PR Equipment Change
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Equipment Change
Beer/Wine
Beer/Wine Used Like FAK
| Timestamp: | 02:15, 11 Feb 2006 (GMT) |
| Type: | flavor, mostly |
| Scope: | survivors |
| Description: | When in a pub, club, or stadium, survivors can use the beer and wine they possess on other players in the same manner that a first aid kit is used, i.e. with a dropdown menu. This still costs 1 AP to do; it only heals 1 HP, no more, as one would expect.
The maximum number of times this can be done in one day is equal to the level of the drinking player divided by two. rationale: Look, the only real game use of this would be to not blow FAKs on healing minor wounds in an interesting and RPish manner. It's not AP effective; this is obvious. Nor is reading poetry nor newspapers--and yet they are there. This is not supposed to be useful. It's just supposed to be something else to do in the game. The danger of zerging seems almost nonexistent.
Ed: Why have we got to go to Liz's? |
| Notes: | 22/25 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 12:11, 1 June 2006 (BST) |
Drinking Creates Message
| Timestamp: | 01:05, 3 Feb 2006 (GMT) |
| Type: | Improvement |
| Scope: | Survivors |
| Description: | Currently Wine and Beer are pretty uselss items, I suggest to add a message that notifies pepole when someone is making a toast/opens a beer. This can be useful on special occasions like a holiday or after a succesful defense of a mall. The messages can be something like:
Messages can be diffrent ofcourse (and there can be more variety), it's not the point, this suggestion is just about giving beer/wine a little RP value (and through that maybe making them used a bit more). Who knows, maybe liquor stores will become useful :) |
| Notes: | 24/31 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is as it adds role playing flavor. However people disliked it as it 'created spam' even though it would only add one extra line in the message history.
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| Left Queue: | 13:33, 30 May 2006 (BST) |
Getting drunk
| Timestamp: | 00:05, 24 June 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Fun stuff |
| Scope: | Harmanz |
| Description: | When you drink 5 beers or wine in a row, you become drunk. When drunk, a few things happen: You lose 10% to hit with all weapons due to lack of coordination, but you do one more damage with all melee weapons due to lack of restraint. You also lose the ability to tell the difference between humans and zombies. You lose 5 HP right away, and all moves cost 2 AP. Being drunk lasts for 20 AP used or 10 moves. When you talk, you can only use the death rattle form of speech. When you attack someone they get the message, "in a drunken rage, So-and-so attacks you for 4 damage", and you get the message, "staggering around, you attack a dark figure for 4 damage". XP for attacking someone is not shown until you are sober, so you don't know who you are attacking by seeing how much XP you earned. I think this would be a fun thing to have in the game; it gives a small buff but is better just for having some fun. So drink away! You also cannot tell people apart - you only see "A dark figure".
Note for clarification: yes, dying while drunk does get rid of the drunk flag. Thanks for the keeps, guys. I think +2 damage would be good, but because it's already been voted, I can't change that... so I'll leave it up to Kevan. Also, this was inspired by antiseptics, because beer and wine need more fun. |
| Notes: | 20/27 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is, some people wanted Zombies to also be able to become drunk. Some people also wanted a highter damage increase. |
| Left Queue: | 07:29, 8 July 2006 (BST) |
Pass me a beer
| Timestamp: | Duke Garland 12:52, 3 April 2007 (BST) |
| Type: | item, feature |
| Scope: | everybody, role playing |
| Description: | survivors can pass bottle of beer or bottle of wine to one another.
there's already a lot of such situations that happen in text chat. would be nice to be actually able to do it. technical:
dupe suggestion? - it may sound similar to this but that suggestion is well over 12 months old now so a reminder to Kevan that we all really like it would do no harm, and what's more important:
this is a revision of v1.0 suggestion from 11:50, 2 April 2007 (BST) |
| Notes: | 23/24 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 21:50, 29 May 2007 (BST) |
Binoculars
Distant Billboards
| Timestamp: | IrradiatedCorpse  01:33, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
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| Type: | Improvement. |
| Scope: | All players & Survivors with Binoculars. |
| Description: | The new billboards are only readable if standing in the billboard's square. As billboards are large objects and costly to spray (10 AP), I propose allowing them to be read at a distance. If there is a billboard on an adjacent square, all survivors and zombies would get a message of the kind:
A large billboard at <street name here> advertises <flavorful filler here>. Somebody has spraypainted <message here>. Furthermore, distant billboard messages would appear in the same fashion when viewed through binoculars. |
| Notes: | 20/25 Keep/Total, well accepted as is. |
| Left Queue: | 14:14, 24 November 2006 (UTC) |
Book
Book Flavour Text
| Timestamp: | 05:53, 12 Dec 2005 (GMT) |
| Type: | Improvement |
| Scope: | Literate Suvivors |
| Description: | What exactly are suvivors learning when they get xp from books? I suggest that whenever you gain experience by reading you also get a small piece of true information to hint at what you learned. It can be a fact about things like shotgun mechanics, disease transmission, cellular decomposition, surgical procedures, battle tactics, etc. |
| Notes: | 19/20 Keep/Total. Well accepted, the information would presumably come from a database, posiablility for the UD community to provide information to show up in books. Each class could have specific information related to them, eg Consumers read fasion magazines, Military reads about guns ect.
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| Left Queue: | 05:45, 30 Dec 2005 (GMT) |
Book Types (Flavour)
| Timestamp: | 11:56, 22 June 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Item improvement |
| Scope: | Books |
| Description: | At the moment there are 2 types of books - 'poetry books' and 'books'. Reading a 'book' gives you a 10% chance of gaining 1 XP. Poetry books do not ever give you XP, but they are nice for flavour.
I propose that there be a number of different sort of 'books' that do give you XP:-
The survival guide would contain useful game hints etc. Each new human player would start with one of these. This would give them a way to maybe learn a few tips in a nice in-game way. There would be an equal chance of finding all these books. So this suggestion has 2 purposes really: to help new players slightly and to make the game more interesting for flavour and role playing purposes. It does not affect the gameplay at all. |
| Notes: | 23/27 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 09:26, 6 July 2006 (BST) |
Lighting Increases Book XP Chance
| Timestamp: | 18:47, 27 April 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Building POWAH! |
| Scope: | Bookish survivors |
| Description: | As most of you know, reading a book gives only a 10% chance of learning something. That's a little silly, though, isn't it? Well, not when you factor in that, for a long time, the power was out in Malton. Reading in the dark strains the eyes, so we likely had too great of headaches, trying to read, to retain anything.
