My thoughts after 2 months of play

[Strategos (DayZ) 190]

Well im def old school :) I've been gaming since, well since there were games. And while I appreciate structured games I find sandbox experiences where you see emergent behaviour much more rewarding.

When i see videos of trading posts, medics rescuing people, bandits kidnapping people, people setting up taxi services i think it's brilliant.

I only get bored if I get precious about my gear and stop doing anything. If you get back into it and start taking risks it becomes rewarding again and that is when Dayz really shines. And when I die I try and do something different before I get geared up again, helping noobs in Cherno or something and I find the game really interesting again, even if I die a few times :)

I think the direction is right and when Rocket adds some more options it will become more so. Better base building would be interesting, in my suggestions list below there is a great thread on Generators and powerstations, although i think whole power stations are a bit OTT I like the principal. Also as discussed above harder more rewarding survival will make day to day play more interesting.

[The2ndLink 156]

"1) Kit Inflation is really hurting the game."

This. Way too much duped/hacked gear around.

[STimroth 7]

yeah, I been reading posts by rocket, someone has them all in one post. I get the point. The world is what we make it. With that premise, we sure do have alot of assholes out there. lol. I admit I get irriated being potshotted by everyone. Usually not even hitting me until a hail of bullets are aimed at me. I don't use the in game voice much, my brother does, and most of the time the answer is bullets. So alteast I get discouraged playing a game with so much anmosity. Trying to find a good server is proving challenging. If its not the wrong version, its been hacked or is being hacked. Or the admin is so uptight they throw you out for anything, or they aren't there at all, or they close down their server at certain times of the day. It does boiled down the community that is in the games. We got all kinds in here. It is alpha and it does have a ways to go. I do have the old habit of trying to hold on to gear. Its just old game training. I tell ya, I was fed up with the game last night, I'll give your train of thought a go.

trading posts huh, crazy. bandit kidnappings, I always get shot first. taxi, not bad, but dangerous too. Maybe I'm just on the wrong servers.

[Moonwalker 7]

1. Totally agree.

2. You are kind of right.But there must be atleast couple of deep woods where you can set up your camp.Me personally would like to see more different terrain/landscape such as caves,rivers,underground canals/sewers, I mean how cool is that when you find a underground sewer and set a up a camp there, its all dark and about 20km long , you set up a fire and stuff.And more unique places.

[Trickster (DayZ) 10]

I've just edited this map to show you guys what I mean regarding size. It's not the most ideal looking map, but it's one of the only ones that can really show you the actual size of what we're playing on.

Roughly speaking, this is what should be cut out to fix issue #2.

EDIT: For some reason I don't seem to be able to actually have the image viewable in the thread, so you'll have to click the link.

Edited August 6, 2012 by Trickster