Anyone kind of do this? Almost summer on one playthrough and since I already have enough firepower to defend a base I reckon I start building up a sort of undertaking, which is probably slightly more productive than doing city raids in the middle of the day and trying to punch everything to death. Besides, the city is getting depopulated faster than expected.
So far, here’s what I’ve been planning before year 2 rolls around.
Spring: well, pretty much already done, but moved my base from ground level of a lab to a LMOE shelter far from said lab. Moving everything was… fun. There was a huge city in between, so at least there were roads were I can drive my cartmobile and blast Zs for fun during repeated transports. On the other hand, to get to the LMOE shelter there was a forest. Not too big, but tough to drive through even with a slow moving cart line. So basically I scorched the earth. Fire everywhere. Took a long time since game speed went to a crawl. When I was sure a large area is burning, I took a step away from the area until game speed went back to normal. Waited until rain then went back there so the area will stop burning.
After that desecration upon mother nature, I resumed the transfer of goods from one base to another. Took about a week or two in game to finish.
With everything set nice and snug on the new shelter, summer is coming. At this point the LMOE shelter is up and running, and organized. I decided to bomb my old base with C4… realizing too late that I forgot to transfer out my booze collection. Some managed to survive, though it’ll take a longer time than expected to fill up a barrel full of tequila.
Anyway, LMOE set. Got permanent light since I found quite a lot of atomic lamps. On the other hand, the LMOE shelter is more or less a temporary one. I’d rather build a base that has windows. Land outside the shelter is pretty scenic, river a few spaces away, blueberry bushes above. Lots of farm land to, well, farm.
So summer my plan is to build a perimeter around the planned base. Great log wall of new england. Set up farm land, maybe set up a sort of dock area for the look of the thing. A base with windows. Might as well make the post-apocalyptic land a paradise. When autumn comes I’ll probably be still under construction, and to not get any cabin fever I’ll take a couple of weeks off to explore other areas.
When winter rolls through I’ll get to work on another wall. Somewhat close to the planned base is a swamp. I’ll build some sort of wall there. Maybe a log wall, or get some steel frames together to build a really long ass line of steel plates to keep out pesky swamp creatures.
Anyway, anyone else have similar long-term plans on the game, or am I just kinda loony?