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Post by Dr'Brainz on Oct 10, 2007 23:24:01 GMT
Remember this is a game.. its not all that realistic. Besides, why cant i talk to my zombie friends ingame in English like the survivors do..well..because there zombies..no..not good enough.
After reading 'City of the Dead' by Brain Keene i was enlightened.
In the book, the zombies did moan and groan and scream shit like HRMAN HAMBURGERZ BUT, they also comunicated together and understood what one another was saying, unlike UD were all we can say is gibberish (Assuming people should go to extra measures outside the realm of play rather than have something at their disposal in-game sucks).
What i propose:
Like Survivor to Survivor, Zombie to Zombie would be in English and they could both talk to each other in English. Zombie to Survivor would be the same system as now (so mrh? and BARAH and shit..the survivors can hear you screaming at them, assuming you have the skill need to say BARAH etc) Survivor to Zombie would be the same system as now..zombies can hear all in English.
The only thing that would change ingame..is that zombies can hear zombies talking in English instead of gibberish.
Do i think this would over power zombies...Hell No. I think this would only slightly balance out the current system. Who can honestly say they talk to other zombies ingame on a daily basis and understand using only ingame mechanics. I honestly can say that i use forums and irc to chat to other zombies that are ingame..which IMO isnt how it is suppose to be played. We should make things more ingame and less outside of the game.
What you think?
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Post by alivenwell on Oct 10, 2007 23:59:56 GMT
Wow brainz  I applaud your ingenuity of late... But as far as getting our opinion on the subject thats all well and good, but I for one think you should take this up a notch and proceed immediately to the next level. Submit it to the voting review suggestion panel or what ever they cal it or perhaps post it on Kevan's page? You and Arm know way more about that than I do, but regardless your on to something here!!! ;D I mean damn, all these upgrades for survivors and we can't even possess the most simplistic form of communication!?! IN ADDITION, I propose we take your idea a step further to also include the expanded use of the Zombie gesture system. I mean wouldn't it be cool if, instead of gesturing at SHOWCASE... I could in fact flip him off as well. That would be the ultimate burn. For example it would look a little something like this:
a zombie just shot SHOWCASE the bird!! (1 minute ago...and again...and again...) (now 1 north) |
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Post by Dr'Brainz on Oct 11, 2007 0:30:50 GMT
Wow brainz I applaud your ingenuity of late... But as far as getting our opinion on the subject thats all well and good, but I for one think you should take this up a notch and proceed immediately to the next level. Submit it to the voting review suggestion panel or what ever they cal it or perhaps post it on Kevan's page? You and Arm know way more about that than I do, but regardless your on to something here!!! ;D I mean damn, all these upgrades for survivors and we can't even possess the most simplistic form of communication!?! IN ADDITION, I propose we take your idea a step further to also include the expanded use of the Zombie gesture system. I mean wouldn't it be cool if, instead of gesturing at SHOWCASE... I could in fact flip him off as well. That would be the ultimate burn. For example it would look a little something like this:
a zombie just shot SHOWCASE the bird!! (1 minute ago...and again...and again...) (now 1 north) O yeah..i forgot about an idea i had for gesturing, in short you got it though. There should be more actions..instead of just "looking" at shit. What actions kevan wants depends on him..but fliping survivors off would be cool. ;D Flailing Gesture allows zombies to point at most things near them. The default 'Pointers' are: North, North East, East, South East, South, South West, West, North West, the sky, the ground and yourself. The other things you can point at are the barricades, the buildings in radius of you, nearby zombies, and nearby humans. You can select which human to point at by name, and when you have pointed at said human you get a link to his profile in the pointing message. You can also gesture at any zombie or corpse you have in your contact list.It should be more then just 'the buildings in radius of you'...perhaps 2 squares of radius instead of just the 1..allowing zombies to actually point at shit and try to gather a force of ferals to actually take shit out. BTW, i thought i would through these ideas out..see were it leads me...if i get lots of good karma i will post it up on the wiki..or perhaps afew more forums to gain support. |
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Post by Lukahn on Oct 11, 2007 8:29:05 GMT
I smite you for stealing my idea and giving me no credit.
*SMITED*
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Post by Lukahn on Oct 11, 2007 8:39:57 GMT
Wow brainz I applaud your ingenuity of late... I'd smite aNw too just for circle jerking Brainz... ;D But, Brainz revoked my Admin status, so I can't mess with the smite refresh rates. Damn. Smite you tomorrow, then?  |
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Post by Dr'Brainz on Oct 11, 2007 11:28:46 GMT
Wow brainz I applaud your ingenuity of late... I'd smite aNw too just for circle jerking Brainz... ;D But, Brainz revoked my Admin status, so I can't mess with the smite refresh rates. Damn. Smite you tomorrow, then? I still thought it was my idea to get zombies to comunicate better..perhaps i was wrong... i know we chated briefly about it..but i cant remember what we said..  |
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Post by Lukahn on Oct 11, 2007 19:22:18 GMT
Heh, it's very possible you had thought of the idea before we chatted about it on IRC. I don't think it's necessarily a *new* idea. I just thought it was really weird because I had this same conversation with a friend last week, and came up with the exact same idea. Was one of the reasons I didn't act surprised at the idea when we were chatting about it. So you stole my thunder without realizing it. ehehehehehe I think it just kind of flowed from the conversation, I had stated I was going to do some smack talking in the PD yesterday, but couldn't be bothered to convert it to kiZombie. You stated zeds should have some better way to communicate in game to level the playing field, and the conversation went from there. Now I must smite aNw, just because he has more karma than I do. *SMITED* |
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