Useful information from diaries

[lukeyu2005 19]

After hearing about Rocket seriously considering implementation of dairies here's my 2 cents on that topic.

As well as dairies on dead players how about dairies on generated dead bodies.

For example a dead sniper you find on the roof top of the hospital (these won't be randomly generated but strategically placed but their presence will be random)

reading his dairy you'll find a sad story about how he's alone and all his squad mates are dead and he's the last one alive etc etc.

But it also hints at locations of helicopter crashes or other similar randomly generated stuff (if they are to be implemented) ie randomly generated FOB (forward operations bases) etc.

Adds more depth into the game adds a touching story to some aspects as well as providing useful information.

thoughts and opinons?

[IcyZ 295]

Random generated diaries in non ex player bodies will be a good idea,but would be boring cause it will be hard to add a lot of diferent stories each time!But each player should have his own diary,having a generated touching story as you said,that will have his stats,like "i had to kill 5 guys...i had to..i didnt know witch one was the bandit..i couldnt risk it." something like that,using the players stats to generate a story...but i think that this is too hard to make it :P

[lukeyu2005 19]

Well i think the generic story bit that makes it touching can be easily written.

There is a whole community out there you don't have to be Rocket to get out your keyboard and type up some literature.

And there can be blanks which can be automatically filled in about places of interests like helicopter crashes etc.

[SquirrelGott 4]

I like the diary idea, I was also thinking of this when I first started playing. The death-match aspect of Dayz makes this pointless however, most seem to play just to kill others.