Player outposts

[dunkhan 8]

Having just died, and being bored of surviving which has become too easy (I was already bored of surviving before I died, so I went to NW airfield), I decided to try to set up a player controlled outpost. Not in the sense of a hidden place where a group of friends stash their stuff, but a place on the coast that everyone on the server knows about, where friendlies can gather in safety and trade and help each other. This didn't work out too well so far, but not for the reasons that any of the naysayers said it wouldn't. I went through about 6 servers looking for help before I got any response other than 'the bandits will just kill you'. There was even a lot of hostility and rudeness. I am aware the bandits would attack, that was part of the attraction of the idea, I wanted a challenge and it's not like zombies are really stepping up to the plate on that count. I finally found a server where some players expressed interest and on offered to meet me. So I went out to the location I had scouted and waited there. While I was waiting three other players showed up, one was even a bandit. No one shot me. Also no one stayed to build a community. When the first guy finally arrived, I was getting rather bored. He didn't want to stick around anyway because there were zombies spawning at the base location and I wasn't going to argue as the whole cooperation with other players thing wasn't going very far.

In summary I think I proved the "zomfg a huge army of bandits will storm out of the hills and slaughter you all" people wrong, most of the people I met were fairly friendly. I also think that if we had got a small community together more people would have come. The initial stage of getting it off the ground seems to be the problem. I was trying to think of ways the developers could make this easier, but I can't think of any. The community is jaded about cooperation. More than that, any activity that doesn't show immediate entertainment/reward is generally given up on, regardless of the future gains or the realism/rp to be had. This is clearly a problem with the community, not the game itself. It is also not a day z community thing, I see this problem in almost all games. Organising something like this on the forums might make more people come, but then you really are likely to get an army of bandits.

Oh there was one thing that I thought the devs could look at, we need a way of identifying players. The name tags thing sucks as it enables you to see through walls and bushes, but all players look identical. It would be nice if people could customise their outfits, or if you could enable certain players so that they, and only they, could see a name tag on you. Some way of telling if that generic survivor you see is your best friend who just came back from scavenging, or some random who is about to panic and shoot you.

[Gouki4u 0]

I like both of these ideas. I'd be down for taking part in a kind of barter town outpost on a server, run by players. As a noob I wouldn't be able to bring much to the table in terms of protective firepower, or items for trade, but I think the idea is solid, and would participate.

One thing people should remember is the survivors outnumber the bandits. There is strength in numbers.

[AssMan (DayZ) 69]

There already are lots of other people in the Survivor HQ who want to set up some kind of safe place, you'd be better off joining them then starting on your own.

Oh there was one thing that I thought the devs could look at' date=' we need a way of identifying players. The name tags thing sucks as it enables you to see through walls and bushes, but all players look identical. It would be nice if people could customise their outfits, or if you could enable certain players so that they, and only they, could see a name tag on you. Some way of telling if that generic survivor you see is your best friend who just came back from scavenging, or some random who is about to panic and shoot you.

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The only way you are able to customize your character is going to the 'player profile' option at the main menu, and adding face paint or some sunglasses.

[i wub pugs 16]

This is all in it's infancy. I certainly see trade posts if not safe zones in the future. There are more than enough people looking to do this.

My group is already building FOBs on two servers and we plan to extend generosity and safety to lone survivors or bandits.

[Stick32 0]

I know that [Legion] does this I would imagine any clan forming around this game would probably do the same.

[tyler_1111@hotmail.com 0]

in order to do this servers need to be bigger and maps bigger otherwise people will just all gather in one spot.

i hope in the future there can be a 1500 player server with a even bigger expansion of the map. i really think people will start to form civilization and trades when the server cap is increased to form populations.

[SDE Bellisarius 1]

i hope in the future there can be a 1500 player server with a even bigger expansion of the map.

i wonder if any pc can run that many ppl' date=' considering what i have noticed that 1 player = 20-40 zombies[/b']

[i wub pugs 16]

in order to do this servers need to be bigger and maps bigger otherwise people will just all gather in one spot.

i hope in the future there can be a 1500 player server with a even bigger expansion of the map. i really think people will start to form civilization and trades when the server cap is increased to form populations.

Are you high?

You have the largest map you can even dream of right now. Most players have yet to go north of Mogilevka, or if they do it's to the Airfield.

1500........................... :@ I'm seriously mad at you for coming up with that number.