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Open frame generators are LOUD!


GG Cannon

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Generators similar to the one currently present in the game can be significantly loud, ranging from 70 to almost 90 decibels, which would be close to a "someone shouting" or an average "car engine".

This should be reflected in the game by having zombies be attracted towards the sound of a working generator from a range similar to somewhere between the shout sound radius and the car engine sound radius.
It should also make it hard to sleep if your bed is too close to the working generator.

Not even close to the sound radius of gunfire even from a pistol or a revolver, but still, if you make a base inside a city, you'd need to clear zombies from a certain distance around your base and zombies migrating that pass by your base would constantly come towards it, so you'd have to turn it off from time to time, specially if you are going somewhere far from your base or risk getting back to a base overtaken by zombies that were attracted to your generator, or make sure the generator is placed in a spot that can't be heard from outside your base.

This means that if you can't feel safe enough to be constantly shouting "Hey! Hey you! Hey! HEEEY!" inside your base, you shouldn't feel safe enough to turn on a generator there.

Here is a video that show just how loud an open frame generator can be. 

 

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