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===20100407 Allow Zombies to Eat in the Dark===

{{User:Swiers/Sig}} 15:51, 7 April 2010 (BST)


'''Suggestion type'''<br />
improvement to [[Dark]] building mechanics<br />


'''Suggestion scope'''<br />
Zombies who want to regain HPs by feeding on corpses. <br />


'''Suggestion description'''<br />
Zombies who have [[Zombie_skills|Digestion]] can regain HPs by feeding on freshly dead bodies.  However, in [[dark]] buildings, nobody can see whether corpses are present, and so zombies can't (or at least don't know to) feed on them.  I suggest that zombies who have [[Zombie_skills|Scent Fear]] should be able to "see" dead bodies in the [[dark]]; if they can smell fear, tracking down a corpse in the dark by scent should be pretty easy.  This could be as simple as providing the normal reports of bodies, or a slightly altered one indicating they are detected by scent, not vision.  If they also have [[Zombie_skills|Digestion]], the action option will also be provided for them to feed.  When they do feed, this action is normally reported such that a link to the zombie's profile is provided; in the [[dark]], it would instead be reported simply as "You hear disturbing sounds of rending flesh" or some such.<br>
A potential side benefit of this would be that zombies would know whether corpses of contacts were present in the [[Dark]].  I feel this is also realistic, and beneficial because it lets them know if zombie friends who were killed have stood up and moved on, or are still present as corpses.



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# Author's vote.  {{User:Swiers/Sig}} 15:52, 7 April 2010 (BST)
#'''Keep''' - Definitely makes sense in terms of flavor and game mechanics. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 16:21, 7 April 2010 (BST)
#'''Keep''' - Providing that this does not cross over.--{{User:Yonnua Koponen/signature‎}} 16:27, 7 April 2010 (BST)
#'''Keep''' - As usual, Swiers makes a lot of sense. --{{User:Another_alias/Signature}} 22:43, 7 April 2010 (BST)
#'''Keep''' - Darkness should be a purely human problem, zombies should not have to refrain from smashing anything. --{{User:TripleU/Sig}} 23:41, 7 April 2010 (BST)
#'''Keep''' - Makes perfect sense. --{{User:Skin/sig}} 00:51, 8 April 2010 (BST)
#'''Keep/change''' - It should be scent death instead of scent fear.  Dead bodies smell dead, not afraid.  But while we're here can we have a "keep" vote for swiers?--{{User:Giles Sednik/sig}} 01:43, 8 April 2010 (BST)  
#* Thanks for the personal vote.  I went with Scent Fear instead because it currently acts only as a nearly useless "stepping stone" skill whose effect is only ever used by newbies.  Once you have Scent Death, it is (nearly) useless.  Tacking even more effects onto Scent Death ([[SIM|which is already proven one of the most powerful information gathering skills in the game]]) would only compound that.  Besides, wouldn't a recently dead body still smell of fear?  {{User:Swiers/Sig}} 02:05, 8 April 2010 (BST)
#'''Keep''' I was initially a little leary about it, but since it only seems to revolve around zombies eating corpses and actually provides a reason for zombies to use Digestion, I'm all for it. Chomp chomp pa-chewy-chomp! --{{User:Maverick Farrant/sig}} 06:56, 8 April 2010 (BST)
#I want more zombie buffs. --{{User:DanceDanceRevolution/sig3}} 10:19, 8 April 2010 (BST)
#'''Swiers''', by which I mean '''Keep''' --{{User:Rosslessness/Sig}} 14:09, 8 April 2010 (BST)
#'''Keep''' - Makes zombies more at home in the [[dark]] and buffs [[digestion]]. Makes perfect sense. --[[User:BoboTalkClown]] 19:04, 8 April 2010 (BST)
#'''Keep''' - I dig. {{User:Misanthropy/Sig}} 20:24, 8 April 2010 (BST)

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#:{{strike|'''Kill''' - Affects balance.}}- Unsigned vote. --{{User:Yonnua Koponen/signature‎}} 20:09, 8 April 2010 (BST) It was mine, just forget to sign --[[User:Girobu|Girobu]] 09:29, 9 April 2010 (BST)

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