AfterWorld Survival Forum

Hi Viper, good to see you back! 

For a company that struggles to have enough monetary resources this is a good idea.
If i have some money spare after Christmas presents i will see what i can do to support the game.

It wouldnt be feasible to always give bonuses, but at an important phase that the game is at now it is understandable that incentives are provided.

Money donated in the past has never had promises attached to them, the advantages of previous donations have been skills and experience and equipment.


Zen

Quote from: Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton on October 16, 2012, 03:45:23 am

As we all know, newcomers and new citizens have no skills at all or very few skills to speak of, which in turn means that it takes them much longer to collect stones and their max carry weight is 500kg or close to it. I don't know about you, but the idea of spending hours and hours and hours just collecting stones to throw into storage until the point where there's enough for 30 or more P Notes is just about emotionally impossible! Without the rewards of the P Notes I don't see how anyone could keep picking and picking and picking without selling any of their stacks for steel picks (considering how often nitre and lead come up as the required stone for any given WO).

The person could have bought all or some of the stacks, but isn't it almost always cheaper just to buy P Notes directly? Or are slugroaches back in AWA's QA1, making my whole argument about stones moot?

I was only speaking of my experience and I sure don't jump to the conclusion someone's cheating when I see a global for P-Note after P-Note or SAU for that matter. I know I've helped a few newcomers in QA1 trading them stones for some picks or buying their stones and shortly after they'd global P-Note at least twice in a row. I can't speak for others, but I would do what has to be done which is hours upon hours picking to get the whole P-Note thing over with. I'm not the type that gathers enough loot just for one thing (ie to collect 1 P-Note, to make 1 gun, etc.). I'm there for how ever long it takes, I do realise that it would be hard to know how many stacks of a variety of stones would be harder to figure, but not impossible, compared to how many al rivets are needed to craft just 1 gun and you need to make 20 guns.

For me to come to the conclusion someone's cheating in-game takes a lot! Coming from the legal field, I look at all angles before pointing a finger and reporting someone. Using myself as an example here: I would hope if I was to be reported by someone thinking I have more than one account they would have more than the global messages for P-Notes to report because according to the global message that we all receive that means I'd be banned immediately. I'm not saying there's not some out there that has more than one account, but I don't know.

I'm not at all saying anybody jumps to conclusions, just stating that I don't. I don't think slugs are back for P-Note gathering, but I don't know that for sure. Been awhile since I've made a trip to the farm.

Good post Teesa!

The last thing we need is Technicator.

Many people save their P Notes up to do a big batch at once, or trade stones for Pnotes etc.
There are many legitimate ways to have Pnote glogals in succession.

I think there was a request to put PC specs in signature of posts , for this very reason, to see if problems had some commonality.
There is a post somewhere from when the forum started detailing how to do this.

Zen

And then there's the raiders. If i understood it right it's the soldiers who's brains got fried, left wandering around since the catastrophe. Sounds credible, but... how come their uniforms are still clean and not dirty and tattered? A hidden military service station or warehouse in the wilderness, stocked with spare uniforms? Yet another confusing detail.

Why not just give it up and make the whole world (outside those aforementioned special areas) unambiguously decayed/deserted? In this case all will be self explanatory and easy to understand even without any backstory.

Maybe the Raiders have a camp in a cave with a river running through it and they support a group of lost people desperate for protection, and in return they make food and clean clothes for the soldiers
Or possibly they have taken some women and force them to service them daily
Maybe their training taught them to maintain a clean and hygenic uniform in case of wound infection.
Or maybe they have no method of maintaining their uniforms and they shouldnt be so clean, i dont know

I think it is possible that the Security Force of AW, which would be acting as some form of Miltary Government would need to travel between cities and Outposts to secure, replace, supply or protect the  existing Officers on duty there.So i think there would be clear roads and some utilisation of phone lines and some functioning of transmission towers.Beyond that, i think the Security Council would be trying to secure currently occupied towns or outposts.Power in these places would be required as would water and storage.I think basically they would be trying to turn on whatever existed before the apocalypse.
As you suggest though, outside these areas any major work would most likely be carried out by citizens.I suppose the AW Security would have the odd external project here and there

Interesting points you raise though Fifth.

Zen

Opening and closing the Control Panel tends to fix sound for that particular session (Ctrl-O ) but if opening it crashes your game then you have an additional problem.

Zen