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=Suggestions=
=Suggestions=
===Shovels===
===Fortnite Dance Moves===
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|'''Timestamp:''' [[User:Cocoa Bean|Cocoa Bean]] ([[User talk:Cocoa Bean|talk]]) 22:52, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
|'''Timestamp:''' {{User:DanceDanceRevolution/tcs}} 01:48, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
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|'''Type:''' Weapons
|'''Type:''' Flavour
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|'''Scope:''' Survivors
|'''Scope:''' Survivors/PKers (probably)
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|'''Description:''' Shovels would probably be a regular melee weapon, but with different stats. It would be great so that there is more variety in weapons. (Not needed but it would be cool)
|'''Description:''' In line with my ''Urban Dead Go'' and ''AP Micropayments'' suggestions, I endeavour to keep UD updated to the times with some dance moves, stolen straight from megahit Fortnight.
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====Discussion (Shovels)====
In line with the [https://www.ranker.com/list/best-fortnite-dances-and-emotes/ranker-games latest favourite dance moves from the game], I think we should add the famous "Floss", "Orange Justice", "Electro Shuffle", and of course, "Take the L".


{{SDW|5/28/2018}}
More dance moves to be added over time, possibly as part of some "season" addition to Urban Dead (season suggestion pending).
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===Library Improvement===
Thoughts?
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|'''Timestamp:''' [[User:JoshCz|JoshCz]] ([[User talk:JoshCz|talk]]) 07:11, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
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|'''Type:''' Resource change
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|'''Scope:''' All maybe some Libraries across Malton
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|'''Description:''' Library improvement.
Need a reason to play zombie? Library. Reason to help new players? Library. Wanna make the game interesting again? Library.
Libraries across Malton now have books that can be written by players.
These books contain a free skill (the skill it has can be specific so as only for beginners Like Basic Firearms Training)
Players must spend both AP and XP to write a book.
Any ruined libraries lose ALL books inside it.
All players can loot libraries.
This helps bring new players into the game by letting them get basic skills earlier.
This also makes Libraries across Malton a vital resource point.
The second part of the plan is interesting but not 100% necessary, human skill wipes.
These skill wipes are not upon death, but rather upon being headshot as a zombie.
Skill wipes can even grant xp to the person headshot per human skill lost so as to add a sense of progression.
Skills can be brought back by a team-mate through use of libraries though it costs time and xp.
Zerging protection: players who zerg by writing books to give to fake accounts seems like a problem, but the massive xp drain from writing all the specific books to a library that may be stolen from or may be ruined by zombies. Writing books is only for those who have the xp saved up, saving xp is very important for this change.
I actually tried to get my friends to play, but their experience was lacking due to low player count, lack of ability to do anything starting out, and low risk low reward. I think we need to fix some of these problems if at all possible.
[[User:JoshCz|JoshCz]] ([[User talk:JoshCz|talk]]) 07:15, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
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====Discussion (Library Improvement)====
====Discussion (Fortnite Dance Moves)====
Of course, the main barriers to this excellent suggestion are 1) copyright infringement and 2) the fact that dance is [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/300752841851666434/331646581562408960/Screen_Shot_2017-07-03_at_9.04.50_PM.png already] [http://ispy.dxavier.net/1080575536.html possible] in the game for the undead. {{User:Bob Moncrief/Sig}} 12:19, 7 October 2018 (UTC)


{{SDW|5/28/2018}}
All dancing should be via [[Flailing Gesture]] as [[Kevanism|God]] and [[MOB|His Prophet]] intended. {{User:Revenant/Sig}} {{Goonsig|Revenant}} 05:54, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
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===Rubble===
===Infinity Gauntlet===
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|'''Timestamp:''' [[User:Phil Nekro|Phil Nekro]] ([[User talk:Phil Nekro|talk]]) 23:00, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
|'''Timestamp:''' {{User:DanceDanceRevolution/tcs}} 01:45, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
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|'''Type:''' Adjustment
|'''Type:''' Item
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|'''Scope:''' Ruined Buildings
|'''Scope:''' All survivors of Malton
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|'''Description:''' This change is partially predicated on the idea that Urban Dead's best days are behind it and that Kevan is not going to release an Android or iOS app in the future to bring in a new wave of users.
|'''Description:''' I propose an addition of some new items to the game, an "Infinity Gauntlet" (Or as I like to call it, the "Thanos Glove"), and 6 individual "Infinity Stones".


