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[scrdest]

>blew up gunstore
>died

>Instant karma

The gunstore was asking for it. It was hiding zombies inside it.

VICTIM BLAMING!

[Graknorke]

>blew up gunstore
>died

>Instant karma

The gunstore was asking for it. It was hiding zombies inside it.

VICTIM BLAMING!

The gunstore didn't consider the implications.

[Mephansteras]

The gunstore didn't consider the implications.

Yeah, it should know better than to assume everyone knows what the phrase 'open fire' actually means.

[Doohl]

My current character is the farthest I've ever gotten. He's a brute hulk with 10 Unarmed/Melee, 15 Strength and Krav Maga training, making him essentially unstoppable. My current base setup is a tent surrounded by a spike-pit moat with two-by-four bridges, with the exterior of the base lit up by several mini-vehicles I call "sentries". They're basically just shopping carts and light frames with a headlight installed, with room for a turret once I scrounge up the resources for them.

These defenses have proven to be invaluable thanks to the fact that I accidentally made this base next to a triffid grove. The queen gets awfully close to my base every now and then, but the most I have to deal with are straggler triffids (which are basically endless free food!)

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[Mephansteras]

Totally forgot about the 2x4 over the pit trick! Somehow. Need to implement that in my base. Also, I like the idea of the shopping cart lamps, although it's never made sense to me how the headlights get powered without worrying about car battery charge.

[scrdest]

I wish you could double the skill rot time while retaining default mechanics. It is utter bullshit if I have to haul a book around at all times to prevent my lvl 10 skill from rotting every five goddamn minutes.

Also, fungs and zeds are toxic, but triffids who are plant equivalents of the two are perfectly safe. Dafuq?

[Graknorke]

I wish you could double the skill rot time while retaining default mechanics. It is utter bullshit if I have to haul a book around at all times to prevent my lvl 10 skill from rotting every five goddamn minutes.

Also, fungs and zeds are toxic, but triffids who are plant equivalents of the two are perfectly safe. Dafuq?

Fungaloids infect people to reproduce, and so have to be pretty toxic. Zombies are full of demonic chemical stuff so are toxic. Triffids are plants that reproduce by regular old plant-stuff, and are just... triffids.

[Il Palazzo]

Also, fungs and zeds are toxic, but triffids who are plant equivalents of the two are perfectly safe. Dafuq?

Greens are good fer ya*. Even the all-consuming nightmare extra-dimensional ooze can't change that!


*especially when you're a cow

[Jacob/Lee]

Ever read the book? Triffids are walking plants that sit on rotting meat for nutrition. They're as edible as any other regular plant, except they try to kill you with barbed whips.

[Blaze]

I wish you could double the skill rot time while retaining default mechanics. It is utter bullshit if I have to haul a book around at all times to prevent my lvl 10 skill from rotting every five goddamn minutes.

Vanilla Cataclysm's skill rot is pretty excessive; you can try out the other INT-based options or turn it off entirely (Though you probably don't want to do that given your own words.)

Also, fungs and zeds are toxic, but triffids who are plant equivalents of the two are perfectly safe. Dafuq?

Considering what fungal parasites do to you, you'd think they're safe to eat?

And zombies are:
A. Animated by alien goo from another dimension that spread from the sewers.
B. Probably rotten to the core since the existence of skeletons implies that the vivification process does not completely stop decomposition.
C. Revived corpses from a civilization that has NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS within driving distance from their homes.

Triffids in canon were valuable as sources of food and triffid oil; even after large numbers of them escaped and attacked people.

That being said, triffids do have a poisonous sting. I've never seen that expressed in game mechanics.

[Graknorke]

*venomous
It's a sting. You don't ingest it.

But yeah, it would be nice if triffids had a blinding sting attack.

[DoomOnion]

I personally enjoy playing without skill rust, I know, I know.

It's not about the rate, I mean, skill rust cap at level 2 is pretty excessive and 'gamey'.

Somewhere around 5 or 6 would make a lot more sense, though. Is there a way to modify it?

[Blaze]

Go to options, there should be an entry for it.
Int-based skill rust is exactly what it says on the tin. No idea about the others.

[Darkmere]

You can also set it to only rust down to the nearest full level (i.e. level 4 (55%) will degrade to jsut level 4 (0%)).


I... still don't see the point of skill rust anyway. At best it only adds pointless grinding to the game. At worst, there's things like forgetting how to repair the solar panels you custom build and installed on your vehicle 3 days later. Oh, and practicing first aid by making splints.

[i2amroy]

You can also set it to only rust down to the nearest full level (i.e. level 4 (55%) will degrade to jsut level 4 (0%)).


I... still don't see the point of skill rust anyway. At best it only adds pointless grinding to the game. At worst, there's things like forgetting how to repair the solar panels you custom build and installed on your vehicle 3 days later. Oh, and practicing first aid by making splints.

That's what I usually set my skill rust to.

As for the point of skill rust? It's a system that was originally designed to implement forgetting things over time, but was set way to high. Eventually we'll get around to completely rewriting it for a new unified system with books that we've got all planned out, but nobody has gotten around to implementing it yet.