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==Developing Suggestions==
''This section is for presenting and reviewing suggestions which '''have not yet been submitted''' and are still being worked on.''


''Nothing on this page will be archived.''


===Further Discussion===
===Ignore based on Radio Broadcast===
*Discussion concerning this page takes place [[Talk:Developing Suggestions|here]].
*Discussion concerning the suggestions system in general, including policies about it, takes place [[:Category_talk:Suggestions#Suggestion_Discussion|here]].
 
 
==Please Read Before Posting==
*'''Be sure to check <big>[[Frequently Suggested#The List|The Frequently Suggested List]]</big> and the [[Suggestions Dos and Do Nots]] before you post your idea.''' You can read about many ideas that have been suggested already, which users should be aware of before posting what could be a '''dupe''': a duplicate of an existing suggestion. '''These include [[Suggestions/RejectedNovember2005#SMG.2FMachine_Pistol|Machine Guns]] and [[Suggestions/19th-Nov-2005#Sniper_Rifle|Sniper Rifles]].'''
*Users should be aware that page is discussion oriented. Other users are free to express their own point of view and are not required to be neutral.
*If you decide not to take your suggestion to voting, please remove it from this page to avoid clutter.
*It is recommended that users spend some time familiarizing themselves with this page before posting their own suggestions.
*''After new game updates, users are requested to allow time for the game and community to adjust to these changes '''before''' suggesting alterations.''
 
==How To Make a Suggestion==
===Adding a New Suggestion===
*Copy the code in the box below.
*<span class="stealthexternallink">[http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php?title=Developing_Suggestions&action=edit&section=7 Click here to begin editing.]</span> This is the same as clicking the [edit] link to the right of the [[Developing Suggestions#Suggestions|Suggestions]] header.
 
*Paste the copied text '''above''' the other suggestions, right under the heading.
*Substitute the text in <font color="red">RED CAPITALS</font> with the details of your suggestion.
 
<nowiki>{{subst:DevelopingSuggestion
|time=~~~~
|name=</nowiki><font color="red">SUGGESTION NAME</font><nowiki>
|type=</nowiki><font color="red">TYPE HERE</font><nowiki>
|scope=</nowiki><font color="red">SCOPE HERE</font><nowiki>
|description=</nowiki><font color="red">DESCRIPTION HERE</font><nowiki>
}}</nowiki>
 
*'''Name''' - Give the suggestion a short but descriptive name.
*'''Type''' is the nature of the suggestion, such as a ''new class'', ''skill change'', ''balance change'', etc. Basically: '''What is it?''' and '''Is it new, or a change?'''
*'''Scope''' is who or what the suggestion affects. Typically ''survivors'' or ''zombies'' (or both), but occasionally ''Malton'', the game ''interface'' or something else.
*'''Description''' should be a full explanation of your suggestion. Include information like flavor text, search odds, hit percentages, etc, as appropriate. Unless you are as yet unsure of the exact details behind the suggestion, try not to leave out anything important. Check your spelling and grammar.
 
===Cycling Suggestions===
*Suggestions with no new discussion in the past two days should be given a warning notice. This can be done by adding {{CodeInline|1='''<nowiki>{{SDW|</nowiki><font color="darkred">date</font><nowiki>}}</nowiki>'''}} at the top of the discussion section, where <font color="darkred">date</font> is the day the suggestion will be removed.
*Suggestions with no new discussion in the past week may be removed.
*If you are adding a comment to a suggestion that has the warning template please remove the {{CodeInline|1='''<nowiki>{{SDW|</nowiki><font color="darkred">date</font><nowiki>}}</nowiki>'''}} at the top of the discussion section to show that there is still ongoing discussion.
 
This page is prone to breaking when the page gets too long, so sometimes suggestions still under discussion will be moved to the [[Developing Suggestions/Overflow1|Overflow page]], so the discussion can continue.
 