I've been playing the game off and on since 2005, and the apocalypse vibe is truly setting in. There are about as many people [actively playing now  http://www.urbandead.com/stats.html] all over the city as there were at the [[First Siege of Caiger Mall]] alone. That's not necessarily a problem, but one of the effects of the suburbs being mostly empty is that the barricade system especially survivors when the population is low-density. As a solo survivor it's much easier to barricade a few buildings and free run from one to the next than it is as a solo zombie to break down even a Very Strongly Barricaded building and get inside with enough AP to accomplish anything. If you're not part of a coordinated group, I don't see how it's fun at all to be a zombie right now, much less a brand new zombie with low attack accuracy and no lurching gait, and I think that's reflected in the stats.
All these items will be scattered randomly throughout Malton.


Therefore I think it would be helpful to have a deeper stage of Ruin that is more like Rubble: the roof has completely caved in, the interior stairwell is inaccessible, there are huge holes in the walls, etc. Essentially, take the descriptions from the [[Decay]] feature but make it something that can be done intentionally and with the added effect that the building becomes like a street square until it gets repaired, meaning it can't be used for free-running ''out'' of either.
Having the Thanos Glove in your inventory will allow you to collect the Infinity Stones if you come across them. Even though any player can collect an Infinity Stone, only the player with the Thanos Glove can utilise the advantage a Stone gives you. You have an additional max health of 50hp '''per infinity stone''' in your inventory when couple with the Infinity Glove.


Now, on the mechanics, I think a few considerations still need to be worked out because scale is important. If zombies could spend 10 AP doing this, it would definitely make mall sieges more like actual sieges because you could deny adjacent entryways to heavily barricaded areas just by ruining them. For any organized group, it seems like this would be incredibly overpowered.  
Players with an Infinity Stone in their inventory will have a small (S) icon next to their name and HP, when in the same block as other players.


Instead, the best balance I can think of is that after some number of days of being ruined (three sounds good to me), 10 AP can be used to reduce a building to 'Rubble' where it functions as a street square until repaired.
When a player has the Infinity Stone and dies, the stone(s) that were in their inventory will be redistributed randomly throughout Malton. If you kill someone with the Thanos Glove, you take the glove from them and it becomes yours.


I also think this could be explained easily in-game as an effect of the continued decay of buildings in the city, so they're now weak enough that zombies can partially collapse them, and would be a replacement to the current Decay effect which takes more AP to repair the longer it's been in that state. 
'''What happens when you finally get all 6 stones?'''


The positive effect is that zombies would be able to mark off territory more effectively and limit where survivors could easily hide. Places like Ridleybank would be immediately obvious as inhospitable except from a concerted effort by survivors to go in together, but it would help out zombies in safer neighborhoods too because it would throw a wrench into a lot of barricade plans.
Well doi, a button appears named "Click Fingers", and once you click it, half the Survivors in Malton die.


For balance on the other side, I have two issues I haven't worked out because I play survivor more rarely.  
Great way for death cultists to balance the game in the favour of Zombies.


The first is how much AP it should take to repair this, because I don't really know what would be a fair number to both sides and in most situations of varying population density.
Thoughts please.
 
