Does fuel consumption change depending on speed? Thought it gave a tidy little number in the vehicle interaction screen.
All you guys with your giant rolling fortresses. Sometimes you need to just relax, let the wind blow through your hair, and BURN EVERYTHING.
I discovered that my beautiful new flamethrower turret damaged tiles of the car that it shot over. Building a deathbike was the most elegant solution.
I thought that at first too but then I noticed the “Safe” awhile back and it explained why I wasn’t burning though a tank of gas a turn.
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All you guys with your giant rolling fortresses. Sometimes you need to just relax, let the wind blow through your hair, and BURN EVERYTHING.
I discovered that my beautiful new flamethrower turret damaged tiles of the car that it shot over. Building a deathbike was the most elegant solution. [/quote]
Tried fire once. Never again.
I am performing a public service. All those rotting bodies you leave around the town, where animals will get at them and spread terrible non-apocalypse-related diseases. Not to mention the bugs, and the smell. If a town or two happens to burn to the ground in the process, America will understand.
[i]As you go about your post-cataclysm business you slowly become aware of a roar in the distance. The ground begins to shake, a screeching noise becoming more and more apparent as the roar grows louder. Expecting a as of yet unseen horror of the cataclysm you ready your weapon, expecting the worst. But nothing could have prepared you for what you see before you. A massive vehicle, easily twice as long as a semi with it’s trailer, covered in thick, thick armored plating. The roar from it’s engines is deafening even before it gets within thirty feet of you.
It’s brakes squeal horribly as it comes to a stop before you. A horribly mutated, presumably once human now looking more like a bipedal lizard stumbles from the driver’s seat; you take aim. It puts it’s hands up, in one a flyer from before the cataclysm. It looks at you and shouts, deafened by the machine’s roar.
“GREETINGS FELLOW SURVIVOR! I see you’re well armed so I’ll skip the weapons pitch!” he pauses to toss the flyer in your direction, you disregard it and keep your weapon trained on the lizard-like monstrosity before you. “I am something of a traveling merchant! I sell mutigen, meth, guns, ammo, bionics, even do the installations for an extra fee of course… and I was wondering if you might be interested in a trade…”[/i]
The one on the right is after I applied the armor, is there some way to remove the re-coloring from the innards? It’s kinda hard to tell everything apart now.
Weighing in at 64,746 LBS (29,368 KG) Before Fuel and Cargo it’s by far the heaviest thing I’ve built yet. After adding in the weight of the water, hydrogen, and gasoline it weighs in at 66,157 LBS (30,008 KG) depending highly on what cargo is loaded into it the total weight after cargo could easily push it over 60 tons. Making it heavier than the M1 Abrams tank. (Assuming some admittedly dense cargo… like DU Tank shells…)
With 12 V8 Engines and 4 Large Electric Motors it’s top safe speed is 85 MPH with a redlined speed of 1577 MPH. The power to get it to that speed comes at a cost though, almost 80 units of fuel per turn at it’s top safe speed. (And 14 power) A modest acceleration of 8 MPH per turn caps off the speed section.
In an attempt to distribute the load evenly and have redundant tires in the event of catastrophic failure, the RMCC has 66 Wide Wheels.
Fuel, Water, Hydrogen, and Energy capacity are nothing to laugh at. The water tank has a maximum capacity of 400 Gallons, while the gas tank has a maximum capacity of 276 gallons. At maximum capacity the hydrogen tanks can hold 48,000 units of hydrogen (Whatever the units are for hydrogen…) and the storage batteries onboard can store power equivalent to 27,000 batteries.
Capable of storing an armory that’d put moderate sized nations to shame, a dedicated room for crafting, a kitchen, a bedroom, a cockpit, and having each room separated by internal doors and walls I must say it’s the closest thing to a house on wheels I’ve ever built. If there were mountable toilets, showers, tables, hell TVs, I’d have installed those too.
And remember kids, the RMCC once moving stops for nothing… Except for gas stations.
Bonus Points: This is the save file
[ul][li]Convoy[/li]
[li]“Our biggest worry is surviving greenpeace-activists”[/li]
[li]From the ashes of three cities I bring you my latest incarnation of the Ryndren Mobile Command Center[/li][/ul]
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ER, you have waayyy to much time on your hands.
Tip of the iceberg man. It is worth mentioning that if your vehicle is loud enough you do go deaf while driving it XD
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Glad to see you kicked that slimmed down vehicle to the curb Ekarus; and I do agree about the recolored innards problem, it’s about the only thing keeping hard plating out of my interior.
I’ve seen trains smaller than that thing.
…RMCC’s not gonna see the end of it’s first day operational. Since I knew I couldn’t play the game with it I decided I’d red-line it and try to get it going 1000 MPH.
