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Tracking character lifespan/lifetime/longevity

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UI

- game shows number of days the character has survived on the menu screen for the player [there was a video with cool UI suggestions, please post a link to it]

- Beav: "how many kills you have had on current and all lives, how many times you have been shot or hit by zombies"

 

Appearance

- male characters can allow their facial hair to grow (grows differently for different races) << but can shave with pristine blades or razors

- all characters can allow their hair to grow - but can cut with pristine blades or scissors

- ageing

 

Item

- diary (planner) with 370 pages

- step counter (pedometer) with solar panel

- carved marks on weapons

 

What else?

 

Related posts

- http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/212991-character-aging-body-types-and-smokes/

- http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/190978-make-survival-rewarding/

- http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/163035-beards/

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Some statistics would be good, but I dont know what kind of database they have or what information they record.

 

Would be good to see how many kills you have had on current and all lives, how many times you have been shot or hit by zombies etc

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Some statistics would be good, but I dont know what kind of database they have or what information they record.

 

Would be good to see how many kills you have had on current and all lives, how many times you have been shot or hit by zombies etc

 

Hi Beav, thanx for your input!

 

Personally, I prefer ingame, visible ways of marking time/events. Kills could go on wooden buttstocks as carved marks (as on prison walls). I don't think survivors would keep track of zombie kills for long.

 

... On second thought, strikes on buttstocks would probably be too difficult to implement

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You can write notes with paper and pen so it is easy now to keep a tally of kills if u want to and when u get bored you can use paper for fire kit. I would like to see a clock to tell you how many hours you have survived for though. Is not always easy to estimate. To be fair i dont know if i have made it much farther than 10 hours yet.

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I would be happy with just the day amount and location when you initially arrive in the server in the bottom right corner of your screen like the mod would do.

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You can write notes with paper and pen so it is easy now to keep a tally of kills if u want to and when u get bored you can use paper for fire kit. I would like to see a clock to tell you how many hours you have survived for though. Is not always easy to estimate. To be fair i dont know if i have made it much farther than 10 hours yet.

 

A piece of paper holds around 1330 characters, so yeah, with a system of marks it is possible to use it to keep track of events.

 

I would be happy with just the day amount and location when you initially arrive in the server in the bottom right corner of your screen like the mod would do.

 

Yes, that sounds good enough, actually.

 

With the frequent server restarts it is difficult indeed to have a sense of time passing.

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