 
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<span style="font-size:1.75em; color:red">'''Please add new suggestions to the top of the list'''</span>
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==Suggestions==
===hands break though the barricade===
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|'''Timestamp:''' --[[User:Kralion|Kralion]] 15:11, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
|'''Timestamp:''' [[User:Khwud|Khwud]] ([[User talk:Khwud|talk]]) 17:27, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
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|'''Type:''' Flavour
|'''Type:''' UI enhancement
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|'''Scope:''' zombies
|'''Scope:''' Interface
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|'''Description:''' When zombies began attacking barricades,there could be a 10% chance that their hands break through it and it will be visible to the survivors inside.The zombie would recieve the message ''you attack the barriacade.Your hand breaks through the barriacade and is visible for tje survivors inside''.For example ''You are inside the Shears Building. The building has been very heavily barricaded.You see 5 hands come out from the barricades''.This will just add flavor to the game and will sure scare those survivor inside.You can still attack the barricades with your other free hand with no penalty.Taking the hand out of the barricade costs 0 AP.There could be an option that asks you if you want to immediately take the hand out of the barricade in the settings menu.The zombie hand cannot be attacked.
|'''Description:''' Allow 'ignore' from radio broadcasts; users are hiding behind their anonymity to allow them to broadcast things that would broadly trigger them to be ignored, if their user ID was visible.  Adding their name, or an auto-generated call-sign (it is for a radio, after all) or something so that they could be blocked based on their broadcasts would help user experience.  In addition, and broadcasts that get more than a threshold number could get tagged for review, and the user potentially having their (in-game) ham-license revoked.
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===Discussion (hands break through the barricade)===
====Discussion (Ignore based on Radio Broadcast)====
Sounds like useless flavor that will cause more effort and problems that it will create fun; I ask this suggestion the same question I ask many others: Why? Also, people will want to attack the hands.
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===Shrink the map===
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|'''Timestamp:''' {{User:Sorakairi/sig}} 12:32, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
|'''Timestamp:''' --[[User:Uroguy|Uroguy]]<sup>[[Zookeepers|TMZ]]</sup> 16:28, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
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|'''Type:''' Flavour
|'''Type:''' Map change
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|'''Scope:''' humans
|'''Scope:''' Everyone
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|'''Description:''' Allows location specific actions such as dancing in a lit club, pretending to work in an office building, shopping in a Mall, Drinking in a Pub. Doing this doesn't achieve anything, it's just flavour. And it costs just 1AP!
|'''Description:''' There are just over 3000 active characters in the game currently likely counting a significant percentage of alts and zergs. Shrinking the map by eliminating the outer first two rings of suburbs would increase the amount of interactions between the remaining characters. This shrink could be increased or decreased depending on future changes to the playerbase.
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====Discussion (Location Specific Actions)====
====Discussion (Shrink the map)====
Why? What are all the actions, and can zombies with memories of life do them as well? --{{User:Rosslessness/Sig}} 12:34, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 
You can dance in nightclubs, you can drink in pubs and searching in a mall is the same thing as shopping (Don't believe me? Go shopping with a woman for the ''right'' dress, searching for the Holy Grail would be quicker). The only difference is that you want others to be able to see you are performing the action, which makes this a dupe of the /me command that should be in PR. -- {{User:Iscariot/Signature}} 12:38, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
:I'm on the fence here.  First off, zombies should have the options to also perform location specific actions.  Secondly, the actions shouldn't be genre breaking.  I don't want to break into a club as a zombie and see everyone break-dancing.  Or fire a shotgun into a horde of zombies standing at a park only to find out they are gardening peacefully.<br>
:But, if you can keep it in-genre, and make sure zombies and survivors would have actions, I might get on board.--{{User:Giles Sednik/sig}} 12:46, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
::Zombies? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plants_vs._Zombies Gardening?] {{User:Misanthropy/Sig}} 19:09, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 
I support this idea, but don't think it's likely to pass; people aren't fans of pure flavor.{{User:Lelouch/sig}} 16:57, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
:I'm a little torn.  I don't see it as bad.  According to the Zombie Survival Guide, survivors SHOULD keep themselves entertained.  But in Urban Dead, doing things like that just kind of implies that the zombie conflict isn't dangerous enough.  If survivors have time to "goof off" with things like dancing....  But hey, if there are zombie actions too, I'd probably vote keep.--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 21:49, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
::See a lot of long-term zombie movies? Whenever the survivors hunker down somewhere they think is safe, they almost always try to dance, drink, joke, or sex themselves up; the more stressful a situation, the more people want to try to relax and forget about it. Zombie dancing would rule.{{User:Lelouch/sig}} 22:28, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
:::Depends on how bad the movie is lol.  All that is needed is a list of actual "things you can do".--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 05:33, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 
I am all in favor of this suggestion with the following conditions:
*Available to zombie with MoL
*Some kind of flavour text like, "You are in Club Bolt. There are 6 survivors here and 3 zombies here. Two of the survivors and one of the zombies appear to be dancing."
*Flavor action stops as soon at the character does anything other than speak
That being said, I think this is some great flavour.  Just make sure you add the specific actions to the suggestion for each building type before you take it to voting. --{{User:Maverick Farrant/sig}} 05:31, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 
Just like to note, it seems to me that you all seem to assume that I have said that Zombies couldn't do location specific actions. I didnt say they couldn't I just hadn't considered the possibility. But I suppose it makes sense. I'll suggest it now. {{User:Sorakairi/sig}} 12:08, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
:We made that "assumption" because your suggestion said ''"Scope: humans"''.  But yeh, it looks like there could be some support if MoL granted the same flavor actions.--{{User:Giles Sednik/sig}} 15:05, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
hehehehe,zombies attemping to breakdance.You have my support.--[[User:Kralion|Kralion]] 14:53, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 
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===Item sorting===
===Action Points===
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|'''Timestamp:''' [[User:Diavolone|Diavolone]] 06:47, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
|'''Timestamp:''' [[User:Wolldog1]] 10:07, 26 July 26, 2022
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|'''Type:''' Feature of ease
|'''Type:''' Action Points Increase Regeneration Rate
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|'''Scope:''' Everyone with items
|'''Scope:''' Everyone
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|'''Description:''' What I noticed in this game was that when you got a lot of items, pistols, ammo etc, its hard to keep control of it all. One little easy implemented feature would have been to sort the items alphabetically or something. Or by type, but alphabetically is easier to implement. That way all the pistols would be in a row, and all the pistol clips in a row, and the same with medkits, and shotguns and everything else. Seeing how many you have of each item will be much easier, and I think that a lot of players would appreciate this.
|'''Description:''' Due to the passage of time with mobile games and other real time action games without restriction,  I think that we should address the action points system of the game. This game can only realistically be played for 5 minutes a day. So it's not really a seller for new blood. If we want to see this game survive it needs to evolve into something more exciting than 5 minutes. My suggestion is double the regeneration rate to improve activity. I love this game.  I want to play it more. And the die hard fans I'm sure feel the same. More will go on in a day, sure. But that's for both sides. We're ready for it. Let's get this game moving again. We need this.
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====Discussion (Item sorting)====
====Discussion (Action Points)====
 
This was actually suggested, here at least, like a week ago.  We also have [http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/PR_UI:_Main_Screen#Inventory this].--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 06:58, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
:I think it was a month or two ago, but yeah, we just talked about this. Nothing came of it in the end though, and I think the idea got cycled, so we may as well discuss it again. I recall Iscariot had an issue with people changing his interface around, and there was the usual smattering of people saying that this is just a Greasemonkey issue, rather than an actual interface issue. Personally, I'm all for alphabetizing it.
 
