02-08-2014, 10:59 AM
(02-07-2014, 06:03 PM)Arjahn Wrote: Ok, I need you guys to solve a DayZ moral kenundrum me and a friend had last night.
We were looting around in Berezino and I notice a dude with an orange jacket and a nice looking rifle. Thankfully, he doesn't shoot us and he goes on about how he just got a new mic and how few people he's seen so far. We decide to walk together for a while, and pretty soon he reveals that he has no ammo in his gun. He fired it a few times and it made the click sound too, so he wasn't bluffing.
Now I didn't have any ammo either, but my friend's magnum had a few good shots left.
I wanted to kill the guy as soon as we got a chance, but my friend decided against it because "He's a nice guy."
Twenty minutes later, we're looting an apartment complex and the server reboots. When we come back in, he says he has to go and loggs out. My friend was mauled by zombies soon afterwards.
Should we have killed the guy? Yeah I know it seems dickish, and we weren't notably low on supplies or anything, but at the very least I think we should've stolen his gun. I say this because A) I wanted a nice gun, and B) It's DayZ, he's lucky that we didn't try to take his stuff. The way I see it, if we mugged him than it would've taught him to be more careful in the future and helped in the long haul. I get being friendly with other players, but he literally showed two strangers with guns that he had no defense whatsoever.
The main problem with this is that you are not making the person more cautious of other players on his next time, you are making a cycle of fear and hatred towards other players which results in people who always shoot on sight. Besides, it had no ammo so it would've been useless when the zombies attacked.
Unless their name is Pants. Then shoot on sight and take his everything.