Fortifications: Pillboxes, Moats, Electrified Fences, Etc

[Malkeus]

I look at that picture and all I see is a massive friendly fire incident waiting to happen. What kind of settings are you using to avoid that?

On topic, I propose a new type of vehicle part, essentially a gasoline sprayer oriented upwards with a steel grate over top that acts as an AISLE. When activated it creates a contained fire that will ignite and cause burn damage to anything walking through it’s tile(note, not items on the ground, presumably below the flames). I suppose these could be used as portable cook fires too. Breaking it would spread gasoline and/or flames. I envision a square of these surrounding quarterpanels with me and a crew of NPC’s plinking away.

Also, is there any chance of filling moats with things other than water? An acid moat would be awesome!

[nameless_survivor]

Not much except guarding or bringing one or two with me right now. I’d never bring them all with me at once. I plan to stuff all these guys into my bunker once I dig out some rooms for them, and leave them there until such time as NPC AI gets fixed, and they are no longer a danger to themselves and others.

Also, is there any chance of filling moats with things other than water? An acid moat would be awesome!

Well, kevin doesn’t seem to like the moat idea or the other stuff, so I’m not seeing it happening. And I don’t have the expertise in coding/modding yet to make a mod for it, otherwise there would be an acid moat mod already.

[Malkeus]

I looked at the picture again…a scenario popped into my head about a single crawler zombie coming around the corner in front of the group. The guys in the front of the group would be annihilated by the gunfire from behind and the survivors would be like, “Hold on, I want to pulp that crawler zombie corpse!” x 11

[nameless_survivor]

Yep, thats exactly why my super evacuation transport to move everyone directly from the apartment complex is completely opaque, and these guys are going straight into the bunker from there. This crowd is a disaster waiting to happen.

[Malkeus]

Shake dat ass!

In my imagination the pivot point is right there at the middle door, so when you turn corners the tail end destroys things.

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[Ricky_Van]

i was thinking about one possible bug/feature about bandits using these fort to attack player.

[Mantar]

You do have spitters and shockers

I would think iron bars should ground and dissipate a shocker’s attack, actually.

[Ricky_Van]

but iron can conduct electricity.

[nameless_survivor]

Thats why it would ground it. Its conducting the charge to ground.

I agree. It would act like a lightning rod and ground the electric arc.

[Ricky_Van]

ooh yes, the “Grounding” conduction.

that sounds good, but spitters’s acid?

[nameless_survivor]

https://www.amazon.com/Gateway-Safety-6980-Cover2-Glasses/dp/B012APFLNS/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1544657749&sr=8-10&keywords=safety+glasses

[Ricky_Van]

“you can melt my fort but not my eyes”

can’t spit this.

[kevin.granade]

If they’re grounded yes, if not they’ll just act as a transmission medium.

[Erk]

What all this is really making me want is (as always better faction camps and then) sieges where wandering hordes attack your base. I’ve been hankering for it since we started talking about it in discord… One of the nice things about cdda versus a lot of similar games is that if we actually could besiege you with zombies, the game has enough resource demands that you might actually be in trouble in terms of food after a while.

[nameless_survivor]

Zombie sieges, bandit attacks, a platoon of Mi-go slavers with lasers, these are all things I’d LOVE to see in game. Something to challenge an end game player, and another reason to build a base with well equipped followers: safety.

I’ve got (45) 9mm turrets and an army of 80+ hacked Wraitheon military robots sitting in storage, I would love having an excuse to deploy them.

[Malkeus]

lispcoc/Cataclysm-DDA-JPMODS

This adds periodic raids. But it needs translating. I told Poragon about it, they might be incorporating it into a mod.

[nameless_survivor]

I can’t read japanese hieroglyphics unfortunately.

[Malkeus]

I can’t either, but google chrome will give me a rough translation. It’s really handy for translating a mod or fishing for content in the japanese forums.

Here’s what that github link says: Kinda ominous:
※ ※ ※ Frozen for reexamination of current operation policy · · · ※ ※ ※ Cataclysm: DDA’s Japanese MOD (released mainly on anonymous bulletin board) is consolidated · Maintenance

[nameless_survivor]

Oh man, periodic raids would ROCK. I hope Poragon makes it into an individual mod. I could unleash my glorious war robots on whatever poor sap is silly enough to attack my fortified bunker.

[Ricky_Van]

I can’t read japanese hieroglyphics unfortunately.

very much me when seeing japanese words for first time.