Churches & Repentance

[heliman (DayZ) 26]

Part of the humanity system should incorporate repentance whereby bandits would need to go a nearby church to ask for forgiveness if they are willing to have their humanity reduced. Bandits who have accepted this path of forgiveness would wear a cross. However those who don't seek repentance would eventually be stained with the blood of their crimes for the rest of their lives. This would be in the form of having to justify their killings with a trophy from their victims and having to carry it with them for the rest of their journey to remind them constantly of their past actions. Not obtaining a trophy from their victim would lead to anguish eventually having the character kill himself without consent. What you guys think of this idea?

[apache25 133]

go and pray stupid idiot not everybody would beileve in god you know and anyway the priest is a zombie............................. maybe you should try being an atheist its fun you need to take a break from fire brimestone and eternal damnation brother

[user warned. -Max]

Edited September 17, 2012 by Max Planck
No need for that

[terex 322]

What do churches represent? Personally nothing for me. I can reflect upon myself in the woods better then in a church.

go and pray stupid idiot not everybody would beileve in god you know and anyway the priest is a zombie............................. maybe you should try being an atheist its fun you need to take a break from fire brimestone and eternal damnation brother

You are just wrong and a fail troll on so many levels.

Edited September 17, 2012 by terrex

[apache25 133]

who says i was trying to be a troll? im serious this guy needs to get away from churches they are seriously affecting his mental health. if someone wants to pray they can do it anyway by just saying prayers over their mic

[terex 322]

who says i was trying to be a troll? im serious this guy needs to get away from churches they are seriously affecting his mental health. if someone wants to pray they can do it anyway by just saying prayers over their mic

You're no better then the over religious people telling everyone else their life style is wrong. Educate yourself too.

[heliman (DayZ) 26]

who says i was trying to be a troll? im serious this guy needs to get away from churches they are seriously affecting his mental health. if someone wants to pray they can do it anyway by just saying prayers over their mic

Well the animation already exists in the game when you eat or drink any consumable. So I highly doubt it would be hard to implement this in the game. As I mentioned in the OP atheist brother, you don't have to go to the church but you will have to carry the trophies of your victims throughout your journey to justify your killings.

[apache25 133]

i already got loads of trophies.........................................THE SHIT I STEAL FROM THE DEAD

[SystemiK 366]

Honestly, I could do without the addition of fairy tales to the game. Sorry.

[heliman (DayZ) 26]

i already got loads of trophies.........................................THE SHIT I STEAL FROM THE DEAD

None of them are truly unique to the victims you have massacred. Each trophy would be different for every victim you kill and this would not be in the form of loot on the corpse.

[Xucphra 453]

You can't bring Religion into the game like that... it would cause too much fallout with players. There's not enough tolerance on the internet to accommodate this sort of thing.

Do I personally care? No. The idea is rather interesting, but humanism is different from Religion and you'd probably be better off trying to get out there and help people instead of kneeling down and asking for forgiveness at a pixelated altar.

[Hydra (DayZ) 472]

What about us atheists?

[Lady Kyrah 1110]

You are free to believe in whatever you want. But you have to realise that being a good christian doesn't bring any unnatural powers or benefits, the only positive thing it can do is making you feel good.

Edited September 17, 2012 by Lady Kyrah

[indominator 95]

dude, no, you would mess up all the design, this can go in other games, but not here, the message is something like impending doom, and this is realistic hardcore game, theres no god here, we are all alone, no one will save us, thats the message of the game, but in some others it has been implemented, its more due to the target audience of the project.

[heliman (DayZ) 26]

dude, no, you would mess up all the design, this can go in other games, but not here, the message is something like impending doom, and this is realistic hardcore game, theres no god here, we are all alone, no one will save us, thats the message of the game, but in some others it has been implemented, its more due to the target audience of the project.

As the game stands when you become a bandit humanity becomes negative and over time gets to zero. Don't really understand the logic behind that system since as a bandit you can't just give blood transfusions to random players to raise your humanity if you ever change your mind of becoming a survivor again. Hence some way of allowing the players to increase their humanity while being a bandit without having to automatically raise it over time as suggested in the OP was what i was leaning towards. Yes as the game stands, the humanity can be easily exploited by give transfusions to your teammate even as bandit and I am pretty sure this can be easily fixed.

[00dlez 22]

This isn't bad, but will never be implemented.

