KarenB88

I LOVE rain when it's not storming. Mostly because of the scent....and the sound
 
Who's your favorite Disney character and why?

My roleplaying character Vesper again, now in a digital painting. ^^
 
 

I finally got around to doing some more Project Zomboid art.
 
This is my character Vesper on New Dawn.
 

 
Wanna go scavenging...?

Rick Grimes is like, "so many things...!"
 
New things!
 

Art thread! Art thread!

Love what I've seen in this thread so far, I will peruse more closely later today.

Here's some of my schtuff:
 

 

 

 
EDIT: Aha! Forgot I had some zambie stuff, too!



It's actually DayZ fanart, but...hopefully I'll get around to making PZ themed stuff, too.
 

*trapping increased +1*
 
Excellent. Finally got all I need to try my new recipe - Dev Stew. Mmmm...

The effect O__O

hmm if I had to pick one I'd pick Beast because how he shows that there is more than meets the eye with people and because of his humour like way he asks belle if she would like to join him for dinner and then he's like oh that's not a request xD
 
But I mostly like the disney movies as a whole not the individual characters, some of my favourites are:
 
The Lion King
Finding Nemo
Beauty and the Beast
Lady and the Tramp
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Nightmare Before Christmas
 
And countless more, Disney really does make great animated movies
 
 
What is your favourite song and tell us about when you first heard it and realised it was the best song you ever heard and what you liked about it?

I LOVE rain when it's not storming. Mostly because of the scent....and the sound
 
Who's your favorite Disney character and why?

ApCom [sP/MP]
Apocalypse Communications
 

 
code: TurboTuTone, artwork: Nasko
 

Features:
HAM Radio and 12 Walkie talkies with different properties. Wear a walkie talkie in secondary slot to use it normally, place it down to lure zombies or spy on people. Small HUD element that displays your walkie talkie's status. 12 Frequencies to tune in on. A taperecorder and 5 different styled cassettes. Record speech on cassettes. Broadcast cassettes repeatedly via a HAM Radio. Power usage, devices need a battery to operate and drain power hourly. Interference due to bad weather, or when a device is bordering its maximum range. Players chatcolors are copied by all of the mods devices to dinstinguish "voices". Depending on type, the devices will attract zombies in certain radius.  
Look at the information section at the bottom of this post for more detailed info and usage,
it also showcases some of the awesome artwork Nasko made!
Make sure to send him some love when he posts in this thread
 
 
 
Thanks to:
Twiggy for testing, suggestions, support, streaming, awesomeness
Viceroy, for a bunch of cool suggestions made during one of our apparantly more serious convo's
LogiHack, a fellow country man who helped out testing!
EnigmaGrey, testing and correcting my grammar error's
dko112, gameplay convenience suggestions
 
A special thanks to:
Both EasyP and RJ, various functionallity of the mod would not have been possible without help from your side, thanks guys! its awesome and very much appreciated
 
[incase i forgot to mention someone, gimme a poke!]
 
Thanks twiggy and subscribers for testing the mod with a bunch of people!
A save of the stream can be found here:
Project Zomboid | Subscriber Stream w/ ApCom (Radios) | Indie Hype*~!
Twiggy @ twitch.tv
Twiggy's twitter
 
Download
 
Requires build 27 and a fresh world for the items to spawn in containers.
On a server to get best out of it set 'GlobalChat' to false serveroptions.ini.
Also works in single player but chat is limited to the lines produced by pressing 'q'.
 
Eventhough it has been tested, it's version 1.0 so there may be unforseen consequences.
 
Apcom version 1.0
 
Up to date version can be downloaded here. (last update 13 june 2015)
Credit goes to Dr_Cox1911, who has tracked and fixed the incompatibility issues with new PZ versions!

Also, a shoutout to ThatUser and Siriusx72 who posted a different approach for a fix in the thread, much appreciated!
 
 
previous versions:

 
 
Public servers running ApCom mod:
 
Information

 
HAM Radios



This device can only be used when placed in the world, it can broadcast all over the map and thus is ideal for base to base communications. The ham radio has the ability to play cassettes as repeated broadcasts on a frequency, so they could be used to gather people or advertise a merchant outpost as well. (see tape recorder section for more info)
 

 
A ham radio can be picked up and it will return the radio + optionally the battery or cassette inside the device.
Whacking a ham radio with a weapon is not advised as it will destroy the radio and all in it.
 