:As an aside, since people will say you should just use a script for doing it on your own, here's one [[User:Aichon/Userscripts#UD_Item_Combiner.2C_Organizer.2C_and_Sorter|such script]] that does a bit more than just alphabetize. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 07:20, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 
'''[[Suggestion:20070623 Better Inventory|Dupe]]'''. {{User:Revenant/Sig}} 13:47, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 
I reckon this suggetion isnt a dupe. Its a Dupe-A-Saurus Rex. {{User:Sorakairi/sig}} 12:29, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
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===Adrenaline shot===
===Drone===
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|'''Timestamp:''' --[[User:Kralion|Kralion]] 22:23, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
|'''Timestamp:''' [[User:Rosslessness|<span style="color: MidnightBlue ">R</span><span style="color: Navy">o</span><span style="color: DarkBlue">s</span><span style="color: MediumBlue">s</span><span style="color: RoyalBlue"></span>]][[User_Talk:Rosslessness|<span style="color: RoyalBlue">l</span><span style="color: CornflowerBlue">e</span><span style="color: SkyBlue">s</span><span style="color: LightskyBlue">s</span>]][[User_Talk:Rosslessness/Quiz|<span style="color: LightBlue">n</span><span style="color: PowderBlue">e</span>]][[Monroeville Many|<span style="color: PaleTurquoise">s</span>]][[The Great Suburb Group Massacre|<span style="color: PaleTurquoise">s</span>]]<sup>[[Location Page Building Toolkit|<span style="color: DarkRed">Want a Location Image?]] </span> </sup>  19:10, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
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|'''Type:''' new item
|'''Type:''' Survivor Item
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|'''Scope:''' survivors
|'''Scope:''' Survivors
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|'''Description:'''Basically, the adrenaline shot will give you 5 AP when injected they can only be injected '''once per day''' to prevent abusing of it,making it overpowered. This would be useful when walking into a safehouse...and find it infested with 20 zeds,those 5 AP  will probably save your life. Adrenaline can be injected to any other person that hasnt been injected already.
|'''Description:''' Portable drone, found in mall tech stores, which are pointless as we all know. Encumbrance is 10%. When activated for 15ap they provide an image of a 10x10 grid centred on the survivor, showing the current outside status of all blocks including zombies, survivors and dead bodies. Like DNA scanners, Drones are multi use.
When you have already injected adrenaline and try to inject more will trigger the message ''you have already injected adrenaline today,too much is very dangerous'' will waste 1 AP but the adrenaline shot will still be there. Trying to inject to somebody that has already injected will trigger the message ''you notice that the person has already injected adrenaline,better dont give him more.''. Adrenaline shots can be found in necrotech buildings (maybe they were experimenting with them?) with a search radius of 2% and in hospitals with a 4%.After an hour,a message will trigger saying ''you fell the adrenaline wear off,you suddenly become tired'' and lose 5 AP points,if the person has 0 AP he wont start regenerating past 2 hours and a half (5 AP).
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====Discussion (Adrenaline shot)====
====Discussion (Drone)====
 
Would there be a message displayed to the players to the effect of "there's a drone buzzing overhead", similar to a flare? --{{User:A Helpful Little Gnome/Sig}} 02:19, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
Only if one hour later you automatically lose 10 AP, and it works in the negative if applicable. (example: you have 5 AP when your hour is up, you fall to -5. Also, you can't go over 50 AP, so any AP you would have gained over 50 is lost.{{User:Zombie Lord/sig2}} <tt>22:29 1 December 2009(BST)</tt>
:'''RE:'''I gotta seriously think about this,but maybe the AP lose would just be 5 less AP.You urgently need AP,you inject,then lose 5 AP.Sounds good to me,what do you think guys?.
:Make it so that you can be injected more than once a day, but for every shot you get over 1 in 24 hours you take 5 damage as well. Then if you die from it it says: "[name] died from a drug overdose."{{User:Zombie Lord/sig2}} <tt>22:42 1 December 2009(BST)</tt>
::'''RE:'''Interesting,maybe we could do that,but then the adrenaline shot could not be applied to other people beside you because it would be an effective killer,and besides in a mall siege,people could keep injecting adrenaline and other people will heal them,doesnt sound to balanced to me if you ask me.What do you think?--[[User:Kralion|Kralion]] 01:04, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 
THIS IS NOT LEFT FOR DEAD. This is Urban Dead. --{{User:The Colonel/Sig}} 22:37, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
:'''RE:'''So just because it looks similar to the left 4 dead 2 adrenaline shot (I got the idea from it indeed) it cannot be applied?.--[[User:Kralion|Kralion]] 01:04, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
::As a zombie player, this clearly is over balance, your helping the survivors but putting the zombies at a negative, we lose AP because of headshots as is, now effectively a survivor could use 55AP while a zombie gets 44ap. That is extremely unbalance. Not to mention you clearly aren't thinking of PKers who would use adrenaline and clear out buildings faster and better, then you get more people butthurt about pkers, then there already is. OVERBALANCED STOP DISCUSSING IT, kthanxbye. --{{User:The Colonel/Sig}} 01:16, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
:::'''RE:'''I am just gonan discuss about PKers,5 AP 1 day arent gonna make a HUGE difference.An average high lvl PK may kill 3 people 1 day.5 AP arent gonna make him kill 6 more.
::::Have you ever traveled amongst a semi-ruined suburb were over 1/2 the people are 30 and under. Its easy picking, you also never addressed the fact that would be 55 AP for a survivor versus 44 for a zombie. This is still overpowered and thus NO! NO GOD DAMN ADRENALINE! --{{User:The Colonel/Sig}} 04:13, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
{{TPolice}}{{User:Zombie Lord/sig2}} <tt>04:42 2 December 2009(BST)</tt>
 