Ah, but now we have power! And with it, we have myriad suggestions for improving the human condition in powered buildings. Most of these suggestions are either game-breaking or make little sense. Or both. Still, everyone wants to give some sort of use to powering buildings other than Hospitals and NTs. I mean, besides telling all the zombies outside that there's a buffet waiting. So here's the suggestion: While in a powered building, one gets an extra 10% chance to learn from a book. After all, you can read things much more easily now. Yes, I know: it's another way for survivors to get XP. On the other hand, it will attract more noobies to libraries. Entirely unnecessary? Certainly. Not game-breaking, though, and it adds at least some functionality to generators in other buildings, even if it's tiny (and will likely only see use in libraries). Of course, if you don't like this, I could always make a suggestion for crunchy bacon. --Wifey 18:47, 27 April 2006 (BST) |
| Notes: | 20/24 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 10:25, 28 June 2006 (BST) |
Lighting Increases Book XP Chance In Library
| Timestamp: | 08:11, 25 May 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Use for Libraries |
| Scope: | Survivors |
| Description: | When you are inside a powered library and you read a book the chance of gaining 1XP is doubled. According to the Book Odds investigation the current odds of gaining XP by Book is roughly 10%. This suggestion would increase it to 20% as you can see better and as its a library what better place to make it more likely to gain XP by reading. This could also be applied to schools as you learn there as well.
Note: Since Scientist gain 2XP from Books the chance to gain the 2XP is doubled as well. |
| Notes: | 25/30 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 09:09, 29 June 2006 (BST) |
Tips in books
| Timestamp: | Slice 'N' Dicin' Axe Hack 12:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC) |
| Type: | A book of tips |
| Scope: | Everyone |
| Description: | Books are useless as of now. Their only purpose is to give survivors free XP at a rather weak percentage. If newspapers give tips, why shouldn't books? After all, they are for learning, aren't they?. These books I am suggesting should be called "Military Field Manual." They will be found in Libraries, non-resource buildings, Mall bookstores, and schools. These "Military Field Manuals" provide a different tip for newbies every time they click on it. They will still have the weak XP gain, but the tips will be shown 100% of the time. These books will show both survivors and zombie tips. Why also zombie tips? If they show zombie tips as well, newbies will have some understanding with what to do if they die. Everyone will be able to read this book, no matter what level they are. |
| Notes: | 20/20 Keep/Total. 100%.
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| Left Queue: | 17:46, 19 March 2007 (UTC) |
Crucifix
Crucifix Placement
| Timestamp: | 06:23, 14 Dec 2005 (GMT) |
| Type: | Item Usage |
| Scope: | Survivors |
| Description: | Players with the Crucifix item would have the ability to hang it on a wall inside any given building. This particular suggestion doesn't have an actual benefit, but think of it as a flavorful item version of graffiti. Zombies (and survivors if they want) have the option of attacking a hung crucifix at which point they would tear it off the wall and effectively destroy the item as one would destroy a barricade. (but with one blow)
If anyone can think of a (realistic, useful, balanced) benefit to hanging the crucifix, please feel free to place it in your vote text and this may be amended. As of right now this is a flavor change in the vein of newspapers and other such items that do not give or take anything from your character. |
| Notes: | 23/25 Keep/Total. Should be symbols of other faiths. Players should be able to hang a crucifix upsidedown.
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| Left Queue: | 18:14, 5 Jan 2006 (GMT) |
DNA Extractor
Contacts colour displayed on scanning
| Timestamp: | Wikidead 06:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC) |
| Type: | Minor Change |
| Scope: | DNA Extraction |
| Description: | When you DNA Extract a zombie that happens to also be in your contact list, the name of the DNA Extracted zombie should appear in the color in which you have assigned that contact. |
| Notes: | 21/21 Keep/Total. (100%) Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 06:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC) |
DNA Extraction Flavour
| Timestamp: | 17:55, 23 July 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Yummy Flavour |
| Scope: | DNA Extraction |
| Description: | You know when you revive a zombie you get the message: "Following standard procedures, you press the syringe into the back of the zombie's neck and pump the glittering serum into its brain and spinal cord.There is a thin pneumatic hiss, and the zombie staggers forward, limbs shuddering, before slumping to the floor as if dead. The zombie's skin shivers for a moment, and the contents of the syringe begin their slow, molecular work." I think that when you extract DNA from a zombie, you should get a similar message, something like: "Following standard procedures, you press the reader of your DNA Extractor into the back of the zombie's neck and press the execute button." |
| Notes: | 19/19 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is. |
| Left Queue: | 10:46, 10 August 2006 (BST) |
Random Scan After End Of Stack
| Timestamp: | 06:37, 18 June 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Equipment Change/Game fix |
| Scope: | People who use DNA extractors and Zombies |
| Description: | I was extracting DNA from Zombies just the other day and I got to them second to find that they had all been scanned alredy. So I wanted to know if there were brain rotters in the pile, however the DNA extractor kept scanning the last Zombie in the stack. So what I purpose is that the DNA extractor to scan a random Zombie in the stack once all of the Zombies in the stack have been scanned.
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| Notes: | 12/16 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 02:12, 2 July 2006 (BST) |
Scan Known Bodies
| Timestamp: | 17:29, 12 May 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Extractor improvement |
| Scope: | Survivors with NecroTech Employment |
| Description: | Ever come across one of your friends on the ground and wondered if they were revivifying or just dead? Do you duck into a nearby safehouse and wait to check on them later just in case they need a syringe? There's no way to know.
I propose that it be made possible to scan known bodies with the DNA Extractor. If you have a person on your contact list and come across her body on the ground, you can select the player's name from the Extractor pulldown. Perform the scan and you get something like the following message: Traces of revivification formula detected. if the body is revivifying. Otherwise, the message will be Body status is normal. and you'll know that your friend needs to stand up so you can stick her with a syringe. No XP is granted for this procedure. Note that anonymous bodies cannot be scanned. |
| Notes: | 14/16 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is. |
| Left Queue: | 02:07, 29 June 2006 (BST) |
FAK
Extra XP for Extra Healing
| Timestamp: | 04:15, 8 Nov 2005 (GMT) |
| Type: | Mechanics Change |
| Scope: | Survivors |
| Description: | (First Rewrite for clarity) If Survivors heal more than 5HP with a single First Aid Kit, the XP gained from healing should be higher than 5XP. My suggestion is that there be two possible XP rewards - 1-5HP healed gives 5XP, 6-10HP healed gives 10XP. This requires that the server keep track of the HP healed, but this can be reduced to only four additional instructions per heal. with this system (2 assignments, 1 operation, 1 comparison). This would allow Doctors and Medics to gain some benefit from their starting skills, and continues the tradition of "opportunistic" healing of giving First Aid Kit users more XP on average than the HP they heal. |
| Notes: | Received exactly 15/22.5 votes - this is precisely 2/3 majority Keeps. General agreement that First Aid Skilled Users should get more XP for healing more HP. Dissenters felt 5XP was enough all around or that 10 XP considered a lot for healing 6 HP. Multiple suggested alternative to give XP per HP healed. |
| Left Queue: | 17:54, 25 Nov 2005 (GMT) |
FAKs Don't Work On Zombies
| Timestamp: | 10:23PM Nov 16 GMT-8 |
| Type: | change balance |
| Scope: | Survivors using first aid kits |
| Description: | The proposal is that first aid kits have no effect on zombies, no healing, no xp gain. I found that a decent way for me to get xp was to use first aid-kits on zombies I hacked with an axe (everybody in the hospital was full on hp) - it wasn't very fun and didn't make much sense (band-aids and neosporin for the living dead?) Zombies should heal by consuming flesh and rising again when down |
| Notes: | 19/22 Keep/Total. Would prevent "zombie farming". Either this or this. Zombies should have a percentage chance of healing mechanic by feeding on dead bodies.