When receiving transmissions this device shows a animation.
 
This device will attract zombies in a wide range, so secure your base perimeters, zombies will locate the sound coming from the machine but the cold steel confuses them so they wont destroy it
 
 
 
Walker Talkers



Worn in secondary item slot, the device can then be toggled on and frequencies be set. When the device is worn it will display a small UI element that displays the item icon and device info. When the battery power is low the item will start blinking a led to indicate this.
When wearing a walker talker it will display up to 5 lines above your normal local chat area, as shown by "Another line".
 

 
Walker talkers can also be placed down and picked up again to serve tactical purposes. When doing so, unlike the ham radio, this device will keep its battery, however make sure to turn it on each time you place it down.

Lower tier walker talkers when placed in world are great for luring zombies due to their zombie attraction rate and low value. The higher tier devices when placed in world are great for spying, since their sound values make them hard to detect, especially the tactical army version which doesn’t display any text placed down, detects voice in 25 tile radius. The tradeoff is that these devices are very rare thus their discovery could be considered a big loss.

Note that when a device is unequipped or picked up it is turned off.
 
 
 
Walker Talker GUI

 
When equiping a fresh found walker talker as secondary, a GUI like this will show up in left side of screen.

 
Insert a battery and it will display battery status:

 
When equiped as secondary, you can rightclick the inventory icon and turn the device on.
When doing so, the sprite will show a green led, and more advanced models will light on their display, the frequency text will also be brighter when turned on:

 
When the device recieves text it will also indicate it in the hud:

 
The hud will display different stages of battery life as such:


Finally when the battery is about to die, the item icon will start blinking a red led:

 
 
 
About chat behaviour

 
The mod follows a pair of rules to prevent spam and local duplication of text, they are:
 
Firstly, when you are near multiple placed down devices and/or worn device, then for each frequency the system will pick the highest range device's values for broadcasting to prevent x times the same line popping up on the other end. Secondly, to prevent local duplication, the placed down devices will not display text coming from a source within a 5 tile radius. The devices that are worn do the same but for a 12 tile radius. Note: be aware that eventhough devices do not display the text cause of this rule, they will still attract zombies!
 
 
 
Interference

 
Interference will occur during bad weather, when its thundering the interference will be really bad. When interference is applied it will replace words or even multiple words at once with scrambled text.
Interference will also occur at the last 10% of a device's range, the interference will become worse as you reach the limits of its range untill nothing is received anymore.
 

 
 
 
Power consumption


Done per hour for all devices that are turned on. Note that when you place a device in world and turn it on it will keep draining power even when that part of the world unloads.
 
 
 
Cassette's

 

 
These cool oldskool cassette tapes can be found all over the place, when rightclicking a cassette in your inventory it will display its ID and for convience the lines that are recorded on it. This menu has no functionallity, but the ID will come in handy.

 
 

Tape Recorder

 


Tape recorder needs a battery for power and a cassette to record. When having multiple tapes of the same type use the ID (see Cassette section) to indentify the correct one.
 

 
When both are inserted wear the item as secondary, this will give another option in right click menu "record a line", click it and wait for the timed action bar to finish.
 

 
The next line your character says will be recorded on the cassette.
Cassettes can record a maximum of 5 lines.
Also note that the players chatcolor is recorded on a tape as well, this is done per recorded line.
 


After recording eject the cassette from the tape recorder. You can now add the cassette to a HAM Radio.
 

 
When the radio has a cassette and is turned on you can start broadcasting the cassette on the frequency set for the device.
Currently every 2 in game hours one line of the cassette is played.
 

