Homemade Ghillie Suits

[Brusann 67]

Homemade Ghillie suit kits are available in real life, and members of the US military(and I'm sure other militaries as well but I cannot confirm this) make their own ghillie suits with the plant-life in the area they're supposed to be infiltrating. So my idea is this:

Players can find fishing nets in marinas, random places near the ocean, and/or in every fishing boat's loot(because they're pretty rare to find in the first place). They can then find some glue(in a market or residential area), fishing line(in the same areas as the nets), strings(in a market, would work the same as fishing line but maybe have less durability), and then have to search the wilderness in dayZ to find specific plants. If you want to be camo'ed in a woodland area, then you must find the specific woodland variety of ghillie suit materials. If you want to blend with the wheat fields, you have to find like-colored plants. Once you find the required materials, (which would be many more than one of the plants) you can combine them to create your ghillie suit. Now these wouldn't be as durable as the ones professionally made out of synthetics(I'm making this up, the new lore would have to be the pre-assembled ones are synthetic) so they would deteriorate over time. Say, maybe after 24 hours of game time.(debatable)

I just feel as though this could add to the game slightly, feel free to let me know whether you agree or disagree with the idea, or just don't see a need for it. I welcome all opinions :) Thanks for reading!

TL;DR - Players should be able to make ghillie suits out of slightly rare materials they find around Chernarus.

[Disgraced 1123]

A lot of these "make stuff" ideas are good. This is one of the best.

It would be very fun to play a game with just... I don't know... Tons of crap, right? Sure, there are some whole guns, but also broken ones and you can salvage parts or make improvised ones... Cleaning kits and all that crap.

But the item inventory would be insane and only .000001% of the population would be disturbed enough to actually enjoy it.

(fallout 3 had a bit of this, but not enough in my estimation)

[Brusann 67]

The inventory would be a bit of an unforseen issue, maybe the plants could stack? Or maybe it would just be a sacrifice you'd have to make - to carry less gear in order to get the valuable suit made.

[ninjaholic 116]

I think any bush should be available to harvest leaves from, and change wookie camo to different colours. Also, I wouldn't allow leaves in inventory, not realistic. You should only be able to change camo at the bush you're getting the leaves from.

Edited July 27, 2012 by ninjaholic

[Disgraced 1123]

Burlap sacks. Could also be used for sandbags, right?

[3rdparty 229]

But the item inventory would be insane and only .000001% of the population would be disturbed enough to actually enjoy it.

Not quite sure what ye mean about only a small % enjoying it? The item inventory would be insane, but i think id be mooost displeased if it wasnt.

[Brusann 67]

I wouldn't allow leaves in inventory, not realistic. You should only be able to change camo at the bush you're getting the leaves from.

Good idea, maybe you go to a bush when you have your glue and string/net and scroll wheel and click "add woodland leaves" or "add (insert other leaves here)" and it adds it to your ghillie suit, which is then x% complete. Say you add one bush, 10% complete.(debatable) However I don't know if it should be every bush unless the nets or something were more rare, however the rarity would be more of a developer thing.

[G Force 105]

and members of the US military(and I'm sure other militaries as well but I cannot confirm this) make their own ghillie suits with the plant-life in the area they're supposed to be infiltrating

Yes, not only US. Just for info. Russian snipers. Handmaded ghillies, some of them upgraded from stock.

[GexAlmighty 54]

yeah for the sake of realism you would have to be able to take the leaves from pretty much any living bush, just make it so the glue and netting is about 2/3 as rare as the guilli itself each

[Brusann 67]

yeah for the sake of realism you would have to be able to take the leaves from pretty much any living bush, just make it so the glue and netting is about 2/3 as rare as the guilli itself each

I think that's a great idea