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Post by gregory on May 31, 2008 1:12:55 GMT -5
Our ploy in Stanbury Village and Ridleybank has succeeded 100%. The RRF might boast that they've taken Went and the Blackmore and are likely to eventually conquer Nichols Mall, but they obviously weren't paying attention to our strategy - even though we told them what it was a month ago. Since we threw down the gauntlet in Ridleybank at the end of April, Malton has gone from 61 Very Dangerous suburbs (plus 6 ghost towns) to 10 (and no ghost towns). We drew the RRF and a fair chunk of the feral horde away from The Dead's rampage in the south, slowing it down so much that the Something Awful goons have lost their momentum. The Dead had about 1,400 members at the end of April, but there are barely more than 800 left. Survivor numbers have climbed from about 30% to more than 60%. Those of us who are currently fighting and dying in Stanbury Village and Ridleybank will soon be revived in a Malton where the zombie threat is a distant memory. Human survival isn't on the line in these war torn suburbs. The survivors here are fighting the zombies here because it amuses us to do so. Besides, it's not like there are many other places where we can fight an organized zombie mob, these days. Well done, my Bastard brethren. Well done, Kilt Store, Cannonball Crew, Phoenix Security Services, Zone Defenders, NMC groups, and all the others who have made the survivor conquest of Malton a reality. As for the zed hordes, I have a single question for you. Where's your Barhah, now, bitches? ;D |
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Post by Murray Jay Suskind on Jun 14, 2008 11:30:55 GMT -5
I'm glad I wasn't drinking when I saw this. Otherwise my keyboard would be covered from laughing so hard. You have achieved Kim Jong-Il levels of genius -- err -- self-delusion with this post. The reasons why the balance swung. 1. A lot of the Dead got tired of the game, reducing the amount of zerging asshats out there (also, all of the honorable zombie hordes desperately avoided being in the same place as the Dead which was quite hard during their peak). 2. Kevan buffed search rates, especially on needles, to an insane degree. My survivor alt once found 8 needles in a ruined building in a day's worth of AP. When you've got that many needles floating around, it doesn't matter how well organized zombies are (or even how many of them are cheating, botting asshats like the dead), the balance will swing. The search rates have come down, but not to where they were before the Dead showed up. 3. Nerfed barricade obstruction. Obviously this was being tweaked throughout, and I think Kevan landed on a good spot (not overpowered like when it was first introduced, no longer nerfed). But when we returned to greater Ridleybank barricade obstruction basically didn't exist. 4. Survivors honestly did adapt. What really made the buffed search rates on needles work is that the Dead hit home to the average survivor just how important they are. There are fewer trenchcoaters running around shooting zombies outside, and a lot more labcoaters reviving anything that's swaying. I think the organized groups don't deserve too much credit, because most of them have realized how important revives are for a while. It's more the non-metagaming survivor who realized that reviving creates more survivors, while random headshotting creates... nothing. As far as where our Barhah is now...? It's in your mall, eating your brains. And if Blackmore is anything like it was last time, we'll only need to send one of our strike teams to finish off the job.  |
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Post by asshole doctor™ on Jun 14, 2008 12:16:26 GMT -5
amen. plus it was fun killing you this morning in the mall greg
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Post by gregory on Jun 15, 2008 0:17:27 GMT -5
MJS: LUE sweeps in again to save the RRF and other long-standing zombie groups from embarrassing themselves flailing impotently at Ridleybank and Stanbury Village. Looks like a survivor victory to me. We may be dead now, but the next time you leave your homeland, we'll hump it until its ass is bleeding, again.
Harrison: Given how many times I've killed you, it only seems fair that you should kill me back at least once. Enjoy your little victory. I've already been revived, and I look forward to repaying the favor.
OOC: Obligatory propaganda and trash talk aside, this was an enjoyable siege all around. It really pulled a lot of very diverse groups together on both sides into one helluva long siege. I don't think a we SSZ survivors are ever going to let you folks live down the day Ridleybank went green, though. Mechanical tweaks and the excursion had a heavy hand in it, but it was still unprecedented, and it made a great rallying cry to boost survivor morale after a month of being pulped by The Dead. I had a good time, and I hope the zombies and other survivors did, too. I look forward to meeting you on the battlefield again, as always - whichever side you may be on.
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Post by asshole doctor™ on Jun 15, 2008 6:31:40 GMT -5
hmmm it's about even by my count maybe 3-4 . and who cares if i die. golam is a death cultist.
