New Items: Cigarettes/Cigars?

[IndyAM 48]

Now, I know some of you are going to be like "it encourages smoking" but lets be honest, if people are going to smoke, it isn't going to be because they saw it happening in DayZ.

Why are there no cigarettes in game? They could be a common spawn, and reduce shaking/shock, although your player could become addicted and shake more if they are stuck without cigarettes for an arbitrary amount of time. They would need matches to light, and could provide a small amount of warmth, as well as making the player more visible of a night time with the faint glow, and smoke rising from the player during the day too. A cough could develop and maybe be cured by antibiotics. I envisage this as a fairly common spawn in residential and maybe industrial (cigarette factory anyone?)

And the thought of going around with a SAW in civilian clothing with a cap on blasting zombies heads off while smoking a cigar is too awesome not to be put in the game.

Thoughts?

[Welch (DayZ) 756]

But since this is a sandbox, they can't make you too reliant on one thing to be able to play normally.

[Xuse 92]

Beats my habit of popping Painkillers when I have more than 1 Boxes on me :P

[major.skrewup@gmail.com 177]

I've wondered on several occasions why my guy doesnt just whip out his crack pipe while under fire giving him super reflexes and high damage threshold.

implementing cigs sounds like way more work then its worth.

[boxman80 964]

Been suggested a couple of times before and I'm in favour of it if it's done as a kind of way to approach other players or to help affiliate players and teams, maybe increasing humanity levels a little.

[knar33 158]

Smoking would actually reduce your body temp.

[IndyAM 48]

Offering cigarettes to other players could up humanity, this is a great idea!

But yeah, I agree that it could be complicated to implement, however isn't the community going to hake over the mod when standalone is released (did I read that somewhere? I may have made that up in my head, if I did, please ignore!)

So the potential benefits vs drawbacks could be balanced to make an overall neutral, and you could use painkillers to try to stop smoking? :D

[IndyAM 48]

Smoking would actually reduce your body temp.

Why would smoking reduce your body temp? Breathing in smoke makes you slightly warmer, doesn't it?

[mrfearless 5]

Cigarettes could be introduced as a form of currency for bartering items and as suggested offering someone cigarettes could be seen as a sign of being friendly - similar to the salute animation.

[IndyAM 48]

Or when your friend is lying down, bleeding out, putting a cigarette in his mouth and watching him pass out and die, or doing the same with a bandit/zed victim showing him respect before they die.

[diddi 35]

Flying huey with pilot glasses while smoking cigars blasting with the m60. 'nuff said, remove dogs add smokes asap..

[narsil1 24]

This is by far the most retarded suggestion thread I've seen.

FFS -.-

[klesh 2423]

Why would smoking reduce your body temp? Breathing in smoke makes you slightly warmer, doesn't it?

It constricts your blood vessels and therefore your extremities don't get their proper amount of bloodflow. That being said, I was thinking the same thing last night about ciggies.

One use that could work, and would be realistic, is that they could cure hunger pangs when you need food. Certainly not as long as actually eating... but if eating resets your food timer to, say, 15 minutes until you need to eat again, smoking a ciggie might reset it for 3-5 minutes. An adverse effect could be an increased rate of thirst. A pack could contain perhaps 10 cigarettes in the same way road flares or chemlights are stacked in one slot..

[IndyAM 48]

It constricts your blood vessels and therefore your extremities don't get their proper amount of bloodflow. That being said, I was thinking the same thing last night about ciggies.

One use that could work, and would be realistic, is that they could cure hunger pangs when you need food. Certainly not as long as actually eating... but if eating resets your food timer to, say, 15 minutes until you need to eat again, smoking a ciggie might reset it for 3-5 minutes. An adverse effect could be an increased rate of thirst. A pack could contain perhaps 10 cigarettes in the same way road flares or chemlights are stacked in one slot..

I was thinking the same as you with regard to the packet and Roadflares etc., and the hunger thing could be a side effect, good idea!

This is by far the most retarded suggestion thread I've seen.

FFS -.-

Thanks for your criticisms... oh, wait, you just said it was an awful idea. Please tell me the issues with the idea and everyone can discuss them. It is not as though cigarettes are unrealistic, or going to majorly affect you over a 90-day character for example.

[thorgromz 18]

I don´t like the idea because I don´t smoke. Why would a cigarrette do any good to me?

Giving cigarrettes a good income should have a counterpart too. You will run slower, because your lungs are taking damage. You will need em more and more. I know people nowadays that smoke 20-24 cigarrettes a day.

And I don´t want ciggarretes replacing any good beans in Chernarus supermarkets ;D

[IndyAM 48]

You don't have to have cigarettes in game, just as you don't have to have them in real life.

20-24 isn't a lot, historically people have done 40+ (I can't think of examples right now!). And the damage to lungs would be minimal over days and months.

We have discussed the hunger aspect, and the warmth (good/bad) as well as the addiction and potential illness factors.

[apache25 133]

i think lighters that hav limited amount of gas would be a good alternative to matches but good idea dude. you should also be able to get cancer and die

[IndyAM 48]

i think lighters that hav limited amount of gas would be a good alternative to matches but good idea dude. you should also be able to get cancer and die

Over the amount of time you can survive in Dayz? Unlikely to be getting cancer over that time frame!

Lighters would surely be too small to see to pick up in house spawns etc.? Or would they come as a pair?

[Frozen (DayZ) 144]

cigarettes do suspend feeling of hunger, but its only fools your body

[Forgewolf 70]

I'd rather be able to roll up a joint and smoke that instead.. Get epically fun trips.. but then NOT become physically addicted to the substance. It would treat the shakiness and the temperature problem. It would have no drawl backs to it. Plus it'd just make your character more of a bad ass.

Edited October 1, 2012 by Forgewolf

[Sutinen 635]

Yep, too hard to implement and an useless feature in general. And to add: Smoking doesn't make you look tougher or awesome, like you pointed. More likely shows how weak and unfit you are.

Edited October 1, 2012 by Sutinen

[IndyAM 48]

Yep, too hard to implement and an useless feature in general. And to add: Smoking doesn't make you look tougher or awesome, like you pointed. More likely shows how weak and unfit you are.

Stop being a gaylord moral noob. People smoke, doesn't make them weak, or unfit necessarily.

Edited October 1, 2012 by IndyAM

[Exenima 45]

I mentioned this already quite a while ago. I honestly want it to be implemented. I mean, i don't think it would encourage smoking, i think it would just encourage smoking if a zombie apocolypse were to happen.

[Sutinen 635]

Stop being a gaylord moral noob. People smoke, doesn't make them weak, or unfit necessarily.

Okay, that's a little too much. What are you, a 7th grader that thinks smoking is cool?

[IndyAM 48]

Okay, that's a little too much. What are you, a 7th grader that thinks smoking is cool?

What are you, 16? Yes. Yes you are.

Grow up, people are free to make decisions as and when they like and it's their bodies. You being a whiny mong is going to do nothing but waste your time and effort and us laugh at you.