Individual game settings might explain some points of view.

Rotor

Rotor

Hunter
I know this been done before, but it has been a while.

Here are mine:

  1. Adventurer.
  2. Loot no respawn.
  3. Loot 100%
  4. Chunks dont reset.
  5. Zombies walk all the time.
  6. Z's 25% block damage.
  7. 100% XP
  8. 1.5 hrs days
  9. 6 hrs night time
  10. Resupplies are on every 3rd day.
  11. 7day Bloodmoon
MODs
  1. Zombies NoRespawn
  2. ZZ's PoI pack
Other Mods I add as they become available, that I havent had time to hunt down:
  1. No Cop Puke
    1. Going to look for others that may remove the superrads, etc.
  2. Z's No reach
  3. Headshot only when I feel like really turning up the heat a bit.
  4. wondering hordes.
  5. A few others that are mainly cosmetics
Self imposed restrictions
  1. I dont quest. However, I do use the traders as an anti RnG mechanic, although when I have to is because I am a dead end, and really hate to do it, almost feel defeated.
  2. Dead is dead.
 
Adventurer - Mostly because I don't like bullet sponge zombies
60 Minute Days
18 Hour Days (sometimes 16 Hour Days)
Jars: 100%
XP: 100%
Loot: 100%

Mods:
Farming - I put the "plant once" farming back. The "mini-game" Vanilla farming is fine; I just don't want to spend the time managing it.

Food - Max Cooking lets me make Canned Food.
Example - Canned Beef : 1 Grilled Meat + 1 Bone + 1 Aloe + 1 Potassium Nitrate + 1 Empty Jar

Lockpicks - I bump up their effectiveness some.

Playtest XP - I make it such that each level gives 2 Skill Points. I do this because when I was working on my POI mod I would restart games a lot and never see the late game. Lately, work has me so busy that I like it because I just don't get to play as frequently.

ZZTong-Prefabs - Well, yeh. I've got to test those.

ZZTong-RWG - I like to make the Old West settlement a couple of Tiles bigger to get a little more variety from it.

Traders - I make the Traders restock daily. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage. I add quality 1 and 2 Solar Cells as a possible inventory item.

Vehicles - I make them 3x more durable.

Water - I give boiled water a 5% Dysentery chance and I change Pure Mineral Water such that it can only be made at a Chem Station.
 
General Settings
Difficulty: Warrior

Basic Settings
Blood Moon Count: 64

Adavanced Settings
No Changes

Multiplayer Settings
Claim Deadzone: No Deadzone
Claim Durration: 30 Days
Claim Decay Mode: None
Bedroll Deadzone: No Deadzone
Bedroll Durration: 60 Days

Mods
New POI Highlight -by- CautiousPancake
BellGoBong -by- bdubyah
Damage Numbers -by- jucah
Ramos Menu Music -by- Djtriplexmr

Self Imposed Restrictions
None - But I refuse to use the - Helmet Water Purifier Mod
 
Here is what I use:
  1. Warrior Difficulty
  2. 30 day loot respawn
  3. Loot at 100% for solo. Usually 200% when playing in a group.
  4. Chunk reset is 30 days.
  5. Zeds walk day, jog night, BM and Feral run.
  6. Zeds do 75% block damage. BM is 50%.
  7. 100% XP
  8. 90-minute days
  9. Max spawned zombies set to 150.
  10. Airdops are on every 10th day.
  11. Standard 7day Bloodmoon
  12. Biome progression on.
  13. Storms at default settings.
MODs

  1. WalkerSim
  2. 3-slot forge
  3. Khaine's 60-slot bag
  4. Khaine's Incresed Spawn, but without the lowered wilderness spawns.
Self imposed restrictions
  1. I don't use the traders for much of anything other than selling items for Dukes that I can smelt into brass.
  2. I don't use POI's for bases.
IMHO, the Vanilla game gives hardly any challenge aside from the lacking inventory space. Really hating the hard limit on bloodmoons atm as well.
 
  1. Warrior (good for the first week, gets a little too easy later on)
  2. 60 min
  3. Minimum Jog (cba waiting for zeds I want to lure somewhere)
  4. Largely defaults otherwise
No mods. I largely grind quests, make a couple improvised horde bases until I settle down in wasteland week 4 or 5. Play a couple hordes there and quit.
 
Nomad
Loot no respawn.
Loot 100%
Chunks dont reset.
Zombies walk walk jog run
Zombie smell Run
Z's 100% block damage.
100% XP
2.0 hrs days
18hr days
Resupplies are on every 3rd day
7day Bloodmoon
Weather/Storms On
Jar refund 0%

Mods
ZZTong's "Pois"

Customized Map terrain 10k
Hand painted biome, per elevation
Blended biome borders
Single Lighting Desert Spectrum
Skull Biome POI window removed

Spawn timing shortened to allow more constant presence,
or after clearing an area once Pois are all that is left, and it renders
smell moot because the present timing doesn't regen any spawn for 3
days. Mine is a few hours.

Entity spawn volume: Increased See above

Entitygroups mixed adding chance for ferals wights and predators See above

Multicloned vultures default plus two size variants insta attack that
vary timing attack patterns. See above

Traders allowed to spawn in alternate biomes, adds distance and variety to
location and quest locations and distance.

