Suggestion:20071009 Chalkboard

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20071009 Chalkboard

Jon Pyre 16:12, 9 October 2007 (BST)

Suggestion type
Item

Suggestion scope
Survivors

Suggestion description
A portable chalkboard, the freestanding kind that rests on wheels, would be a rare item findable in schools for those that want to make a lasting improvement to their safehouse.

Since it is very heavy and bulky the item would take up 30% of your inventory. It can be placed in a safehouse just like artwork. It has plenty of chalk on its metal shelf, so survivors can leave messages in a similar fashion to spraypaint. This would provide a second space for messages, itself a benefit, but it would also work a bit differently than spraypaint.

Rather than just overwriting a chalkboard completely like spraypaint instead there would be a "Erase Board" button. This opens up a text box with everything currently on the chalkboard. Rather than deleting a message outright and putting a new one on you can instead change a message, add on to a message ,or reply to a message, while leaving the old message up.

So a list of differences between board and spraypaint:

• Doesn't require an item to write/change/delete
• Longer space for messages, perhaps five times as long as spraypaint so people have room to leave brief messsages and get replies.
• Rarer than spraypaint though also found in schools. Perhaps 1%, .5%?
• Messages can be deleted by zombies - They can't write but can delete messages. Also, ransacking destroys the chalkboard, and chalkboards can't be placed in ransacked buildings.

Spraypainting would leave more durable messages, and be the better method for blanketing a neighborhood with messages. Chalkboards would be a great way of strengthing communication among the population of a single safehouse.

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Keep Votes

1. Keep - I like it. --Midianian|T|T:S|C:RCS| 16:19, 9 October 2007 (BST)
2. Keep much fun could be had with these chalkboards. --Pavluk ^{A! E!} 16:20, 9 October 2007 (BST)
3. Author Sadly no "clap erasers" skill. Oh, and just to state the obvious there would only be room for one blackboard, just like gennies. --Jon Pyre 16:36, 9 October 2007 (BST)
4. Keep -Good, but I'd think it to work like gens/radio, in that it can be used in any ruined building, but be targeted like a gen/radio.--Kolechovski 17:18, 9 October 2007 (BST)
5. Keep - yet another good idea of: Jon Pyre. Keepish--  Savant  Chit-Chat  18:17, 9 October 2007 (BST)
6. Keep/Change - I r lrn 2 chalckbaord rit. It's heavier than a generator (right?), too heavy, less weight please!--  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 18:52, 9 October 2007 (BST)
   • Re The encumbrance could definitely be altered, it's not a crucial detail. I just gave it a higher encumbrance not because it weighs more but because it is larger and bulkier. --Jon Pyre 19:39, 9 October 2007 (BST)

   Well encumbrance doesn't necessarily mean weight, if the chalk board was taken directly from the wall of a school classroom, it'd be quite tough to carry. Unless you mean one of the smaller portable type found in a gym or smaller rooms.--  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 20:31, 9 October 2007 (BST)

   keep/change Possibly limit messages on the board to one per person to prevent spamStudoku Improperly signed. --^T 22:32, 10 October 2007 (BST)

   • Re Well, technically the message is always from one single person, they can just choose to leave text from previous people as part of their alteration. --Jon Pyre 21:25, 9 October 2007 (BST)
7. Keep - "Headquarters of the Matrix Knights is displayed on a chalkboard." Since your last turn: You added ", the biggest bunch of trenchie morons this side of the Danube" to the chalkboard. This could lead to fun. (Edit: I made that group name up, I have no idea whether it actually exists) --Pestilent Bob 20:20, 9 October 2007 (BST)
8. Keep - Why not? As above. --LumiReaver 20:24, 9 October 2007 (BST)
9. Keep The more ways to coordinate in-game the better. Rebel147 20:26, 9 October 2007 (BST)
10. Keep - pretty good idea.--'BP^Tmz 20:37, 9 October 2007 (BST)
11. Keep sounds like something useful to me--Zach016 22:33, 9 October 2007 (BST)
12. Keep - I want to draw on a dry erase board. I dont know, I just want to. doc crook 23:33, 9 October 2007 (BST)
13. Weak Keep - Idk kinda nerfs tagging eh? Sockem 23:41, 9 October 2007 (BST)
14. Keep - I like it a lot, I think it'd be a great way to actually improve a safehouse by decoration. Rill Haggish 00:42, 10 October 2007 (BST)
15. Keep - Sounds fun. Also, for the sake of flavor, perhaps some of the "boards" you find should be "whiteboards" instead, which come from abandoned high schools. They wouldn't receive any special abilities other than what you've already suggested, except for giving more flavor to the item. --Private Mark 00:50, 10 October 2007 (BST)
16. It's OK - Is great, except for the fact that the flavor kinda sucks. BoboTalkClown 02:13, 10 October 2007 (BST)
17. Week Keep/Change - As with the killers, put them in schools, offices, and the forts, that's all. Glenstone 03:48, 10 October 2007 (BST)
18. Keep/Change- Hah, this is cool. But reduce the encumbrance to 20%, since it can't be heavier than a big heavy cubist sculpture, can't it? --Vkkhamul 04:01, 10 October 2007 (BST)

