Patches

[Sonblade (DayZ) 11]

No, not fixes for the game you silly goose. Shoulder patches that will help identify groups of people. Basic idea (for the current state of the game) is a findable item, say cloth, could be found. Right clicking it will give you a color choice menu for available colors. After choosing a color, you will receive 10 Patches that can be given out to members of your group which will be equipped like camo or ghillie (oh the fun of being launched into the ocean on the first day this is released). The patch itself should be a small bar that should be visable on the shoulder, but small enough that you'd have to actually focus on it to see the color, not just take a quick glance from 20m away and tell what color it is. The colors should be only selected once per server until the group who selected a specific color have been killed off. They should not carry over from server to server to prevent people from going on one server and making a patch of the same color as another group and using it to infiltrate/murder them in a cheap way. This could be remedied by tying it to the server, maybe linking player ID to the item. Of course however, choosing a color similar to another group's should be more than possible. For non-affiliated murderers, they should receive a blood red patch (soaked in the blood of your prey) for getting a certain number of murders, but this could be overwritten with a crafted patch. Also, a dead person's patch should be obtainable so that the person that picked them off would be able to pretend to be a part of the group they were, then have an opportunity rob them while they are none the wiser.

In future iterations such as a stand-alone game, this can be further refined. There are a few kinks that would exist such as joining a group on one server, then dying on another and respawning, then heading back to the server you were on which would technically lead you to having the patch there again (could be prevented by having the Hive telling the server you done died before). Also, a patch on the Ghillie would be hard/impossible to see, and if it was possible, it would ruin the stealth aspect of the suit. Then again, you shouldn't trust someone in a Ghillie unless they're your friend.

[Jenga22 22]

i like the idea about the patches but tbh the coding that would have to go into it would be mad, like the concept lets see what happens :D