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You guys are always asking for more difficulty.If the red bar fills the entire screen it would be more difficult.

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More difficult to want to play...

but

Less difficult to want to mod and then play...

 
More difficult to want to play...
but

Less difficult to want to mod and then play...
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I don't mind the bars so much as long as it is not too in your face. Just like most games out there with health bars, add an option to turn it off. I want to play 7 Days to Die, not 7 Days to Tetris. :)

 
I am not sure if anyone has suggested this. It seems like the health bar is being added because of bosses and regenerating zombies, correct? Will these zombies glow still? If so then their glow could be the health bar. The more damage you do them less they glow, and if they retreat and build health back up then they start glowing more. That is if the green glow effect can change color or intensity.

Regenerating zombies could have a green glow and boss zombies could have other ambient effects. They don't all have to glow either. I think a screamer boss that has black stringy fog around her would be bad ass. The more you damage her the less black fog surrounds her.

The Ravenhurst mod has a utility worker zombie that has electricity bolts coming out of his body. Something like that could be a health indicator on a boss. More shocky bolts the more health, less or no shocky, he gonna die soon. If you are pouring ammo into the zombie and the ambient effect doesn't go away, then you should probably run. One simple quest/tutorial could easily make players aware of how it works too.

I'm thinking of all kinda of effects that you could use now. How about a swarm of insects and maggots on a fat rotting zombie? Dark green sludge on a swamp zombie. Yellow cloud on a poisonous zombie. Fire on a burnt zombie boss. Surgeon zombie boss that has blood spraying all over. A vapepen zombie with a white cloud around him and you get a Subaru and a 12 pack of Nat Light Beer when you defeat him.

 
How about introducing more geology into the game, huh? :)

I'm thinking:

* Steep hills in the plains biome being actually batholiths. More difficult to quarry the underlying rocks (granite), but they provide a stronger building block. In a similar trend; dykes and sills would create awesome opportunities if linked to ore deposits.

* Hydrothermal vents in the deeper water biome. They would be difficult and dangerous to reach, but would yield valuable copper/tin/bronze.

* In stead of the general 'rock', maybe include patches/layers of limestone or marble, which can be used in building for aestethic reasons.

* In a similar trend as point 1), perhaps include kimberlite pipes reaching the surface all the way from the bedrock? They could be mined to yield diamonds.

* Review the deposits of oil shale. There's no reason why oil shales are only found in the desert biome. Since they mostly form in lacustrine (lake) environments, maybe their occurrence can be linked to the plethora of lakes found in random worlds? Makes it worthwhile to dive/spend time there.

 
We could make you solve a quadratic equation every time you launch the game?
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I do enough math trying to figure out at Day 246, when horde night is coming again.

Week X Day Y would be a better label ;)

 
We could make you solve a quadratic equation every time you launch the game?
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How about introducing more geology into the game, huh? :)
I'm thinking:

* Steep hills in the plains biome being actually batholiths. More difficult to quarry the underlying rocks (granite), but they provide a stronger building block. In a similar trend; dykes and sills would create awesome opportunities if linked to ore deposits.

* Hydrothermal vents in the deeper water biome. They would be difficult and dangerous to reach, but would yield valuable copper/tin/bronze.

* In stead of the general 'rock', maybe include patches/layers of limestone or marble, which can be used in building for aestethic reasons.

* In a similar trend as point 1), perhaps include kimberlite pipes reaching the surface all the way from the bedrock? They could be mined to yield diamonds.

* Review the deposits of oil shale. There's no reason why oil shales are only found in the desert biome. Since they mostly form in lacustrine (lake) environments, maybe their occurrence can be linked to the plethora of lakes found in random worlds? Makes it worthwhile to dive/spend time there.
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nice try, but you know they are not going to bring complexity back to the game.. they have spent the last 3 or so alpha's removing items.

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Rolland you are a math teacher... isnt this calculus not a quadratic equation??? lol

 
That ain't no quadratic equation! That's just an ordinary equation. And a non-mathematic one at that. Just an ordinary physics one it seems :)
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I wasn't saying it was a quadratic equation. I was one-upping Gazz, is all. :p

 
I do enough math trying to figure out at Day 246, when horde night is coming again.
Week X Day Y would be a better label ;)
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Lol...agreed......i took a college course called .."when is horde night" it teaches you all about the number 7.

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Answer is 7....did that in class

MTFGA

 
Very interesting but you forgot to carry the one.....and it is i before e except after c...
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and I noticed a lot of PIE being used. Too much pie is bad for your health. 2 pies... 4pies. I'm gaining weight just looking at it!

 
I do enough math trying to figure out at Day 246, when horde night is coming again.
Week X Day Y would be a better label ;)
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I keep an index card propped up on my keyboard with a long list of multiples of 7. Not really necessary in my single player games, but when I hop on a server, it's a nice reference.

 
I keep an index card propped up on my keyboard with a long list of multiples of 7. Not really necessary in my single player games, but when I hop on a server, it's a nice reference.
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someone did a server command for that. /day7 or something. you'd type that into the chat and it would respond with how many days left. maybe someone can mod that for single player and link it? Jax? guppy?

 
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