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| Left Queue: | 14:30, 2 Dec 2005 (GMT) |
FAK Find Rate
| Timestamp: | Labine50 MH|ME|'07 04:52, 6 February 2007 (UTC) |
| Type: | Balance change |
| Scope: | First Aid Kit find rate |
| Description: | Ok, the game is broken on quite a few levels, but when you can find medical supplies faster in a mall than in a hospital, you know for sure the game is screwed up. What I'm proposing is simple, change the hospital find rate for FAKs to 20%, and take the mall rate to about 13% without bargain hunting. |
| Notes: | 38/44 Keep/Total.
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| Left Queue: | 12:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC) |
FAKs manufacture
| Timestamp: | --♠ Che ♠-T GC X 06:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC) |
| Type: | Balance change |
| Scope: | First Aid Kits and hospitals |
| Description: | Well, this would allow characters with the First Aid skill to create FAKs from the medical supplies that are in a hospital.
To do this you have to be in a powered hospital and of course have the First Aid skill; in that case a new button will appear: "Create FAK". Pushing this button will cost 3 AP and would add a new FAK to your inventory. You would then see the message: "You search the wards and gathered enough medical supplies for a first aid kit" or "You search the hospital and are able to make a first aid kit out of the materials you find.". This idea is similar to the current manufacture of syringes in NT buildings. |
| Notes: | 18/27 Keep/Total. |
| Left Queue: | 14:24, 24 March 2007 (UTC) |
Heal By Clicking On HP
| Timestamp: | 07:37, 21 Jan 2006 (GMT) |
| Type: | interface change |
| Scope: | survivors with diagnosis and FAK(s) |
| Description: | If a user has diagnosis skill and at least one FAK then HP values on survivor list would become links that are equivalent to applying the FAK to corresponding survivor. As of now one needs to first find a wounded person in the survivor list and after that find their name in the FAK menu. This change would make healing easier by eliminating the second step--Cah51o 07:37, 21 Jan 2006 (GMT). |
| Notes: | 11/16 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is. Some people who voted kill disliked the fact that there could be two ways of doing the same thing and that it complicates the user interface. However people liked it because it saves time and effort for them.
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| Left Queue: | 12:37, 25 May 2006 (BST) |
Remove Cades From FAK Drop-Down
| Timestamp: | 01:19, 27 June 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | User Interface |
| Scope: | Survivors |
| Description: | Why would anyone even think of using a first aid kit on barricades? Currently, players have the option to try using a first aid kit on barricades, with the result of losing 1 AP and, probably, feeling quite dumb. I suggest barricades to be removed from first aid kit's dropdown menu. It's just plain silly. |
| Notes: | 20/27 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is, some people though that peoples mistakes should be punished.
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| Left Queue: | 13:42, 11 July 2006 (BST) |
XP Reduced for Healing Zombies
| Timestamp: | 21:52, 8 Nov 2005 (GMT) |
| Type: | Mechanics Change |
| Scope: | Survivors |
| Description: | Other than having Survivor/Zombie teams, I know of no other benefit to healing zombies than to use them as XP farms. XP from healing zombies could be altered to provide 0.5 XP per HP healed in the same manner that a Survivor harming a Survivor (or Zombie harming a Zombie) gains less XP. |
| Notes: | 11/12 Keep/Total. Adding HP healed = XP gained would enhance this. Single dissenter suggested XP gained is due to learning experience. |
| Left Queue: | 18:04, 25 Nov 2005 (GMT) |
Flak Jacket
Rename Flak Jacket
| Timestamp: | Cap'n Silly 02:07, 9 January 2007 |
| Type: | Wee bit ‘o flavour |
| Scope: | Flak Jacket |
| Description: | Rename flak jacket Kevlar Vest. Flak jackets are WW2 era body armour used to protect gunners on bombers from flak fire used by anti-aircraft guns, and haven't been used for fifty odd years, and would not be used by police. |
| Notes: | 18/27 Keep/Total.
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| Left Queue: | 20:57, 27 January 2007 (UTC) |
Flare Gun
Better Searching
| Timestamp: | Jon Pyre 05:37, 8 December 2006 (UTC) | |||||||||
| Type: | Improvement | |||||||||
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| Description: | Flares are worthless now, just a bit of spam that's quickly ignored. Especially since radios can reach people at a distance and convey meaning. Therefore I suggest an entirely new purpose to the flare: Making light.
Let flares be used indoors as well as outdoors. Firing a flare outdoors would continue to do the same; shoot it up for all to see. A flare used indoors would instead be struck and tossed on the ground. This would illuminate the building and provide a search bonus equal to generators. The light would be visible from outside, but instead of yellow perhaps red. Flares and their light would enter the room description though they couldn't be attacked. Flares wouldn't replace generators though, here's my idea for the differences. A flare would only burn for two minutes. While it could theoretically help anyone searching at the time usually it'd just benefit the person who struck the flare. Flares also only provide light, not power. So they wouldn't permit surgery or powered nerotech functions. So the pros and cons of generators vs. flares would be:
So flares would finally, finally, finally have a purpose. You wouldn't prefer them for a populated resource building safehouse since that'd mean less FAKs and and syringes for your fellows survivors to use on you. But if your safehouse is a nondescript building and you want to make a raid for supplies having a flare or two on hand could prove useful. You could find an empty/lightly defended building, repair the ransack and dump the zed, then toss a flare on the ground to briefly gain a benefit while you search. This provides two different tools for different kinds of circumstances. And of course once you have light you have light. The powered generator search bonus and the flare search bonus WOULD NOT STACK. It'd just be a waste of a flare then.
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| Notes: | 19/28 Keep/Total. 68%. Those against felt that the search bonus should be less than that of generators.
