Moving Between Islands in Standalone

[hatfieldcw 184]

Note: I'm assuming that Standalone DayZ will have multiple maps, and that players will be limited to one character.

For an end-game event that isn't death, I'd like to see a way to move your whole team (even if you're a one-man team), complete with inventory and score history, to a different island. You get together, do what you're doing, and then all pile into a vehicle and head for the horizon. If certain conditions are met (critical mass of fuel and provisions) then you get the option to leave the map and have your characters transferred to a different map.

You won't quite retain the vehicle, but your mode of transport will decide how you arrive at your destination. You'll spawn next to your vehicle, which will be damaged such that it doesn't work, but can be repaired. If it's a chopper, you spawn somewhere in the wilderness with dinged up engine and rotors. Cars/trucks will have wheels broken, boats will be on the beach and have heavy engine and hull damage, as if they've run aground.

All your equipment will be in the vehicle and your inventories, minus the cost of the trip. The trip will cost, hypothetically, five food items and five drink items per player in the vehicle, and a tank full of fuel plus five filled jerry cans. So if you have a Ural or something, it'll be trivial to carry enough for the journey, while a motorbike would require you to leave a lot of stuff behind and carry gear in your packs. Nothing stops you from bringing enough parts to patch the thing right back up when you stagger into the new place, but you have to collect them.

As for how the destination is chosen, I'd like to see it chosen randomly, with some restrictions. You can't get to Lingor in a car and no boat can sail to Takistan, and the UH-1 has an operational range of about 500km, according to Wikipedia, but with enough jerry cans and our in-born mechanical expertise, I bet we could get most anywhere in one, with enough beans. Having a GPS might allow you to choose your destination island, though.

This would be a good way to provide major cooperative challenges to players that don't end with the same guys in the same town with slightly better guns asking each other, "Now what?" until somebody finally says, "Heck, let's just go shoot newbies at the Elektro supermarket."

[ProfessorKoble 17]

I like it. Great idea!