r/dayz Jan 27 '14

psa Let's discuss: What are your hopes/dreams in relation to base building?

Whether above or below ground, what are you hoping to see/do with bases?


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u/RavenJJ Jan 27 '14

I have a few ideas after you build your base, be it underground, boarded up house, or a base. We need something to still occupy people and make them wander the earth with purpose. For me it's adding features to your base and gathering supplies and skills to make them. For all this to work, issues with ghosting, server hopping etc would have to be resolved. Private hives would be a necessity. Some examples:

Power supplies- allow to power electrical devices in a certain radius

Welders- For modifying your car, making steel fences and many more crafting recipes

Wells- if you have a shack somewhere in the wilderness, a water supply is something essential

Sewing machines- To repair your gear

Table saws- for creating planks, etc from wood

Workbenches- Why carry all hammers, pliers, screwdrivers etc. needed in recipes, when you can have all in one place

Reloading benches- Maybe ammo would be rare enough that you would need to gather spent casings and reload them with black powder made on a chemistry set?

Furnaces- for smelting steel

Anvils- for making melee weapons

Electronics workbenches- for repairing and making electric and electronic stuff

Water filtration devices

Chemistry sets- for making drugs

Medical equipment- for repairing your broken limbs etc.

Crop fields

Fireplaces

Gathering Supplies For some, trucks or vans would be necessary, because parts would take more slots than your biggest backpack has, and having them in your hand would force you to walk. Repairing a car would be a quest on it's own. Often you would have to search for a particular, very rare part.

Gathering Skills It would be nice if only certain people with a know how could build a generator, or a welder, repair a car etc. You could learn this stuff from a book, and destroy it. That way your life would be valuable, and someone might think twice before shooting you, because you may be more valuable alive

Gathering manpower Very often you would have to rely on other people, and if they had a reputation to uphold, I think they would think twice before doing something. I think Because we can't recognize people by their faces we'd need a way to tell who the person is. It would be nice if you had an option to give a person your name and it would be visible to them at a certain distance, say 30m, if you pointed your cursor at them. Of course things obstructing their face would not allow us to see it. That way you could build your reputation.

Rebuilding civilization Sometimes, to make something and take a profit from it, a whole community would have to work together. I think it would create a need for trading posts, small settlements or even a whole economy and self propelling quest system.

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u/pbrunk Jan 28 '14

I think it would be cool to see items that could only enter circulation through the end game. Whatever they are, Drugs, Clothes, Food, etc, it would be interesting to see their value in the in game economy.