Real Houses That Can Be Defended

[williamecraver@gmail.com 3]

As of now DayZ has most of the components of a real zombie apocalypse. There is a need for food, water, weapons, but there is no "shelter". Yes there are tents and houses one can go in, but there is no way to really protect oneself in a building or tent. I understand that there is a rumor going around that a new map for DayZ will come out at some point which will have larger cities and more cities. I'm not sure if this is true but I do believe that having cities is a good idea, with one important factor. The cities need to have actual "sky scrapers" or at least buildings with more than one floor which is enterable. I say this because then the game is not so much running in forests for hours as it is sneaking through buildings and killing zombies and enemy players. Having buildings like this also allows for safety in places other than a remote woods.

One idea I have is simply to add "locks" for doors so that one could lock off all the entrances to a part of a building and keep themselves safe. Only the player who placed the lock could open the door. To stop people from just blocking every single doorway (similarly to what occurs with barbed wire) I have two ideas of how to combat it. One, is simple to not allow some doors to be locked. Have main doors to large buildings not be able to be locked but separate floors and adjacent rooms as well as small buildings would be lockable. The second idea is to make the locks disappear when the player dies and also to only stay on one server. Also players could find planks of wood to board up windows in their home or to span gaps to make walkways inside or between buildings. All of this would give the ability to create a compound or home for oneself or a group. I think that this will interest more players and give them something else to work for other than getting guns and a possible car. I believe that this would make the game a lot more fun and feel more realistic, because as I said before, there is no real shelter yet in DayZ, but I think this would be a good way to create it.