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| Left Queue: | 12:03, 23 December 2006 (UTC) |
Generator
Fuel Drums
| Timestamp: | Canuhearmenow Hunt! 21:14, 18 October 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | New Item. |
| Scope: | reduces cost to carry fuel cans. |
| Description: | this would add a fuel drum addition to a Generator. The Fuel Drum is found at 3% Mall Hardware Stores, 2% Warehouse, and 3% Factories. The Fuel Drum is a 2 inventory space item. The Fuel Drum, simply, is a "add-on" to a Generator that must be at the building for this to be added. What the Fuel Drum does is holds about an extra Fuel Can of fuel for a Generator. This is automatically destroyed when the generator is destroyed. The Fuel Drum does not come fully loaded, its empty like a Generator is when you first get one. The Fuel Drum is first, you get this message "Blahblahblah, there is a Generator and Fuel Drum here, the Fuel Drum is empty." When you click a Fuel Can it refuels the Fuel Drum. |
| Notes: | 15/17 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 22:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC) |
Rename Generator
| Timestamp: | Reaper with no name TJ! 15:09, 20 November 2006 (UTC) |
| Type: | flavor change |
| Scope: | Portable Generators |
| Description: | Have you ever tried to lift a portable generator? Well, if you have you would know that the task is nigh impossible. Yet somehow survivors are able to carry not just one but several portable generators at once. Now, I know that the carry ability of survivors is pretty ridiculous (20 shotguns, anyone?), but this takes the cake hands-down.
Fortunately, there is a way to fix this absurdity without actually changing any game mechanics or balance. Simply put, we re-name the "portable generator" item to "spare generator parts". Spare parts for a generator could potentially be a lot smaller (since it's not the whole thing) and actually capable of being carried. Whenever someone in a building uses the "spare generator parts" item, the flavor text would read "you repair the generator". It would henceforth be assumed that every building in Malton that can be powered would have a generator in it, and that anytime someone destroys a generator, they would now only "break the generator" (rather than completely destroying it). When the generator is repaired, it would still have to fueled again (it would be assumed that the fuel had leaked out or something when the generator was damaged). All of this makes more sense realistically, since it's not easy to damage something as big and tough as a generator to the point that it can't be repaired and practically impossible to carry an entire generator around with you. And at the same time it's nothing more than a flavor change. |
| Notes: | 10/13 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 23:08, 7 December 2006 (UTC) |
GPS
GPS Ball Of String Function
| Timestamp: | 06:17, 19 July 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Improvement |
| Scope: | GPS units |
| Description: | I thought of a use for GPS units. What if by clicking on them you could save your current location in the GPS unit? Until you clicked it again to clear it the unit would provide the quickest path to your saved location from your current position. Their GPS unit might look like this: GPS Unit [Saved: (33, 45) Path: 8s 2se]. That way a player could feel free to wander around exploring without getting lost. |
| Notes: | 13/17 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 09:33, 9 August 2006 (BST) |
GPS Broadcast Location To Contacts
| Timestamp: | 05:21, 13 August 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | New Item |
| Scope: | Survivors |
| Description: | The GPS Telematic Networker is a new item.
GPS is an internationally secure system, meaning that it doesn't publicly broadcast the positions of all its devices. However certain public agencies (EMS, fire departments, etc.) have been granted secure networks. Users who are granted access to the networks can broadcast their position securely - only other people in each network will be able to see it. These Telematic Networker gadgets, which are hardware add-ons to the main GPS system, can be found at rates of 4% in Fire Departments (allocated from the former find rate for Wirecutters). With this item, you have the option of plugging or unplugging the Telematic Networker and any GPS unit you might have. Plugging/unplugging is a 1 AP action. While you are plugged in, you broadcast your position to any person who is on your contact list and has a GPS device. You can view a list of people who are broadcasting to you, and their GPS locations, by clicking on your main GPS device (spending 1 AP) - a similar action to viewing the Necronet. |
| Notes: | 10/14 Keep. Well-accepted.
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| Left Queue: | 02:51, 11 September 2006 (BST). |
GPS Clock
| Timestamp: | 05:21, 13 August 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Item update |
| Scope: | Survivors |
| Description: | To accurately calculate the position of people who are using GPS devices, the GPS system calculates local time to the microsecond, with reference to Zulu or Universal time (aka Greenwhich Mean Time).
In the shattered city, battery-powered GPS devices should be the most accurate clock, indeed, the only accurate clock, as they are being fed data from the outside world via satellite. With sporadic electricity and many ransacked buildings, I'm sure that most of the conventional clocks around the city are stopped or smashed. So survivors would be relying on GPS to give them the correct time and to coordinate timed events (like raids). Therefore, the GPS device is updated: it now displays the GMT timestamp of the time the page was accessed. Naturally, this information will be available to zombies as well. |
| Notes: | 18/19 Keep. Nearly unanimously accepted. |
| Left Queue: | 02:52, 11 September 2006 (BST) |
GPS Local Necronet Access
| Timestamp: | 04:48, 3 Feb 2006 (GMT) |
| Type: | Skill |
| Scope: | Survivor |
| Description: | Here's an idea for a skill to make Necronet truly a network. Right now it's not worth the trip to an NT building just for it, Necronet is really just a thing to use if you're already there and if you make the trip and there's no generator you don't have enough AP in a day to both power it and have enough actions left to use the data NecroNet provides. Here's an idea: A skill called Field Clearance. Here's what it would do:
If you click on your GPS (costing 1AP) it brings up the Necronet map of the area surrounding your present location. It would only show squares that are currently in the range of a powered Necrotech's buildings own "Access NecroNet" map. If a square did not have any powered NT buildings in range it would show up as black on the map, and you wouldn't be able to see whether there were zombies in that square or not. This would keep powering Necrotech buildings important, it wouldn't allow you to bypass the need to maintain Necrotech buildings.
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| Notes: | 14/18 Keep/Total. Well accepted, however some people didn't belive that it would be realistic. But as pointed out GPS's alredy show maps on them which could be used from the realism aspect.
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| Left Queue: | 14:08, 30 May 2006 (BST) |
GPS Mutual Contacts Location v1
| Timestamp: | 19:18, 18 May 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Item Improvement |
| Scope: | Survivors with GPS Units |
| Description: | Currently, the GPS Unit is largely useless due to the Urban Dead map and therefore takes up a slot in your inventory with a worthless item. However, to improve the item GPS Units could be given the ability to show you the co-ordinates of other people (I have no idea whether this is possible on those small GPS Units; but hey, this game has infinite shops and people sleep for 23 hours and 55 minutes a day). It would work in the following way:
1) Person 1 and Person 2 both pick up GPS Units. 2) Person 1 adds Person 2 to their contacts list. Person 2 does the same with person 1. 3) Person 1's GPS Unit now has a drop-down menu of people who are on his contacts list and who also have him on their own contacts list. 4) Person 1 can expend 1 AP to find out the co-ordinates of anyone on the drop-down menu. This would even work if Person 2 was a zombie. However, the player who is trying to find the co-ordinates must be a human in order to use the GPS Unit. The way I figure it, this will help people group together if, for example, a group's safehouse has been broken into and everyone has scattered. It would be faster than trying to contact everyone with a Mobile Phone and then waiting for them to reply, by which time you may be asleep or offline. There's also little potential for griefing as both players need to a) have a GPS Unit and b) have each other on their contacts lists. Therefore, in order to escape a PKer who hunts you down again and again (should such a case occur) all you would need to do would be to delete them from your contacts list or drop your GPS Unit. |
| Notes: | 18/23 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is as it makes GPS units more useful.
