PC Making a decision.

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Hey all me again lol

Anyway, ive put about 100 hours into a SP navezgame vanilla and have built the base of my dreams ect but I was testing out a nice seed I found on a reddit forum today and it just feels so fresh. The zombies are roaming the streets more which i like ( i found nave to be very focused on sleepers and minus the hordes you dont really see them plodding about the streets as much as i saw in the RWG) / new buildings / diff surroundings entirely.

Buuuut in these big cities (only played for an hour or so) i seem to get heavy FPS drops and sometimes small freezes using the same video settings as i did in nave (never had any probs there). I can understand why but was thinking that once a horde comes to the city im in playing rwg i will prob suffer heavily unless i tone some settings down.

The big decision is do i keep going with my nave game with my lovely base i grinded for even though the map is starting to feel stale or do i restart in this big fresh new world.

So undecisive for this matter lol. Not sure what to do and since ima be playing through most of the easter holiday i want to make the right choice.

Any of you lot found yourselves having a similar dilemma? Think ill take a day off to make my mind up and gather some opinions for now.

 
Play one game till you don't want to any more and then start anew is my strategy. If your base is built and everything you hope it can be then time to make a new game and a new base

No reason you cannot return and enjoy the old base form time to time.

 
Can't help but chuckle reading this, feeling a need to talk like some sort of grey bearded wise man who's lived many a survivor's lives and built just as many bases. I bet a lot of other players here have the same impulse. :)

"I once was like you.." bla bla..

Anyway, as z4h pointed out you can always revisit your old save. And if you are willing to dabble with modding tools this early you might even export and preserve your base for future alphas. Looking back, I wish I'd done that back then.

Then again you also will probably develop to become less attached to your creations and move on to the next easier. One thing though: Always make a lot of screenshots. It's nice to just go through them sometimes and delve into the good memories.

I remember my first switch to a random gen and never wanted to go back after that (Started in a huge wasteland biome and was scared to ♥♥♥♥s, lol). It's the game's main feature for replayability, no question here, so with all my heart I'll say go for it, you won't regret it nor will it be much of a dilemma in retrospect. ;)

As for the peformance issues you're having:

Short term solution (for your easter holidays session): Try to build your base in the wilderness, away from too large cities – especially ones that have skyscrapers in them. Then you should be okay on the horde nights.

Long term solution is the obvious path of a hardware upgrade. Just have a look around this forum, there's several threads tackling that topic and a long list of friendly people who will gladly help out with specs/settings advice.

 
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I agree with what Kam said, RGW is way more fun in the long run. Nav is to learn the game, RGW to master it :)

For me it was just sa Kam said, once I started to play RGW I never looked back.

That is the good part of this community, lots of nice people willing to help with advice and tips. There are a few forum posts on PC specs and game settings you can look in and post your rig there so you can get some tips and advice.

And welcome to this great world :)

 
I don't even think much people find this to be a dilema, since it's kinda an obvious choice;nave sound like a good map for learning while the random one sound more like the real game with random element that keep the player involved (since there isn't a map ready for them on the net, beside some server with interactive map)

But since the random one tend to broken into piece with even the little patch, either you will have to to copy/paste your game version so you play and old patch, or deal with the broken part of the map, or restart again.

Even so I tend to re-build some design & part of my old bases and test a few different thing each time. Ya won't have a big pretty base this way, but it's not like you lose your time completely since you learned meanwhile.

One thing though, I don't recall having any difference with the spawn of zombies between nave and random. Might just have been some differents settings.

 
I'll second one thing Kam R. said: build your base away from cities in the random world, and you should get performance comparable to what you got in Navezgane, at least on horde night when it really matters.

 
Cheers guys i started on the rwg map in the end, my lovely base wasnt enough to keep me in navez. Dont think its such an obvious choice as someone stated I played nave on ps4 before pc for many hours too before pc and have always enjoyed it, only now i fancied something different. =)

Had to tone down a few settings but hopefully a RAM upgrage on saturday will help me bring these back up.

 
there are ways to important entire sections of the map with region files. ive never done it but learned a bit about it... theres issues with elevation so you need to find an area with similar elevation . you copy the region file from your game and find the region file of the area you wish to place your base and rename your region file to that region files name and paste it in, rewritting the original region file. there other ways as well to important buildings you create but i have no idea how to do that but theres probably several people on here that are very skilled in these things so you can ask some questions on here and you may at least be able to get your base back...hope this helps =)

 
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