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[Funk]

And thats why i keep track of a working car at all times, it makes large groups of zombies it to off roading funtime!
i just wish i could form a proper group then i could have some one to use the .50 cal MG found.

[jocan2003]

Spoiler: There is no way this can go wrong! (click to show/hide)

(certainly isn't likely to become any worse...)

PFFF no aftershock? what a tease.....

[Mephansteras]

Do batteries you take out of cars retain charge in them? Or are they then considered empty?

Also, can you recharge a car's batteries using said batteries from another car?

I have an electric car whose solar panels are broken with no way to fix them quite yet. Wondering how easy it is to recharge it in the meantime.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Misread question

[Funk]

Just done a little maths on engines and as it turns out that engine size is just be round to the nearest 100 then divided by 100 for fuel use.
multiple engines don't changes this at all.

Alternators take a fair bit of power from the wheels, so run the smallest you can.

Also, can you recharge a car's batteries using said batteries from another car?

Im on the latest and i can't get them too, maybe if they where the same type of battery it would work.

[pisskop]

I led some chillins out of their school and into what I call 'the line'.  they all congaed out into a raging firepit I made, so I could loor the school.  Problem.is, I came back to for a restock to find all the bodies had risen, heavily damaged but still upset at me :/

more depression in this guys future, i think . . .

[Aseaheru]

Ya gotta bucha man.

[Funk]

Just crush them under the wheel of something, seriously i was just at a big school and i was just driveing back and forwards splatting the zombies as they came out of the building.
 

[GrizzlyAdamz]

It seems more likely you are playing classic mode, unless you are still seeing exotic zombie types aswell.
That said, they only spawn near triffid hearts/fungal blooms.

Last I played classic I was still seeing special Zeds. Not as many though, and this was also pre-.8.

[Sean Mirrsen]

It seems more likely you are playing classic mode, unless you are still seeing exotic zombie types aswell.
That said, they only spawn near triffid hearts/fungal blooms.

Last I played classic I was still seeing special Zeds. Not as many though, and this was also pre-.8.

Classic still has its own special Zeds, but normal ones instead of "fantasy" ones.

[Sean Mirrsen]

So... since apparently at least some of the developers check out this thread every once in a while... as opposed to their own development forum..

Any good solutions for compiling the SDL version? Yes, I am masterful at derailing myself. But still. I can't play the game with the existing tile options. That takes priority. Because none of the fonts for console mode work well enough squared (and it makes the already huge sidebar downright humongous), and none of the tilesets have proper support for even stock mods like the Classic Zombies option. And non-square maps look ridiculous. The road is twice as thick going horizontal than vertical. And cars get all squished up sideways.

So I want to take HRose's solution from her(?) thread in the development forum and apply a DF-like spin to it. Read a second tileset page from the tileset folder, an ASCII sheet in eight colors with a matching tile size, and substitute any undefined object or item tiles with their console-like ASCII representation.

But to even try that, I have to compile the thing in SDL first. I got the source. I got Code::Blocks and compiled the console version. I downloaded SDL. Now how do I shove one into another so they work? I noticed the option to compile the SDL version, and am getting file not found errors on the SDL-specific files.

Halp?

edit: okay, as usual I found a solution immediately after asking for help. I guess that counts.

Well, it's a horrible solution, but I can't be bothered to install something else to build SDL_ttf and SDL_image into static libraries. *grumble grumble lazy distributors*

Okay then, let's see how badly I overestimated my capacities in this case...

[i2amroy]

So... since apparently at least some of the developers check out this thread every once in a while... as opposed to their own development forum..

The main devs spend a lot more time on the Cata forums then these ones (though we do check here from time to time, so more often then others). That said the best way to get real-time help is to check the IRC channel.

-snip-

As for your problem, I don't have a clue, you would need to get in touch with one of the few devs who is both on windows and uses Code::Blocks to compile things (personally I'm on Cygwin, which doesn't support SDL builds right now).

[Sean Mirrsen]

So... since apparently at least some of the developers check out this thread every once in a while... as opposed to their own development forum..

The main devs spend a lot more time on the Cata forums then these ones (though we do check here from time to time, so more often then others). That said the best way to get real-time help is to check the IRC channel.

-snip-

As for your problem, I don't have a clue, you would need to get in touch with one of the few devs who is both on windows and uses Code::Blocks to compile things (personally I'm on Cygwin, which doesn't support SDL builds right now).

I guess I'll have a look in the chat then. Somebody has to have the SDL libraries static-linked.

Also, the problem is that that is essentially no-one. There was at most one person who used Code::Blocks back when the guides to contribution were written, and it took his participation to add information on how to configure the project so it compiles - that's just the console version. And nowadays, it appears that work is primarily focused on console builds, without so much as a single developer working on the tile-supporting build, and information on adding SDL, let alone SDL_ttf and SDL_Image libraries is nonexistent.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

From an outsider perspective, it strikes as might having something to do with how quickly stuff is getting added/changed. Tilesets are outdated before they're finished, no?

-e
Also, isn't there a 'narrow sidebar' option? Might help with square fonts.

[i2amroy]

From an outsider perspective, it strikes as might having something to do with how quickly stuff is getting added/changed. Tilesets are outdated before they're finished, no?

That's certainly a part of it, and also the simple fact that while we might include a few of the more popular tilesets in the download, none of the tilesets are actually "official", but are supported by individual forum users. As for overall tileset compatibility improvements being slow, it's a combination of most of our devs playing with ASCII instead of tiles, many of them using console versions because they run faster on Linux (which most of our main devs use a form of), and because UI code is a pain to write.