 
 
 
Device tiers and properties:

 
The item properties below can be read as follows:
- broadcast range is for outgoing signal only, to be clear a budget walker talker can only emit 500m but still receive chat from for example a ham radio which has global range. - voice detect range, the amount of tiles a player has to be near the device for it to pick up speech. - can hear range, the amount of tiles a player has to be near device to see "hear" its text. - loot chance, obvious. - zombie attraction, the displayed value for played devices, walker talkers have reduced attraction when worn as secondary item. Also note this value doesn’t always coincide with can hear range. - battery consumption, rate at which a device will consume power on hourly basis.  
HAM Radio:

broadcastrange: GLOBAL
voice detect range: 5
can hear range: 16
weight: 15
loot chance: very rare
zombie attraction: extremely high
battery consumption: extremely low

Tier1: Walker Talker Budget

 
standard
broadcastrange: 500m
voice detect range: 6
can hear range: 12
weight: 0.5
loot chance: high
zombie attraction: high
battery consumption: very high

colored
broadcastrange: 1000m
voice detect range: 8
can hear range: 10
weight: 0.5
loot chance: high
zombie attraction: high
battery consumption: very high

army
broadcastrange: 1500m
voice detect range: 10
can hear range: 9
weight: 1.0
loot chance: normal
zombie attraction: high
battery consumption: very high
 
Tier 2: Walker Talker Standard

 
standard
broadcastrange: 2000m
voice detect range: 12
can hear range: 8
weight: 1.5
loot chance: medium
zombie attraction: medium
battery consumption: medium

silver
broadcastrange: 2500m
voice detect range: 14
can hear range: 5
weight: 2.0
loot chance: medium
zombie attraction: medium
battery consumption: medium
 
Tier 3: Walker Talker Black Edition

 
standard
broadcastrange: 3000m
voice detect range: 16
can hear range: 3
weight: 2.25
loot chance: low
zombie attraction: low
battery consumption: low

army
broadcastrange: 3500m
voice detect range: 18
can hear range: 2
weight: 2.5
loot chance: low
zombie attraction: low
battery consumption: low
 
Tier 4: Walker Talker Tactical

 
standard
broadcastrange: 4500m
voice detect range: 20
can hear range: 1
weight: 2.75
loot chance: rare
zombie attraction: very low
battery consumption: very low

army
broadcastrange: GLOBAL
voice detect range: 25
can hear range: 0
weight: 3.0
loot chance: very rare
zombie attraction: ZERO
battery consumption: very low

"Day 45: I have earned the Zombies’ trust. They still do not realize I am a car."
 

Thanks!

My roleplaying character Vesper again, now in a digital painting. ^^
 
 

My roleplaying character Vesper again, now in a digital painting. ^^
 
 

I love your work Karen. More!

My roleplaying character Vesper again, now in a digital painting. ^^
 
 

My roleplaying character Vesper again, now in a digital painting. ^^
 
 

My roleplaying character Vesper again, now in a digital painting. ^^
 
 

Did these today in 3D Modelling, following a tutorial ofcourse.
 
