Quote Originally Posted by AntiDamascus View Post
This looks fun but I have no idea if I can wrap my head around this. I'm going to read these threads while at work. Is something that someone with essentially no experience in a game like this can be a part of?
Yes, because almost every player in the previous game which had 62 players had no experience with a battle-royale style game, and I had absolutely zero experience hosting one.

More about the map and the game mechanics will be posted soon, and I will be available to answer questions.

TIME REQUIREMENTS: Every 3 days or so, you'll need to send me a private message indicating which action to take.

This PM can be as small as a couple sentences.

You may also wish to interact with players who are within communications range (1 tile, or an active com link with the player in question, host-approved only).

It should only take a few minutes to read what happened in the public writeup, open your results PM, and discuss things with available parties. Then, you have a couple days to decide what to do next.

This is less difficult for players than a traditional mafia game would be, because there's no public discussion. Therefore the player's time requirements are small. The host, on the other hand, is utterly insane for doing this a second time.

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General playing tips:

1) You need to do everything you plan on doing within 20-25 moves, because after that, the zombie horde will be too massive and they will be everywhere, and much more vicious as time progresses.

2) The longer the game progresses, the more survivors die and become zombies. Less allies, more enemies.

3) It is impossible to survive forever in Southgate. Eventually, a nuclear weapon will level the city, but the zombies will destroy everything alive long before then.

4) No matter how powerful you or your group of survivors becomes, the zombie horde will become that much more difficult to compensate.

5) You cannot explore every section of the map before time expires. Some things you have to leave for your teammates and you mustn't dawdle too much in going to your next objective.

6) Searching can yield better weapons, healing items, and very important, critical mission related items. Neglecting search is not advisable.

7) Searching can also reveal additional zombies, with a small percentage chance of that. Accordingly, if you are near death, searching can be a death sentence.

8) Accumulating health items can be a great idea, you can trade them to others, along with any items or weapons you don't need. This helps the players around you and makes it more likely someone survives the game. Other players might be more willing to give you weapons and items you need if it's not a one-way deal.

9) As soon as you complete your most critical objectives (freeing oneself, more on that later) (find an escape route) then you should attempt to leave southgate post-haste. Lingering in the city increases your risk of death, and escape + survival is much better score-wise than not escaping and not surviving.

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Sign-ups should open at end of october. Keep an eye on the thread.