DayZ...Reliquia?

[Burialkeeper]

So, I know a few folks in the community have been playing DayZ alpha. I kind of laughed it off, but then my friend (some of you know him as aboxofdonuts) and another friend of mine got it and were playing for a while while I was on skype with them. It piqued my interest. Long story short, I got the game. Started playing it last night, and been hooked ever since.

But now I'm thinking about it and it is a lot like Minecraft. There is no permanent leveling system, you just spawn in randomly, and then you have to survive. I believe eventually you will be able to create farms, fix up houses, repair vehicles, craft things, etc. It's just got better graphics, in a modern day zombie apocalypse setting.

So I got thinking, I wonder how fun it would be if Reliquia had a DayZ server. In theory it would be great to get in on the "ground floor" so to speak. This game is obviously quite popular already and its only in alpha and will only get better. But then I thought its a bit too PvP focused for most people in our community. Most people on our minecraft servers like to work together, build up bases or towns and enjoy doing player versus environment. And then I realized you can toggle PvP off on a DayZ server. Or maybe someday there could be multiple maps on a DayZ server like we have on Minecraft, and one could have PvP and another could not. Then people could like, work together to take over a town, fix it up, make defenses, repair vehicles to use, and stock up supplies while holding off zombies.

Granted it is in alpha and who knows how complex the game will become, but I think there is a lot of great potential for it. And I dont know how difficult it would be for reliquia to have a server for this, or how demanding it would be on a server, or if our server could handle the processing load in its current set up. Anyway, it's a pretty cool game, was mostly just expressing some cool ideas I had. I don't really expect us to do anything with this because we would probably have to upgrade our current server or get an additional one with lots of memory which of course would cost more money. But it's a cool thought right? It could get a lot new people into the community, at least in theory.