Planet Cracking
 
 
Wooden Cup

[NEW STUFF]
Keys:You'll now spawn with a key ring and key of your house. You can find additional keys inside containers and zombies who spawned in this house. If you destroy a door corresponding to a a key you have, take the door knob and rebuild a door with it, you have the key! Perfect for your safe house! You can mouse over a key to highlight surrounding doors that correspond to this key Padlocks, 2 types:"Mechanical", need a key, can be put on hand made wooden crates Combinaison, you setup a 3 numbers code for your padlock. [MP] Added a /noclip command for admins, if you set it to true, the players won't collide on anything [MP]Added a NoFireSpread server option, if true, fire won't spread (but still trigger) [MP]Added a AnnounceDeath server option, if true it'll show a message of who killed who, or who's dead (like [PVP] RJ killed Lemmy. or [PVP] Meabe is dead.) [MP] Admin now able to add xp and teleport to a player. [MP] Added a DropOffWhiteListAfterDeath server options, if true when a player die, he's removed from the whitelist. [MP] Added ConstructionPreventsLootRespawn server option. Player will now revive as a zombie after being infected and dead. Follow your character becoming part of a new horde and slaughter other poor players! (or being killed... Again.. Urg.) You're now able to clean blood, you'll need bleach and a dish towel or a bath towel You now have an option to craft all the stacks of something (having 7 logs? Right click, "Saw Logs" -> "All" ) Splatter blood in a radial pattern when stomping a zombie.  Might change it back to directional, blood tended to fly for 100 feet though. Added a key binding (default F8) to hide/show the ping (top left corner) Hunger/Thirst reduction from base item now applied to evolved recipe (so if you used 25 hunger reduction to make your pie/cake, you'll have have this as a base when making your cake) Added Melee command (Spacebar or left trigger) to shove/stomp. [MP] Server "-adminpassword XYZ" command-line option bypasses the enter-a-password prompt when creating a server. (Issue #001481) Added translation support for challenges.  Made it easier to add challenges via mods. (Issue #001483) Added "Rack Firearm" keybind, X by default.  Only for Hardcore reloading.  It used to be spacebar, but Melee uses spacebar now. (Issue #001494) [MP] Added MinutesPerPage server option.  This is the number of gameworld minutes it takes to read one page.  The default is 1.0. The user can choose starting clothing and colors when creating a new character. You now have an option to craft all the stacks of something (having 7 logs? Righht click, "Saw Logs" -> "All" ) Added a key binding (default F8) to hide/show the ping (top left corner) Hunger/Thirst reduction from base item now applied to evolved recipe (so if you used 25 hunger reduction to make your pie/cake, you'll have have this as a base when making your cake.. Make sense? I'm not even sure what I'm saying, duh.) Recipes can use "OnGiveXP:MyLuaFunction" to award XP when a recipe is used.  MyLuaFunction should take 4 arguments.  See the top of media/lua/server/recipecode.lua for an example. Mods can add their own media/lua/shared/Translate/ files. Fixed shoving zombies through closed windows. (Issue #001403) Add some translations.  The translationProblems.txt file (which is created when using the -debugtranslation option) now lists all missing translations in a form you can copy/paste into your translation files.  It also reports different numbers of % substitutions. Added new 16 foods item Added Frog in foraging Added tainted water:You can now gather water from the river but it'll be tainted. Same for rain collector barrel water. Tainted water can still be drink but cause some food poisonning. Boil it (only in pot or bowl) to remove the tainted New Traits/Professions/Last Stand/Level system: Explained by the one and true Lemmy: You have now 10 levels instead of 5, the level 10 correspond to the level 5. Professions
Professions now often give skill points, and these tie in directly to the learning speed in those skills as well as the starting skill level. This is to further diversity character creation and make the professions feel like an actual previous experience exists instead of starting characters as blank slate.

Also professions are not all necessarily free, so there is the potential for some more powerful start professions to require negative traits to balance. Unemployed gives 8 points to start. This is very important for reasons that will be clear when we talk about the new traits.

So you may pick the Carpenter profession, and right out of the bat this gives you 3 points in carpentry. This not only means starting on level 3, but the carpenter will gain a 50% boost to XP in that skill.

The scaling goes as follows, based on the starting skill level:

0) 0.25x speed (eek)
1) 1x speed
2) 1.25x speed
3) 1.5x speed
4) 1.5x speed
5) -

This multiplier is permanent for the entire game. Even when you get to level 1 in a 0 level skill, you retain the x4 time to learn it.

The idea being that now, a carpenter with skills ONLY in carpentry may advance in carpentry at a fast speed. Their hopes of becoming an expert farmer any time soon are remote. So this further diversifies characters to provide much more varied runs in single player, and provides more potential for teamwork and specific roles in MP and ultimately NPCs. However a carpenter being doomed to ONLY ever be able to learn carpentry quickly is going to be in trouble, so enter: Trait Revamp
A few big changes to traits

1) Currently non relevant traits have been removed until NPCs go in. Light Drinker and all the other cheesable traits.
2) We've added a ton more. Some need better names and others may be OP/UP and may need nerfing or point values changing.
3) To counter the fact that a profession may only allow leveling up a single skill. Specifically, a range of traits now act as hobbies. Say you pick 'Gardener' trait that says the character enjoyed gardening in their pre-apocalypse life. This will give a single point in farming, for example, and while this doesn't seem like a huge deal in itself, since its a character creation skill point, it DOES mean that they are now learning farming at a 1x speed rate instead of just 1/4th speed. This makes farming a viable skill to train up during a run. Think Morrowind minor / major skills. So now the player is encouraged to pick a few hobbies or other traits that round out their character with skills they intend to use, and now with little in the way of exploits with negative traits they will have to build some bigger disadvantages into their character to compensate. This is why unemployed gets extra points to start. They have the time to invest in hobbies, and need them to have any skills they can train at a decent speed at all.

