User:Maverick Farrant

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Maverick Farrant

Maverick's Advice for Survivors

  • Spend time on the Wiki. There are tons of tools up there, from maps to guides to simple scripting tools (like the numerous building status templates) that can help you and take almost no time at all to learn how to update. Contributing on the UDWiki helps everyone. Failure to do so will result in using you as zombie bait.
  • There is a "Speak" button in the UD interface. There are also items called mobile phones and radios. Kevan did not put them there just for kicks. Use them.
  • Have you ever watched a zombie movie? Ever noticed how almost every single time, the people who stay in one place end up getting eaten by the end of the film? Same thing applies here. Don't stay in one place; mobility is a huge asset, especially concerning large hordes.
  • Same applies for survivor groups. Unless you have a couple dozen people in your group, it's not a good idea to base yourself in a single suburb. You restrict yourself too much. If you don't want to roam over the entire city of Malton, pick out a little chunk (4-6 suburbs) to stay mobile in. Plan on a safehouse or two in each and keep moving.
  • DO NOT run out into the street with guns/axe/knife/fists and start attacking zombies. All you're doing is wearing a neon sign that says, "EAT ME!". If you want to be a zombie that badly, just jump out of a building.
  • RULE OF THUMB: Survivors should play defensively

Maverick's Advice for Zombies

  • Join a group. Lone zombies can do little other than beat away at barricaded buildings and munch on the random survivor caught outside.
  • With luck, the group you join will be at least moderately organized. If this is the case, congrats! You now have a 100% advantage over 95% of all survivors because most survivors are not [or are very poorly] organized.
  • If your group is not very organized, take some initiative and make it so. Small groups should probably focus their efforts on TRPs that are not often EHB and on choke points in the Free Running network. Large zombie groups have many more options at their disposal.
  • RULE OF THUMB: Zombies should play offensively

Ongoing Work and References

Sandbox/Sandpit

Different names, same function. A place for me to play around with wiki code and make it do my bidding.

  • Sandbox - Currently working on a much larger version of the Template:BarricadePlan.
  • Sandbox 2 - Variable template to work with #1.
  • Sandbox 3 - Also working with #1.
  • Sandbox 4 - A holding space for code for the new barricade plan template to make updating the templates for all the suburbs easier.

Projects

A list of things wiki-related that I'm working on not necessarily related to any of the above Sandbox projects.

  • Re-vamp and revitalize the UBP pages
- Put UBP template on all suburb barricade plans
- Review barricade plans for each suburb and update map accordingly
- Change wording on UBP noncompliant template
  • Standardize all barricade plans
- Move all barricade plans to Template: namespace
- Discuss & create a barricade template that meets with community approval for usefulness and ease of editing
- Create <Suburb> Barricade Plan pages for each suburb with appropriate plan inserted, along with appropriate discussion(s) from past pages. (NW, NE & SW quad complete)
- Edit barricade plan section on suburb pages to NPOV with template inserted.

References

Just a simple list of places on the wiki that I tend to visit frequently all in one convenient place.

Various Policies I Support

Black rose.jpg OBR Ally
This user or group is allied with the Order of the Black Rose and benefits from an overflowing amount of awesome.
Balance scale.jpg Fair Tactics Player
This user has signed the Coalition for Fair Tactics Player Pledge.
Sgpicon1.gif Sacred Ground Policy Supporter
This user or group supports the Sacred Ground Policy and acknowledges that all Cemeteries in the city of Malton are considered Revivification Points.
Ubpicon1.gif UBP Supporter
This User supports the Uniform Barricading Policy.