The Cool Idea Master List

[hoak 27]

In browsing the forums, I've run across a slew of ideas that I thought were very cool, some would be very easy to implement and could turn up in the next version if Developer(s) found them, and found them compelling -- while others ideas might take months or even years of work they also suggest some cool game mechanics that are worth evaluating, and certainly many of these ideas may have yet to occur to or pass in front of DayZ's Developer(s), as they probably just don't have time to read these forums in depth.

So then, my aim is to compile a list of concept and feature ideas, that I'll update as people add them. The only requirements I'll make for adding an idea to the list as that:

(1) The idea be self descriptive and not require an explanation.

(2) You provide a link to the thread or post where you first saw the idea originate.*

Here then is what I've compiled so far:

· Duct Tape

· Altruism Incentives

· Server Lock After Dieing

· Orienteering

· Abandoned Cars

· Footprints

· Limited Ammunition

· Knife As Melee Weapon *

· Brushfires

· Fishing

· Universal (Locked) Server Time

· Lens Flare On Sniper Scopes

· Carry/Drag Injured Player

· Functional Boats*

· High Loot Ship

· Recoverable Crossbow Bolts

· Splinting Broken Bones

· Friendly Signaling System*

· Make DayZ a Living Hell

· Limit Ammunition Inventory Space More*

· Cannibalism

· Drug Addiction

· Play As Zed

· Dynamic Events

· Repairable Lighthouses

· Repairable Radio Transmitter (The Big One)*

· Bring Back The Side Channel

· DayZ Workshop (For Fan Content Submission)

· More Realistic Looting

· Respawn Timer

· Weapon Maintenance

· New Maps (Limited Poll)

· Beach Loot (Washed Up Cargo)

· Classes (Poll)

· Larger Cities

· Saw Your Own Shotgun

If DayZ Fans support this thread, and add to it, and the list gets really large and unwieldy, it might be helpful for Fans to also suggest categories for individual ideas.

My feeling is if we can't make the effort to organize our wishes and desires, it's fairly unrealistic to expect the Developers to be able to read and ferret through them if we actually want them to have time to work on the game; to that end you might want to look at the 'Rocket Said... Thread' to get an idea of the Developer's ideas for where he wants to take DayZ...

* Obviously there are some suggestions that have come up so many times it's difficult to ascertain an original thread or post -- also if you feel there is a more definitive or good supporting thread or link in addition to the one used, I'll annotate with additional citation links [1], [2], [3] etc...

Edited July 19, 2012 by Hoak

[peke_kantsi@hotmail.com 36]

Few of those are pretty easy to make and probably will be added, but the ship thing would be just a loot farm for clans.

[hoak 27]

It's just a thread to: list, link and organize ideas -- not criticize them; they have their individual threads where you can chime in and support or criticize them already...

Again, if we can't make the effort to organize our wishes and desires, it's fairly unrealistic to expect the Developers to be able to read and ferret through the morass on these forums if we actually want them to have any time to work on the game...

:|

Edited July 16, 2012 by Hoak

[adamhodsdon399@hotmail.com 9]

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/32431-abandonded-cars/

[hoak 27]

We have our first submission; added!

:beans:

[hoak 27]

Updated 17 July 2012, eleven new ideas indexed...

Suggestion spam has really gotten out of hand on the suggestion forum, with over forty threads created for some ideas; I've tried to find original threads, but that's getting increasingly difficult.

If the Moderators and Developers of DayZ are interested in a more functional suggestion forum, they might want to follow the example of the ArmA II forums where redundant posts are locked, or that of some other forums where they're concatenated, or even deleted and all posts are put in a master index thread like this one and that's sticky...

To that end if any Moderator wants to edit the OP, add to it, strike out suggestions that aren't congruent with the plans for DayZ that will not be pursued (I've only included some of these as they're popular or there is a lot of similar thread spam on these topics.

Everyone else is encouraged to post a link to your suggestion thread to this thread if you want it indexed here, you're suggestion will otherwise get buried from three to five pages back in less then a day (or more sooner at the rate of suggestion flooding).

Just say'n...

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[L0G!N (DayZ) 149]

While i like the idea of a compiled list, i have a few problems with your list, they are a list of what YOU think is cool or easy, and by the looks of the list some may not be as easy as you think they are. and whether the ideas are 'cool' is entrirely up for grabs... (also fishing is in there twice)

The 'better' way to go about this is also a lot more work, but it would be having polls every 2 weeks or so that have people vote on what they think is a good idea, and then have the winners of each poll mere into another poll that determains the ultimate best ideas based upon a big audience. and then a Mod having these ideas emailed to the Dev.team ... but setting something up like that takes a lot of work, and should likely be persued by a Moderator to make it carry some weight and so that these polls can be stickied and closed etc...

[hoak 27]

While i like the idea of a compiled list, i have a few problems with your list, they are a list of what YOU think is cool or easy...

