[Suggestion] make boats useful. have an offshore trading post

[Alan]

now this could be a rundown, fortified cargoship, oil rig or something waterworld-like.. not too far out but just far away that you would actually have to use boats for once. also this might be a good counterweight to the trading posts up north.. maybe between elektro and cherno 2km out.

 

if this can't be sourced from arma assets i'd do the modeling myself even.. just interested if anyone finds this idea viable.

 

[Armifer]

This is a great idea. I always wanted oil rigs or some kind of offshore locations built in like aircraft carriers or cargo ships (that don't lag) that players can get into, and would spawn loot. I know that loot spawns don't work as they should due to them appearing on the ocean floor rather than the surface of the object, as it has to do with terrain and sea level positioning, but still a trader camp out in the ocean would be a great idea.

 

It would also be neat of new boats could be added, some police boats, new gun boats (with lesser guns, not .50cal). This would definitely add some variation to the map, once sea battles commence, and also gives us a reason to use those normally worthless heat packs.

 

+1

[Sli]

Perhaps a deployable jetty or floating rig could be added to the base building system to facilitate sea bases and stashes? Can you even currently place objects while swimming?

[Alan]

so how would one go about to create something like this.. can that be just pieced together with arma models and scripts that already exist or do i have to make custom stuff here?

[HeraclesJones]

Late post, sorry, but I just found this. I put together an offshore drilling platform for Chernarus DayZ here, if that will help -

 

http://opendayz.net/threads/offshore-drilling-platform.14261/

 

The problem is that structures on water are extremely unstable in Arma/DayZ, so I'm not sure that a trading post would work there. I'm still learning about Epoch, though, so it might. I know that loot doesn't spawn on it, and the game thinks you're "in" the water, not "on" it, so you need to bring a heat pack or stand near one of the barrel fires so you don't freeze.

 

EDIT - also, you can't build structures or place tents/etc on objects that are over water.