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The second is whether it would make sense for survivors still to be able to hide themselves in the rubble so that they can't be seen unless someone is in the same square as them. If it was completely like a street, I think that would be going too far. But the second biggest AP help to zombies would be being able to stand 'in' a Rubble building and still see the outside of the surrounding blocks without having to spend an AP going in and out.
====Discussion (Infinity Gauntlet)====
 
+1 -- [[file:SomethingSomething.gif|link=http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/User:Jack's_Inflamed_Sense_Of_Rejection]] 06:37, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
As a coding issue, I have no idea how difficult it would be, but if the ability to 'hide' from people not in the same square as you were not included, it seems like all it would take is re-purposing some of the flavor text and temporarily changing a building into a street. 


'''Summary''': New zombie skill called 'Rubble'; replaces Ruin decay with a AP-costing action; Rubble buildings function like streets until repaired.
Of course, the main barriers to this excellent suggestion are 1) copyright infringement and 2) idling out — if there are only, say, two gloves in Malton, if all five of those characters idle out, then the mechanic is effectively removed from the game. Unless I'm misunderstanding the frequency at which the gloves/stones would appear? {{User:Bob Moncrief/Sig}} 12:20, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
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:That's a good point. I intended for only one Gauntlet, and one of each stone, to be in Malton at any one time. Let's say for sake of argument that if a character had one of these items and then idled out, those items would be randomly redistributed throughout Malton again. {{User:DanceDanceRevolution/tcs}} 11:25, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
====Discussion (Rubble)====
The main difficulty I think is that a number of people use Big Game Ruin Hunting as their main play mechanic/motivation; removing/significantly altering the one-a-day ruin cost would really mess those people up. {{User:Bob Moncrief/Sig}} 23:53, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
:Yeah, but by 'a number' you're essentially saying maybe 20-30, if that, right? If there other bad effects I haven't considered, that's an issue but I don't think a couple dozen long time users are enough to veto something that would positively effect hundreds. Survivors lose permanent free-running entrance portals and zombies get a way to better invest AP, so as balance, there's a cap to how much AP that costs to undo. As a zombie, I'd have absolutely no problem with leaving it so Big Game Ruin Hunting could still work, but I imagine that would be considered unfair even though there are more zombie hunters than zombie hunters right now.--[[User:Phil Nekro|Phil Nekro]] ([[User talk:Phil Nekro|talk]]) 00:23, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
:[[Big Game Ruin Hunting|linking for selfishness]] {{User:DanceDanceRevolution/a}} 00:45, 30 September 2016 (UTC)


