Humanity skins are useless

[Jepix 20]

Humanity skins (hero & bandit) are in 99% of the times useless. All you see in big cities are fresh-spawns that have no skins yet, so you can still get shot easily. If they just as poke their heads around the corner while you try and evaluate what he is, he can just shoot you. If you have no idea that a dude was on the top floor of the house and u just cake-walk up there, he can just shoot you. If you're running around the edges of a city, a sniper can just shoot you. So what's the point of bandit skins exactly when 75% of the time people you see are fresh-spawns and can be bandits for all you know and 25% of the people are snipers far far away (so skins are completely useless)?

Personally i'd say, get pve & pvp servers, on pve server you get severe reprecussions if you murder someone, after 3 murders you get shown on the map and after 5 murder you can see his red highlighted posture in the gameworld so that heros can outhunt these mofos. On pvp servers, it's all about killing and they can do their business without bothering us.

[CerebralZombie (DayZ) 151]

I fully agree, and do not care for them what so ever...

Even players that get enough kills to have the bandit rags aren't exactly bandits.

[epeenoire 82]

I disagree with anything that you posted. Just don't stay too long in spawn-areas, move towards north.

And the idea of PvE and PvP is just ridiculous.

Edited August 19, 2012 by EpeeNoire

[twitch13 49]

the system is shit, but so is your solution

[~Ghost~ 0]

Might as well just take out zombies, and guns, and just give everyone beanz, and we can all sit around a campfire.

[Mos1ey 6301]

The skins aren't meant to be used as a way to know if someone is friendly or not... It just gives you a rough idea. And humanity doesn't reset when you die, a new spawn could spawn with a bandit skin.

You should still use extreme caution when approaching survivors, if someone has a hero skin there's a good chance you can trust them, but shoot bandits on sight.

[bazbake 456]

Bandit skins...working perfectly.

[dallas 5195]

Never only rely on a skin, always rely on solid cover.

[Jepix 20]

i literally get -13000 humanity somethimes when i log in and it stays there until i get shot and die, wtf they rly should fix this bug cuz ppl just KOS even more on us now since of the bandit rags on my head instead of a nice baseball cap

[gair22 3]

If the database identifies people by id / cd-key, then the easiest solution is simply to replicate their humanity to the fresh spawn. That would probably upset people who want a fresh start, or get bugged humanity (which shouldn't really be considered, since they should be fixing a bug like that anyway).

[ZekkCC (DayZ) 51]

Broke humanity is humanity.