tougher, more alert zombies in the night or even just more of them so that this is only accomplishable with a friend or 2. The idea here is to give incentive to play at night and to form groups.

Yeah, I still think military zombies should be stronger (common, military vests and helmets provide SOME protection!) and they should be more aggressive. But having better loot at night would just lead to more server hopping at night, and just as few players on nighttime servers.

Many people think those servers are covered with NVG-wielding snipers going through .50cal rounds like the freaking sun burns through fuel. They aren't. And the few that are are usually so well equipped they'd rather hang around Cherno or Electro during the day with friends than an empty town at night. Sometimes you might see one at the NWAF, but that's rare and it is usually just some guy waiting for the NVG-wielding snipers going through .50cal rounds like the freaking sun burns through fuel guys to show up so they can get a kill and SUPA-RARE LOOTZ.

[Not Home 3]

Server hopping is a seperate issue but i think the ideas in this guy's thread address them pretty well http://dayzmod.com/f...ffski-problems/

Edited July 12, 2012 by Not Home