My Idea's

[kyle939 20]

Hello,

(Edit - Sorry for the lost post, got carried away and did not know it was that long) I typed them here because it saves space making lots of little threads all over the place.

This is my first post on this forums.

I've not long been playing Dayz and I love it so much, I've not even gone back to BF3 or anything else. Dayz has taken over my life.

I watched the video with the Interview with Rocket and got me thinking on something he's said.

1. If the game went to a standalone game I would throw my money at you so fast, you would be blurred. Standalone you could improve upon the game and add things that are more pleasing for a zombie game, and take things out like 90% of the armoured vehicles, heli's because they are not being used. Only some of the vehicles are. Also world increase could be good. Do not worry on the size, Max Payne 3 is 35Gb and campaign not even that long. This would not have a campaign kinda.... So 40Gb of pure content, survival and special things like some of the things I've typed below.

2. Bandits tool. Me and a few friends find each other after many many hours or running alone, and we get some good stash from some raids, only to be killed by some bandits. This is extremely annoying and I know this would be a fact of realism but why not... Something like awareness on bandits. So if a bandit is around they are marked red or something in an area they are located. Like the white marks on the side of the screen for zombies but a bright red one for the location of a bandit. Not the full location just the area around they are. (They are proper proper annoying, players just being total c**ks because they cannot do it themselves) Only for 5 murders and above they show up, so people can avoid them if they wanted too because I would and do not want to play on a server where people murder others...

3. Spawning.... When you first spawn into the game you are random spawned onto the shore or inland and then take hours upon hours finding your friends. Why not a spawn selection BUT area not a specific location.

So we could select South West area, and it will spawn us on the shore south west some where. So we still got to find out friends but it is an area not completely jotting all over the place...

Also only allow the shores a spawn place... No inland just shore.

4. No objective is good, and no safe zones... BUT... Why not right at the tip top of the map, past the airfield.. Make a base or a wall that is safe.. So you can go in there, get ammo, guns, food etc and then venture back out to look for more survivors. Good idea on the ground that it's a massive run across the map and you'd need to stop and eat, but it is the idea of making the run to safety to find it and only run back out to find others or something you know?

5. If the game went standalone it would be good but needs to have a mission I think. Maybe setup camp, fortify the camp, go out for supplies. If you died then have to get back to your base to rearm up... Unless someone else has taken and raided it.

So the ability to baricade windows. Move stuff, knock wood into the windows and doors etc. (That would make alot of noise too) Would have to find steel nails, or make them from a factory press.... That be a long trip for some nails lol.

6. Ability to run our own servers for friends etc, Also allow the ability to take the characters from our servers to others, seeing as Battleye is on why not. I would like to host my own server from my PC. Play online with friends in comfort with battleye protection... and if someone joined and killed one of us. I would ban them, and other players could join in and play too, friendly. If we turned Battleye off then the server should go in offline mode, so the characters cannot be carried to the other servers. Battleye 0 is cheats and no hive mode. Battleye 1 and the hive works and can be taken all over. Only so murderers can be banned so we can enjoy the game for what it is..

I love this game, I really do. If I put aside the bugs and glitches, like the zombies running super fast to catch up, running through walls, or dropping from the sky etc, the list is kinda big. It does not annoy or bother me. It is the bandits that really really REALLY annoy me. If you are a bandit then please get a life... and go play COD or some other game.

The game has alot of potential but I do not think Arma is the game for it. Yes it is big, and yes it has alot but look at the game themselves. The Arma games are buggy as hell. I've found alot of them in the game, and the controls are insane. There are sooooo many controls it is insane to even sit there and read them.

Massive open world zombie survival has never been done before. There is no game like it, so I think it is unique.

Dead Island, Resident Evil, Left 4 Dead, Killing Floor etc, the list is big are all VERY linear games. One way of approaching it, and this is the only game I can think of that you can do what you want, got to eat, cook, camp, drink, gets tired etc...

Why not add other things like:

Cooking time must be a certain time or you can under cook food and become sick, so the character is sick and needs pills to get better... fishing so we chop down a tree, make a line, get cloth and get fishing for food to cook and eat with hunting knife.

Digging a hole or trench so we can dig out a hole or gap into a mountain, into the floor or something so that we can dig into a mountain and stop the zombies from climbing up... But then light a fire in the cave would glow out massively and attract them, and they'd wait at the bottom... Try to escape that people... :P (So we could dig kinda deep but a limit you know..

Chat Channels are helping. Global so I can type and see how people are on the other side of the world like. Taking them away was a little silly... They help.

