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So if I keep searching the police station I'll eventually find some bullets?

You have a 7% chance of finding a pistol clip whenever you search a police station.

Found one! Now I just need some AP so I can go shoot some zombies.

Monster Rain wrote:So if I keep searching the police station I'll eventually find some bullets?

Yeah, I'm hiding in a Police Station right now. Been looking around for a while and came up with 2 clips and another pistol. I'm about ready to go hunt some Zombies!


Meanwhile, my Zombie helped a group kill a guy, then attacked a Police Station. Someone jabbed me in the neck and I was suddenly alive again. Then, I slept outside and got killed. Now I'm a Zombie again and trying to gnaw on some poor guy's head. Another Zombie just showed up, so hopefully we can finish him off.

Meanwhile, sometime this morning I was shot in the head by a Zombie Hunter. This means that I will have to pay an extra 5 AP to stand up. If I didn't have the amusingly named skill Angle Grab, getting killed by a Zombie Hunter would cost me 15 AP.

If anyone is interested Sheldon Lane PD has been broken open and there's 2 people (were 3 but i nommed 1) offline in there...

Can I be PK'd inside my safehouse?

I've woken up my old alt Dr Bigbones (a survivor) down in the south west (Foulkes Village). The rest of my group, the Legion of the Octopope, are inactive, but I've decided I'm going to reclaim our old headquarters, the Henley NT, come hook or come crook.

It's currently ruined and there are zeds in the streets around it, so I'm holed up in a school waiting for enough AP to be able to make a difference.

My new Zombie is roaming around Lukinswood munching on survivors. Won't be much else I can do til I get some zombah skillz.

Are we going to make a Dakka group? Urban Dead is way more fun if you have a group going. (And I don't want to have to check any other fora for organisation )


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Oh and some advice for newbies:
The two best starting classes are Firefighter and Scout, if you want to play survivor.

Firefighters get the best melee weapon in skills in the game early on. Fire axes are what I use all the time as a survivor. Decent hit chance, decent damage, and never runs out of ammo. This helps you gain XP.

Scouts get Free Running early. This means you can get in through a lightly barricaded or lower building and free run from one to another in safety. This allows you to explore the area without risk, searching, linking with other survivors and so on. This is slower in terms of leveling, but allows you to do so in safety.

The other thing to remember as a survivor is that in general, killing zombies is not what the game is about. It's about surviving! You hide in buildings, scrounge for supplies and only fight if the zombies attack something important (like a necrotech or a mall, or hospital). Apart from that, just barricade, search and try to avoid attracting a horde. If you are part of a group, they will often have objectives that make it more interesting.

In general, you have to put in a few days and a little background reading to get the most out of it. And perhaps you have to have a particular mindset, too. I really enjoyed it though, once I got to be able to do stuff (so about 3 skill increases in).

I just started, name johnnom.

I'm a fireman, in some firestation next to a place called templar place.

Okay the Sheldon Lane PD have been (ever so slightly) re-secured...

Okay, I am now in locketside, at the mall, there's a zed outside getting hammered by me.

Monster Rain wrote:Can I be PK'd inside my safehouse?

Yep.

So, I have an extra radio. I was thinking we Dakkanauts should pick a frequency and chat back and forth on the radio on occasion.

^ Agreed, I dont have a chatting one yet (just started) but maybe ill find one soon?

Here's a list of frequencies:

http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Radio_frequencies#Closed_Frequencies

If you guys are thinking of starting a group (a good idea), I'd really recommend thinking about the goal of the group. Do you want to defend a certain building or neighborhood, or revive victims of the living dead, or maybe go on the offense against horde lands?

This is one of the cooler ideas I think I've seen, although it is given to somewhat static (and very dangerous) gameplay:

http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Rotter%27s_Relief

Wow, I came back to my old group's (The Legion of the Octopope) headquarters. As far as I was aware, the group went inactive in late 2008 early 2009. So I was expecting the Henley NT to be completely ransacked, or protected by another group.

I made it over there and scrawled on the wall was "Welcome to the last Octotemple- please keep at EHB"

I was dumbfounded. Had some others taken over the group after me and my university friends had left?

I logged off, and when I logged back on, Smithwicks, a friend of mine from Uni staggered in, bleeding and infected. I healed him up. He's been holding the first and last Octotemple, alone and unsung, for nearly 4 years! That is totally epic, and sums up why I love Urban Dead as an idea.


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Oh, and on Groups, if we're going to do one, I suggest running a necrotech properly. It's really challenging, and very worthwhile to the survivor cause.

Zombie groups tend to be less satisfying unless we can hit that critical mass of 50 or so very organised players who can cripple a defence and attract a tail of feral undead in our wake to beef up our numbers.

I'll second Da Boss's appraisal of zombie groups. If you want to play a zombie, it's best to join a group that's already munching strong. I took to the RFF in that light and have been having a blast. Ten minutes every night and it's been a very effective and fulfilling play style. Last night alone, our team ruined two buildings and killed six survivors. I can claim two of those kills personally. It's a lark.

As to a Dakka group, I'm also of the mind that running a NT building would be the best bet. Much as I hate to say it, Henley is a bad choice. Foulkes is a border burb and for that reason marginal anyhow. There's also no mall there or throughout the greater region. The closest is Tompson in Lockettside. Keep in mind that unless you're running a Rotter's Relief type of operation, the point is not really to defend the NT building (in which case, you aren't defending anything per se and will have as much trouble with other survivors as zeds). Rather, you're running a revive point or system of revive points. As such, your best bet is to operate in a NT-rich burb.

