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[Whales]

Issues of awesomeness.  Unless, of course, there's a bunch of griefers.  It would suck to go out to find a kidnapped NPC, then triumphantly lead them back to their town, only to find that someone had suicide-bombed it.

[Ehndras]

Wat?


If you even implement the sheer possibility of such a thing, I'll donate $10 more to your game just for that.

[ChairmanPoo]

That exists already.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 If you find a silo you can launch a nuke. Of course, that requires a military ID and good computer skills.

[G-Flex]

Issues of awesomeness.  Unless, of course, there's a bunch of griefers.  It would suck to go out to find a kidnapped NPC, then triumphantly lead them back to their town, only to find that someone had suicide-bombed it.

It would be disappointing, but it would be the awesome, thematically-relevant, narrative-enriching kind of disappointment, therefore I approve.

[ChairmanPoo]

I was in a bind because I started in a small town that was getting progressively overrun by fungaloids. So I decided to abandon my shit and make a run for it through the sewers. I was pretty sure my character was going to die in the dark, but I finally emerged in a new city. We'll see how it turns....

[Whales]

Issues of awesomeness.  Unless, of course, there's a bunch of griefers.  It would suck to go out to find a kidnapped NPC, then triumphantly lead them back to their town, only to find that someone had suicide-bombed it.

It would be disappointing, but it would be the awesome, thematically-relevant, narrative-enriching kind of disappointment, therefore I approve.

Well, only awesome so far as players acted rationally and accepted the consequences of their actions.  Finding a town had been burned down by a player because they were paid by an opposing faction to do so?  Arguably awesome.  Finding it burned down because someone just got bored and wanted to see what would happen?  Less awesome.
Sadly, given the nature of the internet, there's bound to be 1 or 2 people belonging to the latter camp...

[Micro102]

Have the NPC have dialog if their house has been burned down, and maybe an option to tell him to follow you as an ally?

[Necro910]

Have the NPC have dialog if their house has been burned down, and maybe an option to tell him to follow you as an ally?

Want to hear something disturbing?
What?
I burned down your house, took all your drugs, and ate your children.
That *is* disturbing! What can I do?

[BurnedToast]

Issues of awesomeness.  Unless, of course, there's a bunch of griefers.  It would suck to go out to find a kidnapped NPC, then triumphantly lead them back to their town, only to find that someone had suicide-bombed it.

It would be disappointing, but it would be the awesome, thematically-relevant, narrative-enriching kind of disappointment, therefore I approve.

Well, only awesome so far as players acted rationally and accepted the consequences of their actions.  Finding a town had been burned down by a player because they were paid by an opposing faction to do so?  Arguably awesome.  Finding it burned down because someone just got bored and wanted to see what would happen?  Less awesome.
Sadly, given the nature of the internet, there's bound to be 1 or 2 people belonging to the latter camp...

What?

it's the apocalypse. Civilization has just been fairly thoroughly ended. You don't think it's thematically appropriate to have a small number of people who just flip out and run around burning shit down, blowing things up, and killing anyone they see just for the hell of it and damn the consequences?

Edit: speaking of which, (simple) flamethrowers are still broken

[ChairmanPoo]

Hmmm, imo the homemade gauss rifle is kind of sucky at the moment. Requires somewhat high electronic skill levels to make (quite high, if you don't have an UPS), uses both nails, which are not that common, AND energy, and deals sucky damage. There's not much of a motivation to pursue that avenue...

[Whales]

Edit: speaking of which, (simple) flamethrowers are still broken

Fixed

[ChairmanPoo]

...what do I need to make flamethrowers, again? It's the second time I see people mention them, and I always forget to ask

[BurnedToast]

Firearms and mechanics skill, I don't remember what levels but fairly high... the guy who I made one on died (he totally would have survived if it worked :p) so I can't check.

[Jacob/Lee]

Small suggestion: you should be able to add attachments to your gun with either 1 in the generic "firearms" skill or 1 in the respective gun's skill.

[FunctionZero]

Hmmm, imo the homemade gauss rifle is kind of sucky at the moment. Requires somewhat high electronic skill levels to make (quite high, if you don't have an UPS), uses both nails, which are not that common, AND energy, and deals sucky damage. There's not much of a motivation to pursue that avenue...

You mean the coilgun? Yeah, that one was a bit hard to figure out. On one hand, there was the issue that you're still shooting nails, which aren't that that strong in the first place, on the other hand, it is a lot of work for an admittedly low-quality weapon.

Still, I'd argue that ammo isn't that rare at all. Unless you tend to build a lot, you'll have tons of excess nails, and you can get around 1000 batteries per electronics store if you're lucky.

It does make a good weapon late-game, when you've depleted all conventional ammo available. Still, perhaps it could use a small damage boost.