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| Left Queue: | 07:09, 29 June 2006 (BST) |
GPS Mutual Contacts Location v2
| Timestamp: | 04:02, 27 May 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | GPS Friend Tracking |
| Scope: | Survivors |
| Description: | Many times in game we need to find friends and group members and have to resort to metagaming to do so. It has been suggested multiple times for the GPS to be able to find list the locations of contacts for convienence. The problem with this is many players make PKer's contacts so they can kill them on site, and thus they would be able to hunt them down and take easy retribution. This suggestion hopes to make finding people easier in-game without giving PKer's an easier way of griefing the same person by killing them non-stop.
Heres a hypothetical situation to explain how it would work: Player A and Player B are in a group together and are mutual contacts, and zombies infiltrate the groups base. Both Players A and B have a GPS and wish to track each other down. Player B clicks on his contact list and goes to Player A's entry, and next to it is a button saying "Track", and once clicked it would send a request to Player A to track each other. When Player A logs on the next day, he would get a message similar to the beep a mobile phone makes and when he clicks on his GPS it would take him to a page that has a message by Player B that says that he would like to track you, with two buttons, Accept and Deny. Also on this page wouls be a list of other people that he has accepted to track, and a button to cancel any of these. Player C, who Player A made a contact after Player C killed him, tries to track Player A but has his request denied because Player A knows hes a PKer and sees the ramifications. The requirements for it to work would they would have to be mutual contacts, whoever was asked would have to accept, and it would work similar to mobile phone messages (Moblie Phone Mast must be on to send, the other person will still receive if its off where they are but when it comes back on) . In this way even if you have PKer's in your contact list, they (unless you forgot which is which) can't track you because you would deny their request, and if you mistakingly agreed you can stop the tracking. There would be a scroll box next to the GPS that shows the locations of everyone people who you have accepted/been accepted by to track. |
| Notes: | 20/23 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 10:26, 29 June 2006 (BST) |
GPS Necronet Uplink
| Timestamp: | Rheingold 08:26, 23 August 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Item Update, Skill Change |
| Scope: | All players |
| Description: | The Necronet Uplink.
The Necronet Uplink is a new function that Necronet Inc. has added to the GPS network for Malton. A GPS device carried by a standing survivor transmits a signal once every 24 hours (at server reset) giving the suburb he is currently located in. That signal is picked up at Necronet HQ and entered into their database. Even if a survivor is carrying more than one GPS unit, only one signal is sent. The GPS is equipped with a dead man's switch, such that the signal automatically shuts off when a player dies (and does not turn on again until he is revived). A survivor with Necronet Access who sits down at the computers at any Necrotech Office location may choose to View The Uplink Database. He is then directed to a 3x3 map of Malton, with the number of GPS-carrying, standing survivors in each suburb listed. Example graphic:
The map updates once a day (at server reset). |
| Notes: | 28/30 Keep/Total, well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 19:32, 10 October 2006 (BST) |
GPS Seen By Zombies
| Timestamp: | 18:37, 18 July 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | allows the GPS to show up when you're a zombie |
| Scope: | Zombies, especially those looking for a revive... and those trying to coordinate attacks |
| Description: | Pretty straightforward, if you have a GPS in your inventory, it'll show up all the time, regardless of life status. |
| Notes: | 14/16 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is, some people thought it should require memories of life to be visiable.
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| Left Queue: | 11:03, 6 August 2006 (BST) |
Set Up GPS
| Timestamp: | Jon Pyre 15:52, 4 April 2007 (BST) |
| Type: | Improvement |
| Scope: | The GPS Unit |
| Description: | With inventory space scare even those who carried a GPS unit in the past probably don't carry one anymore. It just isn't worth carrying that instead of another round of ammunition or a first aid kit considering that the map is a click away. However sometimes it would be nice to be able to tell what the coordinates of your safehouse are, or another building you visit, without having to go to the map all the time. So the GPS unit has a purpose but not one worth carrying it for.
What if you could set up GPS Units inside of buildings just like generators and transmitters? Clicking on a GPS Unit would place it right next to your generator, transmitter, and heck, Christmas Tree if ya got one. If one was already in place you couldn't place another one until the present GPS was destroyed. Since GPS Units work in your inventory on battery power they wouldn't be dependant on a generator running. It'd look like this: A GPS Unit displays your position: [35, 41] Now this is by no means essential but putting one in your building would be a nice improvement, moreso than a painting. Now when I find one at a Necrotech I'll hold onto it and place it in some adjacent building that doesn't have one yet in order to help other people find their way around when traveling, rather than just immediately discarding it. Ok, so that's the first half of the suggestion. To make the GPS unit even MORE useful when set up in a building perhaps it could also show the time as well? It might not make sense to show time in someone's inventory just to save space but GPS units are receiving a constant feed from overhead satellites. They'd be able to show the time, accurate to atomic precision, and having GPS in buildings also show the time could help people strategize and plan with each other. However to continue maintaining the current ambiguity about Malton's location (even though it's almost certainly England), and so people in different timezones can roleplay any time they want without some game clock telling them they only come on at midnight, the GPS unit should show a couple timezones at once. So it'd look like this: A GPS Unit displays your position and the time: [35, 41] 8:32 GMT 3:32 EST 6:32 AEST Having the time for England, North America, and Australia is enough that Malton could still be in any English speaking country, and showing multiple world times is just the kind of overly information feature that realistically gets built into high-tech gadgets. In total this would make the GPS unit useful, not crucial, but something that'll certainly save people a bit of time and effort and improve any building in a significant way.
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| Notes: | 17/18 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is. |
| Left Queue: | 22:12, 29 May 2007 (BST) |
Lead Pipe
(none right now)
Mobile Phone
Mobile Phone Signal Status Alert
| Timestamp: | 05:43, 4 Dec 2005 (GMT) |
| Type: | Display change |
| Scope: | Survivors with mobile phones |
| Description: | An in-game event would be reported when a cell tower in your suburb goes online or offline. I.E. -- "Your mobile phone beeps and loses service" or "Your mobile phone beeps and connects with a tower." If service status changes more than once since you last logged in, only one message would be displayed: "Your mobile phone beeps several times. You currently have [no] service."
It's realistic in-game (since you could glance at your phone at any time to see if it's working) and lets you keep track of the tower status in your suburb. Perhaps it could even be integrated with a display in the item menu telling you if service is available (this could be eliminated if it's a server issue). |
| Notes: | 17/18 Keep/Total.
