Talk:Lumber Mall
Jan 10. 1:57pm EST/7:57pm GMT
After Christmas Sales started!!!!!
South square of the mail can be entered at this time. 31 zombies inside. I managed to get off 30 searches (3 pistols, 1 shotgun and 3 first aid kids) before being attack by 3-4 zombies. Mall is surrouned with zeds in groups of 2-3, most inactive atm.
Josephine Hospital had 6 zeds outside. Shelly Grove had 5. Maddesford Square had 12.
Small groups of zeds to the north east.
G'luck and G'Shopping.
A Strategy View
With only 2 squares, this mall should be the easiest for survivors to defend. Typically in mall sieges, when one block of a mall is significantly broken into, zombies kill everyone in that one square, and then ransack the block. Once one block is ransacked, there's a gaping hole in the defences, and the other three squares are pretty much doomed. Lumber mall's unusual size should protect survivors by making that first ransack more difficult to do.
How? Compared to other malls, Lumber mall is much smaller, meaning defenders will be more densely packed together. This higher number of defenders per block means that if zombies want to ransack a square, they're first going to have to get past more people than normal, costing more AP.
You might think that this effect would be canceled out by zombies densities also being more concentrated, but zombies already tend to focus on one square. They get no additional advantage from the mall being smaller.
The only downsides to Lumber Mall are the relatively high distance to the nearest NT building, and the fact it's quite out of the way. --Toejam 16:15, 26 March 2007 (BST)
You know, I've been thinking about that myself. It's good to know that I'm not the only one who realized that little detail. Yep, Lumber Mall is potentially one of the Most defensible places in Malton. --Reaper with no name TJ! 19:05, 26 April 2007 (BST)
- I was wondering who else realized this. Yeah, it's near a border, and ferals end up gravitating towards borders. Still completely one of the most defensible places in Malton. I'd hope that the smart guys in Malton start moving here if the H/Z ratio tips farther. Slicer 03:28, 18 August 2007 (BST)
This is our mall!!!
That's right, EVIL was here!!!! -Poodle of doom 20:42, 20 July 2009 (BST)
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Was Lumber Mall 4 Squares?
I have reason to believe that Lumber mall was either a 4 square mall, or a 3 square mall before the outbreak. i think the wall goes through the mall. if you look at it from a top down stand point it makes sence.--Dirty 09:42, 16 April 2010 (BST)
- and think about the name, "lumber" and the picture of an axe....--Dirty 09:44, 16 April 2010 (BST)