I haven't done the descriptions for the professions / traits yet (want to run them through Will) or any UI elements to convey the starting skills or training speeds etc, but here is a list of professions and traits: New professions list
Unemployed
Fire Officer (3 blade, axeman)
Police Officer (3 aim, 2 reload, 1 nimble)
Park Ranger (2 trap, 2 forage, 1 carpentry)
Construction Worker (3 blunt, 1 carpentry)
Security Guard (night owl, 2 sprinting, 1 lightfoot)
Carpenter (3 carpentry)
Burglar (2 nimble, 2 sneak, 2 lightfoot)
Chef (3 cooking, 1 blade maint, 1 blade)
Repairman (1 carpentry, 2 blade maint, 2 blunt maint)
Farmer (3 farming)
Fisherman (3 fish, 1 forage)
Doctor (3 doctor)
Veteran (desensitized, 2 aiming, 2 reload) Traits
Not going to list them all, just the ones that may not be completely obvious.

Adrenaline Junkie - Can run faster when in top level of panic
Inconspicuous - Just naturally better at not standing out.
Packmule - Raises amount that can be fit into bags.
Disorganized - Lowers amount that can be fit into bags.
Self Defense Class - 1 blade guard, 1 blunt guard
First Aid (1 doctor - should be unselectable with doctor prof really. same with a few others)
Fishing (hobbie - 1 fishing, should be excluded for fisherman)
Gardener (1 farming, should be excluded for farmer)
Jogger (1 sprinting, better endurance)
Illiterate (can't read skill books at all)
Dexterous (Faster loot speed. should impact other things too in future)
All Thumbs (opposite of Dexterous)
Pacifist (slower at learning combat skills)
Brawler (1 blade, 1 blunt. Don't like this name, but basically someone who gets in fights regularly)
Plays Baseball (faster swing with baseball bat)
Hiker (1 forage, 1 trapping)
Hunter (1 aiming, 1 trapping, 1 sneak)
Gymnast (1 lightfooted, 1 nimble)
Insomnia (fatigue recharge when asleep very very low. Will likely wake up tired) Challenges
Also in this version is a modified version of Last Stand menu that allows for challenges using the last stand challenge system but playing in survival game mode. I discussed this in an earlier thread that it's important to make this feel a more complete game, a way of unlocking additional challenges, a feeling of progression, and also providing some goals for players that may have none. Now the framework is there, so if RJ , EasyP, Turbo want to add any challenges, or for that matter everyone on here with some lua skillz chance to contribute. Want a fun challenge to be in the game? Make something and put it on this forum, and get it past the community and us and its in there.

