About Me
I'm currently a graduate student studying Computer Science at Texas A&M University. Although I'm relatively new to the game, having only joined on August 15, 2009, I've made a solid attempt to delve right in and understand the core mechanics of the game and what it takes to get by in the city. So far, my main character has managed to avoid getting himself killed, but we'll see how long that lasts (especially now that I've put that out there in the open) only get killed once (the day after posting that comment). I suppose 12 days was a good run for a first-time player heading through Dangerous suburbs, right?
In addition to studying aspects of gameplay and the history of the game, I've also taken a liking to editing existing userscripts in order to make my gameplay experience more enjoyable, and will likely continue to do so as I plays the game further. Having never worked with GreaseMonkey before, I'm finding it to be a fun distraction from my graduate research, but I'm not sure that my work is of a high enough quality to be ready for public release at this time. More information on the userscipts that I have edited or created is available later in this document.
Aside from those details, I'm an avid Mac addict and have been using them since the late 1980s. I'm running Mac OS 10.4.11 on an Aluminum PowerBook G4 1.67GHz DL-SuperDrive model. Though it's ancient by modern standards, with an outdated OS, I've intentionally chosen to use them since this is the latest Mac laptop model and the latest OS release that can still run Mac OS 9 games, of which I have quite a few that I enjoy still. Plus, despite its age, it still holds up remarkably well for almost all of my computing needs. When I do have to use a PC, I run Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition on a 3.6GHz Pentium 4 in my research lab. Not the greatest machine, but it works well enough, I suppose. I used to run a quad-core Xeon with 12GB of RAM, but I handed it off to another grad student since my research migrated to a topic that was less computationally intensive.
My browser of choice when on a Mac is currently Safari, simply due to how fast it runs, though in the past I was a big supporter of Firefox (back when it was still called Phoenix, and then later Firebird) and Camino (back when it was called Chimera), though the two of them, in their modern incarnations, are too bloated for my tastes. Google Chrome is far and away my browser of choice on Windows, and I'm hoping it will give Safari a run for its money once it makes its way to the Mac later this year or early next. The userscripts I'm working on, while originally intended for use with GreaseMonkey in Firefox, seem to work relatively well with GreaseKit in Safari, and I suspect they could work well enough in Chrome as well, since there are tools to enable userscripts in that browser as well.
Characters
In regards to my characters, I'm trying to experience all aspects of the game, so I've made characters for each of the, what I perceive to be, three distinct approaches to playing the game. Orison is a pro-survivor character who will likely join up with a group at some point and become a career survivor. Jamie is a pro-zombie character who will likely join a group on the opposite side and become a career zombie, Brain Rot and all. Emma is being played as an opportunist type of character character; when she's alive, she supports the survivors, when she's dead, she supports the zombies. Emma will basically be feral, regardless of whether she's alive or dead, wandering from place to place with no primary goal. I'm considering the addition of a fourth player to act as a PKer once I become more adept at understanding how the game plays in regular practice.
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| Starting Occupation:
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Corpse
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None
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| Goals:
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Not feeling alone without her parents...by sticking with a zombie horde
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| Username:
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Aichon
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| More details:
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Urban Dead profile
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Currently, Orison is up in the northwest district, Jamie is in the southeast district, and Emma is slowly migrating towards the southwest district since she started off close to Jamie (she got delayed helping to ransack and ruin Fort Perryn). I intend to have the three of them lead entirely separate lives within the city, though the three of them do share a common back story. Even so, I have little intention of RPing at this time, so while I do have a story for these characters, it generally won't impact the way that they are played in game, aside from what has already been mentioned.
While Orison and Emma are both already grouped up, if there are any pro-zombie groups in the southwest that could use a low-level zombie, feel free to contact me regarding Jamie. In previous MMOs I've played, I've been rather picky about the groups that I join, but given the low level of my characters, my inexperience in the game, and the fact that there are only so many options available, I'll probably be far more willing to listen to recruiters than I might have been otherwise.
Current Goals
All three of them are actively working on leveling up. Orison will probably be acting as a medic/reviver in and around Darvall Heights at some point soon, since there seems to be some active conflict occurring there right now, but before he does that, he'll probably stock up on a few more useful items that he's still missing. Emma and Jamie, meanwhile, are mostly just going from place to place to look for a meal, since they both seem to be zombified most of the time. Emma is leveling nicely, while Jamie seems to have become the punching bag for whichever suburb she's in at the moment (18 deaths pre-Lvl3, compared to Emma's 7 pre-Lvl5 deaths).
Other
I'll be adding in more as I have my characters engage in various tactics, but for now, most of these focus on my survivor character. As time goes on, I'll be adding policies that might be contradictory, but that's only because I use multiple characters.
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Alt user
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| This user has alts but DOESN'T Zerg.
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Drive to Revive
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| This user goes on DIRT:NAPS.
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Supporter of No Tactics
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| I have no clue what I'm doing.
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