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Ghost Town Reclamation

--Ross less ne s s^{Want a Location Image?} 15:11, 17 August 2010 (BST)

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Version 2! --Ross less ne s s^{Want a Location Image?} 15:11, 17 August 2010 (BST)

\o/ Off to G/R with that as far as I'm concerned. I have only one single note to change: Groans don't reveal IDs, unless The Big Update has changed that now. -- Spiderzed ▋ 17:01, 17 August 2010 (BST)

Good point, I will amend. --Ross less ne s s^{Want a Location Image?} 18:00, 17 August 2010 (BST)

Guides:Short simple guide to staying alive

Just wrote this up - I couldn't find anything short and to the point. If I missed something and it's redundant, then we can dump it. --Swingin' Sam 00:52, 29 July 2010 (BST)

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(Moved from Guides/Review page by --Swingin' Sam 21:19, 31 July 2010 (BST)--)

(Against) Not entirely bad, but would need some polish. I'd recommend you to withdraw the guide for now from G/R and go to Developing Guides first. Just a few quick notes:
- 1.) Diagnosis is your best friend early on, at least way before First Aid. Those are easy 5 XPs per pop once you can get into a lit hospital.
- 2.) PKers are less trouble than you make it sound. Many (at least the more honourable ones) don't target newbie survivors at all, and even later it is coincidence to get PKed unless you really work on being a target. (My Dual Nature has been PKed exactly once by an irritated combat revive. My death-cultist has been PKed waaay more often, and he rarely is still alive at the end of the day even when CRed.) Best to drop that note, as PKers are irrelevant for 99.5% of your target audience.
- 3.) Newbs have to learn first and foremost that killing zombies in the streets is actually useless for the survivor cause, and should only be done for XP.
- 4.) Needs references to other guides so newbs can learn further after they've learned those first few steps. -- Spiderzed ▋ 00:23, 30 July 2010 (BST)

Thanks for the input, and heads up about this page. I think I'll lose 1st Aid entirely - not necessary, and it's "iffy" as written anyway. Your comment about Diagnosis is a toss-up imo - good for xp, not for general "survivor welfare", but as defined this shouldn't be a guide at that level either way.

PK's? That's just a footnote, as they confused me the 1st time I saw it happen - didn't realize it was possible in a "zed vs survivor" game. Tried to keep that neutral, but it's something I think even newbies should understand in the back of their mind.

It does have a reference to the Guides page, and in bold at the very beginning. --Swingin' Sam 21:19, 31 July 2010 (BST)

Okay - rewrote a number of subsections, tried to expand some parts, tighten others, add some links - whatcha think?--Swingin' Sam 04:04, 8 August 2010 (BST)

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