A hit a zombie on the way into town and four of the gas tanks exploded. It’s still moving but it’s very much on fire.
Did you actually try and turn the thing before that?
Had too, forest was too thick. Thought it’d take two map tiles to turn, takes three. It’s worth mentioning it’s still running, it’s surprisingly durable. (15 tons of fucking armor, damn well should be) just… damaged very heavily. Engines are fine, lost about 50% of the fuel tanks.
Yeah, that shock damage is a thing that seriously needs to go. It’s fine if it travels one or two parts, but not all the way across the vehicle.
…While I agree with you fully I kinda have to point out that almost 90% of the underside of that thing is explosive shit. It’s not unreasonable to assume one tank went off and the others went off like a string of firecrackers… XD
Exploding fuel is why I always go solar. Engines seem just as powerful as well.
V8s are 800, Large Electric is 450, I need V8s for something that big XD
Bill, my dearest friend and closest companion. I was so lost without him. Once he was just a big old Cadillac rusting in an abandoned garage and I was just a scavenger living off of the bones of society. But then we met one another, and fell instantly in love <3
We’ve replaced most of our parts by now, but we’re still the same people. Just better than we were before!
The front row of the cabin is a pair of forward facing seats. The passenger side is currently loaded down with guns and ammunition, while the driver side only has a .44 magnum under the seat and a kevlar vest draped over it. Controls are installed on both sides, just in case something happens to one set.
On the left of the middle row is a bed (piled with spare clothes instead of blankets, because space is at a premium). I picture it as being a folding cot that expands forward when you put the driver’s seat down. I don’t usually sleep in Bill, but sometimes we’re out on an adventure and he’s the only safe place to spend the night.
On the right of the middle row is a floor trunk with my food and medical supplies, which doubles as a walkway for accessing the other cells. Who wants to crawl around over seats?
In the back is a pair of armored trunks. The left hand side holds my tool set and a few spare parts, while the right hand side contains my supply of high explosives and radioactive materials. They are accessed from the interior, via the cell with the floor trunk.
The roof is layered with six solar panels, which provide power for the 16 Storage Batteries that provide an essentially limitless store of energy for the Large Electric Motor built under the windshield. The windshield itself is two panes of bulletproof glass protected by slats of Hard Plating, the same material that protects the engine. The full interior is reinforced with steel plate. The top of the car mounts a set of red and blue emergency lights, because Bill likes to feel pretty, too.
Bill’s exterior is a solid layer of impermeable steel plate, built to preserve visibility while providing 360 degree protection. Doors access the two seats and the walkway/floor trunk. The front 3/4 of the exterior is layered with crosscut 3’’ spikes to ensure that whatever Bill hits never gets back up, and his front surface is surmounted by a heavy spiked ram.
Bill’s most powerful armament is the pair of fully loaded M249s mounted over the ramming surface, which enable him to engage threats long before they even reach the chassis.
Objectives:
Replace all solar panels with Reinforced Solar Panels.
Weld spikes onto the frontal spikes, because the only thing better than spikes is spikes with spikes on them.
Experiment with other motor combinations that preserve good low-velocity handling but could increase my top safe speed.
Rumor has it there is such a thing as a vehicle powered minifridge. I must have one. This is America, goddammit. My beer should be COLD.
Hopes:
Maybe someday I’ll actually be able to use my M249s without having them shoot themselves off. Until then they’re just for show 
Maybe someday we will have amphibious vehicles! Bill dreams of being a boat, or maybe even a submarine. We shall explore the oceans together in search of amazing pirate treasures like LSD and nukes.
Mounting points for flags! Emergency lights are a step in the right direction, but Bill is proud to be an American, where at least he knows he’s free to run over zombies. Not only that, but when we take up piracy we’ll need a Jolly Roger.
Rocket boosters! Turbocharge! Nitrous Oxide!
A dashboard doll. Preferably of a green lizard, but even one of those hula girls would do.
You can find mini fridges nowadays in parks. Where those kid zombies hang out.
Minifridges don’t do anything… yet. They’re usable as storage containers but don’t preserve food or keep it cold
So I wanted to create the smallest possible weather proof car which had to be at least 3*3 tiles. I wanted it small for maneuverability between cars, buildings and offroad incursions. I added the extra tile at the front as a navigation tool because it can be a bit hard to tell the exact facing of something so small. since it is only one tile wide, it does not limit maneuverability at all.
This is the 0.9 incarnation of the car. it seems that 0.9 allows you to add more things on the same tile, so basically all tiles have storage space. I have 4000 volume worth of storage, but it looks a bit bland because it is mainly a bunch of floor trunks on wheels with a roof slapped on top.
It is no death machine, and I still have to reinforce it with plating and stuff, but it drives beautifully and can carry a whole town’s worth of loot without breaking a sweat.