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Post by Murray Jay Suskind on Jun 17, 2008 22:29:38 GMT -5
MJS: LUE sweeps in again to save the RRF and other long-standing zombie groups from embarrassing themselves flailing impotently at Ridleybank and Stanbury Village. Looks like a survivor victory to me. We may be dead now, but the next time you leave your homeland, we'll hump it until its ass is bleeding, again. [OOC:]Thank god you made that OOC comment, I was honestly thinking you were some kind of crackpot.[/OOC] The rank hypocrisy of the survivors really rankles. Survivor brotherhood and having dozens of groups team up on the RRF is something to congratulate, but zombies living up to true BARHAH! -- zombie brotherhood -- is considered weakness and defeat. The banner a zombie carries doesn't matter ([OOC] unless they're the Dead). What matters is that zombies overran Nichols. And if you can't see past the labels, we were outnumbered 3:1 and fought you to a legit stalemate before LUE showed up (you couldn't hold any of the NT's if your lives depended on it, we weren't able to make a dent in the mall). The reality is that both sides did what they needed to do and were capable of doing for the most part. Both sides called for help in an effort to break the deadlock. The zombies called in the ace. If the Lime Brigade were still around are you telling me you wouldn't have called for their help? As far as your perfect victory is concerned... you call Blackmore your home. How have you won if your enemy occupies your home? |
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Post by asshole doctor™ on Jun 17, 2008 23:21:34 GMT -5
ZING
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Post by gregory on Jun 18, 2008 0:29:50 GMT -5
The Bastards were born in the Blackmore. We are not confined to the Blackmore any more than the RRF is confined to Ridleybank. We're already organizing our allies and planning our glorious return. You'll never see it coming.
OOC: Murray, Murray, Murray... How long have we been playing this game together? You must've figured out by now that all this posturing I do here is an act. I say outrageous things here. You post it on Barhah.com to get the zombie players all stirred up and motivated. You and yours give me and mine glorious battle instead of us having to chase zombies around from 'burb to 'burb. The survivors build camaraderie by talking smack about the zombies. The zombies build camaraderie by...doing...um...whatever it is you guys do to build camaraderie...which apparently works rather well for you. Everyone wins.
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Post by Magatsu Taito on Jun 18, 2008 6:02:01 GMT -5
Not even fellow zombies like The Dead it seems. Are they like your ill-mannered cousin from the country that shows up and wrecks havoc at the mansion or something? You know the type, brining their farm animals that also double as pets, starts buildings things on the front lawn so you can convert the yard to a corn field, stealing your clothes and cars to go into town and get into trouble, and so on. Or I suppose I could just say that in Urban Dead, the Dead is the village idiot?  Or is that TZH? |
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Post by 23skidoo on Jun 18, 2008 7:03:30 GMT -5
You know the type, brining their farm animals that also double as pets Pets and Wives in my family...  |
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Post by Mike D on Jun 18, 2008 16:19:16 GMT -5
Not even fellow zombies like The Dead it seems. Are they like your ill-mannered cousin from the country that shows up and wrecks havoc at the mansion or something? The Dead came in with the stated aim of breaking the game. They zerged like crazy and acted like asshats on the wiki and on any forums they came across. They're living proof of a certain well-supported internet theory. (Warning: that link may not be safe for work, but only if you work in a church or a daycare or some such.) A handful of them have actually become good players, but as a group they're a disgrace. Good zombie players don't want to break the game; we just want to show you a good time by busting down your cades, eating you, and hosting dance parties as we wreck the place. Don't even try to tell us you don't love it...if you didn't you'd be off playing Candyland or something. Basically the Dead tried to take something we enjoy and upend it, and we didn't appreciate it. I do hope some of the better players in their ranks will stick around and get into the proper spirit of the game, however. I guess we'll see what happens there. I would like to see more dedicated zombie characters in the game, because to my mind Malton is more fun when the undead are everywhere and survival actually takes effort and attention. I don't like the way the Dead went about it, though. (The same goes for Extinction, another zombie group considered non-barhah by the RRF, the MOB, etc.) Mike |
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Post by asshole doctor™ on Jun 18, 2008 17:19:42 GMT -5
hey mike welcome. golam sends his love.
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Post by Magatsu Taito on Jun 19, 2008 4:29:26 GMT -5
That theory is often very true, unfortunately. But that being said, the kind of people doing it for attention is quite easy to counter troll most of the time.
Doesn't really work in UD, since we would have to come up with something quite spectacular to achieve that. Like invading SA or something. Which I wouldn't recommend, since I doubt they'd care, and either way, I don't care enough to do it either way.
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Post by asshole doctor™ on Jun 19, 2008 8:49:16 GMT -5
there forums are pay and password protected
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Post by Magatsu Taito on Jun 19, 2008 16:19:18 GMT -5
Yeah, and there's that part too.  |
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