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[Aseaheru]

Thats the flu.

[duckman]

What happened to the wiki?

[pisskop]

Its been going down and coming up occassionally.

[Azated]

Pretty much finished the game with my latest playthrough. Have yet to complete all the endgame spoilerish things, but I have some insane skills, can install any CBM I find right off the bat, have enough parts to build two or three tanks, and have a fortified warehouse in a forest with a little farm.

I'm wondering if there's any way to encourage some kind of defense mode style siege after a certain amount of time. I've always wanted to build a bunch of slingshot turrets and palisade walls and watch them work while I sit around hurriedly crafting a stone spear for myself. As it is, after I've found a vehicle I really have no enemies. Finding fuel and not running over the steel tanktraps that are bushes then become the only challenge until I get stronger parts.

[Geltor]

Pretty much finished the game with my latest playthrough. Have yet to complete all the endgame spoilerish things, but I have some insane skills, can install any CBM I find right off the bat, have enough parts to build two or three tanks, and have a fortified warehouse in a forest with a little farm.

I'm wondering if there's any way to encourage some kind of defense mode style siege after a certain amount of time. I've always wanted to build a bunch of slingshot turrets and palisade walls and watch them work while I sit around hurriedly crafting a stone spear for myself. As it is, after I've found a vehicle I really have no enemies. Finding fuel and not running over the steel tanktraps that are bushes then become the only challenge until I get stronger parts.

pretty much my thoughts. endgame becomes uneventful and repetitive

[Aseaheru]

Thats where the debug menu comes in.

[Adragis]

No, it's where you start amassing enough mininukes to demolish a city simultaneously.

[BigD145]

No, it's where you start amassing enough mininukes to demolish a city simultaneously.

Mininuke all the spores.

[ChairmanPoo]

I was thinking the same. Due to DF's dismal performance (trees are suspected to be the ones to blame, for what I hear), Cataclysm is one of my two closest stand-ins... but I can't quite replicate DF's "live-in-a-fortress" game.

Hordes and NPCs MIGHT make it more interesting in that regard. But both are at least somewhat broken (particularily hordes) 

[pisskop]

I can easily see factions/fixed geographical world/more 'intelligent' skill progression, stress aquisition, and animal spawning as a fix.

Factions have npcs, almost all of whom can kill a skeleton these days.  NPCs are arguably one of the strongest critters in the game, what with gear and armor and drugs.  Missions, RP immersion, an a better ai will easily net more challange than any of the sandbox we do now.
I imagine npcs can be made to respond to noise, take limited drugs, patrol, and even 'storm, flank, or flee'.  and also npc drivers.  npc remote vehicle operator using a mounted turret on a shopping cart, where he controls the robot but is helplessly imobile?

A consistent worldgen that had an ocean/not ocean and rivers that led to dedicatee syopping points like lakes.  A sense pf solid geometry to set the stage for topography or faction specific oil rigs bases.

And a nerfed or reworked skill progression that focuses on longer term success and health.  I know phobias have been discussed.



NEwho, the reason Im posting.  Ive been <re>discovering why the hobo is such a solid choice over shower victims i did before.

Besides the clothing (basic no footwear) he has a pooch and bindle.  matches, pocketknife, wood, cloth, glass jars and gallon jugs, beans even.  I just  realized that skewers make needles.  So he could easily burn his bindle as a weapon, deconstruct it, craft skewers, and with 4-5 zoms have a sewing kit, turban, footwraps.  his starter kit is remarkably resiliant and flexible.

he can make cocktails off rip, and has enough booze for over a week of drinking

[Baffler]

Is there a safe way to heat up the inside of a vehicle? I'm living as a RV dweller and I feel like I should be able to warm up the thing without lighting a fire inside, but I honestly can't think of anything.

[Rivet-the-Zombie]

Is there a safe way to heat up the inside of a vehicle? I'm living as a RV dweller and I feel like I should be able to warm up the thing without lighting a fire inside, but I honestly can't think of anything.

Turn the engine on and it should provide climate control automatically.

[Baffler]

Oh I see, I lost my roof somewhere along the line.

I guess that would do it, huh?

[Majestic7]

The long-term game I'd love to see would be starting a settlement of my own and finding/rescuing/recruiting/kidnapping NPCs to join it. Then giving them task like "build XYZ" or "farm" or the like while I go read Playboy or raid cannabis farms or poke giant ants with a stick. This would be viable even for road warrior -type players who could form several supply bases around the world to cruise between. (Only find them eaten by mi-go, of course.)

Alternative, of course, would be joining existing settlements. I've heard there is some sort of NPC settlement already in the game with static NPCs, but I still haven't found it a single time.

[Adragis]

You should probably suggest these things on the Cataclysm forums.