Ability to create a shelter.. So using the cloth we've found or taken from zombies we could use to make string or something, and close trees depending on the lenght, we could hang it up and put leaves across it... So like Rocket said (he's from the military) he should know. Making a base without a tent, so we could also use the digging hole trick to set traps. Dig a hole, string and leaves over the dop, people/ zombies walk over, fall in and stuck inside. Easy kill zombie, or survivor found bad accident.

Clothes and cloth comes alot of options. So wrap around a steel bolt, set on fire.. Becomes a fire arrow, shoot at zombies, or poor petrol around floor and shoot at that, stop zombies getting through fire, or buildings on fire.

Ridable horses, so only in farm lands... We find horses in a barn or something. Saddle on the wall, mount it and ride off. 2 people per horse too, and some barns have 4 horses. Minimum in each barn 2.

Ability to climb a tree. So we walk up to a tree and climb right to the top, to look out and get bairings so we know where we are.

Also, why not ability to start off with a pistol, but only.... 5 shots in the gun. That is it. Gives you a little chance. So a basic pistol with 5 shots and that is it, but make the gun so you cannot find ammo for it. Like add a special one off 5 shot ammo gun, so something that does not use any other ammo around and once the 5 shots are gone, they are gone. That is it, must find another gun.

Radios are useless to me, because I play with friends and we talk over Skype an ingame Radio for other players I mute about 99% of the time, because some peoples voices are annoying and sometimes it's some 13year old kid screaming like a girl. So I prefer to type chat to other players around the game.

Playing on an offline server, with cheats enabled is fine. It is offline and their server so they can play it how they like, and should not be bannable because it is their server, their game and it is offline, so if Battleye is turned off.... The game will not go live and only offline, so cheat away. No character carry over. As soon as it goes live and you load it. If you've been on a different server or something online then your character shall be loaded, just saying... I've been on an offline server and cheats just made it SUPER boring and no fun, went back online to a battleye server and doing the game it is ment to be played is just pure amazing.

I've got lots and lots of ideas it is just typing them down when my head is full of the ones I am typing down, lol.

Well thank you for taking time to read this post. Been writing down off the top of my head, and forgot most of them as I've been thinking how to work something, lol.

Hardcore Servers (Veteran) and normal changes

Then option for a hardcore server comes in... Hardcore could have nothing on the screen. No markers no food have to relay on sounds. Belly rumbles. Blood spitting out to heal. Thirsty sounds could be grasping for breath. So then that could be nothing on screen for people. Hardcore and normal servers.

Heatpacks? I've never ever used a heatpack and never ever had a problem or needed to, so is there is a problem there? Rain should make you colder quicker right?

Also needs more zombies. Way more zombies. Need them walking randomly around the forest. Way more in the big cities, like alot more of them.

Sorry BF3 but Dayz has beaten you.

If you do not like them, then do not post. I have posted this because I think that they are a good idea.

Some people are obviously scared on other peoples oppinions than their own, so I do not care. This is what I think would be good, which is why I have posted it here. If you think they are terrible then fine, save your breath because I do not care.

Kind Regards,

Menphuess!

Edited July 12, 2012 by kyle939

[Phippsy94 0]

I think they are great ideas but also I think there should be quests and side quests such as various npc survivor villages where u may be able to make a home and perform tasks for the villagers such as gather supplies for rewards, help to fortify/protect the village, go out looking for other npc survivors, maybe help random npcs in the wilderness red dead style and get the option whether they travel with you or not and you lead them to safety, maybe protect the villages from raids. Another mission maybe scout distant areas to see if another village can be set up then escort some npcs and help them set up, starting from a main village that cannot be destroyed and expand with more survivors u find, make them heavily guarded to stop bandits from raiding and help them fight off hordes, if they are attacked and the village is destroyed it stays destroyed unless it's rebuilt and depopulated and a trading system in each village also. This will keep players from getting bored when all loot is aquired. Obvs only certain features can be incorporated into multiplayer such as preset villages or make it hard to make other villages so other players contribute to it as a whole. This would also make it interesting with bandits bein about as well. There should also be a main objective or goal such as rebuilding an airport or military base/research facility to rebuild the worlds population, slowly of course and a cure for the dead should only work on recently infected or not at all, maybe not even that. However this should all take a lot of time if brought into multiplayer as it wouldn't work (for example re-establishing electricity) or after a while servers are reset or new 1's made, any that aren't regularly played are reset or deleted. All of this can be incorporated into single player of course. If this would only be possible for single player however there should be a co-op mode where a certain amount of players can join, set to invite only or open so bandits can still join to keep the game spicy. Maybe same player limit for co-op and set up different game modes, original dayZ or rebuild mode. I'm sure these could be made into the game and probably thousands of other ideas as well. I just think a standalone version of the game will be over played easily unless this is a quest line or some form of progression to keep the players playing even when all the best loot is gained. Also there should be a crafting system to build your own guns using certain materials or to create hybrids by disassembling various guns and creating a new gun using various individual parts (weapon type specific) as well as weapon mode hat can be found or made (find scopes, sights etc.) I think this would keep players going even when best equipment is found with hundreds of hybrid weapon variations with different attributes (show attribute bars such as accuracy, rate of fire, ammo capacity, range, power etc. to see the outcome) as well as being able to see how the weapon would look. This however would require building a workshop usin various parts found when u establish a base that has two keys, 1 on your body and 1 that you can hide (repress the keys with found materials overwise you lose your home) the workshop should also have various parts that can be built so only certain weapons can be built to start with etc. there are so many other ideas that could be made also. I think with these features I have mentioned and the guy above also that the game would EASILY become a best-seller