Will someone make a THIS ISN'T FUCKING LEFT FOR DEAD template we can start smacking down these idiots with?{{User:Lelouch/sig}}
{{L4D}}
:You're welcome. payment is one (1) internets. {{User:Misanthropy/Sig}} 23:01, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
{{TPolice}}{{User:Zombie Lord/sig2}} <tt>04:42 2 December 2009(BST)</tt>
 
I like Zombie Lord's nerfs to this.--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 04:10, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
:I like how Zombie Lord has made so many suggestion's that upon hearing he made another, it becomes an automatic "NO." If you think I'm joking check his contribs everything he suggests he removes as the author [http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Special:Contributions/Zombie_Lord]--{{User:The Colonel/Sig}} 06:30, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
::Well most of it was his shitty attitude and generally trolling nature.  He seems to have calmed down some.--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 06:50, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 
I swear this is a dupe, but I don't feel like looking for it. Maybe after I've had coffee. --{{User:Maverick Farrant/sig}} 06:33, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
:It's definately a dupe... I cannot be bothered looking either. --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 08:58, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
::I'm pretty sure it is, and I'm also pretty sure I wrote the first version. However, if I did, I'm definately sure I never took it further than DS. Either that, or [[User:Blake_Firedancer/Suggestions_Archive|I didn't record it]] --{{User:Blake Firedancer/sig}} 09:18, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
:::Quick search found this from way back. http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Suggestions/RejectedMarch2006#Adrenaline_Syringe Not the same but does have a fair few similarities. --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 10:13, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
::::'''RE:'''okey guys,I added zombie lrod suggestion of losing AP after injecting adrenaline.--[[User:Kralion|Kralion]] 10:26, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 
I liked the way [http://wiki.nexuswar.com/index.php/Amphetamines#Dose_of_Amphetamines Nexus War handled this]. {{User:Revenant/Sig}} 10:59, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 
Nexus War's amps worked because hospitals were the bottom of the barrel when it came to healing items.  Sure, hospitals are still lower tier than malls, but when there's really only two healing items in the game (one of them revive, which is arguably different), everybody'll search hospitals instead.  Whereas NW had all sorts of food, regeneration, innate healing, passive healing, specific status ailment and cures, etc.
 
This is a lot closer to Shartak's mushroom juice, if anything.  Thing is, it works in that game because all sides are relatively equal.  There's no logical zombie equivalent (unless somebody brings up that old godawful "eat self" suggestion :P), so it really shouldn't be in the game.  Zombies are players too, etc etc. [[User:RinKou|RinKou]] 19:23, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
:Don't forget [[Beer]] and [[Wine]] --{{User:Rosslessness/Sig}} 19:38, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
:Actually, hospitals are top-tier for FAKs now. You raise a very good point re: availability – this suggestion is one-sided and needs to consider zombies, because '''zombies are the ones with the AP shortfall!''' {{User:Revenant/Sig}} 13:51, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 
In my opinion, the search rates are a bit high. They should be about half of what they are now. Otherwise, no complaints. --[[User :Armpit Odor|<span style="color:red"><sup>A</sup><span style="color:green"><sub>O</sub><span style="color:red"><sup>R</sup><span style="color:green"><sub>D</sub><span style="color:red"><sup>M</sup><span style="color:green"><sub>O</sub><span style="color:red"><sup>P</sup><span style="color:green"><sub>R</sub><span style="color:red"><sup>I</sup><span style="color:green"><sub> ! </sub><span style="color:red"><sup>T</sup></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>]] 21:27, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 
'''RE:'''Done.--[[User:Kralion|Kralion]] 22:51, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
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===Patrol/Prowl===
===Backpack===
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|'''Timestamp:''' --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 15:35, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
|'''Timestamp:''' [[User:Wild Crazy|Wild Crazy]] ([[User talk:Wild Crazy|talk]]) 20:55, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
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|'''Type:''' new skill & action
|'''Type:''' New item
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|'''Scope:''' survivors and Zombies with MoL
|'''Scope:''' Survivors
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|'''Description:''' There are always certain folks you just don't want messing with the radio/generator/safehouse/revive line. Currently you can't do much to stop them if you are not online so I am suggesting a new Skill that would be co-ordinated through the settings page. If implemented this Skill would allow you to designate a single action that you wish to protect against; once set it would remain until you came back to change it (like descriptions) "Patrol" would be an addition to the existing Military list while Prowl would be a free zombie skill requiring MoL and "Patrol". Prowl effectively just makes Patrol a crossover skill but i suggest adding it as a freebie to make it appear on a zeds profile)
|'''Description:''' This will be a new item found in schools with a 2% find rate and sports stores with a 4% find rate. The low numbers are because, like a flak jacket, once you find it you have it forever. It increases you encumbrance by 30%. However, you can't use an item that is in your backpack until you remove it from the backpack. It costs one AP to add an item to your backpack and one AP to remove an item. An item affects your regular encumbrance until added to the backpack. Items such as GPS, radios, cell phones, and flak jacket do not work when in your backpack. Items in your backpack will not be shown in your inventory, but the backpack itself will be shown in your inventory. There will be a drop box next to the word backpack that shows all the items inside. When you click on an item in that drop box, it removes it from your backpack (1 AP).
Actions you may select (via a dropdown) would include:
*Attacking Generators
*Attacking Barricades
*Building/adding to Barricades
*Attacking Radio's
*Broadcasting
*Setting up decorations (Why you would I can't imagine but what the hey?)
*Creating Revive Syringes
*Necrotech scanning
*Reviving
*Ruining (dubious about this one but its probably only fair)
*Repairing
*Free Running
*''Any others that people think might be worthwhile?''


