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Manchu wrote:You're near the Homeland. Consider joining the RRF.

How exactly does the RRF work? Do you need to be on at certain times, or is it just "Here's the target, take it out"? And, is it forum based, or do I need to install IRC again.

Melissia wrote:

Manchu wrote:What?

I want to focus on playing my scientist, not my zombie hehe.

There's an IP-based limit for how many action points can be spent in a day, after all.

You're fine up to three characters:

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


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Grakmar wrote:How exactly does the RRF work? Do you need to be on at certain times, or is it just "Here's the target, take it out"? And, is it forum based, or do I need to install IRC again.

Daily meet-up on IRC via Mibbit (so no installing IRC). Takes fifteen minutes or less. They have various subgroups which meet at different times and I think there are positions for people who don't want to meet up regularly. The reporting times are pretty flexible and nobody gets pissed if you sometimes miss (apparently, as I have missed).

Melissia wrote:

Manchu wrote:What?

I want to focus on playing my scientist, not my zombie hehe.

There's an IP-based limit for how many action points can be spent in a day, after all.

You can hit the server up 160 times per day. That's enough to run 3 characters if all you do is log in, and use 50AP. If you keep logging in every 30 minutes to use another AP, you'll hit the limit really quick.

Fortunately, it's based on IP address. So, I hit the 160 limit while I'm at work, and then go home and continue. Haven't had to resort to my phone yet.

biccat wrote:Btw, the Stambury Plaza School (6E,1S of Pitman) is EHB and ruined. Anyone want to tear down the barricades so we can get in to fix up the place?

I beat on it for a while, but nothin doin.

Also, the barricades on Duggan Auto have been torn down and the doors flung open with a zed inside.

Manchu wrote:You're fine up to three characters:

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

I ran in to it just with two characters the other day...


My survivor now has 32 action points. As soon as I'm healed I should be able to make my way right to our safehouse.

I should use my school's wifi for my zombie and save my home IP for my survivor.

I found a pistol with 5 bullets.

Shot a zombie and missed.

Beat the crap out of it with a hockey stick then ran out of actions.

My character is lazy and he sucks.

I have two pistols, and three shotguns, I assume the (2) means the Shotgun has two rounds in it. Also have around six-seven extra shells and a clip, oh and two flare guns.

Not sure how much that will do for me, but better than to go down swinging with my fists.

Yes, the two means it has two shells in it.

The shotgun is probably a breakopen double barreled shotgun as it only holds two shells.

The pistol is probably a revolver too, with its six shots max (and using a clip instead of a magazine).

If you can get a fire axe or a knife, that'd be good too, as knives are extremely accurate while fire axes are both accurate and powerful. Crowbars are good for taking down barricades, so they're also useful.

Yeah I've got a axe, actually had to drop two more as If I understand correctly I can't hand off spares.

Melissia wrote:(and using a clip instead of a magazine)

It's pretty likely that the creator of the game misused the word clip.

Yeah, once you get it you might as well turn it off in your options.


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Manchu wrote:

Melissia wrote:(and using a clip instead of a magazine)

It's pretty likely that the creator of the game misused the word clip.

Revolvers are cooler anyway so I disagree.

I just can't imagine an English city in 2005 full of revolvers and breach loading shotguns and no magazine-fed semiautomatic pistols or pump shotguns. This leads me to believe that the creator did not know or care about actual firearms when attempting to design balance.

I think you may have the wrrong reason.

That or the creator wanted smaller numbers of shots for survivor/zombie balance.

Melissia wrote:I think you may have the wrrong reason.

That or the creator wanted smaller numbers of shots for survivor/zombie balance.

Re-read:

Manchu wrote:This leads me to believe that the creator did not know or care about actual firearms when attempting to design balance.

Also calling revolvers more cool is merely an idiosyncratic preference so the Rule of Cool does not really apply.

On the contrary, revolvers are plain and simply better!

Jokes aside, the debate is kind of pointless anyway, I'm just saying thatt given the information we have about the weapons this is what they likely are.

I now have 2 mobile phones, I'm going to have phone sex with myself.

Melissia wrote:I'm just saying thatt given the information we have about the weapons this is what they likely are.

Yeah, it's the only thing that they could be if we're going to analyze Malton as if it were a real place. And I guess in a city full of flesh-craving animated corpses, having no semi-automatic pistols is hardly the least likely aspect of the situation.

Thanks to my computer crashing a zombie found and made me a tasty snack last night. Ill continue to shamble my way towards you Mel, but unless you are able to use syringes this rescue operation my have to pause while I have a stop over at a Revive point.

THere's a revive point practically right next to me actually.

http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/West_Becktown#Suburb_Map


Pullin Square is really close to where I am (one block diagonal, one down).

I can't use syringes yet, sadly. Tehre's tons of zombies here so I might jsut let myself die and then shamble up to a different RP point... I don't know if there's any survivors left that can revive.

Excellent lets hope its active and we can be on our way in no time. Unfortunately becoming a zombie has effectively doubled my ETA.

I don't think it is, there's lots of zombies around me and the local necrotech building was destroyed.

Ill try a checking in at a couple hospitals a RP along my way to you then, Hopefully someone is still manning an RP in Chudleyton

There's one at a cemetery I think, one south of St Lukes' hospital.

No clue if anyone's manning it.

Melissia wrote:
I can't use syringes yet, sadly. Tehre's tons of zombies here so I might jsut let myself die and then shamble up to a different RP point... I don't know if there's any survivors left that can revive.

I'm going for it after I get Free Running. I made a Necro-tech specifically cause I figured our group could use one.

Also my cop got revivified =D I'm gonna play her dual nature and let her rest until her AP is just shy of maxing out.

I've got a ton of guns and ammo pointed at our target, but, unless I get lucky, I won't be able to take her out alone.

Anyone else want to help? I'll be back on in about an hour.

Good work Grakmar!

I have zero weapons, not that my free running scientist could use any of them effectively.

Can someone bring help Grakmar to bring the pain?

I have a fire axe but only three HP :/ I scouted a square down to see how many zombies were near me and I was like OMGWTFZMGZOMBIES and ran the hell back inside.

There were at least nine zombies near the square southwest of me, scattered across the other squares.

Where are you?

http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/West_Becktown#Suburb_Map

Maggs Bank, on the north end of West Becktown.

I had gone to St. Lazar's hospital, but it was boarded up and EHB, so I went to Whippey Fire Station and someone healed me... then zombie horde arrived and reinfected me (nearly killing me). So I hid inside of Maggs Bank, where I've apparently been ignored or unnoticed for about a day due to it being dark (and the door being closed, it's not fortified at all so I'm surprised I've lasted this long).