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[beorn080]

Idea for quick temp bus shelters while waiting for vehicles.

Make rare, immobile 20 long 5 wide blocks in the road, with a door near the front on one side, and at the far back, with alternating "chair" squares that are essentially counters. One could do this with cars too. Let me see if I can type out what it would look like.

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#+#For a car. The Cabinet/door at the bottom would represent the trunk, and could have random stuff in it. Both would be a "special" encounter like the pile of dead bodies or the hippie catchers.

[DalGren]

Idea for quick temp bus shelters while waiting for vehicles.

Nobody ever reads what I write...

[RumblingNoise]

Damn, how do you mask your scent? I tried to mask it with the burning meat in front of the door & windows trick and slept in the hallway with four closed doors and no line of sight nor sound, but a zombie necromancer still found me through the smoke and the closed door.

[Whales]

Damn, how do you mask your scent? I tried to mask it with the burning meat in front of the door & windows trick and slept in the hallway with four closed doors and no line of sight nor sound, but a zombie necromancer still found me through the smoke and the closed door.

Smoke & fire will only mask your scent up to one tile away, so you're still generating scent inside the house.  If zombies have no clue where you are, they still stumble around randomly; it's entirely possible that the necromancer just happened to find its way inside the house, and from there picked up your scent.

[RumblingNoise]

Damn, how do you mask your scent? I tried to mask it with the burning meat in front of the door & windows trick and slept in the hallway with four closed doors and no line of sight nor sound, but a zombie necromancer still found me through the smoke and the closed door.

Smoke & fire will only mask your scent up to one tile away, so you're still generating scent inside the house.  If zombies have no clue where you are, they still stumble around randomly; it's entirely possible that the necromancer just happened to find its way inside the house, and from there picked up your scent.

Looks like i got it working on a new house on the nw side of the town, i guess it was just a random zombie stumbling about due to the high density of zombies in the area afterall.

[toupz]

Lol when i suggested bus as safehouses/buildings we can enter, i didn't mean functioning ones. I meant bus that are crippled or on the side and broken

[jc6036]

Cars littering the roads and highways would add a ton of flavor to the game, and obstacles for when running from zombies.

[Sergius]

Hi everyone, I just made a Virtual Appliance with Linux (Tiny Core / Micro Core) and Cataclysm and managed to get the download to under 40 mb. For those who want to try cataclysm "classic" instead of the Windows version but don't want/know how to create their own Linux box

They're available here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/31916959/microcore.ova

The un-appliance'd VBox version is here, just in case:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/31916959/microcore.7z


How to use:
1) Download and install Oracle VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)
2) Import the appliance (File>Import)
3) Run

Now you're in linux!
To play cataclysm, do this:

(the first time)
cd cataclysm
make
./cataclysm

(after that)
cd cataclysm
./cataclysm

(if you want to update and play the latest version)
cd cataclysm
git pull
make clean
make
./cataclysm

(I think I included the executable file so you may not need to do "make" the first time you run)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

For those who are interested, I made it by downloading the multicore iso from tinycorelinux.net and installing it on VirtualBox (with "opt=sda1 home=sda1" boot options), then adding the following packages

git-2.6
make
gcc
binutils
base-dev
ncurses-dev (must be installed after base-dev)

[pandamage]

These are all great ideas. I particularly like the recurring zombie idea. Maybe it could be like COQs evil twin in the sense that no matter how many time you kill it, it will keep coming back.

[Farce]

Besides cars, I think it'd be awesome if the game generated with bodies littering the streets, simulating the whole "apocalypse, everyone dies" thing. 

[jc6036]

Err. . .go check out the back story in the labs. . . .

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Or check back a bit for Deon and I's big spoilery conversation.

[Angle]

oly crap, I just punched a hulk to death!

Alright world, bring it on.

[iceball3]

oly crap, I just punched a hulk to death!

Alright world, bring it on.

You have been killed by a turret.

[Angel Of Death]

What button reveals the whole map? I need to do some experiments.