Idea about... using time as your friend

[kagami 0]

I was reading some other threads and come up with idea tell me is it any good.

So we have Compas for directions, matches/wood for fire, hunting knife to gut animal, toolbox for fences/sandbox, map for obvious use.

But what about watch/timer/clock? it seems there is no really useful use for it, and dont tell me "you will know when night will come"... i just look on sun, and after all, this knowledge doesn't give you anything really useful.

So how about this: make so called "Rush hours" only in biggest cities (cherno/electro/berezino) in regular time holes for example from 9:00 to 12:00, 15:00-18:00, 21:00-0:00 etc. a masive amount of blind zombies appears (why blind? just a sec and you will see logic) it would be so many that firing single bullet in cherno in that time would be death sentence or total waste of bullets. those guys cannot see cuz they are hiding indoors for most most day occasionally coming out to "hunt" (remember I am legend?) it would reward everyone who sneaks, cuz prone doesn't make noise you could still get away, splinter cell style. As for balance, in "normal hours" there would be less zombies but normal ones (they can see you)

It would also somehow resolved happy trigger ppl problem which lately is more and more visible, and of course watch, now useless would become one of the best things to have.

And even if you dont have watch on you, you can still hear clock tower bells, if you are near town, so you can still point what hour is it.

If you want to pvp, steal shit, kill ppl, no problem, if you are more of a sneaky dont want to be seen guy, no problem.

All of this would add another interesting use of ingame mechanics, and a lot of immersion. Just imagine following situation:

Walking with a bro in some market, looting in cherno, friend nervously ask what time is is, you respond "hury up man its only 3 minutes left" he is sloppy and then from clock tower bell sound... both of you are friezed from fear when sound of zombies appears allover the place, a bandit comes into shop looking for shelter... you point at him, he points at you... you both dont shoot cuz you know this will mean death of both of you.

So what do you guys think? or maybe propose some other use for "time" or modification of this idea.

[Guest ragequitalready]

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Edited October 25, 2012 by ragequitalready

[Eiskrem-Kaiser 54]

What Doktor said.

However, I agree, that the watch is more or less usless right now. Imho it could be dropped completely. Still, I wouldn't want to force some use on it by adding rush hours...

[kagami 0]

I see... well, force... hmmm, I dunno DayZ trivia... i mean is there some scraps of plot how this mess happened? cuz i have another thing, well it again might seem forced but i would just love to have this soul on shoulder feeling while watching on my clock.

So how about.... Nuclear strike? on cherno exactly at noon everyday...

And i know what r u guys thinking... wtf is he thinking?

Assuming there would be some story to it, perhaps military stations are still functional somewhere, and so they are doing what every government would do in this situation, especially when zombies are multiplying (lolz zombiez respawned) somehow. It would create sooo much awesome histories and situations.

But yeah... kinda sucks... its still not fitted for alpha....

Lets brainstorm something I would really love some use for watch... This is suggestions/ideas after all.

[TeaLeaf 5]

Why is it a problem that the watch isn't useful? It's a watch...

[kagami 0]

Why is it a problem that the watch isn't useful? It's a watch...

Cuz as for now DayZ is using arma base items to make some use from them creating something called features, everytime something new is added to game it creates stories, interesting game play mechanics, variety, and after all this is a sugestions/idea place, so instead discarding something straight away try to thing for some creative/interesting use for it.