Big Game Ruin Hunting
Big Game Ruin Hunting (also known as 3-D Repairs) refers to the competitive sport of repairing ruins for the most amount of AP possible. It was made possible with the May 2008 "Decay" feature of ruins.
History
Ruin and Decay
On the 28th of May, 2008, the ruin system of Urban Dead got an overhaul, with the addition of Decay. It meant that buildings that had been ruined for a certain amount of time would gradually decay further, costing more AP to repair the longer the building had been ruined. This occurred about 6 months after UD got a boost in the number of active characters by the introduction of The Dead, and survivor numbers had been dropping steadily since, leaving some long-abandoned Ghost towns. Because of this, a large amount of buildings decayed for weeks- even months- inside Malton.
Sport
The sport "Big Game Ruin Hunting" was initially coined by the Beatbox Kids and 2 Cool as a competition to see who could get the highest amount of negative AP in one turn. This would be achieved by going into heavily decayed buildings and using ones last AP repairing it, making the character's AP go into extreme negatives. The first one of these competitive repairs was made in August 2008 by DanceDanceRevolution at 84AP, and was followed by others through the Ruinbrag template. Note that DDR's initial achievement was quickly surpassed by several players as time went on.
Some months after BGRH became defunct, WanYao created the ExtremeRepair template and with it a gallery for users to upload their repairs. This started the creation of what he dubbed the "3-D Repairs", which were repairs that cost over 100 AP (and therefore went into triple digits). Since this, 404 in particular used the ExtremeRepair gallery as a playground for their impressive repair records.
Bug Exploit
Almost a year after the founding of Big Game Ruin Hunting and 3-D Ruin Repairs, a bug was found in which a survivor that repaired a ruin with 150+ AP cost, instead of going into massively negative AP, would have their AP reset to 50, but still have the building repaired.
A month after submitting the bug to Bug Reports, Rosslessness accidentally stumbled across the bug in Borehamwood, where over the course of 3 or 4 days, several survivors from the Borehamwood 100 discovered the bug independently.
In Borehamwood where most buildings were above the 150 ap level it was quite possible for 2 survivors to have cleared the Big Brother House, killed and dumped the zombies inside AND barricaded the 8 block structure to EHB. After a day of debate and the "Dermot Proclamation" he and his survivor group bug tested it for clarification, before reporting it directly to Kevan. Realising the seriousness of the issue, Kevan disabled ruin repairing in both Borehamwood and Monroeville before fixing the bug a matter of hours later. In the time before Kevan responded, Rosslessness and others managed to hold together an amnesty on repairs in Borehamwood whilst the bug was still in effect.
Big Ruin Repairs
Submit all Big Game Ruin Repairs to the Extreme Repair Gallery.
