# A small goal

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-small-goal/6010>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [May 2, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-small-goal/6010 "2014-05-02T15:50:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![yonsisac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/yonsisac/32/8437_2.png) [@yonsisac](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/yonsisac)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-small-goal/6010/1 "2014-05-02T15:50:51Z")

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i like cataclysim because theres no goal of any meas (exept if you talk to a npc and help them) but somtimes i get a littel odd withowt having a main thing to do exept to make mi oun gols but it wuld be cool ading a small main goal to keep the player aware what to do next and to keep him in action to finishit

example=the XE037 the fisrt (slime) taken from the othre dimension was it? i read the main the oficial canon resentli so it wuld be cool to  
XE037 to be a boss or a main mission to restore humaniti or somthing

in short cataclysim with a small gole to keep player aware what to do next and to have somthing to do if borde

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-small-goal/6010/2 "2014-05-02T19:50:53Z")

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No. Cata will never have an end goal.

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**Author:** ![vache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ea666f/32.png) [@vache](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vache)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-small-goal/6010/3 "2014-05-02T20:37:42Z")

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“Cataclysm should have a small main goal: restore humanity”

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-small-goal/6010/4 "2014-05-02T20:44:46Z")

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Like anyone is gonna live that long…

'Cept me. I’m awesome 😃

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-small-goal/6010/5 "2014-05-02T22:15:53Z")

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Defeat XE037?

That’s basically “stop the Cataclysm” right there, given how much it’s responsible for doing (zeds, swamp critters, slime pits). Not really in-scope for a single survivor and probably not for a full faction.

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**Author:** ![Mrnocamera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mrnocamera/32/61_2.png) [@Mrnocamera](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mrnocamera)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-small-goal/6010/6 "2014-05-02T22:18:07Z")

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Merge together all the factions by completing every quest chain and then attempt to defeat XE037 then?

Probably still wouldn’t work, but would kinda be a achievement.

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**Author:** ![yonsisac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/yonsisac/32/8437_2.png) [@yonsisac](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/yonsisac)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-small-goal/6010/7 "2014-05-02T22:19:40Z")

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ok i mean a gole more simple like finde your perants or finde your bride but your right the gol i wrote first might be ending the cataclisim but atleast a very simple gol to keep you acupide like finde you special rock or somthing.

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**Author:** ![Hibou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/hibou/32/1330_2.png) [@Hibou](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Hibou)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-small-goal/6010/8 "2014-05-03T02:35:42Z")

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Perhaps when the NPCs are redone and some more proper quests have been added such goals will be part of the game mechanics, in the meantime it couldn’t hurt to do something like that but from a roleplay stance. Make your character have an affinity for spiral stones or want to search all the evac shelters in the area for similar survivors. Maybe travel as far west as possible to find the last human stronghold of California.

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**Author:** ![Mcrone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mcrone/32/116_2.png) [@Mcrone](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mcrone)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-small-goal/6010/9 "2014-05-03T04:02:59Z")

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> [@Hibou](#):
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> Perhaps when the NPCs are redone and some more proper quests have been added such goals will be part of the game mechanics, in the meantime it couldn’t hurt to do something like that but from a role play stance. Make your character have an affinity for spiral stones or want to search all the evac shelters in the area for similar survivors. Maybe travel as far west as possible to find the last human stronghold of California.

> **[The Postman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postman)**
>
> The Postman is a post-apocalyptic dystopia science fiction novel by David Brin. It is about a man wandering the desolate Oregon countryside who finds a United States Postal Service uniform, which he puts on and then claims he is a mail carrier and federal inspector for the "Restored United States of America". His mail service and claims about the return of a central government gives hope to the people, who are threatened by a murderous, neo-feudalist militia.
> The first two parts were published s...

I would enjoy something like this, perhaps not as a main thing, but in the future because we have the mod selector could we have a “rebuild Humanity mod”( wishfull think i know but with mods the possibilities are endless…)

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**Author:** ![John\_Candlebury](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/john_candlebury/32/6437_2.png) [@John\_Candlebury](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/John_Candlebury)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2014, 9:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-small-goal/6010/10 "2014-05-03T09:41:14Z")

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You know, you cannot defeat XE037.

A perfect analogy would be to have the U.S. declare war on fish. Sure they could attack the ocean ocean with everything, but there are just too many fish inside it to successfully kill them all. Well I guess you could nuke the Earth to smithereens and have fallout kill the fish, but that would also kill everything else.

So successfully defeating XE037 is not a possible thing, because it’s everywhere (you, zombies, insects, every single animal, perhaps even in plants), theres no centralized being you could successfully defeat to get rid of the XE 037. Short of leaving Earth and make a safe colony with only clean organisms, the cataclysm is unfixable.

Even leaving Earth couldn’t ensure your escape if the dimensional degeneration will expand through the universe without limits (Why would you even care anyways, Cataclysm is not a game about escaping to space and founding a colony or something).