The Bandit Dilemma: An Inner Look at the Economics and Psychology of Banditry

[Komotez 29]

Honestly there's only two reasons why I became a bandit.

1) I don't know anyone else personally who plays this game and everyone I meet shoots me in the back, so teaming up doesn't work.

2) Just surviving by myself isn't too difficult once you get basic supplies. Having good equipment becomes pointless at this point and the game loses replay value.

To remedy the second one, I decided to take on more interesting prey to increase the challenge and make the game more fun again. Course, I don't ever shoot people who are unarmed or people on the coast, just people going to military camps or towns that are deep inland.

If I get killed then that simply means I got bested (unless it was a hacker) and wouldn't really mind having to collect all my survival stuff again. It's just a game and this is what makes it enjoyable, the thrill of thinking that you're always being watched. That every field you cross could have a sniper just waiting to blow a nice hole through your head and every town you crawl into could have a full team of assault rifle weilding bandits just waiting for you to come in the door.

That's where the excitement comes from, if you ask me. The zombies, by themselves, become boring after awhile.

Enjoying the game properly and not bitching about dying. You are doing it right

You sir, have my beans

Edited July 26, 2012 by Komotez

[j_riddell@live.com 32]

Very true, Junos. In a "real apocalypse" people would help each other. I mean, what did the imprisoned to in the death camps? Why didn't they simply try to kill each other for the leftovers? That's right! Charity makes it much easier to survive with an external threat. In the death camps, the Nazis were the external threat. In DayZ, the zombies are. Also cooperation makes it much safer to survive in real life, rather than if you piss everyone else off by killing somebody.

First of all, trying to compare something to a real zombie apocolypse is silly. It will not ever happen. Secondly, comparing it to WW2 death camps is a bad analogy. I'm not going to get in to why, it seems pretty obvious. It's a completely different situation. Don't be so sure about your claims. It's nice and all that you would probably help people in a real zombie apocolypse. But the "people would help each other" statement is not correct. I can tell you with certaintly that I would be very unlikely to help a single person who wasn't a family member or close friend. In a survival situation, myself, my family, and my friends come first. End of story. I'll do everything I can to ensure that's how it goes.

I'm not one of those people that supposedly has no faith in humanity, but that's just how I feel.