Talk:Suggestions/28th-Feb-2007
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Make Ransack a Reported Event
| Timestamp: | S.Wiers X:00 03:25, 28 February 2007 (UTC) |
| Type: | improvement |
| Scope: | anybody in a building when it is ransacked |
| Description: | If nothing else, this change is needed because a building being ransacked should be more obvious than a generator or radio being destroyed! As with those actions, ransacking a building should be a reported event, with a report along the lines of "A zambah ranzags za baagang. BARHAH!!!" It need not be in death rattle, but that only seems proper seeing as only zombies would ever see this message; if survivors are present, the location can not be ransacked. Besides being a logically visible event, this would provide a link to the ransacking zombies profile, allowing zombies to contact list the hero of the moment, and thus perhaps follow them in future attacks. |
Discussion
I think this speaks more strongly as to why this suggestion is needed than any argument I could make. --S.Wiers X:00 03:27, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- Damn right... yesterday i ransacked 4 buildings, all open, all with zeds no harmanz in sight! must of been relative noobs?--Honestmistake 09:14, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- Well, there won't ever bee any humans in sight- if there are humans present, you can't use ransack. And yeah, a lot of zombies right now don't have the ransack skill- its not one that survivors looking for revives ever benefit from, so only dedicated zombies and players with XP to burn tend to have the skill. --S.Wiers X:00 15:38, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- I know but it is sweet to know that those noobs ate the suckers i dragged out of those buildings in the last few days letting me have the joy of trashing stuff instead of cades! long (un)live the BARHAH! --Honestmistake 16:42, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Makes total sense. I'd vote keep -- As long as it's not in Death Rattle. Death Rattle is a nod to zombie speech patterns not to their perception of actions or events. --Matt Scott 9 14:02, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, I guess. It was mostly meant as a bit of comedy / morale boosting flavor. Currently they only announcement of ransack is when a zombie announces it (via death rattle), so I thought it might be fun to keep that flavor. I actually do imagine my zombie thinking in rattle, or some other equally simple, crude approximation of normal thought. But that might confuse new players who have no familiarity with death rattle. How about just "A Zombie trashes the building using the ransack skill. BARHAH!!!" That would help new players understand how the skill works, and maybe encourage them to try and figure out what "barhah" means.--S.Wiers X:00 15:38, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I like that -- Standard english for the action, followed by "BARHAH!!!" Compromise is a beautiful thing. --Matt Scott 9 16:07, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