Also there may be another challenge in there called 'A Really CD DA' which may be fun! More stuff will be added as we confirm/finish test [bALANCE]
Reduced a lot the dmg of fire on zombies Zombies should less group when they follow you. Reduce the damage done by panic in melee Reduce the knockdown chance with panic [bUG FIX]
Fixed infinite loop when building a second Lamp-on-pillar. (Issue #000417) Fixed infinite loop when building a second Lamp-on-pillar. (Issue #000417) Show Unhappiness change in Literature tooltip. (Issue #001342) Transfer weapon upgrades from Shotgun when creating ShotgunSawnoff. Allow adding/removing weapon upgrades on broken weapons. Prevent zombies spawning behind stairs or in pillars. Right Shift works same as left Shift to select multiple items in the inventory view. Fixed ServerLOS thread not waking up after rejoining a server. (Issue #001326) Stop all sound effects before exiting to the main menu. (Issue #001322) Fixed OnCharacterCreateStats Lua event getting called when loading player corpses. Do the "smooth scrolling" listbox-thing with the controller. Replace existing parts of zones when adding new zones (to support custom maps better). Fixed some controller issues in the main menu. Forbid certain types of items being used as campfire fuel by setting tcampingFuelType to -1. Remove reanimated-player zombies when doing a server soft reset. Fixed LosUtil.lineClearCached() oscillating between visible/not-visible. Skillbook now train 2 levels of skills (so still 5 books). Can't play with curtains from the outside. Display name of food items that have no hunger reduction (canned food, cigarettes, etc). Draw progress bar in Health window when bandaging a deep wound. Added a background under moodle tooltips to make the text readable on snow days. (Issue #001451) Fixed the Pause key (F2 by default) unpausing the game in the main menu. (Issue #001447) Wrap long server descriptions in the server browser. Fixed long text being drawn outside text entry controls. Fixed player-death related NullPointerException when joining a server. (Issue #001463) Fixed a multiplayer multithreading bug. (Issue #001465) Fixed some wounds bleeding when the health panel reported they weren't. Fixed losing XP when the trait multiplier was < 1.0 for a partially-read book. Fixed thump sounds playing when zombies were on fire in multiplayer. (Issue #001467) Fixed other players displaying the wrong equipped weapon in multiplayer sometimes. (Issue #001471) Fixed all items in a stack being unequipped when only the first was equipped. (Issue #001474) Fixed table lamps turning back on after loading. (Issue #001473) Fixed "You survived for" time being 0 minutes 0 seconds when player survived less than 1 hour. Sleep dialog appears after walking to a bed/seat, goes away if player moves. (Issue #001420) Drink Milk, don't Eat it. (Issue #001476) Fixed being given Aiming XP for all potential targets instead of only the few that a weapon could hit. Fixed zombie gibs causing tree-rustling sounds. Fixed typo with has-a-cold moodle. (Issue #001482) Fixed map-corruption bug (base overwritten by another part of the map). (Issue #001318) Fixed fire-sprite syncing on burning characters in multiplayer. (Issue #001429) Move items to main inventory before drinking or transferring water from them. (Issue #001427) Fixed endurance loss from shooting guns. (Issue #001415) Fixed toggle-safety action being interrupted by attacking. (Issue #001433) Fixed reanimated player inventory syncing in multiplayer. (Issue #001418) Fixed /addxp server command. (Issue #001416) Fixed "panic" sound playing for reanimated players. Fixed reanimated player walk animation being broken 1 time in 40 (caused gliding zombies). Fixed map objects.lua files being loaded in reverse order. Fixed graphical glitch in "Major skills" list (bars overlapped the text). Fixed Strength/Fitness not decreasing due to laziness. Fixed crazy-high XP Multiplier sandbox option causing infinite loop and sound spamming. Fixed Disorganized trait breaking inventory management. (Issue #001374) Fixed uncooked/rotten/alcoholic foods having no effect sometimes. (Issue #001408) [Translation]
Updated the translations! (FR, DE, NL, RU, ES.... Everyone who posted in the official translation thread, thanks again guys, you're all a piece of heaven in awesome land)

So when playing today i thought after hitting the very well fed moodle, if there should be some limit on how much one can eat after all, right? I mean when i get full, i can't eat another bite, and god forbid if i do so just cuz im in the mood for gluttony, then im in so much pain i must rest for awhile if not sleep it off, no exceptions for myself.
 
So? What do you guys/gals think about this? Should there be a limit and if not then what should the next moodle become?
 
"Overeaten" "Your feeling bloated & pain"
 
If that was the case, then your speed and various other things should happen to you as a result i think.

AGN Present's Project Zomboid Serverlore Story!
We have a poll up for 7 days! Go and vote here for the winner!
http://www.aggressivegaming.org/threads/server-lore-vote.632/
 
 
 
 
 
 
i have asked permission before posting this

This server is great. I don't really have anything to compare it to, but I love it. The admins are active (and that is a plus in itself). They have respond to apps pretty quickly. While there are still a few times of low players, there are times when 15-20 people are on during the UTC night, EST evening. 

The server lag is minimal most of the times, and the player base seems to be friendly enough OOC, even though IC there are some evil people. 

I lucked out when I found this server. - which is why I have stayed for so long.

congratulations. seeing that gives hope to other servers just starting out, that if they do it right they too may get a significant number of players to become part of that server and of that community.

I feel like this deserves a title update, but I'm not sure what.