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==Suggestions==


===Improvised Flamethrower===
 
===Ignore based on Radio Broadcast===
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|'''Timestamp:''' [[User:Anachomutualist|Anachomutualist]] 18:19, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
|'''Timestamp:''' [[User:Khwud|Khwud]] ([[User talk:Khwud|talk]]) 17:27, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
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|'''Type:''' New skill tree, new weapon
|'''Type:''' UI enhancement
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|'''Scope:''' Science class, PKers (possible buff)
|'''Scope:''' Interface
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|'''Description:''' Yes, I know, both concepts have been suggested before. But here's my version, which hopefully is different form both alone.
|'''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 (Ignore based on Radio Broadcast)====
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===Shrink the map===
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|'''Timestamp:''' --[[User:Uroguy|Uroguy]]<sup>[[Zookeepers|TMZ]]</sup> 16:28, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
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|'''Type:''' Map change
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|'''Scope:''' Everyone
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|'''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 (Shrink the map)====
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The flamethrower would be a new weapon, found in [[Fort|vehicle depots]]. (''Searching the workbenches, you find an obsolete flamethrower.'') It would take 15% encumbrance, do 4 damage and have a base accuracy of 15%. Its ammo would be "Napalm," (found in fort arsenals and vehicle depots), which takes up 5% encumbrance and gives two shots per reload. The flamethrower could hold four shots, but would not be counted as a firearm. Also, the flamethrower would do one extra point of damage to human characters. This could be a buff to PKing (adding a new "mad scientist" type character), and the logic is that zombie flesh is already rotting away.
===Action Points===
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|'''Timestamp:''' [[User:Wolldog1]] 10:07, 26 July 26, 2022
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|'''Type:''' Action Points Increase Regeneration Rate
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|'''Scope:''' Everyone
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|'''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 (Action Points)====
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There would also be a new skill tree under the science class. Because forts are so rare and hard to hold, the player would be able to synthesize fuel.
===Drone===
*Physics - +15% accuracy with the flamethrower
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**Engineering - allows player to build flamethrowers (see below)
|'''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)
***Thermodynamics - +20% accuracy with the flamethrower
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**Chemistry - allows player to make Napalm (see below)
|'''Type:''' Survivor Item
***Recycling - gives the player four shots per Napalm instead of two
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|'''Scope:''' Survivors
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|'''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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====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)
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===Backpack===
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|'''Timestamp:''' [[User:Wild Crazy|Wild Crazy]] ([[User talk:Wild Crazy|talk]]) 20:55, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
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|'''Type:''' New item
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|'''Scope:''' Survivors
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|'''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.


A player with Chemistry could synthesize fuel when in a (powered) [[auto repair shop]] or fort vehicle depot. If they have a [[Beer]] and a [[Fuel Can]], there is a button to "Synthesize Napalm." Selecting it removes the Beer and Fuel Can, and gives the player one Napalm. (''Using some spare equipment and your knowledge of chemistry, you combine beer with gasoline to make napalm.'') A player with Engineering would build flamethrowers in a similar fashion. If they are in a powered auto repair shop or vehicle depot with a [[Flare Gun]], [[length of pipe]] and [[Spray Can]], a button to "Build Flamethrower" would appear. Selecting it removes all three items and gives the player a flamethrower. (''Using the flare gun as a trigger, the pipe as a barrel and the splay can to hold fuel, you build an improvised flamethrower.'')


There could even be a new scientist class, starting out with a flamethrower, physics and chemistry, and spawning in factories. (''Before the outbreak, your worked as a chemist for a factory in ''suburb''...Following the advice of the authorities, you've barricaded yourself in. Now you wait with a makeshift incendiary weapon, ready to strike at any zombies.'')
Q: If it wastes AP, what is the point?


Any suggestions, constructive criticism, hate mail?
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.
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====Discussion (Improvised Flamethrower)====
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* Whoops. Sorry about posting this in the wrong page. Mistake corrected. --[[User:Anachomutualist|Anachomutualist]] 18:33, 21 January 2011 (UTC)


'''Hat Mail''' - The flamethrowers in Malton are obsolete by our standards, but to the trapped citizens, it's the best flamethrower technology they've ever seen. --{{User:TripleU/Sig}} 02:46, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
*Other than that, any problems? --[[User:Anachomutualist|Anachomutualist]] 02:50, 22 January 2011 (UTC)


:I have a few questions. Why would they run on napalm? Also why would beer and fuel make napalm, when the alcohol would actually dilute the fuel, instead of performing the necessary thickening required to create napalm? Also what is the point of another ranged weapon? {{User:Misanthropy/Sig}} 02:51, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Please give your thoughts.
:: Here are the answers to your questions, in handy list order:
::: "Napalm" is just the placeholder for the name of whatever fuel it would run on.
::: It's accounting for game mechanics (Beer can be found in the same place as fuel), but if you'd like to suggest any other consumable item that would work with it, I'd actually be happy to hear it.
::: I think that the science class is underpowered and underdeveloped, and I found a way to expand it while incorporating the "mad scientist" stereotype. --[[User:Anachomutualist|Anachomutualist]] 02:59, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
:This. ''Pistol vs. Shotgun'' is the most balanced part of the game. Do not disturb the balance. --{{User:TripleU/Sig}} 02:56, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
:: See above; I think that the science class is underpowered and underdeveloped, and I found a way to expand it while incorporating the "mad scientist" stereotype. --[[User:Anachomutualist|Anachomutualist]] 02:59, 22 January 2011 (UTC)


==Suggestions up for voting==
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The following are suggestions that were developed here but have since gone to voting. The discussions that were taking place here have been moved to the pages linked below.
====Discussion (Backpack)====
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:<small>Discussion moved to [[Suggestion talk:20110110 Recon Training]] --{{User:Axe Hack/Sig}} 22:11, 10 January 2011 (UTC)</small>

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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.

Discussion (Ignore based on Radio Broadcast)

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.

Discussion (Shrink the map)

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.

Discussion (Action Points)

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.

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? --  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.

Discussion (Backpack)

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