Game needs more incentive to team up

[madmaxx@madmaxx.info 0]

People do what gives them the most personal gain. Currently, that means shoot first to avoid any risk. While I can understand that some people enjoy this, you have to understand that it takes a whole subclass of possibilities away from the game. There really isnt that much incentive to play together in the first place.

Now, I can only speak for me, but this gets boring over time. After six or so hours with my character it really does get boring and I would love to team up, but I wont, because there is a very high chance that I lose my hours of progress if I try to do so.

Now, instead of making pvp more difficult or add negative consequences too it, why not incentivise teamwork and make the risk actually worthwhile? Currently, there are only two incentives for teamwork: blood transfusions and building vehicles. The last is so difficult that it doesnt happen that much anyway. We need more like this. There must be more things in the game that can only be done with multiple people (or, if done alone, take a long long time). Creating factions for example. Buiding a base and remove zombie spawn from a small area. Making bigger buildings. More items that can only be used together with other people. Infections from drinking bad water or eating bad food that can only be cured by other players. And so on. Some of these things have to be easy to achieve so that people actually think they can directly achieve it by teaming up. This way, you can still play lone wolf if you want, and survive, as long as you are super careful, you can still play bandit, but it now actually makes sense to group up.

This would take away nothing from the current game, and you can still play it as it is now, but it would add new possibilites and new playstyles. And wouldnt fighting be more interesting if it wasnt always 1v1?

[Publik 404]

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5914

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5915

All in the past few hours. We get it. So tired of this thread cropping up.

[Mitritch 4]

And here is my take on reasons of broken player cooperation as well:

http://www.dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5907

[Mairek 0]

Find some friends to play with...feel free to add me on steam: Mairek (The one with the skeleton pirate avatar in red) Me and a buddy team up and are in need of a third. He plays all the time, I mostly play 7pm and after mountain time.

[-LF-Nym 0]

Easy fix. Set Zombie counts in major cities to extremely High. Make Zombie contact in large towns like Cherno unavoidable. This will force players to have to work together to get into larger towns to cash in on whatever the town may hold. Currently in game humans are way more dangerous then zombies. This imbalance causes there to be less coop and more pvp.

Large cities should be something that only groups of people working together should be able to enter. They may have to increase the ammo drop rate but would really need to be tested.