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I was wondering when you spawn into a world like as the first character or a subsequent character how long does it take for the zombies to discover you in your starting home? Discover you, as in at least one zombie starts banging on your doors and windows demanding to be let in and demanding to make you one of them? Like without them spotting you by noise or sight or by going outside, how long does it take the zombies to spot you and go after you anyway? I mean I'm pretty they go after you eventually despite just staying quietly in your starting home with all the windows covered. I'm wondering how long on average it takes in in game time or real life time. I don't know for sure though the first character I had (whom started in Riverside) got spotted in like 5 minutes (real life time) of spawning in a middle class single story home. You know the biggest neighborhood in all of Riverside located in the heart of it? Which is very alarming because imagine having only FIVE MINUTES to prepare for a zombie attack in real life! In that time you better be stuffing up your backpack with supplies and arming yourself because you're gonna have to get out of there! This would be very helpful to know since you could gauge and react accordingly to how fast you should be doing whatever tasks to survive. Like if you have an real life hour watch the life and living channel before you gear up get out. If you only have 5 minutes real life like I did just gear up and get out. Now with subsequent characters this might be a bit harder to determine because your previous characters stir the zombies around whether it be fighting them or running away and some of them zombies are going to bust their way into houses in all the commotion some of which could be your next starting homes! With your very first character you don't have to worry about this variable because you just started the game. There's no previous character zombie stirring that happened already. So a bit of a long winded question elaboration but I just want to be thorough so that the question can even remotely be tested as opposed to too little detail how the heck should be know how to test this?