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[rhesusmacabre]

There actually seems to be a bug with beartraps. If you are wielding them when you use them they deploy fine, but the main screen says you are still holding them, while your inventory is blank under 'weapons'. You cannot then use it again, but if you change your weapon, the new beartrap appears in your inventory. Repeat for infinite SNAP. (And I still think they're overpowered anyway.)

I haven't tried it yet for similar items.

[ChairmanPoo]

One note about labs: they seem to have plenty of CBMs, but curiously, no internal batteries. This makes it more worthwhile to favor passive augs like toolset and recycler over activated thingies. Is it intentional?

(Yes, I know that with enough electronics you can craft your own internal batteries, but it's kind of tedious and you need to be a leet electronicist)

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Whales has/is fixed/fixing that.

[S.K. Ren]

Say, where is a good location to find ID cards? I've yet to find a pile of dead scientists for a long while now.

[ChairmanPoo]

Pretty much only dead scientists have them, I think. Just wander around till you find some.


On nuclear silos: is there any point right now in launching icbms against places? Or is it something that will become useful when factions are implemented?

[S.K. Ren]

Is the teleporter controlled or random? If its random Ill just use its 20 Plutonium cells for my shiny new FTK-93 Fusion Gun (+Silencer)

[DrPoo]

I love this game, i love the way i am the only human left, i dont like the dog being there though, i am soft around those things so i just use the teleport bug and pretend it magically teleported to somewhere better or something. I love running around looting stuff and when i am bored i just blow up a gas station or something, maybe burn a whole appartment block to ashes, it depends on my mood. Only one thing i do not understand: XP system, how does it work? How do i raise my skills?

Also, is the world truly infinite? How can i even kill all the zombies then?

[ChairmanPoo]

By working hard at it!

[FunctionZero]

Nah, it's not truly infinite. I think Whales said once it's about 16 times the size of Earth. Which is still a fuckton, though.

Ah, right. We're having a Wiki project going on. Anyone willing to participate, check out this thread: Wiki
And of course, we now have a sub-board for all wiki-related threads. Some wiki-editing experience is preferred, but we'll also gladly accept anyone willing to do tons of grunt work, heh.

And as a reminder, the wiki is at: http://whalesdev.com/wiki/index.php

[Whales]

There actually seems to be a bug with beartraps. If you are wielding them when you use them they deploy fine, but the main screen says you are still holding them, while your inventory is blank under 'weapons'. You cannot then use it again, but if you change your weapon, the new beartrap appears in your inventory. Repeat for infinite SNAP. (And I still think they're overpowered anyway.)

I haven't tried it yet for similar items.

Duly noted; should be fixed now.

One note about labs: they seem to have plenty of CBMs, but curiously, no internal batteries. This makes it more worthwhile to favor passive augs like toolset and recycler over activated thingies. Is it intentional?

(Yes, I know that with enough electronics you can craft your own internal batteries, but it's kind of tedious and you need to be a leet electronicist)

Unintentional and now fixed.  Actually, the bionics rooms in labs are going to be changed to contain one or two modules, most likely batteries.  The majority of them will be moved to a finale room.

Pretty much only dead scientists have them, I think. Just wander around till you find some.


On nuclear silos: is there any point right now in launching icbms against places? Or is it something that will become useful when factions are implemented?

Pretty much pointless now, in the future they'll be mission objectives or just a convenient way to severely damage a given faction.  Or a guaranteed and safe way to take out that NPC that's out for your blood, if you know where they happen to be.

Is the teleporter controlled or random? If its random Ill just use its 20 Plutonium cells for my shiny new FTK-93 Fusion Gun (+Silencer)

Random, but still, it's the only item in the game that can save you when you're surrounded and can't directly fight your way out.  There's something to be said for that.

Incidentally, the FTK-93 is already essentially silent.  The only way its sound would work against you is if there's a wall directly between you and a zombie two tiles away, and the zombie doesn't know you're there.

I love this game, i love the way i am the only human left, i dont like the dog being there though, i am soft around those things so i just use the teleport bug and pretend it magically teleported to somewhere better or something. I love running around looting stuff and when i am bored i just blow up a gas station or something, maybe burn a whole appartment block to ashes, it depends on my mood. Only one thing i do not understand: XP system, how does it work? How do i raise my skills?

Also, is the world truly infinite? How can i even kill all the zombies then?

Increase XP by sustaining a high morale (lots of ways to do this, alcohol is probably the most convenient but alcholism is nothing to be scoffed at).  Spend XP by using a skill; shoot a shotgun to raise guns and shotgun skills, cook a meal to raise cooking, hit a zombie with a hammer to raise melee and bashing.

[Mr.Person]

I thought holsters were like fanny packs in that they don't use up a slot.

[S.K. Ren]

I think it should be noted that while its hinted at in the description for Forgetful, skills do degrade over time and will drop in level.

However I have a question: Is there a lower limit for skill degradation?

While I agree that if you don't use Computers, you shouldn't be able to keep your skill at 8 just cause you read a book. You need to keep your skills sharp. However if you've reached skill 8, I don't think you should be able to forget everything and go to skill 0 (just for the sake of the example) after X turns of not using computers. Even more so for skills like sewing. Those skills require a lot of muscle memory training that Intelligence(Skill Retention) should have no bearing on. If there is currently no lower limit, might I suggest the formula 1 +Highest_Skill_Level_Reached/4. So reaching Skill 1 lets you keep it there. Reaching 4 bumps the minimum to 2 and 8 to 3.

[Flying Dice]

I think it should be noted that while its hinted at in the description for Forgetful, skills do degrade over time and will drop in level.

However I have a question: Is there a lower limit for skill degradation?

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To be perfectly honest, I've had a total of one occasion where a skill decreased, across every character I've made, and that was dodge on my most successful gunslinger. It really doesn't seem like that large of a problem, unless you're just huddling in a missile silo doing nothing but eating, sleeping and drinking.

[S.K. Ren]

I suppose. Also, has anyone else found a Giant Worm/Graboid infested area? If you do try this, Practice guns in a house then walk outside. You should find about 20 dead worms that just rammed into the walls. Free food and butchering training

EDIT: The Worms will attack other mobs! Worm infested Areas are the safest place to practice guns. JUst make sure you're in a proper building so the worms cant get to you too.

[Whales]

Yeah, skill degradation isn't a big issue.  Using a skill once will remove almost all (if not all) the degradation; the system's mostly in place for those who study mechanics, then never use it, or those who start off as a pistol slinger, then switch to rifles and never touch a handgun again.  I wouldn't worry much about it.  I think it bottoms out at level 1, might be 0 though.