Don't discourage PvP, but encourage Cooperation

[edonovan 15]

I'm sure this will be flamed and forgotten, as it is similar to class suggestions, but I figure I'll post it anyhow.

In real life, everyone is not an expert marksman, hunter, gatherer, mechanic, etc. How about letting players choose specializations when they spawn? If you are good at fixing cars, maybe that bandit won't kill you right away; at least not until you fix his ride, anyway.

This doesn't mean a player is totally inept at all tasks, but just better at some. Maybe normal players could fix vehicles to 75% health, or have 25% worse accuracy with an assault rifle. Maybe a specialized hunter can carve more steaks out of a sheep.

A few suggestions:

* Gatherer: more loot spawns for you.

* Mechanic: Able to repair vehicles to 100% health

* Marksman: more accurate with weapons

* Health Nut: Thirst/Hunger meter depletes slower (give your beans to friends)

* Medic: Ability to splint broken legs and give more effective blood transfusions

* Hunter: harvest more meat from animals.

I don't think this would give anyone an unfair advantage over others, and it could be enough to keep people from shooting on sight. From a coding standpoint, I don't see how it would be terribly difficult to implement.

As an added bonus, players could learn specializations as well. Killing things improves marksmanship, gutting animals improves hunting, waiting the right amount of time before eating improves metabolism, etc.

[zipper 69]

There are already plenty of incentives to cooperate with others.

Please refer to this thread.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/8526-incentives-to-cooperative-play/

[DannyRed 32]

I don't agree about the accuracy thing because it would mean everyone would get it. Atleast most of us. But everything else sounds good. Even though there are reasons to group up with people i mostly get blasted away from my back so something like this would actually mean more peace to the world of dayz.

[SHOWTIME! 21]

It is kind of a shame that the game has developed (or maybe devolved) into basically a "shoot on sight" policy that everyone uses.

I don't have a problem with it really, but my group of friends are the only survivors i have played alongside. Would be cool to join up with people on the go.