Consequence to PvP by changing food

[lev 39]

I probably need to preface this with I am not anti-PvP, just pro-PvP with higher risks/consequence.

Since others have already posted ways to add consequence to PvP such as roaming zombies, reducing spawns, random spawns, reducing, server hopping, delayed disconnects, more zombies, zombies more alerted to gunfire, etc I won't be addressing those issues.

My primary suggestion is reducing the amount of blood regained from consuming food in cans or meat. It increases the advantage of cooperation and increases the risk of going it solo. Once zombies become more of a threat when a lone wolf or PK-er takes damage it becomes much harder to recover. Besides adding to the realism of depending on mostly med-gear to recover and not magic meat, it also gives greater reason for cooperation.

Possibly turning canned foods down to +50 or so blood and meat to +200 blood. This way if you are out in the woods or constantly eating you can expect to recover over time but not so rapidly that you can fully recover on food alone.

[sgtsnug 26]

I have to disagree with this, it's very easy to make a slip up that can lose you near half your blood in a few seconds, and as it is finding an animal, having a knife, a box of matches, and eating like 8 meat is enough punishment, and eating cans to recover blood is laughable you'd need like 50 of them.

It's fine as it is.

[thebigbobrowski 0]

fine as it is unless you make blood bags more common and spawn outside hospitals more often

[Blaise 1]

I don't think this is a good idea. I think this affects regular players more than it affects bandits.

My solution to bandits is leaving the coast asap and avoiding unknown players and open areas as much as possible.

[tajin 17]

You know... PKs can coop aswell. So this isn't really in any way related to PvP.

I wouldn't mind making the game a bit harder though, but not really by making the blood-regeneration harder (this would lead to more people getting killed while scavenging for bloodbags). Rather by making food harder to come by.

[lev 39]

Yeah, I suppose the ability for bandits to cooperate does counter this idea. But still the ability to regenerate blood via food is too strong which reduces the need for cooperation. I've never obtained a transfusion as I could simply obtain the necessary blood by eating. I've recovered over 4000 blood in about a hour by scavenging for food and coming across animals.

Perhaps as Tajin suggested, the amount of food drops should be reduced or at least reduced in single buildings so that you can't obtain ~400 blood recovery from a single building.

[qla 0]

Most of the so called "pro" bandits already move as a group, so i can't really see this improving anything, just making it harder for starters and lone-wolves.