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| Left Queue: | 13:58, 19 Dec 2005 (GMT) |
Send To All: Contacts
| Timestamp: | 21:20, 20 Dec 2005 (GMT) |
| Type: | improvement |
| Scope: | Mobile phone, survivors |
| Description: | I was using the mobile and sending messages to people in my group and used 10AP this way. So I was thinking couldnt the mobile phone have a button for sending a text to everyone in the contact list in stead of having to use one AP per person, it would make things simple and would save a lot of AP. If this were possible we wouldnt have to repeat the process of sending then writing again and sending.
If this has been suggested before I am very sorry. |
| Notes: | 9/13 Keep/Total. Well accpted as it makes the mobile more useful. Most people voting kill were arguing that the phone was designed to waste survivors AP.
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| Left Queue: | 05:14, 7 May 2006 (BST) |
Send To All: Group
| Timestamp: | 23:51, 4 Feb 2006 (GMT) |
| Type: | Improvement |
| Scope: | Mobile Phones |
| Description: | Currently mobile phones are useless due to low efficiency (2 AP to message one person) and people rather communicate outside of the game (forums) then using them. I suggest to add a new option in the mobile phone, "forward message", which will allow you to send a message to the mobile phones of all other members who have the same group name like you (under "group" n their profile). The AP cost can be the same or a bit higher, I don't care. This suggestion is just about adding the option to message your teammates.
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| Notes: | 7/9 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 06:09, 1 June 2006 (BST) |
Signal On Mast Location, Not Suburb
| Timestamp: | 03:26, 9 Feb 2006 (GMT) |
| Type: | Skill |
| Scope: | Survivors, Civilian |
| Description: | "The military have switched the local mobile phone network back on, after a blanket shutdown during the first months of quarantine." Why would the military shut phone service off for the public? Perhaps so they could use it for their own communications. Cell phone network has a limited number of links it can establish at one time, that's why you can sometimes try making a call and you'll get a message like "All ciruits are busy". This normally occurs during major events when a lot of people try to make calls, during a zombpocalypse if the military wanted cellular service for important personnel they'd almost certainly need to shut out the public. Then after a while they managed to restore limited cellular service, giving up local circuits to be used by the public while giving their own calls higher priority. Some people, whether important military officers, scientists, or prominent civilians have had their phone numbers given higher priority so that they can communicate with greater reliability.
The skill "Priority Signal" would be a civilian skill designed to increase the reliability of mobile phone service. Unlike most people's phone service which entirely depends on the suburb's phone mast yours will be transferred through to any phone mast within signal range. Here's the entirety of what the skill would do: If the phone mast in your current suburb is unpowered you retain cellular service as long as there is a powered phone mast within 10 spaces. So if you were in western Edgeville and the Edgeville phone mast was down you'd still have service if the mast in Roftwood was powered and no more than ten spaces away. Some areas would have potential coverage from as many as four different phone masts. As long as one of them was active you'd retain cellular service.
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| Notes: | 7/10 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is. However it may remove the "home turf" aspect of keeping the cell phone masts up.
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| Left Queue: | 11:36, 1 June 2006 (BST) |
Newspaper
Make reading newspapers a 0 AP action
| Timestamp: | Asheets 18:53, 22 January 2007 (UTC) |
| Type: | AP change |
| Scope: | Survivors |
| Description: | Currently, reading a newspaper has a 1AP charge. Due to the recent change where game information, hints, and propaganda can now be gleaned from reading the newspaper, I suggest that the AP cost of reading the newspaper be changed to 0AP (which is the same cost as merely dropping it). |
| Notes: | 26/27 Keep/Total (92%) |
| Left Queue: | 18:34, 6 February 2007 (UTC) |
Newspaper Headlines 1.0
| Timestamp: | 19:23, 19 Nov 2005 (GMT) |
| Type: | Item (newspaper) Improvement |
| Scope: | Survivors |
| Description: | This is just a change to the infamous newspapers strewn all over Malton. Can we have more variety in newspaper titles? Here are some examples:
"Zombies Take Over [suburb name]", "Electricity Returns to Malton", "Survivors Reclaim [suburb name]", "Hundreds of Zombies Lurking in [suburb name]" And if the Item Combination idea goes through: "GPS Phones: A How-To - Combine a cell phone and a GPS module for the GPS Phone.", "Molotov Cocktail Tutorial - Combine a bottle of wine with matches for the Molotov Cocktail." I suggest this because I don't like the lack of flavor found in newspapers at the moment. They're old, bland, and don't give much of a benefit than taking space in your inventory. Of course, some work is required in this, as there should be some people around to make new titles for the papers. Still...it gives a reason for survivors to read them. If you want some plot for this, you can say that some survivor groups began to type up papers and gave them to other groups to distribute all over the city, or something like that. NOTE: This is NOT a new item. I'm merely suggesting ideas for improving the newspaper so they can have a little more value. |
| Notes: | 9/10 Keep/Total. I'd love to see a few odd newspapers from outside the city start to filter in.
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| Left Queue: | 19:44, 4 Dec 2005 (GMT) |
Newspaper Headlines 2.0
| Timestamp: | 16:30, 15 Dec 2005 (GMT) |
| Type: | Alteration:Item |
| Scope: | Newspapers and the Wiki |
| Description: | Since this is the "Official" Urban Dead wiki, there should be some connection between the wiki and the game. I propose a new page Newspaper Headlines that the game pulls from, at random, to choose newspaper headlines. Contributions will be voluntary and anonymous, and the game already has a profanity filter that can be used to avoid offending the youngin's. If the pull from the list fails for any reason (profanity, bad formatting, etc), the game reverts to the old subroutine for boring newspaper headlines. In this way, Kevan gets a source for more variety, Player and Zombie groups can add advertisements / tips / warnings / threats, and wikigoers get an entertaining way to contribute to the game. This idea has been idly mentioned previously, but I don't believe it has come up as a formal suggestion. |
| Notes: | 17 Keeps / 5 Kills
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| Left Queue: | 10:44, 2 Jan 2006 (GMT) |
Newspapers Provide Outbreak Backstory
| Timestamp: | 10:10, 8 Feb 2006 (GMT) |
| Type: | Flavor |
| Scope: | Survivor |
| Description: | Personally when I first joined I read the newspaper I found because I thought they may give some back story as to how the zombie outbreak occured. Sadly, this was not the case and after the first 10 or so newpapers I quit reading.
I propose that there be a set of different newspapers, maybe 10, that give a couple lines of text explaining the outbreak. Each one would be different and offer an interesting fact and maybe finally reveal some of the history behind Necrotech. |
| Notes: | 10/11 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 10:48, 1 June 2006 (BST) |
Reading A Newspaper Earns You One XP
| Timestamp: | S.WiersctdpNTmapx:oo 23:24, 18 April 2007 (BST) |
| Type: | item improvement |
| Scope: | newspapers |
| Description: | As the title says; reading a newspaper would earn you one XP.