Rotating objectives, Personal poi, quest held out for 20 days to search
for Traders across the map, Exploration and pois in alt biomes, Purchase
Hi profile rares from trader, collect items to sell to traders which means
more exploring, Unlocked all but the Waste, I treat it as the untameable
Hub of old, Investment in Looter 5, tracking 3 to see sleeper dogs in pois,
cooking 1, archery 2, Deadeye 2 to get the lever action rifle,

Sniper: Legshot headshot craft 7.62mm basic.
Batter Up: 10% damage with clubs, ragdoll, craft chain mod for clubs.
The fireman's almanac: fire based weapons burn 10% longer for my molotovs,
reduce chance to be lit on fire by 25% for my molotovs also.
Lucky looter: More ammunition and junk in loot
Ranger's guide to archery: retrieve 20^ mor arrows, Legs hots slow opponents,
Craft flaming arrows.
Spear hunter: 10% damage, Power attacks do more damage to down targets.
Urban combat: sneak landing make less sound
All others I sell.

Bows,spears,rifles,robotics just for the pipe baton. Medical,food,workstations,vehicles.
All others I sell.

I keep what I kill, and can find as I travel, and only use a bicycle. Usually it
is around 30% by the time I return.

After each of the initial weapons is maxed I will pick another, one at a time.
Armor light medium, focused on stealth and zombie kill. All else is sold.

Present Task save 7.5 additional k for crucible, trader 8km away. I got 2 days
 
I'm not sure how different playstyles will explain points of view* on the game's systems. I don't think they're mere preferences, but neither do I think they're mutually exclusive. That's what "versus" actually means: same but different, in a sense, as opposed to mutually exclusive. More like Yin and Yang than the predominant and competitive "against." (East and West have more in common than Kipling seemed to think.) The new water collection system is a good case in point. Either/or logic may rule the day, but there's no rule it has to do so in perpetuity.

*Few, if any, will be interested, but I highly recommend Jean Gebser's insights on "points of view" (aka perspectivism and its origins) in the creative, artistic sense of the word. His good buddy, Picasso, created aperspectival artworks and Gebser noted the emergence of the aperspectival and synairesis in the arts and sciences of his and our times. Highly instructive, especially to artists, I must say.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” ~ Pablo Picasso
 
InfiniteWarrior said:
I'm not sure how different playstyles will explain points of view* on the game's systems.
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You don't think Insane Difficulty, 30 min days (or 120 if you want the Long), Block Damage 300% gives a different impression of the horde nights compared to default settings?
The default player might love his cobblestone cube -base, but the adjusted settings make it a completely pointless waste of time. The entire building system will feel quite different, even fill completely different roles. Any oddities in the combat systems become life threatening, etc.
 
InfiniteWarrior said:
I'm not sure how different playstyles will explain points of view*
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I.e. for me, nothing is super abundant. I dont swim in ammo. Probably has to do with my loot settings.

So I always see those kinds of post as "if you have my settings maybe you wont swim in ammo" if you dont quest you wont have your cycle in the first 7Days, etc. Those are just a few examples.

So from my PoV I do see things somewhat different with my play style.
 
Difficulty: insane

Exp: 100%

24-hour cycle: 90 min

Daylight duration: 18 hours

Blood moon: 7 days

Blood moon range: 0

64 enemies

Zombie day speed: run run

Night speed: sprint

Feral speed: sprint

Blood moon speed: sprint

Feral sense: off

Smell: run

Air drops: off

Biome progression: off

Storm frequency: 150

Player block damage: 100%

AI block damage: 75%

Blood moon block damage: 75%

Loot abundance: 100%

Death penalty: permanent death

Jar refund: 100%

MODS

:More spawns 10x

:Fewer spitters and frost claws

Self-imposed rules

None except no exploits, cheats, or glitches

The only changes I make are when the version is experimental: permadeath off and biome progression on.
 
I don't play single player all that often, i mostly play on Lokis Elite Nz/Aus server
When i do play however these are my settings:

Insane
Nightmare speed all
25% loot, no loot respawn, no chunk reset
My block damage 150%, zombies 300/300
Feral sense always
Blood moon 5 days 64 zombies
No air drops, no biome progression
300% storms
Unlimited quest progression
Dead is dead permadeath if its my fault, keep playing if i die to TFPhysics.
Everything else default.

Mods: None
I changed the xml to increase how many wasteland traders there can be from 4 maximum to 20 maximum to let me get t6 infested quests faster
I also removed the changes to stun baton this patch so i don't send them flying every hit when using nerd tats.

Self imposed:
Quests must be done in the biomes where traders sends you. Tier 1 forest, Tier 2 Burnt...
Once quest tier completion is achieved you must move to the next biome by end of day. Unless its horde night in which case can move the day after. No further quests allowed in the biome once completed and you cannot leave the biome to do quests outside it.
 
  1. Warrior Difficulty
  2. Default speeds (walk day, jog night, BM and Feral run ?)
  3. Loot at 100% / No Loot respawn
  4. No Chunk reset
  5. Zombie 100% block damage.
  6. 100% XP
  7. 60-minute days (16 hour day/ 8 hour night cycle)
  8. Max spawned zombies set to 150.
  9. Airdops every 3rd day.
  10. Standard 7day Bloodmoons
  11. Biome progression on.
  12. Storms at default settings.
MODs
  1. Izayos Gun Pack
  2. Often "Survival No-Trader Mod"
Self imposed restrictions
  1. Often No Traders (SRT Mod)
  2. If Traders - I don't use the traders for much of anything other than buying/selling a few needed items.
  3. I usually will build custom; but will start with basic POI's in the Pine Forest.
It's a good enough challenge for me...
 
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