You might just wanna skip the wall of text if you just want to get to the point of this thread, it outlines my thought process though.
So I was playing the fairly recent, fairly old stable Kaufman build and I decided to go check out this manor in the forest. I am still a noobie even though I’ve been playing for about a year now. Checking room to room, smashing zombies in the head with a fire axe and my NPC buddy let’s just call him Tom for now, he was punching them square in their probably mostly decayed nose. I had found a lighter and decided it would be fun to set this little plant on fire and purify some water I had. After that I checked room to room again, as I was before, finding various alcohols and cans of soft drinks. The announcements just kept say “You hear a crash from the North-West!” I assumed those were the zombies.
Nope.
I exited the room I was raiding and found that part of the building collapsed from the tiny little bush fire I lit. The small houseplant fire turned into a raging inferno of smoke and flame, the rubble burned underfoot as hot embers shot out from the heat. I stuffed whatever cheesey puffs were near me into my bag and followed my natural instinct to run away from the collapsing building. The fire and the rubble were chasing me as I ran the opposite direction, Tom was engulfed in the chaos and by the grace of the gods the direction I was running in wasn’t a dead end. There was a window at the end of the hallway, and I dove through that thing like Bruce Willis in every movie he’s been in. As I exited I watched as the mouth I left through was destroyed shortly after. The only casualties was that my sneakers were a little scuffed and Tom. Nothing major, as long as the chessey puffs are safe; but that got me thinking.
How Z-Levels would affected that?
I imagine myself being on, let says the 10th floor of an office building, what if I lit the bush fire there? I would have to dive out of the 10th floor window to escape that inferno and may or may not splatter my precious vital organs across the pavement. BUT THEN that lead me to think about how I may be able to throw a zombie, or like a giant ant or something through the 10th floor window. And that lead to another, and another and so on.
So I was wondering about if Z-Levels were properly implemented, how much of the game would that change? Would I have even been able to escape that manor fire, or would I have been crushed by the building by it tipping over and smashing me anyway?
And I ask this; what are some of the cool features that implementing Z-Levels would add? Maybe like you could make a building and fill a pot of boiling oil at the top or something and tip it onto any invaders that may be attacking you like The Medieval Era. I dunno I’m just curious to see what people think about.