Newspapers are now supposed to include pamphlets with tips for survivors. If reading random old books can help you learn how to survive (by earning XPs for skills), it seems likely that reading information specifically intended to aid you in surviving a zombie apocalypse should do the same. On a game balance level, this is purely newb-friendliness. Newbs are the ones who most often find newspapers (while searching hospitals for FAKs), and are the ones who need the help earning XPs, and (flavor wise and play wise) are the ones who would benefit from them. More expereinced characters have better ways to earn XP's, and don't search so often in places where newspapers are found (they generally prefer mall drug stores vs hospitals). |
| Notes: | 13/15 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is. |
| Left Queue: | --~~~~T''' 20:08, 23 August 2007 (BST) |
Radio
1AP To Tune Radio
| Timestamp: | 09:36, 3 June 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Improvement |
| Scope: | Everyone with a radio |
| Description: | At the moment, radio tuning appears to require 2 AP: one when clicking on the radio to tune it, and another when clicking the "Tune" button to actually tune it. This suggestion would lower the AP cost to 1 AP when clicking the "Tune" button, making clicking on the radio itself free.
Note added for clarification: this isn't about transmitters, but radios themselves. –Bob Hammero T•W!•U! 18:42, 3 June 2006 (BST) |
| Notes: | 10/11 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 01:55, 30 June 2006 (BST) |
Less Inventory Space for Radios
| Timestamp: | Gage 01:51, 11 August 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | improvement to radios |
| Scope: | people with a radio in their inventory |
| Description: | For coding purposes, a radio takes up 5 spaces in the inventory. This is because a radio has to take up one space to tell that it is a radio, just like any other item, but also has to have 4 different variables for the frequency, hence the 5 spaces. This is slightly moronic as the frequency range is 26.00-29.00 MHz. Notice anything? The first number there isn't a variable at all, but a lowly constant; it is always two. Couldn't this somehow be made into an understood number on the radio, and not actually have to be stored in the inventory? If so this would reduce inventory consumption by one. Another option would be to make the frequency be on set "channels", so you could have the same number of channels as before but number them 000-300, this would also reduce inventory space by 1. I know this isn't anything major, but it might allow you to carry an extra pistol clip or shotgun shell. |
| Notes: | 21/21 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is. It was suggested that it could even be reduced down to three spots by using two 8-bit characters which would give a posiable 65,000 different frequencies. |
| Left Queue: | 12:56, 29 August 2006 (BST) |
On/Off switch for Radio's
| Timestamp: | Canuhearmenow Hunt! 00:27, 27 October 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Item Tweak. |
| Scope: | simple, helps decrease spam. |
| Description: | When you click on a hand-held radio it would have the new option to turn off (Or on) This would work with Zombies with MoL. This is a simple improvement, if you start getting spam, that is. |
| Notes: | 15/15 Keep/Total, well accepted as is. |
| Left Queue: | 14:34, 19 November 2006 (UTC) |
Recognize Contacts Over Radio
| Timestamp: | 00:31, 2 June 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Improvement |
| Scope: | Radios |
| Description: | Radios are a welcome addition to the game but unfortunately have resulted in a great deal of spam. It's not too big a problem, after all you can just refresh the screen to get rid of the messages but it can be hard to find the broadcasts actually worth reading in the morass. Here's my suggestion: when hearing a message broadcast by a contact of yours you are able to recognize their voice, so the radio message is amended to look like this:
(Jon Pyre) 27.35 MHz: "This is your hourly zombie and temperature report. 54° and 285 hungry undead." That way players could scan down the list of radio messages and find ones sent by their own contacts easily. |
| Notes: | 27/30 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 01:44, 30 June 2006 (BST) |
Radio Transmitter
Radio Destruction Sends Half-Message
| Timestamp: | 20:54, 1 June 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | small flavor change |
| Scope: | radio transmitters |
| Description: | Alright, due to a situation I encountered recently in which one of my zeds busted into a building just as someone broadcasted a radio message from it, I thought up this idea. It's not a big deal at all, just a little cool thing. If one types a message into the "broadcast" textbox and hits the button, and in the time since your last pageload the generator has been smashed and thus can't transmit anymore, how about instead of just not broadcasting (which is what it probably does now) a random percentage of your message is transmitted, starting from the beginning and cutting off in the middle somewhere, and a little flavor text gets put on people listening--ie "'blah blah blah--' *there is a smashing noise, and then silence." We know the game can check for you doing things that were possible on your last pageview but arent' now, and react differently--ever tried to say something to someone who moved out of the square before you could hit talk? If there's no one there you wouldn't ordinarily be able to say something, but because you sent the message to an empty square through this little bug the game says you said it to yourself, or something like that. |
| Notes: | 20/20 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 01:35, 30 June 2006 (BST) |
Zombies Use Radio (Fixed Channel)
| Timestamp: | 12:00, 21 July 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | improvement |
| Scope: | Zombies with Death Rattle. |
| Description: | I propose that zombies with the Death Rattle skill be able to broadcast messages over the radio. Note that they won't be able to change the channel (they're still zombies, after all), but they WILL be able to "BARHAR" all they like on the channel the radio transmitter is currently set to. As per Death Rattle, the messages will be in zombie speech.
My logic on this:
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| Notes: | 19/27 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is. Some people disliked it as they thought it would create more message spam, however it was pointed out that this would only occur in rare occurrences.
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| Left Queue: | 09:48, 10 August 2006 (BST) |
Revivication Syringe
15 AP Syringe Manufacture
| Timestamp: | Reaper with no name19:09, 16 September 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | balance change |
| Scope: | Syringe manufacture in powered NecroTech buildings |
| Description: | There is currently no reason to manufacture syringes. With a 12% search rate for syringes in a powered NecroTech building, it takes on average over twice as many AP to make a syringe as it does to find one. Therefore, the cost to make syringes should be lowered to 15. This will at least somewhat remedy the problem. |
| Notes: | 22/23, well accepted as is. |
| Left Queue: | 08:31, 30 September 2006 (BST) |
Find Mk.1 Syringes As Well
| Timestamp: | 03:09, 5 August 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Flavor, Ways to amuse Ron Burgundy |
| Scope: | Survivors |
| Description: | I've recently started using an old character with a Mk.1 Syringe on hand. It's one of the ones that revives someone instantly without turning them into a corpse first. I've yet to use it, but just seeing it there takes me back!
