PC Alpha 18 Dev Diary!!

[Blake_]

Yeah what else will I do with the 50000 clay I have.

Didn't you say something about too much cheese regarding the holes in the ground?. I like them though, only if they are done by a single entity and in horde nights/some POIs .

 

[THARN]

And then spawned the era of "fake news". Maybe that has been going on since the beginning.

Goebels Had Nothing on todays Media....Or should I say- He's probably looking up from Hell with a big smile on his face.

 

[AtomicUs5000]

Yeah although 100 hours in I only have 5k sitting around. There is always another book and I buy every 762, lead, brass etc that comes my way.

Oh I'm sure... but, having this in mind, you might have made a bigger farm, set extra things to craft in the bench, or perhaps you may have put more focus on keeping a steady flow of concrete production to sell for more dukes. As long as you had the bullets and enough for the next book, you were set.

 

[quyxkh]

Yes grade school is useful, I must have forgotten to say HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY.
Of course civilizations are build on the shoulders of previous work. None of that has to do with high school history classes, which teach nothing useful. I at least learned some useful skills in high school and took mechanics, welding etc once I got that bs out of the way.

I'm saying finance, speaking classes, computer basics, relationship with peers and romance would be 1000x more useful than knowing who was the 34ths president, who invented electricity (who gives a crap, turning on a light switch is all you need to know and was lbd by every 2 year old on the planet alredy). Wars over tea... who cares? How is that preparing me for my first job interview or helping me decide what to do with my life?

All it takes is one good teacher. Yes, 90% of teachers in high school is crap. It's Sturgeon's Law: 90% of _everything_ is crap. But you make places where if there's someone exceptional, exceptional things can happen. Teachers on fire don't render everything mechanical, they're better than that. But there just aren't that many of them. There can't be. But you're arguing "I never got the good stuff so let's burn it all down so nobody else ever does" here.

 

[OzHawkeye]

Well instead of learning about the holocaust, I'd cover it, but spend more time teaching about famous inspirational speakers, inventors, how someone started a business and created 1000's of jobs and transformed a poverty stricken area into a robust community, etc. Inspirational positive history, not tragedy and "what not to do".

Well, I definitely agree, History shouldn't simply be a study of everything we've screwed up in the past, we'd raise a generation of suicidal depressives if we did that - hehe. And I also agree, school should definitely teach more "functional" subjects that actually prepare kids for the big bad wide world out there, that expects and requires (well, mostly) that you make your own way through it, off the fruits of your own labour. But even when History has to touch on the darker side of human nature, it can still point out the good as well as the bad (there was at least one German solider in one of the camps imprisoned for refusing to participate in what was going on for example, and a few others who actively tried to help).

I also think school should teach civics too, get kids to understand the privileges of a democracy, but also the duties people ought to have to it, cause a big fraction of the world has to live under much less savoury types of government.

 

[DUST2DEATH]

No, that would teach capitalism, self reliance, responsibility, and traditional American values in general. We can't have that.
/sarcasm

except that capitalism is about to collapse upon itself without serious changes to taxes and distribution in the wake of AI and automation.

 

[Odetta]

Yeah what else will I do with the 50000 clay I have.

 

[MechanicalLens]

I like Skyrims, but we didn't have time for a fancy GUI. What we have works, I don't like locking players out of better locks. We'll probably need to polish it during 18, its kind of a stub right now.

Yeah, you got a good point; locking players (pun not intended) out of a feature and forcing them to spend points in a particular perk is what A18 is trying to move away from in the first place. Lol

But I would guess that faster/quieter lockpicking (maybe a small chance for the lockpick to not break/not be consumed) would be beneficial enough.

 

[Ti2xGr]

MM - I see the thought of wanting to make glass traps of some sort. That being, giving it more of a reason to be saved/scavenged. I accidentally get broken glass in my inventory, it is immediately tossed out. It is only usefully for making cute windows...literally. Even an empty can is saved to make oil. Not so much with glass. Do we need an alternative use for glass? No, but it might give it more worth/value in the game. Glass spikes, spread glass shards to trigger if something is walking outside (hear the glass crunch), glass knife, or some other alternative reason to have it.

It's just an idea, but maybe give you something to ponder and decide if it is worth adding to the game. I can live without it for sure. There has to be a balance within the game and simplicity is great in most areas, but giving us more to do helps feed the OCD...

 

[madmole]

Started my perception build, got rekt twice already, wile e. coyote got me bleeding out a couple times now and no bandages yet. Improved RWG is dope, no more repeating POIS so far and bigger cities.

 

[Laz Man]

You know what REALLY gives a sense of fear more than a downgraded block? A hole.

I forgot to mention that having downgraded blocks also gives players a very clear reminder to repair the block before it goes poof...

 

[Guppycur]

I forgot to mention that having downgraded blocks also gives players a very clear reminder to repair the block before it goes poof...

Some downgrades make sense. Reinforced to non reinforced. That's it.

 

[Laz Man]

Started my perception build, got rekt twice already, wile e. coyote got me bleeding out a couple times now and no bandages yet. Improved RWG is dope, no more repeating POIS so far and bigger cities.

Oooo, cant wait to see what improvements robert has cooked up.

 

[MechanicalLens]

Started my perception build, got rekt twice already, wile e. coyote got me bleeding out a couple times now and no bandages yet. Improved RWG is dope, no more repeating POIS so far and bigger cities.

So have coyotes replaced wolves early game? Just wondering.

And I am very intrigued by how you will defeat later gamestage hordes and take on POI's post day 30+ with a perception build. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it!

Could you not have made regular bandages with cotton when you had spawned in?

 

[MechanicalLens]

@madmole In A17.4, in 8k worlds, towns always spawn in the following locations. (Marked by the X's.) I can't remember if I've already asked you this (forgive me if I have, my memory is a little foggy today), but I'm just curious... Will town spawns follow a similar pattern-based system in A18, or will they be randomly placed through RWG maps?

 

[wolfbain5]

Started my perception build, got rekt twice already, wile e. coyote got me bleeding out a couple times now and no bandages yet. Improved RWG is dope, no more repeating POIS so far and bigger cities.

this will be an interesting watch, happy about the rwg, I wanna see the perc build, see how the weapons progress and deal with hordes

 

[TundraWolf42]

Well it sounds like I could have it wrong at least in the case of steel. We'll see...I personally like the downgrading path instead of straight to air because it gives time to repair. Destroying instantly to air is a lot more difficult if you are trying to repair as you fight.

I like this as well, I always wondered and imagined if it would be fun to see the zombies go through all the upgrades you put on the block even if it was upgraded all the way from wood frame.

 

[falloutcloud]

Started my perception build, got rekt twice already, wile e. coyote got me bleeding out a couple times now and no bandages yet. Improved RWG is dope, no more repeating POIS so far and bigger cities.

Here's to hoping that Perception build gets some love. I have a feeling that will be my first build

 

[TundraWolf42]

Improved RWG is dope, no more repeating POIS so far and bigger cities.

Very nice job, excited to see this.

 

[wolfbain5]

MadMole, I would like to see you do an Intel build.

1. you professed you are not so good with traps, and it could help see how to improve it for others. but, more importantly

2. all other builds have weapons assigned except Intel. that is just from the glimpse of the trees you previously showed us