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[The Merchant Of Menace]

You can delete the save folder when your character dies.
But it's just chance that you end up in the same town.

[Simmura McCrea]

Wasn't the same town, it was the same house.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Yeah, you usually spawn in the same house if you spawn in the same town.
Because only 1 in 10 houses have a basement and the player always spawns in one of those.

[FunctionZero]

Yeah, you usually spawn in the same house if you spawn in the same town.
Because only 1 in 10 houses have a basement and the player always spawns in one of those.

I think it's 1 in 50, actually.

[Whales]

Zombies populations tend to stay centered on their home town, but they will resize slightly as the population changes.  Also, if you travel through them and zombies follow you outside of the original spawn area, it'll act like dragging your finger through wet paint--little tendrils of zombie population will exist outside of the original circular area.

A fellow roguelike developer has brought up the idea of using per-cell zombie populations which dynamically move on occasion, which would result in real roving bands of zombies, possibly more complex spawning patterns, etc.  I've been resistant to the idea--keeping things efficient is a priority of mine, and simulating 20,000+ cells of zombies is anything BUT efficient--but I'm considering giving it a try, maybe programming a little mock-up.

Yeah, you usually spawn in the same house if you spawn in the same town.
Because only 1 in 10 houses have a basement and the player always spawns in one of those.

1 in 30, actually.

[Paul]

Rounds I would like to see in game, which I don't believe are in the game yet.
a)cold loads for silenced guns
b)hollow point ammo
c)incendiary loads for shotguns, along the lines of the dragon fire rounds
d)breacher rounds for shotguns

a) Less noise in this game would just mean less damage, which wouldn't be all that useful. Right now silencer reduces noise by 45, which is enough to cut the noise to 0 on all but the largest pistol rounds. Only pistol rounds above 45 noise are: .44 magnum (48.8), .45 ACP (45.6), and .45 Super (47.2). If you wanted a perfectly silenced .45 pistol you could just use the .45 FMJ ammo, with better armor piercing to boot. Silencer already shaves 4 damage off for the silencing effect, so using low damage rounds with an already negative damage gun mod would make your gun a lot less effective. Even if the silencer was less effective, you could just use it on a gun with the quieter .22 or 9mm rounds. I guess if you wanted to nerf the silencer to reduce noise less you could make special cold load rounds that have bonus noise reduction without losing as much damage as would otherwise be required for that noise reduction. Right now noise is damage * .8 + 20 if that's over 5, so even the .22 CB rounds make 25.6 noise.

b) Hollow points are a good idea. Just need an item flag to make them work correctly. Could make it deal extra damage vs soft targets and multiply the effects of armor on armored targets. Not sure how useful they would be though, since most of the tougher monsters are armored.

c) Just making a shotgun round with the incendiary flag would do that. Would be easy to mod, think I might do that for my mod.

d) Not sure if that would be all that useful. We already have crowbars to open locked doors, and 2 shots from a handgun will destroy a door. A breaching round would destroy either the lock or the hinges, in either case closing the door against zombies would be impossible - so for gameplay purposes the door should probably be destroyed. In that case, what would a breaching round do? Kill a door in one shot rather than 2?

Wasn't the same town, it was the same house.

I've had that a few times, but not very often. I usually end up in a different town. On one map I had 3 characters all spawn in the same region though, was able to grab the stuff from my former char's corpse and use the same safehouse full of goodies.

[Flying Dice]

The one thing I'm having a really hard time figuring out is how to cook food; I've got a hotplate and a lighter, and a sizeable amount of raw meat, but I don't really know how to cook it, but I want to avoid the -60 morale from eating raw meat.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

& > enter.
Aka, open the crafting menu, navigate to cooking and select Cooked Meat

[FunctionZero]

The one thing I'm having a really hard time figuring out is how to cook food; I've got a hotplate and a lighter, and a sizeable amount of raw meat, but I don't really know how to cook it, but I want to avoid the -60 morale from eating raw meat.

Use the '&' crafting menu.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

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I think that's the first time I've ever seen a simultaneous post actually.

[Paul]

Hey Whales, I've been thinking about a suggestion for purifiers. Instead of the stat increase, I was thinking maybe something along the lines of this:

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if (valid.size() == 0) {
  if (one_in(20) && !p->has_trait(PF_ROBUST)){
    p->toggle_trait(PF_ROBUST);
    if (!p->is_npc())
     g->add_msg("You feel fortified.");
    }
  else {
  for (int i = 0; i < num_hp_parts; i++)
  p->heal(hp_part(i), 1);
  if (!p->is_npc())
     g->add_msg("You feel better all over.");}
  return;
 }That way the purifiers are specifically useful for mutations - both removing them and occasionally getting the trait that makes mutations better. I also put the 1 point full body heal as an extra use for them, so they're still useful for people who don't use mutagen.

[FunctionZero]

Wow, look at that. And it didn't even give me the usual warning. Heh.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Yeah, I guess that requires a delay of at least a second between the posts.

[kulik]

A fellow roguelike developer has brought up the idea of using per-cell zombie populations which dynamically move on occasion, which would result in real roving bands of zombies, possibly more complex spawning patterns, etc.  I've been resistant to the idea--keeping things efficient is a priority of mine, and simulating 20,000+ cells of zombies is anything BUT efficient--but I'm considering giving it a try, maybe programming a little mock-up.

I hope cataclysm at some point reaches this point. Right now i feel sometimes cheated when the game spawns monsters in a way i don't like, having real populations moving around...the knowledge they are there physically, oh boy.

[Flying Dice]

Thanks. Hadn't even noticed the crafting menu; from the rest of the interface I thouht it would be more complicated than that... *facedesk*