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Developing Suggestions

This section is for general discussion of suggestions for the game Urban Dead.

It also includes the capacity to pitch suggestions for conversation and feedback.

Further Discussion

• Discussion concerning this page takes place here.
• Discussion concerning the suggestions system in general, including policies about it, takes place here.

Resources

• The Frequently Suggested List
• Suggestions Dos and Do Nots

How To Make a Discussion

Adding a New Discussion

To add a general discussion topic, please add a Tier 3 Header (===Example===) below, with your idea or proposal.

Adding a New Suggestion

• To add a new suggestion proposal, copy the code in the box below.
• Click here to begin editing. This is the same as clicking the [edit] link to the right of the Suggestions header.

• Paste the copied text above the other suggestions, right under the heading.
• Substitute the text in RED CAPITALS with the details of your suggestion.
• The process is illustrated in this image.

{{subst:DevelopingSuggestion
|time=~~~~
|name=SUGGESTION NAME
|type=TYPE HERE
|scope=SCOPE HERE
|description=DESCRIPTION HERE
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• 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.
• 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 month may be cycled without notice.

Please add new discussions and suggestions to the top of the list

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Suggestions

Fashion Sense

Timestamp: JonPyre 23:02, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Type: Survivor Skill

Scope: Informational skill

Description: Fashion Sense would be a civilian skill requiring Shopping as a prerequisite. It would grant players a 1 AP "Fashion Sense" button that allows them to instantly scope out the clothing worn by every player and zombie in the room. For example, let's say there are two other players in the room "Bill" and "Phil", and two zombies not on your contact list. After clicking Fashion Sense you might see this: Bill is wearing a gasmask, a blue t-shirt, and a pair of black shoes. Phil is wearing a red baseball cap, a bloodstained dark red waistcoat, and a pair of sandals. A zombie is wearing a bloodstained Malton zoo T-Shirt and a bloodstained toe tag. A zombie is wearing a bloodstained pair of safety goggles and a bloodstained lab coat. A single click would show the clothes of every other player in the room, it would not require a new click and new AP spent for each person. This does not violate zombie anonymity as it does not link to the zombie's profile (unless they're already on your contacts list) and does not reveal their playername. The main use of this is to quickly identity groups that use uniforms. For example, if the Ridleybank Resistance Front decided to adopt a chef's hat as their uniform, it would be terrifying to look at a crowd of zombies and see that 25 of them have chef's hats on. Also it would allow players to admire zombie fashion sense, even if they aren't attacked. Zombies that purchase the skill in life would also be able to use fashion sense in death.

Discussion (Fashion Sense)

Dear god no.--Shortround 00:53, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Urban Dead, now sponsored by Bravo.--Alice Gravesend 02:04, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

It should be terrifying to look at a crowd of 25 zombies, full stop. Sadly there are hardly any such 'hordes' left in Malton.--Mallrat ^{TSI TKS CTD} 14:05, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

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Tags

Timestamp: Kelenius 15:40, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Type: Skill change

Scope: Survivors with tagging skill

Description: When someone with a tagging skill makes a graffiti, he can put his tag after it. So, there's two options: simply make a graffiti, or make a graffiti and tag it. When another survivor with this skill sees a tagged graffiti, he can read the tag. It will look like Somebody has spraypainted ... onto a wall and tagged it if you don't have "Tagging" skill, and Somebody has spraypainted ... onto a wall and tagged it as Player if you have it.

Discussion (Tags)

I like it.--Shortround 22:04, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Has potential to encourage obnoxious players, but hey ho, we need to encourage players somehow. Suggest making it cost 1AP, at least.--Mallrat ^{TSI TKS CTD} 14:11, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

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Ropes

Timestamp: Sideflanker 20:43, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Type: Item

Scope: Survivors

Description: Found in various places (have yet to put thought into search percentages), the rope is used to haul survivors into buildings with barricades over VSB+2 in the following fashion: 1: The rope is tossed out a window by a player inside (1 AP) 2a: player leaves the building somehow and ties a survivor onto the rope (1 AP + AP used to exit building) 2b: survivor ties himself onto rope (1 AP, unable to move) 3: 2 players inside the building tug rope up and untie survivor (2 AP, one action) Commands: Humans: Throw rope out window Check rope: you tug on the rope, checking the weight (nothing, light, medium, heavy, strained) Haul up rope: only if nothing tied to it. After 5 days rope becomes unusable Pull on rope: Requires at least 2 players to doing this to haul someone up. Doing anything but speaking causes you to release rope Reinforce rope: Uses pipe, forces 1 extra zombie to pull down rope Tie self on rope: prevents movement Tie x to rope Tug rope (outside): Requires you to be attached, indication inside building Zombies: Chew rope: destroys rope, based on teeth hit percentage. Pull on rope: If 5 more zombies than player(s) pull on the rope, they will tug player(s) out window and kill them (if any players are pulling on rope). If no players on other end, requires 1 zombie (2 if reinforced) Limitations: Cannot pull up zombies or dead bodies Other Stuff to know: If Survivors pulling > zombies pulling by 5, will pull survivor up Fun stuff: TUG OF WAR!

Discussion (Ropes)

I really like that you're providing a way for survivors without free running to enter EHB buildings. I think the idea needs to be simplified, though. Right now, it violates the "don't create multi-step skills" guideline. Yoshi54 14:44, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

as pro-survivor as i am... don't like this suggestion ...lower level zombies need "street treats" ...and Malton needs level 10+ zombies atm →Son of Sin← 00:04, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

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Suggestions up for voting

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.

There are currently no suggestions up for voting.