I've used your mods in the past and all the extra zombies ran real smooth. Maybe they are thinking about a console port and that might limit the number of active zombies?I also have 2 modlets
1 with increased spawning in wilderness and 1 with increased wandering hordes. you can even go inside them and edit to your liking the values
BTW i ran a test today. 100 arlenes. In one spot. Draw your own conclusions
Perfectly smooth 60 FPS with dips to 56-59
I still remember the A17 performance "fiasco" when recommend spec machines had problems showing even HD. You don't need to conjure the console boogie man to see that min specs and this game are no friends anymore. I bought a new PC in January 2019, about 2 months after A17 came out. I still have my old machine available (far above min specs) and 1080p is still impossible with A18.
Not sure if still true but wandering hordes used to be determined by taking the modulus of your GS divided by 50. This gives a value between 0 and 49 and there were 50 possible wandering horde types defined in the file. This also meant that the wandering horde you get is rather random, regardless of what day in the game it was. This is why people could get the infamous 6 Dogs or 3 Bears horde on day 1.
I think this is a terrible plan. They will lose old school players (I already lost 2 of my regular 4 group due to this). And a brand new players would take one look at the lack of zombies in this "apocalypse" and just move on to another game. Especially if they've played a game like State of Decay that has hundreds of zombies roaming the world at all times, and builds fantastic tension at all times because of it. Maybe these groups don't matter as TFP already have their money - though Steam refunds are a thing...I fear it takes less than 2 hours for a newb to realise there is little happening in this game most of the time. Few people will give it the goodwill that old hands are prepared to.
At the moment the approval rate on steam seems quite good, I don't see newbies having the same tastes as your group. New players will have to cope with (for them) quite difficult zombies and a game where they know almost nothing. That players with hundreds of hours in a game and almost complete knowledge have symptoms of fatigue is normal. Happens if the game stays unchanged, but even worse when it changes away from the particular players tastes.
the problem is its better to go with a lower amount by default as it will work better for more players. That is why the game is so easily edited, it doesnt update enough to make editing xml's a hard thing to do.
Wandering hordes are defined in gamestages.xml (not spawning.xml), I suggest checking Jax's wandering horde increase modlet (under his modlet collection) for examples on how to modify this (or just grab it and tweak the numbers to something you find fun).
Thanks for the advice. I'll definitely be installing some of these. Quick noob question though. I have a game going and my wife just joins it, will she need to install the modlets as well or just me?