So here's the suggestion: why not make those old syringes findable objects? They're not much use, but neither are newspapers. What's more, in a post-apocalyptic city, you'd think one could find all sorts of debris from the apocalypse around. Being able to find old syringes, no longer the top of the line, lying in streets or in the backs of NectoTechs would build a more historical world in the game and a 1% find rate, or something comparably low, would prevent it from doing much beyond that. I'm not sure if the 10AP thing counts for the old ones, but if they come back, it should. |
| Notes: | 22/28 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 08:02, 24 August 2006 (BST) |
Revival Syringe Mark 3.0
| Timestamp: | 21:38, 16 Dec 2005 (GMT) |
| Type: | Item |
| Scope: | Replaces Revival Syringe Mark 2.0 |
| Description: | Current revival syringes (both the rare remaining 1.0 and more common 2.0 versions) are very effective as weapons, and seem a bit lacking in flavor. The Mark 3.0 Revival syringe would work thus: you inject a zombie, and they are flagged as "de-necrotizing" (this would be the same flag that marks a corpse as ?revived? currently) and they would get a message to the effect of ?you feel the undead vigor leaching from your animated corpse?. De-necrotizing zombies loose one HP per AP they spend- similar to infected survivors, except there?s no need to exempt speech from this case. When they finally drop dead (from this damage, or other causes), THEN they will be able to stand up again as human.
Because a "revived" zombie can still be walking around, "De-necrotizing" zombies would be ignored for purposes of syringe injection, and not held in the datbase as part of the "revive que"; a tech who had the ability to use a syringe would never foolishly waste one on a de-necrotizing zombie! In fact, to further simulate the "recongnizable" symptoms of de-necrotization, survivors with lab expereince should automatically see de-necrotizing zombies as such; they would see "x zombies, y bodies, and z de-necrotizing zombies" in a given location. Among other things, this would aid them in recognizing revive points vs battle zones. They would also be given the option of attacking either sort ("attack zombie" and "attack de-nectotizing zombie"), in case they wanted to aid thier "patients" in loosing HPs. Maybe everybody should see de-necrotizing zombies this way; this would help people with "Headshot" if they decide be nice and not blast the brains out of soon-to-be survivors. This makes the Mark 3.0 fairly useless as a weapon, at least in real-time combats, but it actually would make them BETTER (and more flavorful) as revival tools. For example, a soon-to-be-revived survivor would have some time to look for a good place to "crash", which is handy if they have an infection and are going to be standing up with half HPs. --Swiers 21:38, 16 Dec 2005 (GMT) |
| Notes: | 37 Keeps - 1 Kill (97%), overwhelming support,
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| Left Queue: | 09:29, 2 Jan 2006 (GMT) |
Revivication Text Change
| Timestamp: | 20:42, 18 Dec 2005 (GMT) |
| Type: | text accuracy |
| Scope: | Survivors |
| Description: | When a survivor is jabbed with a syringe, the game says that "so and so revivified you." you fall to the ground, indiscernable from other dead bodies until you decide to stand up again. So, after being jabbed, you are immediately alive, albeit on the ground and not moving. However, the game says "you are so and so and you are dead" after being revivified. But you're not dead, you're just lying prone now. So the word dead should be changed to "unconcious" or something when you're lying on the ground after being revivified. This is a minor point, but it would make the game more accurate. ~~Stare~~ |
| Notes: | 11/11 Keep/Total. It was well accepted as is.
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| Left Queue: | 11:12, 6 May 2006 (BST) |
Syringe Reworking
| Timestamp: | 20:38, 14 March 2006 (GMT) |
| Type: | Balance change |
| Scope: | All players, primarily NTs and Zombies |
| Description: | As of right now, a human with NecroNet Access can revive 2 zombies a day. A zombie with maxed out combat skills is lucky to get one kill working with a large horde. At these rates, it is impossible for zombies to advance their numbers or decrease survivor numbers for a meaningful amount of time without new zombie players joining the game, or survivors willingly switching sides (yeah, right!). Therefore, I propose a three part plan to fix the ratio.
1) Raise the cost of manufacturing a syringe to 30 AP. Syringes can be hard enough to find searching in an ordinary manner (despite supposedly having a 1/20 chance of being found), so their rate can remain unchanged. This will put a stem on the massive outflow of syringes. NecroNet does not become useless, as the extra 10 AP is for the guarantee that a syringe will be found. I have searched three days straight using the normal method and come up empty handed. None of these points are unfair. The thing is that Urban Dead is the exact opposite of what a zombie game should be. "It's a few brave zombies against a horde of mindless humans," to quote a wise zombie. The undead are an endangered species, and unable to increase their numbers in any significant way. Were it not for a small group of dedicated players who always return to their unlife, the zombie population would evaporate within weeks. |
| Notes: | 41/55 Keep/Total. Well accepted as is. |
| Left Queue: | 12:02, 18 June 2006 (BST) |
Spray Can
Amount of Paint Left
| Timestamp: | 19:40, 26 Nov 2005 (GMT) |
| Type: | Interface/Item change. |
| Scope: | Spray Cans |
| Description: | The approximate number of sprays/charges is displayed next to each spray can in the inventory, in the same way that pistols and shotguns show how many times those items can be used. |
| Notes: | 7/9 Keep/Total
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| Left Queue: | 03:05, 12 Dec 2005 (GMT) |
Colored Spraypaint
| Timestamp: | Schizmo 01:48, 17 November 2006 (UTC) |
| Type: | Flavor |
| Scope: | Humans, because Zeds can't use spraypaint. |
| Description: | Short and sweet. Spraypaint comes in many colors in real life, so why not have different colors in Urban Dead? When you find spraypaint, its color is randomly selected from a small group of standard colors. Maybe 6, maybe 8, maybe 10, the number isn't important. What IS important is that anything sprayed will show up on the building description in its respective color.
So if you search a hardware store and find a can of spraypaint that ends up Red (through random chance) whatever you spray will show up in red font. Simple right? This will let spraypaint messages stand out a bit more. Nothing too gamechanging, just a bit of useful flavor. As far as colors go, I was thinking black, white, red, blue, green, and yellow, but thats just me. |
| Notes: | 25/25 Keep/Total. 100% in favour. |
| Left Queue: | 22:45, 7 December 2006 (UTC) |
Wet Paint
| Timestamp: | 00:24, 28 August 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Improvement |
| Scope: | Everyone |
| Description: | Speaking, radio transmissions, attacks, etc. all have a timestamp on them to let you know when they happened. Graffiti doesn't. I'm proposing a feature addition to let you know how recently some graffiti was put up. I thought of this after standing at a revive point for several days before realising it's no longer in use, despite the promise made by the graffiti...
The age of the graffiti would be described as being in one of three stages (because can you tell how old graffiti in the street is, to the minute??) New -
1 day to 7 days old -
8 days and older -
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| Notes: | 28/35 Keep/Total, well accepted as is. |
| Left Queue: | 20:15, 10 October 2006 (BST) |
