Whats wrong with this world, seriously

[LackofCertainty 2]

So, I started playing a few days ago and I thought I'd give my experience as a fellow bullet sponge. The numbers for my DayZ playing so far stand at 5:9:3.

5 people who were friendly/helped me/partied with me for a bit.

9 people who shot me on sight (actually 8 people who shot me, and 1 who missed and learned that if you don't hit with the first enfield round you're not going to get to shoot a 2nd. :P)

3 people who didn't respond when I asked "friendly?" while hidden, so I just stealthed away.

So far, my first response when I spot a player is, "Oh S***!" but I don't think I'd say that reflects horribly on the world. Clicking a button to make someone start over is a lot different than pulling a trigger and watching the life go out of someone's eyes.

Sure, in the zombie apocalypse you'll have some folk who like wearing human skin as clothes, but I figure you'd see normal communities cropping up too.

(and yes, I realize you were joking, but I like giving the honest response to a joke :P)

[Firenzey 0]

I started about a week ago and my experience has been no better I have now adopted the shoot first ask later mentality because there just doesnt seem to be any other way to survive and keep whats yours. My first day i wandered into elektro and got butcherd for no reason the guy acctually chased me through the streets with a makrov for no damn reason at all. Then i got wiser as i approched places in cherno or elektro I started saying and typing in direct "Friendly near X spot I am newly spawned and am not looking to fight noone ever responded but I was shot at least five diffrent occasions and I just dont understand this mentality I have nothing to offer by being killed its just selfish behavior and it is messing with the enjoyment of the game because i want to meet survivors and make friends but how can I when I feel like every single person i meet is flipin hostile.....

[captainwaffles 41]

Well another whining thread dont just run up to people thinking oh I helped you youre friendly se what they do talk in direct comm and hide to see if they might be friendly dont xo it to me though I will shoot you right when your in sight

[Serious Stan 202]

Cant judge anything when you dont know anyone. for all i know your this dickhead kid who deserves to be shot.

[Mad_Saulot 1]

My ideas for making cooperation more likely:

1- make the zeds more of a threat, at the moment they only spawn around loot, make it so they can spawn anywhere, make certain zombies harder depending on their skin, possibly give certain zeds the ability to call other zeds (imagine a priest zed who just stands there screaming at you and all the other zeds in earshot rush you), make it so certain zeds can track you for an unlimited distance once they have your scent (imagine a hunter zed that tracks you half way across the map), make it so that players who are killed by zeds come back as 'survivor zeds' who are harder and can use weapons (imagine your buddy is overwhelmed across town, by the time you reach him he has already turned and is peppering you wildly with his uzi) .

2- make the inventory smaller, the amount of loot a player can carry bythemselves is prodigious, make it so you can only carry say 3 tools, maybe make more loot items double or triple slots, the amount of fluids a character can carry is just silly, no-one can carry that much water. make it so you start with the smallest carry pack, I think there is a pack ingame that is smaller than your starting pack making it a pointless loot item.

3- reward humanity, I think at the moment people with high humanity can run faster, which is cool, but maybe add more incentives, like a reduced chance of suffering negative status effects, blood regeneration, quieter/less visible, remove their dot from other players screens, likewise change the dot of bandits to a red dot that can be seen from further away, or possibly increase the rate at which they need to eat and drink (I see this as a slow decline towards zombism as they become less humane)

4- make military zeds too tough to take out alone, this will reduce the number of military weapons in the game, there is something pure about restricting yourself to civilian weapons, I dont trust anyone with a military weapon and will shoot on sight.

5- finally, and most importantly, make it possible to holster/shoulder your weapon, even in an apocalypse you wouldnt have your weapon in your hand all the time, me and a bunch of mates had a picnic around a campfire, because we were all armed and holding big guns in our hands at all times it looked like a scene from reservoir dogs. I'd be less inclined to shoot a stranger if they werent pointing their gun at me whenever they looked at me.

[Raventhorn 43]

Well another whining thread dont just run up to people thinking oh I helped you youre friendly se what they do talk in direct comm and hide to see if they might be friendly dont xo it to me though I will shoot you right when your in sight

Too much time on you hands?

Just wondering since you actually found a thread that was last uppdated 25 June 2012 - 07:22 AM, and then you whine about the thread beeing whiny?

Bumping a thread because it`s to whiny? Looking for threads too whine about? Whining about someone whining? There are so many questions here. Hehe. Oh, and the irony....

Could not keep myself from asking, found this kinda funny :)

Cheers.