August 14 CHANGES

[Trent Rott]

lukahn said:

I think with these changes we'll see Forts playing a much larger role for housing survivors - they'll become the new malls.

If a bunch of humans want to pile into forts to play Army, that's fine with me. It keeps them out of the NTs and creates self-imposed human zoos of little tactical significance. I'm all for it.

[generatorkiller]

Yep, there's only 2 forts in Malton, and a crapload of malls.

I'd be quite happy to see hundreds of wimps that just want to roleplay or cyber cram into a fort.. less crap for us to chew through. Plus, there might even be more than 1 potentially female player in there for them to obsess over if there's a population of several hundred.

Would make a nice change from Caiger's single female celebrity that everyone... well lets just say "jack off? (50 AP)" might as well be an in-game option considering how pathetic the average Caiger resident is - it would sum up their days actions pretty well

[Lukahn]

But why camp in malls when the forts have the same resource chances (I've heard), and it is much easier to defend?

[generatorkiller]

You can't expect mass groups of survivors to act on common sense based on in-game knowledge.

Malls are the most poorly defended buildings in Malton.. once one corner is open and sacked, the whole place is doomed, zombies can free run at will.

Any big survivor group with any sense should be claiming one of those forts as it's own, and using it as a base for aggressive expansion, using junkyards as outposts to expand.

There aren't many survivor groups out there that actually have a solid gameplay strategy put together other than "sit in these buildings and try not to die". The smart ones (Crimson Clan come to mind) are not tied down to a particular suburb and relocate based on the current situation.

[setite]

ahh. we grow stronger!
do you guys think that the mention to "territorial zombies" could have been a reference to us?

[armareum]

I did think the same thing setite. Even though there are a fair few other groups with also claim territory (RRF and EF come to mind) and have been for a long while, the complete and massive rampaging that Extinction have been doing is definitely a new era for Malton.

I also think that RUIN is a deliberate attempt to allow actual ZOMBIES to do something which we are currently achieving with our NTJ - scouting. To a certain extent.