Bowel Evacuation

[Macnme 0]

Did a search, but couldn't find this previously suggested.

Very simple idea - a bladder/bowel meter.

As you drink, it fills up a bladder meter, once it fills up so much, you will need to go for a pee, this will make you vulnurable for a few seconds. Same with you bowels, as you eat the bowel meter fills, once it is so full, you will need to take a poo.

Pooing and peeing both cause a smell that nearby zombies will investigate.

Not going to the toilet for a while will cause iron-sight shake until you relieve yourself.

also, if you don't go to the toilet for a long period, then you will eventually shit/piss yourself...making you stink to high heaven, greatly increasing zombies detection of you (as they have keen sense of smell).

Also, if you fall unconscious with a full bladder/bowel, you will also shit/piss yourself.

a shovel could be used to dig a latrine to help cover the smell.

imagine the indignity of a bandit gunning you down, and then taking a dump on your corpse.

what do you guys think?

do-able?

[ZomboWTF 527]

i think rocket once stated he would be against this type of ultra-realism, but i am too lazy to search for it...

[Deviant (DayZ) 43]

If you searched "peeing" you will find over 9000 threads.

[krtshv 362]

This serves no purpose.

[norreka 45]

i love that idea :) Waiting for the first time finding a sniper at the airfield - sneeking from behind - peeing and waiting till he notices :D

[Macnme 0]

"Everybody Poops", or so the saying goes. It's the great levelled.

it would mean that everyone would have that moment of extreme vulnerability...when they desperately need to go to the toilet - with smell increasing the chance of zombies roaming towards you.

It could also be triggered by a sudden ambush.... You get so frightened that you literally shit yourself.

You could wash off the smell by taking a swim.

[Hugues (DayZ) 38]

I don't like this idea. Realism is good, but this goes too far.

[Macnme 0]

You have base needs of hunger and thirst... The obvious consequence of this would be the need to evacuate your bowels/bladder.

It would prevent people from drinking or eating without need, as this would fill up their bladder/bowel meter quicker.

[krtshv 362]

You could wash off the smell by taking a swim.

You... haven't been playing DayZ for long, have you...?

Edited July 21, 2012 by krtshv

[sheepdog 7]

Why do people have stupid suggestions like this? Must be the age of some of these people. While were at it, how about we have just your character stop to sleep, he cant move for 5 hours. As well, since most people are lazy slobs, lets have it so after 2 minutes of running you have to walk for 5 hours with the gun on your back because your arms are tired of carrying it.

Edited July 21, 2012 by Infidel86

[Macnme 0]

You... haven't been playing DayZ for long, have you...?

Bout 2 weeks or so... The while idea behind the toilet system is to make you even more vulnerable to all types of attack... Be that zombies or bandits.

right now, water doesn't really serve a purpose.

if they were to add the ability to fill a water canister or drink from a lake or pool of water, then you could unknowingly be drinking contaminated water (that someone has just washed themselves in), possibly giving you a disease.

[krtshv 362]

if they were to add the ability to fill a water canister or drink from a lake or pool of water

You mean, like we've been able to do since several months now?

Still, the whole toilet thing is a bad idea. Too much realism ruins the fun.

Soon you'll start suggesting we go to sleep, take showers and get haircuts.

[Macnme 0]

No, those ideas are your own.

The pee meter would fill roughly 3 times per day, the poo meter about once per day.

I don't think having to stop for a minute 3 or 4 times in a 24hour period would be so unbearable?

[krtshv 362]

No, those ideas are your own.

The pee meter would fill roughly 3 times per day, the poo meter about once per day.

I don't think having to stop for a minute 3 or 4 times in a 24hour period would be so unbearable?

But it serves no purpose whatsoever.

There is no need to add coding to pissin' and shittin' when there are better additions to put in and much more important bugs to fix.

No one said it's unbearable, just that it's pointless.

[Sentaru 1]

might aswell drop it, rocket have stated that he will not add toilet needs to the game, he also mentioned that he will not be adding the need to satisfy ones libedo

[krtshv 362]

might aswell drop it, rocket have stated that he will not add toilet needs to the game, he also mentioned that he will not be adding the need to satisfy ones libedo

Are you saying that tea bagging dead female characters is all I'll have to live with?

[Macnme 0]

Zombies can smell your excretions... If you were to soil yourself (be that through losing conscioisness, becoming alarmed while the bladder meter is full, or through ignoring your bodily functions) you would be a lot more detectable by zombies (no more crawling around with impugnity). It would also increase the danger for groups of survivors, as the more human effluent in an area, the more zombies would be drawn to the smell.

then there's the disease aspect (drinking someone else's wash water).

I don't agree at all that it would "serve no purpose". It would create more random 'story' moments and add an element of strategy to the food/water system.

[TheBadger (DayZ) 67]

random 'story' moments

Tell me, have you ever told a story where shitting your trousers was such a critical plot point that you had to leave it in?

[Macnme 0]

Tell me, have you ever told a story where shitting your trousers was such a critical plot point that you had to leave it in?

no, but it would be a hilarious punctuation :)

[TheBadger (DayZ) 67]

no, but it would be a hilarious punctuation :)

And so there I was, the hero of electro, standing tall upon the school building-- praised and loved by all for my humanitarian efforts to unite the survivors-- when a gun crack in the distance caused me to immediately soil myself in front of my onlookers. Thousands of zombies came to satisfy their curiosity of foul butt odor and for the first night... Electro was silent. ...But deadly.

[Macnme 0]

See, I think that would be brilliant to see in game.

thing is, You would only soil yourself were you to fall unconscious or take fright when the bladder/bowel meters were full (flashing red)... So you would be fully aware that you were 'touching cloth'. But you would only have the option to empty the meter once it goes yellow.

tweak the salute animation for pissing (hand goes to crotch instead of head), and tweak the sitting animation for shitting (female characters also use this animation for pissing also).

I think it would be a great game mechanic.

[drseptapus 49]

I like to poop.

[Macnme 0]

Also, things like baked beans would fill your bowel meter faster than eating fresh cooked meat...so, as long as you watch your diet...you could limit the impact of the bowel meter to a minimum (once every 48/72 hours eg)