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[Moogie]

Well, this has been interesting, but the latest version is extremely unstable. Without fail, all five of the characters I started today died due to some bug or another; the client crashed hundreds of times, my vehicle just disappeared, I've been hounded by teleporting NPCs... I think I'll wait for the next update before I play again.

[Azated]

Yeah, it is a bit buggy. I just got 400 gasoline from an NPC. It wasn't even in a container, he just handed me two globs of gasoline and expected me to carry it in my hands.

Unfortunately, it seems you can't pick it up if you put it in a vehicle box.

Also, the item limit for storage seems bugged. I filled a box with items and found a mininuke in a supply drop. The box was full, and it told me so when I tried to put it in. The nuke disappeared though, which was a little disappointing

[Shades]

Also, the item limit for storage seems bugged. I filled a box with items and found a mininuke in a supply drop. The box was full, and it told me so when I tried to put it in. The nuke disappeared though, which was a little disappointing

It's probably underneath the box, that is what generally happens.

[scriver]

Also, the item limit for storage seems bugged. I filled a box with items and found a mininuke in a supply drop. The box was full, and it told me so when I tried to put it in. The nuke disappeared though, which was a little disappointing

That was a bug in the original vehicle release, but the most recently released version fixes it.

[BigD145]

Here's my latest vehicle extension build. It spawns vanilla and the four vehicles I've built so far in parking lots. Three out of four are fairly cheaty when it comes to scrapping for parts, but they are also rare. I have a scientist vehicle design on paper with a couple things in my head. I'm thinking glass bubble car that only takes plutonium as a fuel.

[Moogie]

Well, I didn't completely give up... and I haven't had a single crash since I disabled NPCs. So that's okay. They were kinda annoying, anyway.

I'm having fun bowling zombies (literally) with a quadbike now.

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[alway]

I found something which, IMO, should be added to the main game: change the darkness-related failure for reading ("It is too dark to read!") to be disabled when the character has the mutation "High Nightvision." After all, the distance I can see is larger than that when I have a flashlight whose life is just above the light limit for reading w/o the trait, so I figure it makes sense to be able to read with the same level of 'perceived' light.

For those interested in modding their own with this, open up player.cpp, and in the function 'void player::read(game *g, char ch)' modify the line

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if (g->light_level() < 8) {
to
 if (g->light_level() < 8 && !has_mutation(PF_NIGHTVISION2)) {

Oh dear... I found a 6L engine; unable to lift it, I installed it on my scouting motorcycle. It now has a safe speed of 313 and an acceleration of 22 mph/t O_O

Good thing too; I'm way outside of town and it just started acid raining after I finished installation. Time to race the rain.

[BigD145]

I found something which, IMO, should be added to the main game: change the darkness-related failure for reading ("It is too dark to read!") to be disabled when the character has the mutation "High Nightvision." After all, the distance I can see is larger than that when I have a flashlight whose life is just above the light limit for reading w/o the trait, so I figure it makes sense to be able to read with the same level of 'perceived' light.

I'm not sure text would should up all that well. There still isn't much light available for seeing details.

A few more changes to my mod: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?74u8665yde83qek

[beorn080]

Is it wrong that I kinda want cars littering the streets? Would both help negate their usefulness, and make them more abundant.

[kulik]

Is it wrong that I kinda want cars littering the streets? Would both help negate their usefulness, and make them more abundant.

Hmm, very interesting idea indeed.

[Graknorke]

If not just on the streets, at least SOMEWHERE besides neatly in parking lots.
It seems strange that everybody had their cars scrapped and swapped in for 50 pairs of fingerless gloves or whatever. If they're not on the streets, they could be at least in compounds or some other place cars go when they're totalled.

Actually, a scrap yard in general, containing vehicles without engines and/or wheels and such. It just looks odd when every few houses has a mechanics magazine, implying it to be a hobby in some way, but there are only cars in communal car parks, and very rarely at that.

[Knight of Fools]

Vehicles would actually be an excellent way of making travelling on roads more difficult, if that's what Whales wants to do. Most of them can have damaged engines and/or tires to make them less useful and more of an obstacle.

Of course, materials for cars and such would have to be balanced. At the moment you can make a monster vehicle just from three or four vehicles you find, no matter the size. Perhaps higher skill levels would be needed for larger vehicles, or placing complicated parts, such as tires (Not just replacing), engines and the like could be more difficult. Encourage modification over cannibalization, essentially. I like being able to make my own behemoth of car doom, but it seems like it should be something reserved to more skilled mechanics.

I'm not sure text would should up all that well. There still isn't much light available for seeing details.

It depends on how the character's night vision works. You can't read with night vision goggles, for instance, but those drown out color and detail. Natural night vision, though? Details might be difficult, sure, but your own eyes are going to work a lot better than an artificial increase in light perception.

For the record, you can read with high night vision at night currently, it just depends on the phase of the moon.

[Girlinhat]

Actually it's unlikely.  Rods and cones, which I always forget which is which.  Either way, one is made for seeing color in detail, and the other is a more sensitive type that can't see much detail.  So you have a further threshold for being able to see more in less light, but you lose a lot of detail.  You can still see enough to notice a zombie, even get headshots on zombies, but not enough to read anything smaller than a billboard.

http://xkcd.com/1080/

[TempAcc]

Yea, it feels really odd that, while vehicles are rare, you can find them on pristine condition, and never a wrecked one, just random parts lying everywhere for no real reason. It'd make constructing vehicles easier and the world would look more realistic.

[alway]

Actually it's unlikely.  Rods and cones, which I always forget which is which.  Either way, one is made for seeing color in detail, and the other is a more sensitive type that can't see much detail.  So you have a further threshold for being able to see more in less light, but you lose a lot of detail.  You can still see enough to notice a zombie, even get headshots on zombies, but not enough to read anything smaller than a billboard.

http://xkcd.com/1080/

Well, yes, but with a book, color is irrelevant (unless you are reading House of Leaves). With high nightvision, so long as it is still dependent on the visual spectrum, your ability to read a book should increase at the same rate your ability to see other details.