[KnT47r 51]

For the love of god...

Press the enter key every once and a while! It is REALLY difficult to read so much text when it's not nicely spaced out

Anyways, quests (or quest-like activities) will likely be added down the track. I'm pretty sure I've read a post of Rocket's saying this. Be patient grasshopper

EDIT: How2image on this new forum??

Edited July 13, 2012 by KnT47r

[Baelethal 102]

[Phippsy94 0]

I was going to paragraph it but was in an idea craze and didn't want to lose my train of thought lol

[Phippsy94 0]

I might repost it on my comp 2moz n maybe add more ideas

[Phippsy94 0]

Will the developers actually read this and maybe give feedback?

[KnT47r 51]

You could have just editted it after you finished typing (and before hitting submit) lol

Also, I'm not busy at work and reading it. The chances of a busy dev reading it in it's current state is VERY slim, they'd likely open it, have their eyes bug out and then close it again

Edited July 13, 2012 by KnT47r

[Quagmire (DayZ) 119]

No to all of this. Rocket has actually specially specified the fact that he will not be adding in so called 'quests' he will simply be developing the sandbox into a solid state and the rest is up to the player to go nuts.

And this actually applies to all said suggestions. Try doing research.

[Phippsy94 0]

So what are these suggestions for then? That's crap he could make a really good game if he did

[Phippsy94 0]

What does star next to name of forum meant btw? That iv posted in it?

[Ramtex 1]

Rocket stated that he doesn't want to punish banits for doing what they do. So making them visible like that would never happen.

I like the idea of horses to be added, but I know for a fact it would take a while to create their animations from stratch.

[thorgold 91]

I had a very long-winded, rage-induced post that deconstructed every paragraph of this god-awful topic. Then, I realized that this video fit perfectly:

(Transcript)

What you just said... is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard.

At no point in your rambling, incoherent, response... were you close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.

Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.

award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.

Edited July 13, 2012 by thorgold

[kyle939 20]

Lmao at some of the replies.

I do apoligise on the length of the essay of words, but it was easier to post in one thread than fill up the forums with lots of little threads.

They are my oppinions and if you do not respect them, then fine. I respect your oppinion on what you want and think would be good to add, and what you think on things, but then again. I am an adult and think objectively.

[Phippsy94 0]

Well that's just not nice, I garuantee he could add the majority of stuff if he could be assed and it'd make a great game

[thorgold 91]

For those of you that value your eyeballs, here's a transcript of the ideas. For fun, and justification of why I hate his guts.

1) Remove vehicles

2) Nerf bandits

3) Select your spawn location

4) Safe zone NW of NWA

5) Missions / Build camps and barricades

6) Host our own servers (???)

INTERLUDE: F*ck bandits, go back to CoD

a) Fix all the bugs, don't use ArmA engine

B) Add cooking timer, food poisoning, fishing

c) Dig caves/trenches/holes to trap people (sort of contradicts the whole "fuck bandits" theme)

d) Add global chat back

e) Build shelters / traps

f) Crafting / Fire arrows

g) Horses

h) Climb trees

i) Start with pistol

j) Radios are useless, everyone uses Skype anyway (so... global chat is still out?)

k) Offline servers, cheats/hackers allowed

INTERLUDE: I have so many ideas lol

NEW THEME: Hardcore servers!

a) No HUD

B) Get colder quicker in rain

c) More zombies - in woods and cities

CONCLUSION

Lol DayZ owns BF3

People don't post ideas because they're scared of criticism

PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE ENDING YAAAY

(Second Post)

They are my oppinions and if you do not respect them, then fine

Correct, I do not respect your opinion. Mainly because I think you made this topic while high on some strong dope. Also because you look like an albino Scumbag Steve.