    • As mentioned above, while the board ight be lighter than a cubist sculpture, it's uncumbersome to carry. -- Karth  ^FoD 11:16, 11 October 2007 (BST)

19. Keep! - I just plain like these kind of wacky suggestions. Good stuff, and well deserving of a keep. --Uncle Bill 05:56, 10 October 2007 (BST)
20. Keep - Chalkbordz halp me lurn speek gudz.--Seventythree^Talk 07:38, 10 October 2007 (BST)
21. Keep - a good suggestion of items findable in schools --~~~~ [talk] 15:50, 10 October 2007 (BST)
22. Keep/Change - Like suggested or change to non item and make them permanent in schools and such. Makes boring buildings fun headquaters at least. -- Karth  ^FoD 11:16, 11 October 2007 (BST)
23. Keep - Great idea. What else can I say? -J. A. 03:10, 12 October 2007 (BST)
24. Keep - No true harm can come of this. --Anotherpongo 19:22, 19 October 2007 (BST)
25. Keep - Good item for schools, and great for safehouses--Rictor Stilwell 02:46, 24 October 2007 (BST)

Kill Votes

1. Kill - Completely out-of-theme for a zombie apocalypse. Kind of amusing though.. --Pgunn 20:15, 9 October 2007 (BST)
   • Re I don't know, there's that recurring scene in action movies where the military squad illustrates its plan out on a board over a team meeting. And chalkboards/dry erase boards are frequently seen in office comedies, which are kind of like zombie movies. --Jon Pyre 21:27, 9 October 2007 (BST)
2. Kill - Kind of duplicates Radios, though semi-permenantly, I suppose. I dunno, I just don't like this... I don't really have to give a solid reason every time, do I? --WanYao 20:24, 9 October 2007 (BST)
3. Kill - Dumb idea, would be slightly less dumb if it were limited only to schools and couldn't be transported.--Karek^maps?! 20:33, 9 October 2007 (BST)
4. Kill - Schools, maybe even offices sounds like a good idea.-- dǝǝɥs oʇ ɯɐds: sʎɐʍ1ɐ! 21:46, 9 October 2007 (BST)
5. Change -Probably offices to, maybe military buildings (fort) as mentioned above for planning. Otherwise... well, rare=/=balanced. Maybe... eh, no idea really. Costly, rare, hmm... --AlexanderRM 00:00, 10 October 2007 (BST)
6. Change - Fun, but need to some adjustments. Anyway, part of main idea is OK to me, but I can't imagine anybody walking with a chalkboard on a ransaked city "Hey dudes, we have weapons, we have field rations... Crap, it would be perfect if we have a chalkboard here to write our battle plan. Need a volunteer who risks his life to get one on the school at the other side of this suburb... Damn, stop laughing, I was talking seriously". Make it a fixed item or even an improvised item (p.e. a broken table CAN be used as chalkboard... you only need the chalks, or even some charcoal from a bonfire). --Kaipirinha 02:51, 10 October 2007 (BST)
   • Re If people will carry a stuffed fish through city streets as decoration a chalkboard has met the bar for realism. --Jon Pyre 15:02, 10 October 2007 (BST)
     • Hummm Touché... but still would prefer a non-movable item ;) --Kaipirinha 01:17, 11 October 2007 (BST)
7. Interesting. Why CAN'T zombies right on it? Those with Memories of Life could do zombie speech. Also, I REALLY don't see people carting these around. Even your RE to Pgunn doesn't cut it really. Instead, maybe the could just be setup where found.--Pesatyel 04:23, 10 October 2007 (BST)
   • Re A zombie mumbling BARHAH is in genre. But a zombie picking up chalk and legibly writing? Zombie scribes seems a bit farfetched. I imagined a zombie could erase the board just by brushing it with their hand. Also, if a zombie could write why would they be limited to zombie speech? Zombie speech is based on the limitations of their vocal cords and brain. If a zombie could write a Z or A they could write an S or E. --Jon Pyre 15:02, 10 October 2007 (BST)
8. Change - As Karek suggested above, making it a stationary and limited to certain buildings would be better. --Sonofagun18 05:50, 10 October 2007 (BST)
9. Change - I agree with what Karek and Sono said, make it so it's only available in Schools. --Paris V-W 20:05, 14 October 2007 (BST)
10. Kill/Change – Schools and maybe offices (Buildings) only. ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾᚨᚾᛏ 13:47, 18 October 2007 (BST)

Spam/Dupe Votes

1. Spam - God I hate the number of ways survivors insist on wasting AP. There is already graffiti in the game, why do we need another level of graffiti (chalk messages) on top of that, and the speech, and the radio broadcasts... meh. It's just another crap message suggestion, like post-it notes, fliers, etc., etc., etc. -- boxy • talk • 12:27 10 October 2007 (BST)

   Discussion moved to the talk page -- boxy • talk • 13:58 18 October 2007 (BST)

2. spam - what next - semaphore? --Funt Solo 11:18, 13 October 2007 (BST)