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Do you like driving your car and looking at the map at the same time there ?
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I don't like it but sometimes it's necessary. Why else would GPS devices come with both dashboard and handlebar mounts as an option?

Great, now I can't help thinking of a MadMole themed GPS. "At the next left... get 'er done!"

 
Do you like driving your car and looking at the map at the same time there ?
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No, but I don't have to get OUT of the car to look at the map either. As the game stands, you have to completely get off of the mini-bike to look at the map. Plus the in-game map isn't a real map, but rather a representation of our memory of where we have been, otherwise the entire landscape on the game map would be visible without any fog-of-war..

 
Sitting in bike and watchin map is cool, but while driving through the map and have a map out .. how many hands do you have. Besides turn by turn nav is one thing, a map and a compass is another. Waypoints help a lot.

 
I think pulling up your menu options while on a bike isn't a bad thing. What does it hurt to have that option? I don't want anything extra on screen while driving the waypoints work just fine for doing that. I just think it is silly you can't pull up the menu box while on a bike. But just a opinion if they add it great if not I'm used to it so no big deal or anything.

 
Here is a concept of the new Trader Bobs!
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Does this mean perhaps at some point we might even have Helicopters? being that there is a Helicopter pad

 
I don't understand the point in reaching for ultra-realism justifications for simple things, like not being able to open the map while driving. It's a videogame. There's a balance between realism and good gameplay features, being able to open the map while driving isn't going to break that balance. If anything you could still argue that it's similar to real life because it blocks your entire view and distracts your driving.

 
I don't understand the point in reaching for ultra-realism justifications for simple things, like not being able to open the map while driving. It's a videogame. There's a balance between realism and good gameplay features, being able to open the map while driving isn't going to break that balance. If anything you could still argue that it's similar to real life because it blocks your entire view and distracts your driving.
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Like texting.

 
I don't understand the point in reaching for ultra-realism justifications for simple things, like not being able to open the map while driving. It's a videogame. There's a balance between realism and good gameplay features, being able to open the map while driving isn't going to break that balance. If anything you could still argue that it's similar to real life because it blocks your entire view and distracts your driving.
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Players have also asked for a Pause Button in the past but I never put my 2 cents in. In real life you can not Pause a Z Attack but in Real Life I am playing a Video Game & in Real Life I can Pause every Video Game I Own except this one. Sometimes the phones rings during a Z Attack & I can not Pause so I Esc/Quit, might be the VA for one of my apts. again Real Life prevails. Sometimes one of my neighbors walks down to play Guitar & I would like to Pause it to answer the door then come back to the Game to get to a Quitting Location.

There's my 2 Cents on a Pause Button Request for A 17, a little late but I think I am on the right side of the Debate.

 
Players have also asked for a Pause Button in the past but I never put my 2 cents in. In real life you can not Pause a Z Attack but in Real Life I am playing a Video Game & in Real Life I can Pause every Video Game I Own except this one. Sometimes the phones rings during a Z Attack & I can not Pause so I Esc/Quit, might be the VA for one of my apts. again Real Life prevails. Sometimes one of my neighbors walks down to play Guitar & I would like to Pause it to answer the door then come back to the Game to get to a Quitting Location. There's my 2 Cents on a Pause Button Request for A 17, a little late but I think I am on the right side of the Debate.
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You can pause in SP, which I think is just fine, but it's not a matter of realism vs gameplay for MP. On an online server you can't just pause the game whenever you want because then it would pause it for everyone else on the server.

 
You can pause in SP, which I think is just fine, but it's not a matter of realism vs gameplay for MP. On an online server you can't just pause the game whenever you want because then it would pause it for everyone else on the server.
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That makes sense, maybe that is why I never put my 2 Cents in, I did not know they added it to S/P. I have only been playing S/P for the Achievements & did not notice a Pause Option lately. It's my server, maybe I should just go into G/M or something so I do not Die.

Any Suggestions for a quick solution for things like the Phone or Front Door in M/P so you don't get chewed up by a Z?

 
Here's a suggestion. Play it like Resident Evil (the original) where ammo was always so scarce that you had to evade and run and hurry and loot and then run and dodge and you only killed them if necessary.
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that is what I do the first few days, Zombies are not my priority. But I have found that a club and juking (football term) on solo zombies are not bad if you have good health.

if you are in the desert you should get aloe and make cream and put that on your task bar.

 
That makes sense, maybe that is why I never put my 2 Cents in, I did not know they added it to S/P. I have only been playing S/P for the Achievements & did not notice a Pause Option lately. It's my server, maybe I should just go into G/M or something so I do not Die. Any Suggestions for a quick solution for things like the Phone or Front Door in M/P so you don't get chewed up by a Z?
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Since Zombies like doors, I tent to not have a door below 4 blocks. I build a boring 6x6x5 high SOLID with a mine shaft down the middle. I put everything on top of that block and use frames and eventually bars to control zombies and shoot through.

to get up I use a ramp and eventually a drawbridge.

Make a roof out of upgraded wood frames and put a garden up there. that controls weather and keeps vultures at bay. it seems Vultures will not fly into your place.

a couple of rows of log spikes help with screamers if you want to avoid them. I like 2 rows of spikes around the base and two rows about 10-15 blocks out so that I Can control zombie pukers.

 
Sitting in bike and watchin map is cool, but while driving through the map and have a map out .. how many hands do you have. Besides turn by turn nav is one thing, a map and a compass is another. Waypoints help a lot.
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IMO 7DTD should look at doing something similar to Minecraft and not include a map feature until you get some Navigator Perk/skill. maybe something like getting to Level 5 and needing cloth/iron/electrical parts to make some sort of map/GPS device that lets you save waypoints.

making it tiered so you need to get higher in order to had complex map features that would also help with finding treasure and other resources. this would replace the treasure/map perk.

 
That makes sense, maybe that is why I never put my 2 Cents in, I did not know they added it to S/P. I have only been playing S/P for the Achievements & did not notice a Pause Option lately. It's my server, maybe I should just go into G/M or something so I do not Die. Any Suggestions for a quick solution for things like the Phone or Front Door in M/P so you don't get chewed up by a Z?
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My only suggestion would be to run and log somewhere away from the zombies. Not really much to be done about it really, if it's a phone call then you can at least do that while initially answering the call.

 
IMO 7DTD should look at doing something similar to Minecraft and not include a map feature until you get some Navigator Perk/skill. maybe something like getting to Level 5 and needing cloth/iron/electrical parts to make some sort of map/GPS device that lets you save waypoints.

making it tiered so you need to get higher in order to had complex map features that would also help with finding treasure and other resources. this would replace the treasure/map perk.
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Saving waypoints is a bit crappy because some markers fade away with the distance growing. I agree there must be a way to know where is all this stuff on your map in some way. But why you need a gps is too much in survival postapocalyptic world. People survived hell and found new continents with a map and a compass. And no women on board.

 
What if the map only popped open on screen when on the bike, if the bike is completely stopped?
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very much agree here to. its ok to open map when fully stopped but please dont do it while driving.... it will give people the idea that its safe to do that in real life. :( whoa... NVM, hell people are doing it now.... i am too late.

true story - i did yell at a man one time for driving with the damn map open... he cussed me out and told me to mind my own business.... about 200 ft down the road he ran into a car stopped at the stop sign... i did run down to him and kindly reminded him that he should have listened to me.
 
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