Why are vehicles out of gas?

vbmark · 2013-12-25T15:00:42.000Z

I am curious about what the story is behind why the all the vehicles are out or almost completely out of gas. Why do I not come across any with a full tank?

Datanazush · 2013-12-25T15:25:33.000Z

Chances are, the cars were abandoned when they ran out of fuel.
Far more horrifyingly, they could’ve been left idling when zombies pulled the drivers from the car. You can find cars with a fair amount of fuel, try Public Works or Parking lots.

HunterAlpha1 · 2013-12-25T16:09:48.000Z

it would be nice if gasoline were craftable, even if it took up an absurd amount of resources.

Inadequate · 2013-12-25T19:13:30.000Z

Making biofuel out of rotten food has been suggested in various forms several times, but nothing has ever come of it.

Ferodaktyl · 2013-12-25T19:24:47.000Z

Slate Magazine

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for game purpose, finding a liquor store should be as good as a gas station

Ian_Strachan · 2013-12-25T19:25:16.000Z

Datanazush:

Far more horrifyingly, they could’ve been left idling when zombies pulled the drivers from the car.

Combine this with the fact that vehicles randomly have their lights left on, or doors opened…

Notquiteright · 2013-12-26T15:18:26.000Z

How is that horrifying? I do a lot worst on gta games… and on this game.

Slax · 2013-12-26T15:20:06.000Z

Zombies drink gasoline. With straws. Long straws.
You didn’t know?

DG123 · 2013-12-26T17:08:36.000Z

Ian Strachan:

[quote=“Datanazush, post:2, topic:4619”]Far more horrifyingly, they could’ve been left idling when zombies pulled the drivers from the car.

Combine this with the fact that vehicles randomly have their lights left on, or doors opened…[/quote]

If you want to make it truly horrifying, add blood stained child seats…

Sidower · 2013-12-26T17:36:09.000Z

[quote=“Slax, post:8, topic:4619”]Zombies drink gasoline. With straws. Long straws.
You didn’t know?[/quote]

Zombies with long mosquito/straw mouth should be a thing…

infectedmochi · 2013-12-26T18:23:30.000Z

Or the giant moth monster someone suggested some time ago.

DG123 · 2013-12-26T18:41:13.000Z

I saw GlyphGryph (might have mis-spelled that) suggesting a whole bunch of odd zombie types on another forum a while back… Zombies with nasty alien like creatures bursting out of them etc.

Claws, horrible fanged maws, etc. I wonder what happened to those.

kevin.granade · 2013-12-27T03:18:33.000Z

github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Issue: Bloodstained carseats.

opened by kevingranade on 2013-12-27

closed by Rivet-the-Zombie on 2013-12-30

http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=4882.msg77595#msg77595
"If you want to make it truly horrifying, add blood stained child seats..."

Easy-fix Enhancement

Pthalocy · 2013-12-27T03:28:28.000Z

Yeah I’d imagined vehicles were driven until empty, and then abandoned, else left idling when the drivers were ah… removed.

Of course, you’d think you would find car wrecks smashed into trees and ditches way off the roads if things were so hastily abandoned with threats surrounding…

deadmerits · 2013-12-27T03:52:23.000Z

I’m almost positive that there used to be car wrecked into buildings, in fact I’m almost positive but I’m only posting this to confirm this.

Other then that, Datanazush I felt a chill when you said that and I kinda always knew that’s what had happened, but to hear it out loud… shudder

Inadequate · 2013-12-27T05:03:07.000Z

You can in fact still find wreckage merged with buildings, although sometimes you can also find completely unharmed vehicles overlapping buildings, so I’m guessing that’s just the spawning system being wonky. Once found a truck overlapping a bank vault, making it trivially easy to loot the bank.

system · 2013-12-27T06:11:14.000Z

Iiiiiiin the future: some Eldrich abomination stole all the gas caps and all the gasoline evaporated!

Pthalocy · 2013-12-27T06:38:50.000Z

All of the cars run on pure ethanol and it literally DOES evaporate. LOL. …

You drink your gasoline.

Slax · 2013-12-27T06:39:05.000Z

On a barely related note, you know what’s missing right now? Street lights. Something for top tier woodcutters to tackle. Aw yeah!

Ian_Strachan · 2013-12-27T07:34:56.000Z

Inadequate:

You can in fact still find wreckage merged with buildings, although sometimes you can also find completely unharmed vehicles overlapping buildings, so I’m guessing that’s just the spawning system being wonky.

Yep. https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/4873 details it. Basically a problem with map rotation and vehicles. I found it trying to place an ambulance outside of a hospital, and finding that the ambulance would be smashed to bits, there’d be a huge hole in a wall… but the ambulance would be nowhere near the wall.