User talk:Rosslessness/The Difference

The Experiement

Short answer is yes, I did exactly that to at least two suburbs during the time of the big red block, which is amusingly being referred to as the Extinction Zone, even though in truth Extinction had little to nothing to do with it. There are many suburbs throughout the city in which one single survivor can make a massive difference, there are none ever in which 1 zombie could possibly do the same, unless that 1 zombie is maxed out and there are already loosely organized ferals in the area, and even then, it's extremely difficult due to barricades.--Karek^maps?! 13:06, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

It all dedepnds on the definition of one player. Ive actually got two guys with two different approaches. The one guy outlined here, basically rebuilding a burb thats almost ghost town. The other is a trying to be burb diplomat, pointing newbs in the directions of groups that fit their way of playing, and updating the wiki there regularly, providing shared information on different forums etc.

I feel the only way a zombie could do it would be to recruit ferals to his name, and build up a group. But then thats not really working on your own. Sigh. If humans metagamed better zombies would be much worse off.--Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 13:11, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Easiest way to make an effect is reviving people in the old revive lines, some prosurvivors are so stubborn that they won't move. Other than that you could easily, even if zombies were active, start powering buildings(without fixing the ruins), then start putting up fake barricades and healing any survivors who happen to be in the area. That alone will make a pretty decent dent in most run down suburbs. And yeah, only way a zombie can do it is through directing ferals, which is basically what groups have to do anyway but on a much smaller scale, one single survivor could pretty much undo the feral hordes work unless it's a big horde.--Karek^maps?! 13:16, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

The wiki has been very helpful, not for whats there, but what's missing. Burbs without location blocks, or even the standard survivor groups (You know with three people in them?) really stick out. You can really target one and make a huge change. Of course it helps when 4/5% percent of the whole zombie population is in one suburb. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 13:22, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Yup, even the suburb map alone gives enough information that I could move to a suburb that I can be reasonably sure is abandoned and be fine for months at a time. You can be assured that at pretty much any time that the suburbs are mostly yellow/green, which has been a lot in the last year, that only maybe 4-5 suburbs should be red, at most.--Karek^maps?! 13:24, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

True. Even in pitneybank, people aren't updating anythign on the wiki. But this conversation got me thinking of a game. Balanced sides. Find an orange burb. Survivor Vs Zombies. Can one get it to red before the other gets it to green.

Oh. Quick question as youre here. Whats the omega map thing you've got?--Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 13:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

It's something I haven't had much time to get to but it's meant to be a master map of the whole game that's on the wiki and easy to see. Then over time I was going to update it bit by bit to make it into a status map for most of the suburbs/buildings in the game. I think though that I'm gonna have to restart, I prefer the style I used on the new DoHS maps far more.--Karek^maps?! 13:32, 20 January 2008 (UTC)