Tracking Humanity

[twix (DayZ) 24]

So I was wondering if humanity could be tracked without having to come into close contact with someone else. The current system with the hero skin can be easily be exploited and doesn't really change anything much and the heartbeat sounds kinda sound meh. Its only recently when I had an hacker experience that this so called hacker teleported to my location and tried to offer me some of his wares that I thought of this idea. Below you can see the negotiation happening with the hacker in the soldier outfit.

I couldn't find out who he was so I thought of finding another server. I left and then I have this screenshot behind my server browser and I thought why not have some sort of camera to take pictures and analyze them as evidence to track humanity. The camera comes with some sort of facial tracking to track players which categorizes the pictures and it would be more obvious that someone with a face rag would definitely have something to hide. A much clearer picture would be generated to deduce the humanity if more evidence could be gathered in the form of taking more pictures and time spent tracking their motives. Alternatively random players can choose to "reveal" their humanity by having their photos taken and the smile on their face tells you a lot of their motives. The smile for a bandit and a survivor varies subtly but when more pictures are taken something about the bandit's smile wouldn't seem very natural.

Please feel free to discuss this idea.

[twix (DayZ) 24]

Gathering evidence initially to work out the humanity would produce a greater chance of error and so it would require players to socialize and get better at their evidence gathering skills.

[nabehobby 13]

i like the idea to have permission from another player to reveal their humanity level.

but except having a camera, it'll be better to have a pop-up screen to show you.

Edited August 24, 2012 by CaptainBingo

[Mos1ey 6301]

Gentlemen...

[gywidion@msn.com 80]

I think making animations such as a twitch, shifty eyes, or clinching hands as body language you can observe would be nice. I do not know how detailed the engine can get but subtle things like that in addition to the heart beat sound makes it more of a social interaction versus clothing which in the standalone can be changed even more. Scoping out a guy with binocs from a distance watching for these signs before going up to them would be nice. The lower/higher humanity you have to more of these things can be observed.