Instant surrender

[craft (DayZ) 51]

Just a thought about how to decrease the number of unwarranted murders: implement a one-button command to drop or unequip your weapon (if any) and raise your hands in a clear surrender gesture.

Doing so makes it clear to other players that you pose no immediate threat, as it still takes a few clicks to pick up/re-equip your weapon and load it. The existing analogue -- lowering your weapon -- is insufficient; you're still holding a gun, after all, and it wouldn't take long to raise it and shoot, so you could still be perceived as a threat.

A surrender gesture does nothing to keep bandits from killing you. It only addresses the problem wherein players who don't necessarily want to PK are no longer forced to kill other players on sight for fear of getting shot themselves. It also provides a few seconds where a voice chat could be initiated,

This solution puts all the power in the bandit's hands, where it already was anyway. It doesn't penalize players for banditry. It just allows a player to easily identify him/herself as a non-threat, and let the chips fall where they may.

Thoughts?

[Fogo 0]

I like the idea..

Makes the victim have the possibility of surving and instead of punishing bandits( has most of the other sugestions do ), it helps them ( they do not need to spend bullets on an unarmed player ).

But the vitim should stay with essencial items ( if they have them ) like 1 bandage , 1 coke and something to eat ..

A good idea in my opinion :D

[Caviano 287]

+53 You got it down pat right here, Only read the first 3 sentences and I'm down. Good shit dude.

[CHOSENMARINE 43]

they would still do it...

[craft (DayZ) 51]

they would still do it...

You mean kill other players? Sure -- players whose intent was to kill other players still would have that option. It just gives players who don't want to kill other players an opportunity to ascertain definitively whether or not another player is a threat.

[Sumdum 29]

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/34786-more-functional-surrender/

[craft (DayZ) 51]

http://dayzmod.com/f...onal-surrender/

Ah -- I didn't find that thread. Thank you. FWIW, in it it says "if everyone was aware of the surrender key..." which is probably the biggest problem. People who don't know about this functionality won't know to look for it. Maybe some publicity could help...

[DeadManWalking (DayZ) 3]

I don tlike to kill other players, i know how much one has to persever to find all that loot, or if that matters, all those little loots. But i will not put down my gun for no one, thats my prerrogative, if you lower yours i will not shoot.

[adamtheheretic 106]

I don tlike to kill other players, i know how much one has to persever to find all that loot, or if that matters, all those little loots. But i will not put down my gun for no one, thats my prerrogative, if you lower yours i will not shoot.

Fair enough, some people can obviously ignore the one "Surrender or I'll shoot", but as it says... I'll shoot.

[andris.orinskis@gmail.com 26]

Thoughts?

If I hear anyone asking me via voice communication if I'm friendly or not - I switch to secondary weapon to show that I'm not going to shoot first. I can't put weapon completely away, as usually these encounters happen in urban areas where zombies are constant threat.

Then I try not to point my weapon in direction of this person.

So not really an issue for me.