Loose humanity, risk insanity (game mechanic)

[DeadManWalking2 27]

I suggest that if your humanity drops below a certain point and you become sick you risk your character going insane as they slowly sucumb to the zombie plague.

symptoms of insanity could include the following

1) seeing zombies that arent there. [your loosing your mind and percieving zombie threats that simply do not exist. bullets go right through and they only dissapear when they take a swipe at you.]

2) seeing players that arent there. [same as above only with a survivour moddel]

3) seeing inanimate objects as top quality weapons [in your insane state you percieve things like sticks to be sub mechine guns both in the game world and in the inventory. sane players will see you wielding these weapons and saying "bang bang"]

4) vision going all wobbly [your mad and cant think straight let alone see or aim]

5) instead of coughing you scream out for no good reason.

cures for insanity.

1) raise your humanity back up again.

2) a 2nd party has pills and administers the cure while you are at FULLhealth.

why do I think this is a good idea?

because it will force players to think twice about going on a player killing spree. keeping your humanity will become just as important as not starving. because who will want to risk going insane?

edit:

it has been suggested that automatically becoming a bandit will be removed from the next version. therefore why not have it so that players who chose to become bandits do not loose hardly any humanity from killing survivors and survivours do not loose any humanity for killing bandits.

Edited August 17, 2012 by DeadManWalking2

[resin_ 97]

While I think a lot of the community ideas are good, most of them revolve around adding RPG-ish aspects which I'm totally against. I think the skins are enough, because they do not inhibit gameplay.

Edited August 17, 2012 by Resin_

[sivart212@aol.com 0]

Has been mentioned before, don't think it would help. Some people would probably want to be crazy

[Fitzkrieg 129]

Exactly, this isn't an RPG-Zombie game. If you want that then wait for WarZ to come out.. that'll be more your style. This is DayZ, where PvP mentality means surviving. I mean, I'm not a dick, I never shoot anyone that has survivor skin or hero, I only shoot at camo, ghilie, and bandit skins. I won't risk my survival to someone trying to hide himself or is obviously a bandit. So listen, You shouldn't punish PvP no matter how much is going on. Plus, the more bandits out there the more targets I have to blast away ;)

[DeadManWalking2 27]

being insane as discribed. with you literally hallucinating zombies and players that arent there would be debilitating and cause you to anounce your presence to real zombies uneccisarrily and avoid loot that is in actuallity unprotected.

only crazy people would want to be crazy.

[thermonuke1@gmail.com 110]

Not the insanity crud again.

*facepalm*

*points at search button*

Im not being rude but you guys need to get past the fact that rocket has designed this to have pvp.

Some will be bandits and some will be prey and thats how he wants it.

Neither side should be punished for their choice.

Edited August 17, 2012 by ThermoNuke

[Frozen (DayZ) 144]

this thread is bad, and op should feel bad. because op just doesnt know application of word insanity. people use this word when they want to describe unusual behavior of minor part of community. since majority of dayz community kill people i can say that people who dont kill are insane.

Edited August 17, 2012 by Frozen

[Senection 6]

damn there are so much stupid ideas here,

for what ? so sorry i have low humanity you are going to be insane.

even the humanity is shit becouse there is no humanity that you can see.

Sure i am a bandit so a big taliban turban is going around of my head.

stupid idea bro

[U.G.N - Jedi Panda 1319]

the game needs to be free for people to play as they wish. open world. free for all.

[Mos1ey 6301]

Exactly, this isn't an RPG-Zombie game. If you want that then wait for WarZ to come out.. that'll be more your style. This is DayZ, where PvP mentality means surviving. I mean, I'm not a dick, I never shoot anyone that has survivor skin or hero, I only shoot at camo, ghilie, and bandit skins. I won't risk my survival to someone trying to hide himself or is obviously a bandit. So listen, You shouldn't punish PvP no matter how much is going on. Plus, the more bandits out there the more targets I have to blast away ;)

But my ghillie suit is just for hiding from bandits! D:

[Fitzkrieg 129]

But my ghillie suit is just for hiding from bandits! D:

Then I recommend not going to any bandit hot spots or shoot at any hero skins ;)

[subvision 14]

I really like the idea. Thats because I would like people not to shoot each other on sight, but maybe play together a little bit. Lets say, to enhance the social aspect of the game.

As it is now, DayZ is an antisocial game for antisocial players.

[Mos1ey 6301]

Then I recommend not going to any bandit hot spots or shoot at any hero skins ;)

Pfft... GPS won't find itself.

Well it kind of will, but that isn't the point...

I don't shoot heroes anyway.

[liquidcactus 719]

nope

[DeadManWalking2 27]

I really like the idea. Thats because I would like people not to shoot each other on sight, but maybe play together a little bit. Lets say, to enhance the social aspect of the game.

As it is now, DayZ is an antisocial game for antisocial players.

That's what I thought the system up to achieve and what I believe the bandits system was meant to accomplish.