{{SDW|5/28/2018}}
<s>Two</s> three questions necessary to fill out these mechanics of this suggestion:
#How does one find these items? Just searching randomly in any building? Any block? Inside or outside?
#How many AP does it cost to {{Button|Click Fingers}}?
#Is {{Button|Click Fingers}} <s>spammable</s> repeatable or is it more of a one-time thing?
{{User:Revenant/Sig}} {{Goonsig|Revenant}} 05:51, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
:Also, denying zombies both access to the glove and the ability to be affected by it is CLASSIC survivor-centric bias. I move that the glove should be zombie only and that every zombie with Brain Rot should automatically have one. {{User:Revenant/Sig}} {{Goonsig|Revenant}} 05:58, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
::That's a really fair point. Zombies can wear the Thanos Glove too, and can obtain stones similarly. However, since they lack the search function, they can only get it by killing a survivor/zombie that has stone. This enables them to have a critically different experience than the survivors, who can only obtain stones by search and not killing. Zombies with a stone also appear completely normal to other players. They only have the (S) appear by their name if they get jabbed by a DNA extractor. {{User:DanceDanceRevolution/sig5}} 05:19, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
:The sheer power of the Thanos Glove on mere humans is evident by its catastrophic AP (50) and HP (50) cost. So it's not guaranteed to kill the snapper outright, but might. Thoughts? {{User:DanceDanceRevolution/sig5}} 05:22, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
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===Urban Dead Go!===
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|'''Timestamp:''' {{User:DanceDanceRevolution/a}} 12:25, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
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|'''Type:''' Engine adjustment
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|'''Scope:''' Everyone
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|'''Description:''' A new app for your smartphone, Urban Dead Go! Or just UDG! for short, will implement Augmented Reality to turn your town into the new Malton. Fight across the world for survival against the undead scourge.
Urban Dead will thrive on this new platform, where looking through your camera phone will open your eyes to the real world before you: those playing the game as survivors will appear dishevelled and alive, those playing as zombies will look dishevelled and grey. Those around you that aren't playing the game will appear on your phone as office desks and vending machines that you must rummage through to get items.
Combat will be faithful to the game, that is, sticky and illogical. Whereas you attacking in UD by clicking, you will attack in UDG! by... clicking. You hold your phone out, aim it at your foe so he appears on your screen, and at melee range, tap the screen.. Just imagine 10 "zombies" surrounding a "survivor", aiming their phones at him while tapping away while the survivor squeals in virtual pain!
Using real buildings promotes trespassing, so UDG! will use virtual buildings as displayed on augmented reality. Just think of being in the middle of Central Park with a hundred other shaking, poor and twitchy survivors, all huddled in an imaginary area crying while surrounded by hundreds of groaning zombies, swiping with their phones at the "doors" in what will appear to an outsider to be a flashmob of mimes. This kind of activity will surely catch on in the hundreds of millions.
This future implementation lends perfectly to my last Developing Suggestion, the [http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php?title=Developing_Suggestions&oldid=2189420#AP_Micropayments Micropayment] suggestion, as well as all the interesting additions to that suggestion the UD community kindly promoted in a great effort to bring UD to a new glory. Let's be real, these two suggestions combined will no doubt make absolute bank for Kevan.
Please provide all your thoughts on how this game could work in the real world, I will compile them all for my elevator pitch to Mr Davis himself. Thank you all for your time and I look forward to working with you.
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====Discussion (Urban Dead Go!)====
100% endorse. {{User:Bob Moncrief/Sig}} 13:44, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
What would the role of flares be in such a game? Would they attract NPCs that could be used to gather XP, or would they function as they do now, doing virtually nothing at all, other than being used for over-the-top kills by PKers? Also, I'd need to hear some ideas about how free running would be handled before I'd be able to lend this idea my full support. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 14:53, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
:All I know is, we might need to get rid of the 'jumping from buildings' mechanic... {{User:DanceDanceRevolution/a}} 21:50, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
:After some thought, I've come up with an idea. In the above hypothetical at Central Park, if you attempt to go into the building with free running, you will be able to. However, if at EHB or without free running, obviously while you can physically go in there, your virtual self cannot. they will stay standing outside the building, idle until you walk back into them and assume control again. This will be explained by the flavour text ''"You attempt to freerun into the building, but [without the necessary skill/the building is too heavily barricaded and] you fall and become unconscious, having an out-of-body experience."''  Obviously during this time your avatar can be attacked by other players.
:Needless to say, during this time that you are in the building but your avatar is outside, other players will see your real self as a fridge or shopping trolley to be rummaged through for items. {{User:DanceDanceRevolution/a}} 23:26, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
Best suggestion ever 10/10..... Why aren't we funding this??!! Such good idea,much need implementation!!--{{User:Paynetrain/Sig}} 18:13, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
I would unironically love an App version of Urban Dead that took place in Malton, even if it had to have microtransactions that let people buy more AP to make it worth the effort financially to do.--[[User:Phil Nekro|Phil Nekro]] ([[User talk:Phil Nekro|talk]]) 23:00, 27 September 2016 (UTC)


==Suggestions up for voting==
==Suggestions up for voting==
The following are suggestions that were developed here but have since gone to voting. The discussions that were taking place here have been moved to the pages linked below.
The following are suggestions that were developed here but have since gone to voting. The discussions that were taking place here have been moved to the pages linked below.
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Fortnite Dance Moves

Timestamp: THE CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER 01:48, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Type: Flavour
Scope: Survivors/PKers (probably)
Description: In line with my Urban Dead Go and AP Micropayments suggestions, I endeavour to keep UD updated to the times with some dance moves, stolen straight from megahit Fortnight.