Once an action is selected you then choose a target:
*"colour" contacts
*all contacts
*all survivor
*all zombies


Q: Wouldn't this buff survivors, since they can carry more bullets and kill more zombies?


A: Since it costs an AP to add and remove an item, it wastes a lot of AP to put bullet clips in your backpack if you are planning on using them right away.




'''What Happens:'''
Q: If it wastes AP, what is the point?
Once set up, a new action will appear in the normal game panel, For a cost of 2AP you can begin a prowl/patrol of the area. Once anyone at a location is defending the area the description will include "One", "Several" (up to 10) or "Lots" (10+) "of survivors/zombies are patrolling/prowling this area"... it will not say what part of the area they are defending though. Should anyone from your target list attempt the action you are currently patrolling for you will attempt to prevent their action. The chance to prevent the action is 10% + 1% per character defending against the same action, no more than 10 characters can defend the same target and attempts to stop freerunning are at half chance due to the number of potential entry points.
*For example; If Burt, Ernie and Kermit are trying to stop Cookie Monster attacking the generator they have a 13% chance of success. If they are trying to prevent him freerunning this would be 6% (6.5 rounded for simplicity)
Should an action be prevented by the patrol appropriate notification will be given, "Prowling Zombies (list) drove you away as you tried to revive 'survivor x'" etc....


The patrol/prowl will end as soon as AP regeneration takes you back to a positive number or you are damaged by any attack. As soon as the patrol/prowl ends the character will lose 4AP (taking the total cost to 6) This reflects the idea that your character has been awake and active (in a limited fashion) and is now very tired. Final note on this point is should any survivor who is infected take damage everytime their patrol is triggered? I can see reasons both ways so would appreciate ideas.
A: It will be useful if you want to carry around an extra stash of items, such as FAKs and Revivification Syringes, or if you are going far away from any resource buildings and need some extra supplies.




Please give your thoughts.


====Discussion (Patrol/Prowl)====
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====Discussion (Backpack)====
 
