Apiaries won't be necessary anyway. There are a few simple (in terms of ingredients) dishes that most players cook.
I didn't mean an airport on the scale of reality. It seems to me that something of average size would be enough (without fanaticism). This would be just within the framework of optimization. I think an airport would be an unusual poi for this game. Planes and helicopters have many uses outside of an airport.
Level design is doing some planning around potential bandit POI locations while also addressing other underrepresented POI categories. All new POIs coming online at this point will most likely be held for 3.0. However, there might be a few exceptions (e.g. unfinished POIs that made it into previous builds)
Yeah an "actual" airport would be way too big of a poi. They could obviously have a terminal, the parking area for some planes, a parking garage, and the actual runway could be destroyed so it only goes so far out to save on space.
I just would like to know why sometimes when I'll run or walk by a zombie, they occasionally will just do weird kind of stuff and randomly hit a building or Flag pole instead of just coming after me.Dan?
Nope. I think the pathing is fine and don't want to spend the time or the performance or potential bugs/exploits changing it. Maybe if I am bored some years from now it might be fun to toy with.
Whenever that happens, as soon as you hit the zombie (like shoot it or stab it) it fixes it. My totally uneducated guess is that the zombies calculate paths to you only every so often, and when this happens (the zombies weird out), the last time they checked for a valid path to you, there wasn't one (or they couldn't calculate one for some reason). When you hit them, I presume they're forced to calculate a path to you again, and they'll then act normal, assuming there is an actual valid path to you at that point.
Friend, I'm not saying that they should be huge! It would be nice if the game had something similar to an airport (on a smaller scale)
No, actually faatal already explained this. It's programmed behavior. To give some variety to the AI of each zombie, the game assigns (at spawn) an AI to each zombie ranging from raging/totally dumb to structural engineer that can find the weak spot in your base and path to you.
If I was @faatal I'd use the code already available for state roads to generate a straight runway across 10/20 chunks and then, only after that, I'd put some rule to "attach" an Airport POI at the end of such a stretch. I don't know if it's possible, but if it is, it means the could "decouple" the huge runway from the actual Airport Hub building. Basically they wouldn't need to crate a huge POI tile just for this.
I forgot that there are such things. It can make the work easier.
Ah, ok. So, sometimes a zombie will aggro you, and immediately walk away form you, towards a light pole or something, and start beating on it, even though there's a direct, unobstructed path to you (like you're standing in the middle of the road at the time of aggro, and so is the zombie). When I hit them with an arrow, or smack then with melee, they snap out of it and then they seem to lock on to me without issue.
I don't know the extent of the "dumb behavior" honestly, so what you described could very well be a bug instead.
Holy cow. I just realized how freaking easy that would be to do using Teragon! I mean, I'm talking brain dead easy! Teragon allows you to create start- and end-points for custom roads. So you could simply build a reasonable Airport POI building and then match it up with a short section of paved road.
It is alittle bit more work then "brain dead easy" I think.
Robert spent years trying to create believable cities through code and POI placement but it never reached the level of believability until the introduction of tile POIs. The answer was taking a step back and letting code do the broad strokes while letting level design do the finer strokes (e.g. tile framework and POIs/parts within them).
