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Our survivor group:

Grakmar wrote:Current Summary of Survivor group:

Current Location:
Chudleyton, around Kenefie Lane Police Dept [15,23], but no main base
http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Suburb
http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Chudleyton

Nearby Resources:
15,23 and 12,27 are police departments (guns, ammo, flak jackets)
16,23 and 12,22 are hospitals (first aid kits)
13,25 and 14,19 are Necrotech buildings (syringes)
16,24 and 12,21 are auto repair (toolkit, fuel)
15,20 is a factory (generator, fuel)
19,27 is a mall (everything, but fuel and syringes)
12,23 is our primary Revive Point


Attack Team:

Spoiler:

Grakmar: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2035264
Level 7 Military, Free Running + Construction

Casey's Law: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2039470
Level 1 Military, Free Running

Monster Rain: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2035276
Level 5 Civilian, Free Running
Hasn't set his group yet

Morathi's Darkest Sin: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2036550
Level 2 Military, Free Running + Construction

Support Team:

Spoiler:

Melissa: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2038161
Level 2 Scientist, Lab Experience (needs Free Running)

Platuan4th: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2035271
Level 3 Scientist, Free Running + Lab Experience

DA's Forever: http://urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2038320
Level 3 Scientist, Free Running + Lab Experience

Manchu: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2036374
Level 3 Scientist, Free Running + Lab Experience

Undeclared:

Spoiler:

Bromsy: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2036770
Level 7 Military, Free Running + Construction

Skycrawler: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2039193
Level 1 Military, Free Running
Hasn't set his group yet

Doctadeth: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2035473
Level 3 Civilian, Free Running

purplefood: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2036499
Level 3 Military, Free Running

FITZZ: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2035806
Level 1 Civilian (needs Free Running)
Hasn't set his group yet

TheWildHost: 3 characters, not sure which is joining us

Biccat: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=116528
Level 42 Civilian, every skill but rot
Hasn't set his group yet

Special thanks to Grakmar.

Dakkanauts playing:


I used to play it quite a bit myself and was a founding member of M.E.R.C.Y. -- but I dropped it for the past couple of years and only just thought about it again randomly today.

Here's my character: http://urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=880412

I've been thinking about getting back into it. I always played a survivor but looking at the current state of Malton makes me want to join up with the RFF. Haven't been able to get in touch with them, however.

Post your stats and any good stories!

Come on there have got to be a few people here who played this?

I dont think Ive ever head of it TBH

Oh!
I played that!
Though i gave up...
Got really annoyed when i got turned into a zombie because i ran out of action points halfway home...
EDIT: Just checked my character...
Still dead...
Okay gonna start playing again now.
User name- Purplefood

After years of being a survivor, I just joined the infamous Ridleybank Resistance Front. Anyone who'd like to smash through 'cades and nom some bra!nz, please see here:

http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/The_Ridleybank_Resistance_Front


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KingCracker wrote:I dont think Ive ever head of it TBH

It's a pretty simple browser game that's been around for ages now. Your character travels through the perilous world of a post-outbreak English city called Malton. As a survivor, you barricade safe houses, gather resources, and revive the dead. As a zombie, you ... well, you know. The survivors are currently dominating Malton so I've finally taken the plunge to switch allegiances -- forever. Once you buy the brain rot skill, you're very difficult to bring back to life.

For more info:

http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Main_Page

To play:

http://urbandead.com/signup.cgi

Ah cool might join that...
Need to figure out where i am first :S
I'm in Shearbank a good walk north of Ridleybank...

They seem to be one of the few remaining active IRC-based hordes. Just got on their channel and chatted for a bit and seems a very friendly crowd. Hungry but also friendly.

Where are you currently?

Shearbank currently...
Used most of my AP getting to a safe place (even then not too safe)

Shearbank is only a minimum of 10 AP north of Ridleybank. Also, another liberating thing about zambah-hood: you don't have to waste all that AP going into buildings, you know, just to be "safe."

Purplefood, if you're interested in joining a survivor group, look for Sister Rita at Gelasius Hospital in Vinetown. I don't think M.E.R.C.Y. is very active anymore but they are a good group and Sister Rita can almost always be found somewhere between Vinetown and Crowbank.

If i get to be alive again i'll do that but for now i'm just gonna embrace eating brains...
Though hiding was more of a reflex action than anything else...

The great thing about M.E.R.C.Y. is they're tireless revivers. If you do head to Vinetown and want to breath again, stand on the Dinovan Monument and someone will get to you soon enough.

Just got revived...
Killed the zombie next to me, went away for a bit and someone revived me!
Now i need to figure out what to do and everything... again...

Well, I ran with the RFF tonight for the first time. Those guys are very well organized and more effective than any survivor group I ever saw. No wonder they've always been famous!

So, I just started playing and I'm already extremely confused.

