Pick Your Spawn By Region/Town

[-CARNIFEX- 8]

First off, this had probably been discussed ad nauseum, long before I learned of DayZ or joined the forums. I get that. I just wanted to offer my opinion on the matter of spawning survivors...

I don't mind not having an immediate respawn feature. And I don't mind not being able to instantly spawn on friends.

But I feel that there is a better way than everyone simply washing ashore like driftwood. That particular scenario, played out again and again, for every single survivor, seems a little far-fetched even in a Zombie apocalypse scenario. I would suggest the following...

If starting survivors had some way to pick the town region - not necesarily the town proper - that they spawn in (and this would be the more significant towns, up to and including Zeleno, Stary, and Berezino...), then it would make it somewhat easier to meet up with friends, while still not making the game much (any?) easier for survivors. To me, it seems more likely that there would be a few survivors from each town, rather than every survivor somehow sprouting forth on the beach. It would likely increase activity in the northern reaches of the map (all you entrenched snipers would love fresh meat, right?), while making the coastal areas a little less noob-filled.

Some will still choose to go the southern coast route, because it is familiar and they know how to successfully raid Elektro/Cherno (which should, in theory, have a little less PvP going on in this scenario). Others will check out the northern reaches that they may or may not have seen before, perhaps having a better chance at finding military loot, but less access to abundant medical and general loot...

In the end, though, I think the ability to spawn a little bit closer to where you want to be (or where your friends are at) would make this mod / future best-selling game simply more appealing to a lot of folks - I have several friends whose biggest problem with (buying) DayZ is that it will, at times, take potentially an hour or more to meet up in-game...they would basically buy it in an instant if they thought it would be easier to unite when playing. While the potential difficulty of doing just that has made death "mean something" in DayZ, I think that cutting that travel time down for freshly-spawned survivors who want to meet up with friends would improve the player experience without too much compromising of the challenge or "feel" of a lonely zombie apocalypse simulator.

[xxsheepdoggxx 6]

The HARDER it is the more apealing it is to its nitch.... therefore i will keep my beans

[doom4mr 135]

noooo no this again!!! :(

use Search!!!! before you post!!

and its not matter how will you present this suggestion and even if you try to hide the main idea of it: select respawn point

its will never happen...

you spawn randomly! on the beach.

[-CARNIFEX- 8]

noooo no this again!!! :(

use Search!!!! before you post!!

and its not matter how will you present this suggestion and even if you try to hide the main idea of it: select respawn point

its will never happen...

Do a generic search for "respawn" related threads, at the moment, and you get page after page of threads regarding reinstating the respawn feature that was just removed. A google search yields a bunch of dead threads from before June. Sorry for "hiding" the main idea of the suggestion by trying to explain it more fully.

If you want a game to eventually be a standalone product, no matter how niche some of the playerbase want it to stay, it has to have some mass-market appeal. Not necessarily trying to be huge, but enough interest to garner a full-on release. Having you spawn outside of the beach is not the craziest of ideas, and I don't really see how it makes the game difficulty change all that much, especially for truly new players. And it makes the game slightly more appealing to players who are debating whether or not they should buy it. Alpha would be the time to experiment with this sort of thing.

Just an opinion.

Edited July 29, 2012 by -CARNIFEX-

[Cvm 13]

Although you do randomly spawn on the beach, it seems that you only spawn on the southern coast. I would like to see random spawn points added up to the east coast. That being said, you should never be able to influence your spawn point.

[Robolord 11]

noooo no this again!!! :(

use Search!!!! before you post!!

and its not matter how will you present this suggestion and even if you try to hide the main idea of it: select respawn point

its will never happen...

you spawn randomly! on the beach.

No offense, but Rocket did said he was planning on making a more easier spawn system...