The next best spot on that side of the map for NTs is Nixbank, which suffers from a lack of mall access even worse than Foulkes. (Obviously, New Arkham is right out thanks to The Dead.) Working out of Vinetown for years, I can tell you that Crowbank is nearly ideal for this kind of mission. Its four NT buildings are supported in-burb by four auto repair shops, three police stations, and two hospitals. To the extent that a mall is ncessary, Mitchem is right next door in Vinetown. The icing on the cake is the presence of two semi-active hardcore survivor groups nearby, M.E.R.C.Y. and MDK. Although it's "easier" to start a survivor group from the ground up with small numbers, survivors also benefit from working in concert.

Another fun idea is to claim one of Malton's five mansions and run it as a kind of fortress. A good choice is Pitman Mansion in Qaurelsbank. It's relatively out of the way (another border burb) supported in-burb by four NT buildings, two police stations, a whopping seven auto repair shops, and Calvert Mall. On the downside, there is only one hospital in Quarlesbank and ... Pitman Mansion is somewhat notorious, historically. Trying to man one of the real forts would be a much harder task with a small group.

Well, we set up in Henley years ago, so there we shall stay. But I agree, it is an out of the way suburb without too much going on most of the time.

However, I just found out that Nuabreed, the leader of the old Octolegion, has gone Zombie. And he took the rest of the legion with him. He wants me to join them in undeath, but I am not willing to leave Smithwicks to defend the Henley alone. I told him if he can kill me, I'll join them, so now I've got a mini-horde chasing me.

We'll see how long I last- I've agreed (as a gentleman) not to leave Foulkes village.

If Dakka starts a group, I'll probably start a new survivor alt so we can all be on relative parity, level wise.

Man...
People like Smithwicks make me want to be a survivor...
Hang in there Boss!

So how about starting a group of Dakka-specific characters and heading up to Pitman?


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Let me clarify my idea a bit:

Long years ago, there arose a player-generated myth about Pitman Mansion. Having dissipated his formative years on dandyism, young Pitman took up the curatorship of the Coymer Museum near his family seat in Quarlesbank. Availing himself of the museum's African art collection, Pitman developed an interest in primitive occultism. Before the outbreak, Pitman also acquired his forbears title and property, supposedly as sole heir to the line. It's been whispered about Malton that "patient zero" emerged from the crypts of the mansion and that a somewhat deranged Pitman managed to control the initial horde with voodoo rituals. As for Lord Pitman himself, the rumor is he eventually succumbed to infection -- whether biological or spiritual is of course unknown.

The story of Pitman expresses the mystery of the Malton Incident. What caused the outbreak? All that is known for sure is that the NecroTech Corporation invested heavily in Malton, as witnessed by the proliferation of NT infrastructure throughout almost every neighborhood. It is thought that NT was able to so thoroughly infiltrate the city by manipulating various Maltonian luminaries. Bribery seems an obvious tool against the bourgeoisie but would have meant little to a young lord newly come into his substantial inheritance. If Pitman did cooperate with NT -- and please witness that there are no less than four NT facilities in Quarlesbank -- what did they offer him? Or perhaps the question should be phrased as, what did he offer them?

I've taken a certain affinity to this Lovecraftian yarn and wouldn't mind setting up a survivor group around it. There are no doubt a few other Pitmans out there, eager I'm sure to claim some stake in the ancestral home. One could guess that scientists and occultists, normally at cross purposes (of course, the dead normally stay dead, too), might ally to set up an expeditionary force intent on studying the mansions libraries and, if the gossip prove true, its bizarre underground laboratories. One would of course need to secure and defend the structure in order to effectively study it. And then there are the crazies. With such a notorious history, Pitman Mansion is sure to attract tourists of greater or lesser sanity -- including, one feels certain, more than its fair share of death cultists.

I am so totally on board with this. I just started a character (majornom). currently stuck in Santlerville as a level 1 scout.

Starting a new character cause my old one got zombiefied.

We should figure out what we need in the dakka group and assign people to each task.

That would be so cool...
I'm in.

New character is a private name johnnom2. Hes in the sidoli building in tollyton.


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edit: now in eastonwood.

Okay,
Started a new Character (Scout)
Name of: MrHappySocks

Now in darvall heights, accidently made second character named Johnnom1 is private also. Both are i darvall heights.

What do I do once i reach the mansion (which would be presumably HB)?

Finally got going on this, and ran out of Ap and fell asleep poutside a building.. guess she'll be a zombie next time I log.

If she is around, I'm Morathi Sin, Scout.

I could see it growing on me, but damn it seems every building I came across was heavily barricaded with no way in.

@JohnnoM: I have no idea what state the mansion is in currently. Best to scout around. Your free running skill will help if the mansion is fortified. Be careful. Quarlesbank is currently rated as unsafe (but not dangerous).

@MDS: You can enter buildings that are very strongly barricaded or lower. Find your location on the wiki. Check for updates and barricade plans in your area. If you wake up dead, shuffle to the nearest revive point -- assuming you don't want to join the horde.

cheers manchu. Btw, where are you atm?

Cruising with the horde.