Developing Suggestions
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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.
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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.
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|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
Suggestions
Survivors can point
| Timestamp: A ZOMBIE ANT 02:04, 26 November 2012 (UTC) |
| Type: Mechanics |
| Scope: Survivors |
| Description: Pretty simple: As a survivor I wanna point at stuff. Logical inconsistencies of zombies needing a skill to do what humans should be able to do anyway notwithstanding, I just think it would be a nice touch.... Honest thoughts? Dupe? |
Discussion (Survivors can point)
Not sure whether this counts as balancing or a survivor buff (which we're always saying we don't need) XD Bob Moncrief EBD•W! 14:14, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Collectible Mall Postcards
| Timestamp: A Big F'ing Dog 21:27, 22 November 2012 (UTC) |
| Type: Novelty Item |
| Scope: Survivors and Zombies |
| Description: Here's an idea for a fun mini-game that could exist within the overall game of Urban Dead.
Searching in any unruined mall could have a chance of giving you a postcard for that mall. For example, a "Caiger Mall Postcard" or "Ackland Mall Postcard". Mall postcards would take up 0 inventory space, but you're only able to collect one for each mall. Finding a second one for the same mall would give you a message like "You find a Bale Mall Postcard but discard it because you already have one." Zombies would also randomly find them after killing a survivor inside a mall, but to signify the item was collected while dead it would be covered in blood, "Blood-Splattered Mitchem Mall Postcard". "You find a postcard on the floor near your victim and pick it up." It would be a fun goal, for your own entertainment, to travel around the city and collect the complete set. And if you don't want to collect postcards you'd be able to select them as an item to auto-discard. |
Discussion (Collectible Mall Postcards)
Suggestion - I like the general idea, but it still lacks an incentive, an actual call to action. Would the postcards be represented with an actual image or would it just be plain text? Would there be an added bonus? Something that involves more than just searching a couple of times in a mall? PB&J 11:25, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
- It'd just be text, like every other item. There's no bonus, it's just a way of satisfying your own OCD and earning mementos as you travel around the city. Finding one postcard is simple, but collecting the whole set requires a major effort and a lot of traveling. --A Big F'ing Dog 19:01, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
- Nope, not enough reason to exist. Gnome's idea to use them as ingame communication or as interactive flavour items is a tad better, but what you need is a real reason why this would be fun. PB&J 02:09, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Pointless, yes, but I think it'd be a fun novelty. I'm in favor. —Aichon— 20:19, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
I think it would be cool if you could write on them and leave them in mailboxes/postboxes in certain places throughout the city. -- AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 23:16, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Hardcore City
| Timestamp: •▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ #nerftemplatedsigs 06:37, 15 November 2012 (UTC) |
| Type: New City/New Game Type |
| Scope: Everyone |
| Description: I'm too lazy to type right now as it's about 1:30AM on a Wednesday night, so I'll keep this as short and simple as possible.
Brand new city of 50 blocks of 10x10 (to accommodate the size of the current player base). No NT buildings or items. Supplies are limited. There will be a time limit of one month, and as such, there will be a "Last man standing" leaderboard and other such leaderboards. After one month is up, and scores are tallied, everything resets (all characters' levels are returned to Lv1 and are returned to survivor status, and will be included in the next round assuming the player registers them for the next round). No Zombie starting class (keep reading. I'll explain why). Registrations for this city are open one week before a round begins, and closes as soon as the round starts. 1-5 registered players will randomly be chosen to begin with an Infection status. Infections cannot be cured. The basic concept of this suggestion was to introduce a new possible game type meant to see whether players will band together and ration their limited supplies, or whether they will get greedy and attempt to hoard as much of the supplies all for themselves. |
Discussion (Hardcore City)
I apologize for some of the poorly constructed sentences. I was trying to keep this short. Didn't realize in doing so, I would be making this sound like a newspaper ad. Don't worry. The actual suggestion, assuming this makes it that far, will not be worded like this. >_> --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ #nerftemplatedsigs 06:38, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Not a fan at all, I'm afraid. It sounds like Q2019 to me, except with slower leveling and less zombies, meaning that the one month timeframe will result in massive numbers of survivors alive at the end each time, I should think. After all, if you're not creating the majority of your zombies until partway through the time, they won't have time to level up sufficiently to be a real threat. As a result, PKing will play the decisive role in deciding whether or not the city survives the month, but I doubt there would be enough PKers to wipe enough people out in that time (unless the turnout was extremely poor). —Aichon— 06:58, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
- So. 5 players are infected. It's incurable. So why would they even play? They've got 50ap until they die. Meh. The zombie threat will be non existent, the xp gaining will be terrible. (Pking is a terrible way to gain xp) so it's the hack and heal game all the way. Except.... there's limited faks. So xp gain in all circumstances would be at a crawl. The only way I seeing it work was if a group had a friendly zombie who didnt mind dying every day.
- Better suggestion. Normal game rules, but make infection incurable and headshots fatal for all. --Ross Less Ness Enter Stranger... 09:49, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
- I agree with Ross here and Aichon here: the one month time-limit is miserable and will prevent actual player culture. In Q2019, I didn't see any regions or locations that were actually symbolic like the Caigers and Ridleybanks of UD. Player culture enables RP and immersion, which are vital for low-tech games like these. PB&J 11:37, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Let's try this one then:
- Headshots are fatal
- Headshots are a limited chance to activate skill (just adding this one here to keep survivors from becoming too powerful, much like how the other perma-death cities were with Perma-Headshot)
- Incurable Infections
- OK, not 100% incurable, but FAKs will become a limited chance to heal Infections item
- Supplies are limited
- Not completely limited. 5 random barricaded buildings in each suburbs will be resupplied via airdrops each week
Yes, I'm still pushing for a city with limited supplies. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ #nerftemplatedsigs 14:58, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Bump. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ #nerftemplatedsigs 00:54, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
- I hate the new option even more. Urban dead works as a game of certainties. I might perma kill you? I may cure you? Nah. Even DNA scanning failures annoy me. Headshots are fatal. Change infection so it kills you 100AP hours after infection.
- Counterproposal. 20 by 20 city. Permadeath, profiles tell you how many survivors and zombies you've killed. Toolboxes do not exist. Bam. --Ross Less Ness Enter Stranger... 17:26, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
wrench
| Timestamp: Heheevilme 13:09, 20 October 2012 (BST) |
| Type: weapon |
| Scope: survivors/zeds |
| Description: a simple wrench that does 2 damage hit ratio 10 and 25 with hand to hand combat making it 35 hit ratio accuracy 3 encumbered and can be found in factorys and auto repair station, and hardware store in mall
search rate is 4 to 6 percent |
Discussion (wrench)
I don't know if we need new Survivor weapons right now. The game is skewed towards survivors, and they don't really need any more buffs. Bob Moncrief EBD•W! 17:02, 20 October 2012 (BST)
Can't you already get a wrench?! A ZOMBIE ANT 02:22, 22 October 2012 (BST)
Oh, you cant. Oh well. As you can see here, we already have a bunch of melee weapons in the game. I don't know if we need more... Unless they implement cars. Maybe we'll need a wrench then. A ZOMBIE ANT 02:25, 22 October 2012 (BST)
Don't see the use right now, since it would be just another weapon nobody would use... PB&J 11:39, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
i'm still waiting for penis rockets.--User:Sexualharrison22:04, 22 November 2012
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.
- by A Big F'ing Dog at 18:16, 19 September 2012 (BST)
- by A Big F'ing Dog at 00:42, 16 September 2012 (BST)
