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[scrdest]

I have only seen them while debug teleporting around to test out tilesets. They are quite rare or I am quite unlucky.

They are rare. They do, after all, give mutations.

[Grendus]

I love the MBR vests. Not to wear... they're way too encumbering for normal use, but you can chop them up into like 24 kevlar plates. So much easier than finding other sources of kevlar.

[Ivefan]

Haven't played for some time now and tried static spawn. Except for the grace period, it seem easier? I blew up a gas station and burned down some houses but no horde came along.
Does this option simply just generate zombies once and then there is no more?
How does the shift+v priority thing work? I managed to crash the game twice and I didnt notice any change in the list.

[scrdest]

Haven't played for some time now and tried static spawn. Except for the grace period, it seem easier? I blew up a gas station and burned down some houses but no horde came along.
Does this option simply just generate zombies once and then there is no more?
How does the shift+v priority thing work? I managed to crash the game twice and I didnt notice any change in the list.

The difference is, Dynamic spawn no human zombies for the first half an hour, then spawns new ones continuously based on stuff like noise level, Static generates human zombies at the very beginning and no more are spawned in the area. If there were no zombies in the vicinity of the places you burned down, you attracted none.

[Ivefan]

Right, so noise is a minor factor i static spawn then. Unless there actually is a horde around the corner.
No changes to the noise attraction in this mode then? I seem to recall that using loud guns spawned lots of zombies so couldn't the sound travel further in static mode?

Also, there is still no simple way to unload ammo or transfer liquids?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Haven't played for some time now and tried static spawn. Except for the grace period, it seem easier? I blew up a gas station and burned down some houses but no horde came along.
Does this option simply just generate zombies once and then there is no more?
How does the shift+v priority thing work? I managed to crash the game twice and I didnt notice any change in the list.

The difference is, Dynamic spawn no human zombies for the first half an hour, then spawns new ones continuously based on stuff like noise level, Static generates human zombies at the very beginning and no more are spawned in the area. If there were no zombies in the vicinity of the places you burned down, you attracted none.

Effectively, Static Spawn is like Dwarf Fortress. You only get what is there to be had. Whereas the standard mode is like a JRPG, getting you encounters constantly regardless of how many you kill.

Right, so noise is a minor factor i static spawn then. Unless there actually is a horde around the corner.
No changes to the noise attraction in this mode then? I seem to recall that using loud guns spawned lots of zombies so couldn't the sound travel further in static mode?

Also, there is still no simple way to unload ammo or transfer liquids?

You can unload ammo easily and unloading liquid from a container asks for a container to put the liquid into if you have one.

And louder noise definitely travels further. Exploding a boomer with a rocket launcher sent a small horde my way from a nearby town.

[Ivefan]

You can unload ammo easily and unloading liquid from a container asks for a container to put the liquid into if you have one.

And louder noise definitely travels further. Exploding a boomer with a rocket launcher sent a small horde my way from a nearby town.

I was thinking of the times, for example, when I raided an electronics store and want to unload all the batteries, or when i went and filled gallon jugs with alcohol in a liquor store.
Theres a lot of repetitive button pressing, whether i wield & unload or go through the inventory screen and unload.

The gas station i blew up is near the center of a size 6 town and nothing came along.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

If you already cleared it then no, nothing will come. Sean's 'nearby town' had to have been within 60 squares, as that's the edge of the reality bubble.

They've been wanting to add in roaming hordes, but AFAIK it's not been implemented yet.

[Sean Mirrsen]

If you already cleared it then no, nothing will come. Sean's 'nearby town' had to have been within 60 squares, as that's the edge of the reality bubble.

They've been wanting to add in roaming hordes, but AFAIK it's not been implemented yet.

Yeah, it was literally "nearby", but far enough offscreen for the sudden zombies to come as a surprise. It was like an avalanche. I defeated the first wave with another rocket launcher (I stumbled on a bundle of single-use LAWs), which caused an even bigger wave to come, since I maneuvered closer to the town in my efforts to get the zombies to bunch up for the shot.

Exploding something in the middle of the town should definitely have caused a bit of an incursion if there were any zombies around, but perhaps they don't react to sounds not made by you specifically? I.e. if you set fire to a gas station and it exploded, the noise is there but it's general destruction noise. Zombies don't chase after sounds made by other zombies, after all. You would have had to make some noise yourself to cause them to come - if there were any, of course.

[Rez]

All LAW's are single-use.

[Sean Mirrsen]

All LAW's are single-use.

I know that. And you know that.

I prefer to leave no ambiguity sometimes. Some people might not know what a LAW is. Or confuse them with those things you never pay attention to.

[Lukewarm]

I've only ever used LAWs on rift beings and, heaven forbid, spiders.
Mainly spiders.

[Ivefan]

Exploding something in the middle of the town should definitely have caused a bit of an incursion if there were any zombies around, but perhaps they don't react to sounds not made by you specifically?

Possibly. Though a smoker was attracted to a bunch of zombies bashing on a fence. I just thought I recalled that a burning building attracted the horde, but that was some time ago.

Onto cars. What is the difference between the different sized wheels? except for the wide variant not triggering mines.
Any point in making a mobile home with electric engines or are they too weak? If so, can I stack the panels and batteries in a single tile?

[pisskop]

Summer ended (started summer 1/18) with me murdering my evac shelter mate.  I had based up a public works (on dynamic, static is harder in tge start, but less fun when its done), and gotten myself a sweet automagnum/ak47 and plenty of ammo.  Of 130 kills, 12 zeds, 7 of them bears.  anywho, safe setup, popping shots at wolves and rats and wasps and such, when I put up a bulletin board and thought Id check its functionality out.  Tgat shit stole my ak!  so I left a couple zombear corpses in the room with him.  punk.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   "Why look here! I got you some nice bear rugs. I hope you enjoy them and if they seem to move just ignore that, its probably the wind."