Needful things (simple additions to improve the game)

Hardluck · 2014-12-04T12:53:11.000Z

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pemmican (20)
[16 hours later]
“You fail to make the pemmican but don’t waste any materials.”
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Bulk manufacturing shouldn’t be all-or-nothing, especially when, as with pemmican, there’s no benefit to making it bulk rather than one-by-one except fewer keystrokes.[/quote]

How would you even spend 16 hours failing at cooking without wasting any materials? (Other than just reading the forums, thinking “I better get started, but just a few more comments before that!”)

Logrin · 2014-12-04T19:09:43.000Z

The ability to inject your pet dog or cat with mutagen. Leading to:

Dog+Canine = Alpha dog? Maybe call it a Purebred?
Dog+Feline = Catdog
Dog+Cephalopod = Whelkhound
Dog+Fish = Dogfish
Dog+Insect = Bumble Dog
Dog+Chimera = Chimera
Dog+Alpha = Ape Dog
Dog+Cattle = Bulldog

Cat+Canine = Catdog
Cat+Feline = Psuedo Lion? Maybe call it House Lion?
Cat+Cephalopod = Octopuss
Cat+Fish = Catfish
Cat+Insect = Catapiller
Cat+Chimera = Chimera
Cat+Alpha = Monkey Cat
Cat+Cattle = Tabbycow (I’m running out of steam)

^ The above names being terribly clever notwithstanding the net effect of mutating your furry friend would be turning them into a more useful companion. They’d basically pick up a special attack from the mutation and end up with more hp, etc. Give a chance of turning them hostile should they not appreciate your little foray into intelligent design.

Valpo · 2014-12-04T19:14:01.000Z

cat+cattle=cattle

Logrin · 2014-12-04T19:21:25.000Z

Would also be sweet if you could find these ‘practice’ mutants caged up and hostile in labs

Alasnuyo · 2014-12-04T21:07:16.000Z

Solar-powered UPS. Stick some solar panels onto the UPS. Carry it with you in the daylight or leave it under the sun for a few hours to recharge.

TheFlame52 · 2014-12-05T01:02:59.000Z

The ability to track a vehicle with an E-ink. I tried to code it myself but I think I screwed up.

Zireael · 2014-12-05T08:23:06.000Z

Alasnuyo:

Solar-powered UPS. Stick some solar panels onto the UPS. Carry it with you in the daylight or leave it under the sun for a few hours to recharge.

Great idea.

Wanderer · 2014-12-05T12:11:59.000Z

Logrin:

Would also be sweet if you could find these ‘practice’ mutants caged up and hostile in labs

AND if you could domesticate them

Zireael:

[quote=“Alasnuyo, post:965, topic:5570”]Solar-powered UPS. Stick some solar panels onto the UPS. Carry it with you in the daylight or leave it under the sun for a few hours to recharge.

Great idea.[/quote]

+1.

Catfoodbob · 2014-12-05T15:14:56.000Z

There needs to be bruick houses now that sledge hammers can smash the normal walls,

Logrin · 2014-12-05T18:27:28.000Z

In the same way that we now enjoy RC cars wouldn’t it also be possible to add a bomb disposal robots to the game? For any character lucky enough to find one or crafty enough to make one they’d be a safe solution to disarming traps

Also bombsuits are dearly wanted. Who wouldn’t want to find the most encumbering, most protective suit of armor available and try their luck diffusing a bomb?

And seeing as I’m on something of a related bent with my suggestions today, why not the exact opposite? Suicide vests could let players go out with a bang when all else fails and be a dangerous addition to the roster of zombies via failed extremists. A description warning that “this deadman still grips his deadman’s switch” would be a nice way to let players know they’re in for an explosive encounter.

Speaking of explosives and how much I love RC cars again, would it be possible to have fly-by-wire missile launchers? They’d take a charge of ammunition rather than batteries and when activated put you in control of a missile that detonates once it bumps into something or you stop guiding it.

Other ideas:
*Magnetic mines - Mines that only go off when you drive near them or are wearing metal
*Riot foam - Launched via a grenade or grenade launcher this fast hardening foam slows down anyone coated in it. Riotbots would love this.
*The ability to craft a high-tech boomerang out of manhacks that uses the throwing skill to ‘fire’. Like that awesome bullwhip uses bashing. Consumes batteries.
*The ability to build friendly robots from scratch
*The ability to craft blue meth

Catfoodbob · 2014-12-05T20:22:12.000Z

Survivor Bandages-Bandages laced with painkillers and the likes and work generally better whilst reducing pain. and temporarily increasing armor values by 1 on treated part.

Catfoodbob · 2014-12-05T23:30:26.000Z

Schizophrenic having a chance of failing to commit suicide where you pull out a gun and shoot yourself in the head, only problem is you never owned a gun, and then you wake up… either that or that being a schizophrenic thing that happens

Logrin · 2014-12-06T06:02:10.000Z

*The ability to use paint to change the color of vehicle tiles, not just walls.

terroroid · 2014-12-06T15:53:30.000Z

remove the need for using wrench when installing travois in a frame.

TheFlame52 · 2014-12-06T16:30:05.000Z

Logrin:

*The ability to use paint to change the color of vehicle tiles, not just walls.

Paint could be a type of ‘armor’ that doesn’t protect anything but overrides the color of the tile it’s on. Be careful, it only takes a little bit of damage to destroy the paint!

Valpo · 2014-12-06T16:34:42.000Z

So id need to carefully drive through the streets to ensure i do not harm my precious paint? This would be preposterous to nature! I mean mine >.>
I need to ram 1-2 building at the bar minimum to feel content when crossing a city.

*edit:

Can we get the ability to harvest concentrated acid from spitter zombies at high enough skill lvl?

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-12-06T22:13:31.000Z

TheFlame52:

Be careful, it only takes a little bit of damage to destroy the paint!

Hehe, I like it.

Logrin · 2014-12-07T03:19:18.000Z

*Sirens for police cars…

Jarlaxle · 2014-12-07T09:09:15.000Z

Catfoodbob:

Survivor Bandages-Bandages laced with painkillers and the likes and work generally better whilst reducing pain. and temporarily increasing armor values by 1 on treated part.

Support, but without the armor value thing. Would actually like it to be more like a souped up first aid kit, being laced with pain killers and antibiotics.

arcke · 2014-12-07T10:33:09.000Z

Cooking food with rotten ingredients (may?) lead to a rotten final product. Is this useful? Maybe there can be a warning first if the final product will be rotten or make fresh ingredients a requirement for the recipe. Sometimes I accidentally cook a rotten meal, probably because a rotten ingredient is auto-used.