You've misread the OP, these are only ideas I've found, the title was ad hoc and probably should have been 'Thee Idea Index' or something like that -- but I thought if I was that matter of fact and, it wouldn't be compelling enouhg no one (only two people have as is ) submit any links to add to the list. Since you obviously didn't make the effort the first time around

So then, my aim is to compile a list of concept and feature ideas, that I'll update as people add them. The only requirements I'll make for adding an idea to the list as that:

The only requirements I'll make for adding an idea to the list as that:

(1) The idea be self descriptive and not require an explanation.

(2) You provide a link to the thread or post where you first saw the idea originate.*

The 'better' way to go about this is also a lot more work, but it would be having polls every 2 weeks or so that have people vote on what they think is a good idea...

That's a very BAD idea, the list isn't about anyone's idea of what's good or bad, it's about INDEXING ideas, so threads can be found, and redundant posts are not made. The merits, efficacy, or goodness of a particular idea or suggestion is way beyond the purview of the vast majority on this forum (some can't even make the effort to read the OP they're responding to), and DayZ's Developers have their own idea of what has merit...

No beans for you...

:|

[hoak 27]

Whoops Double post...

:huh:

Edited July 17, 2012 by Hoak

[hoak 27]

Updated 17 July... Feel free to add links to idea threads, having a thread listed here can making finding some things that just won't occur to some people to search for in describing what they want...

:beans:

[☣BioHaze☣ 7337]

Nobody even replied to my thread saying.... make your own sawed off shotgun!

Shotgun, vice, hacksaw, and the ability to pull both triggers at once.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/34807-ability-to-make-sawed-off-double-barrel-and-empty-both-barrels/#entry332498

[hoak 27]

Nobody even replied to my thread saying.... make your own sawed off shotgun!

Shotgun, vice, hacksaw, and the ability to pull both triggers at once.

Yup, the thread spam has reached Force 12 on the Beaufort Scale, so any new post is going to be buried and missed or ignored while someone pens one for 'Jiffy Jetpack Shoes', 'Sharks With Laser Beams' (attached to their heads), and 'Magic Spells'...

Added to the list though, hopefully helps...

:emptycan:

[euryale 72]

sniper lens flare is a terrible idea. This is not battefield 3, where you have flares when you're:

-underground

-at night

-when the sun is behind you

It is terrible is only a feature invented to punish snipers. No beans

[hoak 27]

sniper lens flare is a terrible idea. This is not battefield 3, where you have flares when you're:

-underground

-at night

-when the sun is behind you

It is terrible is only a feature invented to punish snipers. No beans

Again, not what this thread is about, if you don't like the idea, go to the thread where the idea is being discussed and trash it...

The list isn't about anyone's idea of what's good or bad, it's about INDEXING ideas, so threads can be found, and redundant posts are not made. The merits, efficacy, or goodness of a particular idea or suggestion is way beyond the purview of the vast majority on this forum (some can't even make the effort to read the OP they're responding to), and DayZ's Developers have their own idea of what has merit...

It's starting to look like asking people here to even make a half-assed effort at posting accountably in an effort to make their suggestions more accessible to the Developer(s), is... out of the question... Do you folks actually imagine that Rocket & Company has time to read all of this, or if they did that any work would get done on the mod?!

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Edited July 19, 2012 by Hoak

[euryale 72]

you register those ideas as "cool". Most of them aren't "cool", they just suck and / or are created to discourage a certain type of gameplay. So I post here to say it is lame (I only responded about one idea though... And there is no need to go to the thread about lens flare, since it as already been "trashed" by many fellow forum users)

[hoak 27]

you register those ideas as "cool". Most of them aren't "cool", they just suck and / or are created to discourage a certain type of gameplay. So I post here to say it is lame (I only responded about one idea though... And there is no need to go to the thread about lens flare, since it as already been "trashed" by many fellow forum users)

You're obviously not making any effort to read the thread you're responding to, to wit:

While i like the idea of a compiled list, i have a few problems with your list, they are a list of what YOU think is cool or easy...

You've misread the OP, these are only ideas I've found, the title was ad hoc and probably should have been 'Thee Idea Index' or something like that -- but I thought if I was that matter of fact and, it wouldn't be compelling enouhg no one (only two people have as is ) submit any links to add to the list. Since you obviously didn't make the effort the first time around

So then, my aim is to compile a list of concept and feature ideas, that I'll update as people add them. The only requirements I'll make for adding an idea to the list as that:

The only requirements I'll make for adding an idea to the list as that:

(1) The idea be self descriptive and not require an explanation.

(2) You provide a link to the thread or post where you first saw the idea originate.*

The 'better' way to go about this is also a lot more work, but it would be having polls every 2 weeks or so that have people vote on what they think is a good idea...

That's a very BAD idea, the list isn't about anyone's idea of what's good or bad, it's about INDEXING ideas, so threads can be found, and redundant posts are not made. The merits, efficacy, or goodness of a particular idea or suggestion is way beyond the purview of the vast majority on this forum (some can't even make the effort to read the OP they're responding to), and DayZ's Developers have their own idea of what has merit...

No beans for you...

The fault here is more yours then mine, you haven't submitted anything but useless bitching... So no beans for you either...

:rolleyes:

Edited July 19, 2012 by Hoak