The dynamics of the game will change greatly once more is added, such as tents and vehicles and more of the group-based aspects. Right now it is very much-so a KOS fest because there really isn't much to do except right around and get in to fire-fights.

A thermometer would be helpful if you find one that isn't damaged, but a weather station doesn't quite seem viable as players wouldn't know how to operate the equipment or read the data (for distant forecasting), as well as needing to power the station.

A weather station, however, would work (if able to get up and running) to just see any storms/precipitation in the immediate area (within a number of km) of the station on a display of green/yellow/red/magenta, which could maybe forecast for the next 30-60 minutes (not days).

dumb idea and you're dumb

I agree with JokeR's point that people KOS because once you get geared up, there is little else to do; and I think he rightly points out that this will change some what as the game develops.

Michael82 has a good request to include a thermometer for air temperature.The only way to gauge temperature in the gamer right now is to wait for a status message that you are cooling off or heating up, and other game cues are misleading.

It's now the middle of February in Chernarus, a northern temperate area, so I would assume that it would be cold - today while jogging in (Raincoat and gorka pants, skate helmet, no gloves) my character was overheating, and I am currently outside in the middle of February in eastern Europe with no shirt on, as if it were summer, laying down in a pond occasionally to cool off. Paradoxically, I could constantly see my breath condensing, which would tend to imply that it was cold.(!) A quick look at my fictional thermometer would tell me that it's currently 60F (16C) and I could know to take the coat off before I overheat.

There are already medical thermometers available in the game, so a simple alcohol-bulb thermometer for air temperature is not an outlandish suggestion. Almost everyone I know who goes camping or skiing has a small plastic bulb thermometer dangling off a backpack or zipper ring somewhere - it's a dead-simple low-tech device that does not require batteries or an on-off switch, and is nearly unbreakable, but the information it provides is valuable.

I do not think weather stations would be useful, as weather forecasts are meaningless in a game where you drop in intermittently, for only a couple of hours at a time, and the weather and time of day changes when you switch servers. More helpful would be current weather status when you log in: time, temperature, precipitation, humidity, cloud cover.

You've got some good seeds like global temperature system but your whole concept is horrible.
If you have any suggestions, please visit forums.dayzgame.com and create a topic to discuss your ideas with the community first. Maybe your "super idea" have been suggested before or not that good.

@Geez may be close this ticket like obsolete?