Just wanted to take some time to comment on the changes to the HUD. I am really liking the changes, especially the "pages" concept. This really gives everyone an opportunity to develop their character over time while role playing in Outbreak. The new HUD really adds to over all immersion and the sickness has me being much more careful with what my character eats and drinks, which I think would be quite realistic in a post apoc environment.

I would like to make a couple suggestions, and please forgive me because I do not know anything about scripting or programming, so if these suggestions are not possible given the current system, I completely understand. That being said here are my suggestions that might help promote role play and allow players to gather safe resources.

1. Some type of community purification hub. What I mean is, maybe there would be some way we could put in raw resources and get back safe food and water. For example I might have three scraps of hunted meat and I would have to add all three to get back one piece of safe meat. My character dries out her hunted meat all the time, but now even role playing that does not guarantee safe food.

2. If this is not possible then maybe some mechanism for us to trade our hunted meat or scavenged food with current business owners. I know we can always role play that but I am wondering if there is a way to actually trade them our raw resources for their cooked food or processed water. Then they could process the raw resources, turning them into safe consumables, that way they do not lose anything and it promotes actual trade.

I can only speak for myself but I like a balance between autonomy and support from others. I want my character to be able to go out and make her own way, but I also want her to be part of a community that she can and needs to interact with on a frequent basis for survival.

My character does the support group and she makes up little care packages for anyone attending. I know so many people have been kind to her and donated lots of stuff, which is greatly appreciated. What would be rewarding is if she could scavenge, hunt or earn raw resources and trade those to other business owners for safe food and water she could give out, and the business owner would either break even or make a profit from the trade.

In the end I really appreciate all the hard work from Nadir and all the administrators in Outbreak, it is an amazing place to role play. These are just a couple suggestions that might continue to promote role play and keep the integrity of the post apoc environment.