In line with the latest favourite dance moves from the game, I think we should add the famous "Floss", "Orange Justice", "Electro Shuffle", and of course, "Take the L".

More dance moves to be added over time, possibly as part of some "season" addition to Urban Dead (season suggestion pending).

Thoughts?

Discussion (Fortnite Dance Moves)

Of course, the main barriers to this excellent suggestion are 1) copyright infringement and 2) the fact that dance is already possible in the game for the undead. Bob Moncrief EBDW! 12:19, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

All dancing should be via Flailing Gesture as God and His Prophet intended. ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾ You rated this wiki '1'! Great job, go hog wild!|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 05:54, 20 October 2018 (UTC)


Infinity Gauntlet

Timestamp: THE CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER 01:45, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Type: Item
Scope: All survivors of Malton
Description: I propose an addition of some new items to the game, an "Infinity Gauntlet" (Or as I like to call it, the "Thanos Glove"), and 6 individual "Infinity Stones".

All these items will be scattered randomly throughout Malton.

Having the Thanos Glove in your inventory will allow you to collect the Infinity Stones if you come across them. Even though any player can collect an Infinity Stone, only the player with the Thanos Glove can utilise the advantage a Stone gives you. You have an additional max health of 50hp per infinity stone in your inventory when couple with the Infinity Glove.

Players with an Infinity Stone in their inventory will have a small (S) icon next to their name and HP, when in the same block as other players.

When a player has the Infinity Stone and dies, the stone(s) that were in their inventory will be redistributed randomly throughout Malton. If you kill someone with the Thanos Glove, you take the glove from them and it becomes yours.

What happens when you finally get all 6 stones?

Well doi, a button appears named "Click Fingers", and once you click it, half the Survivors in Malton die.

Great way for death cultists to balance the game in the favour of Zombies.

Thoughts please.

Discussion (Infinity Gauntlet)

+1 -- SomethingSomething.gif 06:37, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Of course, the main barriers to this excellent suggestion are 1) copyright infringement and 2) idling out — if there are only, say, two gloves in Malton, if all five of those characters idle out, then the mechanic is effectively removed from the game. Unless I'm misunderstanding the frequency at which the gloves/stones would appear? Bob Moncrief EBDW! 12:20, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

That's a good point. I intended for only one Gauntlet, and one of each stone, to be in Malton at any one time. Let's say for sake of argument that if a character had one of these items and then idled out, those items would be randomly redistributed throughout Malton again. THE CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER 11:25, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Two three questions necessary to fill out these mechanics of this suggestion:

  1. How does one find these items? Just searching randomly in any building? Any block? Inside or outside?
  2. How many AP does it cost to Click Fingers?
  3. Is Click Fingers spammable repeatable or is it more of a one-time thing?

ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾ You rated this wiki '1'! Great job, go hog wild!|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 05:51, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Also, denying zombies both access to the glove and the ability to be affected by it is CLASSIC survivor-centric bias. I move that the glove should be zombie only and that every zombie with Brain Rot should automatically have one. ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾ You rated this wiki '1'! Great job, go hog wild!|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 05:58, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
That's a really fair point. Zombies can wear the Thanos Glove too, and can obtain stones similarly. However, since they lack the search function, they can only get it by killing a survivor/zombie that has stone. This enables them to have a critically different experience than the survivors, who can only obtain stones by search and not killing. Zombies with a stone also appear completely normal to other players. They only have the (S) appear by their name if they get jabbed by a DNA extractor. DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION 05:19, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
The sheer power of the Thanos Glove on mere humans is evident by its catastrophic AP (50) and HP (50) cost. So it's not guaranteed to kill the snapper outright, but might. Thoughts? DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION 05:22, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Suggestions up for voting

The following are suggestions that were developed here but have since gone to voting. The discussions that were taking place here have been moved to the pages linked below.