To a large extent this is the heavily reworked Defend skill i put forwards last week.--[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 15:35, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 
'''I honestly think the idea just won't work, period''', but for the sake of discussion, let's talk about a few of the larger flaws. Actions that can't normally be observed by other characters should not be able to be protected against (e.g. necronet scanning, making syringes, free running, etc.), since that just doesn't make sense. The idea is also severely underpowered, both in terms of AP spent and the chance of success. Essentially, you're saying that for 6AP, I have a 10% chance to stop someone from engaging in a 1AP activity (which may or may not even take place), which they can attempt to do as many times as they like. I.e. it's a useless skill. And speaking of skills, requiring a human skill in order to use a zombie skill is a definite no. Either make them stand-alone skills that can be used independently of each other, or choose one side for the skill. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 18:41, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
:Hmm, I will try to answer those points in some sort of order...
*I think one of the main reasons that you don't see those actions is because it would be pointless screen SPAM... I mean its not like you could do anything with the info? With this however you are actively choosing to look out for such actions and try to prevent them.
*As for underpowered, I was rather worried that it may be the opposite. Sure you pay 6AP to patrol for 1 hour and have a small chance of stopping your chosen nemisis, but its potentially possible to trigger this a million times in that hour which is why i set the chance so low. With team work that chance would soon build up to a pretty reasonable level.
*To all intents and purpose I have made this a human skill, its a crossover if zombies also have MoL but the fact that they get prowl as a freebie is just to show it in their profile if scanned and to make it easier for the server to assign the right flavour text (ie "lots of zombies are prowling")
I do see where you are coming from when you say you don't like this but i really think the game needs a bit more complexity to keep it from stagnating and I think options like this might be the way forwards. --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 08:57, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 
As Aichon. --{{User:Maverick Farrant/sig}} 06:37, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
:Actually, further question.  If zombies are prowling and watching for people attempting to build barricades, how would this skill work with the current barricade blocking function? --{{User:Maverick Farrant/sig}} 11:12, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
::I think it would be best if while prowling they contributed only to this rather than both... Not even sure how the current blocking feature works though so it may be possible/fair to check both seperately or even to add them together? Does anyone have the actual chances of blocking? I don't think it is high cos i never seems to work at the low level cade stage. --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 13:47, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
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===DEFEND===
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|'''Timestamp:''' --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 12:23, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
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|'''Type:''' new action
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|'''Scope:''' survivors and Zombies with MoL
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|'''Description:''' There are always certain folks you just don't want messing with the radio/generator/safehouse/revive line. Currently you can't do much to stop them if you are not online so I am suggesting a new option that would be available through the settings page. If implemented this would allow you to designate a single action that you wish to protect against; once set it would remain until you came back to change it.
Actions you may select (via a dropdown) would include:
*Free-running into the location.
*Attacking Generators
*Setting up/fueling Generators
*Attacking Barricades
*Building/adding to Barricades
*Attacking Radio's
*Broadcasting
*Setting up decorations (Why you would I can't imagine but what the hey?)
*Creating Revive Syringes
*Necrotech scanning
*Reviving
*Ruining (dubious about this one but its probably only fair)
*Repairing
*''Others that people think might be worthwhile.....''
Once an action is selected you then choose a target:
*"colour" contacts
*all contacts
*all survivor
*all zombies
*all.
Finally you would choose a weapon... any weapon including newspapers.
'''What Happens:'''
Once set up, a new action will appear in the normal game panel, For a cost of 5AP (more/less?) you can activate your selected "defend" criteria. Should anyone from your target list attempt the action you are currently defending against you will then make a single attack with the chosen weapon.
'''If''' this attack causes damage the action defended against will fail (1AP/IP hit no item loss, free running fails should be subject to potential falling damage as if falling from a ruin though!) the target will receive a message saying something like ''"Arson Lover tries to prevent you damaging the radio by attacking you with an axe, they hit you for 3HP and foil your action"'' or ''"Arson Lover tries to prevent you damaging the generator by attacking you with an axe, they miss and seem winded by the attempt!"''
While "Defending" you may not regenerate to above 45AP. "Defense" will end when it is triggered, when you spend AP on any other action or if you are injured. All players defending a given action will be triggered by it but regardless of actual numbers no player will be reduced to less than 1HP and it is only the action that triggered the defense that will be prevented.
====Discussion (Defend)====
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A heavily reworked take on a previous discussion.... I take all the blame though :) --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 12:23, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
:Wouldn't this be a huge pain to code and program? Also if I multiply by say...50..50 people will "defend" a genny, if one player would try destroy the genny, well that would be quite fucked. Also if you defend a barricade, and a zombie attacks it from the outside, you somehow manage to defend it by attacking through the barricade, or wa?--[[Image:Umbrella-White.png|14px]][[User:MisterGame|<span style= "color: maroon; background-color: white">'''''Thadeous Oakley''''']][[Image:Umbrella-White.png|14px]]</span> 12:51, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
::In order:
*coding is not really an issue for us... I think it even says that in the guidelines? However setting it up should be very easy as its just going to put a few more boxes in the settings page and a flag on the character when active. How that flag links to the action is (i would think) going to be the more problematic but it can't be that hard to do can it?
*multiplied by a million (or even 50) and this could easily get very messy but remember it just cost 250AP to do (or 5,000,000!) and cannot kill the target no matter how many people do it!
*The action would have to be one done in your sight. Attacking the barricade from your side of it, free running into your location etc...
I suppose it might be advisable to put a limit on how many folk can be defending at a time though as 50+ folks watching a generator might be a bit OTT :) --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 13:57, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Doesn't this effectively give people more knowledge than they normally have? For instance, normally, people can weaken the barricades without others in the building knowing who weakened them, so long as the barricades aren't actually broken through. Or they can attack the generator in the same way. As for ruining, people already stop that simply by being in the building, so I don't see a reason to have it as an action you can defend against. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 15:10, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
:The thing about not noticing barricade/generator attacks is that you really should have the option to notice. Of course there are often very good reasons to attack the barricades as a survivor so perhaps the option to make this only apply to dropping below VS might be a good idea.  As for the blocking ruin, I include that purely because some zombies may wish to try to prevent it... They may be rotters in a revive clinic or just Mhr cows waiting somewhere convenient for their group to find them or even just survivors who die defending their mall and stand up as a zed with only a few AP left. --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 16:36, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
::That's a big boost for life culting when again, multiplied by a billion. 30 undead mallrats "defending", while one zombie tries to ruin the corner. Vice versa for repairs. --[[Image:Umbrella-White.png|14px]][[User:MisterGame|<span style= "color: maroon; background-color: white">'''''Thadeous Oakley''''']][[Image:Umbrella-White.png|14px]]</span> 16:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
:::So the ruining zombie gets mauled to 1HP and fails his 1AP action. Hardly upsetting as all it cost him is 1 click while each of those billion cultists just spent 5AP each to slow his effort. Remember this only works for the next action so as soon as triggered it needs an active player to re-click defend for another 5AP.... Just not going to find this chain reacting very often in my opinion. --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 18:14, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
::::You know how they say opinions are never wrong?  That doesn't apply here, your opinion is wrong.  ''Everyone'' will use this, mostly for the same kinds of targets, and the only times you ''won't'' get a chain reaction like this is when you're in a mostly-deserted block, or when everyone's auto-attack has already been burnt up. --[[User:Mold|Mold]] 21:30, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
::::Most players are too selfish to even barricade so how many do you think will be willing to spend AP defending against a single action for 10% of their daily AP? The only real problem would be zergers, but as it would require them to log on lots more than i suspect is normal it would be of little real use to them so i can't see it being a huge problem! On the whole i think this would mostly result in G'kers and Pker's and Combat Reviver's getting a nasty shock every now and again. --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 23:14, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
:::::Maybe [[Trenchcoater|most players]] are too selfish to even barricade shared buildings, but hear them scream for blood if someone even gives a genny a dirty look, let alone actually wipes them out.  Oh noes, we can't search up shotguns and shells as easily now, KOS KOS zomby spys PKers traitors blah blah! Or watch them blatantly ignore other players' needs for gear and shelter, and build their own little EHB fortresses of doom to protect their own asses (rather than, say, cade an NT or the corner of the mall they're leeching from), and then freak out when somebody brings the cades down to VSB++ so other people can actually come inside.  This would still get a lot of use from those idiots, just not on anything constructive for the rest of the survivors. --[[User:Mold|Mold]] 04:13, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Auto attacks are bad mmmkay? -- {{User:Iscariot/Signature}} 21:18, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
:cari is right; this suggestion sucks. Basic D&DN violations going on here.{{User:Lelouch/sig}} 22:05, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
