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Melissia wrote:I like that location, once I get free running I can get directly from there to the neighboring necrotech building.

I also deactivated the following items on my game preferences:

baseball bat, cricket bat, crucifix, fencing foil, golf club, hockey stick, length of pipe, newspaper, poetry book, pool cue, ski pole, tennis racket.

Hopefully this will save me time discarding items that Id on't want.. I don't think any of these are actually useful compared to the remaining melee items (knife, fire axe, crowbar), and some are just useless period (newspaper, poetry)...

Dropping items doesn't require AP, so you aren't actually hurt by getting any of those things.

And, a "length of pipe" is pretty useful. It's not a great weapon, but you can use it to construct a quick barricade even without the construction skill. But, yeah, the rest of that list is rather pointless.

biccat wrote:I'd also suggest tagging the local hospitals and drug stores.

Good idea. Also, revive points and NT buildings.

Grakmar wrote:And, a "length of pipe" is pretty useful. It's not a great weapon, but you can use it to construct a quick barricade even without the construction skill. But, yeah, the rest of that list is rather pointless.

Okay, adding length of pipe then, maybe it'll let me delay getting construction a bit.

At the moment I'm thinking of getting, in order:

Lab Experience
Free Running
Tagging
Diagnosis
Construction
Firearms Training
Hand to Hand Combat

Then... dunno if I'll even last that long heh.

Free Running should be your top priority.

Manchu wrote:Also, possible alt: http://urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=1954781

Hanging around the same area? There should be some sort of reporting feature.

Melissia wrote:Geeze, that bastard has everything.

Not terribly difficult... I've got 3 maxed out characters.

Okay. Switching those two around then.

I have 12 xp now, found a lot of zombies in molebank and tagged twelve of them heh. Then I hid inside of a fire station. Gonna wait until tomorrow to make a move, hopefuly getting out of this zombie infested stinkhole.

@biccat: No, I have no evidence that "LimoRo" is also in Quarlesbank. The usernames and descriptions are just similar.

Melissia wrote:Okay. Switching those two around then.

I have 12 xp now, found a lot of zombies in molebank and tagged twelve of them heh. Then I hid inside of a fire station. Gonna wait until tomorrow to make a move, hopefuly getting out of this zombie infested stinkhole.

My zombie character is in Molebank right now. It's quite the feeding frenzy. I'm already level 3.

Yeah it is. I saw at least two places that had sixteen zombies each, and then other zombies scattered about. I just hope that they don't break down this very strong barricade before tomorrow. The place is lit up, so it's kind of a beacon :/

Suggestion for a group name: Augarde Street Irregulars.
I'll edit this post so it can't be googled if we choose it.

I like it a lot.


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Also -- thanks to biccat and bromsie for the FAKs. You guys are awesome field medics.

If anyone has a needle spare, I'm standing in Ethelwyn Plaza in need of a revive.

I have two needles, but I can't use them yet and I'm not anywhere near you :/

Just got into HQ...

Da Boss, trudge over to the cemetary at 25,2 for faster service.

Cheers Manchu.

Man, I forgot how hard it is playing a newbie survivor! I used to be the guy manning the revive point, and I could go months without getting killed sometimes.

It'll be a while before I can get that far, actually. I'll just mrh here for a little while. If anyone feels like some easy XP they can always come out and whale on me

There's a couple of zombies outside the mansion too, but on the whole this 'burb is really quiet!

Manchu wrote:

LoneLictor wrote:I don't understand the stigma towards PKing. Urban Dead was supposed to be a Zombie Apocalypse game and almost all Zombie films have humans fighting each other for safehouses and resources or just over petty insults and disputes.

Think about the role of the humans in those movies, the ones who selfishly attack each other during hard times rather than cooperating, and you may get a better understanding of why PKing is douchey.

When I'm a zombie, I act as a zombie would. And when I'm a survivor, I act as a survivor would. Selfish and cruel.

That's called Dual Nature and if that's fine for you, great, but that is not how everyone wants to play.

It's also douchey of zombies to attack humans and humans to attack zombies. But if everyone decided to cooperate, videogames wouldn't work. Would Battlefield 3 be worth playing if all you did was sit around in a campfire and sing songs?

Secondly, I believe the lack of dual nature is why Urban Dead is dying. It ties into what I said earlier. The game is ending up as just a bunch of survivors reviving as many people as they can. If there were big zombie sieges and competing raiders, people might still be playing. But "playing a zombie isn't fun" and "pking is douchey" (yes, I know only one of those quotes is from you) so instead we get what we have now; a dead game.

I agree that they need to do something to correct the survivor/zombie imbalance, but they have needed that since forever.

LoneLictor wrote:It's also douchey of zombies to attack humans and humans to attack zombies.

I'd say that the logic here is nonsense, but that would indicate I think there is any...

LoneLictor: You'll note I said "PKing new players". I'm not against PKing in general, but I think that a fair thing to do would be to let the newbs level up a bit before targetting them. The first 2 levels are the hardest for new players, and if they get too frustrated with them they will quit the game.

If you want to revive the game, join a horde. Dual nature is certainly not the lifeblood of UD. Also, PKing is makes no sense as a way to encourage more people to participate.

Just tagged the Ausgarde PD with "Shomb is a PKer"

Almost overburdened, but still can't find a pistol.

Got pked by someone called PrincessDie. They were quite annoying about it too. This was in Jensentown, at Haw Library.

Also, infected at augarde PD, need help if possible.

JohnnoM wrote:Got pked by someone called PrincessDie. They were quite annoying about it too. This was in Jensentown, at Haw Library.

Also, infected at augarde PD, need help if possible.

What's your name?

Johnnom2.

Moved to Summers Towers since I can't get into Augarde yet. 1/3 of the way to Free Running.

Is that our official group name or are we still deciding on that?

JohnnoM wrote:Johnnom2.

Are you outside or just somewhere else?

outside i believe, lemme check.


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Im now in summers towers, theres a pker in there whos offline, quickly lets get em!

I patched you up a bit...

WOW, This took off quite a bit, I might join up with my fellow dakka members. What to be this time...