Supply Crates

[Draco122 412]

Just something I thought of, we have Helicopter Crash sites which to my understanding are randomated but usually hold alot of high level weaponry but what if we had other items in the world similar them?

My suggestion is the use of Supply Crates as a similar in-world item to helicopter crash sites. They'd be randomated within the map on each time a server starts. Some can be found unlocked or "broken" while others are locked up and need a crowbar to open them.

For the record:

• Broken - Provide minimal supplies but are usually more common, Broken refers to them loosing much of it's contents in transit.
  

• Un-Locked - Provide a sizeable amount of supplies but are easily looted.
  

• Locked - Require a Crowbar to open. Holds ALOT of supplies but because they are locked up and require a crowbar to open it.
  

They DON'T carry firearms or weapons but instead feature things like Clothing, Food, Medicine, Construction Supplies, general items and other Miscellanous junk in large quantities. They can end up inside Towns and Cities, in the Forest or washed up on the coastline (presumably washed up from some off shore ship wreck where the player could pontenially came from).

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

I like the idea of supply crates. I made a post about it a while ago and it got mixed reviews. I'd like to see a Plane fly accross the map (very high) dropping a few crates by parachute. This would make for some interesting gameplay because loads of people would hear the plane and would start looking for the crates. It would add some variation and could lead to some interesting fire fights. I know that the Arma engine supports this because you could have supply drops in game.

[L0G!N (DayZ) 149]

couple of things, first in relation to the idea as a whole, i like it and it crossed my mind as well...

but: you can 'loot' through walls right now, try it with a toilet building... so a locked off crate may not work, unless the 'spawn' happens when you brake the crate.

@Fraggle: in regards to the airplane, i like the idea from the gameplay perspective, but: if people drop supplies, then the outside world knows of our situation, why not send in the military or what we humans would do 'normally' in a situation like this "NUKE THE PLACE" ... i think the idea behind no supplies is that the whole world is in the same situation as us, and there is nobody to fly over and drop supplies

[Yukimare 10]

@l0Gin

its possable that they are droping supplies because theres teams of depolyed soldiers still in the area, but the plane dose not know where the target squad is, so is droping and praying that their commander got the destination right (witch, as we all know, will so be worng)

as for the idea, it will be very helpful to find crates of supplies around, and it gives us a good use for the crowbar, witch is only useable as a melee weapon, compared to the hatchet/fire axe, witch can harvest lumber as well as make it rain zed-heads

[Draco122 412]

@l0Gin

its possable that they are droping supplies because theres teams of depolyed soldiers still in the area, but the plane dose not know where the target squad is, so is droping and praying that their commander got the destination right (witch, as we all know, will so be worng)

as for the idea, it will be very helpful to find crates of supplies around, and it gives us a good use for the crowbar, witch is only useable as a melee weapon, compared to the hatchet/fire axe, witch can harvest lumber as well as make it rain zed-heads

Thats one of my main intentions was to give the crowbar a more meaningful existance in the game besides being a very weak melee weapon.

Alternatively one of the reasons for the plane flying over head on Chernarus is some form of disaster relief support.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Red_Cross

The British Red Cross for example could very well help with aid by providing air drops of food, medicine and general survival gear to the poor citizens of Chernarus. Primarily they are a group of Civilians that could very well bypass Military juridiscation to provide some form of disaster relief as a "Zombie Outbreak" would certainly fall under that catergory no doubt.