::1st; you cannot "violate" D&DN as they are only recommendations and they are pretty broadly expressed guidelines at that! 2nd. How is it an auto attack? You have selected a pretty specific target and payed 5AP for the privilege... should no relevant target present itself then you have burnt those AP for no reason. Sure the attack you make is triggered automatically if/when the criteria are met but so is every other attack (it fails if the target has moved!) --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 23:14, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
:::How is it an auto-attack? Hmmmm, I walk into the location, you aren<nowiki>'t</nowiki> online, your character '''auto'''matically '''attack'''s me. Would you like a diagram? Yeah, ''only'' if the criteria are met, because ''no-one'' free runs into malls.... -- {{User:Iscariot/Signature}} 23:42, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
::::Free running is the biggest problem I see with this as its the only action that carries any real penalty for the victim, in that it could easily leave them stranded outside! However, I personally think that free running is waay overpowered and could use a serious nerf anyway which is why I put it on the list. As for it being an auto action is it really such a huge problem? '''Manufacturing''' syringes is (in effect) an auto search for a very high cost, placing a '''generator''' affects other players '''and''' provides an automatic bonus on things even after you log off, '''Infection''' is an auto attack triggered by anotherplayers actions and '''feeding groans''' result in effects after you have logged out too. OK so none of those is exactly the same as my suggestion but they are all things that add to gameplay and have effects which are not immediate, do not necissarily benefit the actual player and cause harm (or inconvienience) to the opposition. Put simply.... what is wrong with the concept? --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 09:20, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
:::Infact... exactly which of the various D&DN guides does this even contradict? --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 23:18, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
::::It doesn't contradict d&dn, however it is mentioned on [[Frequently_Suggested#Auto_Attacks|frequently suggested]]. Also, I think it's just overly complicated for a simple game. - [[User:Whitehouse]] 23:56, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
::::Multiply it by a billion, and you can violate D&DN by stupidly ignoring blatant warnings telling you that these kinds of ideas are fundamentally flawed. Would you prefer I called them "blatant ignorances of freely and obviously given common sense that's been tested over many years"?{{User:Lelouch/sig}} 23:59, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
:::::Multiplied by a billion zombies are unstoppable.... perhaps we should ban them? Almost everything in game has the potential to be overwhelming in mass use so that guideline makes very little sense. What this suggestion aims to do is give new options to both sides, those options are expensive in terms of cost to use and have little real effect (as you need to be active to reset your defense) The only one of the actions which are ever likely to cause any real grief is free-running because as presented it can leave the victim outside, in the case of just about every other action the worst possible outcome is that you are injured and waste 1 AP! --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 08:25, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
::::::Multiplied by a quarter billion, barricades shut out the billion zombies completely.  Stop being stupid on purpose. This is a bad idea, and no amount of snark on your part will change that. --[[User:Mold|Mold]] 12:13, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
:::::::Not actually trying to be 'SNARKY' just replying to the normal shit folk throw about it failing because of some randomly invented guideline. You can't multiply this by a billion because it inherently stops doing anything useful after a certain point. It's a bad idea you say.... justify don't just complain! --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 20:45, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
::::::::okay, that reads back as pretty damn snarky. So i ask without malice, what exactly do you think is so obviously bad about bending those suggested guidelines? --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 00:10, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
:::::::::You've got a clearly overpowered suggestion that can only be justified with a "Just not going to find [the massively overpowered bit] very often in my opinion."  But you will -- useful things get used when they're noticed, everything that can be abused will be, and there are a ''lot'' of players in UD, which tend to gather in herds.  Multiply it by a billion is an attempt to get you to stop and think about what a suggested change will actually do in play.  It's an exaggeration, sure, some people can't take a hint unless it's applied with a 2x4, they need the obvious to be grossly exaggerated to notice it.  Remember that assumed rarity doesn't balance an overpowered implementation.  Either a large portion of players go out of their way to get it and it's not rare anymore, or you arbitrarily limit how many can do that and wind up setting up an elite class and discriminating against everyone else. --[[User:Mold|Mold]] 04:06, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
I see you've addressed some of the common problems with auto attacks (AP spent while logged off etc.) but the result is that it's too complicated. --[[User:Explodey|Explodey]] 01:12, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
:I agree that setting it up is complicated (well as complicated as choosing a new set of clothes anyway) but once set it hardly changes the actual interface at all. Can you think of anything to make it less complex or is it just the uncertaintly that it would add to certain gameplay styles that is the problem? --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 09:07, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
::Rather than having the drop-downs on the settings page and an activation button on the map page, maybe you could use the same format as the "attack" button, with two drop-downs beside it (if it would require more than two drop-downs then reduce the number of options to make it fit.)  Having it on the settings page takes too many clicks (Go to settings page; Select target to defend; Select weapon; Select group to defend against; Back to the city; Press defend button: 9 clicks total.) --[[User:Explodey|Explodey]] 18:43, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
:::I did think of that but figured that it would clutter the main page a little too much. Also the ability to select all 3 items separately is pretty important to functionality and would easily work in a similar way to clothing selection (at least to set up). Remember too that once set the selection is stored it only needs to be changed if you want to change your options. --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 22:11, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
::::You don't need all combinations.  Why would you let some characters GK or RK but not others?  The same applies to most of those actions (with the exception of Free Running.)  Reviving, scanning and syringe manufacture should not be in there at all.  Adding features just for death cultists seems wrong.  And defending against broadcasting would mostly be used for trenchie in-fighting and would be a distraction from the human-vs-zombie war.  Remove all that and you're left with: Stop red contacts free running, stop blue contacts free running, stop everyone free running, stop everyone barricading/de-barricading, etc.  You could get it down to fewer than 15 options and combine the group & action selection into one drop-down box. --[[User:Explodey|Explodey]] 12:57, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
:::::I agree that its unlikely that you would want to defend your radio/generator from only some folk but the same cannot be said for most of the other actions. Reviving, scanning and manufacture are all very important things from a zombie point of view and this suggestion aims to include them... anyway deathcultists et al are already part of the game and suggestions should not be unreasonably tailored just to prevent them gaining any use. Reducing the number of drop downs but increasing the options in each would work well though.--[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 14:35, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
As Honestmistake said, they are GUIDELINES, not set in stone rules.  That is what these discussions are for.  I don't think the "attack" should do damage.  Your just stopping the person from performing the action.  Thus no "weapon selection" would be needed exactly.  Or, at best it could require a melee weapons (maybe it could be a "special" ability of the hockey stick ala the pipe or crowbar?).  The only problem is Free Running which, I agree, is overpowered.  If the point is to impede the action, either the person falls outside or doesn't make the "run" at all.  In that case, maybe the person attempting the free running gets the message "someone is blocking the window, you cannot see a way past them at the moment".--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 05:44, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
:It couldn't use that exact message as it would make people think the "defender" was still blocking the way in when in fact they will not be (it only works for 1 action once). But Free running is certainly the biggest problem i see with this even with any tweaks i can think of??? --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 09:19, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
::Well, that's not ENTIRELY true.  It would be quickly learned that the free run attempted could only be blocked, technically, that one time.  In this instance, it is more of a matter of how many people are allowed to "block" in the first place.  Something else to consider (with Free Running in particular) is that one person can't exactly block EVERY means of ingress.  That is to say, instead of blocking entirely, I'd imagine it would be a chance of success percentage.--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 08:39, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Hey HM; your suggestion sucks zombie balls, and everyone here knows it. Either take your frills down and listen to us or take this turd to voting, but don't pretend like you're actually ''using'' DS. This suggestion is fundamentally flawed, and deep down, you know it.{{User:Lelouch/sig}} 04:11, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
:Your right about this having flaws however, its only been here 3 days and when I am good and ready I will post a reworked version to see if I can make use of the criticism to get something that is workable. Now either come back with some useful criticism or fuck off back to trollville and stroke your templates! --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 09:18, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
:I don't see the "fundamental flaw" (or the tasit implication that this suggestion has no merit and/or cannot be "made good" in any way).--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 08:42, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
::I have no constructive criticism to offer this. Because nothing constructive can possibly be added to a suggestion which essentially forces players (by way of AP-nerfs to certain actions) to align themselves with one 'side' of the game. So I have this to say: Fuck. Off.--{{User:DT/Signature}} 03:57, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
:::Align themselves with one 'side' of the game?  What does THAT mean?--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 04:03, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
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Ignore based on Radio Broadcast