Source: All the butt hurt children above.

stoplikingwhatidontlike.pgi

[deadlykenny 37]

Religion will as it has in real life, just make everything too complicated, END OF.

[starwarsfan@gmx.de 450]

lol all the hate on religion in this thread.

[Tristram 23]

If you want to go pray in a church, go ahead..

But it shouldn't be a feature.. Especially not one that's necessary..

Not everyone is religious, and not all religious people are Christian.

[birdman 108]

Having no "pray option" is the only thing that wouldn't offend anyone.

And, worst of all, on a video game no one would feel bad in pulling the trigger, scrolling to "Pray for forgiveness" and then scanning for a new target. That would be too realistic for me.

[Hetstaine 10852]

Anybody searching for action

Anything to fill the emptiness inside

Any place that the streets are empty

Any takers wanna pour out their lives

With fire and lightning shooting from my hand

And desolation written across my eyes

My itchy finger on the hairpin trigger

My tempers hot and my patience's taken flight

Inside the abattoir

The cover charge is somebody's gotta die

Now, I hear you screaming out for mercy

Last man that's standing wins the fight

Too late, I see your end zero in on you

Even mortal enemies, they can't deny

Let me help you up again

The wings of god surround me

I live to play because I know I'll never die

If I win again, I'm still the champion

And if you win, ha, that's just impossible

I don't pray for keeps; I don't pray for your soul

I don't pray to win; I don't pray for it all...

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..I pray for blood

[heliman (DayZ) 26]

You can't bring Religion into the game like that... it would cause too much fallout with players. There's not enough tolerance on the internet to accommodate this sort of thing.

Do I personally care? No. The idea is rather interesting, but humanism is different from Religion and you'd probably be better off trying to get out there and help people instead of kneeling down and asking for forgiveness at a pixelated altar.

Alright lets change the idea a bit so as not involve any kneeling down but you would still need to go to the nearest religious institution to have your humanity reduced. Humanism maybe different to religion but then again this is just a game. To create a fallout with players i believe that would be a retarded thing to say. I mean you've got battlefield 3 which pitches a war between russians and americans, but yet you have the very same people playing this game cause they enjoy it without bringing their race into the game. I could think the same way, hey I'm russian and I don't like this game because it pitches something against me. The problem in that case lies with you and not the game.

[mio.rogvall@gmail.com 107]

Why would religion be something that the game considers as 'good' moral? Atheism and Humanism, for other people, are the source of morality. With your logic i should gain humanity by just running around not believing in god. Stupidest idea to date.

[heliman (DayZ) 26]

Why would religion be something that the game considers as 'good' moral? Atheism and Humanism, for other people, are the source of morality. With your logic i should gain humanity by just running around not believing in god. Stupidest idea to date.

I believe you just called yourself a retard.

[FBI 17]

"Dear admin...

Hail rocket, protect me from the hacker, may his script crash his computer... in the name, of the server the forum and the game... Domain!"

But the idea is not very thought through. I mean if you gonna have churches... what about Muslim players? The churches in game now are Russian orthodox.. the main religious group who plays is Catholic. So would you need to change buildings? How would you not offend? I mean at the moment there are huge riots in over 30 ocountries because of some 14 minute film. What if rocket goes ahead and introduces relion into the game and he creates a mosque and someone goes and blows it up... I would imagine that would piss few people off...

Also how would mechanics work? If there are celebrations I mean in many religions you got to fast... like in Islam you cannot eat during day light hours for a month.

[heliman (DayZ) 26]

"Dear admin...

Hail rocket, protect me from the hacker, may his script crash his computer... in the name, of the server the forum and the game... Domain!"

But the idea is not very thought through. I mean if you gonna have churches... what about Muslim players? The churches in game now are Russian orthodox.. the main religious group who plays is Catholic. So would you need to change buildings? How would you not offend? I mean at the moment there are huge riots in over 30 ocountries because of some 14 minute film. What if rocket goes ahead and introduces relion into the game and he creates a mosque and someone goes and blows it up... I would imagine that would piss few people off...

Also how would mechanics work? If there are celebrations I mean in many religions you got to fast... like in Islam you cannot eat during day light hours for a month.

The buildings in game look like churches but it would be easy to modify it and to have a fake religion in game in such a way they would mimic common religious themes such as going to a religious institution to ask for forgiveness which in game would mean the character would probably have to camp it out depending on how much humanity he wants to get it down to. Perhaps while we are at it we can all decide what name the religion would be called in game e.g. The Cult of Heliman