Vehicles restrictions suggestion

[n69ky 0]

Hi there, I'm new here

I searched for 'vehicle' in the forums and scanned all for possible 'same suggestions'. Didn't find one.

So everyone knows, you don't find vehicles just on your way when strolling from one village to another.

Thats because some guys are already hoarding them at a/mulitiple specific location(s).

My suggestion:

1. restrict the vehicle save to 1 vehicle per person (on the masterserver not just on the gameserver). (PLUS one helicopter)

2. don't allow saving vehicles to close to each other. minimum distance of x meters. (gameserver)

3. if two vehicles are saved next to each other, remove one of them (random pick) and respawn it at their original spawn location.

4. (I AM AGAINST THIS:) display a message, that you can't save a vehicle 'on this location' because it's to close to another one (against it because: obviously when you try to save a vehicle unknowingly in the radius of the other vehicle, you'll be notified that there is another vehicle in a radius of x meters and could be exploited)

5. display a message, that you're about to save new vehicle and that the previous one will be RESPAWNED instantly. (not sure, if you can display a message, before actually doing something)

5.1. [i don't know how the saving of vehicles works, when exactly it is cancled (if someone drives it? if someone take a seat in it?)]

5.2. do always show the message, even if the previous vehicle was 'stolen' (the point: the person saving a vehicle doesn't know that his other vehicle was taken.)

6. add a chance of 0.01% to 0.1%, that a random vehicle type spawns at a random vehicle-spawn-location without the original one disappearing, chance of a vehicle spawning: every 3, 6, 12 or 24 hours. with a limit

7. asset stripping of burnt out car wrecks/crashed helicopters: add a very rare tool to strip assets

just like 'gut animal' he starts 'digging' for parts. one out of 100 cars should have a functioning wheel or something.

8. add a very rare tool to FLIP vehicles.

9. ability to shoot out of vehicles (not the driver tho).

10. ability to get branches in forests with the hunting knife/hatchet.

11. ability to 'hide' your vehicle with branches. (a bus should need obvously more branches than a motorcycle)

11.0. at this point i'd like to suggest the ability to hide tents with branches.

11.1. the 'hidden' vehicles are still visible but only if you're in a specific radius of it.

12. we need a *CANDY* van type of vehicle. lol

The point of this suggestion is, there may be people out there not beeing able to play dayZ for 4 hours per day and they never have/will seen/see a drivable vehicle. Also this makes the person finding vehicles to choose between them for the better one. (changes with the purpose/playing style). With the chance that there are more than the finite ammount of vehicles, you have also a higher chance of finding a vehicle. Players need to group up to save multiple vehicles and they need more teamwork to hoard them. The possibility of random spawning vehicles every 3, 6, 12 or 24 hours would attract 'new' players to 'old' servers.

IF there are suggestions already suggested or even already ingame, I'd not know because I never had more than ONE vehicle at the time and never saw multiple vehicles in one location.

Feel free to discuss.

n69 out.

Edited July 26, 2012 by n69ky

[snafuu (DayZ) 30]

Obviously it's not fun having vehicles work the way they do now, but I don't have any suggestions as to what should be done to avoid farming and hoarding them. The only pro at all is that somewhere, there's a big pile of dreams to ruin, but half of the time messing with a vehicle horde will just get you kicked by an admin anyway.

Seriously, even the people hoarding vehicles don't have fun because of it. It's something you do because it's a goal and because you feel that doing so gives you more control. It's the natural thing for any committed group of people to aim for, but it's not enjoyable.

[Zetal 90]

250 meters is a very long distance. This seems to directly punish teamplay.

[n69ky 0]

Obviously it's not fun having vehicles work the way they do now, but I don't have any suggestions as to what should be done to avoid farming and hoarding them. The only pro at all is that somewhere, there's a big pile of dreams to ruin, but half of the time messing with a vehicle horde will just get you kicked by an admin anyway.

Seriously, even the people hoarding vehicles don't have fun because of it. It's something you do because it's a goal and because you feel that doing so gives you more control. It's the natural thing for any committed group of people to aim for, but it's not enjoyable.

I know :( I'd suggest 'spawn more vehicles' only ... but the servers will be flooded with vehicles and in the end they are not as rare as they should be anymore.

250 meters is a very long distance. This seems to directly punish teamplay.

yeah i just put a random number in, sorry

Ima edit it to x meters ;P

Edited July 26, 2012 by n69ky