mikaelkerensky

This looks awesome!

A lot of what you've mentioned either already is in game or a planned feature. Check the commonly suggested suggestions thread. Remember, this game is still in the alpha development stage. There are many more features to come, including dynamic npc interaction and metagame events that will dramatically change gameplay and replayability as it stands. That said, welcome to the community! Edit: man, ninja'd twice while posting my reply!

And why would you like to make it easy for player to max out all of his skills? If it's going to take you a while to acquire a skill point, you're more likely to think twice before spending it on something that doesn't require upgrading. That also increases replay-ability as you are more likely to try again with different skills in mind (not only starting, but gained as well). Not only that, it's quite easy to gain excess skill points atm. Max out carpentry and you'll have close to a dozen sitting there qith nothing to use them on.

Partially. There is evidence that a handful of men in balaclavas were hanfing out notices to that effect in front of a synagogue. However there is no evidence to tie them to either the russian or ukrainian government. Just evidence law and order are breaking down so crazy people can make threats with no worries about being punished.

Michio Kaku and Neil deGrasse Tyson are my heroes in astronomy and cosmology. We need more scientists like them. So eloquent and knowledgable...

Well, here's the kicker, with the current visuals, how do you depict this? Floating text above the head "Oh my god, that's my wife! I can't . . . " while the player of the character spam-clicks it's inevitable demise? Or a moodle?I could see this working in scripted events if they're expected to happen and they require interaction from the beginning, but not in the current iteration of the game. It relies heavily on the character taking the initiative and making the interaction believable, rather than the player knowing instinctively that this zombie was a loved one. I'm thinking along the lines of a moodle. Maybe a long term minor negative and a short term major negative.

Michio Kaku?

Believe me i want to! Just can't survive on the pay.

With this topic (once again i hate bringing up walking dead) i remember the scene in which the wife of the man who shelter rick, turning the doorknob. And the anguish he felt when he shot her to let rick escape. Even if it happens only two or three times in the course of the game it would intensify immersion to such an extent it's effective even though it's relatively small. Would you shoot your wife, your daughter, your best friend? Zombie or not it will hit you hard.

That's assuming Einstein was right about the theory of relativity. even he spent his latter years trying to prove the theory of relativity wrong because he felt something was off about it. With the current dichotomy between quantum physics and large scale phenomena, until we achieve a grand unified theory i think current physics can't be the correct approach. Something is missing.

No problem bro. I appreciate the response. My own psychological makeup just took your response as an attack (because of language used). I didn't respond at the time because i didn't want to respond to harshly to a critique. Thanks for the response to my concern. Once again, love you bro (no homo ). And people aren't necessarily misrepresenting reality. They are responding to external stimuli based on personal experience and information they've obtained from external sources. This is both the greateat strength and greatest weakness of our species. We can write, and thus preserve information, for generations. But if you take everything at face value you eventually get hit by the fact that not all humans are honest/know enough to justify what they tell you.

But according to current tech (re:ion engines) the power required is extraordinarily low, and the speed of the engine increases exponentially. At some point the exponential curve exceeds speed of light. My question pertains to what happens to said engine close to the speed of light. Does it self destruct? Does it hit light speed and not increase speed further (due to lack of power from photons not catching up and powering the device), or does it actually finally exceed the speed of light. And even then, since information to deep space probes is transmitted, at maximum, the speed of light, do we lose communications and get no further info from it?

I've got 2 big rain barrels and 1 small one and even with farming i haven't run out of water yet. All the water i stored before shutoff is still sitting there. Assuming once i grow enough and start using water for vegetable soup it may start running low.

In theory current ion drive engines could exceed the speed of light with the amount of time to build up speed being the only factor. That said, once past the speed of light how do you communicate with the engine to slow it down? Would it just explode or would it enter something akin to hyperspace. If we lost communication with such an engine how would you even get info on what happens to it?

Excellent response. In your situation I don't think I would've handled this situation as well as you did. Rath, I love you man, you're an excellent moderator and a really smart guy. That being said, I've noticed some of your responses can get a little bit personal. Stating someone is ridiculous, laughable and borderline insane for an idea like boiling water in a post apocalyptic setting is upsetting to say the least. I know this is off topic, so if i get warned so be it. If this isn't the place to say these kinds of things please let me know and I'll respond in a more appropriate manner.

It isn't in the changelig, so doubtful.

Not currently. Eventually yes. Build rain barrels fast

According to zombie survival guide, animals cannot be infected. However, any animal that ingests zombie flesh dies.

The 'cotton candy planet' argument (very similar to the 'if you go far enough there's a limit to quantum states and you'll eventually find another you' argument) are demonstrably false because they treat all quantum states- and those of their neighbors- as equally probably and having no impact on each other. This is false. It's a fun probability joke, but it's nothing more than a joke- it's one propagated by the internet that I really wish wasn't, because it's misleading and people don't understand; probability has no impact at all on reality. It solely and inaccurately represents our predictions of what might be. The misunderstanding of probability has been something that's bugged me since I was a kid. It's not that all things are equally probable. A cotton candy planet is incredibly improbable. But given an infinite universe in which probability is a factor, many improbable things should exist. I don't really believe that a cotton candy planet is possible. Many faxtirs go into something like planet formation that make it practically impossible. But given that you're dealing with infinities, something practically impossible would in fact still be possible. Mankind itself is practically impossible, the amount of factors leading to self-intelligent creatures is immense. Yet we exist (at least i do, no proof the rest of you are anything but figments of my deranged imagination)

Woohoo! Now i need to find one on hammer techniques... I've always been a fan of blunt force trauma over edged weaponry (although that makes me sound like a violent sociopath on closer inspection... O:-))

And i totally agree that the limit of the observable universe is not the edge. So many things remain unknown and the things we do know are already so awe-inspiring... Our universe is a fascinating and wondrous place. I hope we never discover all there is to know.

Ah, but once we develop technologies to see things that are purely hypothetical now, we're just expanding the "bubble" of the obserable universe. We still remain the center. Until we either colonize other star systems or find another intelligent species. Then we create a 2nd "bubble" of observable universe in which we are no longer the center. Also re: the cotton candy planet: we've already discovered free floating clouds of drinkable alcohol. There are impurities like benzene that need to be filtered out, but that's relatively easy to do compared to getting there. Deep space alcohol - drink the void! (patent pending)

It's more of a food for thought question. As for being the center of the universe... We may not be the center of the actual universe, but we are the center of the observable universe. At least until we discover another intelligent race. My other favorite food for thought when thinking about the universe is this: if we live in a probabalistic universe, and that universe is infinite then somewhere out there is a planet made of cotton candy.

What is beyond the red shift limit? (the edge of the observable universe)

Properly trained dogs can make surprisingly little noise. They wouldn't necessarily be a liability post apocalypse. Maybe add some kind of animal handling skill that would allow you to train dogs and the like.