Helicopters is a must have imo

[Masshed Potato]

I remember back when playing the old arma 2 dayz mod, the most useful vehicle was a helicopter and a truck (another "little" idea there too). The helicopter has incredible travel speed and a small landing area unlike the plane does. Especially in the snow areas it would be nice, because most places up there is a sh*t show with a plane.

Although I have begun to love the planes now very much.

It would be lovely to see scum add helicopters at some point in the future.

Great game, keep up the good work and make scum even more amazing :D)

[BLueSM4N [<O>]]

-1

[SplashDMG]

+1

[fishing ranger]

+1 for sure

[Temagant]

-1

[marktkm]

-1

[Strayed]

-1 (I don't even think we should have the plane to be completely honest)

@OP: I want you to consider this point why I am saying no
You have built yourself a pretty good fort with decent traps and a substantial amount of locks on doors to slow raiders down.

YOur fort is open topped, given the nature on how walls work.

In flies a helicopter and deposits douchebags in the middle of your fort -literally bypassing all of your carefully laid traps and locked doors.

These douchebags get through your final locks in your loot rooms and nick all your stuff. They then board helicopter and laugh all the way to a vendor town, where they can't be shot down out of the sky due to flying high or maybe NOE....

Then these douchebags will complain that they have to land the helicopter to exit and why can't they fast rope instead....... you can see where this is going....

Sure, a helo may be a cool idea, but its going to open a can of worms best left in the freezer and forgotten about. Certainly if helo's are introduced then I will be turning them off on my server.

[SplashDMG]

I would like a helicopter service which you can pay for where an NPC could fly you and your squad to anywhere on the island,

heli could be a black hawk.

maybe a helicopter can be parked at each trader outpost and you can loot a cellphone and request a pickup from the nearest trader.

the heli will then takeoff and travel to pick you up and take to your destination and then fly back to the trader. or you can hire the heli while at the trader if its there.

it will be a trading outpost service

maybe the you could rent the service for a time period and pay for a time package, eg. $5,000 for 5 minutes? when the time expires it returns to the helipad.

you can place markers on the map to tell it where to go, and it will just hover close to ground at the destination so you can get in and out at multiple locations?

it would be invincible so players can't damage it or its occupants, can't fire weapons while onboard, but passengers can get hurt when the exit it. you can also hear and see the helicopter from a mile away. so use at your own risk

since the ground isn't level in most places maybe the only way on and off the heli would be via a rope climb, while the heli hovers. maybe you can get shot while on the rope? while the only time the heli will land is at the traders, then you can open the door and just get in

maybe it can have inventory space to transfer boxes. fly to naval base put all the loot in boxes and call the heli and fly home with the loot right to your front door in D0 lol.

[Masshed Potato]

Originally posted by SplashDMG:

I would like a helicopter service which you can pay for where an NPC could fly you and your squad to anywhere on the island,

heli could be a black hawk.

maybe a helicopter can be parked at each trader outpost and you can loot a cellphone and request a pickup from the nearest trader.

the heli will then takeoff and travel to pick you up and take to your destination and then fly back to the trader. or you can hire the heli while at the trader if its there.

it will be a trading outpost service

maybe the you could rent the service for a time period and pay for a time package, eg. $5,000 for 5 minutes? when the time expires it returns to the helipad.

you can place markers on the map to tell it where to go, and can signal it to land so you can get in and out at multiple locations? maybe with a cellphone?

it would be invincible so players can't damage it or its occupants, can't fire weapons while onboard, but passengers can get hurt when the exit it. you can also hear and see the helicopter from a mile away. so use at your own risk

since the ground isn't level in most places maybe the only way on and off the heli would be via a rope climb, while the heli hovers. maybe you can get shot while on the rope? while the only time the heli will land is at the traders, then you can open the door and just get in

This is a really interesting idea, even if it's just from trader to trader, would make the whole map much more available for even players without cars. i feel like you need a kinda center map base to utilize the most of the map but this would def make every where more accessible.

[SplashDMG]

Originally posted by Masshed Potato:

This is a really interesting idea, even if it's just from trader to trader, would make the whole map much more available for even players without cars. i feel like you need a kinda center map base to utilize the most of the map but this would def make every where more accessible.

is not just trader to trader, i kinda edited the post multiple times to expand on my idea... its a service to request transport from anywhere to anywhere on the island, its just based at the traders

[Masshed Potato]

Originally posted by Strayed:

-1 (I don't even think we should have the plane to be completely honest)

@OP: I want you to consider this point why I am saying no
You have built yourself a pretty good fort with decent traps and a substantial amount of locks on doors to slow raiders down.

YOur fort is open topped, given the nature on how walls work.

In flies a helicopter and deposits douchebags in the middle of your fort -literally bypassing all of your carefully laid traps and locked doors.

These douchebags get through your final locks in your loot rooms and nick all your stuff. They then board helicopter and laugh all the way to a vendor town, where they can't be shot down out of the sky due to flying high or maybe NOE....

Then these douchebags will complain that they have to land the helicopter to exit and why can't they fast rope instead....... you can see where this is going....

Sure, a helo may be a cool idea, but its going to open a can of worms best left in the freezer and forgotten about. Certainly if helo's are introduced then I will be turning them off on my server.

while i get what you're saying and i agree, it would just mean people would have to use more foundational buildings which allows roofs n multiple floors and new base designs in general. They could add other building to help prevent what you're saying if the day comes. although i can already find multiple counters such as spikes, only small patches to not allow landing, no roof entrance and so on.

Dayz had the same problem with less ways to defend helicopters, but still kinda made it work, definitely some problems as you stated above but also risk vs reward as you can easily kill players tryna land easy.

[Masshed Potato]

Originally posted by SplashDMG:

Originally posted by Masshed Potato:

This is a really interesting idea, even if it's just from trader to trader, would make the whole map much more available for even players without cars. i feel like you need a kinda center map base to utilize the most of the map but this would def make every where more accessible.

is not just trader to trader, i kinda edited the post multiple times to expand on my idea... its a service to request transport to anywhere on the island, its just based at the traders

i get that, i was just thinking if exact locations would be hard to code with trees, rocks, water, buildings and such. it would still be cool just as that as well, while whole map would obviously be much more awsome.

[SplashDMG]

Originally posted by Masshed Potato:

i get that, i was just thinking if exact locations would be hard to code with trees, rocks, water, buildings and such. it would still be cool just as that as well, while whole map would obviously be much more awsome.

about this, i'm thinking. when its flying it maintains an altitude above the ground higher than the tallest tree or building. and when it reaches the location you specified it will descend to allow you to rope down and get your boxes out. still has to figure out if the location has any tall buildings or trees there though... if it does then it can't stop there

[Splina]

of course...it's just what you need to survive

why not spaceships then? would be nice to be able to orbit around and see the island from far above, track everything on satelites, maybe even orbital guns, why not??

-,-

[SplashDMG]

Originally posted by Splina:

of course...it's just what you need to survive
-,-

problem:
the game had lots of vehicles in it originally, enough for everyone, but the number was reduced because of performance issues. then people started struggling and having a bad time.

solution:
public transportation for the island. its via helicopter because its the type of vehicle that is the most suited to the task. it could be a train also it doesn't really matter.

whats your solution? -,-

[Masshed Potato]

Originally posted by Splina:

of course...it's just what you need to survive

why not spaceships then? would be nice to be able to orbit around and see the island from far above, track everything on satelites, maybe even orbital guns, why not??

-,-

Why have cars? you can run around just fine, why have legs? you can crawl around, it's all about what you might need to have fun. Not saying people agree with needing a helicopter but come on that's not a real argument imo.