Started playing, Name: DA's Forever. Confused-ish

Just started, name is Obrek.

I was running 3 characters quite successfully a few months ago but dropped out.
Think I might restart.

I made a Medic, Firefighter and Scout, all in different sections of Malton.

Is there any other way to gain XP other than killing zombies/players? My Scout has no reliable way of killing things, and I don't want to waste all of my Pistol ammo on my Medic considering the hit chance is so low.

Waaaghgonads77 is now active in santlerville.
Necrotech worker, 20xp after stumbling onto a horde after 4 empty suburbs.

@Coolyo294, DA's Forever, and Obrek:

As with many MMOs, the best thing you can do is seek out and join an active group.

Check out this link: http://urbandead.com/stats.html

Scroll down a bit and find the "Group Rankings" section. You'll see all groups with more than ten members arranged in descending order of most members. You can find out more about each group, usually including contact information, by click on their name and viewing their wiki page.

If you want to play as a zombie, the Ridleybank Resistence Front is probably the way to go. While The Dead seem to have the most members standing, their wiki page lists them as "historical" (i.e., defunct) and the newer group page ... seems to be a collection of silly images. Meanwhile, the RFF is one of the scariest groups out there in terms for survivors. I used to avoid Ridleybank and Barrville at all costs, never doing anything more than running full speed through thos ruined streets. So when I decided to shamble on a more permanent basis, they were my natural choice.

As for survivor groups, I don't know many of them. As a casual member of M.E.R.C.Y., all I cared about was them not PKing us or any other survivors holed up in Vinetown. The largest one on the list seems to be the Fortress but I don't know anything about them.

UD is not the most fun unless you seek out other folks. You should decide whether you want to play mostly as a survivor or a zombie and then get into contact with people accordingly.

Meantime, I can help answer any specific questions and am sure W_G can help you to. Feel free to ask here or PM.


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@W_G: Come join the RFF and help defend the zambah homeland from the encroaching menace of harman imperialism.

Just died inside a barricaded building...
Damn sickness...

When infected, there are only two actions to consider: (1) searching for/using first aid kits and (2) moving towards a non-ruined hospital/safehouse. 'Cading while infected is silly because you're actually doing the very thing you are trying to avoid: becoming a zombie.

I was trying to get to a hospital that hadn't been completely barricaded by survivors...

You can only enter a building that has been caded to "very strongly barricaded" (VSB) or lower. Survivor groups often call for hospitals to be caded to VSB unless directly under siege so that the wounded can get in for help. But unaffiliated survivors (and the more subtle of death cultists) will invariably cade all the way to "extremely heavily barricaded" (EHB) making hospitals impossible to enter directly. Because survivors can move through the interiors of non-ruined buildings, regardless of barricade level, survivors in the area will often have a designated entry point. (This is almost always true of malls, for example.) Look for local grafitti pointing the way. Organized survivors are understandably circumspect about entry points but the unaffiliated (and again the death cultists!) have no such reservations.

Just remember: if you're going to fall down as a result of entering a building, don't even bother entering. Survivors almost always throw dead bodies out so you will have died to no avail, except making some stranger waste minuscule AP. (Sometimes, a dead body will be revived instead of thrown out but organized survivors often oppose random revives to cut down the effectiveness of PKers, among other things.) So what do you do if you're infected and there's no hospital nearby (using a map is key)? If you're already in an area with any amount of cading, stay put until you have more AP. Once you have AP, jet toward the nearest hospital or, if you still can't make it there without dying, the nearest planned revive point/cemetery.


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BTW:

Adler Row, Male Way, and the Sartin Monument are all planned revive points in Shearbank. Male Way is right next to a NecroTech building and should be your best bet even if there are no organized survivor groups active in the neighborhood.

As you can see from the Shearbank Barricade Plan, hospitals are supposed to be kept at VSB. Shearbank is reporting as "safe" so there is no reason those hospitals should be buttoned up. This leads me to believe the survivors there are mostly disorganized or if there is a group, it's small or a bit lax. Dumb harmanz.

Anyway, if you want to make contact with any survivor group in the area, you should probably head to Stickling Mall after you get revived.

Interesting, not heard of this one before, will need to take a looksie when I get home.

On a side note, when you say browser game, do you mean no download required? Or does it require some sort of tether to my harddrive?

No download or tethering. It's just a grid map with different possibilities depending what square you're on -- and what you are, of course.

The interface itself is super simple looking:



So yeah, no graphics to speak of or what have you. The game was basically designed as a behavior model.

@MDS: It looks to be purely browser based, so no download or tether.

I checked it out a bit and am actively avoiding it. MUDs/MMOs can be bad for my health.

Ah nice, can play it on my dummy account then, yeah will have a look when I get home.

I'm traveling for work now but I'll definitely check this out when I get back home!

I used to play, quit when I maxed out the Zombie Abilities.

Now I don't remember my login...