What's "End"game / metagame gonna be like?

[Elo 44]

My friend and I are still fairly new to this game, but once we learned where we get medical supplies and military gear, we're kinda out of things to do, especially now that we realized that zombies are harmless, we don't even bother being sneaky when looting a town

Anyway, this made me realize that dayz seems to be lacking some kind of deep metagame. Just take a look at eve and the awesome stuff that goes on over there, i think dayz has even greater potential since trust is so much more important here and we have even greater freedom in our sandbox. DayZ (so far) seems to us like it's just about gearing up (once you know where to loot that's not really a challenge anymore), but once you have all that nice loot you more or less won the game until you die and start gearing up again.

So, what's the plan? I've read rumors of player built bases (!AWESOME!) and the likes, but it seems it's all just hearsay.

Is it known what directions rocket wants to take this mod to, the next "big thing" that will be added to add more depth to the "end" (yes, i know)-game that geared up players can do? any eta for player built structures?

Playing Sniper'n'Spotter in cherno just gets old

[dcskill 117]

Find vehicles?

Make a camp site?

Drop a big one in the NW Airfield?

Drop a filthy one in Stary?

Make a noob your slave?

Make a noob your master?

Find a noob and slide a few weapons his way. naw mean?

There is tons of stuff to do.

[killavirus 12]

Endgame is building a heli

[doom4mr 135]

about the plan, you can watch this:

maybe you will find some answers

[Wulfear 6]

Endgame is building a heli

...and then flying around making mouth sounds over direct to the tune of "Ride of the Valkyries" while 2 door gunners shoot everyone.

[Elo 44]

Find vehicles?

Make a camp site?

Drop a big one in the NW Airfield?

Drop a filthy one in Stary?

Make a noob your slave?

Make a noob your master?

Find a noob and slide a few weapons his way. naw mean?

There is tons of stuff to do.

Yeah, we've done most of that stuff, except the whole slave-master thing, we usually die when encountering other players

Endgame is building a heli

Arent helis disabled?

about the plan, you can watch this:

maybe you will find some answers

Thanks for that vid, sounds like we'll have to wait for standalone before we get to see proper building mechanics

Edited July 16, 2012 by Elo

[Oriaphyn 0]

Settle a town with other survivors and build up a community?

[Garthilk 4]

Settle a town with other survivors and build up a community?

Maybe someday, but I'd say right now there is no endgame, no metagame.

[Elo 44]

I think the problem is that it's way too easy to get military gear. Searching for military weapons (even the most basic ones like the glock) could be a good "end"game goal itself, right now all you have to do is sprint to a military camp and loot. It would be cool if getting military weapons would require a squad / group of people and some luck to find

might also change the kill on sight mentality

[hurka 0]

Grow your beard. Watch your beard grow, while camping, eating and drinking.