I think someone just doesn't know how to farm effectively. It's also good for medical supplies as well. You just want a survival simulator to be easier. Just mod it. Everyone else likes the farming. It should be more detailed with plant disease random plagues that take out crops so you have to...
Nobody said you have to use the traders. 1st off their are air drops. That means there is some group advanced enough for aircraft and supply drops outside the radiation zone so there are survivors. 2nd if you look through history at any major collapse throughout all of recorded history people go...
What they should do is on day 7 there should be a slowly ever growing series of hoards that go full blast on hoard night. So say around 8 or 9 am you may encounter a small hoard of scouts. say 3 to 5. Every in game hour that number goes up by 1 to 3 until the endless waves start at 22:00 and...