Timestamp: Khwud (talk) 17:27, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Type: UI enhancement
Scope: Interface
Description: Allow 'ignore' from radio broadcasts; users are hiding behind their anonymity to allow them to broadcast things that would broadly trigger them to be ignored, if their user ID was visible. Adding their name, or an auto-generated call-sign (it is for a radio, after all) or something so that they could be blocked based on their broadcasts would help user experience. In addition, and broadcasts that get more than a threshold number could get tagged for review, and the user potentially having their (in-game) ham-license revoked.

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Shrink the map

Timestamp: --UroguyTMZ 16:28, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
Type: Map change
Scope: Everyone
Description: There are just over 3000 active characters in the game currently likely counting a significant percentage of alts and zergs. Shrinking the map by eliminating the outer first two rings of suburbs would increase the amount of interactions between the remaining characters. This shrink could be increased or decreased depending on future changes to the playerbase.

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Action Points

Timestamp: User:Wolldog1 10:07, 26 July 26, 2022
Type: Action Points Increase Regeneration Rate
Scope: Everyone
Description: Due to the passage of time with mobile games and other real time action games without restriction, I think that we should address the action points system of the game. This game can only realistically be played for 5 minutes a day. So it's not really a seller for new blood. If we want to see this game survive it needs to evolve into something more exciting than 5 minutes. My suggestion is double the regeneration rate to improve activity. I love this game. I want to play it more. And the die hard fans I'm sure feel the same. More will go on in a day, sure. But that's for both sides. We're ready for it. Let's get this game moving again. We need this.

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Drone

Timestamp: RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 19:10, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
Type: Survivor Item
Scope: Survivors
Description: Portable drone, found in mall tech stores, which are pointless as we all know. Encumbrance is 10%. When activated for 15ap they provide an image of a 10x10 grid centred on the survivor, showing the current outside status of all blocks including zombies, survivors and dead bodies. Like DNA scanners, Drones are multi use.

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Would there be a message displayed to the players to the effect of "there's a drone buzzing overhead", similar to a flare? --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 02:19, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Backpack

Timestamp: Wild Crazy (talk) 20:55, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
Type: New item
Scope: Survivors
Description: This will be a new item found in schools with a 2% find rate and sports stores with a 4% find rate. The low numbers are because, like a flak jacket, once you find it you have it forever. It increases you encumbrance by 30%. However, you can't use an item that is in your backpack until you remove it from the backpack. It costs one AP to add an item to your backpack and one AP to remove an item. An item affects your regular encumbrance until added to the backpack. Items such as GPS, radios, cell phones, and flak jacket do not work when in your backpack. Items in your backpack will not be shown in your inventory, but the backpack itself will be shown in your inventory. There will be a drop box next to the word backpack that shows all the items inside. When you click on an item in that drop box, it removes it from your backpack (1 AP).


Q: Wouldn't this buff survivors, since they can carry more bullets and kill more zombies?

A: Since it costs an AP to add and remove an item, it wastes a lot of AP to put bullet clips in your backpack if you are planning on using them right away.


Q: If it wastes AP, what is the point?

A: It will be useful if you want to carry around an extra stash of items, such as FAKs and Revivification Syringes, or if you are going far away from any resource buildings and need some extra supplies.


Please give your thoughts.

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